<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>56-0414, Blind Bartimaeus, Revival Assembly Church, Columbia, SC, 105 min
L-1 Shall we bow our heads just a moment for prayer before we set down.
Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the Lord Jesus, Who has redeemed us from a life of sin, and was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed. We're so glad tonight that He is alive forever more among us.
We pray, Father, for all the people's tonight, that You will give to them everything that they have need of, both spiritual and physical blessings. And may it be tonight when we leave, may we say like Cleopas and them at the first resurrection, "Did not our hearts burn within us, because of His Presence." For we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Son, the Lord Jesus. Amen. May be seated.

L-2 This afternoon it is a privilege for me to come to minister in His Name. Last evening I was given some cloths and little notes, and I prayed over them and answered your notes back to the best of my ability. And now tonight, I see they got some more laying here. Tomorrow will be pretty busy day for us, we--I got a double service, and them right together almost, tomorrow. So if you will, and be so kind, if you just write to Jeffersonville to me, and I'll be glad to send you a--a cloth that I prayed over there. I send out several thousand a week. There's no charge; there's nothing attached to it, it's just everything's free; and I'm not trying to get your address; I have no radio programs, nothing to sponsor. Just--just send, and it's yours absolutely free. And I prayed over each one.
Now, the letter that you get for instruction... We have a prayer band all the way around the world. Some of them has to get up at one, two, and three, o'clock in the morning. And there's just thousands of people praying at once. And the Lord Jesus is doing some wonder... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-3 Now, in the Bible, many reads and say, "Anoint my handkerchief." Now, I don't pack anointing oil; that's all right though (See?); that's just fine. The Bible does teach to anoint with oil. And anything the Lord does, why, and blesses, I'm sure for it. But now if you'll just watch, the Scripture doesn't say that--that Paul anointed the--the handkerchiefs; they said, "They took from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs and aprons." Acts 19. And see, they had noticed that God was with the apostle, and so they just--that's--they knew that.
And you know where I think Paul got that in the Scriptures, when the Shunammite woman, her baby that had been promised her by Elijah the prophet, because she was so kind to him and did for him. And he told her that she was going to have a baby, and she didn't believe it. So then the baby came. And when it was got to be a young child, ten, twelve, years old, one day it was out in the field with his father, about eleven o'clock. I think it must've had a sun stroke, it's... "My head, my head," the baby cried.

L-4 However, the father took the young servant and had him pack the child, laid it on its mother's laps, and about noontime it died. And she took it and put it on the prophet's bed. What a wonderful place to put it. And then she said, "Saddle a mule and ride and don't stop. We must go to the prophet." She wanted to find out why that the baby had died.
So God don't reveal all things to His servants, you know. So Elijah didn't know why it died. But He had a staff that he had handled, and he told Gehazi, his servant, "Now, you take this staff and go lay it on the baby."
And now, I think that's where Paul must've got laying handkerchiefs on the people that come from him. He knowed what he touched was blessed. If the people... But the woman in that case, she knew--she didn't know about the staff; she knew God was in His servant. So he went and laid his own body across the baby and it come to life.


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