DAVID!            GP 77            6/71

         1. GOD OFTEN LIKES TO TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE, help you appreciate what you are, even before He's going to let you know what you're going to do! He did this with MOST of His Prophets & Kings & great men of the Bible, even some of the secular kings, like Cyrus, whom He named hundreds of years before he was born & said what he was going to do!--Isa.44:28.
         2. MY MOTHER HAD DEDICATED ME TO THE LORD BEFORE I WAS BORN, & she prayed for a name & the name the Lord gave for me was--DAVID! I was reared in the nurture & admonition of the Lord & served the Lord, having been commissioned by the Lord to serve Him even BEFORE I was born!
         3. I ALWAYS FELT ALL MY LIFE THAT THE LORD HAD SOMETHING VERY BIG & GREAT FOR ME TO DO & that's why I got so discouraged, when after 50 years I still didn't know what God wanted me to do! But most of the World's great men & Bible heroes never DISCOVERED their life's work until their later years. It seemed I had not accomplished much at all--& where was this great work, where was the real Prophet of God, the flaming evangelist? But I never dreamed what God was going to do with me! I had tried every kind of way to reach the multitudes with the Gospel, from music to movies, & still couldn't find out what God wanted for me--my life's work! I learned a lot while I was wandering around trying to serve the Lord! I've been amazed at how many things the Lord gave me experience in! I don't know much about them, but I know a LITTLE about a LOT! God was PREPARING me all those years for what I didn't even know I was going to do!
         4. AND AS TIME BEGAN TO DRAW NEAR, HE BEGAN TO GIVE US A FEW HINTS & WARNINGS TO GET READY for it: It was about to come to pass! The first outstanding sign was the MESSAGE OF JEREMIAH, which was revealed to us in December of 1961, when I was very ill, & God said this was to be our Message from now on.--The Doomsday, End-Time, Warning Message!
         5. GOD BEGAN TO SPEAK TO US & TELL US WE WERE GOING TO DO SOMETHING GREAT--SOMETHING UNUSUAL! Then in that last year, after my work of putting Gospel TV across the nation was finished, I was out of a job, nearly broke, unemployed & wondering what to do for the Lord, nearly 50 years of age, seemingly frustrated & defeated!--And we just decided to start out like we had in the beginning, with our little family now teenagers, & start preaching the Gospel on the road again. It looked like we were starting all over again, like we had when the kids were little, living by faith & witnessing wherever we went!
         6. IN '67 GRANDMOTHER JOINED THE TEAM & THROUGH HER, GOD BEGAN TO TEACH US NOT TO MOVE WITHOUT ORDERS, & to hear explicitly, specifically, the very Voice of God & do exactly what He said to do, even if it seemed crazy as a loon!
         7. AND IT ALWAYS WORKED WHEN WE OBEYED! One whole year of 10,000 Miles of Miracles we travelled with Grandmother, the Lord even naming towns & countries we were supposed to go to & how we should travel--just teaching us how to learn, listen & obey the Voice of the Spirit--& God would do the rest! How many times the Lord told His Prophets to do crazy things, just to test them to see if they could believe Him!
         8. THE LORD PROPHESIED ALSO WHERE WE WERE TO GO, when we returned from the Isles of the Rising Sun (West Indies), we were to go to the LAND OF THE SETTING SUN (California) & there it would be told us what we were to do next!
         9. ON THE WAY THERE THAT SUMMER, WE STOPPED OVER AT THE RANCH IN TEXAS FOR A FEW WEEKS, & while there a well-known Prophetess of God got so excited about a prophecy the Lord had given her about us, that she drove her car all the way to Texas to tell us about it. At this time we had about hit rock bottom, we were nearly broke & we were forsaking all--going out not knowing whither we went--going on a shred of a clause of a prophecy: "Thou shalt go out to the Land of the Setting Sun, & there it shall be told thee what thou shalt do!"--But if we had not obeyed, God would never have accomplished what He HAS accomplished! We had to OBEY every little thing EXACTLY as He told us!
         10. THIS DEAR SISTER WAS SO EXCITED, she said, "Brother David, God gave this to me & said I must come out & tell you about it right away quick--that it's about you!"--And she was so convinced it was of God & to be fulfilled in us that she'd driven her car a three-thousand-mile round trip to tell us!-And guess what it was?--EZEKIEL 34!
