As for God, his way is perfect (II Samuel 22:31 and Psalm 18:30). Never forget this important verse: God’s way is perfect. A few days after the Lord took my precious wife, Angel, I was going through her Bible. On the flyleaf she had left a message. She hadn’t shown it to me before she went away, but when I saw it, the effect was so profound that the words have lived on inside of me all these years. She wrote: The way of the Lord is perfect. That verse says it all. In every situation I always remember those words, in every valley, in every dark night. I looked at her death, her home-going, the way she wanted me to: The way of the Lord is perfect. These words cannot be improved; they are life to every believer, every real child of God, light that will light up our paths, saith the Lord, in this the final hour of the Church Age. Our light will be bright: The way of the Lord is perfect.

At all times, the way of the Lord before the Bride will be in perfection. The Bride will not grumble or complain about His way because she will live and dwell in love in perfection. Whatever comes her way she will be able to rejoice as the Hebrew boys rejoiced in the fiery furnace: The way of the Lord is perfect. Like Daniel in the den of lions she will cry: The way of the Lord is perfect. Embracing those words gives you Heaven’s vision, life, God-life.

God Started Over in Eden

Prehistoric Earth was a place of beauty, teeming with life; but when God threw Lucifer and a third of the angels out of Heaven, He cast them onto a barren, dark planet. Everything of life on Earth God destroyed in preparation for Lucifer. Because prehistoric man had no soul, God could wipe out that life-form. Lucifer, head of the kingdom of darkness, is death, death, death. No light, no life comes from Lucifer. We don’t know how many millions of years passed from the time Lucifer was cast out of Heaven until God brought planet Earth back to the life we read of in Genesis, the creation story. The Garden of Eden was home for the first man and woman, but outside Eden paradise abounded as well.

In bringing the earth to life once more, God decided He would make a man in His own image with a living soul like He had, a soul that would live with Him for all eternity. God was delighted with man, with his mind. The cavemen who had lived in prehistoric times did not have the capacity for the brain that Adam had; they were not made to function like the living souls of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve had brains created in the pattern of God’s great brain, but on a much smaller scale. God was able to communicate with their intelligence. They could talk to God—what wonderful fellowship!

God gave them knowledge and warned them: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 2:17). God hadn’t kept anything hidden from them. He told them what they could and could not eat, that the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was poison to them. They knew not to eat it, but they ate anyway, disobeying God of their own free will. The devil could not have made them do it; they wanted to. The devil can’t make you do anything unless you will to do it. Adam and Eve disobeyed God of their own free will.

Man’s Free Choice Limits God

The reason the devil seems to have such power today is because so many people are yielded to him. God has let the world run its course because of man, not the devil. It isn’t that God is weak—God is strong; He has all power, but He has limited Himself by giving man free choice. Soon, however, that limitation will be lifted to never be on God again.

When Adam and Eve gave over to the devil, they sold out the whole human race, body, soul and mind. The cry of God filled the Garden: Adam, where art thou? Huddled together wearing fig leaves for a covering, Adam and Eve presented an awful mess, a disgraceful sight to the God who had made them! God loved their bodies. They had been naked before each other and before God unashamed. No sin had entered them bringing condemnation; but now the condemnation came, now they tried to cover their sin. “Fig leaf” religion was born. It didn’t work then, and it doesn’t work now. God took care of the mess the best He could.

Up to the time of the fall, death was unknown in Eden; now death came upon man and woman. God did not kill them on the spot; instead He shed the blood of an animal, took its skin and covered their nakedness. There had to be the shedding of blood of an animal for God to not have killed them at that moment, a sacrifice that foreshadowed the shed blood of Jesus who was killed to bear the sins of the world so all who accept the precious shed blood could go free. Man and woman, meant to live forever, created a mess, caused God to look on them with disapproval, reject them and separate Himself from the sin that was in them. In doing so, God separated Himself from them, too. Man now could no longer see God.

God has been honest with the human race, revealing His will. To make sure they knew His will for salvation, He sent His Only Begotten Son—not a million angels but His Son. He would have preferred to have given anything else. If angels could have saved the human race, made it possible for everyone who wanted it to have eternal life with God, He would not have given His Son. But angels would not suffice; it took the blood of Jesus. Thank God for Calvary, for the Son of God shedding His blood to take away the sins of men, women, boys and girls, making them new creations in Christ Jesus! Today Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Ghost, is walking the earth, walking and talking with people. It’s wonderful!

