<TITLE>19. Par 133-139</TITLE>L-133   Or, have you got the right gift tonight? The right kind of an attitude? "Father, I'll follow You wherever You go. Whatever You say 'Do,' I'll do it. Whatever Your Word says for me, 'Do,' I'll do it. Yes, Sir, I don't care what everybody else says, I'm going to do it because I want Your Gift; it's Life, and Christ is the Word."

L-134 If you can't believe all the Word, and say, "Well, I don't know, I--I believe that... this, I believe that, but I just can't go this, I can't go that." You're like the seventy that went away. They can't accept all the Word and receive Christ in the fullness of His Deity and His service; and ready to die as He did for you.

L-135 Then would you just put up your hand, with your head bowed, and say, "Pray for me"? God bless you. And God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, little girl. Oh, God bless you. Yes, I see your hand. The Lord bless you, sure. This little Gift, of Christ, that God sent to the world; and identified It by... the Magi identified It, His Own life identified It, His death identified It, His resurrection identified It, your accepting identified It, and He identifies Himself with you that you are His and He is yours. If you're not really... see, the reaction of the Spirit of God working in you, in this Christmas season, may it come to you now.

L-136   Heavenly Father, as we stagger like the tramp on the street, nobody had had any use for him. The world went right on in their foolish celebrations, so are they tonight, Lord. But sometimes we feel like that tramp, but we've accepted a Gift. So we pray, Father, that You'll make us a gift, of a life, to this dying world. Many here have raised their hands that they want the Gift of God that He had to, Himself, give His only begotten Son, came down become a Man. He stooped so low they didn't even... He come so low and so humble till He... they didn't even have a bed to be borned in. A--a--a cow had to... or a horse or something had to give its manger, step aside, (an animal) human beings had gotten so in condition there was. He--He come down in a--in a manger, a little old cave stable on the side of the hill there in Bethlehem, where a harlot's son had founded the little city many years before.

L-137 And now, Lord, we find out that one night, a cold night, it was said to Him, "Rabbi, we want to go home with You tonight."

L-138 And He said, "Well, now, the birds they have nests, and--and the foxes have den, but I--I--I don't have a... even a place to lay My head." And that's the way they let Him die, like the tramp on the street.

L-139   Heavenly Father, can the--the Christian, can the people today see that--that That is that great Gift? And many here, tonight, more than a dozen, I guess, raised their hands that they wanted to receive the Holy Spirit. May there just like the wise men, maybe none of the rest of the congregation will even see what goes on. And this Star, this mystic Light passed over the observatories, for two years, where people even kept time then (the four watches), they kept time by the stars. Nobody, no historian wrote of it. No one knowed nothing about It, and yet It was there. And these wise men, with their appropriate gift, was guided right through to It. May that same Light come into every heart, here tonight, that's setting present. There may not be no emotion, there may not be this, that, and maybe no one else would know it, just like the wise men. But may something so be settled in these men, women, boys and girls' hearts tonight, that that Gift of God will anoint their life. That from this night on, they'll be changed. They won't be no more like they used to be. They'll be a--a changed creature from now on. May they, like the wise men, turn aside and not go back to the fashions of the world (and Herod, the king's palace), "But being warned of God, they turned aside." Grant it, Lord.


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