         11. WELL, I THOUGHT, "THAT'S NICE--THE LORD EVEN CHOSE A PASSAGE THAT HAD MY NAME IN IT & APPLIED IT TO ME! He took a passage that talked about DAVID!" I never dreamed He could possibly be actually talking about me personally in that passage! I believed that God was applying this to us & the family to encourage us, but you couldn't have ever convinced me by the wildest stretch of my imagination that God was actually talking about us!--That He actually uttered this prophecy originally for you & for me about what God was going to accomplish through us!
         12. NEVERTHELESS, RIGHT AFTER THIS PROPHECY, WE WENT TO CALIFORNIA, hit our all-time low visiting with Grandmother-no openings, no bookings, no money! The City of the System refused this little band of bedraggled knights & warriors & we went discouraged on our way! It was there in California God gave us PSALM 68 & told us that IT MEANT US--which at the time really sounded too big for our little family!
         13. BUT NOW OUR FAMILY IS NO LONGER SO LITTLE! You are the FULFILMENT of it--the proof of it--the fruits of it! "By their fruits ye shall know them!" You are the PROOF that it is true & you are it & you are these of whom the Lord spoke, both in Psalm 68 & Ezekiel 34 & in the multitude of other revelations He has given us! And now for the first time I'm going to tell you what I think about Ezekiel 34 myself! Last night the Lord told me what HE thought about it & we got a CONFIRMATION straight from His Own Mouth!
         14. THE WHOLE THING WAS A REBUKE FROM THE LORD against my denying, doubting & challenging His Word! It woke me in the middle of the night & was on this wise:
         15. "WHY DOST THOU DENY THY NAME DAVID & DOUBT THAT I HAVE GIVEN IT TO THEE & challenge that I have made thee thus? You have doubted that I am able to do this, like Sarah who laughed when I told her that in old age she should bear a son. I HAVE MADE THEE My Moses & My David! I have made thee a new vessel & completely broken thee & destroyed the former vessel that was, & made thee a totally new vessel!
         16. " I AM DISPLEASED WITH THEE FOR THY UNBELIEF! Why dost thou laugh at the creation of the Lord?
         17. "WHAT IF I WILL THAT THOU BE WICKED AS DAVID OF OLD, that the excellency of the power may be of God--that I may be glorified! For Man thinketh not as God thinketh. For Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. I put down & I put up. I propose & I dispose!
         18. "IT IS NOT FOR THEE TO QUESTION WHETHER THEY WILL BELIEVE OR WHETHER THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE. It is only for thee to obey. Neither is it for you to pour upon the ground that which is precious, for which their lives have been given & their very blood is shed.--That which I have caused them to give, shouldst thou treat with contempt & with ingratitude? They look unto thee, the Light of Israel! They look unto thee as David of old--as Moses!" (It was like I was robbing you of the LIGHT, the INSPIRATION, the SAMPLE, by denying you the SYMBOL. It's like a standard, a banner.--Like the people have to cling to SOMETHING, something they can rally 'round.)
         19. "FOR IT IS I THAT HAVE MADE THEE & CALLED THEE BY THY NAME, even unto the Generation of generations--called thee by thy name before thou wast formed in the womb & caused thy Mother to call thee by thy name David, that it should be fulfilled that which was spoken by My Prophets!
         20. "SO WHO ART THOU TO QUESTION THE WILL OF GOD? Thou art My spittal upon the ground, for which I have made thee from clay that it might be made a better vessel--not the water & blood of thy Mother, but the spittal & clay of God, as the vessel I have created for the Glory of God!" (It was like the Lord was spitting in my face--"YOU'RE NOTHING". To deny it was to challenge the Lord. Any element of self was very disgusting to the Lord--as though I had anything to do with it! I had NOTHING to do with it, it was none of my business! As the semen is planted in the soil of the flesh of the woman, so the seed of His Mouth was planted in this mud--me--& resulted in a new creation!)
         21. "I HAVE MADE THEE THUS! WHO ART THOU TO QUESTION that I have broken thee & made thee & created thee in My Own image to be that David which of old I have foretold! BEWARE lest thou be found to fight against God & the Will of God & the Spirit that I have given thee!
