<TITLE>19. Par 209-219</TITLE>L-209 I couldn't get that poor old opossum off my mind. I thought, "God, I ought to go in, and get a gun, and kill that opossum, but I can't do it. What's the matter, Lord?" I walked up-and-down the floor. Daylight come, old opossum laying there. I went back, thought, "O God, there she is, that hot sun, laying right at my step." Started walking back through the floor.
The blessed Holy Spirit stopped me, said, "You called her a lady. You took up for her, for being a real mother. And I sent her to your house to be prayed for, and you're letting her lay there like a woman at your doorstep."
I said, "God, forgive Your stupid servant." I walked out there and said, "God, if--if You are merciful enough to deal with a dumb animal, who has got lady enough about her to raise her babies, to send an ignorant opossum to my doorstep to be prayed for, O God, heal the opossum. In Jesus' Name, I pray."

L-213 The old opossum turned over and looked at me, raised up on her feet, picked up her babies and put them in there, as if to bow her head, and said, "Thank you," and took off to the woods, rejoicing. She knows a lot more than preachers do, sometimes. She will follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. If God can deal with a opossum, how much could He deal with a human, if they'd only...?... No uncertain sound about that. God uses animals to teach services: sure does.
He used a mule, one time to rebuke a backslidden preacher.

L-215 Great Saint Francis of Assisi, who you Catholic people claim was a Catholic, but he wasn't. He protested the Catholic church as hard as I do. But there wasn't no other church in that day, so they took him and called him a saint. When he went out on the street to preach the same Gospel that I'm preaching now, the birds was chattering in the trees. He said, "My little sisters, I'm going to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Keep still while I'm preaching." And every bird hushed their mouth.
This is no uncertain sound. We're living in the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. His blessings is here.

L-217 A God that could floor an airplane down yonder, and hold it for the sake of a poor, ignorant, colored woman, who didn't know her ABC's to heal her boy with a venereal disease... You know the story.
God, that could speak to an ignorant opossum, when there is preachers in this city that would laugh about Divine healing, people would turn up their nose and say I was "crazy," because I taught it. And God is dealing with an ignorant opossum, because she was a lady, because she loved her children, because she was ready to die for them... The same God...

L-219 We're sent here on this earth for different things. Some are sent to preach the Gospel. Some are sent to prophesy. Some are sent to pray the prayer of faith. Some has gifts of healing.
And the same God that spoke yonder in our room that night, or down here on the--driving in that vision, and told me Brother Bosworth was laying yonder at the point of death, in South Africa... And the Holy Ghost beat the telegram here, twenty-four hours. That same God, the same God that was for respects of loyalty... O God, bless your heart.
Loyalty: I'd give the last drop of my blood for the blackest or yellowest woman in this world, that would want to live true to her husband. I'd die for her, like I would my own wife. I respect, as a lady.


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