<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 You know, according to modern science that speaking, ministers, who just speaking to an audience of people, takes more strength for them in twenty minutes of speaking than eight hours in physical labor. That's what a--a tear down. Now, multiply that by about one hundred and you get some conception of what it is. And so that's the thing that I desire all you dear Christian people to pray for me that God will somehow... I don't know. I once wondered how He could--how He got tired, and being the Son of God, but I know now what it is. It's a... It isn't a--it isn't a physical stain. It's a more or less, I'd say, a mental strain: nerve and mental. See, it--it moves over you and you're just at the age, coming in the meeting... Not this afternoon, but at night time...

L-6 There's sets one out there, maybe out... Maybe here sits a poor person with a cancer, setting there. Just one word will do the work.
Here come a minister up, a few moments ago, setting over here; an aged man had had a growth on his lips. He told me he'd been preaching, I believe, nearly forty years, and--a Pentecostal preacher for forty years. And said I told him all about his conditions in a line somewhere, and God taken that thing off his mouth. And there he sets. You see? And a... and I thought, "That man was preaching the Gospel 'fore I was borned."

L-7 And here, come up here... Now just one word here, the Congressman, Mr. Upshaw from the Congress of the United States, setting here. Invalid for sixty-six years and me standing here under inspiration and seen a vision when the man had just been brought in: of where he was, and what he done, and what happened. And here he is today, walking around like the rest of us. See? That set under things for years...
And last evening, I watched that woman laying there that was bound with arthritis. I was told when they brought her in, taken three men to bring her in there, she was--how she was, and how that...There she's...After dealing with her a little while, going down there and laying hands on her, she got up.

L-8 Here set a woman in a wheelchair: her feet hanging down and such a condition there. And I--I talked to her. And while speaking to her, the Holy Spirit begin to reveal to her. And--and I said, "Now, in a few moments when I go to the platform, now if I look down at you, I want you to obey what I tell you. And when I got to the platform, up she got out of the wheelchair. There she was...?...
Oh, well, now, those things is what makes a... Did you know that most all poets and--and prophets, and so forth, are considered neurotics? Did you know that? You--you don't believe that, but I'm going to... I'll prove it to you.


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