Ministers and Wives Retreat 4

it's been a real pleasure mine the beaver brother-sister craft both sister Travis and I certainly saw that you're fine district secretary fine man and you have blessed me because when people believe you just rise to a higher dimension and I appreciate brother Travis but he stepped up here after a while ago and he started giving a little warning on still on that balance you know and I said well there it is pastoral advice to the preachers you know you only get lopsided we want to stay right straight ahead you know what everything because it's easy you know to make a mistake and then have to worry about it six months and if we will walk with Jesus we won't have that to worry about so by the Travis we love you and thank you a real real special leader and I know that you brethren believe that the things that will make you church strong strong and together is to get what the district get with the conference's and the count meetings pray puts everything you need because if there have been a thousand jobs as I said Satan would have been less after tackled him when we're all in revival ever Church everybody moving everybody pulling together you know then we can do it together I noticed these fellers in launch out all by their self move crowd sometimes ashamed to look at now yeah I used to look at him in the Nara had great crowds and now it's just a money reason thing it's just a whirly thing you know and it just breaks my heart some of them that I was close to once it was not you PC but they were man of faith out there I remember you can be seated I remember I was in a great revival one night and this fella just returned from a country horror there was at that time when he had the largest crowds that ever gathered religious service and I have a sitting down at the front just listening just seeing what's going on in the world I've watched I've gone to charismatic meetings I've read the books I listened and I learned and I watched man you can't always tell where he's going the first five years but this man and the world's largest crowds left the pulpit and come down to me he didn't know when he said you got this Minister - and he hugged my neck three times the preacher sitting by me was astonished the man was in touch but he backs it he died on Skid Row I don't care how high and how might have you been used to you lose your consecration it's goodbye

we need to learn to walk with one person day and night you know it's great to preach about him but it's better to walk with him it's good to preach the doctrine he gave us but it's best to walk with a giver and then the rest of it will go along you know you know when you was courting your wife the letters was good you enjoy them but ever we can you know you just had to see them you know reading the letter wasn't enough hearing him on the telephone wasn't enough you just wanted to go and see him reading his love letter is great but let's go see him every once in a while get that real close personal touch love love towards your Pam the older I get the more I see the need of walking procedures just talking worshiping him I don't have to be a church just anywhere just walk with him that's the secret and you'll always know you always make the right decision because he knew it all from the foundation of the world follow me and you can get off the course sometime Paul said follow me is to follow Christ pick out a Manion those following Christ but remember some other man is good to fellowship him but there's no one can take the place of Jesus in views in his name never separate the name from the person never separate the word from the person we can preach so much about the name but we just see one just j esus but j esus is a real living person if i could shake his hand it would be a good warm handshake such love such peace that flows from him there's just nothing like it you know I'm just talking but I I've been a preaching and a target that I just have to stop and say Jesus I know you're up there and I know you're here and I know you love me I know you care and I know I don't know everything and I I can make mistakes I can ask things that it's not ready it's not the right time but it'll be all right I'd rather hear him say son I love you you please me then have a million letters I want to please him that's what it's all about praise God love love bill ministers we talked a

