<TITLE>17. Par 65-67</TITLE>L-65 And when... Maybe sickness has beat you down to a place, you hardly haven't got strength any more. Maybe there's something that you just can't... Maybe you're so blind you can hardly, can't see. Maybe you're so sick you can hardly get up. But just apply that promise: THUS SAITH THE LORD. "You said whatever things I desire, when I pray, believe I receive it. For me to receive it and accept it as if it was already done." Believe it now. "For I have faith, and 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' I believe it, Lord."
God will look right down in your heart and see that promise. And diseases will melt back from side to side. Cripples will walk; blind will see; deaf will hear; dumb will speak. Why? They have taken God at His Word. Yes, sir. "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing of the Word of God."

L-66 I've got to perform an act, if God will grant it. Now, in a few minutes, right here after speaking like this. God promised me these things. Said, "You would know the secrets of the people's hearts; you'd do these things. He'd put His Spirit..." How do I know? Here I am standing here speaking. I don't know what He will do. But I believe that He will. For He said that He'd do it. That's right. And what is it? It's His grace to you. "I, the Lord hath spoken it. I, the Lord will perform it." And it's not me to worry; it's--that's God's business. God's business is to take care of His Word. He's--He's to take care of His Word to each individual. And He will do it. May the Lord bless you now while we bow our heads just a moment.

L-67 Kind Father, oh, we may be speaking too long. I pray that Your Spirit will now move out over this audience, feeling that You're here and You're near. And I pray, now, that Your great blessings will rest upon all these people. And may the Holy Ghost come now, and may He just confirm this Word. I have tried, Lord, in my poor, ignorant way, and all that I know how, to tell the people that faith cometh by hearing Your Word. "And in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Word went back up into the heavens. The Word come again in the form of the Holy Ghost, and will be with us forever. He said, "When He, the Holy Ghost has come, He will bring these things to your remembrance and will show you things to come." Lord, You promised it and You've done it, and You've kept Your Word. And we're thankful for it tonight, to be standing here in this little church.
Bless every one here. May Your august Presence, Lord, just charge every heart, O Lord, till our hearts become so elated till we can't hold our peace any longer and will scream out, "Hallelujah to the Lamb." Oh, how He redeemed us from a life of sin.
Thinking back there in the Scriptures, when You come on the earth, You believed the Word of God. You knew that God would keep His Word. That's the reason You said, "To destroy this temple. I will raise it up in three days." For David had said, 'I will not leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer My Holy One to see corruption.'" You believed the Word of God on that one promise. And went down into the dungeons of darkness, 'cause You knowed God would keep His promise, for David was a prophet. And the prophet would not lie under the inspiration.
And I thank thee, heavenly Father, for setting that example. And now, we accept it tonight and believe it. And I go forward to challenge. And not for a show but for the glory of God. That the men and women, and boys and girls, who are setting here in this little group tonight, might know and believe that truly You raised up Your Son, Jesus, from the dead and He lives among us tonight, a living, resurrected Lord Jesus. And it confirms the Scripture, that, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever." Grant these things through Jesus' Name, Amen.


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