         22. "CEASE NOW FROM THY OWN WORDS & THY OWN DOUBTS & BELIEVE, for with God nothing shall be impossible, but all things are possible to him that believeth. Cease in thy proud attempts to remove the Light from Israel!
         23. "FOR THOU SHALT BE THUS & EVEN MORE ALSO AS I HAVE SAID. For thou art My creation & the work of My Hands. It is not for thee to question the work of Thy Creator! Even as David was but a man, who could even lie, with frail flesh was contemptible--so art thou unto Me, so is thy flesh unto Me! For in THIS will I glory; not in the works of flesh but in the creation of My Spirit, that it shall be known that I have made thee & called thee by thy name & created thee & foretold thee & thou art that David of which I spake unto thee by thy sheep to be the Light of Israel!
         24. "BY MY SPIRIT I HAVE PLUCKED THY HARP & My Tones have awakened thee & I have said unto thee, `Come forth & rise, & plead for My Children & My People Israel! David, arise & come forth, as from sleep, that thou mayest save My Children!'
         25. "WRITE ALL THESE THINGS IN A BOOK! Put this in a book--in MANY BOOKS (publications) & write it in a scroll to send to all the people, that they may know that it is I that have made thee & not thee thyself.--That I have caused these things to be WRITTEN in a book to be read!
         26. "EVEN AS WITH MY SERVANT MOSES, I HAVE DEALT WITH THEE--even face to face & mouth to mouth have I spoken unto thee. As with My Servant David, so have I done unto thee!
         27. "I FORGIVE THEE FOR THY UNBELIEF. I shall give thee FAITH! Thou must LEAD My people, like Moses. Thou art as the VOICE OF GOD unto them.
         28. "WHY DOST THOU DOUBT? Knowest thou not that all I have to do is speak the Word & it is done? For I have placed upon thee this cross. From My seed shall come little ones. Even thy seed shall grow & all generations shall call thee blessed. Thy seed shall call thee blessed!--For the Word of the Lord is spoken & I have said it!
         29. "CEASE NOW FROM THY DOUBTINGS & FEARS & TRUST IN ME. Be it done unto thee even as I have spoken! See now, how I have turned thee about & caused thee to awaken from slumber. I have turned thee by My Spirit. My Word within thee is as bitterness within thy belly, & My wine is unto thee as My Spirit to set thy tongue free. Even more than the milk of the mother to the baby which is thirsty, am I unto thee. So therefore, hush now thy murmurings against Me! Even as thou hast said that thou shalt receive the mother's milk of My Word, so receive thou.
         30. "THEREFORE THOU SHALT GIVE IT UNTO MANY. For they are MY Words--whether thou wilt or thou wilt not--whether they be sweet or whether they be bitter. I have said unto thee that thou shalt speak as a father, & unto them as children. It is for neither of thee to question the Will of thy God!
         31. "BECAUSE THY FAITH SHALL BE AS THE FAITH OF DAVID & their strength shall be as the strength of David's men! And thou shalt plunge into battle with them & be the victor, & thou shalt fight as with the strength of the Lord, thy God, & wound the hairy scalp of the Enemy by the power of the Spirit of God. They shall follow thee like sheep whithersoever thou goest.
         32. "FOR IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO THEE EVEN AS I HAVE SPOKEN. Turn thou now upon thy bed & rest. I shall bless thee! So why dost thou question? Thou art the least among many brethren-from the very ground upon which I spat!
         33. "BUT I HAVE KISSED THEE! I have kissed thee, David, & brought thee into being, & My Love has called thee David-Beloved of God!--For which cause thy Mother did name thee!
         34. "TURN NOW UPON THY BED, DAVID, & JESUS SHALL GIVE THEE REST & thou shalt awaken unto these many children & speak again My Word unto them. Rest now, sleep, take thy rest. Moses is David--even as thy mouth is My Word!"
         35. A FEW DAYS AGO, AS WE WERE THANKING THE LORD FOR OUR MANY BLESSINGS, & particularly for you, our many wonderful children in the Lord, we received this precious little Word from the Lord: "I have blessed thee above all the sons of men on the face of the Earth, that even as Abraham, thy seed shall be as the stars of the heavens in multitude & as the sands of the sea innumerable. And all generations shall call thee blessed."