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life (Genesis 3:24). A flaming sword at the gate of Eden ensured that Adam and Eve would never enter again.

Outside Eden, it wasn’t long before God had another mess: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him (Genesis 4:8). The first murder—oh God, what a mess! How it broke the heart of God! Man had caused God to cry and cry down through these many thousands of years. But one day the Lord won’t cry anymore. He will take His big love-handkerchief and dry the tears of every true child of God. Those who refuse to serve Him will be cast into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, sealed off into forgetfulness. Never will they come to the mind of God again as the endless ages roll. God will be free, free—Lord God Almighty will have peace at last. But until God has dried His tears and ours, He will not be completely free.

A Way of Escape

Genesis 6:13 reveals another mess: And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Only Noah found grace in the eyes of God; God looked upon him and didn’t see a mess. God looked at Noah’s wife, and she was not a mess, nor were Noah’s three sons and their wives. Not wanting to destroy them, God waited one hundred twenty years while the ark, their way of escape, was being built. God was the architect; Noah and his family the builders. God told them exactly how the ark was to be built, what materials to use; and they were obedient to God—but what a mess they had to work in! Man had degraded himself in sin until every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Genesis 6:5).

The majority of people in America today fit into the category of continual evil thinking. Most television programs are put together by writers with minds so steeped in evil thinking that not much good comes out. Immorality has become a way of life. America, as well as other nations, is filled with sin and violence. Judgment is at the door. Jesus warned of this hour: As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (Matthew 24:37). Wake up and know that we are in the day of His coming! Glory be to God, this is the season! The Lord will clean up this mess; He promised He would.

God told Noah He was going to destroy the evil people on Earth, and He did just that; but first He waited for the ark to be completed. When Noah and his family were safely in the ark, the torrential rains came. Soon all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man (Genesis 7:21). God cleared up the mess of an ungodly human race and preserved the family that honored Him. Don’t think God won’t bring judgment upon this world; He will. He has done it in the past, and He will do it again. Don’t think if you are lost and undone without Christ that God won’t destroy you. He’ll give you a certain time of mercy and then cut you off. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Hebrews 10:31).

The flood waters receded for Noah and his family. They had been in the ark over a year. The evil, that awful mess on Earth had all been wiped out. Now the ark door opened to reveal a great rainbow in the sky. God was looking after the Noah family—but the Noah family did not remain grateful to God for very long. In a drunken stupor, Noah disgraced himself, caused his son to mock him and sin against God. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without (Genesis 9:22).

God is seeing the mess start all over again as the stench of sin rose up in His nostrils. Oh God, what a mess! For over one hundred twenty years the Noah family had lived holy in the presence of God, pleased God; but now they gave over to the devil. How pathetic!

If any family could live godly for that long, standing up against an entire evil civilization, you know they could have power within them, power from On High to go sin free the rest of the way. The evil that had filled the earth having been destroyed by the flood meant that the Noah family could keep themselves free from the devil’s influence. Had they served God in holiness and in truth, I believe with all my heart that God would have come down again and walked with man.

God looked at another terrible mess. A tower is being built, the tower of Babel. Man had been given all of Heaven’s care, had seen God’s rainbow of promise to never destroy the earth with water again; but the people didn’t believe it. They planned to reach to Heaven to keep from being scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11:4). God had hoped to wipe out all doubt when He drowned the wicked, sinning mess of humanity, but no. Man again gave over to the devil, sinned against God, and God came down to confound the language, separating people from uniting in their sin. Then prejudice grew out of their differences, wars, crimes, all kinds of suffering. What a mess! And people blamed God…but God wasn’t to blame. The disobedience, doubt and sin of the people did it. God had given man and woman all the power they needed to trample devils underfoot; they did not have to sin.

Getting Ahead of God

God made Abraham and Sarah the promise of a son. But the years passed and no son was born. Abraham listened to his wife—just like Adam listened to Eve—and got ahead of God. Sarah decided Abraham could have a son by her handmaid, but then the handmaid ridiculed Sarah’s infertility. It caused chaos, a mess. Abraham told Sarah, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face (Genesis 16:6). Abraham was aggravated with his wife. The unstableness of man and woman has caused God to change His plans again and again.

God sent an angel to the wilderness to talk to Sarah’s handmaid, telling her to return to her mistress, that God would multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude (Genesis 16:10).

