24-1213A_THE MESSAGE OF GRACE PT-18 (I KNOW)

Job 19:15  They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 

Job 19:16  I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. 

Job 19:17  My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. 

Job 19:18  Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. 

Job 19:19  All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. 

Job 19:20  My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 

Job 19:21  Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

Eze 36:11  And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 

Jer 29:12  Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 

Mal 1:1  The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. 

Mal 1:2  I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 

Mal 1:3  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 

Job 23:6  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 

Heb 5:8  Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 

Heb 5:9  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 

Rom 8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 

Rom 8:18  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Jas 1:2  My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 

Jas 1:3  Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 

Jas 1:4  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 

Jas 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 

Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 

Jas 1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 

Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 

 

*GOD WANTS AN EVIL DONE, HE JUST TURNS SATAN LOOSE TO DO IT. AND IF HE WANTS GOOD DONE, HE HAS HIS SERVANTS HE TURNS LOOSE TO DO IT.

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  17    The patriarch at this time was somewhat like we are today. He had been in deep troubles, as we call it, "high waters," and he was desperate. Many days he'd set on the ash heap, and was trying to find words to console him, trying to find something that would give him courage, and something that would--would be a comfort to him as he seen his life fading out of him.

First place, he was an old man, somewhat ninety years old, and he has been stricken by the hand of God. Now, we know that God had not touched him with His hand, but that God had permitted Satan to touch him. God only has agents to do things. God wants an evil done, He just turns Satan loose to do it. And if He wants good done, He has His servants He turns loose to do it.
 
*WE ARE ALL ON THE ASH HEAPS. WE HAVE OUR TROUBLES, AND OUR UPS-AND-DOWNS… THEN IN THE MIDST OF ALL THAT TROUBLE, GOD CAME TO HIS RESCUE.

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  22    Now, we come to those places. We all come. And I believe that today, that we are gathered here for something like that same purpose. We are all on the ash heaps. We have our troubles, and our ups-and-downs, and our--our bad moments, and our sicknesses, and our heartaches, and our disappointments. So we come like this of a morning, this Easter morning to find words of comfort, like Job was trying to find from his friends.

None of them could give him any consolation. Because of his trouble, they were accusing him of being a secret sinner. Then in the midst of all that trouble, God came to his rescue.
 
*GOD PROMISED MANY AFFLICTIONS, STRANGE FEELINGS, AND STRANGE THINGS THAT WOULD BE BEYOND OUR UNDERSTANDING, BUT IT'S ALWAYS DONE FOR OUR GOOD.

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  27    And sometimes we have more troubles when we become a Christian than we did when we were sinners. 'Course it is written, "Many is the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivereth him from them all." God promised many afflictions, strange feelings, and strange things that would be beyond our understanding, but it's always done for our good. Just can't understand it, because if we did, then it would not be of faith to us; we would go with an understanding. But we do it, and we have it, and we believe by faith His Word, that it's going to work some good thing for us. If we could grasp that today, on this--this morning. If we could grasp that all of our troubles... And there's none of us immune from them. And if we could realize that those things are for our good...
 
*AFTER WE BECOME HIS PROPERTY, OUR CONFESSION, AND OUR BAPTISM, AND OUR PROMISE TO WALK IN LIFE FOR HIM, THEN EVERY TRIAL THAT COMES UPON US IS TO PERFECT US FOR HIS GLORY.

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  28    It is written in one of the Scriptures in the Bible, that, "Trials are brought upon us, are more precious to us than gold itself, for it is God giving us these trials." After we become His property, our confession, and our baptism, and our promise to walk in life for Him, then every trial that comes upon us is to perfect us for His glory. It's to bring us to a place where God can make Himself more real to us than He was before the trial come.

I want to join in this morning with Job to say that I've lived long enough to know that's the truth. I have seen it in my own life, that every time a great situation rises, that I can't get around it, or under it, or over it, God makes a way, and comes out glorious. I just wonder how His grace ever does it, but He does it.

*NO MATTER HOW GREAT THE DISTRESS IS, SATAN CANNOT TAKE YOUR LIFE UNTIL GOD HAS FINISHED WITH YOU.

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  36    It's those crucial hours that press us on to those sacred sands. It was in the Bible. And remember, no matter how great the distress is, Satan cannot take your life until God has finished with you. There is nothing can happen to you unless God permits it. There is no evil can come unless God permits it. And it's for your good He's working that.

Let's think, there when the floods came to destroy the world, it could not destroy Noah. Noah could not be destroyed, because that God had a work for him to do.
 
