Process of Becoming a Bride - Part 1 — Hattie Hammond

Here from all over the district, some of you I haven't seen for so long. We lift up our souls to thee. We commit our bodies to thee. Just take us into those sacred nail-pierced hands. And don't let us go until you've accomplished your will in us these hours.

Oh, Jesus, my sisters. Jesus, my sisters. Jesus, every single one, everyone. Just take everyone into those sacred nail-pierced hands. Let each one be conscious of your hands upon them. Let each one hear your voice.

Let each one see your face and know your will. Oh, Jesus. Precious Holy Spirit, and give strength and power of the response that you want so you can accomplish your will just for your own glory. We open this wonderful book, and it says it's the opening up of the word that giveth light.

And as we open the book, will you please open up the word and feed us with living bread. Dig our ears that we can hear the faintest whisper and baptize us with a willing spirit to obey and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.

In Jesus' precious name, amen. You may be seated. Are you hearing well back here? Way in the back, the last one in the back, if you're hearing well, will you raise your hand? I thank you. Back there, are you folks hearing well?

I thank you, dear. We have been singing such beautiful songs all about our wonderful Lord. We love him, don't we? And we sing he's Lord. And we sing that he's king. And we sing a lot of things. And we say a lot of things.

Does the Lord sometimes stop you and just make you think a little bit about what we've been singing? What we've been saying? He knows how to check us and deal with us and talk to us. And that's what he has been doing with me.

Esther’s Call to Become the King’s Bride

And what I think he wants this to be, quite somebody said, when I prayed, the Lord told me that you were going to challenge us. Well, will you accept that? I want to talk about somebody whose life came a call.

She heard that call, and the commitment that was demanded, she had to declare herself that she made such a commitment, and then she yielded herself until it was realized. She was the choice of the people, and she had to prepare to be the choice of the king.

What's her name? The call is laid upon every one of us. In the second chapter of Esther, let's read. Chapter 2, and I'll begin reading at the 8th verse. Thus, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Haggai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Haggai, keeper of the women.

And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him. And he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her. And seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house.

And he preferred her and her maids to the best place of the house of the women. Esther had not showed her people, nor her kinred, for Mordecai had charged her she should not show it. Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house to know how Esther did and what should become of her.

Now when every maid's turn was come to go into King Ahasuerus, after she had been twelve months according to the manner of the women, for so were the days of their purification accomplished, to which six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with other things for the purifying of the women.

Then thus came every maiden unto the king, whatsoever she desired was given her, to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house. Verse 15. When the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abahel, the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go into the king, she required nothing but what Hagiard the king's chamber lay, the keeper of the women appointed.

Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her. So Esther was taken unto King Ahasuerus into his house, royal in the tenth month, which is the month Thebes, in the seventh year of his reign.

The king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight, more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Ashti. Do you have ambitions to be a queen?

Hands up. Hands up. Oh, come on. Thank you, Sister Belden. Thank you. Anybody else have ambitions to be a queen? Thank you, Sister Willits. I hope you're elected. Don't you know what this is all about?

Don't you know what this is all about? Anybody else have ambitions to be a queen? Queen's rude. Oh, Jesus. I'm going to give you another chance. Have ambitions to be a queen. I want to talk to people, to some people who have pride in living, who have real objective.

One of the first things Esther had to do was declare that she was in the race, because as I read, and you'll want to read this story again and again to get those little fine details, it says Esther had not yet declared herself and made known that she was a Jewess and that she was in this race to go in before the queen as a Jewess, because that's where the stigma was.

They hated the Jews, and this was the nation they wanted to wipe out and get rid of, and she hadn't let it be known who she was. And this is the first thing required of her. This is the first thing that's required of us to put her in the race to win.

Committing to the Journey Instead of Drifting

If you aren't sure yet, this reminds me of Dr. Price. Maybe you all know her. Most of you remember Dr. Charles Price, very dear friend of mine, and he was driving his car from Portman down to Los Angeles, and this man was so kind.

He wanted to pick up everybody and help everybody, give them a ride, and this old man was hobbling along with the king. So he stopped the car and he opened the door and he said, Friend, get in. I'm going to drive all the way to Los Angeles.

If you're going this way, I can take you. And that old man just stood there and lifted his cane and pulled it down, and he said, Well, I ain't going nowhere. And I just may as well be here down the road a piece.

