THE LITTLE FLIRTY FISHY!                  DFO 293                   1/74

         1. SHOW THEM SUCH UNSELFISH LOVE & CONCERN that they couldn't think more highly of you, & they'll love you more than they ever loved anyone, because you're like the Lord but they don't know it. They don't know what it is, but you've got something they've been searching for all their lives & they need it desperately.
         2. IF YOU'RE AFRAID TO GIVE IT TO THEM just because of a little pride & regard for convention, you could even lose them because of your God-damned pride & concern about what they THINK about you! To Hell with what they think about you!--That's not your business to be concerned about that.
         3. YOU ARE JUST TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THEM! THAT'S your ministry--not to be concerned about what they THINK about you, or your looks, but just about THEM. Stretch out the fingers of your compassion & love & grasp hold of their heart & pull it toward the Lord. (Picture of a spider & her web: The minute the fly gets caught she goes out & ties it up!) It doesn't matter if they misunderstand & think it's something else you want. You have to do it all the same.
         4. IF THEY HAVE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU FIRST before they find it's the LORD, it's just GOD'S BAIT to HOOK them! You have to love them, Honey. You have to love them with all your heart & with all your soul & thy neighbour as thyself.
         5. FASCINATE THE FISH WITH THE LURE! Hypnotise him with the lure! Make it irresistible! Bring him back for more with Thy compassion & Love & mercy & forgiveness, Thy lost soul that we don't want to lose--not one, Lord!
         6. WE DON'T WANT TO COME BACK WITH TALES OF THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY! We want to bring it back & show we didn't fail. We caught it in the net that You gave. We were faithful fishermen & we pleased Thee, we wove the web of love.
         7. WE CATCH MEN, & we catch them with guile & with wile! We weave the web with the strong, flexible lasting but unbreakable cords of Love. Then we will not fail, Lord Jesus, we will not fail: We WILL catch them, Lord Jesus!
         8. HELP HER TO CATCH HIM WITH THE FINGERS OF FLESH that she might impart unto him Thy Spirit, O Lord, for which he hungers. O God, in Jesus' name! Each one of them SEEK after her, SUCK of her, DREAM of her, DRINK of her! Help her, O God, to catch the fish, faithful to be a fisherman of men.
         9. HELP HER, O GOD, TO CATCH MEN! Help her to catch men, be bold, unashamed & brazen, to use ANYTHING she has, O God, to catch men for Thee!--Even if it be through the flesh, the attractive lure, delicious flesh on a steel hook of Thy reality, the steel of Thy Spirit!
         10. HELP HER, O JESUS, TO BE WILLING TO BE BAIT, impaled on Thy hook, torn by Thy Spirit, crucified on Thy cross! 'Tis a cross, Lord, a hooked cross, a pronged cross--in Jesus' name!--From which she cannot escape, nor those that feed of her flesh, O God, neither can they escape!
         11. FOR THEY THAT FEAST UPON HER SHALL BE PIERCED WITH THE CROSS OF MY LOVE, a point & two prongs that they cannot remove, the irresistible irremovable trinity, the barb of Thy Spirit which hath three points: The one which pierceth & the two which hold, even as they hold thee so that thou shalt not escape & neither shall he that feasteth of thee!
         12. FOR I SHALL HOOK HIM with the steel of My power & the trinity of My Spirit that he shall be unable to remove. For I shall imbed it in each of them through thee if thou shalt remain impaled upon My power.
         13. HEED THOU THESE WARNING WORDS of thy Father that thou stray not, neither flee thou from the sacrifice to which I have ordained thee! Thou shalt be pierced & impaled with the power of My Love, that thou shalt tempt others that would feast of thee to be caught by the same!
         14. FOR THE SWORD SHALL PIERCE THY OWN HEART ALSO that thou mayest die unto thy flesh & live unto My Spirit, that thou mayest catch men who shall feed of thy flesh which thou shalt give for them to feast upon that I may imbed My hook into their jaw through thy flesh!
         15. BEHOLD, THOU SHALT NOT BE DEVOURED, neither shalt thou perish away nor be consumed by them that eat of thee, but rather as thou seest: (David points at what he is seeing in the Spirit:) See? The bait is still upon the hook, & the HOOK & the BAIT & the FISH, lo, these THREE become ONE & inseparable, one body pierced with My Love!
         16. SO SHALL IT BE WITH ALL OF THEM THAT I LURE WITH THEE with whom I fish, that they may be tempted deliberately to devour thee, that they may eat of thy flesh that they may swallow My hook which I shall imbed in their jaw, never to be removed! You see the hook?
         17. HE DEVOURS THE FLESH FOR A MOMENT, but he cannot consume thee, for I shall open his jaws & remove thee that he swallow thee not completely, but My hook he cannot remove, neither shall he remove it forever! (Tongues:)
         18. ONLY I, THE FISHERMAN, CAN REMOVE THE HOOK when he is safely within My net & added to My creel with no more life of his own except he be eaten & devoured by others that he may bring life unto them! You see?
