<TITLE>09. Par 96-107</TITLE>L-96 Now, Rebekah, if you want to get your businessman, Zacchaeus, really before Jesus, you just start praying, he'll get restless.

L-97   So the time had drawed close at hand, so, the next morning, Jesus was to pass that way. So all night he twisted in the bed, and he was miserable. And she, laying there, praying. And no doubt in the night, when they would wake up, she would say, "Thank You, Lord, I know You're working on Him."

L-98 Now when you go to see your Zacchaeus can't rest, just say, "Thank You, Lord, You're working on him now." When you see him get so crabby, he don't want you to go to church anymore, see, "Stay away from that bunch! Don't go down there no more! There is nothing to It!" Just be patient. God is working, you see. That's the way He does it, see. He just gets so restless he can't stand it.

L-99   So we find, the next morning, real early, our little character slips out of bed and goes over and grooms himself in his very best clothes, you know, his finest robe he had, and grooms his beard and combs his hair. And Rebekah looks out from under the cover and she sees him. She knows right then something is up. So he slips to the window, and looks over and see if she is a look, awake. No, she wasn't awake, according to what he thought. He raises up the curtain and looks out, and it was breaking day, so he gets hisself all ready.

L-100 You see, when you go to praying for somebody, something goes to taking place. There is where we fail, friends, not praying. Prayer is the keynote. "Ask and you shall receive. You have not because you ask not; you ask not because you believe not. Ask abundance, that your joys may be full. Ask and believe that you receive what you've asked for." Then hold onto it. Don't leave it. If it's a promise in the Bible, and it's been revealed to you that God is going to give it to you, hold to it.

L-101 That's just the way she had--she had. It was revealed to her that her Zacchaeus was going to be saved, so she just held right onto it.

L-102   So as he starts out the door, she said, "Zacchaeus, why are you doing up so early this morning?"

L-103 "Oh," he said, "dear, I thought I would, uh, uh..." You know, you can make all kind of excuses, Zacchaeus. "I thought I would walk out and get a breath of--a breath of fresh air. You know, kind of..." Would you brush up for something like that, you know? And she knowed something.

L-104 So here he walks out, looking back at the house, you know, as he walks out the drive, looking back. Her peeping through the lattice, you know, looking to see what it was doing. She knowed right then. She got down, said, "Thank You, Lord. I believe it's all over now. We got him moving."

L-105 So if you got your Zacchaeus down to the meeting this morning, he is moving. He may be sitting here, so he is moving. We got him moving that far, anyhow.

L-106   So he started out, looking back, see if anybody was watching him, you know. He said, "Now, you know what I'm going to do?" Let's change our thoughts to his now. "My wife has been all mixed up in this, so-called, Prophet of Galilee; when, my--my priest and pastor tells me, 'There is no such a thing as that in these days. All these miracles and things is just some kind of a hoax. There is nothing to it.' You know what I'm going to do? I'm going right down and give Him a piece of my mind. Cause, and that will make me outstanding man in this city, you see, when I can call Him down, to His face. I'll do that." So out he goes.

L-107 Said, "Now He will enter on the south side, no, or from the north side, coming down from Jerusalem, He, from Dan to Beer-sheba, going down." Said, "I'll--I'll--I'll... He is coming down from Jerusalem, so I'll--I'll go down there to the north gate. I'll catch Him when He comes in. And I'll stand right there and I'll get a good look at Him, and I'll give Him a piece of my mind."


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