<TITLE>02. Par 4-7</TITLE>L-4 Last evening I announced in my church, I said, "Every person here that doesn't have the Holy Ghost you get to the Chautauqua. I'm almost sure you're going to get it before you come back." Amen. Have we got a place for them to go in and pray? Right over there, now that's just fine. You know, just like caterpillars following one another, just take a line right around over there, and...
And I believe it was Buddy Robinson one time that said, "Lord, if You don't give me the Holy Ghost, when You come back you'll find a pile of bones laying right here in the field." That's when he received it.
When you get to meaning business with God, God will mean business with you. If we can just get that little shaking away from us that God... "Maybe He will, maybe, I hope He does." He will, he promised it, see? We want to believe it that way.

L-5 Now, we don't want to keep you too long at night so you can come back each night fresh. And we're glad to see our ministering brethren and all. So before we turn in to the Word now for a little message tonight, let us bow our heads while we pray.
I wonder tonight, if before we pray, if you got your heads bowed, is there a sinner... How many sinners are present would like to say to God at the beginning of this meeting, "Lord, save my soul before this meeting closes." Raise your hands. God bless you, you. That's right. Just... No... Just keep your heads bowed and just raise your hands. God bless you.
How many here without the Holy Ghost would say, "Lord, I pray that You'll give me the Holy Ghost before the services are closed." Let's see your hands. Oh my, there's so many. All right, God will grant that, I'm sure.

L-6 Gracious heavenly Father, as we approach Thy throne of mercy and standing in the shadows of Thy justice, we are humbly bowing our hearts, as well as our heads, to You. For we realize, Lord, that someday we must stand in Thy Presence to give an account of the life that we have lived on this earth that You have given us. And we know there is just one way that we'll ever be reconciled; that is, through the blood of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus. That's why these conventions are held. That's why we preach, and why we try, is to see people press into the Kingdom of God.
Lord, I pray that those sinners that raised their hands will be Christians when this service is closed tonight. May everyone that raised their hands to receive the Holy Spirit, may He fall in abundance upon them tonight, filling them with His goodness and mercy to lead them through the rest of life's journey. Heal the sick and the afflicted, Lord. And may there be an old rev--time revival among us, Lord, in our hearts, that'll cause the outside world to thirst.

L-7 It's written, "Ye are the salt of the earth." And salt creates a thirst. God, make the Christians on the ground and around the buildings, wherever they are met together, may they be so salty, until the unbeliever will say, "Lord, let me be like that man or that woman." Grant it, Lord. Take us into Thy care. We are walking in a world of darkness, looking upward from whence cometh the light. Grant these things, Father, and may this be one of the greatest conventions that we have ever had. Bless every speaker, every minister, and every Christian, and all that attends the meetings. May it be a glorious time for us all. And when we are finished, services is closed, revival is over (or the convention), may it be said with all of us, like those who came from Emmaus, as we return to our homes, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He talked to us by the way?" We ask it in Jesus Christ's Name, Thy Son. Amen.


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