<TITLE>16. Par 52-54</TITLE>L-52 Now, if He would come down tonight in His power, and if you go to pray and say, "Lord, I want to touch Your garment."... And let at least two or three in this building with faith enough to reach and touch Him to a place that His sovereign grace will turn back and speak with my lips, and tell you what your trouble is or what you want, as He did when He was here on earth, would you believe He raised from the dead then? The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established."
I'm going to change that tonight. Don't you pray for yourself; you get somebody else on your mind and pray for them. That ought to make it... You ask God for somebody else and not yourself. You ask for someone else and just start praying, saying, "Lord, somebody else to pray for." And believe with all your heart that God will grant it. And if God will grant it, then if you go out of here still disbelieving, I don't know...
The Bible said, "Go ye and what no more?" Sin no more is right. What is sin? Unbelief. That's exactly right. "Go ye and sin no more, or a worse thing come upon you." Go and disbelieve no more.

L-53 Now, in reverence before the Holy Spirit, let's just be reverent, real... a moment... You pray and ask God. You say, "Now, Lord, I know that that man standing there is just a--a man. He's... When he was here not long ago, he was just a boy, but now he's turned to a middle-aged man. He's dying by degree like all of us are, like a candle burning out. Someday his days are over. But I believe that today, that You have people that's pastors, and teachers, and prophets, and evangelists and so forth."
Look, when Hezekiah was told by the prophet, "You're going to die; set your house in order."...
And that king, the greatest man in Israel, turned his face to the wall, and wept bitterly, and said, "Lord, I beseech You to consider me. I've walked before You with a perfect heart. Spare me fifteen years." Why didn't God Jehovah, the King of heaven, talk to His king of Israel? He didn't. He talked to His prophet.
He said, "Isaiah, you go back and tell him."
There was the king standing right exactly in front of the pro--the... God talking to him, asking for this. God could've talked right back to the king, but He didn't make the king up that way. He had a prophet down there. He spoke to the prophet, said, "Go, tell him I heard his prayer and going to spare him for fifteen years."

L-54 See how God does? He has instruments He works through. Do you believe that? Say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen"--Ed.] Certainly. We're not all alike. We're made up different; our makeups are different.
Now, happens to be that as a preacher, I'm not... You know I'm not much of a preacher. I'm a spare tire for that, and a poor evangelist. But what it was, God gave me a gift as a baby. The very moment I was born, that same Light was hanging over the crib where I was born. Wasn't nothing I did, nothing my family did, it was by election, God's grace.
Now, It's here right now at this platform, that same Light, standing... It's right here now. It's not five feet from where I'm standing. And I challenge your faith to--to pray for God to... Not that we have to have this, but that--that it might fulfill the Word of God.
Jesus didn't have to heal anybody to prove Who He was. Why did He do it? That the Word might be fulfilled. Well, that's what He's doing tonight: that the Word might be fulfilled, "The things that I do shall you also."


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