<TITLE>23. Par -</TITLE>L-35-3 I laid my daddy on my arm, seen his hair drop down; he looked at me--went to meet God. I seen my brother yonder, struggling, the veins cut, and his neck broke, and the blood flying from his mouth. And I looked at my wife, and she said, "I'll meet you just across the border yonder, Billy."
I laid my hand on my baby the next day, seeing it's little leg jerking. I said, "Bless your little heart, Sharon. Daddy will meet you on the other side." My anchor held. See? See, it's not based upon emotions, not nothing I felt, or nothing; it's what God said about it. I--I believed it.
And it's all these twenty three years of my ministry now; it holds just as tight today, if not tighter. She gradually winds against the cross, because it's pulling me closer to It all the time. See? God, grant that each one of you have the experience of living a close, consecrated life.

L-35-6 See, listen closely now 'fore I close on that. It isn't the blessing that you receive, and shout and glorify God. Those things are good. You're eating manna. That isn't it. That's not what I'm talking about this morning. It isn't whether you raised up and spoke with tongues, or whether you shouted, and run up and down the building. That isn't it. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about that hid-away life in Christ, where all of the time, day and night, you just live in Him. That's what I'm talking about.

L-35-7 Now, He's here. I wished I was a healer this morning. If I was, I'd heal the sick people. I can't heal sick people; I'm just a man. But the Healer Himself is here, the Lord Jesus. Now, if I... The Bible says, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much."
See, Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are. He prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain; and it didn't rain for three years and six months. Then he went and prayed earnestly again; and the heavens give rain. Prayer changes things. I can't change it. You can't change it. It's prayer that changes it.
God told a man one time he was going to die, set his house in order, sent the prophet up to tell him. And the man turned his face to the wall, and begin to cry, and asked God for fifteen years longer to live. And God changed the course, give him fifteen years longer. What is it? Prayer.

L-36-3 Now, we're changing the subject. Just for a few minutes. I don't get to be with you. I'm hoping to be here next Sunday again, the Lord willing. But I--I--I wondered this morning... When I come down, wife said, "Are you going? You're hoarse and everything."
I said, "I promised; I'm going anyhow," See?
Look, I want to tell you something. Now, I know that prayer... This is to be my first time praying since something was ministered to me. As you understand that God knows it's true (See?)--to ever pray for sick people. It won't be in the public as it used to be. Well, of course, in these church meetings it will be like this, but I mean in another category that we go in now. But this I do know; I have confidence. I've watched all along.

L-36-5 Now, if... I would like to trade places today with some man who preached the Gospel, if it be the will of God for me to be a preacher. I'm not much of a preacher, because I'm not educated, and I--I don't know too much of the Word and things. So I can't preach, but my work is to pray for sick people. And I notice in the--in the services, in different places, just what prayer does, what an effect it has.


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