<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>58-0611, Thirsting For Life, Tent Meeting, Dallas, TX, 87 min
L-1 ...?... Thank you...?... Thank you friends. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
It's a privilege to be back again tonight at the tent to--to speak in the Name of our Lord again tonight.
And now, before we open His Word, let's have just a word to Him first, as we bow our head.
Lord God, it's indeed a privilege that we have of coming to You. We've been bid to do so by Thy dear Son, the Lord Jesus. And we're sure that You will hear us, as we come in His Name, for He has made it clear, that if we ask the Father anything in His Name, it shall be granted. And God, we are here for no other purpose tonight, but to the glory and honor of Thee, and of Thy Kingdom, and for the--the furthering of Thy Kingdom, that we would all catch a new glimpse tonight of the blessed Saviour, that He might come into our midst, and would take away all of our iniquity, and take the sorrows from our hearts. Take sickness from our bodies and give us joy, and good health, and strength, and strengthen our inner man, for we're looking for His soon and visible appearing to take away His church, called His Bride.

L-2 Grant, Lord, that every sin and sin of trespass or omission, whatever it might be, will be taken from us tonight, that this will be the beginning of a great en--unending revival until Jesus returns. Grant it, Father.
Now, as we pull back the pages, there's no one can interpret the Word but You. And we would ask that the Writer of this Book would interpret the message for us tonight. Sow the seed down deep into the heart, get glory, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-3 I was just coming in with the wife and family, out there a few moments ago. I received a little message here, wrote, and it's from Ed Vivard. Wanted to know if I was any relation to the Branhams in Burkesville, Kentucky. Ed, you are my cousin. Brother Vivard, at Indianapolis, your brother, and the one at Evansville, Indiana, at the big Assembly of God church there, is--we are own blood cousins, wherever you are. I'd like to meet you and shake your hand after the service, sometime. The Lord bless you.

L-4 Then, I also want to announce that tonight, at the book table, wherever it is here, there is--will be the tapes of the meetings and records.
And Mr. Mercier and Mr. Goad, my associates, who takes the records, or takes the messages and puts them on tape and on from tape to record, and record and tapes both is at the bookstand now, can be purchased at a--about one third the price that you'd pay for a record in a ten cent store, if you got a... And if you haven't got a adapter, they got that.
We're not here to sell. That isn't our purpose. Anyone that knows me, knows that. I've never been guilty of ever commercializing Jesus Christ. See? And I--I don't believe in that, and I... Only thing that I want to do this for, is because I think it would help somebody. And the boys, when they taken the tapes, and were selling the tapes... I sent off to another evangelist and got a tape, and I think it was about three times the price that these boys sell them, because they buy thousands times thousands of them in groups, and they have them. That's just for the furthering of the Gospel. That's...

L-5 Then the books that we have, of course, we don't have them here, because they're printed here. Brother Gordon Lindsay, our associating brother here, he wrote the book, "Man Sent From God," and it's on print, and Brother Lindsay's prints it here, and I buy them from Brother Lindsay (when I take them out in the meetings) on a discount of, I believe, about forty percent less than what He a... what I'd... the original cost of them is. And then I take them out, and hire somebody to sell them, and so forth. And anyone ever sold books, knows that you can't hardly sell them anyway, make on them, because if anybody comes by and hasn't got the money, wants the book, they get it anyhow. Picture, anything, it doesn't make a bit of difference.


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