<TITLE>02. Par 3-5</TITLE>L-3 I always keep my meetings rather small, because that I don't have to--to beg for offerings to pay off the expenses. If one thing that I think that I glory in the Lord Jesus for helping me in that manner. I don't have nothing that I have to support like a radio program, or television program, or anything.
I just come and visit you and little expenses that we have we take it up right away, and I never will permit people to--to beg for money regardless of how far we go in debt, they can't do it. The manager's ever found begging that's the last time he's a manager, 'cause we are not to take people's money. We're here to help you, to bring something to you, and you're a blessing to us. And we do not come for your money, and we try to keep that clean and clear worldwide.
Now, we close the service, the Lord willing, Sunday a week and then Thursday I go to Switzerland, and then from Switzerland perhaps to Frankfurt, Germany, and then up into Sweden, if the Lord willing and back to the States again to continue the services up through Canada.

L-4 Now, we appreciate your prayer. Prayer changes things. There's only one thing that can change the mind of God and that's prayer, but God can say anything, and prayer can--can change it. That's a pretty good bite, wasn't it? But it's the truth.
It was in the Scripture that He did. Could you imagine the prophet Isaiah, going up and told Hezekiah, "THUS SAITH THE LORD" (a real prophet) said, "Go up and tell Hezekiah he's not come off that bed; he's going to die right there." So Hezekiah...
Went up and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD that you're going to die right there where you are. You're not coming off the bed."
And when the prophet left, I can imagine going out through the celebrities standing outside the gate saying, they say, "Oh prophet of God, what about our beloved king?"
"THUS SAITH THE LORD he's not coming off of the bed."
Goes on out to the soldiers in the outer courts. "Oh prophet of God, what about our king?"
"THUS SAITH THE LORD he's not coming off of the bed."
To the poor people outside the gates, "Oh prophet of God, we believe that you come from God. What about our king? What--what's going to be the end of him?"
"THUS SAITH THE LORD he's not coming off of the bed. He's going to die right on his bed. THUS SAITH THE LORD."

L-5 Got on out to his little hut, old Hezekiah turned over, began to talk to the Lord and said, "Lord, I beseech Thee to consider me. For I've walked before You with a perfect heart." That's a great big word, isn't it? Testimony like that. "I have walked with a perfect heart," and he needed fifteen years more.
Now, the king was the highest figure, earthly speaking or politically speaking, in the whole nation of Israel; and the greatest man, politically speaking, was talking to the King of kings.
Now, it looks like if the King of kings were to have anything to say back to the king, He would spoke to him, but it sure proves that He was talking to him. But God has ways and means of doing things His own way, and if through that it goes back out to the prophet. And He says to the prophet, "Now, you go tell him that I heard his prayer, and I'm going to send him fifteen years."


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