Because that says an awful lot. Because there are people, there are people, who have no purpose in their Christian life, and that's the frustrated crowd, because they're not going nowhere anyhow. So they may as well be taken up with all the things at hand.

I'm not against ceramics, but there's nothing about ceramics and puppy dogs and all that sort of thing that's going to help us to God. But yet women, women's lives are just full of all sorts of things to no avail.

The hours, you agree? The time is short, because I'm talking to women. I'm talking to women. And the things that involve women and the things that will disentangle women and salvage us and get us out of all the cobwebs in our lives and get us on our way to God.

I know an awful lot of happy women, and they are excited women. It's on her way to being a queen. Believe me, she has excitement in her life, and plenty of it. Plenty of it. Now, this may sound egotistical.

I don't mean it that way at all. But I wouldn't change lives with anybody on earth. I don't care who they are. Because I know my purposes. I know which way I'm traveling. I know where I'm going. And the first thing, everybody, to say amen and raise your laughters.

Amen. With the determination, excitement that is in your heart, that you know which way you're facing and you know where you're going, and there are ten thoughts that you have to say no to. You have to say no to things, to people.

People are our worst hindrances, sir. Going that way. These are not my interests spoken for. People say to me, and Sister Hammond, you? Not yet. Not yet. I'm not quite ready for that. I expect to be. And I say, but I'd like you to know, there is a man in my life.

He knows the wedding date, but he won't tell me. Because if we knew the date, it's like a woman to wait until the day before to get ready. If we don't know the date, we have to keep ready. Because it may be today.

It may be today. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Is it all right with you if it's today? I hope so. Well, but we're still caught. It looks like none of us are ready, really ready yet. Looks like it. Because he didn't take any of us home last night.

When we're really ready, I believe he'll take us. So we're all caught. Didn't anybody go last night. So he still has something to do in us and to do with us. So we're going to let him do it. All right, now I have a question to ask you.

The Call to Rule and Reign With Christ

Anybody here have ambition to be a queen? All right. Thank you, dear. Keep that up, will you? All right. To rule and to reign with Jesus. Now, I know what some of you are saying. I can hear it. You're saying that's for a lot of those super saints.

And I'm not one of those super saints. And I don't know if I can live up to that and meet that calling or not. All right. All right, honey. I want to show you who Esther really was. And I'll let you see that there are.

This calling is on every whosoever will. The moment you're saved, you're called, you're called. And it's left with us whether or not we'll pay the price. There's a price to pay. And if we'll pay the price.

But I won't tell you who Esther was. This girl was a little captive maiden. Captive maiden. She was taken into captivity. Read, read her story. It's here. She was taken into Babylonian captivity. King Nebuchadnezzar.

And that little girl was down there in that foundage. A little orphan. It plainly says she had neither mother nor father. And had been carried away from Jerusalem. It's in the same second chapter in the sixth verse.

With the captivity which had been carried away. Whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. Esther had neither father nor mother. An orphan girl. Now, I don't know how many of you have been to Israel.

But if you have been to Israel and have seen these little Bedouin village children. Running around. You would get a good picture of what Esther was like. Just a little village Bedouin girl. In captivity, in slavery, in bondage.

Doesn't sound like a girl that would be chosen Miss Jerusalem. She wasn't. That doesn't sound like a girl that would be called Miss Bethlehem. She wasn't. She wasn't. But God looked down and saw this little orphan captive maid in bondage and in slavery.

And knew that if he could get Esther in his hands. And she would be willing to come into his plan and come into his purpose. What he could do with her. And what he could make of her. And what he could do for her.

And he sent her uncle. It says who demanded obedience of her. And then put her in the custody of one of the kings. The king's first servant. And we know who the king's first servant for us is. The precious Holy Spirit.

The precious Holy Spirit. Put her in his custody. And he took her in his hands and began to work on her. And that's Esther's story. That's Esther's story. Just think of a little village girl. Stringy hair.

This is what the Song of Solomon says about all of us. It says when the Lord looked on us we all had goat's hair. Did you ever see a goat? Black stringy hair and few hairs. And when he looked on us there wasn't much there to desire.

But he says concerning each one of us. It will just come into his hands. What he could do with us. And what he could do for us. Oh my dear. Have you made your declaration? Have you made your commitment to Jesus Christ?