Because man refuses to cooperate with God, He has been greatly limited. People should be working for God rather than God working for people. Years and years God has worked, and He is still working. Look at the people on Earth today—how many are worshiping God with all their hearts, minds and souls? How many are really ready to meet Jesus? How many are without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing? Only God knows.

Jesus, when He was here, said, Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:14). The majority of the human race will be lost. The mess that Sarah and Abraham created by not waiting on God is still going on today. God didn’t plan it that way; nevertheless, He has had that mess on His hands all these thousands of years.

Did God give the son to Abraham and Sarah that He promised? Yes. God hadn’t told Abraham and Sarah how old they would be by the time that son was to be born, that it would be a miracle son. When God makes a promise He doesn’t pay attention to days, months or years. It doesn’t matter with God; He is not limited to time. God has no limitations except for those that man’s free choice puts on Him. Without the help of man, the devil is not able to limit God. Only by working through people who listen to him can the devil limit God. The devil knows he must have people to do his terrible deeds. Why do you think he works in every way he can to keep people on his side? He needs them. Why do you think he fights so hard to keep everyone he can away from Calvary, from becoming new creatures in Christ Jesus? He knows his only chance to get back at God is through mankind; no other way can he trouble God. But when God is ready He will put the devil in the bottomless pit for a thousand years, and after that, in the lake of fire forever.

God wants you to understand that this is not the civilization He planned; He did not make the messes we find on Earth today. God could have looked into man’s future, but He didn’t because that would not have been trusting man. He doesn’t look into your future to see if you will serve Him tomorrow before He saves and blesses you today. God puts trust in those who put trust in Him. He will never ask you to trust Him more than He will trust you. He is wonderful, just, loving and tender. His love for people is amazing. In spite of all the sorrow, the heartache, the messes people have made, causing God’s Son to be nailed to the tree, God still loves them. Who would dare doubt that love!

God Will Not Accept Sin

Lot moved into the region of Sodom and Gomorrah—and what a mess! His wife became so involved in the sins of that wicked place that she didn’t want to break free. She could have. God finally could stand the wickedness of those cities no longer. The angels of the Lord told Lot, We will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it (Genesis 19:13).

The same mess that was in Sodom and Gomorrah that God couldn’t stand has spread all over the world today, accepted in society. Homosexuality is being excused, justified, even glorified just as it was in Sodom and Gomorrah by the devil and people. But God plainly tells you in the Bible that homosexuality is sin: God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (Romans 1:26,27,32). If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them (Leviticus 20:13). God will not accept sin. No matter how many homosexuals join themselves together and call it a marriage, it is no marriage in the eyes of God. God never ordained marriage between anyone but man and woman. He will never, never ordain it any other way.

Homosexuality is vile, vile before God; and it will send souls to hell. That’s the reason the Lord furnishes power to deliver homosexuals from that desire, power to make them normal. If they really seek His face, looking to Him, they can be delivered. Many have been set free through this Jesus ministry. In this final hour, thousands will be delivered—but they have to want deliverance. Although some do not want it, many do. No doctor, no medical science can deliver them. Jesus Christ is the only remedy. Only through the blood, through the power that stained the Old Rugged Cross is there hope, trust, deliverance.

God loves the sinner, but He does not love their ways. We must never hate the homosexuals, but never endorse what they are doing. Hate their acts, have compassion for their souls and rescue everyone who will come to Jesus. If we endorse, take pleasure in the sin of others, remember, we will have no part in His Kingdom.

We are near the end of the journey. The Lord warned that these days would be like the days of Sodom and Gomorrah: As it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed (Luke 17:28-30). All kinds of sins abound today. Many people are so far, far away from God that they accept perverted lifestyles, thinking that tolerance makes them superior. They scorn those who stand for the holy living set forth in God’s Word, call them narrow-minded, judgmental.

But in this last hour the Bride will stand with the truth, in the truth and for the truth. All the powers of hell cannot destroy her. Going forth from victory to victory, holding her head high, the Bride will have the power of God moving through her to help people, to deliver them from that which is destroying, eating the life out of them.

God sent two angels to warn Lot and his family in Sodom, and He is sending the Holy Ghost and the Word into the Sodom’s of today to bring people out, all those who will heed His warning. When the Holy Ghost and the Word rapture the people at the second coming of Jesus, woe to those left behind! Jesus is coming for true believers before great tribulation sets in. How terrible it will be for those who do not go with Him!

