<TITLE>09. Par 82-89</TITLE>L-82   He might sound prettier. He might have better wings. He, might be fed better. He might be a better cultured duck. He might be able to do the twist or anything, out there. You couldn't tell what he could do. But I'm telling you, the ducks would never follow him if he didn't give that certain sound that was right. That's right. Ducks know their leader, by a God-given sound, a God-given instinct. And you will never be able to get one any better than that, 'cause that's God's actual provided way for them.

L-83 And notice, again, if you had trained an old goose or a duck, to take that group, you would probably take him out in the hold of the shotguns, where people are watching for him. But, you know, this God-provided leader takes him to God's provided place where He has got for him. He takes him right straight, why, to Louisiana, and down into the rice paddies where they're protected, the rest of the year. Why, certainly. God knows what to do, and the duck knows to do what God wants him to do, or provided for him. Notice.

L-84   Could you think you could invent a better provided instrument than what God has got for him? Now, that little duck never left the pond. He was born up there in the north woods. He never was off the pond, in his life, but somehow he sails right up. Can go east, west, north, south, whichever way he wants to go; but something constrains him to go right straight south, tells him how to by-pass the cold spells, the storms and everything, and get out of it, right where the food is. God has an instrument in that duck, that leads him just exactly right. And they've never been able to find any better way for him (no, sir) than God's provided way.

L-85   They, they have never been able to find a better way for a baby to get what he wants, than to cry for it. You might, you might tell him, "Well, he could--he could shake his little fist, or he could goo like that," but he'll never get the attention like crying. He has got to cry for it. That's all. You might say, "Well, now, I'll put my alarm clock on. And I've got to feed this baby at a certain time, so many minutes, to so many, much time I got to feed him." You turn that alarm clock on, and stick the bottle in his mouth, he'll goo and spit it out. Put the milk in his mouth, and he'll spit it out. It's not time yet. But God has got a provided way, He turns the little alarm clock on, down there, and, when it is, he ain't going to stop until he gets his bottle. That's all. He cries for it.

L-86   Now, God recommends this way, also, to His baby children, to cry, His believers to cry for what they want. That's right. Cry for Him, for Your needs.

L-87 Now, don't listen to intellectual speeches, somebody say, "Well, now I'll tell, this baptism of the Holy Spirit that they talk about, this Divine healing, and that kind of stuff, well, I tell you, it isn't, for it isn't today. I can explain It, that It's not for today." Listen, a real genuine baby of God won't pay no attention to that.

L-88 He will scream, and yell, and kick up his heels, until he gets a vindicated answer back from that promise out of God's Word, 'cause, "Man don't live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes out of the mouth of God, proceeds from the mouth of God." He cries and cries until that Word of promise is vindicated. God's little child living on the Word of God, there is not a better way in the world for him. That's all. He lives on what the Lord says for him to live by, and he stays there until it happens; cries, kicks up his heels, and just stays at it.

L-89   Some of them say, "Oh, you can't receive the Holy Ghost, there is no such a thing." They tried to tell us that years ago, that there was no such a thing as speaking with tongues, and prophecy, and all these great gifts that God promised in the early church, and gave to them. "Them days has passed."


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