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Tim Parkinson is one of the most unassumingly fascinating composers at work in the UK at the moment. The surfaces of his music are often free of many of the usual appurtenances of experimental music, but his work continually upsets expectations and has a logic unlike any other music around. He has written for groups and ensembles including Apartment House, [rout], Incidental Music, Dedalus, Basel Sinfonietta, and the London Sinfonietta; and for various instrumentalists including Stephen Altoft, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt, Anton Lukoszevieze, Tanja Masanti, Andrew Sparling, Craig Shepard, Philip Thomas, and Stefan Thut. Since 2005 he, John Lely and Marcus Trunk have curated the annual London-based concert series Music We'd Like To Hear. The following conversation about Parkinson's trio with objects is based on the transcript of a conversation between Parkinson and Dominic Lash that took place at Parkinson's London home on November 3rd, 2013.
The first page of the score of the piece can be found here.
DL: When did I hear it? Two thousand and…?
TP: 2010, actually. That's when it was. You only heard it then, did you, at Cafe Oto?
DL: Yeah.
TP: Oh, OK. I'm happy it's stuck in your memory.
DL: I remember it very clearly. I remember being really stupid and being fascinated about how the rice rhythms had been notated! How did he do that?! Then I looked at the score…
TP: The rice was such a lovely discovery, in the kitchen. It does sound like a mini percussion orchestra. So I had fun just working it out. You can't notate it. But that's the funny thing – when we were doing Michael's Ricefall piece the other week, then, although he says very specifically "one or two grains", "moderate", when we were playing I was looking around and everyone's got a different idea of "moderate". That was really interesting with the notation, because there's me, in the kitchen on my own, I'm just sprinkling the rice to get this sound of this miniature percussion ensemble which sounds quite nice, but when I performed it with Manfred he was just pouring it on, so it was like this kind of rain, and I was saying, "no, it doesn't have to be like that", but then how do you write this down, this description, so I was saying "this is the sound you want to get, aim for that sort of a sound". I mean how do you describe it?
DL: I guess you can just demonstrate. Old school.
TP: Yeah, oral tradition.
DL: "It goes a bit like this." Have you done other things in this sort of vein, instrumental stuff with objects? I tend to think I've heard things that are more one or the other.
TP: Well yes, with this piece I wanted to combine the two, really. Me and James Saunders who have worked together for years doing tabletop orchestra, this piece came out of us two working at q-02 in the winter of 2007, December I think it was. We were there working and there was a really nice bunch of concerts actually, so there was me and James and Incidental Music and Antoine Beuger came and there were some discussions, so we played quite a lot of music, and James and I played something by Lee Patterson, it was a nice coming together of worlds. So then afterwards, typically late, after it had all happened, I thought, I should write something for that combination, with the string trio. And originally I thought not a trio, just maybe a duo, two strings and me and Saunders. But that just didn't work, so it turned into a string trio with the two of us.
DL: The number seems quite important, the two objects mirroring each other and then not…
TP: It's a better balance, isn't it? And in the trio I don't use it as a trio really, it's really an object in itself actually, the trio as a thing. It's entirely homophonic, isn't it? I thought it would be almost totally crotchets as well, but it's not… I wrote an orchestral piece around about the same time (orchestra piece 2008) which uses similar sort of procedures, but that is entirely crotchets, which I only realized after I'd written it. It wasn't a restraint that I was consciously putting on it, at all. It's like digital, like pixels.
DL: Who needs these other little tails on the notes?
TP: It's just made out of bricks, in a way.
DL: That's one of the things I was thinking about is the distinction, or the relationship, between playing together and playing simultaneously. Because they're not quite the same thing.
TP: I wanted to make a piece where you've got both of these things together, and see what it means to have instrumental sound (with the inheritance of pitch and rhythm and so on ) with non-instrumental sound.
DL: Do you think it's a relentless piece?
TP: I just made that note to myself now actually when I was listening to it, trying to remember it. And the first thing that strikes me is, firstly it's much slower than I remember, and it's very insistent and plodding, isn't it? So it seems quite relentless, but then it does stop, and other things happen… but it takes its time and there's a lot of space in it. It's quite reduced, as my pieces go. There's less in it; I think initially there was more in it and it got reduced, boiled down in a way. But I'm quite fond of it, it's a nice piece I think. It seems really short to me, but it's 25 minutes.
DL: It sort of flies by, I remember it flying by in the concert.
TP: Seems to have a shape to it, you know, it seems to go from something to… not like development, or anything, but it does seem to move from the beginning to the end.
DL: That's something that I think it has in common with some other of your music, this kind of relationship between knowing what to expect but having no idea what to expect. So in a certain section, say, once it's got going, you're like, "OK, it's doing this", so you're sort of expecting change, let's say one of these quite crunchy textures where they're moving in parallel, but you still don't know at all what the next beat is going to do.
TP: Yeah, I like that very much. It's one image, what's happening at the beginning, but there's so much variety in there I can't remember all the information. There are certain moments which are familiar. But everyone's got different associations when they listen. They are three-note chords, and occasionally they stray into recognisable harmony.
DL: How do you go about writing that sort of thing?
TP: There was some sort of strategy. It goes up and it goes down, and it goes up by a certain arrangement of steps, and it goes down by a certain arrangement of steps, and the distance between each step changes, so that's all it is. You have a fixed thing, and you change the genetics, if you like, and out comes a whole different creature. They're lines that just wander around. When I was just listening to it now it made me think of Beckett's Quad, where they're just marching around.
DL: Sort of running through permutations, aren't they?
That's something else I was thinking about, because the lines are so clear, what direction they move in. That's sort of a metaphor, it's how we think of music with pitch. Say at the beginning, you're very aware as a listener that there is a shape, there is a direction.
TP: Up and down, what does it mean?
DL: But then how that kind of line or that kind of direction relates to the unfolding of the piece as a whole, which doesn't have that kind of… but it does go somewhere.
TP: All these things seem very logical to me, the next thing follows the previous thing and it seems to make sense to me.
DL: Would a piece like this be something that you wrote more or less through, or would you have assembled the things and then come up with a satisfactory sequence?
TP: I think I did write it all the way through. I can't remember because there was a previous stage when I was trying to do it as a duo, as two duos, and that didn't work, and then it got rewritten and turned into this. Actually that's really funny, when I look at that now [the opening of the piece], I can't believe that's only one page, all that stuff at the beginning. Some things are clearer than others, that first page it sounds like what it looks like, but the second bit when they're going in contrary motion… contrary motion, I don't really understand that, it doesn't really mean as much as simultaneous motion. I don't know, those textures that are being created there, and the whole notion of up and down, and then I think in contrary motion, when things are going up and down simultaneously, that's too much information for me, I don't know what that means…
DL: I think what stands out for me in that bit are those moments where you get unison…
TP: Yes, the lines join for a moment.