Are you going to pay the price? Are we going all the way going to say yes to him? Can Jesus Christ have his way with us? Now this is the first essential in our life. He can't until we make the commitment.

Surrendering the Whole Life to the Lordship of Christ

Now it's beautiful to say he's Lord. He must be king. He must be Lord of our hearts and of our lives. Then we must surrender our entire being to him. For him to take us like a little village maid. And make us the first lady of the land.

The first lady in heaven and earth. We make demands of our first ladies, don't we? Say yes. We want them to be examples in every way. What we want them to be. Well, what is your desire? What is your desire?

How many of you will be satisfied just to get inside the gate? Don't you dare raise your hand. Because that place is filled up long time ago. You don't want to be with that crowd. You don't want to be in that crowd just inside the gate.

And all you get is a palm branch to wave throughout eternity. That you've made it. And you're just inside the gate. No. We want to be in that company. In whom Jesus shall see of the travail of his soul.

And shall be satisfied. Yes. I don't know anything about wanting mansions. I don't know anything about that. I never made a study of mansions. I don't know anything about that. And crowns and all that sort of thing.

If Jesus will just say well done. If he will just say that he's pleased. That'll be all. If he'll just say that. It just seems to me if Jesus would just say he was pleased. That I would just be so melted.

I'd fall right down before him. And it seems to me I'd want to dissolve. And just throw out in thanksgiving before him. Just please and satisfy his dear heart. His name is Jesus. Say it again. His name is Jesus.

Now I want to tell you something honey. You won't yield to Jesus unless you love him. It's impossible. And you won't love him unless you know him. How do we know anybody? By spending time with them. And in this wonderful world.

And at his feet. And let this precious Holy Spirit reveal Jesus to us. Until the revelation of who Jesus is. It just is so all that we are directly enabled to sell out to him. And make the commitment that he wants.

Will enable us to fall into his hands. And say no. Going to be ready to meet him when he comes. And to satisfy his dear heart. Amen. Now say his name again. Jesus. Now I know it's warm in here. And some of you are having difficulty staying awake.

I'm not going to blame the preacher. It's just that it's warm. Beside you starts nodding. You just punch him. That's the only thing. Will somebody in the back row. One of those windows way over there on the other end.

And then nobody will be in the draft. But it will give us some fresh air in here. I wouldn't raise those honey. I don't want anybody in the draft. Stand up everybody. God takes a role. Believe all of us who have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Obedience, Holiness, and the Spirit’s Discipline

Know something of what it means to have the Holy Ghost talk to us. And the Holy Ghost deal with us. And the Holy Spirit to lay his demands upon us. And his obediences. His thou shalt and thou shalt not.

Others may, but you cannot. If you're going this way, you're going this way. We don't compare ourselves among ourselves. We don't question what other people are free to do. And we can't. Neither do we put our convictions on other people.

But we just let everybody alone. Let everybody live their own life before the Lord. And let this precious first servant out of the king's palace have his way in our lives. Got through in 12 months. She got reason for this because she yielded on every point.

Because she was always obedient. Not once does Esther make a suggestion to the Holy Ghost. Not once does she take the initiative. Not once does she ask for anything artificial or synthetic. Esther's voice is not heard.

Her voice is not heard from the time she says yes. And gives herself to Hegeai. That's the last we hear of her. Until her commitment is such that she says, I'll pay this price I'm going through if I perish a pinch.

For what purpose? To please the king. And be accepted by him. So Hegeai took her over. And a little dirty. Dirty! That he gave. You know, none of us know what sin has done to us until the Holy Ghost shows us.

We've never lived any other way. We have been this person all of our life. We don't know perfection as he knows perfection as the Holy Ghost knows perfection. Holiness, righteousness, godliness. All we know is the old nature that we lived with until he saved us.

We don't know the deep cleansing that's necessary to be accepted by the king. And so she was given seven maidens for purification. And they were to rub her six months with oil and six months with sweet odors.

To sanctify, to purify, to disinfect. To get a little village girl ready for the king's palace. For the throne discipline necessary. Think of the education necessary. I read everything I can get my hands on concerning the disciplines of queens.

I've read everything I could get my hands on concerning Queen Elizabeth. And her training and her discipline. And some of the discipline that this woman was under. So he takes us over. He takes us over.

