TEMPLE TIME!     GP 191   12/72

         1. Everybody in this big central room under the dome, they are all looking up like they expect something. People are rushing around out in the wings, like they're busy in the service of the King; but the people here under the central dome just stand there quietly & look up, bathed in that beautiful, beautiful golden glow from above, taking big deep breaths of that Heavenly air that comes down the pipe, getting a whiff of that fragrance now & then. Oh, Lord, for a breath of Thy Heavenly air to refresh us & clear our minds & inspire our hearts & give us visions that thrill us, that set our heads awhirl for Thee, Jesus! PTL!
         2. It's just like the people who are so busy rushing around get tired & they have to come in the middle room & look up & take a nice big breath & catch another vision & take another look & get filled up again. IT'S HIS TEMPLE. Help us to be like that, Jesus, & to remember WE CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT THE HEAVENLY VISION You give, a breath of Heavenly fresh air, the sound of that sweet music! We just CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT HEARING THY VOICE & BREATHING THE FRAGRANCE of that wonderful incense & seeing the beautiful starry sky & getting inspired by the UPWARD look!
         3. Have you been in the Temple today? Are you taking a look upward? Have you breathed deeply of that Heavenly elixir? Have you heard those beautiful notes of Heavenly music--marvelled at God's starry sky, His great Creation, His Universe, to know that all is well & find rest & peace to your souls before you go back to work in the wings?
         4. You wouldn't worry & fret so & be so upset if you spent more time with the Lord looking up through that starry dome & breathing that Heavenly air & hearing that beautiful music! You'd find peace & rest unto your souls. You just cannot go on if you ONLY hurry around all the time in the wings & you never step into the rotunda & look up through the dome, spending quiet time, seeing Heavenly visions & breathing Heavenly air & hearing Heavenly music & voices! It just totally renews you & completely refreshes you & gives you new vision & fresh inspiration, new strength, rest & peace & joy!
         5. Have you been there to get a fresh breath of air from Heaven?--If you haven't, you've really missed something! You're going to get awfully tired & weary & upset & fearful & doubting & discouraged & worried & flurried & hurried because you haven't been RENEWED in THE TEMPLE OF HIS SPIRIT with THE VOICE OF HIS TRUTH & THE HEAVENLY VISION!
         6. "For they that partake of these things have strength that ye know not of! They that follow Me & hear My voice & they that savour My fragrance & see those things which I show them, THEY are the children of David!"
         7. You'll get out of touch if you don't--out of communication & fellowship, out of the victory! YOU'LL RUN OUT OF STRENGTH & WISDOM & LOVE & PATIENCE & pretty soon you'll just plain RUN OUT because you can't take it any more! Because you've been too busy out in the wings & you haven't come into the Temple to be refreshed & renewed.
         8. Are you too busy? Are you in too big a hurry? Is your work too important to stop for a few minutes of inspiration & refreshing from on High, spiritual renewal, physical rest, a little love feast with the Lord? If you've missed a trip into the Temple of His Spirit today in fellowship with all the other crystals, you've really missed something! YOU'LL NOT LAST LONG, YOU'RE GOING TO WEAR OUT. YOU'LL NEVER MAKE IT if you don't stop for awhile under the dome & look up at His starry sky & the peace & tranquility & mighty moving of the spheres & hear their music!--Up There where all is perfection, perfect order & harmony & peace!
         9. Look & live! Stop, look, listen & live! How many times has the Lord told us this, that you cannot live without it? You'd better TAKE TIME for the Temple or you're going to find out you're running OUT OF TIME!--Time for that wonderful rest in the Temple! HAVE YOU HAD YOUR TEMPLE TIME TODAY?--Your quiet time in His Temple?
         10. All you have to do is get alone with the Lord & look up at all His beauties & breathe His Heavenly air & hear His Heavenly music & see His Heavenly visions! "YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST!" IF YOU DON'T MOVE IN HERE & GET A LITTLE OF HIS LIGHT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO REFLECT MUCH or refract much or catch more of it to pass on to others.
