<TITLE>14. Par 44-44</TITLE>L-44 And I went out and punched her and look like she didn't move. And I tried a little bit, and I seen she was still alive though. But oh, my, that big old leg is all swollen up and maggots and flies all over it. And I said, "Poor old thing." I went back in to the side room to my den room. I just set down there where the sick comes to be prayed for, and I was just rubbing my head like this. And I thought, "Well, what am I going to do with that opossum. I got to do something. That's a shame."
And something... Now, I don't know how you're going to believe this; that's up to you and God. I heard something say, "Well, she's waited at your door for twenty-four hours like a lady. You preached about her yesterday and took a text and said she was a real mother; she wanted to raise her babies. And I've had her laying at your door for twenty-four hours. You've never said a thing about it."
Well, I said, "I didn't know. What do you mean?"
Said, "She come to be prayed for. She's waiting for her turn."
I said, "Well, I didn't know she come..." Thought, "What's the matter with me; am I talking to myself?" Why, I thought, "What is that?" And I recognized the Presence of the Holy Spirit. I opened the door and went out there and I stood by her. I said, "Heavenly Father..." Becky was looking down at her. I said, "Heavenly Father, have I been so stupid to know that You, with Your Divine grace..." I said, "Now, wait a minute. Yes, You know the birds of the air; You know all things, You know all... And... Why," I said, "the this--then this old opossum knows more about Divine healing than a lot of preachers does." And I said, "Here she is." And now, she ain't got no soul, so it encouraged me. You told me go pray for sick, and I've seen many times sick people be led. But if You thought enough of the respects of that old opossum for her to raise her babies, and You had to pull--had the Holy Spirit to bring her, 'cause she didn't have any soul; she's a dumb brute, and she come and laid there as a mother, dying, waiting for her turn to be prayed for?" I said, "God forgive me for being so stupid." I said, "Now, Heavenly Father, I pray, if that be the case, that You heal the old opossum. I ask it in Jesus' Name, if You sent the old thing from the road or wherever she was chewed up and her laying there... And she wants to raise her babies and You sent her here to be prayed for and led her in here." Why, I said, "I'm sorry I didn't understand it. So I pray that she'll be healed; in Jesus' Name."
And no more than I said that, the old opossum turned over and looked at me, got up, picked up her nine little babies, and put them right back in her bosom like this, and looked up to me as if to say, "Thank you, kind sir." Stuck that tail up in the air and right down the road, and over to the woods she went just hard as she could. That's right...?...


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