<TITLE>07. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 Looked like when God would've calling... Hezekiah was talking to God, the prophet went up and told him, "Set your house in order, you're going to die. You're not coming off of this bed." And the prophet done--he had the vision. The prophet went and told the king just exactly what the Lord told him. And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and knowed that was the prophet. So he begin to weep bitterly. And he said, "Lord, I beseech Thee to consider me. I've walked before you with a perfect heart." Wouldn't you like to have that testimony? Said, "I need fifteen years." What for, to run around? No. For the kingdom of God's sake: tear down the altars of Baal and the--build up the altars of God, and set the place in order. That's right.

L-20 Now, looky here. The greatest military and a--one of the greatest Christians that we'd call it today in the nation... Now, here it is. I want you to get it. The king, not an unbeliever, a true believer, a worshipper of God, in prayer, sincere weeping with his face to the wall on his death bed... Looked like God would've spoke to him. He's was the greatest figure in the nation as far as politics was concerned. He was the king. But God has His own ways of doing things.
Instead of doing that, the prophet had done gone, so He spoke to the prophet and said, "Return back and tell him. I heard his prayer. I'm going to spare him for fifteen years," God speaking to His prophet to go tell him.
Now, it wasn't the prophet's prayer that healed the king; it was the king's own prayer. But God spoke to the prophet and told him what he... See what I mean? Amen. I hope you see that. Get what I mean? Now, He's the same God tonight.
Now, look what prayer does. Prayer changed from death to life. God had said, "The man's going to die." And I believe Isaiah told the truth. He was borned a prophet, and his words were true and came from God. And then Hezekiah's prayer changed the opinion of God. Oh, my. I like that. Prayer changes things. It's the most powerful force that God ever put in the hands of man, is a sincere prayer offered to God. Jesus said, "Whatever you ask the Father in My Name, that I'll do." Believe it. Try it once, and see if it isn't true.

L-21 Just remember a little case... Just--I've only... It's really time right now, but you'll pardon me just a moment. I just come home off of that revival, just comes to my mind. Happened just below here.
And I was going away to Erie, Pennsylvania. My pal, Brother Baxter, and all of us were going up there for a meeting: have a few meetings up in Ohio, Toledo. And maybe some of you here might've been from Toledo meeting and up in... That's where I was at. And now, when I got home, a Baptist preacher, the pastor of the Milltown Baptist Church, Brother Hall...
Now, Brother Wood, I see you laughing, 'cause I know you know him, and you know the case. Brother Beeler, you do too. Fine man, one of my converts, was ordained, and is a Baptist minister of the Milltown Baptist Church, Milltown, Indiana, where a little girl had been healed, belonged to the Church of Christ, that wanted to run me out of the city.


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