We cannot do it ourselves. We don't know what to do. We don't know the king's desires. We don't know. Until the Holy Ghost brings us into that love. Until the Holy Ghost opens it to us. And flashes of it come through that scorch us and burn.

And we cry out, oh Lord, am I like this? I didn't know that was in my nature. I didn't know I was like this. We thought, well, if you're saved and baptized in the Holy Ghost, isn't that enough? Aren't we ready to go there?

No, dear. No, this is just the beginning. This is just the beginning. When your baby was born, you didn't take that little one up in your arms and say, all my life I've wanted a baby. I just look forward to the time when I can take my firstborn in my arms.

Oh, I've got a baby. He can die now. I've got a baby. I've got a baby. Well, no. You laugh at that. That's ridiculous. This little thing hasn't yet lived. He hardly knows he's around. He can't really see.

He doesn't know what life is all about. He hasn't been educated or trained in any way whatsoever. That's what we look like when we're just born into the kingdom of God. And then he baptizes us with the precious Holy Spirit to get us walking, to get us moving, and we're just really begun.

But he has a plan and he has a purpose laid on each one of our lives, and this is to take us into his hands and make us fit to be in that bride and in that company that will satisfy his heart. There are a lot of companies in the scriptures, you know.

There are just lots of companies. And I know a lot of teaching today. Everybody's going up and everybody's going to sit on the throne. Everybody's going up in the rapture and everybody's going to be the bride and everybody's going to rule and reign.

Well, wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be something with undisciplined people, undisciplined people on thrones ruling and reigning? Oh, help us. Now, know this king is going to have a bride worthy, worthy of this wonderful son of God.

And as the hours go on, we're going to talk about his worthiness and who he is. Oh, my dear, my dear, there is a marvelous calling laid upon our lives. But we're in the process now. We're in the process of becoming that person that he wants us to be.

How many of you have already attained? Oh, I'll shut my eyes so I don't see any hands. I'm always scared lest people somehow just, if we haven't attained, you know, self-satisfaction at the end. That's the end.

But we're in his hands. We're in his hands. Have you felt the pressure of his hand on you? I hope so. And not this way, this way. No, not this way, this way. He doesn't compare, but he sure knows how to nudge us in the right way and let us know what his will is.

And none of us will be able to say, I didn't know, because the faithful Holy Ghost will show us and talk to us and tell us and guide us and instruct us and discipline us and do for us and in us whatever's necessary.

This is what he's come for. This is what he's come for. All right, darling, you've got seven maidens to get us lined up. Esther had seven maidens to work on her, and each one of us has seven maidens around to work on us for six months with Esther.

Fine, girls, we've got to keep this in mind, this in our mind continually, and that is attaining. That's attaining. That's getting there. That's paying the price. For 12 and down and in and out business.

I don't know whether I'm going to make it. I'm not sure that I'm going to get through. No. Use your foot if necessary. Amen. Because you are royalty, you know. And if you have to stop and say, no, I'm going to be there.

I've had to tell people I have an appointment. Believe me. Believe me. No. People want to get you involved. Oh, heaven help us. Oh, the things that people are involved in. No, I have an appointment, and I do have an appointment.

I'm not lying. I've got an appointment, and I'm going to make that appointment, and I'm not going to let anything deter me from keeping that appointment and being there. Amen. So she had one song. I have a bridegroom, and he's coming, and I'm going to be there.

She sang it. She sang one song for 12 months. 12 months. Now, six of these, these seven maidens rubbed her for six months. Jesus had his birth gold and frankincense and myrrh, the type of, the bitterness, the bitterness, the suffering, all that he would have to go through.

And look, darling, don't you expect to get through on a bed of roses and sing with Christians. Well, in June there's going to be some oil of myrrh and plenty of oil of myrrh to, in our life, to rub us.

And there'll be six months of this, six months of it. It's not an overnight thing, and it just goes on, and it just goes on. And you cry, and you cry, and, honey, did you forget you came to be purified?

And so this must go on until we're purified. Never forget the purpose of this thing in our life. But the truth is disturbed just a little bit, and something comes that crosses us, people, and they'll start blaming any little trouble or any bitterness or any sorrow.

He's representing the experiences, the trials, the suffering, the tears, the heartaches, the heartbreaks. Everybody I know is going through. I ask somebody, honey, pray for this retreat I'm going to. Will you pray?