*AND WHEN THEIR FAITH IS PUT TO A TEST, THEN DON'T FAIL. STAY RIGHT WITH WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  38    One day down in a great nation under a great bondage there was some Hebrew children that we know as Shadrach, and Meshach, and Abednego. And it came to a place where they had to make a decision, that something had to be done. They had their--their--their faith was put to a test. And when their faith is put to a test, then don't fail. Stay right with what you believe.

And when they're faced, faith was put to a test. And they went through a crucial hour, not only did they go to a--a ash heap, but they went into a fiery furnace. But Satan could not destroy them, for God's purpose wasn't yet fulfilled. They could go in there with this hope, "I know my Redeemer liveth." They could go in there with this hope here, "We are assured that God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace, but nevertheless, we will not bow to the image."
 

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  41    Satan could not take them. He could not drown Noah in the flood, until the purpose of God had been finished. He could not burn up the Hebrew children until the purpose of God had been finished. He could not kill Job with boils and troubles until the purpose of God had been finished. Neither could the lions eat Daniel until God's purpose had been finished. Neither could death and old age take Abraham until the purpose of God had been finished. And neither can it take you, or can it take me until the purpose of God of our life is finished. So we gather from their consolation.
 
*AND WHY DOES GOD LET TROUBLES COME?.... AND THOSE TROUBLES BRING US INTO A CLOSER FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD.

I.KNOW_  JEFF.IN  EASTER.MESSAGE.BOOK  SUNDAY_  60-0417S

  43    And why does God let troubles come? God harnesses trouble, puts bits in its mouth, and makes it obey Him, and those troubles bring us into a closer fellowship with God.

There had been no rainbow until the flood came. But after Noah was pressed into that condition that he was in, to float forty days and nights in a storm and the little ark pitching up and down in the water, it was after the flood was over that he saw the rainbow for its first time, the covenant of hope, the covenant of promise. After he'd went through the tribulation, then he saw the promise.

*WE ASK FOR COMFORT AND PEACE; GOD GIVES US THE BEST HE COULD GIVE US:…

That's the way you see the promise, after you've gone through the tribulation. I've liked that poem, or psalm:

Must I be carried home to Heaven on a flowerly bed of ease,
While others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?
We ask for comfort and peace; God gives us the best He could give us: trials and tribulations. That's better than comfort and peace. Our comforts is just beyond the river.
 
 *HIS LOVE IS ELECTIVE WHICH HE HAD FOR US BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.

 118-2    SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4

The cloudy skies and storms of life are no signs of God's disapproval. Neither are bright skies and still waters signs of His love and approval. His approval of any of us is only IN THE BELOVED. His love is elective which He had for us before the foundation of the world. Does He love us? Ah yes. But how shall we know? We shall know because He SAID SO, and manifested that He did love us for He brought us to Himself and gave us of His Spirit, placing us as sons. And how shall I prove my love to Him? By believing what He said, and by conducting myself with joy amidst the trials that He in His wisdom allows to come to pass.
 
*LIKE A FATHER HE IS LOOKING DOWN UPON HIS FAMILY.
  118-2    SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4
 "I know thy poverty (but thou are rich)."

 There it is again. See Him walking up and down in the midst of His Church. Like a father He is looking down upon His family. He is the Head of His household. He is the provider. He is the protector. Yet He looks on at their poverty. Oh, how the untutored believer stumbles at this. How can God bear to look upon His own in a time of need and not just stop it all--just give in and lavish everything material upon them?

 

*THE VERY CHARACTER OF JESUS WAS PERFECTED BY SUFFERING.

117-1    SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4

You see, they could not figure out God's love. They thought that love meant no suffering. They thought that love meant a baby with parental care. But God said that His love was "elective" love. The proof of His love is ELECTION--that no matter what happened, His love was proven truly by the fact they were chosen unto salvation (because God hath chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth). He may commit you to death as He did Paul. He may commit you to suffering as He did Job. That is His prerogative. He is sovereign. But it is all with a purpose. If He did not have a purpose, then He would be the author of frustration and not of peace. His purpose is that after we have suffered awhile we would be made perfect, be established, strengthened and settled. As Job said, "He puts strength in us." (Job 23:6b) You see He, Himself, suffered. He learned obedience by the things that He suffered. He was actually made perfect by the things that He suffered.

Hebrews 5:8-9,

 "Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered;

And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him."