while ago one translation of the scripture in Psalms I'll awake the dome I won't wait till it comes up I'll just oh wait being reared on the farm I about 4:30 or morning them old roosters that start trolling but like face trying to wake up the dawn hurried up and as the chickens would begin to move around and the horses and the cattle in the law it meant don't coming there's a stir in the barnyard stirring the chicken house it's the dawning of a new day and the old rooster would call when he's happy it's another day another day well they didn't make the sunrise any faster but it did something to them you know praise the Lord praise the Lord and we're called to wake the dawn in that sense you know praise the Lord to wake up sleepy folks to wake up the church praise God we're called to do that we have gifts that old members don't have to watch for their soul what can't sleep souls will perish you know sometime we called on to deliver some sad messages ice telling by the craft about one of them 15 years ago ice praying the Lord said go over and tell Thomas goodbye I said what what's that mean I said go I walked in and him and his wife exist separating these tricks Nooyi I said Thomas the Lord told me to come tell you goodbye and that means if you leave you won't come back alive son he said oh I hope not I walk to the door and I said Thomas goodbye I'll never see you again if you leave he left three days later coming back from Texas drinking he was killed instantly into a cupboard two years ago had a young man of a church his name's Tommy his his son he was hated to become a multi-millionaire and he was a member of my church but had drifted back began to dabble the things of the world one morning I was praying the Lord said call Tommy over to tell him goodbye I said oh Lord I hope this is not a repeat that was daddy fifteen years ago I called him and I said son just want to tell you goodbye he said what do you mean I said you're fixing to die I said you've drifted away from God I said I don't know whether if you fixed it up you would escape a nut but I'd try it if I were you he partly did but he didn't three weeks later his company was moving and he was ahead of his big trucks and he saw one of his cars the one of the man who worked for them part with the road knew something's wrong so he got out he turned around and come back meeting and one of his life was sticking out in the highway back the other way well the drivers are one of his trucks came over the hill and saw it sort of raining like they thought there's a meeting the car on the wrong side of the road slaps on the brakes Tommy and another boy was standing between the two cars slapped it together and killed him both instantly I walked for the cash that's it goodbye boy I loved him he was

a blessing to the church for a long time but sometimes we have to deliver messages like that sometime we in tune with the spirit world you see things it grieves your heart just don't know they were driving down the street one day and I said to my wife I said look see that man that merchant standing there by the post she said yeah I said he's fixing to die she said Oh surely not he looks alright next evening four o'clock he dropped dead with a heart attack these are things and sometime you move into these things and still can't hear people and yet there are others that we have been able to help by delivering such messages but there's one thing I know that Jesus loves people even though they're sinners he'll send a message would you think it's strange if God would do this to a soul that's fixing to go into eternity lost forever no he wants to use this preaches more but be careful and be sure there's a place in Christ and you don't miss it it's not a worked up pat yourself on the back thing there's some messages you're not anxious to deliver at all he wished you didn't have to but that's a preacher's life and today as I look

out over this artists and these ministers wives here the greatest people that walk the face of the earth you will I told one feller I said your wife is gonna get two crowns one for living for God and Ellen before leaving for you living with you but to put up with a preacher with all of his battles if I was a woman I'd never marry one I don't think that you were in trouble now so you make the best of it you can't leave him and you don't want to be but I don't know you know we always out on cloud nine hunting a sermon you don't even hear what the wife says sometime and then nobody in the world Lord listen to him or her because I'll guarantee you when you said will you marry me you didn't get off on one of these trips just waiting for that yes wouldn't you really heard it and my and all she barely whispered it she didn't say yeah but I heard it I'd be able to hurt it 20 feet that we should treat her better at the breakfast table than we do the girl down where we eat breakfast I've seen something I said that you treated that waitress like you just treated your watch that wait does it throw a glass of play that you won the storms are raging to have a good companion somebody to go home some of the chairs somebody that hurts with you I want you to know that's a marvelous thing praise God before I end this today and if you will forgive me I'm not gonna vote Dylan I hate to take your time we run over today and I spanked it on here and you would Joe forgive me for leaving as soon as I'm through because I got a long ways to drive and I don't evangelist come preach for me once and he was when he get through preaching he couldn't even go out to eat he's a young feller I said man that makes me feel good I can preach and get in the car and drive 300 miles but by the help of the Lord we're gonna pray the prayer of faith for anyone that has any needs here this afternoon because I sensed it this morning that maybe you do and I can't pray the prayer of faith you know why I believe the Bible that's why I believe is and that he is a rewarder of the Umatilla go 16 so that's what so I'm nothing special you can't do and you're gonna believe with me and if there's anybody in all the whole world that needs help it's a preacher's wife a lot of times these folks who I don't know wow she's she handles it she won't discuss nothing with him you say talk to Tom I came in one day and a lady was and my wife and I ever had a Hargett but nobody never since I knew see there's still hell no fuss there's nobody anyway this lady she was one of those high strong I don't know if self-conscious fearful somebody's against her you know always anyway she just announced to my wife that she felt that my wife had something against her and it was heaven talked about it when I walked in so I didn't say nothing enjoying it I don't talk like just and they closed it pretty quick enough so the lady was my office not too long after that and I said he told my wife