Study what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah; see how God felt about their sins. He feels the same way about sin today. God has not changed the way He looks on sin, and He never will change.

Lot’s wife…why didn’t she escape destruction? Two angels brought her, her two daughters and husband out of Sodom. She was told to not look back. Today people are told to not look back to sin; if they do, they won’t make it to Heaven. Don’t look back to disobedience. Lot’s wife took only one look. She didn’t look for days and days; she turned and looked one time. In that look she claimed all she had left behind; she desired it more than she desired God. She wanted to stay in Sodom; she enjoyed the sins of the city. When she looked back to sin, she died.

But thank God, Lot and his daughters kept going, allowing nothing to stop them from deliverance. This should be a warning to you today: You can’t let husband, wife, children—no matter how much you love them—turn you back from God. Lot, no doubt, loved his wife; the girls loved their mother, but in accepting what God said, they rejected her disobedience. Don’t listen to anyone who would cause you to take your eyes off God, no matter who it is. Look to God and flee His wrath. God rained fire and brimstone down upon Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them. After all these thousands of years, scientists are finding evidence of it today.

If you are looking back to any sin, you will be destroyed. God is coming after a people without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing; He is coming after a holy people.

The devil, once God’s treasured possession, started sin in Heaven, and God cast him out. Ezekiel writes, Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee (Ezekiel 28:15). Once the most beautiful creature God had ever made, Lucifer is now the ugliest. Lucifer took such pride in his beauty that God stripped him of it all. Hating God for His judgment, hating everything God loves, Lucifer seeks to destroy every human made in the image of God. The devil knows he can attack God through people, through destroying their souls, degrading them in sin, ungodliness and darkness. He knows sin makes that man or woman ugly before God, that God can’t look upon sin; and so he works day and night to get people to fail God, to sin.

Many are deceived in sin, thinking they are going to Heaven. This is a day of lies; lies have weakened the Church of Jesus Christ. Many people who are supposed to be Christ-like tell lies. If you lie, you have deceit in you. All liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8). Everything the Bible says that God, man or woman have done, is true. I believe it all. God is not responsible for any of these messes man has gotten himself into.

Jacob Had to Ponder His Deceit

God cleaned up the mess in Sodom and Gomorrah, but more messes came. In the story of lsaac and Rebekah and their twin sons Esau and Jacob we read of a big smelly mess for God. Rebekah was another one who got ahead of God. The blessing was promised, but she wouldn’t wait. Some are very impatient when it comes to God. They take over when they think God isn’t moving fast enough. Lives have been ruined by people getting ahead of God.

How many times have you paid dearly for taking over the reins and working out things as you thought best, disregarding God? God will let you. He gave you free will. God will let you marry anyone who will marry you, but if you don’t get the will of God for your marriage, you will pay the price. Never ask God why He lets you get in trouble when it was all your own doing, when you let God have no part of your actions.

Jacob had to ponder his deceit for years, how he had lied to his father, how he had to flee for fear that his brother, Esau, might kill him. Oh God, what a mess! He worked fourteen years for two women—one he didn’t want. Then he had to work six more years to get the possessions that were rightfully his. Hanging over him all that time was the dread that if he tried to go back home his brother would kill him. What a mess God had! For years God worked on Esau to get the hate out of him. Has God had to work with you to get rid of your anger, hurt, resentment, bitterness?

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord (Romans 12:19). How many times have you thought His vengeance was too slow, and you took over instead? The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17). If you don’t have faith that God will do what He said, then you are not justified in the eyes of God; it’s the faithful who are justified.

The sons of Jacob made a big mess, becoming so cruel they even sold their own brother Joseph into slavery. Think of all the sorrow that young lad had to endure because of his brothers! He loved his father, thought he would never see him again. In Egypt, Joseph was thrown into prison, lied about, forgotten. The sufferings of Joseph were more than words could describe, but he never blamed God. He was a vessel God could use, one who became second only to the Pharaoh in Egypt, a savior of his own people. First, however, Joseph suffered much.

Don’t Blame God

How much have you blamed God for your life, for the things that have happened that were your own doing? Perhaps you lost your job and blamed God for it. God didn’t have a thing to do with it—unless you had been living righteously before Him and He was moving you on to something better. Don’t blame God for every problem that happens to you. You buy a house, then find it’s termite riddled—but you hadn’t waited for God to tell you not to buy it. It’s not His fault.