         11. How much time have you spent in the Temple today? There doesn't have to be any SET time. YOU CAN LOOK UP THROUGH THE DOME ANY TIME OF DAY, ANYWHERE, WHEREVER YOU ARE, whatever you're doing.--Just a few quiet moments with the Lord. Anytime, anywhere, you can come swiftly out of the wings & ENTER THE TEMPLE IN SPIRIT & IN TRUTH!
         12. You just can't do it very much in the midst of confusion with other voices & clatter going on out in the wings. They are part of the Temple & necessary to the service of the Temple, but you have to get quiet somewhere, sometime. I've found THOSE HOURS IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP ARE A WONDERFUL TIME & the view is so beautiful! The night is so quiet & so still. Don't just LIE there! PRAY! LOOK & LIVE! LOOK UP! MAKE A TEMPLE OF YOUR HEART! See what God can do in that beautiful realm of the Spirit!
         13. Sometimes you wonder what is the Truth out there in the wings, you get so far out of touch & YOU HAVE TO COME BACK INTO THE ROTUNDA WHERE YOU GET YOUR BATTERIES RECHARGED. Lord Jesus, give these dear ones REST. Help them to spend as often as they can in Thy Temple in that quiet place of rest before Thy throne.
         14. You can't do it without Him, Beloved. You'll never make it without His power. A lot of these little tape recorders will run for a WHILE on batteries, but how LONG will they run on batteries?--You'll run for awhile but then you'll have to come back & get hooked up to the current again or you'll run slower & slower till you have nothing left & are just plumb flat!
         15. I'm not so smart! I don't know anything but what God shows me & I just pass it on to you. Everything GOD shows you ALWAYS works out! THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE TEMPLE OF THY SPIRIT, WHERE WE CAN HAVE TRUTH & rest unto our souls! Isn't He wonderful? Then why don't you spend more TIME alone with Him? If you love Him so much, why don't you act like it?
         16. Well, you say, "I've been busy herding sheep." But how do YOU know how to herd them or where to herd them or ANYTHING about them unless you learn from the Chief Shepherd? HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE HE'S LEADING UNLESS YOU FOLLOW HIM? HE knows where the green pastures are & where the mountain passes are & where the cool waters flow! He knows where the falls are & where you'll be safe & secure. He also knows the woods in which the wolves hide & He knows the danger spots & you'd better stick close to Him, for I'm telling you, you don't know much at all! You're going to be in trouble! All WE have to do is FOLLOW--stick up your little antenna & get the signals & FOLLOW!
         17. Are you on God's channel, or are you so DOWNhearted that you keep looking DOWN? If you're DOWNhearted & DOWNcast, it's because you're looking DOWN too much at the waves. You've got your antenna pointed DOWN towards HELL instead of UP toward HEAVEN--or outside at all the people & confusion & sheep instead of toward the Chief Shepherd. Are the only signals you're receiving just a bunch of confusion & babble, or have you got your antenna pointed straight up toward Heaven, where you can't get anything but the Lord?
         18. It all depends on which way you point your antenna, or you'll get the wrong station or you won't get the signals clear.--You'll get nothing but static from the Devil. If you get your antenna straight up you can't even GET those other channels!--All you'll get is GOD'S channel. It's downright HARD WORK out in the WINGS, feeding & sacrificing & working, ministering to the multitudes. But you'll never have the strength or the vision or the inspiration that you need to do it unless you come back in under the dome & LOOK UP IN THE SPIRIT FOR HIS TRUTH!
         19. He can solve all your problems in one little glimpse! He can REFRESH your whole spirit with one deep breath! He can CLARIFY all your thoughts with just one sweet strain of Heavenly music! Hallelujah! And HE CAN WIPE AWAY ALL YOUR FEARS & TEARS with just one little restful moment in that perfect peace He gives when your mind is stayed on Him & Him alone because you trust in Him.
         20. It just takes one little glimpse of Jesus to make it worth it all!--And to help you be able to DO it all. Is it worth the time it takes in the Temple? TAKE TIME IN THE TEMPLE! Amen?


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