the other day I said you know what my wife said about you after you left she said no what I said nothing I said she didn't even tell me what it was all about I said aw what I heard all I know well she needed to hear that you know what this lady did because she would have been different about it I'm sure my wife they want her on wine she just said they'll talk Tom back and so that's what we've been trying to do around your own wine and unwind unwinds you know and a lot of us need to that's what you've been doing around here unwinding you have it on wine two o'clock don't want any up in the morning it'll run down he's terrible clocks you keep wine and you get them too tight it wouldn't run and you have two sets out shake it you know well finally would run that's why some people they just get keyed up the little just came run just but the weight on wine is just don't why enough that's simply in it praise the Lord and there's a whole lot of folks of wines you up a few letter I got some of the best winders you ever seen yo that's right but you know nobody I think us have my permission to make me angry I gotta have my permission to make me work if I'm just a little stubborn so I'm not gonna let you make me mad ain't gonna give you permission to make me angry go ahead say what you all say I think it mad that's me you see how powerful we are they can't make me mad let's let them make me worry let's let them know I have folks die no folks I said now they say worry will kill ya and I know some if it would that have been dead forty years ago then I realized that they really don't worry they they try to make someone else worry for it's Harley and I do lose Bob that I don't get a call for my woman and she's not a member of the church and sometimes it's two o'clock in the morning I've got indigestion would you please pray for me well there's times I'd like to say take a dose of soda and go to bed and go to sleep but poor thing you know it's trying to work on my patient says that Oh God Jesus touch her and heifer and I know some that died for 50 years before they ever died when I first knew him they was gonna die they'd call the folks in died I'd pray for everything and they live to be 90 so that's just some of the problems the preacher and a wife has to put up with all of that

he's like a yo-yo and sometime he's like a terabyte in a yo-yo they say you know her ability to say other day said certain followers is confused as the three headed woodpecker in a Petrified Forest now that's confused can you imagine one caught and carried out turn loose in a Petrified Forest it's been used to picking these trees around here and severly he just bounces that would be confusing let me read a scripture and now if I say now I sort of like now you know I like your son and I like the hon I like you and some people's always looking into the future tomorrow tomorrow or tomorrow or yesterday they never leave today they just live in a yesterday's er tomorrow so they missed today all of its blessings all the great things of today and there's one thing always remember yesterday's gone with all the tops said all this failures nothing you can do about water going on the bridge and it's gone tomorrow hasn't come today's the day the Lord has given us rejoice and be glad what he said no bond will break down under the pressures of today we can handle them we break down one who dragged all the yesterday's over into today and all the bad DeMars we can today pile them up nobody can stand such pressure but any human being can take it like the Lord said today today hallelujah praise the Lord and the joy of the Lord you strength of course I think this got a two-fold meaning I got to looking at it and thinking about it just the day always said well for me to be real happy that's my strength then he said the joy of the Lord hey I can make the Lord happy you know if I'm doing right thank you how about that huh doing the will of God makes a joyful Amen you know Joel made him happy whenever he hid old slewfoot that last link and he tucked his tail and hated through the heads didn't see him for the next hundred and forty years praise God hallelujah goodbye y'all the Lord I'm gonna make Jesus happy hey I'm in this to make him happy that's what it's all about in it that's right I want to make him just over Jordan for me boy look at look at that he's doing all right and then I know he's happy with me then the Joel the Lord's my strength you know I told some my young folks I said I'll look wienie playing music around here just for the old Carl man I want music played here that the Holy Ghost likes I won't worship here that the holy ghost likes yes we are to gear our services to what the holy ghost lacks and if that other fellow don't like what the holy ghost likes too bad there still owes old songs and that's sweet lovely music that's the Holy Ghost lacks if I ever get the praying for the sick and casting out Devils I hope they don't come on with some of this wild rocky stuff it would run the holy ghost out and the Devils come in I want something to run the devil out and the Holy Ghost come in our whole life should be geared to please God ever service to please God everything

