<TITLE>22. Par 280-292</TITLE>L-280 Come, lady. How do you do? If God can tell me what your trouble is, or what you've done, or something, will it make you believe? You know that I'm... I--I--I don't know you. That would be His characteristic identifying Itself in me, according to the Word that He promised. [The sister says, "I'm just to believe it."--Ed.] You believe that? ["Yes. Amen."]

L-281 You're another, you have troubles as a woman your age would have, but your main thought is about somebody else. Your desire to God; you're seeking God not for yourself, but for somebody else, that's a man. It's your husband. And he has heart trouble. Do you believe that He'll... God will heal Him? Go, believe it. And, as you have believed, so it will be unto you.

L-282   Now, see, all the preaching, for that hour that I was preaching. It, that ever what it was, three or four people has passed by, now I can hardly stand here. See? See, just the whole crowd just looks milky-like, around in here. See? Jesus said, "Strength went from Me." And if one woman, touching His garment, brought strength out of Him, and He the Son of God; what about me, a sinner saved by His grace?

L-283 He said, "The things that I do shall you do also. More than this shall you do." I know the King James says, "greater." But if you'll take the original translation, said, "More than this shall you do." Nobody could do greater. He raised the dead, and He stopped nature, and done everything. But He said, "More than this shall you do, 'cause I go to the Father."

L-284 "The world won't see Me; but you'll see Me, for I..." Look, "I," I--I is a personal pronoun. "I'll be with you, even in you." Then, it isn't the man. It's the Christ.

L-285   I'm saying that, kind of shake myself a little bit, kind of get myself back. You get off to a spot till after a while... It's not while you're up there, or down here; it's between. How many understands that? I know you--you think you understand. I do, too.

L-286 Did you ever know that poets and prophets are always neurotics? How many knows that?

L-287 How many read of William Cowper, the great English poet? You know, wrote, "There is a fountain filled with Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins." After he wrote that song, did you hear what happened to him? I stood by his grave not long ago. He tried to commit suicide, and drowned in the river.

L-288 How many every heard of Stephen Foster, give America its best folk songs? He had it in the head but not the heart. Every time inspiration would hit him, he would write the song. Then when the inspiration left him, he didn't know what to do with Himself, and he was lost. He--he--he had been on a drunk. And finally when he started to come out of that inspiration, he called a servant, and took a razor and committed suicide. That's right.

L-289   Look at Elijah, the prophet. He went up there and called fire out of heaven; called rain out of the heaven on the first day; and closed the heavens and done all that. Then when the inspiration left him, he went out in the wilderness and wanted to die. And God found him, forty days later, pulled back in the cave. That right?

L-290 Look at Jonah, the prophet. After giving his message, he went up and sat down on the hill, asked God to let him die. Uh-huh. "Let thy servant depart in peace."

L-291 People don't understand it. No, no, you won't. Neither can I explain it, nor no other man. You can't explain God. God is not known by scientific research. God is knowed by faith. We believe Him. How can you explain? How would it be faith, anymore? We know God by faith.

L-292 The church will never know the labor and the weary, and the toil and trial, that's tried to bring It, the Message. He does. My reward doesn't come from peoples.


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