<TITLE>10. Par 41-43</TITLE>L-41 Now notice then, while he was standing there blessing God for the Child and for letting him be considered a fanatic... And no doubt the scornful people said, "Now, that goes to show... Look at that woman. There she is with this baby out of holy wedlock. And here she comes in, and there stands that old crank that all the priests has told us not to listen to, and here that old crank comes around, and... Now, wonder what they'll do about that?"
Oh, but Mary, in her heart she knew Who that Child belonged to. And so does the true believer tonight, that's been borned of the Spirit of God. You might be called fanatic or whatever it may, but in your heart you know Who your Father is, if you're borned of the Spirit of God. You remember when that birth taken place, and you know that sacred sands at the backside of the desert. Every believer must. And there they were.

L-42 And now, there was one in the temple by the name of Anna. She was a prophetess. She had been blind for many years, the Bible tells us. She'd lived with a husband seven years from her virgincy, but she was about eighty-four years old, the Scripture says, about fourscore and four, I believe, which would be eighty-four. And she's setting over in the corner. She did not leave the temple day or night, but she stayed in the temple, serving God with fasting and praying.
And she looked for the coming of Christ too. And the Holy Spirit was upon her. Now, if she's waited for it, here it is in the temple. And she got up, blind. And here comes this prophetess, Anna, in the temple, blind, making her way through the people, touching one, "Pardon me. Pardon me." They seen she was blind. She, led by the Spirit, blind... Until she stood in the presence of this critical sight, as the church called it, to a woman that had a Child--as they thought--out of holy wedlock, and a fanatic priest who said he saw Angels and visions... And this old blind woman, led by the Spirit, moves her way through those thousands of people and stood by the side of the Child and blessed God and prophesied over Him.

L-43 If God can lead a blind woman... It's a lot worse to be spiritual blind than it is physical blind. If I have to lose either sight, let it be my physical sight; let me keep in touch with God, spiritually.
And the God that led them that day has not changed. He is the same God tonight. But the trouble of it is, that people are looking to what someone else is going to say, what John is going to say. 
What if King George, when I prayed for him, with those multiple sclerosis, what if he would've a went down and ask one of the Anglican ministers, what would've taken place? He wouldn't have believe it.
What if Florence Nightingale, with a shadow of a woman--the granddaughter of the great Florence Nightingale, the founder of the Red Cross... There's her picture in the book. Weighed about sixty-four pounds, dying with cancer... And when I flew to England to make prayer for her, and while I was praying, a little dove come and set on the window and cooed, while we were praying, and then flew away.
And the woman is perfectly healthy, weighing about one hundred and seventy pounds. What if she would considered what the people said? But she was led of the Spirit. Don't look to what anyone says. Look to what God says and be led by His Spirit.


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