Good parents suffer, sacrifice, almost give their lives to rear a child right, working day and night. Maybe at times they are so sick they can hardly hold up their heads; but the babies cry, and up they come. All hours they may walk the floor holding a child screaming with the colic. God isn’t to blame. They knew babies cry, that people have trouble with children, now they just have to do the best they can.

God has had to carry the responsibility for souls; many parents—even before they decide to have a child—don’t think about that child’s soul, that their child could die and go to hell. Before people bring children into the world, they should realize what a responsibility they have to that soul.

The problems parents have with children is nothing compared to the problems God has had—and still has—with people. God has sacrificed much of His happiness, joy and peace these thousands of years because of the human race. The Bible tells us that Jesus can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities (Hebrews 4:15). If He can be touched by our infirmities, He is affected by them. Some people think God is always happy and carefree. He certainly wasn’t when His Son died on the Cross, nor is He happy when people turn their backs on that sacrifice. God has done everything He can to rescue the human race; He feels responsible for creating them. He showed His responsibility for the souls of man by giving His Son Jesus to rescue all who would accept salvation, but He will not take the blame for the messes they make.

The book of Genesis opens with the wonder of creation, a perfect Eden—life, life everywhere. A man and a woman lived within reach of the tree of life, two people God had made in perfection after His own image. They were created to live forever and to never have a want or care, to know no sickness. With all that wonderful peace, power and joy, it was like being in Heaven. God in the beginning loved to come down in the cool of the day and enjoy the man and woman He had made. Now Genesis 50:26 tells us that Joseph died, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. A man nailed in a box and no life to bring him out—oh God what a mess! Death closes out the book of Genesis, and God hadn’t willed it. Death wasn’t in God’s plan at all, and yet so many times when a loved one dies, people blame God, becoming bitter toward Him. What would you have done—what could you have done—had you been in God’s place?

Questions and Answers

There is no hate in God; He is all love, but He can hate as much as He can love. Why is this?

In God’s nature, in His Spirit, there is no hate. Hate is not a part of God, not a part of His personality. God is love. He will prove that as the eternal ages roll, but He has had to use the weapon of hate because He can’t stand sin. When Lucifer sinned against God, it caused God to use the weapon of hate for the first time. He doesn’t hate the sinner; He hates, despises sin. He can hate the sinful way of living as much as He can love holy living. God despises everything unholy, anything that degrades the man and woman He made because it’s the same as degrading Him. Man and woman were created in God’s own likeness, not some animal’s. He made man with a soul like His, eyes, hands, feet like His. God cannot bear anything that mars that image, and so He uses hate as a weapon. Man and the devil have forced God into using the weapon of hate just like some people have been forced to use a gun for protection from danger. The gun was not a part of their personality, wasn’t in their spirit. They did not want to injure anyone or anything, but danger made their protection necessary. People have shot intruders and were tormented by it afterward, almost losing their minds because they had sent a soul to hell. It wasn’t in their spirit to kill. Had it been in their spirit to kill, they would have said the person deserved what was coming; they didn’t care; they were glad. Hate is not a part of God’s Spirit, I say again. That’s the way to separate hate from a God of love.

Do we have to forgive?

There are some things God does not forgive. No one has to forgive what God does not forgive. Forgive what people do to you, but only God can forgive their sins. You forgive people to this extent: You still love their souls and would help them find God if you could, but you hate their ugly, ungodly ways. God hates those ways, too. Would God be justified if He brought an accusation against us because we hated evil ways in people? No. You are supposed to hate ungodly ways, to despise everything ungodly, everything sinful.

It is not possible, I say again, for man to forgive sin; but people today try to forgive all kinds of sins. Parents allow—in their own house—unmarried adult children to sleep with their lovers. God will hold children and parents as well responsible for condoning sin. I would never allow it in my house. I would plainly tell them it wouldn’t happen.

Don’t accept what is sinful and ungodly. If you do, you’ll become a part of it by endorsing it. Maybe your son or daughter is living in sin away from home with a partner and invites you to spend the night. You know the two are not married, but by your acting as though they were, you are endorsing the relationship. If you treat them as though they were married, they may not even know they are sinning. Show them love, but take your stand. You should say, “Until you get married and stop living in sin, I can’t come.” Some parents allow anything and everything. Their idea of morality is safe sex.

