SATAN CAN COME TO DISTURB YOUR HOME AND CAUSE UPROAR Here some time ago in my home, you can imagine what kind of a turmoil it's in all the time. You just think, "Well, the people say like here, this little city." What about the people from around the world? See? And they're flying in, coming in, calling in, all the time. Hotels, motels, setting full of people, crying, begging. You can't get a minute's rest.
One day our house had been completely torn up all day long. The basement had been full, ever room full, the den room full. Along about dark, I got them kinda quietened down, everybody away, I thought. And I went into the kitchen. There stood my poor, little wife at thirty-seven years old, completely gray headed, holding her hands up, crying.
She said, "Billy, I'm just about to lose my mind." She said, "These children hasn't had a bite to eat all day long."
19 Had some nervous people there, and mental cases and some of them walking up-and-down the floor, telling me that the Lord is going to strike me dead, if I didn't go to a certain town, 'cause they said so. And that's the kind… You have to put it all together.
Another one in another room saying, "Oh, he don't know what he's talking about. I got THUS SAITH THE LORD."
If the Lord wanted me to know anything, He would tell me. He's not afraid to talk to me. And then… But you have to put up with that sometime. And she said, "I don't know what to do."
Well, look. There set Sarah and Becky in the floor, fussing over some little blocks, little bitty building blocks, Sarah screaming to the top of her voice, "Daddy, Sarah—Becky's got my blocks. Daddy, she took my pocketbook awhile ago." All right. Joseph setting in the floor, beating on something as hard as he could, the little boy, screaming to the top of his voice. Now, you talk about home, sweet home.
20 Well, I looked around. I thought, "Now, there's just one thing to do. We've got to change this situation." Now, those people there through the day. So many, and all through the night, does disturb the children. But I want to be with them a little while. So I thought, "Lord, now You help me (in my heart), and let me…"
I'm just letting down to talk to you from my bottom of heart, tonight now, of some things that you don't have to tell everybody.
So I said, "Lord, You help me now to get upon me the Holy Spirit in such a way that will change this situation." So, praying to myself, I put my arm around my little wife, and I said, "Oh, sweetheart, I really feel sorry for you."
She said, "Billy, I—I don't believe I can hold out any longer." She said, "Oh, I'm just going to pieces. Just look at this house."
I said, "Yes, that's right honey. That's exactly right." And I put my hand around, you know. I said, "I know it, sweetheart." And I thought, "Lord, You quieten her." And I said, "Now, that's true. But you know, honey? The other day when I was in Louisville, I seen one of those pretty little, a…" What is them things that women wear, you know, it's a little, like a little shirt up the… What is it you call them? What? [Someone says, "Blouse."—Ed.] Blou—blouse.
And I said, "I—I saw one of the prettiest ones some place. Let's see. Where was it?"
21 She said, "But, Billy, no time to talk about blouses."
I kept my hand on her. "Now, honey, I tell you; you never seen such a pretty blouse."
And she said, "Well…"
I said, "Look. I tell you what let's do. Let's get supper right quick, and when we do, I'll take and show it to you. I'll buy it for you."
"Oh," she said, "That's nice of you, Billy, but oh, I—I couldn't look at a blouse tonight. Oh, just look at me."
I said, "But look, honey. Oh, if you'd ever see it, I believe that you—you—you—you'd want to buy it." "Lord, quieten her." See? Holding my hand on her. And I said, "I tell you what. You put me on your apron; let me help you get supper."
22 And so, I put this apron on, you know, and begin to chop up some carrots and things, you know, and going on. And every once in a while, I'd…?… her, she'd begin to quit crying. I thought, "Thank you, Lord." And I said, "Oh, honey, isn't the Lord wonderful? He's just so good." See? Kept talking to her. Changing that atmosphere, laying my hand on her.
As soon as I got her quiet, after while she was all smiles, she said, "Well, Billy, do—do—do you think the stores would be open?"
I said, "I'm pretty sure they will be." And I said, "I—I—I think they will be." I thought, "Thank you, Lord, it's working." So just kept on, and the first thing you know, Sarah and Becky divided up their blocks, and Joseph got him a little rattler, and there was peace in the home. See?
23 Now, the only thing, you have to change the situation. If that can be done in the home, it can be done in a church; it can be done in a nation;, it could be done in the whole world. It's the atmosphere that counts.
The natural way to hatch an egg is put it under a hen, because she keeps it warm. But put it under the same kind of a heat, and it'll hatch anyhow. It's the atmosphere that counts. That's right.
So it's the atmosphere. And you make up that atmosphere with what you are inside of you.
