Come Ye To The Waters, June 17, 2004 [This night something unusual occurred. I always ask Brother Freedom to pray at the very beginning because his prayers break through to the glory world so quickly. And the whole atmosphere changes. In our group there isn't anyone who has that level of anointing. And so we all are so blessed to have Brother Freedom pray. This night the Holy Ghost took over the prayer and the following message from the Throne Room was poured out through Freedom's lips at the end of the prayer and at the very beginning of the meeting. Not everyone had even arrived. But God Almighty was on the scene! --clint] I AM here to *LOVE* thee MY ones. I AM here to BLESS thee. And I say that the World cannot have, cannot receive what I have here to give to thee this night. And I say, even though thou are a few, I will come even unto one or two, or none, because I AM every where. And I see the desires of thy heart. And if thou shall come to ME, this night as I pass by, I wish to pour upon thee a blessing. I wish to take away from thee the sadness that thou has endured. And I want to give thee an ever lasting change of MY glory upon thee. I would fill thee with MY over-powering PRESENCE, that is so real! I say remember, those that are far from ME this night are missing out on MY great blessings. They are missing out on that which I have purposed in MY heart to give to those ones that will seek MY face. And I say, they do not understand that I AM the living God. And even though I made the Heavens and the Earth, and I filled all the space, and I have given knowledge, and I have given GREAT depth of thoughts, [on] what is taking place. Yea, in that I AM with thee. And I *WISH* to live within thee, with MY Spirit, saith the Lord. I want to walk in the hearts of MY people. I want them to be so in love with their Lord that I will have victory *IN* them. And they will have a purpose in this life that they are living, because they realize that their steps are arranged by their Heavenly Father. Even though they don't see ME in the flesh, they know this through the Spirit, that I AM *CLOSER* than if they could see ME, because I AM *IN* them, ABOUT them, OVER them, BEYOND them. I AM *EVERY* *WHERE* to help MY beloved. And I AM here, not to scold thee tonight, but to inspire thee, to let you realize that I *LOVE* thee, MY ones. **COME** *CLOSE* to ME! I *DESIRE* MY ones to SEEK MY face. And I say, for those that will SEEK ME, they shall surely find ME! And they shall be BLESSED! And they shall be FORGIVEN! And they shall put a blessing upon them, that they cannot contain. But those that have a haughty spirit, that go about believing that they do not need what I have, I say the heat of battle is going to be too great in a very short distance. I say the distance of time is going to be so short. And I say when that first wave comes, they will drop as the sand of the sea. In this last hour, saith the Spirit of God, I AM not putting this in thy heart that thou be afraid, only that thy heart be *ENLIGHTENED*, that I AM the answer. I AM the Way-Maker. I AM HE that liveth [See Revelation 1:18]. And I will give thee *STRENGTH* to endure through these last hours that [if] thou shall come close to ME, and desire ME more than silver and gold, I shall BLESS thee abundantly. And I shall keep thee to that appointed time. For I have a special HOME for thee that is *SO* beautiful. It is beyond description saith the Spirit of God. And I say it has been arranged for thee, MY child. For I say, all of thee, MY children, are all different. And I have colors that thou likest. And I have made thee different. And those things will remain with thee, even through Heaven. And I say, some of the things that are the characteristics that is in thee, that I have put in thee from before even thy childhood, will *REMAIN* to the times to come! And I have *PLANS* for thee! For I say that time is very close! And be not afraid, MY ones. For I shall strengthen thee. And I shall keep thee. And I say, oh one, be not afraid because thou might not even face death, saith the Spirit of God. Because, if I come through the time appointed very soon, thou will just be translated from here to there. What a glorious time it is going to be! But I say that time is very short. It is coming soon. Look up, MY beloved. Look to ME! And I shall bless thee abundantly! And I shall grant thee MY peace. And I shall grant thee MY love, while thou art here. Be not afraid. Be NOT dismayed. And I shall KEEP thee in the hallow of MY mighty hand, saith the Spirit of God. [A few minutes later I turned the service over to Brother Freedom to bring whatever message the Holy Spirit would pour through him. Following is that message.] I have never experienced anything like I have the last few weeks. It is multiplying. Wednesday I came home, and I found to my surprise God had met a great need. And the next morning the Spirit of the Lord directed me to begin a repair on my car port. That car port has been in great need of repair. But God is so wonderful. HE works NOW! *HE* works *NOW*!! And this was just yesterday morning. I woke up. I hadn't even thought about that old car port. But I knew in the Spirit that I should go out and start that repair. I went out before I had breakfast. I went out there and it was just a real problem. I could see that it was going to be a lot of hard work. And I was there maybe 15 minutes and this man walks up and says, "Do you need any help?" I said, "Yeah, I sure do!" He said, "Well, I need to go to Montana." He needed to raise some cash for a bus ticket to Montana. I said, "I can help you out on that part. But, I need some help with this roof on this car port." I figured that it would take both he and me two days to get that job done. Did you know, we started on that at 9 A.M. We had the roof back on by 4 P.M. And we took a load off to the dump, and cleaned the whole area. God was really in the business! God is so wonderful HE is WONDERFUL!!! And HE is *SO* special! [Brother Freedom begins to break down. That old car port has been a problem hanging over his head for so long. When you are 72 years old it isn't so easy to do home repairs and climb ladders. A person needs some help. And God the loving ONE sent Freedom a helper.] A couple of years ago I was about to tip a Caterpillar Bull Dozer over, way up here in the hills. I knew it was going to roll with me. I went off of this spot and I had this big 300 foot long chain behind me, with a 10,000 pound steel ball on the end of the chain. I was doing a ridge top. [This is a technique that has been developed to help control brush for fire prevention. The heavy steel ball and the chain help thin out brush on steep terrain.] The land owners asked if I would come out and run the dozer, because they couldn't find anyone else to do it, to run on that steep ground. [Brother Freedom has been a "cat skinner" for over 60 years. And he still gets calls to operate big earth moving equipment along with his mechanic assignments. So he