She says, well, everybody needs prayer. How true that is. How true that is today. Everybody I know is going through one thing, two things, six things, and then they're multiplied, and then they're doubled, and you hardly get out of one thing until you see something else coming out.

And you get out of that thing, and things are just crippled, and they're doubled. Now let me tell you, let me talk to you. Are you listening? Honey, now these things can do one of two things in our life.

They can make us hard. They can make us bitter. They can turn us against God. I'm just trying to help a woman last week who said, I am so, and she's regressive. That's the wrong spirit. There's no queenliness.

There's no queenliness about that whatsoever, none whatsoever. Just mad at God. What for? Because she couldn't have a way. That's what it's all about. She couldn't have a way. She made a prophecy in a meeting, and it wasn't coming true.

And she blamed it on God that this prophecy wasn't being fulfilled. Well, don't get yourself in a mess like that, and you won't have to try to explain it. Get out. People want to always ready to lay hands on you and prophesy over you, and that if it don't come true, well, somebody else's fault.

No, just don't do things like that unless it is purely the Holy Ghost and you can't help yourself, but just rules and tours. And then you can help yourself because the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet.

Yes. But don't blame these things on the devil. If you have put yourself in the hands of God, Father, I want to please you. I want to do your will. I want to serve you. I want to be pleasing to you. And we say, oh, yes, Lord, I want you to have your way in my life.

Honey, because God answers prayers. And if we ask the Lord to have his way in our lives, of course he's going to have his way. And then he takes us into those sacred nail-pierced hands and things begin to happen that break us and melt us and begin to shape and mold that clay.

And we don't like the shape it's taking. And the way things are going, we don't like that. And we think the devil got in there. And then go to church prayer. Honey, the devil doesn't have anything to do with it.

You belong to Jesus Christ. And if he is using the devil, you're God's child. And the devil can only go as far as God allows him. Keep the... It is for our purification, to make us beautiful, to get us ready to be accepted by the King and to please him and sit with him and rule and reign on the throne with Jesus Christ.

And you can be there just as much as the most spiritual person that you know, that somebody you call a super saint. I don't know who it would be, but anyhow, you can be there just as much as anybody that you think so super.

You can be there. The call of God is laid on your heart and life. And it's the Holy Ghost who's dealing with all of us. Amen. Amen. You know, I would just like to... May I give these seven maidens names?

You know, they don't have a name. Oh, sweetheart, please don't look in your Bible for a name. Oh, my dear, I hear you turning pages. Don't look in the Bible for names. They're not there. But they're just his instruments.

Every one of them, that man, that woman. No, darling, his instruments. His instruments. See them. And man, you're going through something right now. You know how to say that you're going through it? Something right now.

Come on. Why, of course. Why, of course. Everybody you know that's going through with God, they're right in the middle of something right now. Because the hour is late and the time is short, and the Lord is working with us just as fast as you have to come.

Trials as Instruments of Purification

First maiden. I think the first maiden that came in to work on this little Bedouin girl, I think she was a hairdresser. Now, this is the kind of maid that gets you your hair. You know, that disturbs your cool, and that would get you all upset.

That would ruffle. Now, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? What are we going to make her do? Are we just going to say, all right, just go on. Help yourself. And just stand there while she ruffles your hair.

All right. Just help yourself. I know who you are. I know who sent you. I know what you've come to do. Now, you can defeat me, and I can throw a tantrum. I know one woman who said, Lord, will you please turn your face while I tell this man what I think I'll do?

I want to tell you, that woman went through the most awful darkness for six months because he didn't turn his face back. Yes. We can't tell people off because this isn't the purpose of the Lord allowing a hairdresser to get in our hair.

Uh-huh. Yes, he says, when the Lord looks on it, your hair looks like goat's hair to me. I said that a while ago, and he wants to fix it up. And a little later in the Song of Solomon, it says, why, your hair is purple.

I got purple hair. You look purple. It's a combination of red and blue. And you know what that blue is? Heavenly. Heavenly. You know what that red is? The precious blood of Jesus. So she got her hair washed in the blood of Jesus and died, washed and died, in the precious blood of the Lamb.

And he says, your hair is purple. And then he says, why, your whole head is like Mount Carmel, drenched with latter rain. You know, when Elijah prayed, and the rain came down, and that's the way he saw her, that her head was purple, and it looked like Carmel, just drenched with latter rain.

