<TITLE>10. Par 40-45</TITLE>L-40 Now, you have faith in God; don't doubt nothing, but believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, each one of you. And you that don't have a prayer card, you look this a way and say, "Lord, I can't get into the prayer line tonight. But if You'll just let me touch Your garment, and let... If that's Your Voice speaking through that man up there, I know he don't know me. And if that be You, Lord, then let him turn around and tell me what my trouble is." And then, see if He isn't the same High Priest.
Now, down along the line, we're not playing, or preaching, or talking about visions. Each one of you has to remember this, that the Angel of the Lord, when meeting me at the beginning, it... The vision wasn't to heal people. He said I was born to pray for sick people. "If you can get them to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, nothing will stand before the prayer." How many's read that, heard that. The commission is pray for the people.

L-41 I never did like that old fast line, you just lay your hands on them, just jump them through like that. I can't see that. That's not praying for the people. Pray for the people.

L-42 Now, and then if the anointing of the Holy Spirit is here, and then we pray and ask God, then lay hands on you and pray for you as you go by, you believe you'll get well? Are you, all in the prayer line now, you believing that? Raise your hands if you're willing to accept it now.
Just like little Ricky did. How could that little fellow know anything about vision. His father never even asked for a vision. He never asked a thing. I never told him nothing. I just went and laid hands on Ricky. That's right, isn't it, brother. That's right. And Ricky got well, because Jesus Christ honored the father's faith to send in our prayer, and healed little boy and give him back to him to him alive. Thanks be to God for it. All right.

L-43 Now, if you will get up there, Billy, and help the people up. Now, if they're too crippled to come up and they got a prayer card, we'll put them down here so I can come to them.
Now, I want every one, not to be in any hurry now; we're in the service of the Lord. Now, it makes it so hard, sometimes when I go pray for sick people in auditoriums and things, they... Well, they just now calling me into the platform to speak. And if I let out under twelve o'clock, they think got cheated. But when I get here in California, I understand that you all go home at eight thirty. So just bear a little while.

L-44 Paul preached this same Gospel all night long, and somebody fell out of an upper story window and killed himself, and Paul laid his body on, he come back to life again.
Many of us set up and watch the late show, and we go to dances and parties, and stay all night. "But if the preacher is over twenty minutes, I'll never go back again." See that? Our heart ain't right with God. Our--our soul's feeding on something else besides God.

L-45 Now, here's a lady to begin with. Now, before I start the prayer line, let's just say this. Now, if you've got sin in your life, down along this prayer line... The reason I've always combed every person close, because anyone knows that you can take a gift and get yourself in trouble with it. We're all aware of that. Moses done exactly what God telled him not to do, but he did it anyhow. He... God told him to go down there, speak to the rock, and he smote the rock. But he got in trouble with God.
I never could believe it was the nature of the Holy Spirit, when them children teasing that young prophet being bald-headed, Elijah, and saying, "Old bald-head, old bald-head, why didn't you go up." And he turned around and cursed those little children in the Name of the Lord, and two she bears killed forty-two little innocent children. Is that right? That don't sound the nature of the Holy Spirit. But it was a angered prophet. See? You have to watch.


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