<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Well, the people I have give the sign instead of praying for the sick. And I've noticed along that how the Holy Spirit... Do you know, that there's some things that we have to do that God cannot do until we do it? Did you know that? The ministry... Look, we are the branches; He is the vine. But the vine can't bear fruit; it's the branches that bear fruit. Is that right? Now, He--He furnishes the energy, but we got to do the job. You get what I mean? The Holy Spirit's here tonight, as you see Him each night. He knows you, but the only way He speaks is through us. Is that right? We--our hands are His hands, our eyes are His eyes.
And now, we notice that He gives us things. Now, there Jesus was standing one day, looking upon the harvest... Do you believe He was the Lord of the harvest? And He looked out upon the harvest and said, "You pray the Lord of the harvest, that He will send laborers into His harvest, because the harvest is ripe and laborers are few." In other words, "You ask Me to do what I know that's got--ought to be done." They--He could not do it until they asked Him to do it.

L-13 I never will forget, here not long ago. The person may be setting present tonight. I remember, I was down here in Zion City. Is anybody here was in the last Zion meeting in Zion City? All right, you probably remember this.
One night, as customary, Billy Paul and Brother Baxter, they'd go down, and--and along three o'clock in the evening when I'm going to have kind of a service of discernment, I'd just go in. Wife and them was with me; they was in another room in the motel. We was out several miles from the city. And I was in this motel, and I--and I--I just--I just couldn't go to church that night. I was so burdened I just couldn't move. Now, that's happened hundreds of times, but just telling this time.

L-14 Then I--I remember I just--I just couldn't go. Well, they come back after me, said, knocked on the door, and I didn't go out. And Billy, he went out and drinking a Coke, come knocked on the door again, and--and I didn't go. And so he shook the door and said, "Daddy." And I was weeping; I just couldn't help it. My heart was breaking. I said, "Billy, you go tell Brother Baxter that I'm not coming tonight, just go ahead and preach, sing songs, and I will be there tomorrow night."
He said, "What's the matter, Daddy?"
And I said, "Just go do as you're told." So he turned away, and went out there, and set down again, and got another Coke. And I went down, and knelt down in the chair, and I said, by the chair, and I said, "Oh, God, have mercy, what can I do?" I said, "What have I done? Is there something wrong somewhere?"

L-15 And I heard somebody a talking right out the door. Sound like it was talking like German or something, oh, just chattering away. And I raised up, and I thought, "Where is that person? Who is that? There's nobody here that I know of." Sound like it was right--right by my side at the door. Well, I raised up, relieved, and started to cross to the door, and 'fore I got there, I found out it was me doing the talking. I--I get so yielded. Why, I--I just kindy, what we call, hunkered down on the floor, just kindy knelt down there just a little bit, it quit talking. And when it stopped talking, now I never did speak in tongues, over about once in my life as I ever knowed of. But it was--it was talking in some language; I--I didn't know what it was. And so I--I just set real still, and when it left me, I felt like I could run through a troop and leap over a wall. I never felt so good in my life.


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