And he saw this glorious crown upon her. Oh, when we know what the Lord wants, if we understand what he's doing and what he wants, it'll make it so much easier. Alright, listen to this. A woman's long hair is her what?

Alright, now you just take it from there. All this hairdresser, this is the reason why I believe the first one was a hairdresser, because right away he says, all have sinned. And, come on, come short of the glory.

A woman's, let's say it, a woman's hair, her long, long hair, doesn't say how long, a woman's long hair, a woman's hair is her glory. That's her glory. And the thought that's in his mind, in dealing with her hair, is the glory, there's no glory.

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. All have sinned and have missed something that God wanted us to have. What was that something? The glory of God. Do you know what the glory of God is?

Do you know what closes, if you read the 32nd chapter of Exodus, don't turn to it now, 32nd chapter, Moses said to God, show me the, and it says, and God put him, put him in the cleft of a rock, and God passed by and showed him how merciful he is, how gracious he is, how longsuffering he is.

Well, all the glory means characteristic qualities that every last one of us comes short of. And not one of us was born whatsoever. We're a newborn baby, sir. But there's a difference between, but character, that's different, a little different than image.

And we want to blow our tops and tell people off and get all ruffled and, ooh, that hurts when I talk like that even, that hurts. No gentle, kind, oh dear, Christian women should be the most beautiful women in the world, Christian women.

Not a cosmetic glory, either. The glory means suffering. This is what he's trying to work out in us. And all these things that disturb and agitate, if we let it. And people are so, today, isn't it terrible, the nerves, you know, nerves.

One thing beautiful about temper. There isn't one thing attractive about impatience and anger and all those things. Christian women should be the most beautiful women in the world. Yeah, charming. Do you have a desire to be charming?

I hope so. Are you working on it? Did you have it? Qualities. We have to have these ladies. We have to have tribulation. We have to have it. Then don't rebuke the devil. And don't call the church to fight.

No. Just say, I wish we had a song about Some of you songwriters, will you write me a song about And I'll go over the country and teach that one. Yeah, we have to have these maidens, but we just must not forget their purpose.

Yeah, she's a hairdresser. A hairdresser. And we will be crowned with glory. Wouldn't it be awful to come into the king's presence with our hair undressed? Wouldn't that be awful? Say, did you ever dream you arrived somewhere and your hair wasn't combed?

Or you weren't properly dressed? You know, one of the worst dreams I can have is to arrive at a meeting and get up in the pulpit and find out I forgot to comb my hair. Or I'm not dressed for the occasion.

And I have dreams like that once in a while. Oh, it's so disturbing. But that's good. That's good, and then, oh dear, Lord, I know I'm not yet clothed the way I should be, but I sure don't want to arrive in the king's presence with my hair all disheveled.

Now, in the scriptures, a woman with unkept hair and disheveled hair, that woman is a harlot. That's the picture of a harlot. You know, if women today knew the meaning in the scriptures of this long, straight, hideous hairdo that's popular today, I'm looking around fast, I don't see it, is right today.

Hairdo. This is what the scriptures mean, ladies, when it says a woman should have her head covered in the evening. A woman covers her head because the harlots run around with their head uncovered and their hair all stringing and hanging down, disheveled and uncovered.

And so when a maiden comes around and just ruffles you and disturbs you, will you accept her? Say yes. You say it, you get it. Yes. Thank you. And we get disturbed over the smallest things, smallest things.

At a church, I'll use men for illustrations, and his car at the church, and when I followed him, came out with the next one, come out of the church, and his car was parked right there, and he had flat tires.

He said, Sister Hammer, look at that. He says it's flat. I says, he does what? I spin the meeting. I said, yes, yes. He liked the song Joy Bounce, and every time the song leader would ask, does anybody have a selection, he'd always ask for Joy Bounce, and he would sing it and get blessed.

Oh, he would get blessed. I said, I think Gabriel did that. Well, I never, never heard that before, and I said, I did. I did. You know, the Lord, and he says, well, but you saw how I was blessed. I said, yeah, that you got in there, that there wasn't enough to get you away from the front of the church.

The devil don't let air out of people's tires. The devil doesn't let you oversleep in the morning. The devil doesn't burn the toast. He, of course, showered me to and from the meetings all the time, and this day, we come up and left the house.