knows how to run them and fix them...with God's help]. I ran the "cat" around this gate, and the ground was too steep off the side of the gate. The "cat" just sort of fell off. I tried to climb back up on the road that was on the ridge. If I could get back up on the road, on the ridge, I could pull that chain pretty good, because the road is pretty flat. But here I'm off the road, fallen down onto the steep side of the hill. I thought the "cat" was going to roll over! I was really afraid! And the Spirit of God spoke to me. HE says, "YOU!! STRAIGHTEN UP! STRAIGHTEN UP!! RIGHT NOW!! STRAIGHTEN UP!!" Boy, I heard the Spirit of God!! I said, "Okay, I'll straighten up." And the Lord helped me out of it. I found HIM to be a VERY PRESENT HELP IN THE TIME OF NEED. [See Psalm 46:1] And HE isn't at a distance! I've heard so many people say, "Well you need to pray, you know, because for six months from now." But I found out that God is interested in THE NOW! I was about to be in an accident in a town 45 miles south of here. I don't know why I'm even saying this. But, I would have been in an accident, about three months ago in the rain. And there was a truck that pulled across the boulevard I was driving on. I could see no way that I could avoid colliding with the truck. My brakes were locked up! I was sliding right into the truck. I was going right along. There was going to be a big collision. The Spirit of God says, "Take your foot off the brake! Turn to the left and you'll make it!" I did exactly what the Spirit of God said. And went right around that truck, missing him by a few inches! We made it! NOW, God is REAL!! And everything that I tell you here God has demonstrated in the REALITY. Many years ago, for about three or four years straight, every morning I got up the Lord would give me a phrase. Once he said, "Pray this day, because a life is on the line." And a girl was going to meet death. That happened! And I seen her saved. One day the Spirit of the Lord says, "Before this day is over you will be wide awake!" And that took place. [Freedom had arisen at 3 A.M. for devotions, but was having trouble staying awake. Before that day was over Freedom had great excitement and the Spirit of God asked Freedom if he was wide awake. And he was.] All these special encounters that I have, are for *NOW* to let you realize that *GOD* *IS* *SPECIAL*!! [Brother Freedom is bringing out the fact that God began first speaking to him in phrases and then the truth spoken would come to pass. And as time went on Brother Freedom would hear more and more from the Lord. Finally, today the Spirit of God will speak to him revelations for hours. He cannot retain it in his mind. It is too awesome. He only remembers snatches. But it all goes into his spirit. And as his friend I notice that later in a sermon or a prophetic word that revelation that Freedom heard, and even tried to tell me about, but couldn't, will come out in fullness. God wants to counsel HIS people. God wants to talk to HIS people. -- clint] I had an engine I worked on and started up on a Saturday morning. And as I started it up, I had gauges and everything on it. I'm a mechanic. [Freedom is a Caterpillar Mechanic. He repairs large pieces of earth-moving equipment.] When the Lord asked me one day what I knew I said, "The only thing I know is a little of YOU and a little of Caterpillar." God knew all about me! The Lord said, "I will teach you where you are!" And God has! [This is another major truth that God has taught Brother Freedom: God does not generally intend for HIS people to be transplanted. So often promising young believers are sent away to a school, college or seminary. Many do not go back to where God first raised them up. Generally, God wants his people to grow where they are planted. God is not as eager to transplant as man is. Brother Freedom thought he should go to Bible School. But God said, "I'll teach you right where you are." And judging from the answers that God has given Freedom, I as a Seminary Graduate have to say that I find Freedom's answers more satisfying than the answers the Seminary Professors had. Freedom doesn't know what the Synoptics, Palagianism or Transubstantiation are. But he knows secrets about being an overcomer and how to move in the Spirit of God that are more satisfying than I have ever heard in any classroom.] But anyway, I started putting that machine in gear, after it warmed up. And the Spirit of God just says, "Shut the engine off!" And the man that was with me says, "What did you do?!! And before I knew what I was saying I said, "There's a rag going into the pump!" He says, "What did you say??" I says, "There's a rag going into the pump, I guess." [Brother Freedom knew by the power of the Holy Spirit that a rag was being drawn into the oil pump. And if that rag reached the moving parts of the pump it would destroy the pump. The other man was the one who had been cleaning with rags and forgot to remove the rags.] And I pulled the line off, and there was two rags going to go into the pump! And when it does it just busts up lots of things. I'm talking sort of slow now, because I am talking very deliberately, to say exactly what I want to say. This is not God! [Brother Freedom speaks mostly what he hears the Spirit of God saying. But right now he wants us to know that it is he himself, not God.] I don't have great words. But I do want to give a truth. I can back up, basically, everything that God has done. But God is doing something wonderful these last days! I don't understand it. HE called me. I'm a mortal man. I'm doing better. The last few weeks I'm learning to hitch-up where I'm supposed to hitch. I'm doing a little better because in the Spirit there is something different that you NEVER think of. But what God has for us tonight I believe will help each one of you. God takes a normal creation, that HE created, that's us. HE takes that normal creation and puts it out in a region, a country a location for a special reason. That at a certain appointed time, and through the prayers of others, that pray for us, that normal creation will be saved. At that appointed time when we are saved, then, that is when your journey just begins. You step off from a rock into the water. You step off, like Peter, when he launched out across the lake toward Jesus. You step off, but you don't know. Oh, I feel the presence of God. [The Holy Ghost is taking back over and from this point on there is less of Freedom and much more of God.] God is here! And I feel a real quietness here tonight, because God is so tremendous. HE may change things. But right now *WE* *NEED* *TO* *REALIZE* *THAT* *HE* *WANTS* *TO* *LIVE* *IN* *YOUR* *HEART*. Brother Clint will you read Acts 17:24-31: "24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." Thank you very much. There is a real message to this and I think God wants to bring a conclusion with this relating to us, here tonight. God, I pray for a mighty blessing in the Name of Jesus. I want to thank YOU, Father, oh