DL: … it doesn't become two, it becomes one thing at that point, rather than two lines that have met, somehow.
TP: There's some octaves that come in later on that sound unintentionally almost climactic. It almost feels like a resolution, here we are, we've joined up and we're going in octaves together, but not at all really – that was how the lines found themselves. And that becomes a instance of cultural baggage. And anyway they don't stay in octaves, and they occasionally bend out into a ninth or a seventh again.
DL: But then that comes back later, these things around the Ds and Es, where it's really hard to hear it as three.
TP: It's a definite object. I mean it's not so good on a recording, but to hear that in the space, in an acoustic situation, it's an incredibly fat sound, this huge, buzzing, round thing.
DL: Things like this, they're almost moving towards the middle ground between the object players and the… The opening section is very clearly "music", people play notes, but when you start doing these things you're still very much hearing notes, but you're hearing all these tiny things that you couldn't write.
TP: The information's reduced. At the beginning it seems to me like a lot of information, but of course by most people's standards it's not at all, is it? It's the same thing going on, again and again and again, but there's just so much going on in there, I find, and it doesn't stop, so when we come to that other bit, it's like it just steps back and allows itself to do something that doesn't change so much. Singular. Then in contrast to dropping pieces of rice on paper.
DL: Single grains. I was also thinking about anticipation, the almost theatrical side of it is quite interesting, because the instruments you don't know anything other than they're going to presumably play their instruments, but you do know, because you can see the fans and you can see the glass, so that structural thing in terms of seeing a performance, I quite enjoyed that – ooh, they're going to use that.
TP: That's interesting, because I never thought of that initially. It became a question when we first performed it. For example with the fans, I had written to get up and turn on the fans all around the room, because I just wanted the sound to be from all around. But the first time we performed it it was in New York actually and it was like James and I signaled to get up and go and do this, and it was too theatrical – because the strings are playing, and it was like announcing, "right, here we go". But I just wanted the sound of the fans to begin. So now I think let's just put them all within reach, don't make too much of a big deal about it. It's unintentionally theatrical, because you're looking at these people, aren't you, but I never thought of it like that, I was just purely thinking of the sound. Somehow, you've got to make the sound. And they've got to make the sound, or whatever, they've got to have their stuff in front of them.
DL: But I think it does have that feeling, I wonder what they're going to do with that. And in terms of where you are in the piece as well, you're like, well this can't be then end, because I know I haven't heard anything from that yet…
TP: Yes, I suppose that's nice, with the glass thing, because they only happen right at the very end. I didn't think that people would be sitting there thinking, "when is he going to use that, then?"
DL: I mean, it's not your first thought, but you're aware that it's for that piece. I don't think it's distracting, but I think, if I remember rightly, that that was a thought that had occurred to me.
TP: It should be as untheatrical as possible, really.
DL: It would be much more theatrical if they were hidden.
TP: It would be like sound effects, wouldn't it?
DL: Foley.
TP: Foley, exactly. (laughs)
DL: One of the things I really like in lots of pieces of yours, is something which I find in common with improvised music – with good improvised music – is you get these sections which have such strong characters, and you know that something's going on, and you know it's going to stop at some point, but you don't know when! And you're going to be more fond of some bits than others.
TP: That's inevitable.
DL: Maybe it's not that it's like improvised music, it's just like music, but I feel that that tends to happen in improvisation, that things are often quite fairly clear, one bit goes to another bit, so you're either sitting there thinking, I'm not sure if I'm so fond of this bit, but that's alright because it'll stop in a bit, and then when it stops you go, oh I really liked it, I wish it would come back, or there's a bit you really like, and you're like, I hope this doesn't stop soon.
TP: Well, all things pass! People have said that to me before, why did you stop doing that, I was really enjoying that, why have you got to move on to something else, and then after a while it's "why have you stopped that bit?"
DL: How do you decide… because while improvising, and I remember having a conversation with Mark Sanders about exactly this, it's one of the things that as soon as you listen to the recording it's totally obvious, but when you're in it it's totally not obvious, you're listening going, this is good, just don't stop doing that, oh idiot, you stopped, or you're thinking this is great, just stop now and you don't. But when you're writing something it's very different, so how do you think about those things, imagining proportions in a half hour piece when you're composing it?
TP: With this one I can't remember. It's quite intuitive. Certainly nothing preplanned at all, actually.
DL: But is it something that sometimes when you hear it for the first time, you think…
TP: Yeah, that bit should be longer… or shorter. Whatever the earlier version of this is, that I don't really remember at all… I throw a lot away, so there's stuff that's gone. I try and be as inclusive as possible. I don't want to write a single image piece. There's a history of that, I suppose, in contemporary music, and there's nothing wrong with it at all, that's fine, and it's nice.
DL: This is something you've mentioned before, what is this whole single/multiple image thing?
TP: The first page of this is a single image – that's it. Or, just a piece, like Michael's Ricefall, for example – there we are, that's it, one thing. It starts and you know that's what you're getting. Or a Phill Niblock piece, or that early Gerald Barry pieces where the whole thing is made out of chromatic scales. Au Millieu, I think it is. Just that notion that once the piece has started, that's what you're going to get. When I studied with Kevin Volans that was one of the compositional things that he had very much in mind. You know, write a piece which has one image, or one gesture. But that was the idea, you try and make a piece out of it. Feldman I believe called it "a composition etude", where you make…
DL: Wring the most out of the material.
TP: Exactly. It's not that every single piece like that is an exercise in stretching something out as long as possible, not at all.
DL: But a piece like this is kind of a whole load of things which would work as single images. The traditional thing to do would be to set out a few things in a very clear way, as you do, and then after a while you go, oh look, I've now brought them together. So you've got A and B and later on – have you spotted? – we've got A AND B. You don't do that at all, but also things later on make sense as relating to things before.
I think also of pulsation, with the three note chords there's an expansion and contraction kind of thing, so that's a sort of movement.
TP: Oh yes, there's that as well, so all these shapes are happening.
DL: It gets tighter or more expansive.
TP: Well that's nice to hear. I mean that's the thing, they're three notes and if you put three notes together it's a chord. And the chances are it's a chord that you've heard before. Ears now are so… we know so much, so it's not necessarily going to be a major triad but it'll be something which rings true. Whether it's consonant or dissonant. I mean there are some moments where it definitely sounds more dissonant than others, or like you say, when it kind of crunches up. But the section at the end where it sort of slows down and it's all in minims, then you get to hear these chords more closely. And then it ends up rather poignant in a way I suppose, because you're just spending time with these things, rather than just leafing through this catalogue and just going on and on and on.
DL: And that feels very different because you have most of the time just one voice changing.
