<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 Now, I wish to read something about prayer over here in the good Book, in James the 5th chapter, beginning with the 14th verse. Everyone listen closely now.
 Is any sick among you? let him call the elders of the  church; and let them pray over him, anointing with oil  in the name of the Lord:
 The prayer of faith shall save the sick... the Lord  shall raise him up; and if he has committed any sins,  they shall be forgiven him.
 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for  the other, that you may be healed. The effectual  fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man... (Now, a righteous man is not a sinless man. See? A righteous man is a man who is confessing his sins in a righteous One. You see? See, a righteous man... Now, watch, to prove it, the next verse:)
 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are  (See?), and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain:  and it rained not on the earth by the space of three  years and six months. (A man that has his ups-and- downs, just like we do, not an Angel, a man... See?)
 And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and  the earth brought forth her fruit.

L-5 May the Lord bless His Word. Now, Elijah was not an Angel; he was a man. And he had his ups-and-downs, and his troubles like we do. And he had his passions. The Bible said he was a man with like passions--subject to like passions as we are. He was just as apt to make a mistake as you are or I am. He's just as apt to do something wrong as you are or I am.
But he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. And it rained not for the space of three years and six months. Think of that. God listened to a mortal's prayer. And I say this with--with all true reverence: there is not another force on earth; there's not nothing on earth, no matter what it is, what kind of gifts it is; there's nothing in the world that will come ahead of prayer. Prayer is what does the work.

L-6 And when the Angel of the Lord, giving me my commission, He said to me, "You was borned into this world to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world."
And I said, "Sir, I am uneducated. And I'm brought among my people, and we're all poor. And I--I have no education. The people would not believe me, Sir. And I could not do that."
And He said, "As the prophet, Moses, was given two signs to a vindicate his sending of God, so will you be given two signs for this a vindication." Said, "One of them will be, that you will take the people by the hand." And said, "In there, just keep quiet, and it'll be told to you. You'll just say what's wrong with the person."

L-7 Well, I couldn't understand that. But it's not for me to understand. It's for me to believe it. See? And I can't figure it out. I don't know.
And as we were saying here the other night, one of the men that even made fun, and said, "That's wrong." Said, "That's absolutely wrong," the man was stricken in the pulpit. It paralyzed his hand. His hand's spotted all over like leprosy today--that one hand. Will appear in my next meeting as a testimony. See? It was truth.
He said, "Now, it'll come to pass after that, if they won't believe that, it'll come to pass that you'll know the very secrets of the people's heart." And said, "When you tell them that, they'll believe that, for they'll have to." See?
And I said, "Well, that's what I was here for, Sir." I said, "I--I--I've come here because ministers has told me that was the wrong thing. And I would get all... And that's why I'm here."
And He... Then He quoted the Scripture to me. And It referred to me, "Knowest thou not the Scriptures?" Said, "How that Jesus told Nathanael where he was at, when he was under the tree before he called him; knew the secrets of the woman's heart after He had talked to her awhile at the well." He referred me to those Scriptures. And then He told me that Jesus said He would be the same yesterday, today, and for ever. And He left me.


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