<TITLE>03. Par 18-26</TITLE>L-18   So then I'm here, practically, more. I'm here ten times more than out there, because we don't have any church or any services out there, nothing we have out there, so, in a way of church service. That's one bad thing about it. I have no place to send the children that will hear these Message, like your children gets to hear it here, and--and so that's one defect we have. But they're all healthier. It's a dry, hot, dry climate, but all the children seem to be healthier. I'm not there long enough to know whether it's healthy or not healthy. I, I'm on the move, and I--I--I guess I was just born a rambler.

L-19 My wife calls me... I know she is here, so I'll get this after church, you all know. What is that called, shifting winds, or restless winds, or whatever--whatever, you know, shifting sands? Or, I'm always on the move, in other words. And I been married now, twenty-two years, and I sometimes I think I'm a stranger around the house, because I have to be going.
But I'm looking for the time that when we'll be settled down in the home Land someday. But now the battle is on, so let's be in prayer.

L-20   Don't forget, next Sunday morning, the Lord willing, bring in your sick and the afflicted. Come early, get your place, and probably there is a group to be prayed for. We'll have to give out prayer cards. If there isn't enough, we won't give out prayer cards, just enough to form a little line like two or three dozen, or something. But we--we'll probably give out prayer cards, so we'll probably do it about an hour before the regular service, which I think takes up... It'll be eight, eight or eight-thirty, they'll give out the prayer cards; open the church, give the prayer cards next Sunday morning. And then be sure to be here for your... Bring your loved ones, put them in there. It'll be nice and cool in the church, if they're sick, and we'll do everything we can to pray for them.

L-21 Thank you, again, for the love offering.

L-22   And now we're going to read some of God's Word, tonight, and be ready for this event of His Presence again to bring us His Word. Now, we know we can read a text, but God has to reveal the context. See? We can take a text, but God has to reveal the context. And while you're turning now in the Book of Jeremiah, the 2nd chapter.

L-23 I want to say that I'm glad to have, with us, Brother Lee Vayle, a precious brother in the Lord. And I think here, the brother here, I can't think of his name, Brother Willard Crase. And I seen the brothers from Arkansas, Brother John and them, from around Poplar Bluff, and Brother Blair. And, oh, Brother Jackson, and Brother Ruddell, and so many that I--I just can't... Wish I could call everybody's name, but I just can't do it, and you understand. Brother Ben Bryant, I see him setting here; he is usually my amen corner while I'm... Everybody knows Ben by his voice. Uh-huh.

L-24   We, setting in California one time, I was preaching a Message for the Baptist people up in the valley. They had a big tent there, and a lot of kind of aristocratical Baptists. I could never hear an "amen" from anywhere; you know, afraid some of the women break the paint on their face. And then, first thing you know, I seen a pair of feet about like that, go up in the air, and two big hands, and a black hair shaking there, hollering, "Amen," screaming like that. And I looked down, I said, "Ben, where did you come from?" He was really getting the "amen."

L-25 I see his wife looking him over, a little bit. Well, he's a-losing a little of that black hair, but that's all right, you know. Don't get worried about that. I did, mine, a long time ago.
So, now, don't forget to pray.

L-26   Now while we get to the sincere side of the service, remember, if we read this Word, then God will bless His Word. "It will not return to Him void, but It will accomplish that which It's purposed for." And I know, in reading the Word, I'll always be right. When I read the Word, God will honor His Word.


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