TP: It slows down and the movement is reduced as well. The rate of change is reduced. I can't remember, something like that.
DL: But that starts to sound like counterpoint in a way that the opening section doesn't at all. It starts to sound like voices moving.
TP: That's funny, yeah, because I never think of it like that at all. It's just the same chord again, but change one thing in it.
DL: I sort of hear it like voice leading.
TP: But they're not tied! I still think of it like take one, take two, take three, take four, you (viola) go over there, take five, put that there…
DL: But if you're listening like that – maybe you shouldn't be – but this relationship, what the string trio is doing…
TP: No, I don't expect to change the inheritance of the way we think, or hear, or listen. That's really interesting.
DL: Because at the beginning everyone's doing their own thing but they're all part of one thing. And then you get the part with all the Ds and Es and you feel it's not quite so much of a three, because it's hard to hear, and then all these different ways of playing the unison – that almost feels more threeish to me than the bit before. And then the pizzicato things, OK, that's moving around. But then the bit in minims seems to be the only bit in the piece that works like that, where you hear it as one person doing something and the other two not, even though of course they're all doing something.
TP: Yeah, you – (points to something) – move, but you – (points to something else) – don't move. Suddenly that's counterpoint! That's interesting, isn't it? I think of it more visually. Like 100 views of Mount Fuji or something… (But then of course if you ran them all together it would be like a film or something, wouldn't it?)
DL: So it's sort of another go – that's quite interesting because we're so trained to listen for this idea of forward movement even though it's not moving forward. And we look at scores and we read them from left to right, and we think they go somewhere.
TP: That's what's interesting, isn't it, the whole notion of up and down. What does that mean, for a start? And then moving forward, it's inevitable even though it's very much moment-conceived, in a way. It is moving forward, but it's not making any progress! In the minim section they do move. It lands on an extremely recognizable chord then it feels like we've arrived, the old reactions to harmony, which is a very natural way of listening to things. We've arrived at this moment, but then it doesn't stay there, it goes away from it, and bends into something else. And now we have to listen to this for a while. To me, it's a shape. There's this shape, and then it changes into that shape. But all that inclination the ears do towards the resultant harmonies of it, it's like playing with fire, isn't it? Messing around with that old baggage and meanings it used to have… Unintended shadows from the past occupants….


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Women with infants and toddlers make up a large portion of today's workforce. Forty percent of mothers return to work within three months of giving birth, and one-half return within six months. Unfortunately, only 51 percent of North Carolina mothers continue to breastfeed their babies after eight weeks.
Mothers say that returning to work is one of the main factors in their decision to breastfeed or not, or when to stop.
The federal Affordable Care Act requires employers to provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for one year after the child's birth. This applies each time the employee has the need to express milk. The employer is not required to compensate her for any work time spent for such purpose.
The employer must also provide a place, other than a bathroom, for the employee to express breast milk. Employers with less than 50 employees must prove an undue hardship from complying with the law in order to be exempt from this law. They are not automatically exempted. These requirements shall not preempt a state law that provides greater protections to employees.
For North Carolina State employees, the Office of State Personnel has a detailed lactation policy. This policy provides for designated space and paid break time for expressing breast milk for employees governed by the State Personnel Act.
The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) maintains a very helpful information page on workplace support for federal breastfeeding law including common Q&A's.
The North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition has information on a variety of topics for parents and professionals


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Is Technology Disrupting or Transforming the Senior Housing Industry?
This is the question posed by Joseph F Coughlin, Director of the MIT AgeLab, in his article, which is reproduced below with his permission.
The disruptive demographics of an aging society offers a growth opportunity for the senior housing industry. However, technology is also presenting new ways to enable older adults to stay in their own homes rather than move into senior housing options. Yet many of these same technologies, creatively applied, may improve the attractiveness and operational efficiency of senior housing. So is technology a threat or an opportunity for the senior housing industry? The answer is – yes.
This week I had the pleasure of participating in a discussion on technology and the future of senior housing. Convened by the National Investment Center (NIC) and moderated by NIC's insightful President Bob Kramer, Kaiser Permanente's thoughtful Director of Innovatin Dr. Yan Chow, Aging 2.0's creative Dr. Katy Fike and industry innovator and CEO of Benchmark Senior Living Tom Grape, the panel examined the range of available technologies and the possible implications for senior housing operators and investors.
The convergence of old age and new technology will make the future of aging very different than our parent's old age. Devices and systems that seek to manage our health are becoming ubiquitous. These include sensors throughout the home, the Internet-of-Things where appliances and the environments communicate with each other and to outside service providers. Several systems do more than detect our current 'state,' they also use our activity patterns to continuously assess our well-being ready to intervene before a catastrophic event. Imagine ubiquitous sensors or telehealth systems that routinely and seamlessly monitor chronic conditions such as congestive heart failure or diabetes without the need to physically visit a clinician. Or apps that transform smart phones into devices that can perform a self-administered EKG. Don't forget this year's hot technology, wearables, e.g., FitBit, that make it possible to manage, monitor and motivate healthy behaviors as well as keep you connected with formal and family caregivers.
Technology-enabled services are also emerging to keep us independent as we age. Many services considered cool and convenient for younger users also provide the opportunity to support the needs of older adults. Who would think of Uber as being a great way to organize alternative transportation for an older loved one? Home services, such as Peapod, once thought of as services for those who are crazed and crushed between work, family and life may also be an effective way for older adults to remain independent and ensure that there is food in the refrigerator, the house is clean and that the laundry is done.
Let's not forget fun and social connectivity. Skype, countless tablet-based applications, or MIT AgeLab's e-home system that enable both a safety check-in as well as a social visit. Telepresence robots may not just bring disembodied medical expertise to an older adult, they may also provide connectivity to family members who simply want a virtual visit to play a board game. Moreover, virtual reality is no longer just for kids playing video games. Virtual reality may also provide a means to travel without leaving your chair but setting your mind free to see, hear and even smell the experience.
Yes, these technologies offer incredible opportunities to create community-based ambient assisted living supporting family caregivers and aging-in-place. In that sense, technology presents a threat to the senior housing industry. However, technology is only a threat to those who do not recognize its transformative capacity to improve today's operations and to create tomorrow's services that excite and delight residents and their families. Creatively applied the same technologies that threaten senior housing may offer broad platforms to enhance resident experience, operation efficiency and profitability.
