<TITLE>10. Par 90-97</TITLE>L-90 But, after all, how could that mud walk, breathe, eat, if there wasn't some life in it? And, think, it had to be created! And the very Creator that created it, is riding in that mud ship. Amen. He made me what I am, without a desire; how much more can He raise me up by my desire, by the Word of His promise!
Sailing over life's solemn main,
We ought to live like Him, let His Spirit, work through us;
For a forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
In seeing, shall take heart again.

L-91 Think, He's with us, securely. What a feeling of security, while sailing these treacherous waters! It must have been something like us right now at this very present time, after the revival, feasting on the results.

L-92   I remember my first trip to Shreveport, Louisiana. I never heard of Jack Moore, and I believe it was Brother Richard Reed (I haven't seen Brother Reed for years) that told me about Brother Moore down here, or Brother Kidson; one of them brothers, I forget who it was now. I got acquainted with Brother Jack. I come down here. His lovely little old mother, she is sitting around here somewhere. And she had a stomach trouble, and we prayed for her. She was eating baby food. She has been able to eat ever since, her norm, normal food. And how--how, what a great revival come up, it spearheaded out and along come Billy Graham and Oral Roberts, and--and Tommy Osborn, great man, warriors, come off of that little... flicked off of the revival, done great things.

L-93   That day down there, about thirty-three years ago, or thirty-four, standing on the banks of the Ohio River there, at the bridge, and about five thousand people or more gathered on the banks. I was just about twenty years old, twenty-three, twenty-two or twenty-three years old, my first revival. I was baptizing five hundred people, that afternoon. And the deacons had led me out in the water. About the seventeenth person, when I was baptizing, I heard a Voice say, "Look up." And I turned to look up. Billy's mother, we wasn't even married then, just going together. Here come that Pillar of Fire, circling out of the bright blue skies, at two o'clock on June the 15th, coming right down out of the skies, like that. And a Voice roared out, all over the place there, and said, "As John the Baptist was sent forth to forerun the first coming of Christ, you have the Message that'll now forerun the second Coming of Christ." Photographers taking the picture.

L-94   How could we believe that, with just barely a grammar school education, and so forth? But I believed it. That afternoon, when I was so tired when I got finished baptizing, they had to come get me out of the water. I couldn't hardly stand no more of the current of the river.

L-95 And It went, come down, and they took the pictures of It. It was on the Associated Press, went world-wide almost, up into Canada. Brother Lee Vayle has a copy of it yet, I think, from on the Associated Press, "A mystery Light hangs over a local Baptist minister while baptizing at the foot of Spring Street in Jeffersonville, Indiana." The Louisville Herald picked it up, took the pictures, and went off, and away it went across on the Associated Press.

L-96 Now, that's been many years ago. How could it be so? But it was so. God said so, that makes it right. And what a--a glorious thing to know that we have the living God! And from there has brought forth revival fires all around the world. And now great healing campaigns and great mysterious things has gone on.

L-97   When I first come among you, I said I'd have to take you by the hand, and just hold you like that for a connection. And then I wouldn't think of what I was going to say, and you could see the results of it. It still happens, and see it like that.


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