Lord, that YOU are so wonderful! Lord I just praise YOU! Jesus, I love YOU! I love YOU! God I love YOU! Father God, I love YOU, I love YOU, I love YOU. Holy Ghost, YOU are so *WONDERFUL*! YOU have been such an inspiration! Glory to God! Lord, YOU are so powerful, so understanding! Lord, YOU *NEVER* hurt me! YOU are like a nurse that is *SO* qualified! YOU do *GREAT* and *WONDERFUL* things! But yet, YOU don't hurt us! Father, YOU want to make us over after the image of YOUR Son, Jesus, that YOU might instill YOUR Spirit on us and in us and about us, That we might receive our commands from Heaven, that our antennas will be programmed to hear from Heaven's shore. Father I pray that YOU will bless this night, in the wonderful Name of Jesus. Amen. But you know, when we come into God's, whatever you want to call it, God's army, God's church, where we live in, there becomes a time *THAT* *WE* *NEED* *TO* *GROW*! We need to seek God, because God has a plan for each one of us. And even though we come and fill these seats, and it is a wonderful calling, the Pastor has a mighty job getting people saved! But I am saying: after we get saved God has a plan for *ALL* of us to come HIGHER. You still may work in your church. You might bless your church, and all the aspects. And in reality there is *one* difference: your heavenly Father becomes your *TOTAL*, your *FIRST* leader! HE moves in you, about you, through you, for you. And HE *NEVER*, GOD *NEVER* breaks HIS chain of command. God doesn't have back bitters that go to back bite the pastor, or the Sunday school teacher. *NO*!! That is the enemy that does those kind of things! But God works in us, that we might be equipped for the task that is before you. A lot of people want to go out in ministry when they are not really ready. They are not even able to cope with the enemy that is facing them. They do not know how to deal with him. That is part of the problem! God has got an army of many people that are called by HIS Name, but they literally don't know how to defeat the enemy! They don't know how to move through the Spirit of God! And this is *VERY* necessary! We are not here to insult or to put anyone down! You must understand that I am here only to love you. But I do know something about the Spirit realm that a lot of people don't know *ANYTHING* about! And God has taught me these things. And I am not here to boast of Brother Freedom, but to lift up **JESUS**! I believe that you who are here are big enough that you will realize that I am not lifting up my ministry, because I do not **HAVE** any ministry. But I want the ministry of *GOD* to be moved upon in HIS people that they might receive the blessings from on HIGH. The enemy has come along to *DAMPEN* the move of God! God wants HIS people to be blessed in such a way that they will walk in perfect harmony. In the second chapter of Joel it speaks about what is going to take place in these last hours. It says, "...and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded." [Joel 2:7b-8] It means the Pastor, the prophet, the evangelist all work together because *GOD* is the leader! *HE* is the *ONE* that gives out the orders. And HE moves through Jesus Christ the righteous. HE moves through the Holy Ghost of Heaven, that we might be created and fashioned in the image of God, that *GOD* will perform *GREAT* and *MIGHTY* acts in this last days, that will move against the power of the enemy that the enemy's eyes will be blackened, by the Spirit of God!! God wants to give us *LIBERTY*! And where the Spirit of the Lord is there *IS* liberty! [See 2nd Corinthians 3:17] Some of you here tonight might think, "Well, this is a bunch of strange stuff!" If it is not for you don't take it! But I will guarantee you it is *REAL*!! And it is very *FAVORABLE* for those that will believe. We find ourselves stepping off of life not knowing, "Thus saith the Lord." So we we need to be inspired by all to read this *precious* Word [holding up the Bible]. The Word becomes a light-piece [flashlight] from Heaven that teaches us, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." [Psalm 119:11] You will not go "out of order" by reading this Word. It will keep you **IN** ORDER! It will *BLESS* you! It will encourage you, not discourage you. It will move upon you. And that is why we need the *Spirit* *from* *Heaven*! The Bible says, "...the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." [2nd Corinthians 3:6b] And when you put the Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit) with the Word, the Word becomes ***ALIVE***! It becomes **POWER**! You can use the Word of God in many ways! And God has told me to tell you this, because you can use phrases from the Word and get in much trouble! In the Bible it has these phrases. And if you put them together you get, Judas "...went and hanged himself." [Matthew 27:5b] "...Go, and do thou likewise." [Luke 10:37] And you know that is *NOT* from God!! That is a statement, but it NOT hooked together right!!! And that is why we need the performance of the Spirit of God that moves upon us and brings forth the conjunction of the verb or whatever. All of you know English better than I do, but I'm speaking of all these words that constitute the liberty *FROM* **HEAVEN**! And our Commander and Chief is **NOT** a president or a king, even though they are leaders of a nation. But our commander is *GOD* in *HEAVEN*!! HE is our **LEADER**!!! HE is our **FATHER**! We don't see HIM, but I feel HIM and I know HE is here!!! God is **CLOSER**, because HE is living *WITHIN* me! HE wants to live within your heart!!! And that means an incision needs to be put in. That is why we have got to "...put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt..." [Ephesians 4:22a] because the Holy Spirit will *NOT* live in a *FILTHY* realm!! I'm not putting anyone down!! But I am just saying some truths, that we need to teach the beloved, if they want to *GROW*! If the beloved don't take it to heart they will sit there like a bottle in the sea drifting up an down. And they will be lost! It takes the *GLORY*, the *ENERGY* of the Spirit of God to start building on you, to be a vessel of praise, that you will walk in the liberty of God! If God be for you, who can be against you?? [See Romans 8:31b] As you start moving with the Lord you learn *THAT*!! "God is *FOR* me! And greater is HE that is within me, than he that is in the world!" [See 1st John 4:4b] The Bible says, "...Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." [John 14:27b] That is for me!! Yes! It is for the child of God! "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to *THE* **POWER**..." [Ephesians 3:20] "*THE* *POWER*" of the Spirit of God that lives with in you!!! "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**..." [Jude 1:24] These are tools that God has inserted in us, that we *MUST* start *GROWING* in the *POWER* of God, that we might have exceeding **JOY**, that the fellowship of God the Father, God the Son becomes your **PARTNER**!! Hallelujah!! I walk, I talk, I move **IN** **THE** **SPIRIT**!!!! **GLORY**!! I don't do it as much as I should! But what I am saying is, "THERE IS ALWAYS ANOTHER STEP *UP* *THERE*!! If we should live for the Lord a thousand years, we could never boast and say how big I am, because I am nothing. GOD IS GREAT!!! And just the time that I would say I was something, I won't even say it because I don't want that pride. "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." [Matthew 12:37] If you want to grow in God, *DON'T SAY WRONG WORDS!!