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You know, there's something about that 34th Psalm.

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I can just read it and read it. And by the way,

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that's another part of my Bible that is almost

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threadbare. I'm going to tell you something.

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The Lord's going to have to come pretty soon.

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Just for the sake of my poor Bible, we're going

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to have to have this great catching up pretty

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soon or my Bible that I'm using presently isn't

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going to hold out to the end. And when I pick

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up another Bible, it just doesn't seem the same,

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you know, because this one has become just a

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part of me. Do you have a Bible like that? If

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you don't, start getting one. It's great. Well,

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anyway, that 34th Psalm, and I want to read just

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one verse, the fourth verse, but let me just

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read a couple of more because I couldn't possibly

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be satisfied taking only one verse out of this

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glorious Psalm. I will bless the Lord at all

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times. His praise shall continually be in my

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mouth. I could stop right there. And I'll tell

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you something. If you will practice that first

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verse, you have the secret of living a happy,

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successful, daily Christian life. I will bless

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the Lord at all times. Not just when the sun

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is shining. Just... When everything is going

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well, then wham, the bottom drops out for you.

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And there goes your song, and there goes your

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joy, and there goes your happiness. That's not

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what the psalmist said. He said at all times,

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when there is no sunshine, When the bottom is

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dropped out. When the paycheck is not coming

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in. When all of the children need new shoes.

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And the bills are piling up. That's one of the

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all times. His praise shall continually be in

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my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the

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Lord. the humble shall hear thereof and be glad

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o magnify the lord with me and let us exalt his

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name together i sought the lord now get those

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first four words i sought the lord and he heard

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me You'll never seek him with an honest, sincere

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heart, but what he'll be right there, and he'll

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hear you. It all depends on how you seek him.

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Whether it's just merely out of curiosity, just

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a verbal thing. But when you seek him sincerely

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and with your whole heart, he'll be there. He'll

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hear you. He'll not let you down. I promise you

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that. Upon the authority of God's word, I promise

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you that when you seek him with all of your heart,

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with every atom of your being, and you're sincere

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in your seeking, he'll be right there. He'll

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not turn a deaf ear. And what did he do? And

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delivered me from... all my fears. The other

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day you and I had a little heart -to -heart talk

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about this thing of fear, and I was amazed, and

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yet I should not have been, at the great response

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that we got from those who were a part of that

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heart -to -heart talk. Your response was tremendous.

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The response came from young people, from adults,

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and I still say that the greatest enemy that

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we have today is the enemy of fear. This is a

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fear -ridden generation. And so I want to talk

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to you today for a few minutes about one of the

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most basic problems of human life. And it is

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just that. Fear is constantly, persistently cropping

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up in human experiences. And you will agree with

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me that this is a fear -ridden generation. You

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cannot get on the bus. You cannot get on the

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streetcar. You cannot get on the plane. You cannot

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take a train. You cannot get into conversation

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with anyone. We got it so whether it's in a city

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or in a department store or just a perfect stranger

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standing on the street corner waiting for someone.

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But what, after a few minutes, the conversation

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will turn to fear. What's going to happen? troubles.

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There's a deep, unconscious anxiety in the world

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today, induced in part, no doubt, by the finished

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possibility of a man's being able to destroy

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himself. And that's exactly what's happening.

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We are all aware of the fact that we're living

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in an hour when Man is causing his own destruction.

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He's on a toboggan, going down just as fast as

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he possibly can, and no one seems to be able

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to put on the brakes. No one is being able to

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stop the thing. And the very atmosphere is permeated

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with this thing of fear. You'll find it in the

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home. You'll find it in young people, in the

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lives and thinking of businessmen. Our governments.

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We're going to talk about this thing for just

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a few minutes. Perhaps you think I have started

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out in a very pessimistic, negative way today.

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I do not mean to. We're only facing facts, that's

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all. And we have to face facts. And in everything,

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turn to the Word of God because the Bible always

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has the answer. Always I sought the Lord, and

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he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.

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And I like that word, all my fears. For the thing

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that I may fear is not the very thing that you

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fear or what your neighbor fears. But fear in

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any form is a deadly enemy. It'll rob you of

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joy. It'll rob you of peace. It'll rob you of

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being what you could be, what you should be,

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what God intended you to be. Now, in bodily form,

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you are an adult. I'd like to think that in bodily

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form, I'm very much of an adult. But I do not

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see the real you anymore than you see the real

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me. I can look at a woman and I think I know

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her. Someone may have been an acquaintance of

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mine for many years. And I think I know that

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person. I feel very sure that I know that person

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very well when all of a sudden, wham, something

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happens and I find out that... I really have

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not known that one as well as I thought I knew

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that one. You may think you know me. You see

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my bodily form. You see me. Two eyes, a mouth,

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two hands, two legs. You say that's Catherine

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Kuhlman. You know my disposition. You recognize

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my voice. But maybe you do not know me as well

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as you think you know me. A man can be married

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to a woman for 50 years and not really know that

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one as well as he thinks he knows her. It's like

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that. For what are you? The real you. The real

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you is a mind and not a body. I want to repeat

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that. It's vitally important. The real you is

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a mind. The body is merely an instrument to be

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used by the mind for a certain number of years.

