In this sermon, the speaker recounts a powerful revival meeting that was expected to end after three weeks but continued into a fourth week due to the overwhelming presence of God. The speaker shares a personal experience of being ready to leave the meeting but being told by someone that he should stay because God was not finished working. The speaker emphasizes the importance of trusting in God's timing and not pressuring for what we want. The sermon concludes with a testimony of a man who found Jesus during the revival and how his life was transformed.

I tried to get home over Tuesday and the Lord said, you can't leave here yet. So I tried again and he said, no, you're not leaving here. I couldn't leave until 3.30 the next morning. We were in such a meeting. But they never have gotten over that meeting because the Lord led it. God said, don't go in the house when you get back from the post office. You go to this home talking about going with the Lord Jesus Christ. Their lives have been changed. Now they live for Christ. God is working through them. They're a witness for Jesus in garages and homes. I wouldn't be surprised at what he has witnessed to more millionaires in the state of Tennessee that most people have had a privilege in a lifetime. Oh, he has an opportunity. And wherever he works, all the millionaires tell all the other millionaires, says when this man gets through, you can't even tell his head the carpets up to put his mats of the alarms in. You can't see anything. It's all cleaned up everything. You can turn everything over to him. All they have. And this one tells that one and that one tells another. And he tells them, they'll say, say, tell us something about it. So he tells them about how they'll say, tell us how you were changed. So he tells them how he was changed. And they'll say, some of them will say, oh, I got goosebumps. Oh, I feel the Holy Spirit is moving. Yes, the Holy Spirit will move on people. He was putting an alarm system in one precious man and woman's home. And they have a large car sales in that state. One of the top sales in the state, not the highest, but it's way up there somewhere. And he was sharing and they were telling about it. And they said, well, who, who was it that you found that was walking with Jesus that led you to Jesus? And so he told them it was this servant. And they said, what? Yes, they said, what? He led us to Jesus 29 years ago at a little church in Northern Indiana. 29 years before that, we were privileged to pray with them, had a little altar, a prayer at a church. And they met Jesus up there at Arcoa, Indiana. Was he ever happy? Walking with God. When you're walking with Jesus, it's a marvel how he'll lead you, how he'll guide you as you walk with Jesus and let him direct you. I remember as I was with my wife in Indianapolis and I said to her, I'm going to go down to a certain store. And when I started down at a certain store, I was coming back to meet her in a few minutes. All of a sudden, the Lord took me into a place and I came head on to a man that I knew that preached the gospel when I was seven years old. And I've heard him preach from the time I was seven years old until he held the revival for us in 1940 at Middleborough. And he would preach with such the glory of God upon his life, such anointing that I think perhaps it was one of the most marvelous anointings I nearly ever viewed. And I haven't seen this man for so many years. And we came head to head right there, face to face. And I said, praise the Lord. He said, glory to God. And we had a meeting and I started telling him where I had come from. And the soul I was privileged. He saved on a train coming in from Texas or going down there. And he got so happy and I got happy. We both got down and sit on our heels and we looked at each other and talked about the kingdom of God. And we had such a wonderful time. And I said, there's one thing I want to tell you. He said, what is it? I said, I love you. And he said, that hits my heart. He said, the people have told me that. But he got his handkerchief out and he just started crying. Last time I ever saw him, he's going down Washington Street to the West. I was going easy. He was crying. Had his handkerchief all out, just a balling. See, the Lord took me in there where he was to tell him about where Jesus had sent me on a journey to see a soul saved and tell him about the kingdom of God that I loved him because he was the only man. And when I did it, broke his heart for joy. He had me all timed. You see, when you walk with the Lord, he times you. He has you timed if you walk with him. You see, he knows exactly how and what he wants you to do. You're timed. He times you. He spoke to me 47 years ago next summer and he said, I'll have you at the right place, the right time, doing, saying the right thing to the right people. And I found that true in Hawaii. Had such a wonderful meeting and it rested out there way out in Hawaii in one of those islands that it was so marvelous. This woman came in and she says, oh, I want my son to hear everything you said. And she went and got him. He's 22 years old. She said, I want him to hear everything about this. I