* Instead say, "I'm saved by the blood of the Lamb! I am here because God has called me!" You don't say, "You know, I think God has forgotten about me," or negative phrases like that! That is because the letter killeth. The Spirit of God brings forth life. [See 2nd Corinthians 3:6. Wrong words are never by the Holy Spirit.] "For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." [Matthew 12:37] "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." [Psalms 19:14] [This is such an important teaching that Brother Freedom is touching on in this part of the message. Freedom also often adds in another Scripture concerning our words, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." [Proverbs 18:21] In so many congregations they never inform the people of God that most all of our words are creative. And we either are creating troubles or solutions when we speak. That is why Freedom often also quotes this Scripture: "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, *SLOW* *TO* *SPEAK*, slow to wrath:" [James 1:19]] We need the **JOY** of the Lord! [And wrong words can only rob us of any joy we have!] We need the "...joy unspeakable and full of **GLORY**..." [1st Peter 1:8] I am not here to tear you down. But God loves you! And I don't know how to say it in any tenderer than I am trying to tell you. But God wants to *MOVE* *OUT* *THE* *OLD* *TRASH*!!! It is time to get the old trash out and burn it!! Get rid of it! "...lay aside every *WEIGHT*, and *THE* *SIN* which doth so easily beset us, and let us run *WITH* *PATIENCE* the race that is set before us,..." [Hebrews 12:1b] "If God be for us, who can be against us?" [Romans 8:31b] "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." [Romans 8:37] "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other *CREATURE*, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." [Romans 8:38-39] You need to get it into your heart, here tonight, that even if this whole room here were filled with enemies, which we don't want it, but if it were, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FAIL GOD!! You are not going to let any imp from *HELL* take you away. There is *NO* *ONE* who can steal your crown, *NOT* ONE*!! There is NO ONE that can take from you! God has given you the provisions from *HEAVEN*. *HE* *WILL* *GUARD* *YOU* with HIS mighty hands! HE ***LOVES*** you! [It is so important to be armed with the truth and not to doubt God. If you trust God then you have these provisions. The enemies can't take anything from you unless you allow it through wrong words and doubt!] The World needs to hear this message, here tonight!! They need to realize that they have a depth to go, that God will anoint them from *HEAVEN*. And if they don't come into *HOLINESS*, they cannot go *NO WHERE*!! It is sad, but it is like a truck. Diesel trucks cannot go if they don't have any diesel fuel in their fuel tank! Without HOLINESS "...no man shall see the Lord." [Hebrews 12:14b] Without HOLINESS we won't see or please God! Faith grows! Don't get disturbed that you don't have a lot of faith!!! "...faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." [Romans 10:17] Faith grows! [You can increase your faith by immersing yourself in the Word of God!] But some of these things that you do that are *NOT* unto holiness *STOPS* you, eliminates you because of wrong spirits! Things like *LUST*, *PRIDE*, *ANGER* release wrong spirits. I'm not saying these things are on anyone here, but I want you to realize (I don't like this word but I must use it) wrong spirits released by these things I've named can put your soul to Hell. I do not like to use this word, but a "damning" spirit is released by these things. We need to learn to use correct words! "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." [Psalms 19:14] "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:" [James 1:19] We need to **CHOOSE** to be "slow to speak." **HESITATE* to speak!! God won't care a bit if you are "slow to speak." Don't be too boastful! Don't be a bragger! These are the elements that pull us back out of that relationship of holiness. "Arrogance" is another danger. All these areas can cause us to slide ourselves into wrongness. They may not always be totally sinful, but it brings us down to a place that we can lose out with God. Your attitude becomes wrong! And when your attitude becomes wrong you lose out with God! Pretty soon you are *EMPTY*!! And you are *DRY*! And you are *DISCOURAGED*! And you are *DOWN*! And you don't feel close to God! At that moment you need to come and take counsel of God. Get down on your knees, *AT* *THAT* *MOMENT*, and pray and say, "*LORD*! Re-instate me right now!" Don't let that condition go a week, or a day, or a year, a month!! Take counsel of God **RIGHT** **NOW**, that you *MIGHT* *HAVE* *DELIVERANCE*, and the *PEACE* *OF* *GOD*! You should not have to go get someone to pray for you! You need to learn how to pray *FOR* *YOURSELF*! I'm giving you some tools that will *KEEP* you, through the hour of temptation! We need to have the **GLORY** of God!!! [Now a prophecy begins to pour out of Brother Freedom.] For I would say to thee MY people. For I the Lord thy God am here this night! I AM here, not to hurt thee, or discourage thee. But I AM here to challenge thee, this night, that thou wishes and thou wants, and thy desire is to have more of ME! Thou will go and thou will retain what thou has heard, what thou will hear. And I shall bless thee. I say, it is a *LOST* *VENTURE* for many of MY people, what has been spoken here this night! I say, many, many, many is a lost treasure. But I say it is real. And it will keep you on the pathway toward Heaven, saith the Spirit of God. And I say this night, saith the Spirit of God, **I** **WILL** **HONOR** **THIS**, which is going forth, saith the Spirit of God. For it is *NOT* the man, but I honor MY Word! And I AM the God of Heaven! And I will move in a just way. And I will NOT impart in sin, no longer. For I AM going to have a HOLY people, a zealous people, a people that move *THROUGH* *THE* *SPIRIT*! I say, many of MY people that are MY leaders *DO* *NOT* *KNOW* when I speak to them! I AM speaking to them, and they DO NOT hear ME, because they do not know ME! And I say they are doing everything, but call their church to pray for them. They are doing all these things when they **CANNOT** **HEAR** **ME**!! MY sheep need to hear MY voice, saith the Spirit of God! And I shall retain them! And