If you ask the question where you might get started in John Owen, there would be just a little bit of

bibliography for you to take home.

Let me tell you a story from this morning that makes me feel very loved by the Lord and that he's behind this message.

Dr. Fulenauer, message.

Dr. Fuller and I were exchanging miracle stories.

I finished writing my talk at one o'clock this morning.

They went to bed and felt good. I needed another

two, three hours to get it ready to deliver. For five years in this conference I delivered the message on Wednesday morning.

Wednesday morning, that's tomorrow. That's when I thought I was to talk in this conference when I went to bed last night.

Which means that had something not intervened, about lunchtime somebody would have come up to me and said,

I'm really looking forward to your talk today and I would have just froze today. It would have been awful. I would have just

been totally unprepared. Well, Dr. Fuller called me at 445 this morning because his computer wouldn't work.

Now that was a dark cloud of Providence when you go to bed at 1 o'clock. Why am I being called? This is bad. This is a bad event. And I got the computer running over the phone, it's my computer and I went back

to bed and as I was lying there, the thought entered my mind.

Carson asked if he could have lunch with me this afternoon.

And I said, no, I'm busy.

Why did I say no, I'm busy? That's my oldest son.

This is 4.5. I've got 3 hours, Lord. Thank you, thank you. And I went to my study and I got ready. Now the lesson in this is behind a

frowning Providence he hides a smiling face.

So many things in my life happen like that.

How many times must God do that so that I don't second guess him with telephone calls in the middle of the night.

How many times must he do this to me so I won't murmur.

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