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And when you no longer need this body, you'll

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slough it off. And you'll say, they'll say of

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you, he died, she died. Actually, the only thing

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that died is your body. That's all. That's all

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that they put in the grave. I say, I know you

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when I meet you and clasp your hand and smile

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in your face, but it's the body that I really

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see. And so it is with me. You say, there goes

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Kathryn Kluman. You sit in the audience and you

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see me on the platform, on the stage, and you

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say, that's Kathryn Kluman. And you can describe

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what I am wearing, the color of my dress and

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how it looks, the shoes I have on. But remember,

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all you see is that body and that which covers

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the body. And one of these days, if we do not

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have the rapture of the church in the very near

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future, probably word will come and say, Catherine

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Kuhlman died. But the only... part of Catherine

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Cooman that they put in the grave is the body,

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the flesh. But the real me, actually me, will

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never die. That was not me that they put in the

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earth. That was not me that they put in the casket.

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It's like that. There may have been a funeral

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at your home. Your mother died. A loved one died.

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And there was much weeping. But remember when

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you stand there, that open casket, and weep over

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that one. That person is not there in that casket.

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The only thing that died was the body that'll

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be placed in the grave. Your mind is the essential

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locale of your soul. It is only with the mind

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that we can understand, perceive. It's only with

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the mind that we can reach God. Can we meet him

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in the fingers, the knees, in the foot, in the

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shoulder? Can we meet him in the heart? No. The

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heart is only a muscle that pumps blood. You

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meet... God in the mind. And so it is in the

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mind that we're either defeated or we're victorious

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over life. And sometimes in the mind we continue

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to be children instead of growing up. How many

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people have adult bodies and yet mentally they're

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only children. They've never grown up. Or perhaps

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we grow up in some ways, but in other ways we're

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still infantile. If you are plagued by strange,

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unreasoning fears that you yourself do not understand,

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just get hold of yourself. Look yourself directly

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in the face. Talk to yourself. I mean exactly

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that. Talk to yourself. I know. Somebody says

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Miss Kuhlman's going all for a rocker. She's

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telling us now to talk to ourselves. That's the

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surest sign I know of people being ready to be

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put away. I'm not talking about talking to yourself

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like that. That's not the kind of talking to

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you oneself that I'm talking about. You see,

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there are many people who will live and die never

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having... really look themselves directly in

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the face. Think of the men who stand before a

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mirror every day of their lives and shave themselves,

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who have never actually stood before that mirror,

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looked themselves directly in the face, and talked.

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to himself. Uh -huh. Now, how does one overcome

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fear? We're going to get right down to the nitty

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-gritty of this thing. And I'm giving you the

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fourth verse of this 34th Psalm. I sought the

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Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from

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all my fears. How does that happen? One thing

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I've discovered in my lifetime of dealing with

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other people's problems as well as with my own

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weaknesses and troubles, and that is that when

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you find the Lord and you really know Him, you

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get a humble but a very definite sense of respect

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for yourself. On the one hand, we're weak, fear

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-struck children. And we have to face that and

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deal with it. But we are also men and women created

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in the image of Almighty God. Whoever you are,

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you ought to say to yourself every once in a

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while, pulling yourself up as high as you can

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to your full height, and say it audibly, I am

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by the grace of God. A child of God. I belong.

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These people who say they're so lonely, so lonely.

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And when they are alone, this terrific sense

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of fear becomes completely overwhelming. When

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you have the sense of belonging, do you really

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know what I'm talking about? Do you really? Have

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you had that wonderful experience? That new birth

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experience? Oh, there's so much involved in being

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born again. That new birth experience. There's

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so much involved. It makes you God -conscious.

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This glorious security of belonging. Sometimes

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I think we take so much for granted. When you

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talk about loneliness, I can't really say that

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I'm heckled by the fear of loneliness. Because

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I never am conscious of being completely alone.

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You may enter the room and you only see Katharine

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Kuhlman. But what you don't understand is I am

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conscious of the presence of Jesus, of the Holy

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Spirit. And some of the greatest times of...

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fellowship that I have ever had has been when

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I've been alone so far as persons are concerned

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and yet not alone at all. He was there. It's

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that fellowship. It's that communion with the

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Holy Spirit. And we do talk things over. I never

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hear his audible voice. I'm not talking about

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that. But it's amazing what he tells you. It

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is amazing. There is definitely a conversation

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that goes on. There is a fellowship. There is

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a communion. And he takes away All of this fear

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of loneliness. When you have had this wonderful

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experience of being born again, remember to whom

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you belong. And when loneliness and the fear

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of loneliness comes upon you, say audibly, i

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am a child of god and i belong to him and he

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will take away the fear of loneliness