I shall **BLESS** them! And I shall **ENCOURAGE** them! And I say, when I send MY messenger to many, they *WILL* *NOT* *HEAR* *HIM* because he is NOT like they are. And I say there becomes confusion in amongst MY people. And I say, it is why MY church is getting very *DEAD*, saith the Spirit of God! I need a people that is on **FIRE**, ***ALIVE***!!! I want MY altars on fire. I want MY people to be alive, and not going through the tortures, the calamities that they have been engaged with! I say their hearts are so up and down, in and out, that they are tormented by the activity. They know ME, and they don't know ME. They wish they knew ME, and then they wish they didn't know ME. And I say **THIS** is **NOT** from ME, saith the Spirit of God! And I AM not here to give thee these words that thou might dissect them. But just to take them, and let you know where MY people are this day! MY people need to KNOW the living God! They need to realize that HE is the ONE from *HEAVEN*! And if they cannot believe this, what are they going to do when the Day [comes], when they stand before ME in that *PRESENCE*! They will NOT know ME! And they will be *PANIC STRICKEN*! When MY people come before ME in that Day, if they should die upon this Earth, they are going to be **PANIC STRICKEN**, because they are so far FROM *ME*! And I say MY people **CAN** know ME! For I AM here with MY hands out-stretched! Not to frighten thee, but to let you realize that I *LOVE* thee! And I say the enemy is coming in like a flood! But I shall give thee grace, and I shall *BLESS* thee! And shall make thee more than conquerors, if thou shall desire of ME. I shall give thee *STRENGTH* from Heaven's shore! And I shall *ANOINT* thee! And I shall *BLESS* thee! But I say, *MANY* in this last hour are going to go the way of LESS, the line of least resistance! MY people need to be *STRONG* in the Lord, that you might put on the whole armour of God. That you might be able to withstand the wiles of the devil. *COME* MY people, and I shall bless thee. Thou must *REASON* within thy self: Do you want ME, or do you NOT want ME, saith the Spirit of God! I say MY people it is time when MY people are going to have to choose! Choose you this day whom you will serve. [The prophecy ends and Brother Freedom goes on.] Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Lord, as for me and my house, I'm going to serve YOU! I wish to serve the LIVING KING! And thank you Lord for speaking, Lord God! Oh, I know that I am NOTHING! But *YOU* are *REAL! And you are *FAITHFUL* Lord, that YOU send forth the mighty *BLESSINGS* upon YOUR people! That YOU want to anoint YOUR people! YOU want to quicken them! YOU want to put YOUR courage upon them. YOU want to TOUCH them in the GLORY from Heaven, that YOU might *ABIDE* within them, ABOUT them, OVER them. And that YOU have long known the problems that have walked within themselves. And you want to be the *LEADER* of YOUR people! And Father God I thank you LORD, because I would not know *HOW* to be the leader! But I can *REALLY* follow THEE this day! And Father, as for me and myself, I want to just follow THEE! I want to *FOLLOW* YOU, LORD GOD! I want to *FOLLOW* YOU all the days of MY life! LORD GOD, help me to walk in *VICTORY* this night! And Father, we pray for each one in this room here, tonight! We pray for a mighty **BLESSING** upon them. We pray that YOU would encourage them this night! We pray that YOU would move upon them as only YOU can! Give us VICTORY this night, because we know it is a *HARD* walk, a HARD road for YOUR people this night! **BLESS** them abundantly! And we ask it in the wonderful Name of JESUS! Amen! There is a problem that is facing this World! And as we start this, what has been said never stops! You can be full of God's love today, and tomorrow be as dry as everything! You have to work out your salvation with fear and tremblingness. [See Philippians 2:12] *IT* *IS* *AN* *EVERY* *DAY* *ASSIGNMENT* *SEEKING* *GOD*!! We have to seek HIM every day!! We have to call upon HIM every day! We have to bind the powers that would come against us! We have to bind Satan this day, and I loose the Spirit of God! Those are some windows! You can do it! **YOU** **CAN** **DO** **IT**!!! And if you will do it, God is faithful! HE will *BLESS* you!! But if you don't do it, you are going to go through some withdrawals! And you are going to go through some pain! And you are going to go through some hurts, because God expects you to us YOUR MOUTH to get with God!! That is HOW IT IS DONE! **YOU** **SPEAK** **THE** **WORD**! **YOU** **CONFESS** **IT** **TO** **GOD**!!....."Lord I want YOU this day! I *WANT* *YOU* this day! I want YOU to surround me with YOUR blessing. I want YOU to give me *COURAGE*, as I go through this day! I want YOU to make me a *BLESSING* to those ones who hate me! I want you to *BLESS* them abundantly! And I shall be a testimony for these ones, in the Name of Jesus!" You **CREATE** the atmosphere where you are, by not saying anything, sometimes. But speaking it quietly. You don't have to bellow it out, saying "You bunch of wicked..." ***NO***!!!! You do it as unto the Lord! **BLESS** them! Tell them to, "Have a good day!" Glory! Hallelujah!! They might ask, "Are you excited???" "YES, I'M EXCITED!!! God is good!" But you don't even have to say that!!! But they *KNOW* about you. A fellow the other day said something. I don't even know how he knew. He said, "Where are you going to be preaching at?? I know you do." So even those round about us read us! Do you understand what I am trying to say?? **PEOPLE** **READ** **YOU** **JUST** **EXACTLY** **LIKE** **YOU** **ARE**!!! They see us because we live in a house that is like a window! Everybody sees through us! And that is why we can't make it by just making excuses and hiding things that is wrong! We are living in transparent facilities. And God does it for a rule, a law, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." [Matthew 5:16] And when your light shines, praise God, it is great when it shines! If your light isn't shining then we try to *HIDE* ourselves under a bushel. We need to let our light so shine that it might "...glorify your Father which is heaven." You know, the Foolish Man built his house upon the sand. [See Matthew 7:24-27] And then it speaks about building your house upon the Lord Jesus Christ, the Rock. But you know, so many of us, even as Christians, we build our house on the sand. We try to have friends, that we associate with that really pull us down. A lot of times we do that. Just because of these friend's relationship is why it pulls us down. In Psalms the First Chapter is says, "Blessed is the man that walketh *NOT* in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners,..." [Psalm 1:1a] So if any one that is going our way puts a damper to our lifestyle, that God has called us to be in, and we back out of God's plan, because of that individual, we need, for our life's sake, to tell this individual, "I love you, and I appreciate