 In plain language, the very character of Jesus was perfected by suffering. And according to Paul He has left His church a measure of suffering that they, too, by their faith in God while suffering for Him, would come to a place of perfection. Why did He want this?

James 1:2-4,

 "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."

 

  117-1    SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4

Why does He stand by? The reason is in Romans 8:17-18,

 "And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

 Unless we suffer with Him we cannot reign with Him. You have to suffer to reign. The reason for this is that character simply is never made without suffering. Character is a VICTORY, not a gift. A man without character can't reign because power apart from character is Satanic. But power with character is fit to rule. And since He wants us to share even His throne on the same basis that He overcame and is set down in His Father's throne, then we have to overcome to sit with Him. And the little temporary suffering we go through now is not worthy to be compared to the tremendous glory that will be revealed in us when He comes. Oh, what treasures are laid up for those who are willing to enter into His kingdom through much tribulation.

  117-2    SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4

  "Think it not strange concerning the fiery trials that are to try you."

 That is what Peter said. Is it strange that God wants us to develop a Christ-like character that comes through suffering? No sir. And we all have trials. We are all tried and chastened as sons. Not one but goes through that. The church that is not suffering, and is not being tried, hasn't got it--it isn't of God.

Heb. 12:6,

 "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."

NOW THIS SPECIAL CONDITION IN SMYRNA MUST BE APPLIED TO EVERY AGE

  117-3    SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE  -  CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4

Now this special condition in Smyrna must be applied to every age. There is no age free from it. There is no true believer free from it. This is of God. This is the will of God. It is needful. We need the Lord to teach us the truth that we are to suffer and be Christ-like in doing it. "Love suffereth long and is kind."

Matthew 5:11-12,

 "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake.

Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."

24-1209P_LONGING FOR GOD PT-3 (TRAVAIL OF SOUL)

 

24-1209P_LONGING FOR GOD PT-3 (TRAVAIL OF SOUL)

Jer 21:10  For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. 

Psa 42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 
Psa 42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 
Psa 42:3  My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 
Psa 42:4  When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 
Psa 42:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. 
Psa 42:6  O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 
Psa 42:7  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 
Psa 42:8  Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 
Psa 42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 
Psa 42:10  As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 
Psa 42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 

Jas 5:13  Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. 
Jas 5:14  Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 
Jas 5:15  And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 
Jas 5:16  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 

*WE KNOW IT IS TRUE THAT GOD WILL MEET A DESPERATE SOUL.

74      We know it is true that God will meet a desperate soul. Now, we all know that. But it usually takes something to drive us into that, to that despair, to the desperation. It takes something to do it.

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  75      We find out, in James 5:15, that the Bible said that. "The effectual fervent," that's desperation, "effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. When a righteous man, a good man, gets in travail," or soul travel, or travail, either one. I--I think "travel" is a better word. Travail, or travel, either which one you want to call it. But when a--a--a soul gets in--in desperation, in travailing, an effectual fervent prayer of a man that can show the Token, it does something. See?

DESPERATIONS_  JEFF.IN  V-4 N-1  SUNDAY_  63-0901E

  76      Notice what the Bible said here also, in James 16, 5:16, said, if... "Confessing our faults," getting right, making ready for it, "confess our faults one to another." Having no--no faults... Ask people to pray for you, confessing our faults one to another, and praying one for the other. There you are. With love, love, that I got confidence I can confess to you my wrong; and you can confess to me your wrong. And I love you well enough that I'll pray for you, and you pray for me; and we'll stay with it, with effectual fervent prayer, until it's answered. That's, that's desperation. That's what we should have all the time.
 
*WHY DO YOU HUNGER, CHURCH, WHY DO YOU THIRST? IT'S THE FATHER TRYING TO REVEAL THIS HIDDEN SECRET TO YOU.

CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY.OF.GOD.REVEALED_JEFF.IN  V-3 N-7  SUNDAY_  63-0728

503      But all this mystery is revealed only, as He promised, to His Bride. Hell is against this Truth, of the revelation of this mystery. But the Bride is standing on it. That's Her stand.

504    Why do you hunger, Church, why do you thirst? It's the Father trying to reveal this hidden secret to you. But you let so many things get it out of you. You let your job, you let your wife, you let your husband, you let your children, you let the cares of the world, you let some pastor, you let somebody else get that out of you, when you know that way down in your heart you're thirsting, hungry. It's God trying to reveal it to you, see, the revelation. The last day is here. Notice now.
 