want him to get this. Tell my son what you told me about how Jesus has guided you. She was thrilled. Graduate of Indiana University, lived in Bloomington, Indiana, and went to Hawaii about a quarter of a century ago. And there she had her children. She and her husband and those children. She said, I want my boys to know about this life. Had a meeting in Hawaii. He sent me into Jamaica. He told me where to go. Got us to the right place. He knew how to get us there. Wasn't easy. But we saw the maid saved that day. The maid found Jesus right there. The maid found Jesus right there. Two days later, we were privileged to lead the other maid to Jesus right there. See, he took us to Jamaica. He knows exactly where he wants to lead you and me. He wants us to walk with him. And so we walk with him by prayer, by the word, by loving him, and by trusting him with all of our heart. Now, unless we trust him with all of our heart, we'll not take one step after him. So from conversion, at the time we're converted, we must obey each leading of the Holy Spirit. Because if we fail the leading of the Holy Spirit, then we do not walk with him. We say, Lord, forgive me of my disobedience. Forgive me of my contrary spirit. Forgive me of my reluctance. Forgive me for letting the devil talk me out of this. Forgive me, Jesus, for allowing the enemy to say, now you be quiet now. Don't, you hush. You don't need to praise the Lord now. Wait a little later. And so we must obey the Holy Spirit from conversion to start walking with God. I prayed with one of the most backward, timid men that there nearly is anywhere. And I said to him when he was converted that night, it was one of the most wonderful miracles that took place in that area for, I suppose, 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years. And I said to this backward, timid man, I said, now Jesus has revealed to me unless you witness for him, unless a new convert witnesses for him, they lose out on their soul in a little while. Oh, I hope you could hear me. This is simple, but it's true. I said to him, unless we witness, we backslide. We don't have the power. He said, I just choked up. He said, I can't say anything. I said, I know that. I know that. You're very backward. I know you're extremely timid. So timid that he'd go to the woods and stay all day till the company left. When they'd have company, family would on Sunday for I don't know how many years. He'd just go away and stay till they left. He didn't want to talk to anybody. He was so timid. But I said to him, and when I said it to him, he believed me. And he got up and said, I want to praise the Lord for this wonderful day. He was just first, just then converted. He obeyed the Holy Ghost. And I want to tell you, then the next time was better. And the next time was better. And the next time was better until he was exhorting. It wasn't long ago he was writing. He was writing poems and hymns. Because he was willing to obey and do what the Holy Spirit led. We do not walk with the Lord only as we obey him. And the self was opposed to this. The earthly man does not want to obey the Holy Spirit. So therefore, we don't walk with God. We don't follow Jesus. Because the self in us will draw back and say, don't testify. Don't witness for Christ. Don't tell people of this great joy you have. And do it consistently. I remember I was praying with Keith Garner. And the Lord, when he started down the aisle, it looked like his coattail was clear out like that. That's what it looked. I don't think it was that bad, but it sure looked like it was going. He hurried. And I prayed with him. And after I prayed with him a little bit, he jumped up and ran out of the church pretty fast. He was back in a few minutes. He stood back and he said, I tell you, when I found Jesus tonight, I had a restitution to make. He said, you know, my father's had a little grocery store and has a little post office. Once in a while, I take a quarter out or I take a nickel or a dime out. And I had to hurry down and ask daddy to forgive me. He forgave me tonight. You think he was happy? Oh, he is. A cup was overflowing. He was obedient. You see, the Holy Spirit said, you make that confession. So because he humbled himself, my heart's really hurting now. Because he humbled himself and ran to confess to his father, he started walking with Jesus. See, that was the first step. That was the first step. No, I don't know the next step he took after him. I don't know. But that was his first step. He obeyed the Lord. And how happy was he? Oh, he was a happy layman. His soul was just aglow. Because he reminded the Holy Spirit. Took the first step after Jesus. So we walk with Jesus when we're born again. When we're transformed. When we're changed. And then we obey him as he speaks to us. And when we obey as he speaks to us, we take a step after him. And then while he isn't speaking to us, we're trusting him. We're waiting upon him, trusting him. And most of our walk with God is trusting. Now that really touches my heart. Most of our walk with God is trusting him. My district superintendent said to me in 41, he said, what do you mean by trust? I said, well, I don't know