you, but I believe that God wants me to do something different. You can be very gentle to that person. But we need to separate ourselves from those who pull us down. And I'll tell you the biggest problem there is, is in these last days. And it is a hard problem. That is because the Bible says that we need to separate our selves from those who slander the Holy Ghost. "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." [2nd Timothy 3:5] And there are lots of folks who "deny the POWER." I've heard such denial on Christian Radio programs. You know this is a *HARD* assignment! And God is very merciful! But we don't have to be "buddy-buddy" with someone that goes and challenges what we believe in, because we believe in the *POWER* of the Holy Ghost! We believe in Divine healing! We believe that God is a good God! We believe that God is faithful! And anyone that *DOESN'T* is NOT what we stand upon! This is our foundation! And we have a right in America to stand on what we believe! I believe that *HE* is the living God! HE is a Saviour! HE is our friend! HE is our "...advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." [1st John 2:1b-2] HE is our lawyer! HE is our peace maker! HE is our *DOCTOR*! HE is our *EVERYTHING*! But some people will take us from that relationship, if we bind too close to them. It is like a husband and wife relationship. I'm not picking on husbands and wives. But years ago I knew a couple where this principal held true. The young lady met that young man. And I and others told the young lady, "You better get far from him, because he is *NOT* good for you!" But she said, "I can change him!" She married him. She never did change him! Because of sin brought into that relationship through that man, the lady saw her son die! We seldom change some of those people. It is terrible! We wish we could change them for the better. But we have to face reality! Every day of our life we have to make some *POSITIVE* declarations! Every day that I live, "I want to give this day as unto God! Tomorrow I'm going to give that day unto God!" We have to learn to take it one step at a time. I have to learn that God is with me. I feel HIS *GLORY* **RIGHT** NOW!! HE will never, NEVER, *NEVER*, **NEVER** leave you! [Suddenly a personal word comes for a person in the congregation.] God really loves you! HE has got something *WONDERFUL* for you. And I know this is very difficult, but God is going to give you a love. And with your love you are going to help a lot of people, for the love in your relationship with your husband. And God is going to bless you! HE is going to pour upon you a blessing that you cannot contain! It is done! It will happen! [The personal words ends] God is NEVER, NEVER, late, always, *ALWAYS* on time! HE never fails you. But there is some problems that we as God's seniors (what I mean by seniors is seniors in the Spirit Realm) we need to pray about, because it is problems. God has spoken to my heart that there is millions and millions of babies that are being born. And God showed me that millions of them died! And it wasn't from physical death! It was spiritual death! It was because of un-wedded families, and these kids coming into a world full of sin. And in a few years these young people are going to be so full of rage, so out of control that they are going to bring a lot of havoc to church. And you are going to see it. There is going to be PROBLEMS that you have never seen! God is showing me right now that there is going to be elements that is going to be so divisive, so instated by the enemy, that he wants to remove us out of his way. But that is why *WE* *AS* *GOD'S* *CHILDREN* *MUST* *STAY* *IN* *THE* *PRESENCE* *OF* *OUR* *CREATOR*, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost! **I'm going to stay in the bounds of the three of *THEM*!!! God has given me that authority! HE told me, "When you pray, pray in the name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost and I will bless you!" This wasn't a way that I just picked up! God is in the record keeping business. Today I felt compelled to go to a certain place and pull out a book. It was a record book. And God said, "Pull it out! It is a record!" God is in the saving business! HE wants you to have the joy of the Lord! If you will come God's way your blood pressure comes down! And if you don't think about bad things, your whole mind area is totally at ease! You don't get panic. You don't get tortured by the problems that the world faces! We have a lifestyle that is far above anyone that could even make a lifestyle, if they had the technology to do it! God's lifestyle is above it all, because HE lets you, if you will. But the secret is in coming all the way with God! "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." [Matthew 6:33] I went through the Four Gospels the other day. He says you must give away Father, Mother. [See Matthew 19:29] You must seek HIM before all these things. Jesus said not to even come to HIM unless you are willing to lay off all these other things! It is over time and time again. If Jesus said that, it should be all right with us! That is because a lot of people rely on Jesus when they don't really rely on God. But that is the first step, relying on Jesus. [Brother Freedom uses the term God to refer to the whole Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.] But Jesus said, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." [Matthew 11:28-30] What a restful sleep that Jesus gives us. How sweet the Spirit of God is giving "...HIS beloved sleep." [Psalm 127:2b] HE gives us *REST*! In Hebrews it talks about how they could not enter into rest because of unbelief. [See Hebrews 4:6] When we are, at anytime, against God, there is *NOT* rest in our spirit! Anytime, when God is speaking for us to come closer, but we resist, we are not at rest! Like now, if HE were to take me HOME, Praise God, I know where I would be! I'm at rest! I think it would be the best way to leave, right here in this good church! Praise the Lord!! Our body is so fearfully and wonderfully made. That is what the Bible says! [See Psalm 139:14] It has a lot of joints coupled together with blood vessels, all these things that carry things for our lives. And then we have all the nerve endings. Our whole being works through our mind! And yet, even though we are fearfully and wonderfully made, it can fall apart WITHOUT the Creator that made us! You think you got it made. Like all sin, generally for a second you have it made. Then there is a recompense (a pay back) generally, on those sins. You can have drunkenness, then you are going to have troubles! You can smoke cigarettes, but sooner or later you are going to have troubles! All these wrong things, I'm not here as a "clothes-line" speaker, but I'm just letting us realize how fearfully and wonderfully we are made. [Note: For those of you in other parts of the World, a "clothes-line" speaker or preacher is someone who constantly preaches against certain kinds of