Technologies that offer ubiquitous connectivity to people living at home could be used to improve staff efficiency. Robots could perform necessary, but routine, tasks enabling skilled professionals to provide more attention to residents and less time taking inventory, delivering a blanket or adjusting the window blinds. Tablets can provide connectivity between family members but they can also provide vital platforms for point-of-care information systems to update electronic medical records that ensure informed personal care and better outcomes. Sensors and related algorithms that detect a change in health at home could predict a fall or similar event in senior housing reducing hospitalization or hospital readmission – a concern and cost to both families and insurers. Likewise, technology-enabled services that offer new ways to arrange transportation, meal preparation and delivery, entertainment, fun, and a wide variety of other tele-services are opportunities to develop new partnerships with branded providers that make senior housing more attractive to both older adults and their adult children.
Is technology a threat or an opportunity to the senior housing industry"? It is both. Technology is not about doing what you have always done – just more efficiently – instead technology used correctly enables innovation and new business models. Technology will enable the opportunity to age-in-place longer, but it will also facilitate senior housing operators and investors to bring exciting innovations to their current properties and build a new service enterprise that goes beyond the property line and into the homes of older adults and into the hearts of adult children seeking service solutions for their parents wherever they live.
About the Author
Joseph F. Coughlin, Ph.D. is director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab (http://agelab.mit.edu). His research explores how global aging, technology and consumer behavior drive innovations in business and public policy. Coughlin teaches in MIT's Engineering Systems Division and Department of Urban Studies and Planning and works with companies and governments worldwide to translate old age into new opportunity.
Editor's Insight
It's been two years since I last wrote anything about the MIT AgeLab (see articles below), so I was happy that Dr. Coughlin gave me permission to republish this article about senior housing. I commented on the original article, along with Laurie Orlov, founder of Aging in Place Technology Watch, a market research firm. Laurie said recent survey data showed disappointing adoption of the disruptive technologies that Coughlin spoke of.
The industry seems to be missing out on some big opportunities to lower costs, improve care, and differentiate themselves from competition, so I too am disappointed. I was also disappointed when I spoke at a very nice assisted living facility here in Austin. I learned from the audience of several "real" seniors age 75+ and 85+ that none of them used a PC, owned a tablet or smartphone, or accessed the Internet. That meant no email or photo sharing with friends and family, and no video calls with Skype or FaceTime like I enjoy weekly with my son and granddaughter. My topic — Moore's Law and the FUTURE of Healthcare — was kind of technical for that audience, but they were all bright, very interested, and had really good questions. I only left wishing that the facility would invest in a PC lab, Wi-Fi network, and classes to help them get digitally connected.
The MIT AgeLab is working on many technologies that can help disrupt the systemic problem of American healthcare, but benefits depend on smart adoption. Possibly more important in my view is a change in incentives that moves away from a Sick Care business model that views patients as paying customers and focuses on diagnosing & managing disease, toward a true Health Care system with focus on wellness, lifestyle improvement, and prevention. After all, preventable chronic conditions account for 90% of all health care spending, according to HHS.
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- MIT's AGNES, the ageing suit (features the Age Gain Now Empathy System and a video of the Paro therapeutic robot)
- Aging as an Extreme Sport: Inventing Life Tomorrow (features Dr. Coughlin's TED talk on impressive advancements in longevity)
- What's it like to be Old? (NBC's Peter Alexander reports on the AGNES suit)
- Technology and Collaboration for Quality Aging (excerpted from one of Dr. Coughlin's essays on How to Age Well Into the Future)
- Housing: New Directions for National Policy (a new vision for housing policy that includes aging-in-place and aims to further our nation's economic recovery)
- U.S. Should Make 'Life-Long Homes' A Priority (an interview with former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros about a new book, "Independent for Life: Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America," authored by more than a dozen leading aging and housing experts and co-edited by Cisneros)


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11 Corinthians 14: 1Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. 2For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 3But he that prophesieth (that means he that preaches) speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 4He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth only himself; but he that prophesieth (preaches) edifieth the church. 5I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. 6Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying (preaching), or by doctrine? 7And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. 10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. 11Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 12Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 13Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. 14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 16Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 17For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. 18I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: 19Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. 21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 22Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying (preaching) serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. 23If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? 24But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. 26How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. 27If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 28But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. 29Let the prophets (preachers) speak two or three, and let the other judge. 30If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace (while the other is speaking). 31For ye may all prophesy (preach) one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. 32And the spirits of the prophets (preachers) are subject to the prophets (preachers). 33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 34Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. 35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. 36What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 37If any man think himself to be a prophet (a preacher), or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 38But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. 39Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy (preach), and forbid not to speak with tongues.
2Notice, Paul is saying here, it is not that I am against tongues, or psalms, or revelations, or you wanting to share something on the order of doctrine, but here is the conclusion to what Paul is saying here, in verse 40 he says, "Let all things be done decently and in order."
3Now before we go to prayer let me first say that the apostle Paul is setting the church in order here. He says, when you come together it seems everyone wants to be heard. He said, "when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying." So the question he leaves us with is this: let all things be done unto edification of Who? Well, he already told us that when people speak in tongues it is only edifying themselves. In verse 4 he said, "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth only himself; but he that prophesieth (preaches) edifieth the church." So it is the church that is to be edified which means to be lifted up or built up. It comes from Two Greek words "oikos" which literally means a dwelling or house or home, and by implication means a family, and another Greek word "doma" which literally means an edifice or roof. So together it means to bring the building to the place where it can become capped off, finished, sealed. And since it figuratively speaks of family, it means to bring the family to the place of full maturity, finished off.
4Now, it is not that we do not believe in you bringing s special to sing, as he said a psalm, but he concludes that everything must be done decently and in order. 40 he says, "Let all things be done decently and in order."
5Now, with this text as our basis for our thoughts this morning, let us bow our heads and our hearts in a word of prayer.
6Dear Gracious Father we come reverently and humbly this morning knowing that you are the sovereign King, and we are the subjects of your kingdom. Then we ask this morning that you might direct us into your kingdom in such a way that all that we do and say, all our specials and all our preaching be done for the building up of you family, and with one purpose and one goal and that is to love your family and to stand by them in time of need, and we ask this in Jesus Christ's name, Your eldest Son who you have birth to in a unique way, as the Spoken Word, the Original Seed, and we ask that as His life was spent on behalf of us, that we also might spend our Lives on behalf of your children as well. Let His life be our example we ask in Jesus Christ's name.
7Now, this morning, we will continue in our study of the Spoken Word is the original Seed, and we will pick up at paragraph 34 of the afternoon service where brother Branham broke this sermon into two sermons, the morning and afternoon. This is the afternoon one we are looking at this morning, and this is sermon 182 in our series.
