<TITLE>16. Par 62-65</TITLE>L-62 Say, "What difference does it make if I raise my hand or not?"
Oh, brother, Jesus said, "He that will witness to Me before men, I'll witness of him before God." It's a decision; it's something you got to make. You've got to make decisions. You had to make a decision who you was going to make your wife. You had to make your decision whether you was going to buy the car or not, whether you was going to buy the house or not. God bless you, sir. You have to make a decision. You got to make a decision sometime. God bless you, lady. God will bless you; sure He will. I believe it.
What's the greatest word that one man could say to another? "God bless you." That's it. If God will bless me, that's the best thing I can have. That's all I want, God to bless me; the rest of it's all right.

L-63 God be with you. Oh, how wonderful, several has come. Anyone else just would make your decision, just now, saying, "Jesus, the Son of God, I want this experience. I want to be born again. I want to receive You. I want this assurance. Why, I've been backward, Lord; I can't get nowhere; I'm way down on the bottom step of the ladder; I never climbed up high enough to do anything. I wandered about; I've been tossed about with every wind of doctrine, yet You know I love You. And I want to go a little higher; I'm a backslider."
Remember when Israel went down in Egypt, they never lost their covenant; they just lost their--their blessing, not their covenant. God's covenant stayed the same. Yes, sir. God already made it with Abraham. No matter where they go, it's still made. That's right. It's still there. And Abraham's Seed... You might've been called selected of God to be Abraham's seed. All right, if you have now, believe.

L-64 Our heavenly Father, many hands in here has went up tonight. God, wayward children, straying away from God, never been able to rise above just a little church joining somewhere, yet they love You; they--they come. In the great army they'll always be a private, if they keep the way they are now, but they're in the army. But O God, what's the reward? We want to be majors and generals. As Paul said, "When you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you."
Father, we pray that You'll bless each one of them. Bring them up the ladder just a little higher tonight, God. Give them some sort of a new experience tonight, that they'll know that--that You blessed them.

L-65 And these poor wayward sinners who's built their house out there on sinking sands, and they look at it, it looks crazy to them, "Why did I do this? Why do I do this? Why do I drink? Why do I smoke? Why do I gamble? Why I don't go to church? The whole house looks crazy."
Sure, certainly, it's built upon muddy ground, old sinking moss, going to be all washed away one of these days. God, let them come to this precious Stone, this sure Foundation that God laid and not man, climb up on the ladder tonight, feel the freedom of a good free breath. Grant it, Lord.
After coming out of the mucky, dirty, filthy alleys with the rats and things, and the garbage of the alley, set them upon Mount Zion. Hallelujah. Let them feel what it means to be Blood washed, all sins under the Blood, catching the free air of the Holy Ghost as it fans them, as the loving arms of Jesus goes around their neck and said, "My wondering child, I'm proud of you tonight; you've come home." Grant it, Lord. May every one be saved.
And then, Father, while doing that, there's many of Your sick children setting here waiting. I've tried tonight to show them Your work, that when You speak anything, it has to be. It's got to be; it's You Yourself. You said, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee." And I pray that You'll heal every one of them. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.


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