<TITLE>21. Par 61-63</TITLE>L-61 So then, we couldn't do that. So then I said, "Well, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll give the prayer cards out every day, the same way, cause that's just, and I'll take a little kid off the front row, and let them count, and wherever they start counting, we'll start from there." Believe it or not, mama put junior up there, stopped right at her number. We're still dealing with human beings. That wouldn't work.
So then, the way we got to doing it, we sent down the prayer cards every day. The boys... I got three here that can give them out. The three--the two tape boys, Gene and Leo, and Billy. The ministers don't, because if they do, they'd cause hard feelings if they don't get to their minister friends. These are two boys that's with the meeting.
They come down before the people and mix them cards all up, every one of them. Give anybody a card that wants; the boy don't know where these line's going to start from. The man don't even know what prayer he's getting when they come out. And so, that way, at night time, I don't know. No one could know anything. When we come, wherever the Lord puts on my mind, I start from there.

L-62 Now, I've been criticized, say, "Oral Roberts will pray for five hundred while you're praying for three." That's right. But God's doing... Oral Roberts is doing what God told him to do, and I'm doing what God told me to do. See? I'm not Oral Roberts, and Oral Roberts is not me. We're two servants of Christ with two different ministries.
But to my way... See, laying on of hands (Bear with me, ministers.), is a Jewish tradition, never was given to the Gentiles. Look, Jairus, said, "Come, lay Your hand on my child, and she'll live." That was a Jew. The Roman centurion said, "I'm not even worthy that You come under my roof, just speak the word." There's the Gentile.
Jesus turned and said, "I've not seen faith like that in Israel." But we're taught those traditions, "Lay hands on the sick. Lay hands on the sick." Brother Roberts, standing there, and lay hands on the sick, lay hands on the sick. Great percent of them come right back over in my prayer line, want to know what's wrong. See? There you are. Work slow...

L-63 I want to ask you something. If you went to a doctor's office, and you said, "Doctor, I'm having a persistent headache all the time." and he give you an aspirin and sent you home, that wouldn't be a doctor. He just wants to get you out of his office. A real doctor would diagnose that case, till he found out what's causing those headaches. Then when... You can't have a cure till you find the cause, where it'll work. Is that right? That's the reason I'm slow, I watch.
What if God put a curse on somebody, and I'd come around with a gift and took it off. See? Not... How about... Do you know you can get yourself in trouble with gifts? That's why a prophetic messages and prophetic people are very strange and strict.
Look at Moses. Do you believe Moses was a prophet? God trusted him. Said, "Go down there and speak to that rock, don't smite it. Speak to it." And Moses went down there, and got angry, and smote the rock. He brought the water, whether it was the will of God or not. Is that right? And that broke the Scriptures. One place in the Scripture...?... I find, so Christ had to be smitten twice. The water come all right, but God dealt with Moses. Is that right?
How many remembers Elisha? He was a young fellow, went bald-headed early; and when he went out through there, they didn't believe him. They didn't believe Elijah went up. So they begin to tease him, saying, "Old bald-head, old bald-head, why didn't you go up?" Had them little children running out. And Elisha turned around, that prophet, and put a curse on those children in the Name of the Lord. And before they got home, two she bears killed forty-two little, innocent children. Now, that ain't the nature of the Holy Spirit. You know that. See? But it was a prophet angered. You have to watch what you're doing. That...


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