<TITLE>09. Par 91-101</TITLE>L-91 Joshua said, "I went down there with the spies. I was sent out. Twelve of us was sent; one out of every denomination." And said, "We went down there and we looked. And here they come back, scared, and said, 'Well, we look like grasshoppers, up aside of them fellows. Oh, my, they're greater than we are! They are mighty man, what all they are! We look like grasshoppers.'" And said, "At Kadesh-Barnea I stilled the people, said, 'Wait a minute. You are looking at a giant and the opposition. I'm looking at the promise of God. God said, "I'll give you the land."' Amen. I got the people quiet, because the Word promised it.

L-92 "Then, day after day, they come around and say, 'Where is the land? Where is the milk and honey, Joshua? You promised it, too. Where is it at?' "God will take care of it."' And He let all them unbelievers die. He kept me alive, raised up another generation. Forty years later, we took the land. God said so!"

L-93 And, remember, they was only two days journey away. He held them back just for forty years because of their unbelief. Your healing might not be five minutes away. Your unbelief will keep it away from you as long as you live. Got to believe it! He's a real witness, Joshua. Yes, sir. They took the land, forty years later.

L-94   We got so many witnesses we could call, but, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to be His next witness. I'd like to put myself up for His witness, if it don't sound too personal. I'm His witness. I want to be His next, His fifth witness.

L-95 How can God take a cocklebur and make a grain of wheat out of it? A sinner, come from a sinful family; all of them with guns, and died with their boots on; bootleggers and whatever more you have. Why, I had nothing to do with it.

L-96   My mother that's in Glory today, said, the hour when I was born, that Angel of the Lord come in the window and stood over the cradle where I was at. They've got the picture of It in the scientific halls of the Art of Religion today. It's world-wide known. God promised to do these things. As a little boy, a Voice spoke to me, said, "Don't never smoke, chew, or drink, defile your body in any way. There will be a work for you to do when you get older." Scared me, of course.

L-97 What did I know about religion? My people, formerly, were Catholic. How did I know anything about these things? I never was in the church in my life. They both married out of the church, so they just... Mother and father, both, was Irish, and so they just married out of the church, and we had no religion.

L-98 We just lived like a bunch of dogs, had a little old pull-about, like campers, from post to post, wherever we could find a little shack we could pay the rent on for three or four dollars a month. That's the way we lived.

L-99   A little old barefooted boy, packing water to a whiskey still, one day; when God, in His sovereign, still keeps His Word, come down in a whirlwind and stood there, and said, "Don't you do these things." He said it. When I become a young man, visions begin to break over my eyes, from a little bitty boy. It scared me. I got saved, and I joined a Baptist church. I asked...

L-100 I told my Baptist brethren about going... I didn't know what to call it, a vision. I called it a trance. And I went and said to my brethren about that. They said, "Billy, have nothing to do with that. That's the devil. That's the devil. Don't you have nothing to do with that."

L-101 One night, at a little camp where I was fishing, way back in the mountains, I was laying back there. About three o'clock one morning, I seen a Light coming. I had just been reading the Bible. I thought it was somebody coming, shining it through a knothole, a lantern or something. It was way in the wilderness. And I thought somebody was coming up. The Light was on the floor; It spread greater and greater. I heard of Somebody walking. When It did, It was a Man. He was barefooted. He had hair to His shoulders, and He had on a robe. And I like scared me to death.


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