8"34 Now, notice, what happened to Eve's children? The first one that was born... Now if God said, "Multiply (to his bride, to Adam's bride) and replenish the earth," that was God's commission; and she would've done it, and he would mixing themselves together. But what happened? When Adam got ready to come to her, she was already a mother. See what I mean? Now, the same thing has happened to Christ's church, Christ's bride. Now, we're going back farther than that in a minute. Notice, in this bride, what did she do then? Her first child come forth; it was a bastard child, and he was full of death and caused death. And everyone since then is death. Now, you see it had to be sex. Why do you die if it wasn't sex? When God give a commission which cannot perish... God's Word's Eternal. It cannot fail. When He said, "Multiply and replenish the earth," that was God's eternal purpose. To carry it out you cannot die, because it's His Word. You have to live. And if that child would've been brought forth right, there'd have been no death; but she couldn't wait.
935 That's what's the matter today. You want some kind of a phony makeup with screaming, jumping, speaking in tongues, or something, instead of waiting for the real Word of God to be made manifest to the Bride. Them kind that takes the Word is God's true Bride, bringing forth children. They can't die. A child the Bride brings forth on the Word can't die, because It's the Word. Amen. Did you get it? She can't die 'cause she's... That child can't die because he's a Word child; he's a seed child; he's an eternal child. Hallelujah. That's exactly what Jesus Christ was, a spoken eternal Child. Didn't have to die, but He did it in order to pay the debt. That's the only way it could be paid. Nobody else could do it; they was all sexual born after the devil, his plan. You got it now? See?
10You know, after traveling around the world nearly 40 times, I think I've pretty much seen it all. And what brother Branham is telling us here is exactly what I am seeing everywhere I go. Others went before I did, and what they brought was a bunch of what brother Branham describes here as a kind of a phony makeup with screaming, jumping, speaking in tongues, or something, instead of waiting for the real Word of God to be made manifest to the Bride.
11I do not mean to do my fighting in the front yard, but where did you see the jumping and screaming and speaking in tongues in brother Branham's services? The ones who jumped up to scream and shout and speak in tongues are those he told to shut up and sit down.
12Since when does God condone such acts of the flesh and call it a spiritual thing. Now, I am not against speaking in tongues but the Apostle Paul said all things must be done decently and in order. There is a proper place for the gifts of God and tongues Paul said is the least of the gifts. That's what Brother Branham said in his sermon,
13Hear ye Him 57-0310E P:32 The gifts are here. But, as I said the other morning, we hold so much on speaking in tongues and interpretation. Now, watch it. That's the last and the least of the gifts. The first gift was wisdom; the second gift was knowledge. And what good is it going to do to have knowledge if you haven't got wisdom to know how to take care of your knowledge? What good does it do to speak with tongues if you haven't got wisdom to know when and how to place it? Same thing with healing, with any of the other gifts...And that's the reason we won't listen; it's just... I ain't laying it onto the laity so much; I'm laying it onto the preachers. It's just so confused with their organizations. …
14So you see, we have a lot of trouble yet in this Message because everyone is trying to outdo the next guy and every church thinks it is the only one, and all of that is such nonsense.
15I got an email letter this week from a brother in the Ukraine who had a list of some other ministers who had pronounced "anathema" on Joseph Branham for printing Br. Branham's sermons and saying that the message was his absolute. Now, what these men did is a pretty sick indictment on these men who claim to believe Br. Branham was the end-time prophet and yet refuse to believe everything he said. And to try to destroy the reputation of his two sons for little things they have said which seems to me those who are making these vicious attacks show themselves to have the nature of wild animals rather than that of sons of God.
16Just picking away at little statements of Billy Paul where he said we should consider how privileged we are to have the Word of God in this day, and then to try to find fault with that is just like animals do with another animal that just isn't like them. The chickens will peck to death another chicken if you place a red dot on it, and I have watched videos of hyenas that attacked a lion, and when the lion drew blood from one the hyenas, they smelled it and went after their own and mauled that hyena and killed him, and ate him just because he was wounded and unable to defend himself.
17 Now, that is the nature of animals but that is not the nature of sons of God. But these men claim that they understand the Scriptures better than Br. Branham did, they wouldn't dare come out and say that directly but indirectly in their doctrine they teach it because they teach many things contrary to what God's vindicated prophet taught.
18But I was troubled by their attitude, it was so vicious and lacking of respect like that guy down in the islands of the Caribbean who seem to make their living by killing the influence of others. Murderous spirit is all they have, and you see no grace in their hearts for others. And it bothers me to see brothers in such a fallen condition, that you wish to God they would repent of such an attitude and let the love of God be shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost. But then we someone has to do what they are doing. Someone has to show that ugly spirit of hate, but all we can do is pry for them.
19From his message, Uncertain Sound 62-0714 E-53 Brother Branham said, In one way, you feel like you want to scold them, yet you're sorry for them, because they've been listening to something else that's contrary.
20You ask yourself, why would they be so critical of those people who lift up br. Branham and show the proper respect to him, and what is causing these people to believe such error? Then the truth comes home and you realize they are that way because someone taught them to be that way. But there seems to be a spirit that has come into this Message that has become very critical of Br. Branham and very critical of those who would consider this Message an absolute and on par with the Scripture. What they do not understand is that William Branham did not preach another Gospel. He did not preach another Jesus? So if he said what Paul said, and He claims that he did, then why would the things he said not be the same as what Paul said. How is it any different? They seem to think it is Word in the Bible but if someone says the same thing it is no longer the Word of God, oh, unless they say it.
21You see, people are pretty twisted up these days. These same men who claim that you do no t have to believe everything brother Branham taught sent me an email telling me that I must read what they wrote because my life would depend on reading what they had to write, so I didn't read it, and I just placed it into the trash where you put all the filthy rags and hogwash.
22Such blasphemers are they and yet when you try to help them, and give them Scripture for their error, they write back and say you have no Scripture proof they are off the Word.
23No Scripture? 300 plus Scriptures and this is no Scripture? So I am glad to be home, and I am glad you people not only have the Holy Spirit and that sweet spirit brother Branham said would come into the church one day before we are to go home, but you also are blessed with common sense which seems so lacking today among people everywhere, even among those who claim to believe the Message.
24Now, I am not against any of the gifts of the spirit, I believe there is a need for everyone of them or else why would God give them? But as Paul and William Branham taught, all the gifts must be in their place, so we need wisdom to know how to use them.
25Now, the greatest Gift we have from God was the gift of His Son, How many believes that?
26From his Message Queen of Sheba 60-0401E P:20 Brother Branham said Now anyone knows, that any time that God sends a gift to the earth, and the people turns that gift down, it's always chaos to that nation and that people, that turns down the gift of God. Jesus was the greatest Gift God ever give to the world. And the Jewish people turned it down, and is scattered throughout the world from that time since. And when God sends a gift, and the people refuses to see it, and refuses to take it, then it's scattered, the people is, and they, like sheep having no shepherd.
