<TITLE>07. Par 23-27</TITLE>L-23 Now, the Lord be with you... Now, we're not going to try to keep you but just a few minutes tonight, and preach just a little bit, call the prayer line. And then maybe a little later on, you get all of your friends in that wants to be prayed for, and when the masses gets to coming like that, I want to start a prayer line and just come by and--and take that day to visit and shaken hands with Brother Boze and everything and come at the platform that night and just start praying for the sick (That's right.), just come right in and start praying, laying hands on the sick. And I believe if it was God would've answer my prayer like that, it would revolutionize my ministry before God. And--and I believe that that inspiration out in the woods the other day, I solemnly believe with all my heart that God wants me to do it. That--that's the truth. See?

L-24 I want to read a little tonight, just a verse or two out of God's eternal Word, before we start to--to pray for the sick. And we'll try to be out in--in just a little bit so you can come back tomorrow night.
Now, in the book of Romans, we read beginning with the 19th verse of the 4th Chapter of Romans:
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body, now dead when he was about a hundred years old. Neither the deadness of Sarah's womb,
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong giving glory to God.
And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able... to do.
And now I want to take the text for a few minutes, of speaking on this, "Faith In Action."

L-25 Now, faith is not based upon the shifting sands of man's ideas. You just couldn't... If I come here and told you there was an Angel of the Lord that was in the building, and--and these things happening, if I didn't have something to prove that to you, you'd have a right to doubt it. If I said God gave a gift to do a certain thing and you seen it come right back around and fail, fail, fail, you'd say, that's wrong. But when it comes back and God proves it every time to be perfect, then that's right; God has proved it. So that's the way we have to... Faith has to have a resting place.

L-26 Faith... If you were going to--to get married, some of you young men... If you were going to get married, the woman that you'd marry, you'd have to have faith in her; she'd have to have faith in you, 'cause it can't be based upon anything else, it's--you've got to have faith in what we're doing. And the only solid resting place for faith is on God's Word.
God's Word is a solid Rock. Of any faith that anybody wants to have in the supernatural, it must be placed first in the Word of the living God. How, it's been through the age, how that when men of old in all ages, when they would really find the Word of God and could grasp It, faith went into action right away.

L-27 Look at Noah way back in Genesis. When God spoke to Noah that day, the Word of God came to Noah and told him to build an ark for the saving of his household. And you know, the world stood upright before the antediluvian destruction; it wasn't leaning back like this to bring water. And when God told Noah He was going to send a flood, a rain, why, you know he had critics. But faith doesn't look at what circumstances is; faith looks to what God says. Faith don't try to reason. Faith just takes it at it's face value.
Now, there's two different kinds of what we call faith today. And I'm sorry to say this to my audience tonight, but I'm too sure of this--or real sure of this, that's there's too much intellectual faith in the stead of being heart faith.


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