very much about it, but the Bible's full of it. God had wanted Abraham to trust him. He wanted Adam to trust him. He wanted all his prophets and all the children of Israel to trust him. Trusting is faith and love waiting upon God. You see, when you have faith and love, then you're willing to trust. If you don't have that holy word, that holy faith, that trust is lacking. So out of love and faith, when it's in the heart, you're willing to trust. And there is where we spend most of our walk with God, is simply trusting the Lord. Because God doesn't lead every minute, doesn't lead every five minutes. He doesn't lead every hour. Sometimes I've had him to lead me a few times in an hour. But most of my walk with God has been trusting, waiting upon him, trusting. And then suddenly, while I trust and pray and rejoice and read and wait before him, then he reveals to me what he wants me to do. So that's to obey him, then I take another step after God in Christ Jesus. But most of our walk is just on the limb of trusting, waiting upon the Lord. Now, as we are humbled and humble ourself and submissive unto God and surrendered unto Christ, trusting him, our hearts must be filled with praise. Now, the praise comes out of obeying him. And as you have obeyed God, then the praise comes out of you for the joy of it. For the joy of it. And this is the way to the victory. This is the way to the surrendered life. That's when you start communicating with God. That's when he teaches you how to commune with Jesus. And this is important, is to commune with him. To listen to him. To be attentive to his voice, to what he tells you to do. Now, he sent me to a little church. We had a wonderful revival. God gave such a wonderful revival. Oh, the anointing that he came upon me was so sweet. I felt like it was a little bit of heaven came down upon my soul and within me. We went two weeks. Well, they thought a revival should end in two weeks. So I thought that probably two weeks is quite a while. And we came to the end of two weeks and the Holy Spirit came and the witness of the Holy Ghost and said, don't close the meeting. So I said to my father, I said, the Holy Ghost witnesses that we can't close. He said, all right, son, we'll go on. Well, we went into the third week and we had such a wonderful time. People were saved and homes were lifted and an old gentleman found Jesus. And oh, it was a marvelous blessing and younger people found Jesus. And at the end of the third week, we thought they all thought, I thought so that we'd sure to close the meeting. God had been so good in the meeting. I blessed us with such a richness, such a fullness of his love. So that evening on Sunday evening, it was the close of the third week. That night is going to be the first night of the fourth week. And they thought it was going to close and I did too. So I went up and I went to reach to get my clothes off the hook up there in my room so I could put them in the car and I could hurry right on to my wife and children. As soon as that meeting was over that night. And when I went to reach for my clothes, he said, no, no, you're not getting your clothes to leave here. So I knew the revival was going on. See, he was telling me because I wanted to leave there and get my things in the car. So I'd be ready to go home to my wife and children. He said, the meeting's not over. I'm talking about the revelation, communing, letting him lead you, let him guide you. He knows what he wants us to do. It's been God's will through the ages to lead men and women and direct their lives. And he's going to help us. He tells me now. I thank you. So I hurried to the kitchen to tell my mother. I said, the meeting is not over. Oh, really? Yeah, you better, better work on your father because he thinks the meeting's closing night. I said, I'll go right in and wake him up. I wakened him and I said, Daddy, the meeting can't close. He said, is that right? I said, no, I just had word from the Lord. The meeting has to go on. He said, well, go on. That settles that. He told me back years before that. He said, whatever the Lord tells you to do, that's what we'll do. I hadn't trusted the Lord long for everything until he and my mother were convinced. I broke their heart when I left the pastor just to leave everything to go with God. But in just a matter of a few weeks, they could see God was leading. So they were convinced. And he said, whatever the Lord tells you, that's what we're going to do. So even though it was hard on them, they were older. They said, if God has said, go on in the meeting, we're going to go on in the fourth week of the meeting. That's what we'll do. And we did. It was wonderful. That last night of the fourth week, I want to tell you, the church was so full of people. You couldn't hardly, well, there wasn't anybody could get only on the front seat. That's the only place that Mrs. Bear brought her neighbor and she had to bring her neighbor down in the front seat with her daughter. It's the only place there was for him. Now that was the Sunday night. See, that was actually the first night of the fifth week. Because you see, we'd come all the way down through Saturday night was