27And from his Message called Love 56-0726 P:7 Brother Branham said, Yes. See, Christ was God's love gift to the world. You believe that? Greatest gift that God ever give was His only begotten Son. Is that right? That was God's greatest gift. Now, God had His gift in His Son, and could use It any way He wanted to. Now, when God showed Him something to do, that was God doing it.
28And of course the greatest gift Jesus could give back to His father was His obedience to what the father showed him to do.
29Another gift we have from God is the Gift of the Holy Ghost to lead us and to guide us.
30God's gifts always find place 63-1222 P:79 May the Holy Spirit come to you and bring you ministering gifts and things from God, a gift that you might live a better life. That's what I want. I would rather have the Life of Christ in me to live sweet and victorious than I would all the gifts of healing, the gifts of prophecies, all them other gifts; just give me Jesus. Let me live the Life. The Life is what I want to live. I want to live so others will know. That's my desire at Christmas, and I pray that's your desire. And I pray that God will give us His desire.
31So a life that is so full of God-Life, which was exemplified by the Son of God who was so full of Love for His Father that he was always about his Father's business, even denying his own will in favor of doing the Father's will as we see in John 10: 17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
32And in John 14: 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
33And again in John 14: 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
34John 16: 27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
35So I want you to notice how brother Branham said, I would rather have the Life of Christ in me to live sweet and victorious than I would all the gifts… and so that is my desire too. I hope it is yours as well.
36Now, then if that is the desire of all our hearts, then what gift of the Holy Ghost would be able to place that desire into the hearts of the children of God? Would tongues? Would healing? Would discernment? Would miracles? So then we need to be careful about these things. Not that any gift is wrong, but a genuine gift in the wrong hands or with a wrong motive can become destructive.
37All those gifts are wonderful in their place, but what is it that could change our hearts to want to live for Christ every heart beat that we have and every breath that we take? Can any one here tell me what other gift of the Holy Ghost could bring that desire into the hearts of God's children to want so to be like Him that they would die to self? Brother Branham told us what Gift of the Holy Ghost will do this in his sermon called Why We Are Not A Denomination. 58-0927 P:43 He said, Now, we've got gifts of healing working. Oh, it's going good. Well, brother, there's other gifts. That's just one of them. That's just a little minor thing. Why, here's a far greater gift right here. Which would be the best, the gift of the Holy Ghost of wisdom to put the Word of God together and to show the church where we're standing, than just to get somebody healed? We all want to be well; but I'd rather have my soul well, than my body well anytime. Oh, my.
38So we are looking at the Spirit of Wisdom in a person that could take the Word of God and place it into the hearts of men in such a way as to make the Bible become live again and become a reality to them and cause them also to come alive to the Word of God.
39Audio letter to Lee Vayle 64-0500 P:2 Would it be you think, advisable in here to say that God then, in order to proclaim this, has to send a prophet in order to inject this, make this real again, show the people the hour we're living in? Because if they only see it in the hour past, then there's no hope for the church. The church must see it in the present tense. So God sends His prophet to manifest, present tense of it. You see? And then, after it's over, then history is. Now, you might inject that, Brother Lee. I don't know whether that's any good or not, but it's just--just a thought right here. Thanks a lot.
40That is why brother Branham could say in his message, Discernment of spirit 60-0308 P:35 It isn't to make William Branham something great. But what is it to do? It isn't to make Oral Roberts something great, Billy Graham something great. But it's the hearts, we're trying to achieve something for the Kingdom of God . It's manifesting God. All gifts and things doesn't make one greater than the other; it just makes us all working together for the perfection of the body to bring us together as one people, as a people of God. But when you see them going contrary, don't curse them; just let them alone, somebody has to do it. But wait till Jesus comes in power.
41So in reflecting back upon what the apostle Paul told us, it is not the gift itself, it is the Giver of the gift and the desire to build up the body of Christ with those gifts. You have got to come back to the motive to see where the gift is leading you, because remember, in Psalm 68 tells us that God gave gifts unto men and to the rebellious also. And we also know that The rain falls on the just and the unjust. And we know according to Deuteronomy 32 is the doctrine. So don't think just because you have the doctrine right mentally that makes you somebody. It's what you doing with it that counts. What is your motive for having it?
42From his message Court Trial 64-0412 E-77brother Branham said, Remember, it's not me; it's Him. It's not me. I'm nobody but just one of you all. It's Him. He has to get somebody. Nobody's worthy of it, but somebody has to do it. Remember, it's not a easy job. But it's a glorious job to know that your Lord is here, and you can tell your brethren the truth. But it's hard when they won't believe it. But that, we all have to confront that.
43Now, I know what he is talking about, because I have experienced some of those great supernatural manifestations of God's presence in our meetings as well. Yet I could never compare what I have seen to what God did in Brother Branham's meetings. Yet that doesn't take away from what He has done any more than what God did in His own son does not take away from what God did through His Prophet William Branham in this hour.
44I've been privileged to witness His supernatural Presence in the form of those Three rainbows coming together over that church in Congo just like he did for His prophet, and I was privileged to witness Him stopping that horrendous storm in Uganda, and turn that darkened sky into daylight within minutes, and I've bee privileged to witness Him along with many of you who saw Him change the temperature by more than 30 degrees within an hour after we simply asked Him to help his children. And I've been privileged to witness Him as again many of you also did when He replaced the cut off part of that brother's foot in Kentucky, and been privileged to witness the lame to walk and the deaf to hear, and I've also been witnessed His judgment upon people that have turned down this light in various times and places tasking some of them from the scene, and sending judgment over an entire land for many weeks darkening the skies and preventing air travel for weeks.
45You think it is a coincidence that the volcanic cloud that hung over England and Europe finally left the skies on May 17th when that is also the date that the Cloud over Flagstaff, Arizona Appeared to the world on that same date in Life Magazine in 1963?
46Brother Branham said that was the same day that Noah entered the ark. Now, you might say those things are just coincidences, but I do not believe in coincidences. And I have seen many other such tremendous manifestations of His presence with us, but as brother Branham said, it doesn't make me anything more than just your brother just because I have seen them. Many have seen the same things I have and many of you have been witnesses to these things as well. But what is wonderful is that we can say that we are one of His children. But it does give us comfort to know that he said He would never leave us nor forsake us. And that ought to give my family some comfort when I am traveling overseas.
47So when brother Branham says, But it's a glorious job to know that your Lord is here, and you can tell your brethren the truth. But it's hard when they won't believe it. But that, we all have to confront that. Then I know what he is talking about. And yes, the hard part is the rejection especially from those you know, but the glorious part is when god comes to your defence with a visible manifestation of His presence showing that he has not forgotten all our labours of love.
