The concept of waiting for the Lord really stuck with me. I know it's true. But when we do not have this kind of fruit we begin to wonder if God is waiting for us to take matters into our own hands. "God helps those who help themselves"—this sort of thing.

I remember in Bible school, the guilt I felt because I was not going forth to save the millions sliding into Hell. The examples held up to us were those who had crossed mountain and desert as they "burned out for Christ." The idea was to crawl on your hands and knees on through far off rice paddies until you burned out for Christ.

Being a conscientious individual I asked God to help me do my part. I promised the Lord that if He would help me I would do whatever He said. I meant it then and I still mean it.

This was the only way I could find peace. The ball was now in God's court. I will do whatever He says.

When we went back in after recess there was a prophecy given in the classroom saying, "If you mean what you have said it will be a blessing to many people."

Then the years went by as my wife and I kept looking to the Lord, looking to the Lord, wanting to serve in some manner. Maybe twenty-five years passed before God made His will known.

Others may be blessed with ways of building a church, mastering all the principles of church growth. May the Lord be with them.

But our part has been to wait, wait, wait until we know what God is saying.

What we hear God saying today is that it is time to build the Body of Christ and that we are on the brink of the mightiest revival of all time. God is stressing repentance. Also that the believers must die to their own will and turn over their life to Christ.

I believe, if I am hearing the Lord correctly, that Jesus Christ will yet be exalted in our nation. But we are going to have to have godly leadership in the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the White House. Also, the American populace is going to suffer numerous calamities until the fear of God returns to America.

Why don't you ask Jesus right now if this is what He is saying. I think it is.

For two thousand years the Body of Christ has, to a great extent, been separated from the Head. When the human body is separated from the head, when the nervous system is not operating properly, the brain is not connected adequately to the nerves and muscles, the result is a severe disability or paralysis.

So it is with the Christian churches. They are either moving and jerking out of control or paralyzed.

It is time for the Body of Christ to be connected to the Head. Can you say "Amen"?

We have seen, in this briefest of essays, that Adam and Eve portray in themselves the proper relationship between Christ and the worshiper. We are to be created on His body and blood until we become His counterpart; until we become Christ in another form; until we can say, like the Apostle Paul, "It is not I who am living but Christ."

Christ depended on the Father for every thought, every word He spoke, every action He took.

So we are to depend on Christ for every thought, every word we speak, and every action we take. We are to have the mind of Christ in all matters.

To be continued.