I wouldn’t allow anything ungodly, including rock music or rap, in my house. You, not your children, are in charge of your own home. God holds you responsible for what goes on there. Take your stand for God. In your efforts to not hurt people, you may be hurting your Creator.

Sin is sin, but today it is being glorified, painted over in beautiful colors until its ugliness is unrecognizable to the world. Going by the world’s standard, one would hardly know that it exists. Unmarried couples live together for two or three years and then plan a big wedding with all the trimmings. God help us! If they were ashamed of their sin, they would quietly elope. But they are pleased with their defiance, their sinful way. When you go along with them, you help them in that pride.

Put on the whole armor of God and stand. Take what I tell you to the Word of God; it will prove true. Preachers on television say you forgive sin no matter what anyone does. You, I say again, cannot forgive sin. There is a difference between forgiving sin and having your sins washed away. This is an age that forgives its own for all kinds of sin. No one is forgiven by God unless he changes his sinful ways. The Lord didn’t forgive me until I was sorry for my sins and wanted Him to wash them all away. He took my sins, cast them into the sea of forgetfulness and made me new all over. I stopped sinning. Stand up and be counted for the Lord. You don’t have much longer.

Do we have to forgive? You better not forgive everything. Some people ask forgiveness who are not sincere. Before you get the words I forgive out of your mouth, they are doing the same thing all over again.

If someone slaps you on the cheek and asks to be forgiven, don’t offer the other cheek—you could get a broken jaw. That’s not what the good Lord was talking about. The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless (I Timothy 1:9). The law is for the lawless no matter who it is. If someone is physically abusing you, call the law. The devil confuses minds until people can’t think clearly, putting up with abuses God never intended them to bear.

All good comes from God. The devil can only do what God allows. Does that make God indirectly responsible for evil? Absolutely not! God has given man free choice; when man chooses unwisely, God’s hands are tied.

If you obey God, walking in His divine will, He can stop the devil at any moment. When you turn yourself over to God, God can protect you just like He did Adam and Eve in the Garden. But you must be turned completely over to Him, into His holiness and into His righteousness for this to be. If you are out of the will of God, you have tied His hands, and He cannot move for you. You have taken the responsibility for yourself into your own hands.

People blame God for the accidents that God has nothing to do with. Man made that mess—or played the biggest part in it. Many accidents are caused simply by distractions and inattention as well as by drugs and alcohol. This chaos we see today is not coming from God—although, more and more, God is sending judgment on the ungodly, the wicked and disobedient.

The devil can only do what God allows him to do. God spoke to me about my imprisonment in Germany: They can only do what I allow them to do. I was in God’s divine, holy will. God allowed me to go to prison because from it He would reap a testimony for His name’s sake. He was going to send the judgment of a great hailstorm to wake people up. Many looked to God who had not looked to Him in years; they thought their time had come.

God allowed Paul and Silas to go to jail. He could have kept them out; He proved His power by delivering them miraculously. The cell doors flew wide open. Bars and locks couldn’t hold them.

We will suffer for His name’s sake. Neither Jesus nor the first martyr, Stephen, could have been killed had God not allowed it. Both were in the divine will of the Father. A million or more angels were ready to come to Jesus’ rescue had He called them. God could have turned the earth upside down, opened the earth to swallow all those who sought to crucify His Only Begotten Son. Jesus said, I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself (John 10:17,18). Jesus…said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up (John 2:19).

As sons and daughters of God, we have stepped into the shoes of Jesus, doing His work; and we have the same benefits, the same benefits, saith the Lord. They are ours. Many have missed those benefits by grumbling and complaining. The Lord cannot continue to work for you who grumble and complain. He backs away like He did from the complaining Israelites.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). All who love the Lord with all their hearts are in the divine will of God with every step. They have on the Jesus shoes, acting, talking, living like Jesus with the favor of Heaven just like Jesus had with the Father.

Must you like people when they treat you badly?

Some people you love because you have the love of God in your heart, but you don’t like their ways. God doesn’t like them when they are doing terrible things, but He loves them. There are a lot of people God doesn’t like—most people on Earth because they don’t live holy. God loves them, but He doesn’t like them. To like someone, you must appreciate their ways. Turn your life completely over to God, walk in God’s wonderful, divine will, and then nothing can happen to you except what God allows.