48So what am I trying to say this morning? Well let me say it with a quote from br. Branham:
49God's only provided place of worship 65-1128M P:49 Your sincerity and all that you want to confess, you just can't take it to the Methodist altar, to a Baptist altar, to a Pentecostal altar. But there is a altar somewhere that He chose that He put His Name in it, and He would meet you at that place. Now, if you get everything running just right, it's going to run; everything's set in order. If there's a short in that wire, that light won't come on, because it's been grounded. And when you'll take one of God's Words or one of His places, and in your own heart have selfish objectives, it'll ground the power of God right there. If you do it because you want to be smart, you want to be different from somebody else, or something, right there it's grounded; it'll blow the fuse. You're wrong. You've got to come with sincerity, with all your heart. Your motives and your objectives, placed right on God. Then search for His place, find where He said, and bring it there. See?
50From his message, Testimony 63-1128M P:14 brother Branham said, This church was put here for a purpose. There's a spirit behind this church. Certainly. Spirit behind your home, behind every building, behind everything there is a spirit, motive, and objective. This church comes here to greatly exalt some human system or something, then its motives is not right; but if it's put here to try to achieve something for the Kingdom of God, then the motive and objective both is right, if the motives is directed that way.
51So we need to be ever so careful in the way we approach everything. Just because you might be right in your doctrine does not mean that you are right in your heart. And I have seen too many men who have the doctrine right but in their hearts they are self centered and wouldn't cross the street to help someone in need. But there are some who do love the doctrine and have right hearts as well.
52Br. Wayne Jenkins was one of them. The testimony of those at his funeral whether from a believer or from non believers was all the same. He wasn't just a Christian to those of like precious faith, but he was a Christian to everyone he met.
53The testimonies I heard were from both saint's and non saints, were the same. Br. Wayne would go out of his way to help everyone, whether it was an old woman trying to cross a busy street or some man getting stuck trying to get out of his car. It mattered not to him. He took each opportunity to show Christ in his Life. Perhaps that is why he left this earth so young. God was pleased with his life and took him home like he took Enoch home.
54From his sermon, Be not afraid it is I 61-0123 P:38 I had another call said, from a group that said, "If you let another group set on the platform with you, we'll have nothing to do with it." That's worse off then ever. What's the matter? Gone off without Him. The love of God in our heart constrains us to reach to every denomination in every place. When it gets to a spot that you can't have a tender love for every human being, something's happened to you. God so loved you when you was a sinner, an alien, away from God, a enemy of the commonwealth of God, He so loved you that He gave His life for you, sure. If you get a spirit in you, you're better than someone else, then you're worse than anybody else that I know of. I don't care if you're ever so correct in your theology; your motives and objectives is wrong. I'd rather be wrong in my theology, than be wrong in my heart. That's right. Spirit of God dwells in your heart. In the garden of Eden man took his... He compromised. Now, in the garden of Eden there was a choice made by the man. The devil took his head; God took his heart. Then he sends him off to a seminary, freezes him up with some good theology and dehydrates him in there, and he comes back out, his head all puffed up, too big to wear an ordinary hat. Then he comes out with bitterness in his heart against the fellow citizen of the Kingdom, that ain't God. That's right.
55Spoken word original seed 62-0318M P:173 This has been my motive, and my objective, is God's Word. My motive is to please Him. And I can't listen to everything and believe God's Word; neither can I listen to everything and please God. My motive is to know His Word and to please God by serving Him by His Word. …Then check it with the Word. See, if it isn't the Word, then it is deceiving. See? Now, if your theology's different from the Word, then it isn't right. See?
56Jesus Christ the same 61-0205E P:16 See, you've got to know positionally, first, Christ, where you stand. You are heir to this. It's your personal property; it belongs to you. It's God's gift to you. Nobody can take it away from you; it's yours. "What you ask the Father in My Name, that I'll do." Who can deny anything there? "Verily, verily, I say unto you, if you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' don't doubt in your heart but believe that what you've said shall come to pass, you can have whatever you said." What promises, not limited just to healing, but to whatsoever. Now, you've got to find your objective, and your motive, and then the will of God. And if it is the will of God, and your motive's right, and your objective is right, then the mountain will fall. But outside of that, you could scream till you got hoarse and died, and never would move. See? Your... First thing, it's got to be the will of God; the next thing, it's your objective in going and do it; and then the motive you have. You want to be some big person...
58Queen of Sheba 61-0219 P:8 Always remember this, church; God's Words are true. I believe the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass, if you can look at it in the right way. But remember, here's been my standard in life. I have tried to do this. The first thing, I want to find out whether it's the will of God or not. That... Then I know it's God's will. The next thing, is my objective to it and my motive in doing it. Then if it's the will of God, and my objective is right, and my motive is right, I have faith that it'll be done. Because, first, it's the will of God and my objective is to glorify Him, and my motive is to give Him all the glory. See? So there's no selfish motives about it. If you have a selfish motive it won't work. If your objective is to make money for yourself or something, why, you'll never succeed. And then try to do something outside of the will of the Lord, then it won't work to begin with. So there is genuine faith, but you must come into the real channel of God to have that genuine faith. There's human faith, then there's faith of God. And you must have a godly faith to believe. Now, then to have godly faith, you must have the mind of Christ in you. Then that's how God projects to you visions, revelations, and all these things comes by the mind of Christ being in you. You get it? "Let the mind that was in Christ be in you."
59And that is exactly what I have been trying to get across for the past three years. Get the mind of Christ and all these things shall be added unto thee.
60Queen of Sheba 58-0125 P:44 And the first thing, your achievement is only by your motive and your objective. Your motive has got to be right and your objective has got to be right. If your objective is right, and your motive is wrong, then it won't happen. You've got to have the right objective and you've got to have the right motive. And then take it upon the leading of the Holy Spirit in your heart and stay with it. God will bring it to pass.
61Godhead explained 61-0425B P:33 And you must test your motive and objective first. First, find the will of God, and then find your objective, and then test your motive and see if your motive is right. Then as Jesus said in Mark 11:24, "If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart..." But as long as you got doubt in a heart whether it's the will of God, or your motive or objective is wrong, how is it going to move? But when you know that your motive is right, and it's the will of God, and your objective is right, it's got to move. That's all, or God told something wrong.
62Blind Bartimaeus 61-0124 P:79 Get love in your heart, and be true and honest, and have the right kind of a motive, and the right kind of objective, and God will take care of the rest. If your motive is right, and your objective is right... If your objective's right, and your motive's wrong, it won't work. But when you get your... If you know it's the will of God, then your motive right, and your objective right...
63Jesus Christ the same 58-0323 P:37 Here He told them, mortal man, "Say to the mountain and believe that it's being done." Only Deity can move a mountain. Only God can do it. Then if He told a man could do it, it would have to be God speaking through the man. And the only way a man could know it was God, would be the right objective, or, and the right motive. If your objective is right and your motive is right, then it's not you speaking anymore. It's the Father that dwelleth in you. "Take no thought what ye shall say in that hour; for it's not ye that speaks; it's My Father that dwelleth in you. He doeth the speaking."
