<TITLE>02. Par 9-16</TITLE>L-9   I don't know what to say. I didn't think about saying anything; I just come up here. I guess it's testimony time, just to give a testimony. And so, tonight, the Lord willing, I think... I've looked at the little schedule, and I... for the--the services, and I think I'm to bring my message tonight, on the Easter or, pardon me, Thanksgiving message tonight. And then we want to take then, perhaps the rest of the week, if the Lord willing, in praying for the sick. We want you to gather out, after this little jubilee of Thanksgiving, which is a memorial of a great meeting that was held here one time at Shreveport, a few... about three years ago, when you had this revelation of coming in. And the Lord did bless so mightily here in that meeting! And I--I trust that the Lord will continue, and may there be souls saved here until the last name is on the Book in God's great recording station on High, those who have accepted Christ as Saviour, been filled with His Spirit.

L-10   Now let's just bow our heads a moment. I'm thinking of a Scripture here.

L-11 Lord Jesus, we are most grateful people this morning, but yet we're just limited with the expression. If our hearts could give away to what we--what we want to, we don't know how we would behave ourselves. And there, no wonder, You said, "There will not be room enough to contain the blessing that God would pour out upon us." And we are grateful for this. And we just pray, Lord, as we bow our heads in adoration of You, that You will receive our thanksgiving. There is so many things that we have to be thankful for, and we could not express them, but we just say, "Thanks be to God!"

L-12   And above all things that we are thankful for, is that great Gift of God to the world, when God gave His Son, to make a way for our redemption. We're so grateful for That! And we embrace That, and have since... Lord, I can remember, since a little boy, That's what I've lived for. And now as I'm getting old, know that the sun will just set, not many more times, till I'll be summonsed, and, what I've lived for, I'll go to enjoy. I know, Lord, that there is many fellow citizens of the same Kingdom, that waits likewise, this morning, for that time to come. For, that which we have taken the journey for, to serve Him and to try to direct our fellow man to a Life Eternal, that great hour is soon approaching. We can just somehow feel it down in us, that it's--it's nearer than maybe we are able to think.

L-13 And we pray that You'll bless us now, and continue with Thy blessings that Thou has been giving us this morning. And now as we read a portion of Thy Word, or a verse or two, we pray that the great Holy Spirit will take these verses, and a testimony, to His honor. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.

L-14   I thought of a place here, I believe it's found in--in Corinthians, Second Corinthians 9, the 14th verse, and 15.
... by their prayers for you, which long after you for... exceeding grace of God in you.
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

L-15 Paul, here speaking of the grace of God that's in you, the unspeakable Gift, of the Holy Spirit, that dwells among the people. He was thanking God for what that they had, the Holy Spirit had come upon these people, the unspeakable Gift of God, so rich and pure.

L-16   Now, I--I don't have nothing in my mind, exactly, so I thought I'd just kind of give a little testimony of my experience with Christ in the last few days. It's been most glorious!


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