<TITLE>09. Par 33-35</TITLE>L-33 I know no other cleansing. I know no other way. Nothing else that I know to do, only to confess your sins. Be right with God. Clean up little bitty things. It's the little fox that spoils the grapes.
The other day I had a confession to make myself. I was in my home and--and some people had been bothering me day after day. And a big office, and they were--just had me so wearied, I--I didn't know what to do. Finally, I was--felt like the world was pulling the top of my head out. I was so nervous, and I couldn't leave to go to meetings, and meetings waiting, hundreds of Christians waiting to be prayed for, sick children crying, mothers and fathers in the hotels and motels with their sick and dying, and I had to stay in an office with an attorney on the case for somebody... And they were pushing me right and left, and up-and-down. I didn't know what to do. I was answering everything, then they'd take me right back over it again.

L-34 And I'd went home to eat my dinner. They told me I could be off that afternoon. I was going to catch up on some of my sick calls. And there was the phone ringing. It was my private phone. I have an answering service. My wife went to the phone, and she picked up the receiver, and she answered. And when she did, she held her hand over the top of the phone. She said, "Billy, it's them attorneys again."
"Oh," I said, "I can't go through another half a day." I said, "I told them that same thing over and over and over and over, day in and out, day in and out. And then they're going to call me again?" I said, "I can't do it. I will... I just... There's so many people waiting to be prayed for." I said, "Tell them I'm not in here," and run around behind the house.

L-35 And when I come back in a few minutes, my precious little wife standing in the door, she looked at me, and I know what she meant when her eyes caught mine. She said, "Billy, was that just exactly right?"
You now how you like to justify yourself, I said, "Oh, sure. I wasn't in here."
She said, "But you was when the phone ring."
I said, "But I--I wasn't in here when you told them that." I said, "That was all right."
She said, "Billy, are you sure of that?"
"Oh," I--I--I--I said, "I think so."
And I started out, and I got my hat. I went down to make a sick call. I went into the room to pray for a little sick baby. A man had been waiting a long time with this baby. And I went in to pray for it, and when I started to lay my hands on it, Something said to me, "Can you lay your lying hands on that child?"
The Bible said in I John 3:21, "If our hearts condemn us not, then we have confidence in God."


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