64Expectations 61-0308 P:29 But "expectancy," that's a great thing, to expect something. You usually get what you expect. Some people come to the meeting and say, "Well, I didn't--didn't expect to get anything out of it." Well, they won't. But those who expect to get something, God will give them their expectations, if their doing it reverently and in the fear of God. Now, always to find out something first is to find whether it's the will of God or not. And then if it's the will of God, then your objective to it, and then your motive in doing it. If it's the will of God, and your objective is right, and your motive is right, it's got to happen. There's just no way to keep it from happening. So first find the will, if it's God's will. And then, what's your objective in doing it? If it's selfish, you'll never get it done, that's all. It's got to be real clean and clear before God or it just won't happen. That's all. You got to always keep that on your mind, that it's got to be clean and clear. Your cups must be clean and clear before God or God cannot work with you.
65Hear ye Him 58-0209A P:46 It's your attitude; it's your objective and your motive again. That's where the church stands today on that. If your objective and motives is right towards God, the love of God will stream down like a fountain. That's right. But not because, "It's my church. I want to see it my town, I want to see it my..." That isn't it. "Oh, love of God, come into my heart." There's when He comes.
66Have faith in God 58-0105 P:13 That's what it takes to overcome. And if you notice, Jesus didn't say, "Quickly, this mountain will be throwed into the sea." But, "If thou will ask for this mountain to be raised up and throwed into the sea, and will believe in your heart that it's being done, you shall have what you say." Oh, my. When you go to the mountain and say, "Mountain, be cast up, throwed into the sea." Look, say, "Oh, it never happened. I guess I haven't got faith." When you say, "Mountain, be raised up and thrown into the sea," and your objective is right, and your motive is right, you may not see one bit of difference in that mountain. Maybe just one little grain of sand moved when you said that, but it's being moved. No matter how small it is, it's taking place.
67I have heard but now I see 65-1127E P:29 See, we don't use the gift of God for commercial. No, no. He could tell me where it was at, but I don't have any need of it. I wouldn't even have faith enough to ask Him. See? If I had a need of it, I believe if I'd ask Him, He'd tell me. But first (You see?), your motives and objectives has to be right. You have to have reasons for this. God don't give you those things just because you ask. And you cannot ask in faith unless there's a real objective to that, to be in the will of God. See? If you want to be well, what do you want to be well for? See? If you want to be healed, what's the reason you want to be healed? What are you telling God? What do you want to do with you life when you get healed? See? There's got to be... You've got to have a motive and objective, and they have to be right according to the will of God. And then is when the faith is revealed to you, and God by His sovereign grace places that faith in there, then it's over. See? Now. See?
68Thy house 61-0808 P:40 If you're sincere and know that it's right, then you can ask God with a clean heart, knowing it's no selfish motive, and your objective and motive is exactly right, then ask God. And like a child, believe you get it and you get it. I know that. Now, I've come to Christ when I was about the age of one of these boys here, I guess. I was about twenty years old. And I served Him all this time, and I'm fifty-two, will be fifty-three my birthday. And I can sincerely say that I have never asked Christ sincerely for anything, that is it's, now, that really sincerely asked Him, anything that was for right, but what He gave it to me or told me why He couldn't do it. And then later on, I found out it was a good thing I didn't get it. See?
69Jesus Christ the same 58-0323 P:36 Now, do not listen with any selfish motive. Let your objective be right. Let your motive be right. For anything outside of the right motive and the right objection, God can't use it.
70Now, Let us bow our heads and our hearts in a word of prayer. And I want you to pray after me, the words I pray. But I want you to insert your own desire into this prayer, that you are praying for, that you want for your life, but have not seen any manifestation of it yet, and I want you to insert your own desire into your prayer to God now, that God will know it is what you desire. Now, let us pray together in closing.
71Repeat after me, and then when we get to the part for our desire, I want you to insert your desire…
72Dear Gracious Father, I have heard Thy Word this morning, and now father, I bow my head and my heart to Thee in Prayer. You said in Your Word Father, and by your prophet whom you have vindicated, that if our objective is right, and I can see you have promised this to me in your Word, therefore I know my objective is right, because I see it in Thy Word as a promise for me, and knowing that it is a promise for me, I am now going to check my motive, and knowing that my motive is pure and right for this I ask, I do not ask this request Father for a selfish reason, but I come this morning as your child, and I have a need Father, a need for fulfillment in this area of my life, now Father I have come the way your prophet has told me to come, and I have come the way your Son Jesus told me to come, and now I ask for this desire to be given to me in Jesus Christ's name, Amen.
73Now, I want you to be looking for the little pebble of sand in that mountain that just moved. Watch for it, and you will see your desire is beginning to come into view. Remember the whole mountain doesn't move overnight, but before you ask God, He already has your answer on its way. You believe that, ok?
74Now let's be dismissed with the chorus "Lord I believe, Lord I believe, All things are Possible, lord I believe."… as our musicians come forth to play.


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How school trip prices have parents fuming
Of all the potential costs incurred by parents through the course of the school year, school trips or outings are among those most likely to catch them out.
According to a recent survey, commissioned by the National Consumer Agency, almost half of the parents (49pc) asked have previously had to make an unforeseen payment in relation to costs for the new school year. For almost three in five of the group, this unforeseen or unexpected cost was in relation to school trips or outings. Most schools will organise school trips or outings of some kind or another, but many parents and teachers are openly wondering whether the more expensive overseas trips are worth it, particularly in today's economic climate.
According to one of the largest school trip travel agents, Budget School and Group Tours (BSGT), which is now owned by the student travel company USIT, the most popular destinations for overseas trips include London, Paris, Barcelona, the Rhineland, Rome and even New York.
Even for day trips, some primary schools are apparently asking for up to €60 for end-of-year outings to places like adventure parks. This occurrence had some parents fuming on magicmum.com.
Steve Goode, a childcare consultant, says: "Children spend too long in school and they should spend more time visiting places in their communities at little cost to parents."
But the cost of school trips still causes much debate among parents, particularly now as financial pressures take their toll.
The Irish National Teachers' Organisation confirmed that a number of schools over the past two years didn't organise school trips to avoid putting additional financial burden on parents.
Keith Darcy, a teacher of Spanish at Drimnagh Castle CBS in Walkinstown, Dublin, has been involved in a number of school trips in the past, including Paris, Barcelona, Germany, Amsterdam, Andalusia and Alton Towers.
"I don't believe that school trips are particularly beneficial for students," he says. "While students' cultural knowledge is enhanced, the trips are very expensive and I don't believe that they get value for money."
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