Some claim to be in the hands of God, but He doesn’t see them there. “My whole life is yours,” they tell Him. “I’ll do anything for you, God!” But God finds no evidence of their total commitment. They think that on tomorrow they will do what God wants, but tomorrow never seems to come. It’s easy to tell God you’re going to pray tomorrow, read His Word, be obedient; every day has a tomorrow.

Please explain the difference between the divine will of God and the permissible will.

In the divine will of God you walk like Jesus, act like Jesus and please the Lord in all things. Pleasing Him is your burning desire. In the permissible will, you do things you want to do—not sinful things, but things of self, choosing paths of your own. You act on your own without consulting the Lord. You marry whom you want if that one is eligible in the eyes of God for marriage; God will permit it, and the devil won’t drag you to hell for it. But you may think you are in hell if you choose the wrong person. Don’t blame God if the results are unpleasant. Some people choose their own mate, and it works out well. They take all the credit for it; but if they get a “rotten apple,” they ask God why He gave them such a poor companion. They didn’t take His will into consideration. In the divine will of God, He will choose your mate for you—if He wants you to have one. He may have to bring that one from a far place, but He will bring the right one to you if you trust Him and walk in His divine will. He will join you with the very best He can find. But He can’t make you love each other when you don’t want to. He can’t keep you from fussing after you are married if you want to fuss. Walking in the divine will of God, you won’t fuss and carry on. If you are one who fusses, you had better make those fusses right in a hurry; don’t let the sun go down on your wrath. Clinging to anger will rob you of your victory in the Lord.

People who don’t walk in the divine will of God tend to maneuver their way through life. By walking in the divine will of God, you will be yielded to His way, having a clear conscience before Him. Sweet, kind, easy to deal with, not bowing to sin, wrong and wickedness, you can easily be entreated by God and by His people. The divine will of God is putting God first.

In taking a major step in life, tell God you don’t want it unless it’s His will. You can put out a fleece several different ways to make sure. I’ve used the fleece down through the years. It worked in Bible times, and it still works today. I was called to conduct revivals at one church that had much bickering and jealousy. Arguments erupted over who would play the piano. One trouble-maker was always upset if his wife didn’t get to play. It was a mess. After conducting services a few nights, I was exasperated with them and said, “I’m going to leave you people. I’m not staying here while you’re fussing and carrying on. You don’t have an ounce of God in all that.” One woman started coming down the aisle to “get me”—she was mad, and the devil had her—but when she reached the altar, she sprawled out. The rest of the congregation thought she was coming to make things right with God, and it scared them half to death. I looked around and it seemed as though everyone had rushed down to the altar crying to the Lord to forgive them, to have mercy. Oh God, we’ve sinned against you! God, we’ve failed you! God, have mercy! I backed up their words: God, they’ve failed you! God they’ve sinned against you! God forgive them! I went to the man who had caused so much trouble about his wife’s piano playing and prayed: God forgive him! God save his soul! He had thought he was saved, but now he really became saved. After that he was my friend.

I said, “I’ll be here tomorrow night, and you better be here if you want this revival.” They were there the next night, and the revival was on. I was scheduled to hold services at another church, but I didn’t feel that my work at this church was done. Oh God, what am I going to do? They’ve advertised my revival services in another city. It will be so embarrassing for that preacher if I don’t show up, but I’m not leaving until you say to go. I put out a fleece: If you want me to stay here, Lord, let someone walk down the aisle before I leave the building tonight and hand me just a one dollar bill. It must be a one dollar bill; it can ’t be a five, a ten. I waited, and it looked as though the fleece wouldn’t be answered. Suddenly a lady walked up to me and handed me a one dollar bill. I had my answer from God. I told them, “I’m staying.”

I called the preacher in the other city. He said, “Why it’s advertised, and people are expecting you tomorrow night.”

“Well, I’ll tell you Brother,” I answered, “when I get to your place and God’s blessing the way He is blessing this church that hasn’t had a revival in years, you’ll want me to stay till God gets through.”

He said, “Yes, that’s right.”

God worked it out. I was to let him know when God finished the present revival, and that’s what I did.

Whatever God’s divine will is, I want it for my life; and that’s the reason I wait on God. I wait for Him to fulfill His plans when He wants. Some people become impatient waiting. Time passes and they don’t see anything happening. When will it be? When God gets ready; when the cloud moves. God lets me know when the time is right. I don’t run ahead of God, and I don’t lag behind. I want to walk with the good Lord, to move when He says move and to stand when He says stand. The Lord can do more when I’m standing still—if that’s what He wants me to do—than He can if I’m walking.

