<TITLE>15. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 Now, is those handkerchiefs to be prayed over? Now, I want to say this to my--my friends that's here. There has been times that you've wrote me for a handkerchief or anointed cloth that I prayed over. And you failed to receive it, or maybe waited a long time before you got it.
I used to think, "What a smart man Oral Roberts was." And he is a smart man, and a wonderful man of God. And I used to think, "How brilliant that man can be to have a office of about four hundred. And all these things, and the editing a paper." I said, "I don't understand how he does it."
Brother Tommy Osborn and I, we just kinda slummed along. And after while, up went Brother Tommy Osborn, almost with Brother Roberts, and just about as great a office and things as Brother Oral's got now. I said, "Say, how did that happen?" I didn't understand.
I come to find out that it wasn't them that did it all; they had somebody around them to do it for them. So that--that--that lightened the burden.

L-56 So, we are trying that. We are trying to--to get enough around us to where we can answer these cloths--these prayer cloths and letters just as fast as they come. They come in one day, go out the next.
And I've changed offices. I don't have the same office. The same Post Office Box 325, but I got a new office force altogether, Holy Ghost filled people that's ready to answer, and to work with the mail. And pretty soon, the Lord willing, we're going to stretch that out into more, and so we can keep ministering farther. And so...

L-57 But we're seeing that every prayer cloth is put in. I pray over it. Every prayer request is called in; it's immediately given to me. And we got it just on the dot. So, if you need prayer, urgent prayer, and you want me to pray for you, my staff to pray for you... Not only the staff, but they bring it to me. Maybe if I'm not at the answering service, I don't call... It's put right down reverently, and given to me immediately as soon as they can get to me, and I go right straight to prayer for them. And sometimes, they bring in sheets of it. And I take that and go to my--go into my basement maybe. I've got a--like a den room there. I take one with my finger like this, and start praying till I feel the Holy Spirit's there. And I say, "God, here's Sister Sam Jones. She says here it's got cancer. Oh, God, she's dying. Please, in Jesus' Name, hear my prayer. Here's Brother So-and-so. He's got a tumor. He's in a hospital. God, please be merciful to him and spare his life." Each one, right down the row. As Brother Mercier types them off and sends them to Brother Goad, right straight to me... I get to them off to myself.

L-58 See, I'd like to go out and just be associating with the people, and meeting them, and talking and shaking hands. I can't do that and then minister like this. See? I got to stay where the anointing of the Spirit is all the time. When the battle's over, then I want an appointment with you each one, a thousand years apiece to set down by the rivers of the Waters of Life, and there, talk it all over.
But right now, we've got to minister. The--the heat's on. The day is hot. And let's minister, and fight the fight of faith, and stay in the battle after the people. See, that's what we got to do. And every prayer cloth that you send that's sent to you is absolutely ministered to. Every person that calls in for prayer is absolutely one by one ministered to. I know you like to hear that. It wasn't that way before. We just... Oh, we just had to do the best we could. But it's all being organized now. And we're thankful.


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