*IF THERE'S A DEEP CALLING, THERE'S GOT TO BE A DEEP TO RESPOND TO IT.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  TULSA.OK  FRIDAY_  60-0401E

E-37    And as David said in the days gone by, "When the deep calleth to the deep..." If there's a deep calling, there's got to be a deep to respond to it. Listen, if there no Scripture telling me that there was Divine healing, you people setting here tonight, I'd still believe that there was.

Look. Before there can be a--a creation, there has to be a Creator to create the creation. Maybe that's Greek to you, but listen.

Here--here some time ago, I read in a paper, a city below us--where a little boy was eating the erasers off of pencils. And the teacher was all disturbed about it and sent word to the mother. The mother found the little fellow out on the porch, eating the pedal off of a bicycle: rubber. So, she taken him down to the clinic, and they examined the little fellow, and they found out that his little body needed sulfur. And sulfur was in the rubber. But before he could desire sulfur, there had to be some kind of a sulfur out there to respond to that desire, or he'd a never desired it.
 
*I'LL GIVE YOU MY ESTIMATION OF WHAT I THINK THAT THE CLOSEST THING TO AN EVIDENCE THAT A MAN IS A CHRISTIAN…IT'S TRAVAIL OF SOUL, A PERSON THAT'S ALWAYS SO HUNGERING AND THIRSTING FOR GOD.

QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.1_  JEFF.IN  COD  SUNDAY_  54-0103M

85-165    But it's accepting the Person Christ Jesus, and these other things come right on in and they fit together. Let every member in this body this morning, let this little group of people, if we could pull the curtains down along on each side and every person in here receive the Person Christ Jesus, there wouldn't never be a fuss; there would never be no argument. There'd just be a perfect love. Yet you'd still believe this and believe that, but it'd just be so full of love, you'd just... See? That's it.

Now, Jesus said, "By their fruit you shall know them." And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness.

Now, I'm going to... I'll give you my estimation of what I think that the closest thing to an evidence that a man is a Christian, than anything I know of. You know what it is? It's travail of soul, a person that's always so hungering and thirsting for God. They just simply... Day and night they--they just can't stand it. They--they--they got to do something for God. They--they're full of love and they're just a soul-travail, just travailing all the time. The Bible said, "He that goeth forth sowing in tears will doubtless return again, rejoicing, bringing with him precious sheaves." Is that right? All those things...
 
*WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHAT I THINK THE GREATEST NEED OF THE CHURCH TODAY?.....IS A NO SOUL TRAVAIL.

THE.INSIDE.MAN_  CHICAGO.IL  SATURDAY_  53-1212

E-12    You, would you like to know what I think the greatest need of the church today? Would you like... What I think... Where I think the lacking is? Is a no soul travail. The people are not broke up enough. They're... There--there's no burden seemingly. And you give me someone that's just so tore up about lost souls that they just cry and are--are wanting a revival so bad till they can hardly eat, just simply can't...

If you'll read the history of the world and the religious history, you'll find out it always taken that kind of a spirit to bring a revival. That's right. See? When Zion travailed or traveled (I think's a better word), why the--then she brought forth children. See? You--you have to be tore up. It's the atmosphere of anything.

*AND AS LONG AS HUMAN BEINGS SEARCH, AND HUNGER, AND THIRST, CALLING FOR THE POWER OF GOD, THERE'S GOT TO BE A POWER OF GOD SOMEWHERE TO RESPOND TO IT.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  TULSA.OK  FRIDAY_  60-0401E

  E-38    And as long as human beings search, and hunger, and thirst, calling for the power of God, there's got to be a power of God somewhere to respond to it. Before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator in there creating that creation.

When a man longs to see God, there's got to be a God somewhere that created that desire in him. If the deep's calling to a deep, there's got to be a deep to respond to that, because the deep had to be first there to create the call that's in you.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  TULSA.OK  FRIDAY_  60-0401E

  E-39    Now, that little woman was on her road, everything against her. But when once, she got a feeling that God was a real God, God was real, she begin to thirst. Another one come in, said, "Oh, I seen him stand... One of the most mysterious things I ever seen, but he solved it right out under the power of his God, and told them exactly the answer." Oh, it just shook the little queen.
She said, "Oh, I must see it. I must see it. I'm a human being. My life, my eternal destination is before me. I must see it." Nothing's going to stop her.

You don't think of dangers. You don't think of criticism. You don't think of what somebody else is going to say.

*STAY RIGHT BEFORE GOD, HUMBLE, WITH TRAVAIL OF SOUL.

QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.1_  JEFF.IN  COD  SUNDAY_  54-0103M

86-170    But if I had to have it, I'd put that first. 'Cause if you've got that, the other will take place. Uh-huh. See? If you've got that, if you'll just get so hungry for God, shouting will take place. If you got so hungry for God, speaking in tongues will take place. If you got so hungry for God, you'll just keep on hungering, keep yourself. Now, you go to seeing yourself getting indifferent, just remember, look out, there's another spirit trying to work itself in there. Stay right before God, humble, with travail of soul. Just be all that good old fashion...

 

 

24-1206A_THE MESSAGE OF GRACE PT-17 (INSIDE LIFE WITH CHRIST)

Heb 10:16  This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 

Heb 10:17  And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 

Heb 10:18  Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 

Heb 10:19  Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 

Heb 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 

Heb 10:21  And having an high priest over the house of God; 

Heb 10:22  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 

Heb 10:23  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 

Heb 10:24  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 

Heb 10:25  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. 

Heb 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 

Col 3:1  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 

Col 3:2  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 

Col 3:3  For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 

Col 3:4  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 

Col 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 

1Jn 4:4  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 

*AND WHEN THAT ROD WAS PUT INTO THE HOLIEST OF HOLIES, INTO THE CONSECRATED PLACE OF GOD, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,…..

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

   E-35   …..But when that man was on the outside, that old rod, it was just an ordinary stick, and it would been carried along in Aaron's hand till it was dried up; there was no life in it. That's the man that's cut off from God. That's the man that's without Christ. That's the man may be a member of a church, but knows no more about God than a Hottentot would know about a Egyptian knight; walking on.

"Oh, I belong to church." It was in Aaron's hand. Yeah, he was used, but dead. And when that rod was put into the holiest of holies, into the consecrated place of God, in the Presence of the Holy Spirit, you know what happened? It budded and blossomed, and yielded almonds, all in one night. Hallelujah.

*AND THAT'S THE WAY YOU'LL BE, OR EVERY BELIEVER THAT THROWS HISSELF,..

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

   E-37   …..Look what happened. Now, the first thing, it had to--it had to be refreshed to bring forth buds. It budded out. Not only did it bud, but it brought forth blossoms. Not only did it blossom, but it brought forth fruit.

And that's the way you'll be, or every believer that throws hisself, the outside, the--out of the outer courts, into the veil where Christ is, and hides your life away, you'll be refreshed, budded, blossomed, and bear fruits of the Spirit. Amen. You'll be a worker in your community. You'll be a soul winner for Jesus. You'll be a new person. Old things will pass away. Tradition of men will fail, but your heart will be burning with the love of God.

*TO A LIFE THAT'S CONSECRATED AND LAYS BEFORE GOD, IT'LL CHANGE THEM AS CERTAIN AS I'M STANDING AT THIS PLATFORM TONIGHT.

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

   E-38    Inside this place where they took this old rod and laid it there in the Presence of God... God living in the glory over the Cherubims, that rod all happened at once.

And brother, sister, to a life that's consecrated and lays before God, it'll change them as certain as I'm standing at this platform tonight. It'll take all the fight out of you; it'll take all the difference out of you; it'll take all the--the isms out of you. It'll make you a real Christian if you'll just get into His Presence.

Watch what taken place, a freshing, to be refreshed. Notice, the dew falls at nighttime. The world settles down. They active of nature through the day... the toils and the jumps, and the toils... But when everything quietens down, then what happens? The dew falls.

*GET ALONE IN THE QUIETNESS, AWAY FROM THE WORLD AND ALL OF ITS CARES…

E-38    …..Watch what taken place, a freshing, to be refreshed. Notice, the dew falls at nighttime. The world settles down. They active of nature through the day... the toils and the jumps, and the toils... But when everything quietens down, then what happens? The dew falls.

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

E-39    Of a morning, did you ever get up real early, get out real early and smell that fresh air, how it is and how refreshing everything is? The dew has fell.

Oh, brother, sister, if the only thing you know is go to church, if the only thing you know that you joined or was baptized, or something like that, why not hide your life away with Christ. Get alone in the quietness, away from the world and all of its cares, and settle down and watch what a refreshing will come.

*ONCE IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD, YOU GET QUIETED.

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

  E-40    How the thing was refreshed in the Presence... Notice another thing. Once in the Presence of God, you get quieted. You're not tossed about by everything. You know where you're standing. There's something happens. You know that you're a real Christian. You know that you've been in contact with Somebody that loves you. You know that something's happened down here, and it's refreshing. And not only that, but you'll be--you'll refresh others.

