<TITLE>20. Par 693-705</TITLE>L-693   "So He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed." So, there's nothing I would have, to heal you. There's nothing the church would have, to heal you. The only thing we can pray for is this, that your faith will not fail, that you'll come to the altar this morning to accept Christ as your Healer, as you did for your Saviour. And without any... God works miracles. He shows great sign. Blind, deaf, dumb, everything, are healed right here at the tabernacle. But whether it is or not, we accept It, anyhow. Many times those things are by visions.

L-694   How many was here about three Sundays ago, or four, when the man come in here, both blind and paralyzed, or sitting in a chair with unbalanced nerve. And before I left home, I saw him in a vision, "That there'd be a man there, dark hair, turning gray. His wife is attractive-looking woman, about sixty years old. She'll come and be crying," and she'll ask me. "And to come back and pray for her husband." He set right there.

L-695 And I come down. I said to some of my brethren here, "Watch this."

L-696 And when we went down to the altar, others had prayed. When I went to pray, I walked right away and come back over here. And his wife rose up and come just exactly the way the Lord had said it would be. People watching, to see if it would happen that way. It never failed. And so when he walked...

L-697   Come to find out, that a man, Dr. Ackerman, down in Birdseye, Indiana, was the one who sent him up here; who is a Catholic, and his boy is a priest in the monastery there at Saint Meinrad. And Dr. Ackerman is a hunting partner of mine, and he sent the man up here. And the Lord showed me a black-headed man that would send him, but I didn't know who it was.

L-698 I said, "Was that Dr. Ackerman?"

L-699 He said, "It was." See? And then the man...

L-700 I said, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD." Walked down. I said, "Sir, stand up." Both blind and couldn't... he... The--the balance nerve was gone. He couldn't hold himself up like that. See? Been that way for years, been to Mayos and all around. And just prayed the prayer for him, and raised him up. There he went, walking down through.

L-701   First he said, "I can't see you." Then he screamed, "Yes. I can." His eyes come open there. He had been orthodox, his wife Presbyterian.

L-702 Some people think that "Presbyterian don't shout, and Orthodox." You ought to heard them. Sure. They were screaming and hugging each other. Come back and got his wheel chair, and walked on out and down the steps, just like any other man, could see and speak and--and so forth.

L-703 Had a letter from him, or called, other day. I believe, Brother Cox went to him. Said, "His eyes had a burning sensation." Certainly. It's the nerve, the optical nerves are growing and coming back to life, you know, and taking its place. The curse was taken off.

L-704   If you'll let nature have its way, if nothing hinders nature, then it'll--it'll have full sway. If you got a band around your arm, shutting off circulation, your hand will finally die. Now, because, naturally, it'll be all right if you'll just let it alone. But something has interrupted nature. Then, if you can't see it, there's no way for a doctor to catch it. Only two things he can work by: what he can see, what he can feel. That's the only thing he can work by: what he sees and what he feel.

L-705 If he can't see it, then has to be spiritual. Then there's, only thing can, one thing can happen; we pray, Christ moves the curse, sends away the Devil, and that begins to get normal, well. Gets well, and that's all there is to it. "In my name they shall cast out devils." Is that right? It's a promise to the church. It's a promise of power. The what? It, it's His Presence with us. Now, what makes us from being perfect this morning, to do those things just as He did it, is because we're still in the veil. See? But we have some feeling there that tells us, "Oh, yes." See?


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