<TITLE>13. Par 45-47</TITLE>L-45 If this convention--if this Pentecostal convention of you interdenominational brethren, and denominational brethren, and whoever you are, Pentecostals, if you'll only recognize that we're living in the last days, just before the coming of the Lord; if you'll realize that our churches are heaping up, the natural and the spiritual is coming together in that conflict; it's got to be that way. That's the reason God's calling out of Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterians, everything else, receiving the Holy Ghost, because it's God moving. They're acting. If we could only catch that vision, there'd be a revival start on this campgrounds and we'd never leave here again. That's right. It would be a wonderful time. If we could hear and recognize that it's God's promise, "And it shall come to pass in the last days saith God, I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh."
Oh, if you could only recognize it's God's promise: "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that believe." No matter what the intellectual world says, you--you don't associate with that. You heard; you recognized it was God's Word, because it's in the Bible. Then you act upon it.

L-46 I remember my own father put me out of the house. I had my clothes in a paper sack. He said, "You can't act like that around here."
I said, "There's a whole big world here, to act like that in," so I--I took off. Sure. I had the Holy Ghost, something burning in my heart. I had heard; I believed it; I received it. I recognized it was God's promise: "And I'll pour out My Spirit... These signs shall follow them... The promise is unto you and your children... (That was me.) Whosoever will let him come..." That was me.
I wore great big thick glasses. My head shook all the time with astigmatism. I was only just a boy like, but I believed Divine healing. Why? I heard it. I recognized it was God's promise.

L-47 I went to my own Baptist church and said to the Pastor. "Got some an anointing oil?"
He said, "What do you want with anointing oil?"
I said, "I want to be anointed."
Said, "What for?"
I said, "I'm sick."
"What's the matter with you."
I said, "I can't--my eyes is bad. I can't hardly see. Take these glasses off, and they'd have to lead me around: astigmatism.
"Oh," he said, "Billy..."
I said, "That's right. You ain't got any; I'll bring you some." And I went down and got me some oil, and prayed over it, and come up and handed it to him. He anointed me with oil like that. I said, "Hallelujah." Here I went. That was it.


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