*GOD GIVES YOU A NEW SPIRIT, THEN HE SAYS, "I'LL PUT MY SPIRIT IN HIM."

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

He said He'd give you a new spirit. Now, that spirit isn't God's spirit; that's your spirit. God gives you a new spirit, then He says, "I'll put my Spirit in him." But the thing God has to do is give you a new spirit, make your nature a little more gentle and settle down, or He couldn't even live with you. So He has to get you fixed up first before He can come in. "I'll give you a--a new Spirit," then you take Him anywhere. You go all kinds of places. He's got to get you fixed so you can entertain Him right.

  E-41    So that's when you're on the first altar. But when you hide away, you get His Spirit. Then the Holy Spirit, none other than God Himself comes and dwells in you. And then there's something about you, the neighbor loves you. The people likes you.

Now, no matter how much you shout, or how much you try to do, if you haven't got a life that your neighbor knows that you're a Christian, there's something wrong somewhere. Now--now, let's just come down to truth now. You know that's right.

*WHETHER HE AGREES WITH YOU OR NOT, YOU LOVE HIM ANYHOW. THAT'S THE WAY YOU GOT TO DO IT. THAT'S THE HIDDEN LIFE.

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

  E-47    There's where the church is failing in one place: overcoming, overcoming temperance--temper, overcoming difference, overcoming church prejudice, overcoming hatred. Many people tonight who shout and speak with tongues and run up-and-down the aisle, and hate their neighbor. That has... Brother, you're lost yet. That's hard to say, but that's the truth. Right. Overcome. You can only overcome when you...

You say, "I'm eating manna, glory to God." Yes, but look what happens from one day to the other. You get the miss-meal cramps. Come on in where the manna's fresh all the time. Whether your neighbor treats you right or not, you'll love him anyhow. That's right. Whether he agrees with you or not, you love him anyhow. That's the way you got to do it. That's the hidden life. That's that consecrated life. That's that life that the veils of the worlds... And you're shut off from the things of the world. You only live in Christ. You see what I mean, church?

*THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO BE. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE IS...IF IT'S HEARTACHES, IF IT'S TROUBLES, IF IT'S UPSETS…..YOU'RE STILL WALKING IN THE LIGHT OF GOD

A.HIDDEN.LIFE.IN.CHRIST_  SAN.FERNANDO.CA  THURSDAY_  55-1110

  E-55    That's where we need to be. No matter what your experience is... If it's heartaches, if it's troubles, if it's upsets, if it's this, that, or the other, you're still walking in the Light of God. You're living in the Shekinah Glory, living there where Jesus is in His Presence, that "all things work together for good to them that love God." And you'll love Him, and you're walking in that mellow, soft, sweet, humble Christian life. Wouldn't you like to walk like that?

There's not a person here but what wants to live in there. And, friends, that's where you should live. If you want to know the secret of this--of Life, if you want to know why these things is... One day by the grace of God, He took me in there. That's right. That's what does it. It's nothing in yourself. You don't live for yourself no more. You live for others.

1Jn 3:21  Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 

1Jn 3:22  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. 

1Jn 3:23  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 

1Jn 5:3  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 

1Jn 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 

Joh 5:39  Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 

Joh 5:40  And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 

Joh 5:41  I receive not honour from men. 

Joh 5:42  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 

Joh 5:43  I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 

Joh 5:44  How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? 

Joh 5:45  Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. 

Rom 5:5  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 

2Th 3:5  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 

Tit 3:4  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 

Tit 3:5  Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 

Tit 3:6  Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 

1Jn 2:4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 

1Jn 2:5  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 

1Jn 4:11  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 

1Jn 4:12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 

1Jn 4:13  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 

1Jn 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 

1Jn 4:8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 

1Jn 4:9  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 

Jud 1:20  But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 

Jud 1:21  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 

Jud 1:22  And of some have compassion, making a difference: 

Jud 1:23  And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. 

Jud 1:24  Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 

Jud 1:25  To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. 

 

24-1202P_LONGING FOR GOD PT-2

Psa 42:1  To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 

Psa 42:2  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 

Psa 42:3  My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 

Psa 42:4  When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. 

Psa 42:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. 

Psa 42:6  O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 

Psa 42:7  Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 

Psa 42:8  Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. 

Psa 42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 

Psa 42:10  As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? 

Psa 42:11  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. 

Jer 29:9  For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD. 

