<TITLE>03. Par 17-26</TITLE>L-17 I've often wondered if I should carry my services the way I've been carrying them, just pray for, oh, maybe I get to a dozen or two of a night, or something like that, where there's thousands of them a-waiting; and it just keeps coming to my heart that I shouldn't do that, that God had given me the authority to--to put the diseases--to break the power of Satan.
And Wednesday night, a week, I come down here at the Tabernacle, and there's a group of people had gathered in, so I just laid like a fleece before the Lord; I said, "Lord, I never did walk out..."
I have, many times, I've always questioned the people first, "Do you believe? How much do you believe? Do you believe I'm able to do this?" and all these different things like that. And then--and then I'd wait and get them on the platform, and wait till I saw a vision, see just exactly what was going on, then I'd pronounce it just what it was. And it was so slow, I could hardly get to the people. But a few days ago, I was wondering...

L-20 Many times, I'd be standing on the platform, where there may be a hundred thousand people. And first thing you know, something real bold something just rise up in me, and I'll go right on, and call that demon, and cast it out. And I thought, "That's strange." And then here I begin to think... Many of you has read my little book, no doubt all in here, and of many instants there...
I seen one night at Portland, where a demon... Oh, my. A man weighing three hundred pounds about, run to the platform, and he said, "Well, you hypocrite." Said, "I'll show you how much man I got." He was an insane man out of the institution. And he run up to the platform and--and was going to break my neck. And--and five hundred preachers just fell back from him. And he drew back his arm and said, "I'll break every bone in your body." I weighed a hundred and twenty-eight pounds, and him about three hundred, and great deep chest, and, oh, what a--a powerful man he was, well able to carry out his threats. And in the... Right in the midst of it, why, there was just something moved upon me, and I just walked out to where he was. He said, "Tonight I'll break every bone in your frail-looking body."
I said, "In the... Because you have challenged God's Spirit, tonight you'll fall over my feet, in the Name of the Lord." There was the two prophecies made.
And he rushed forward to me, said, "I'll show you whose feet I'll fall over," just spit in my face when he come up, and he drew back his great big fist.
Just then I said, "Satan, come out of the man." And he threw up his arms, and screamed, and fell across my feet, till the police had to pull him off. Now, he didn't have any faith in me. He didn't believe me. And I see it takes a bold challenge. I've been praying for every one that comes.

L-26 The other night there was people here, a woman couldn't speak. As soon as that evil power was challenged, she spoke normally. There was a lady here that had a big goiter on her throat. I just walked up to her and said, "Satan, I--I just have the authority to break your power. You have to come off of her."
I said, "He's gone." I said, "Do you believe that?"
And she said, "Yes."
I said, "All right, you go home and put a string around your neck, and measure it, and see how--how big it is. And every three days, cut the piece of string off of there, see how it starts shrinking."
The first day there it was about that much, the second day about like that, and the third day about like that, where it'd went down. See? Just to demonstrate, she brought it here to the platform.
And then I begin to hear it come in. And I'm just asking God, would that be His Divine will? And the other morning about...


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