clothing, certain kinds of bad habits, certain kinds of outward things that some Christians feel they can do and still make Heaven. Brother Freedom believes that the Holy Spirit will guide us properly, if we will listen to the Spirit of God. Brother Freedom usually does not preach about such things. For some Christians the Holy Spirit will ask them to make certain changes and modifications in their outward dress or in habits that HE may not ask others to make. Nevertheless alcohol and cigarettes have been proven harmful to the body that God has given. Doctors tell us that these habits are health problems. And many Christians believe that these habits do spiritual harm to us as well.] If we get our heart in shape, where we should be, you will be at ease. And don't hold grudges! They will put you to a devil's hell. And forgive everyone. If we can't forgive, God won't forgive us! Isn't that wonderful, that God made us that way. To get forgiven we got to forgive *EVERYBODY*!! "Oh, you mean that one that did this???" Yes!! That one that slapped you in the face. That one that don't like you, you must forgive! Sure, you got to love them! **YOU** **GOT** **TO** **LOVE** **THEM**!! YOU HAVE TO LOVE THEM!! I love *THAT* one! I love that one! GOD BLESS THEM!! That is what we need to rehearse, daily, that we will love that one. And you might be there for that reason, because you will *SAVE* them, because of the power from Heaven upon you! There was a Caterpillar 977 that I was working on, many years ago. And the Spirit of God told me, "You know this 300 pound operator of that 977, He's going to come in here and give you a lot of problems. If you can live with him this week, you'll see him saved! If you can't live with him, you are going to be in trouble, because I want to see him saved!" And I said, "Lord, this is a tremendous job! I mean this guy is big, and ugly. He looks like Goliath." And his words were terrible! He ate me up. He just said all these words that touched my panic button, *ALL* those little buttons I used to have! It was frightening! I did the best that I could do! On Friday night I seen him saved! He gave his heart to Jesus! That is what it is all about! And I want to tell you today. God showed me THAT here today: God takes an old, grumpy person that is so out of kilter. He hates everybody! He is rotten! He stinks! His whole mind is tormented! And this person does terrible, terrible wicked things. But he hasn't come against the Holy Spirit. And if he will call upon God, God will literally make him whiter than snow; put his sins in the sea of forgetfulness, never to be remembered no more! And we cannot judge that person, because what God has cleansed and set free is free indeed. [See John 8:36] And we need to realize that God is the Eternal ONE who wants to bless us. HE wants to restore us! HE can just save us! HE has done a **GLORIOUS** work! Generally if we get saved everything around us gets saved! We are the problem! I'm the problem!! **I** **AM** **THE** **PROBLEM**, as close as I am. I **NEED** TO KNOW GOD EVEN **CLOSER**! And my desire is that I will know HIM better tomorrow than I do today! And I can say this last month, that has taken place! Every day I'm making ground. *BUT*, I've got to be careful. I have to be *VERY* careful, lest my foot would slip. We have to cast all our cares upon HIM. That is why we need the conquering power of the Holy Ghost! The Holy Ghost is the ONE that comes and dwells within our body. When we are asleep HE sets a guard upon us. The enemy wants to come at night and *TAKE* *AWAY* what God has given us, on your off sides, when you are not really "up to it." But the Holy Ghost is a shelter. HE is a protection that God has given us, if we will ask for HIM to baptize us with that presence. It is like a guard that *NEVER* sleeps! HE is ****THERE**** for you, to help you, to encourage you. HE isn't there to make you a "show off," or proud of yourself, but that you will LOVE God! And you will allow God. And you will feel for others because you know what *HE* has done for you. And what HE has done for you, you know that you can share it with others. And it can be *REALITY* for you, that you might be a *BLESSING* for a creation. The church has fallen to the state that it *CANNOT* *HELP* *NO* ONE*!! I'm here because this is **SERIOUS**! A little old lady came to the shop and God told me to only give her a few words, "Have a good day!" Having that good day that woman, now loves the Lord! And I never broke the boundaries set up by the Lord! She said, "Pray for me!" And I said, "I'll pray a couple few words." Because that was what God said! God did it for a purpose, that we don't have to say *MUCH* when God is in it! Because **HE** does it!! We don't have to do it!! We need to realize that the Spirit of God wants to speak **IN** us and through us, for us. And we need to develop, and it may take us a while to do it, but we must come to that place realizing this Word (holding up the Bible) will set us free! And with this Word we can handle what we are facing! Do you love the Lord??? [The group answers in the affirmative.] God is real! Like that old song, "I Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey," it is better than anything that I can imagine. And I know that I am not a good speaker. And I apologize. I have one ear that I don't hear out of. And it is hard for me to even sing with someone. I guess God has done it for a reason, to realize that HE can take a nothing and do something with it! I have an old messed up hand. [Someone dropped a huge engine head on Freedom's right hand some years ago and the hand healed improperly.] I don't really have a lot to offer God, but God accepts it. You probably have a lot more to offer HIM, more than I have. But I give HIM what I have. And I give HIM my love! I told HIM a few years ago, "I want to be YOUR best son. Lord, I might not be the best speaker. And I know that Billy Graham can do a lot more than I do, all these men who do the things I would love to do." And the Lord says to me, "*IT* *WILL* *BE* *ME* *THAT* *SPEAKS* ***THROUGH*** you! So don't worry about it!" Hallelujah! God has given me the assurance that very few people have been gifted with what I have been gifted with. [Brother Freedom is the only one I know of who has been gifted with almost endless words from Heaven. Freedom is hearing that channel now so much that there is no way that any typist could keep up with all that God says to Freedom. Sometimes in Saturday morning Breakfasts Freedom is hearing so much from Heaven that he is swept away to Heavely places. --clint] So God has a special plan for each one of you in this church! We are all different! Jack is the Pastor! Praise God! Some of you are like me. We are helpers, that can be used by Heaven's shore. God wants to *ANOINT* you! The anointing is the difference! **THE** **ANOINTING** **IS** **THE** **DIFFERENCE**!! I went to a hospital, a few years back, by the Spirit of God. And when I got down there the Lord told me, "I