Jer 29:10  For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 

Luk 16:14  And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 

Joh 6:32  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 

Joh 6:33  For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 

Joh 6:34  Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 

Joh 6:35  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. 

Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 

Joh 7:38  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 

Psa 94:11  The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. 

Psa 94:12  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; 

Psa 94:13  That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. 

Psa 94:14  For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. 

Psa 94:15  But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. 

Psa 1:1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 

Psa 1:2  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 

Psa 1:3  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 

Jer 17:7  Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 

Jer 17:8  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 

*BUT YOU SEE, THAT GOD MADE A MAN TO THIRST, TO THIRST AFTER HIM. HE WANTS TO THIRST AFTER GOD.

THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE_  PHOENIX.AZ  FRIDAY_  60-0304

E-47    Now, listen close. The reason people do that is because God made them to thirst. "My soul thirst after Thee, like in a dry land, thirsting." Well, God made a man to thirst. But you see, that God made a man to thirst, to thirst after Him. He wants to thirst after God.

Now, the devil tries to satisfy that thirst by the things of the world. And he will never do it. Now, if he could take and make you thirst after dancing, make you thirst after the televisions, and rock-and-rolls, and all these other sinful things...

* IT'S GOT TO BE A THIRST BETWEEN DEATH AND LIFE, AND THEN SOMETHING TAKES PLACE.

THIRST_  TUCSON.AZ  V-16 N-6  SUNDAY_  65-0919

56    Now that deer knows, unless he finds water he's gone. He just can't live. I have tracked them many times after being wounded. When he hits a stream of water, he will cross in and get a drink, go up over the hill; come back down, cross, get a drink of water and go up. You'll never catch up with him, as long as he'll follow that stream. But once when he leaves the stream, if he can't find another water brook somewhere, you'll catch him right away. And now the deer knows that, so he'll stay right with the water, where he can get to it right quick. Now could you imagine a deer with his nose up, he has been caught out somewhere where there is no water?

THIRST_  TUCSON.AZ  V-16 N-6  SUNDAY_  65-0919

  57      And he says, "As the hart thirsts or panteth (is a thirst) after the water brooks, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God. Unless I can find You, Lord, I'll perish. I--I--I can't go unless I find You!"And when a man or woman, boy or girl, gets that kind of a thirst for God, he is going to find something. See?

58    But when we come at it, just kind of halfway, "Well, I'll kneel down and see what the Lord does." See, you're not really thirsting yet. It's got to be a thirst between death and Life, and then something takes place.

AND THAT SENSE IN HIM IS JUST ONE THAT GOD GIVE HIM, SENSES TO HIM, TO LIVE BY.

THIRST_  TUCSON.AZ  V-16 N-6  SUNDAY_  65-0919

  59      The deer, also here he's... We find that he also has another sense, of smell, that sets off an alarm in him when his enemy is near. He is possessed, this little creature, with a--a sense to protect himself. And he's--he's got a little alarm in him, a little something, that he tickles his nose when the enemy is near. You can get in the wind of the enemy, and he knows that you're there, and he is gone. Sometimes a half a mile away, he can smell you and get away, or the wolf or any danger. He is able to sense it because that he is made up that way. He is a deer, by nature. And that sense in him is just one that God give him, senses to him, to live by.

*YOU MUST STAY RIGHT EXACTLY WITH THAT WORD. AND, NOW, AND WE ARE SECURED WITH THAT SENSE AS LONG AS WE ARE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THIRST_  TUCSON.AZ  V-16 N-6  SUNDAY_  65-0919

  60      And I thought, comparing the deer with a man that's thirsting for God, before the enemy gets there. There is something about a child of God, that when you once are born into the Spirit of God, receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there is something about the person that can sense the enemy. You can take a man when he's taking the Scripture, and reading the Scripture and try to inject something to that Scripture, that's contrary to the Scripture, a man that's filled with the Holy Ghost can [Brother Branham snaps his finger--Ed.] sense that, right quick. There is something out of the way. When he gets into a place, and--and that little certain sense in there, that it's done to protect your life. You, you mustn't, you mustn't never go for anything unless it's exactly the Word of God. You must stay right exactly with that Word. And, now, and we are secured with that sense as long as we are in the Holy Spirit.

*AT ONE TIME MAN HAD PERFECT FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD… THAT'S THE REASON IT'S A CRAVE IN YOUR HEART, IS A LONGING FOR SOMETHING, A CONTACT.

