<TITLE>08. Par 28-31</TITLE>L-28 Thank you, my little sister, for this tithing. As a minister, I'm supposed to receive tithing. So, I thank you very kindly, my little girl friend. And may God ever bless you. And don't you let your mommy tell you you're fat. You're not. See? All right. She said in here (I didn't read that.); she said, "Mommy says I'm fat, but I'm not." I don't believe you are either. So, if you are, God give you the desire of your heart, honey, is my prayer, if it means anything to God to you.

L-29 Now, tonight I was going to give an experience that happened. And first, I want to read the--the Word. Now, tomorrow afternoon (What time's the services start, Billy? Two-thirty.) Now, tomorrow at one-thirty, all that wants to be--come in the prayer line, be prayed for, we'll be giving out prayer cards, bringing the entire group like we did last night. That's the way I think my ministry will begin and move on from last night. All of you that want prayer cards, come at one-thirty tomorrow afternoon, not later then--then... Be here no later then two or a quarter after, because all the cards probably be given out by that time, and it won't interrupt the rest of the meeting.
Now, if some of the Messages while I was preaching, if you care for them, the boys has got them here--Brother Goad and Brother Mercier. (Where are they at? Do you know?) On the stand in the back of the building, they got records and tapes. These boys, they belong to them, and they'll be glad to let you have them. And I have searched it over in their sales and so forth...

L-30 I told you the story how the boys got connected with me last night. And I sent to a minister not long ago to get a tape. He charged me nine dollars for it. And I checked these boys, and I think it's about two dollars and a half, or something like that; they make about thirty-five, forty, maybe, fifty cents off a tape--buying the best of the tapes (Scotch tape)--and make the best. If they'd put a big price on them, I'd tell them right now, "No more tape selling." No, sir.
Now, they've got to have something for their handling, 'cause you break up a lot of tapes and everything, then you... They got to live. One of them's a married man, and so we... They got to live, and they have a right to make a little off of them. And then sometimes, they get them damaged and broke, and send them out and don't get paid for them, and... You know how it goes. Just like our books back there: I buy those from the "Voice of Healing" on under forty percent less. And with what we have to pay for selling them, and handling charges...
And I've always said, "If anybody wants a book..." (Give the order to the boys all the time.) If anybody wants the book... And the poor old man walks up and reaches down in his pocket, "How much are they?"
"Well, they're seventy-five cents," Or whatever... dollar, or whatever they're worth. And he says he's got fifty cents.
Tell him, "Dad, take the book and go on; forget about it."

L-31 See? Let it go. That way, the books don't even support themselves. The church has to help me with the books. We... Time we pay for them, and the printing, and the--the wreckage, and tear up, and everything on them, and what we have to give away and things--why, they--they don't... They're not--don't support themselves. And so therefore, we have nothing that we make money out of. Everything that we do...
And myself: My love offering goes to the mission fields. I don't see it. It goes for a good thing. I get one hundred dollars a week from my church, whether in America, out of America, wherever it is, I get fifty-two hundred dollars a year. That's what I live on, and we have to live close with a big family like I got. And I have to live in the church parsonage.


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