the next seven, you see, in the next seven, the next seven. So we preached that night in Luke and Jesus came and the lady came to Jesus and her daughter, and they both were converted. Both were saved. Oh, it was a wonderful story. How Jesus saved them. In that meeting that night, the ruler out Karen from Columbus city had heard about the revival when he would deliver the mail. People tell him through the country, there's a revival way over there. Wolf Lake. Oh, he said there is. So they drove all the way from Columbus city clear over where we were. And they told me this later that when I walked onto the pulpit and I knelt down at the chair, sister Ruth, who's a prayer warrior. She said, Jesus spoke to me and says, here's the evangelist for growth. She said, Jesus spoke and said, here's your evangelist for the church. And she had to pray for two years to get me in there. Took her two years of prayer and two months to pray me into that church. All put it in front of that leading way back there. When I went to reach to take my clothes to take them to go home. Look at all the souls that were saved after that. Look at this. This family came from afar that found us that we were supposed to go over to Oak Grove to that church to pray. Took her two years and two months to pray me in there. And God set such an awakening there that they told me it was the most wonderful thing that happened that community for 25 years. All walking with Jesus, walking, following Jesus, going with Jesus, doing what Jesus wants us to do. He wants us to walk with him, trust him, walk after him doing his will. Well, the light of Jesus came down. After three weeks, we tried to close that meeting. They thought it was going to close, but the power of God came so great. And the pastor said, now, brother Lauren, you walk with Jesus. Whatever he tells you to do, that's what we'll do. I said, brother Albert, I can't leave here. He said, we'll go right on. On Tuesday night, when I got through preaching and gave the order to call a man, came right down the aisle on Tuesday evening after that Sunday night. He got up my hand there and followed me to Jesus, followed me to the cross and gave his heart to the blessed savior. And God changed his life. 38 or nine year old man, never knew Jesus. A few days after that, we were at their home and while Clara and my wife Florence were in the kitchen, he said, did they tell you about me? And I said, no. He said, I'm the one that really had you to stay here. I believe it was for me. I said, really? He said, when I went home that night, when you said we can't close, I got in bed. As usual, there aren't any lights in all around this country. There aren't any lights, it's dark. But he said, when I got in my bed, there was a light came right on above. I said, where is that light coming from? So I got out and he raised the blinds and there wasn't any cards or any lights anywhere. So he'd get back in bed and God put that light up there again and he would investigate. And there wasn't any lights, no reflections of anything. So God put a light above his bed and the Lord began to deal with him. And he says, if you wait, Lord, for me to get there on Tuesday night, I'll give you my heart because I promised to be at a meeting where I was assigned Monday night. I'll be there. And he was converted, changed because we were walking with Jesus. Jesus told me to go there. But it was all that pivoted from way back two years and so many months before that, when I was trying to get my clothes off of a hook, to try to get it in a car to go 70 miles for my wife and my children. You see, if I'd have failed that leading, I would have missed all the people in that area. See, he has a lot of people for you to find. See, he has a, he has someone for you to find where you work, where you live, your neighborhood, the store, the garage, the filling station, the school, the area, the place of business. See, he is working through you to help someone, to find someone, to see someone saved, or maybe many. And he wants you to walk with him. Enoch walked with God. We walk with God as we cease walking in the earth, the earthly pattern. You see, the earthly pattern prevents us from walking with God. The earthly self of us keeps us from walking with Jesus. This self in us, it's so strong, it's a powerful thing. And to be able to discern and to communicate with the Lord what his will is for you, it's so important. It's important. For me, it's important. And Enoch walked with God. Noah walked with God. And God wants you to walk with him too. Now, when you say it touches your heart, it touches me back. When I said that, they said that touches their heart. And when they said that, I heard it, so it touched my heart. See, it's God's will that each of us walk with him, follow Jesus. And this is a death to us. I must bring this to your attention much because I may have to tell you many, many times before you can hear me. See, the ordinary church is in such a pattern of walking just in a method, just a routine day by day, routine day by day until we have an awful struggle to break that, that hold that the earth has on us. And when you walk with the Lord, you