<TITLE>18. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 But, then, when I got to... Got back home that night about ten-thirty or eleven o'clock, there laid the old opossum.
Brother Woods said, "She'll never move." Said, "When it got dark, she would've moved, but she'll never move now."
Well, she laid there all night. I couldn't get that opossum off my mind. The next morning, I went out; Billy come in. He'd been out fishing or somewhere, and He come in around midnight, and the old opossum still laying there. So I...
The next morning, I went out about six-thirty or seven o'clock, when I got up, and went out, and there laid the old opossum. Well, I thought, "She's dead." And I kicked her a little bit, like that. And I seen a little kind of a grin like on the side, when I was kicking her.
And I said, "My." And that poor little opossum looked like they were just still trying to nurse her.
I thought, "What a pity. She couldn't have strength to pull that pocket back again."

L-55 Well, my little girl, Rebekah, you know, the one that sets in the meetings and prays for the sick, and so then, she come out and looked. She said, "Oh, daddy, look at that poor thing."
I said, "Isn't that awful, honey?"
And she said, "Oh, I can't look at it." And she went back in the house.
And I went into my den room. I set down, put my hands up like this. I said, "My, I guess today," I said, "I don't know what I'll have to do with that opossum." And I was setting there thinking like that. And all I...
Something said, "Well," said, "you was preaching a sermon about her yesterday, being a real mother."
I said, "Yeah, I know that."

L-56 And I said, "I was preaching to Leo and Gene and them telling her, what a... and the--the milk man and all of them, what a real mother she was. That's right."
Said, "Well," said, "you was talking about she wanted to--to take care of her babies."
I said, "Yeah, that--that's right." And I said, "Well, what about it?"
He said, "Well," said, "now I sent her up here. And she's come and laid at your door, like a lady, for twenty-four hours waiting her turn to be prayed for. And you never said a word to her."
And I said, "Well, I..." I thought, "Who am I talking to?"
I thought, "Well, what happened here? Who was I talking to? Why," I said, "I was answering somebody." And just then, I felt It, you know. And I thought, "O God, was that You? Forgive your poor dumb servant."
And I walked out there, where that opossum was. I'll meet you in the judgment with this. Walked out there, I seen it done other times, not just the opossum, but... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... thing.

L-57 And walked down there where that opossum was and there she laid lifeless. I said, "Heavenly Father," I said, "I know that You show me visions of human beings that's sick. You speak to their heart to come be prayed for. And You showed me Brother Bosworth, the very vision, the very minute, and the Angel of God beat the telegram here twenty-four hours from South Africa, told me about him laying there like that. But is Your sovereign grace to this poor old dumb brute? She had no soul. She didn't know no revelation. But the God of love, the God of Life, Who knows the sparrow when even they're so insignificant till two of them it takes to make a farthing... Jesus said, "Isn't two sparrows sold for a fourth of a penny; but your Father knows every one of them?"
And here that old opossum, I said, "If the Holy Ghost has led that old opossum, and she's laid here, a dumb brute, unconscious. God forgive me." I said, "Then and... If You want... And if You also wanted me to pray for this, and You sent it here, and I was so dumb not to know it, I pray Thee, then Father, in Jesus' Name, heal this mother."


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