renews to please him and now abideth faith hope and charity these three but the greatest of these is charity let me talk to you just a little bit about the big three you've heard of the big forehead this is the big three Faith Hope in love the most powerful words in the Bible faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen I don't know there's something about faith it'll help you in times of storm in times of sickness and times of poverty in times of trouble you can have the best hospitalization and it don't give you too much joy but faith makes you a different person you can face life different from the ordinary person you could faith in people and things in God and his universe I still love people if I ever get to I don't love people I'll know I'm back and I can't wait till it perfect to love them and neither will the Lord wait until you're perfect to reach perfection before usages preacher remember that if he had to wait till we were all perfect before he uses he'd have a time scratching up a dozen but they cause we love him and that calls with know how to confess and repent and to keep more keep going I talked him to a lady in she said she was a good woman how discerned her spirit things she worried about and she said I have asked the Lord to forgive me until I'm tired and all it was she said she wasn't gonna drink coffee and she went to started drinking the Lord don't care whether you drink you don't thank you blessed is the man to get there was not himself in the things he allows now you don't allow something the bible tells you not to and I worried about it I said now here is a woman a good woman that's fixed the quiz asking the Lord to forgive her because he feels like she's targeting and I sitting on the platform youth camp and the Holy Ghost come upon me and the Lord said it's not my children's false and failure and even their sins it troubled me the most it's the fact that they won't bring them to me and let me forgive them what they can be free because if you don't ask forgiveness you're loaded with the thing and he if if he told Peter to forgive his brother 490 times a day that means God to give a fella forgive a feller more than that if he needed it the one thing that I like about repentance it makes the devil man dude ever said hey you did something I said thank you very much she just forgive me oh it makes it man he didn't know what you lose that you know praise God you see long as he can keep you from repentance thinking like God ain't gonna forgive you've done it so many times he knows you're just loads you download you download you downs well you can't even hardly open your eyes but I have found out that it makes the devil mad for me to repent and it upset see and so I just repent a long time when I don't need to well it makes the devil mad because he knows he ain't got no weight ain't carrying a junk around I said I'll dump it on him he's the fella that started to just dump it on him faith then hope hope I love hope oh my faith is the substance of things hoped for you first start hoping and you're

hoping hope then all of a sudden is you read the Bible you got the substance you're getting now long ago one of my dear old Saints died in the hospital in Minden no lawyer for many years as we watched her gold it was a raging storm outside the wind was rolling and thunder and lightning and we walked to the window after she had passed and her husband said and his storming in Ohio she loved her storm she could always sit and say to the kids gods in the storm he'll take care of us don't worry children and I walked out of the hospital and the storm had passed and I stepped out and looked in the Sun it come out and there was a beautiful rainbow hanging just beyond the hospital and I said there's a rainbow a rainbow her life is in that she's gone then God put a rainbow her storms are over her troubles are over she's gone to be with jesus and there's a rainbow in every child that comes upon you and me as Christians there's a rainbow in the past the storm will pass they're not stationed here you ever notice they move on one day I was sitting and they'd been storming and it passed and the Sun came out and a lady called and she said brother Barnes I'm so depressed so beat down I'm going through some terrible things I said look out the window I said in the Sun pretty he's stolen while ago when this rolling Lightning flashing but I said it fast didn't it yeah sure then I said your storm will pass hey Ben it'll pass after a while and God will put through a rainbow up back some of you here today is about ready to see your rainbow Oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I read this that i'ma read it to you I copied it out of a book you sort of hit home to me hanging in the Tate Gallery in London George what painting entitled hope it pictures a blind folded woman sitting on the world Stricklen and dejected in her hand as a heart with all the strings broken but one she is striking that one string hope every string was broke but one but she was striking the one hope but the strings all broke but why but I'm gonna beat it amen amen that's what the Lord likes amen when the darkness come and you can't see ya and you only got one thing hang on hang on praise God just keep on that one straight one day God to restring the heart you'll fix it up for you but it just hold to see how far you'd go Amen laughter Abraham would have offered up his son his only Son God said now I know did you give all even your son to me it was bad that's been heartbreaking he's dead true bill and then last here today love love love hope before I leave that I see a man he have turned mine but 38 years he just hoped 38 years they drug him down to that pool oh I don't know what