become a peculiar person in the earth. Jesus said to Paul, a peculiar people, zealous of good works. But if you walk with Jesus and you go with God, then you want everyone else to walk with him. Because you began to taste of the things most precious and sacred when you walk with him and do what he tells you to do. I was in prayer one day and the Lord told me, he said, you go out here in the country. And so two preachers were with me and we went out in the country and we drove several miles. I said, stop this car now, stop it. There's a man in the side ditch. There's many miles from where we live. I got out of the car and I got down in there and I got my arms around him, told him Jesus loved him. And I began to tell him about the love of Jesus. And my heart's hurting now. And he said, where did you come from? How did you get here? Did my wife call you? I said, no, I never saw any of you. I've never been in this country. Well, did my neighbors call you and tell you to come? I said, no, no. We just came down this road and I saw you and God said, stop, stop the car. And I got out and loved him, loved him in the ditch. He took me home with him. I'll tell you if you love somebody, I'll take you home with them. Oh, they said, how did you ever find us? I said, Jesus brought me down here. I never saw them again. I said, he just told me to go out there. Then he said, stop the car right here. And I love this strange man. And I didn't know anything about their troubles and their conflicts. All I need to know is to love them, to be kind to them, to tell them that Jesus loved them, that the Lord was the answer to the problems. They didn't ask for us to come. The neighbors didn't know anything about it. One day the Lord spoke to me in Hartford City, Indiana and told me to go to a certain home. And I got there, it was around 28 miles. I arrived and I knocked and the man came to the door and he said, why, brother Lauren? I said, yes, Jesus brought me here. He said, my wife's very bad, very sick. And I went, whenever you go to a home, there's someone that's sick, don't talk loudly, kind of whisper like that. Don't use your voice like this because if they're very ill, it goes right through them, just like little darts. And when you're in a hospital, don't just walk, you know, somebody just walk on their heels like that, tiptoe like this and don't bang into the bed or don't hit this little table here and just whisper like that when you're in the hospital. Don't talk like I'm talking because it'll hurt people up and down the hall that's ill. So I walked up real quiet and I began to pray to the Lord because this woman could not lift her arms and neither could she lift her head. She was diabetic besides that. And she couldn't get up out of bed, she couldn't do anything. So I stood by the bed and had a little prayer and talked to Jesus and left. And she could get up, her head would come up, her arms would come up, so she got up out of bed. And when the doctor examined her and took a test, she was no longer a diabetic. And she thought her husband called me in Hartford City to come. And she heard me give this story for, I suppose she heard me give it for 20, 25 years. And she says, now Brother Lawrence just forgot, he's forgotten. Herschel called him. So she said, Herschel, didn't you call Lawrence, tell him to come? He said, no, I never told him to come. I didn't call over there to tell him to come. In fact, he's surprised to see me. Now the Lord had a way of getting me there. He had a way of informing me to get there. And he healed her because he sent me over there to pray for her. Now when you're walking with Jesus, he will send you at times. Now he may not send you as he sent me, but he may have you to help someone at work or across the street, your neighbor or someone, and he may send you. We do not know what all God would do to you if you'll trust him and obey him. It might be wonder after wonder, because that's revival. You see, when you're obeying, walking with God, you have a personal continual revival. So I go to a church, I'll say the Holy Spirit is in my heart. I have a revival in my heart now. See, that's revival is when you're in communion with Jesus. See, when the Holy Spirit is witnessing and you're communing, you have a revival. The light of God, the quickening of Jesus is within you. That is the work of the Holy Spirit. That is the kingdom. See, and that's why we've been trying to get the church to do for 40 some years is to really hear the voice of Jesus and follow him. One of our sons in the gospel said to me, a very handsome man who's preaching the state of Ohio now, he was saved miraculously in 1950, soon be 30 years. And he said, I'd like for you to go over because this minister, they brought him home and they think he may die. And I'd like for you to go over and pray for him. And I said, well, I'll try. I couldn't go that day. I couldn't go the next day or the next day or the next day or the next day. I could go. I said to my wife, I'm going to a minister's home. They want me to go for so many days. Now I can go. I'm going. I'm talking about walking with God. Now, if I'd have went the day before, I'd been without