<TITLE>03. Par 8-10</TITLE>L-8 So--I'll brief it just quick as I can. And I remember, I went to see the little girl. Her mother went out of the room and her father had left the house, for they would have nothing to do with it. But the little girl had read a book that I had written called, "Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever." And when I went into the room, she could not even raise her hands to hold her sputamin cup to spit when she'd cough. She weighed some, approximately thirty-five pounds or forty, just her little legs was just about so big--way thinner than Florence Nightingale, in that picture, that was healed with cancer.
And I prayed for her and she asked me if I--she was going to be able to walk like a little Methodist girl that had been crippled so long, by the name of Nail. And I said, "Sister, the Angel of the Lord had spoke, to me and told me to go up in that country, and hunt that girl up." Well, I said, "I do not know."

L-9 After the revival of two weeks, just coming to the church (a new minister), we had a baptismal service up at a place called "Totten's Ford." That afternoon, when I'd baptized some hundred and fifty people in the water, then I went to dinner with some of my friends, an old friend of mine, by the name of George Wright.
And something begin to press me, saying, "Go up into the wilderness and pray." Well, I just couldn't get it off of my mind.
Now, when anything presses you like that, you go do it right away, 'cause it's the Holy Spirit. Now, watch something to block it.
And Mrs. Wright said, "Brother Billy, when I ring the old country dinner bell (I don't guess you have them out here in Oklahoma, but they're... Back up there, they'd ring a bells, hilly country, and p--the farmers can hear this bell ring and then they'll come to their dinner.)
And she said, "When I ring the bell, supper's ready." And she said, "Then you come on in, and you'd be ready to go back to church tonight." The service was closing for the revival then.

L-10 And I said, "All right, Sister Wright." Went up on the hill, and I started to kneel down and the green briers was cutting me. Well, I moved over a little farther, and it was so rough on the ground, them rocks, I just couldn't get comfortable, the rocks. I went around the side of the hill, and it was leaning too much sideways and... You know, the devil just trying to keep you from getting the blessing. That's all it was.
Then I climbed up a little farther into the thicket, and I knelt down--the--the mosquitoes was just humming all around my ears, and I couldn't hardly pray. And I believed then, it was the devil. So I said, "O Lord God, be merciful." And just threw up my hands and started praying anyhow and just let the mosquitoes fill up if they wished to.
But there was something that was burdening in my heart. And after I become so lost in prayer... I guess you Christians know what it means to be lost in prayer, just forget where you are. That's praying in the Spirit, I believe. And I opened my eyes, and just the side of a little dogwood bush, there was that Light hanging there, and It--Light shining down to where I was, He said, "Rise, and go by the way of Carter's."


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