<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 Therefore, in my meetings it's not to lay hands on the sick. That's what I--I do not do. I do do it, but not in a measure like Mr. Roberts, Mr... The... Mr. Allen and many of the other men... My meeting is a meeting to, and a gift to bring the Presence of Christ so you can touch Him. You can receive His blessing.
My hands would mean nothing. I'm a man. But once His hand on you, something takes place. Mine might be psychology; mine might be sensation or a feeling. His is faith and power. Whose hands do you need then, mine or His? You need His. That's what we're here to try to bring you to: a recognition of His omnipresence.
Now, each night there's prayer cards give out. And the reason we give out prayer cards, is to line the people up so it'll be not like an arena. It's to be, come into the prayer line with respect one for the other, each man taking his place. While there's one healed in the prayer line, there's fifty healed out of the prayer line, always.

L-18 And now, we used to, I'd when I first started in the services I'd just send all the cards out to the ministers that was cooperating, a hundred to each one. The first man got his group in, that about settled it, if it was a three or four night meeting, 'cause we don't get to that many. Then it caused feelings among the ministers.
The next I did then was send a man down and let him give out prayer cards just all the first day, maybe several hundred cards. Well, then if you wasn't there the first day, you'd never get in the prayer line. There was complaint for that.
Then I'd send them down and let them give out so many prayer cards each day, and then I would call beginning with number 1 or something like that, and then go the next night number 2, on the next line of cards, and the next night start from wherever I left off at. Believe it or not when the man would give out the prayer cards, they would... If they didn't get the number within ten or fifteen they sure wouldn't have it. They'd throw it on the floor.

L-19 Then I said, "Then I can't do it that way, so I'll just give out the prayer cards, and I'll have some little child to come up and start counting and where he stops, or she, that's where I'll start from." Believe it or not, mom would have junior to stop just where her card was. So we're still dealing with human beings. That wouldn't work.
So one night in prayer the Lord revealed to me just to go down each day, give out prayer cards, start from anywhere that He laid on my heart from the time that I got to the platform. Therefore no one knowed where to give a person a prayer card would put him in the prayer line.

L-20 One time I had a man that was in the... giving out prayer cards and I caught him, or another man did, selling a prayer card that would guarantee to get a man's wife up on the platform. He was fired that night.
I brought my brother with me. I knowed he wouldn't do that. When my brother got married, I brought my son. There's three people gives out prayer cards. My son, if it's a small group like this. If the groups get heavier, Mr. Mercier here, my associate, Mr. Goad. They are tape boys, who has the tapes of the meetings. They give out the prayer cards too to help Billy along.

L-21 And then we just, wherever the Lord puts upon our heart, from then we start from right there. Might at 1, tomorrow night at 50, and the next night maybe at 10, and the next night at 12, and the next night at 75. No one knows till we get here. I think that's just as honorable as it can be.
Then everyone gets a chance if their prayer cards, night or... And that doesn't have one thing to do with it. It only gets somebody up here. If the anointing of the Holy Spirit begins to come into the meetings, and then all out through the audiences everywhere, the Lord God begins to call the sick and the afflicted.


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