         19. SOMETIMES A LITTLE OF THE BAIT IS LOST & eaten, but it shall live on in the flesh of the fish to give sustenance to others as he, too, becomes food for them that hunger.
         20. ART THOU WILLING TO BECOME MY BAIT?--To sacrifice thy life upon My hook & be devoured of others that they may live & be caught by Me to feed men? Then yield thyself therefore to be pierced through with many sorrows!
         21. HOW CANST THOU FEAR THE JAWS OF HIM whom I will not permit to consume thee, neither fully devour thee, but to taste of thee & to swallow thee but for a moment, only to be removed when I have pulled him in?
         22. ART THOU WILLING TO KISS MANY WITH MY KISS OF LIFE? Through thy death to thyself thou shalt bring life unto many that would devour thee & feast upon thy flesh! Thou shalt feed them indeed, but not as they think. Thou shalt nourish them indeed, but not as they suppose. Thou shalt save them for truth, but not as they imagine.
         23. FEAR NOT, O THOU LITTLE FISH, for ere he hath closed his jaws about thee within the net, My hand shall have laid hold upon him, & I shall deliver thee & pry apart his jaws with but a finger that thou mayest be spared that thou mayest swim again for Me & be a bait unto many! Hallelujah!
         24. THEY SHALL COME, MANY GREAT FISHES, many great & strong & honourable & important fishes shall surround thee, & they shall vie with one another to see who can devour thee first! But unbeknownst to all of them I have already encompassed them with My net, & I shall catch them all!
         25. SUCH IS THY USEFULNESS UNTO ME & such is thy fate. If thou art faithful I shall spare thee & save thee every time, lest thou be completely consumed by them that would devour thee. Yea, I shall snatch thee from the very jaws of the devourer! I shall spare thee from him that would gnash his teeth upon thee!
         26. WHY THEN, LITTLE FISHY IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA, WHY SHED'ST THOU THESE TEARS 'FORE ME? Thou shalt escape, I promise thee!--Fear not, though his jaws close clear about thee, & the darkness descendeth down deep upon thee! Thou seemest alone only for a moment in thy distress!
         27. ART THOU WILLING TO BE MY LITTLE FISH WHICH CATCHETH MANY GREAT ONES? For thou art very precious unto Me & holy, & I shall spare thee even when thou thinkest not. For when thou thinkest that the end is near, thou shalt tremble & cry unto Me even as My servant Jonah. They shall serve Me according to My purpose to bear thee safely on thy way, even when thou thinkest not & thou knowest not whither thou goest nor that thou shalt be delivered.
         28. SO FEAR NOT, LITTLE ONE: IT IS YOUR FATHER'S GOOD PLEASURE TO CATCH WITH THEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD! It is all so simple! All you need is faith to know that nothing shall hurt thee. Thy Father shall let nothing hurt thee.
         29. NO FISH CAN RESIST YOU, FOR YOU HAVE MAGICAL POWER! You give out a scent they cannot resist! (Fragrance of the Lord.) They all follow. They're all fish, but some are very old dead fish, & some are very young foolish fish that aren't yet interested. They look & they sniff, but they play with their fellows. But some will come that are called, & you will choose.
         30. THERE ARE FOUR KINDS OF FISHING: BY HOOK, TRAP, NET OR SPEAR. The FIRST requires bait that suffers crucifixion on the HOOK but is safer to survive, being firm on the line.
         31. THE SECOND GIVES THE BAIT MORE FREEDOM & LESS SUFFERING as it swims about within the TRAP, but is not so easy to save from being eaten! The others are operated entirely by the Fisherman without the benefit of bait; & the last, the spear, is like the sudden judgement of God!
         32. SOME ARE MORE CONTROLLED & SELECTIVE THAN OTHERS, some use bait & some do not, but all are designed to catch fish. Jesus said: "Follow Me, & I will make you fishers of MEN!" Are YOU skillfully, patiently fishing for men?
         33. ARE YOU EVEN WILLING TO BE BAIT ON GOD'S HOOK OR IN HIS TRAP? Would YOU do ANYTHING for Jesus to help your Fisherman catch MEN, even to suffer the CRUCIFIXION of the HOOK or the DANGER of the TRAP? Are you willing to RISK being EATEN alive that "from henceforth ye shall catch MEN"? How far would YOU go to catch MEN?-ALL THE WAY?
         34. MAY GOD HELP US ALL TO BE FLIRTY LITTLE FISHIES FOR JESUS to save lost souls for His creel!--Amen?--God bless & make you a Flirty Little Fishy for Jesus!
         35. --AND DON'T FORGET: THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BAIT!--Some fish like FLESH, some like BRAINS, some like BEAUTY, some like SPIRIT & some like'm ALL!--Be sure you use the RIGHT bait for the right FISH!

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