FELLOWSHIP.THROUGH.THE.RECONCILIATION.OF.THE.BLOOD_  MACON.GA  SUNDAY_  55-0605

E-15    Now, fellowship. Man wants... The greatest fellowship that man could ever have is fellowship with Christ. I love to meet men. Men, we all love to fellowship with all one another, sometimes go out and have a bite to eat. The neighbor women talked across the fence, coming around having little parties where they meet together, fellowship.

But the greatest fellowship that any mortal can know is when he's in the blessed Presence of Almighty God. No fellowship could take its place.

At one time man had perfect fellowship with God. That was God's purpose. That's the reason it's a crave in your heart, is a longing for something, a contact.

FELLOWSHIP.THROUGH.THE.RECONCILIATION.OF.THE.BLOOD_  MACON.GA  SUNDAY_  55-0605

  E-16    I've ministered in many heathen nations where people didn't even know which is right and left hand. But I never seen a human being in my life, regardless of how far back, how primitive he may be but what he worshiped something. He will worship the sun. He will worship the wind. He will worship the stars. He will make an image of something. Because it's just in him. It's an instinct to worship, have fellowship. Then it's our duties to take even the message of the living God.

In the beginning when God made man in His own image, put him in the garden of Eden. He had a perfect fellowship. In the late of the afternoon, the evening time when the twilights was falling, I can see the great Jehovah come across the top of the palm trees and the roaring of the thunder, when Adam and Eve gathered out there in the great open air cathedral and worshipped God, had fellowship, talked with Him.

*…AND WHEN YOU CAN LIVE CLOSE TO GOD, AND GOD THROUGH HIS GRACE OPERATES THROUGH YOU, THAT THE MORE GOD YOU GET, THE MORE GODLY YOU BECOME.

BELIEVE.FROM.THE.HEART_  JEFF.IN  SUNDAY_  57-0623

E-44    …..Notice, I have begin to think this, that it is possible, that when a man, like the apostles, and when you can live close to God, and God through His grace operates through you, that the more God you get, the more godly you become. The more Eternal Life comes in, the more of the intellectual it pushes out. Now, I don't mean to be a fanatic. I mean to be a real sane sound believer (See?), not a bunch of isms, but a real solid true sensible intelligent believer.

BELIEVE.FROM.THE.HEART_  JEFF.IN  SUNDAY_  57-0623

  E-45    And now watch. I've seen it work. And to think that if you'll get into that contact with God, it becomes till it isn't your voice any more. It's not your thought any more. It becomes God's thought and God's voice. You are just a vine, or just a branch. He's the Vine. And if His Spirit that goes in and energizes, as long as you can get yourself out of the way, He will fill it up. And then you can be a witness just like Noah's ark was a witness, like Jesus was a witness of God.

He become so full of God, till him and God was One. God dwelt in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the very expression.

*HE CAN DECLARE HIS CHARACTER THROUGH THE WORK OF YOUR YIELDING.

BELIEVE.FROM.THE.HEART_  JEFF.IN  SUNDAY_  57-0623

  E-46    A man's work declares his character. Christ was God's work. And Christ declared God's character, His feeling for the sick, His longing for saving of souls, till even He gave His own life. God's work... God's character was declared in Christ.

And if you can just empty your own intellectual thoughts out and give God the right of way, He can declare His character through the work of your yielding. Empty out; get the world, get your doubts out of the way.

If you come to the altar to be prayed for, say, "I'll go up and see if I get healed," God can never declare His works. You've got to get your own thoughts out of the way and let Him fill you.

Psa 107:1  O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. 
Psa 107:2  Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; 
Psa 107:3  And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. 
Psa 107:4  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. 
Psa 107:5  Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 
Psa 107:6  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:7  And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. 
Psa 107:8  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 
Psa 107:9  For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. 
Psa 107:10  Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron; 
Psa 107:11  Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: 
Psa 107:12  Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help. 
Psa 107:13  Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:14  He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. 
Psa 107:15  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 
Psa 107:16  For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. 
Psa 107:17  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. 
Psa 107:18  Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. 
Psa 107:19  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:20  He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. 
Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 
Psa 107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. 
Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; 
Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. 
Psa 107:25  For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. 
Psa 107:26  They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. 
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. 
Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. 
Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 
Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 
Psa 107:32  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. 
Psa 107:33  He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; 
Psa 107:34  A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 
Psa 107:35  He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. 
Psa 107:36  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; 
Psa 107:37  And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. 
Psa 107:38  He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 
Psa 107:39  Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. 
Psa 107:40  He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way. 
Psa 107:41  Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock. 
Psa 107:42  The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. 
Psa 107:43  Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.