<TITLE>06. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Now, what that is for is to build the faith of the patient. I try, and have been, and said when I was in Europe, I try just to hold back as long as I could, 'cause I can't... It makes me so weak till I can't stand up. Sometimes they pack me from the platform, as many of the people know that, just takes the very life out of you.
And while we're here tonight, I was hope... Before I start in to praying, that I would explain it to the people, so you would understand. I don't think there's anything wrong with me; it doesn't hurt me; I come out of it in a little bit. But it begins to draw down. When it does, it changes features, everything. I don't know who's around me, nothing about it. The patient comes to the platform, and if...

L-24 You might come right now and tell me you had faith, I'd believe you. I'd take your word, 'cause I believe you're a Christian, and you mean that you got faith. But sometimes you say you have faith when you just think you have faith. But now, I would believe you had faith now. But under that anointing, it--you know whether they got faith or not. And when they haven't got faith, it seems like your patient's down here, and here you are up here. And they're down here saying they have faith, but they're supposed to be up here. See what I mean? But when that faith of the patient rises up to here, then I've never seen it in my life, God being my judge, but what was delivered right there at the platform (That's right.), no matter what it was.
I've seen newspaper reporters jump to the platform and scream when they see little legs about that big around come normal, and measure them and so forth. And little twisted, drawed children just normally come out and walk off the platform; people would faint and everything looking at it, and so forth; crippled, and even to the dead, raised right up after being dead and laying on the roadsides and so forth...

L-25 Now, that wasn't nothing I had anything to do with it. I guess tonight, if Jesus would walk into the tent, and would call for us all to answer in the judgment, the weakest of saints would have a greater reward than I would. Now, that's--that's from the bottom of my heart. I'm not saying that to be humble; I'm saying that from my heart, because that I was... I haven't suffered like you people have, many of you in the way that's been coming along for a long time.
I was reared up in the Baptist church when my ministry... And when this gift was ministered to me, why, they told me that they thought I'd lost my mind; and they asked me what I'd eat, did I have a nightmare? And I didn't appreciate that, and they didn't believe it, and said, "You, grammar school education, preach to people around the world?" Said, "You better run on back over home," like that.

L-26 Well, they did not want me, and the full gospel people said, "We've been praying for that gift to come to our church." They received me. I've always been a black sheep till that time. And I finally found people where I belonged.
All my life, I seemed like that I--I couldn't find the class that I belonged in. When I was a boy, I didn't smoke and drink, and the--the young folks had nothing to do with me, so... And the girls all, when I got going with girls, they went to dances, and I didn't go to dances. So I was a wallflower. And when I got saved, I believe in an old fashion heartfelt religion. And so the church didn't. They thought I was a fanatic, and... Well, I... Birds of a feather... I guess I finally got into the right place. And I'm so thankful. So I'm very happy to be with the groups that I believe that we'll be in glory together.


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