The time God told the Israelites to stand still—and they did—they saw results. And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD (Exodus 14:13). They were obedient, and the waters of the Red Sea parted.

In God’s divine will, the knowledge, wisdom and tender love will be available for you to use so you won’t make a mess for God. You who have made messes for God, you who have said and done the wrong things, you who have hindered God and His work: Tell Him that from now on you will walk in His divine will: Oh God: Deliver me from anything and everything that is unlike you. I want the Spirit, the love and the blood of Jesus to flow over my soul, through my spirit, to cleanse me of everything unlike you. I want to step into your divine will this very day, to never step out of it again. Please, God, I do want to go to your Heaven! I don’t want to lose my soul. I don’t want to cause anyone else to lose his soul. Help me to walk in your divine will. Help me to please you. I know you will make plain paths for my feet and give me your grace to walk those paths. I love you Jesus. I love you Jesus!

You who are sick and afflicted: I am not a healer, but God is. Faith in God heals the sick. He is the Lord who healeth all thy diseases (Psalm 103:3). I am His believer, and He uses His gifts through me to work His will for people, to bring about healings and miracles, to send His power through. He is the one; I’m just an instrument of clay. I give Him all the praise, the honor and the glory. You may have cancer, heart trouble, paralysis—it doesn’t matter what it is. God is the healer. The Lord can not only heal but He can re-create any part of your body. He is doing those things today. I’ve seen some of the most fantastic miracles this past year! That little disabled child—God has healed so many like that one. They are intelligent children now. Numbers of them are in school making good grades. God did it. Some were brought into the Lord’s services when they had just part of a brain, and the Lord gave them a whole brain. Some were born blind; now they see. God is so good! We honor and glorify Him and praise His holy name. Believe God as I pray for your needs now. Multitudes have been healed through the spirit of obedience.

Lord: I bring the sick and afflicted to you. I bring all deformed little ones, those who have just part of a brain, those who are like vegetables: Make them well for thy honor and glory. Make them well to be witnesses for you in this last hour. Heal the mothers and daddies. Heal people of all manner of sicknesses and diseases. Heal! Heal! In the all-loving name of Jesus. Heal, oh God, in the mighty name of your Son. Heal and make them whole, and we will give you the honor, the praise and the glory.

The power of God is flowing. Don’t you feel His presence? His presence will make you well, will heal your little one. Watch every change in your body or in your child’s body as the miracles and healings take place to get you well. Be careful to give God all the praise. Write and tell me what happened to you today so we can rejoice with you.

Thus Saith the Lord

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I’m in the midst of this people, and I am searching your hearts. I am stretching forth a hand to help everyone who has a desire to please me in all things. I am stretching forth a hand filled with that which you need that will help you to walk with me as I will you to walk and to do my will in all things. I do not ask man, woman to do that which they’re not able to do through my Spirit and my power. I will man and woman to be holy before me, and I give them the power to be free from all of that which is unholy. I give them the greatness of Heaven to use on Earth, and I never leave or forsake one soul that will walk with me. I delight in a soul when it wants to walk with me, and I will do all things for you that need to be done so that you can walk with me and do all that I want you to do in this last hour.

Do not fail, or multitudes, multitudes will go to hell. Obey me and see the multitudes come to me. I seek to use this my people. I seek to pour my power through this my people that are yielded to me and will stay yielded to me at all times. But you must stay yielded all the time or I cannot do the work that I want to do. Be yielded to my Spirit night and day, be yielded to my holy truth; and you will have the power that you need at all times over the enemy, and you will defeat him by using the power that’s in my name, saith the Lord.

The Bride will be in one mind, one accord with God’s wisdom and knowledge, a great army of people all like Jesus Himself. Jesus said, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father (John 14:12). Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49). The Lord is declaring to you now: Power from On High. Oh God, help us to walk in your divine will. Help us, God, to please you like Enoch did.

It’s time for us to stop creating messes for God to clean up. It’s time for God’s people to step forth in His divine will so we won’t hinder the work of God but use His wisdom and knowledge. We will move when God says move, say what God tells us to say, and walk in His divine will the rest of the way.

Never accusing Him of making messes for human beings today; you must remember that it’s the devil and man who make the messes. The way of the Lord is perfect.