his name was John Lee said what do fellas take me down to the pool again this is 35 years yeah it could be my day 36 going again 37 sure not again man but they put him on that little council take him down this close to the pool but somebody else got in before he did oh there's somebody I walked up and said do you want to get away he said I'll have any man that comes a time get having him Ian Lipkin hippy there's a time preachers Danny maybe there's a time that you got to look up in the eyes of Jesus and what do you looked up into those I had suddenly faith too cold for the hope and together we said rise take up your bed

then love love is the most powerful force after a hundred days battle when the Lord Jesus appeared and stepped into my bedroom you know some of the greatest experiences was God I've ever had was in my bedroom I prayed all night of church and other places and one day you know how people will be about the bedroom just a little bit you know I said Lord why you appeared in my bedroom you spoke spoke to me in all of a voice in my bedroom many times what may have talking to me still audible he said well that's the most sacred room in your house that's the room of love God created us to love one another and it should never be a guilt across the screen love one another always but when I looked into his eyes and the Sun was shining like it is today 3:30 February 8 1964 hey you remember all that we have to be a thousand I'll never forget it you don't forget things that happened when you see Jesus but he looked at me with those eyes if all the love in the world could have been drained out of every human being that ever leave important to one man it wasn't equal his love God is love he cares when you see Jesus you see love in action when you see him go on the counter that's the demonstration of the greatest act of love that's love in action he'll far away I stood an old rugged cross them off suffering and shame that's love that's love it surpasses anything this world will ever know I can't go back on him because I love him he loved me when I was unlovable he picked me up what I was a nobody and he put his arms around me and he loved me I see it in action when that old Sun that had gone into far country and live the treble action wound up in the hog pen here he comes home the father sitting out there looking Sunday and that's you don't worry settled it in the hope and he said I'll go back I'll be your servant no no dad saw him he rose up and he ran the meeting that's God's her love and he's old stinky smelly hog pens home broke dirty put his arms around him in he said father I'm no longer worthy to be called his sons that's his fourth year serveth he did pay attention to it he said bring out the best robe you got home she got beat up

he left glory land and came to this earth and died we might be redeemed it costs something for you me to be safe today I saw his face when he came out of Pilate all it was beaten to up his lips were all kind of crown of thorns questions down blood dripping down his face he was saying really he didn't say nothing but yet he said a million words Tom you see what I went through for you tell him about it tell him that by my stripes the heels I've only been beat once and then I'll turn the cross up the hills and I thought as I looked at that scene and I watched him with that cross just as plain as looking at the movie he was struggling for me that's a demonstration of love that beaten face was a demonstration of love for me that costs only shoulder was a demonstration of love and his heist you can't beat a total Center down til the all day he's lived a simple life for 40 years he's first and he beat his wife for these his children and finally here yes and let me just paraphrase let me just he said Jesus forgive me and Jesus starts to reach out and I hear gainfully the microsil are you know that's the worst blasphemer wife beater blasphemer yeah you're gonna say to that quick I never say he gave him Michael said see that you know why I brought those scars to heaven far Gabriel Michael so every time was Center cried I've got the scars there for him I forgive him bring the prostitute down this dynamic chancellor again we see the same demonstration wait a minute Lord that is a prostitute she's broke up homes her little children is then offered home and you're gonna heal her you say Gabriel Michael would you get behind me he drops his robe said what do you see so we see strikes scars lost so well you think of all of the heavens are so that / died prostitute to be saved in he owed that's love pure love and he loves you if you're sick today he loves you if he'll do that for the center how much more will he do it but you because healing is your brand it belongs to you all you have to do is to say Lord I receive it thank you thank you