him because I've been going in my strength or the next day or the next day. But when I went the day he told me, then he was leading me there. And when I arrived and knocked at the door, his wife was startled. She didn't know me. I was a stranger. I said, I'm Lorraine Helm. I walk with Jesus. I have come here from God. She looked at me and they weren't letting anybody in because he was very ill. She opened the door and she said, yes, come in. So I tiptoed in and came in beside his bed. He's told me years later, he said, when you walked in, I thought you'd come right up on my bed. He said, I could tell Jesus was with you. And I spoke to him in the name of Jesus of Nazareth and all that disease went out of him and Jesus healed him and raised him up and he became a preacher of righteousness. Now, you see, if I had gone the day I wanted to go, the day that that dear brother want me to go, I had to wait until Jesus led me there. He wants us to walk with him. This is God's will. It is important to wait until the Holy Spirit directs you. Be sure to trust until you have the leading of the Holy Spirit. Don't try to work it out. Don't press for it. Don't press for it. Because when you press for it, you violate the law of trust. See, most people in the church press for what they want and miss the walk with God. Now, that's, that'd be enough for the whole revival. So I believe that'd be enough. I'll just stop there. Lord, help me. Thank you for giving me the strength to stand up here tonight. You prayed for me that I might have strength to tell you about the splendor, the wonder, the glory of walking with Jesus and trusting him, knowing him, going with him. We were, dear ones sent us out to a lovely place where we could rest. One of the loveliest in the world. And you know, we were there just, I think the first or second day we were there, I got to talking to the waiter and he was converted. He found Jesus right there. And then his friend in the place she was saved too, when I went down to the other eating place. And then the last day we were there, a man that had worked there for 20 some years. He said, where have you, where have you been? I said, I've been right here. And he found Jesus. He got so happy. He became so happy that he almost jumped up and down. Privileged to see three souls saved in that lovely place. Because the Lord led us there. He didn't have me to press anyone. He just had me to just trust him there. And I've never, I haven't gotten over that. How Jesus leads you, how he guides you, how he helps you to, to wait on him until it's time to speak. And then speak with caution and carefulness and sweetness. So that Jesus will be seen and not us. Walking with Jesus, following Jesus, walking with God. Dear Father, thank thee for the men that have walked with thee, the women that have walked with thee, that are walking with thee now, that are trusting thee now, obeying thee now at this hour, at this very time. And that the church will be encouraged, strengthened by the might of Christ, to not follow the pattern, but follow thy guidance. Follow thy purpose. Thy revelation, the witness of the Holy Spirit. That we will be sure that we do not miss the guidance of the Holy Ghost. Because you see, if we're not very attentive, we'll miss it. Because the flesh is so weak that it'll overpower us. And we'll not be aware of what the Holy Spirit is saying to us. So encourage each one as they hold steady, as they wait, and trust you, and praise you, and read thy word, meditate on thy word, and love everyone on the earth. For you have taught me that unless we have love in our heart for everybody, we can't be led of the Holy Spirit. We'll be led by another spirit. We'll be led by a spirit, but not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit leads those that loves, as Jesus loves. That's what you said that we're to do. You said a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I've loved you. So I can see that that is primary, that is essential, that is not marginal, but central. That my heart be cleansed from the current nature, so that you can so live in my heart that I love everyone. Because if I have any contention in my heart, any lust, or any rebellion, or any disobedience, then that keeps me from knowing what your will is. I must be yielded and broken as by your mercies. It is your gift to us. We have not merited this privilege of following Jesus. But Jesus, you said if man will follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me. So it's been thy will for men and women to follow you through the ages. But we must, we must love all people. And you, unless you abide in us and we abide in you, well, we will do our own thing rather than thy will. We'll work it out in our own thoughts, rather than let thee guide. So I pray that each of us will be encouraged to trust you, and to walk in the light as thou art in the light. Jesus, I just trust our hearts are open tonight so we can hear this little elementary message, simple sermon, about walking with thee, following Jesus. As we pray and have faith, maintain thy word, witnessing, but trusting and obeying thee continually. Let us stand for singing now, please.