want you to go to this room. And you are going to heal Grover V____." And so I saw Mrs. V______. And I says, "God sent me here to heal your husband!" She said, "Well, praise God. Come on!" I'm not down on pastors. But we met five pastors in this elevator. And they asked Sister V_____ where we were going. She says, "[Freedom] is going to pray for Grover." And they just laughed at us! That was all right! They can laugh at me. That is fine. I don't blame them for laughing at me! I can see the humor in it. When I got there the Spirit of God came upon me! And I said, "Grover, in the Name of Jesus, God is going to heal your heart RIGHT NOW! It is done! It is finished! You can go home whenever you want." He went home the next day. [Grover V_____ lived another decade, and he wasn't a young man!] So I believe! I'm just a messenger boy! But I love it!!! I love to be the Father's messenger boy! HE sent me places that is so great, so wonderful! HE sent me where people fear to tread and go! And God sends me there and says, "Be MY representative, MY son!" A lot of times HE's sent me places! God is *SO* faithful! One time they were having a meeting in a church. They had people coming to this meeting from all over. I didn't even know this. [Freedom had been in his own church that morning. He didn't even know about this special meeting of another church later that day.] And the Spirit of God says, "I want you to go to a church. And I want you to give them the message, by MY Spirit." And I said, "I don't know what the message is!" HE said, "No, you just wait for ME, and I'll tell you. YOU WAIT!" This has been quite a few years ago. I said, "Lord, I don't know. I haven't done this very much! HE said, "Do you love ME???" I said, "YES! I do!" HE said, "Well, I want to have you grow. You need to do this!" God was very kind to me! HE said, "I want this done!" So I go and I tell this man, "The Lord has sent me." The man said, "How did you know we were having a meeting???" I said, "The Spirit of the Lord!" But you know, God always sends backup. There was a woman that came a hundred miles that I had never seen before. She said, "Why don't you go first!" So I gave the word that God gave me for those people. And she said, "No need of me saying anything. That is exactly what God told me!" And so the people of that church said, "Okay, we will take heed!" And they went on with their church. I don't know how to say these things. I'm not trying to scare anyone. But God is real! This happened 30 years ago. I was a young person then. God wants to bless you tonight. And I don't know how I can say this. I just say this in the Lord. But if you will come God's way, there are such advantages in it! When you pray for someone, you will know in an instant. You just know things. God is good! There is a wonderful calling for each one of you! And God will bless you. And I can't imagine anything but this. It is so good, so wonderful! God wants you to be HIS partner. I'm HIS partner! The 91st Psalm becomes your reality, in you. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the MOST HIGH shall abide *UNDER* the shadow of the Almighty." Oh, I feel the presence of God! "I will say of the Lord, HE is my refuge, my fortress, in HIM will I trust." "Surely HE shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler...from the noisome pestilence." In that 91st Psalm it says he will even give HIS angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all they ways. And they will bare thee up with their hands, lest thou would even dash thy foot against a stone. And here tonight I want to inspire you that you might be a blessing. That you might pray for the one that is not so fortunate as you are, and be thankful. In Romans the First chapter is says that God turned them over to a "reprobate mind." [See Romans 1:28] But God has spoken to me that it wasn't as many people take that scripture for. The reason this happened was because they were not "thankful." [See Romans 1:21] You know when we get to where we are not thankful, it *CHANGES* our relationship with God! That is *ANOTHER* *CONSTANT,* every day I must thank HIM!!! I must PRAISE HIM!!! Every day I got to thank God for answering my prayers! Everyday I got to thank HIM for healing my body! Everyday I got to thank HIM for re-touching me, re-programming me, day by day! And that thanksgiving becomes a *BLESSING*, that we must put off the old man! [See Colossians 3:9] We must put on the "new man." "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." [Ephesians 4:22-24] We must lay aside these weights that "...so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,..." [Hebrews 12:1] We are the master of the helm. God puts us in the place where HE will NOT come against the human spirit! HE loves you so much that HE gives you the reins, that you can take yourself to a devil's hell! But HE hopes that you will be deferred, that someone will come and speak like I have here tonight, that you might take heed. That we might escape the snares, the pains that people will face if they don't let God have control. There is going to be some things, some pitfalls coming to this World that no one has ever imagined what is going to take place! God showed me [a town] a few years back, as **BLACK**! [It was burned to the point that there was not a single bit of life left, not even a blade of grass!] I'm not saying this to put anyone down. But we need to be reinforced by the Spirit of God, that God is going to take us out of this World before that time approaches! In the Book of Revelation is says in Chapter three verse ten that God will spare those, take them out that wait for HIM. And I believe that HE wants to. And I believe HIS coming is very soon! In James the Fifth Chapter it says, "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth [God longs] for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain." [James 5:7] That "precious fruit" is *US*! We become a fruit, hopefully, off the seed God has put within us! That we become a beautiful fruit that touches the heart of God! God bless you wonderful people! I pray that God will bless you, strengthen you, inspire you, develop you into HIS image. This will help, but you *HAVE* *TO* work this *EVERY* *DAY* of your life! You can *NEVER* stop! It is like a weight lifter. He can *NEVER* stop lifting weights, if he wants to stay where he should be! A swimmer *CAN'T* stop swimming! This is one thing: we have got to keep on with God, until HE takes us to *HEAVEN*! We have to *FORCE* ourselves, that I am *NOT* going to quit! I'm going to keep on! I may not be able to tie my shoes, but I'm going to keep praising God! I'm going to keep calling upon God! I'm going to do those vital things that I must do! As we grow older we find ourselves not being able to do the things that we did when we were younger. But we can *ALWAYS*, as long as God gives us a clarity of our mind, we can respond to God. And God ***HEARS*** us! Blessed be the Name of the Lord!!! Bless you wonderful people!!!