<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 I'm going to tell a little story about this just comes on my mind. There's not many here tonight, so we got a good time to speak. We'll pray for the sick, give my little farewell message to you. And I would like to say that... Here some time ago I was in Ohio. We were having a great meeting. It's been about four or five years ago, maybe six. And the meeting got so heavy till I had to move out into the country. The little motel I was staying, so many was around--or hotel, rather--I moved out into the country. I'd been fasting for something special to happen, something that would win the hearts of people.
You know, sometimes when we are praying for others, we are the one that gets the help many times, when you're praying for others. Like at nighttime when I say, "Put your hands on one another. Don't pray for yourself, but pray for the other fellow. He's praying for you." The Bible said, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other." That's the way we want to do. Let the Baptists pray for the Methodists, and the Methodists pray for the Baptists, and the Oneness pray for the Twoness, and the Twoness pray for the Twoness and Threeness and Fourness and whatevermore comes along. Everybody pray one for another, that our faith won't fail in that one glorious One that we all love, Jesus Christ. Yes, sir.

L-9 Now, so I moved out into the country, about three miles out of the city. And so we were--been having dinner over at a little Dunkard restaurant where the... I believe it was the Mennonites. And they were a fine bunch of people that believes in holiness. And them little ladies, dressed just as nicely and godly, with their little--with their clothes hanging nice on them, and long hair, and clean as a pin; I just loved to eat there. And they were attending my meeting, and we just had a wonderful time. So on Sunday they closed the little place up. They was at the meeting. And especially, on Sunday they didn't run it.
So I'd been fasting for about two or three days, and I was just going to preach that afternoon. I thought, "Well, seems like..." You never want to fast until you're led to fast. Then if you get hungry, it's time to eat. "Afterwards Jesus was afterwards an hungered." Some of this saying, these people fasting and say, "I'm going to fast forty days," and the false teeth falling out and losing weight, and... My, you better stop that. You wait till God leads you to do that on those things. Be led of the Spirit.

L-10 I've had people, after a certain book was wrote and put out about fasting, people come to my line: women, pregnant and things like that, come in my line, lose their, lose their mind, come--go into insane institutions from that. See? 'Course you can't do that. Just because somebody else done it, that's no sign that you're supposed to do it. Let God lead you to do what you're doing.
If you're led to, when you get hungry, it's time to eat. When God puts a fast on you, you don't get hungry. It's God dealing with you. "Jesus was afterwards an hungered." See? After His fast was over, He hungered. But... So however, just let that... You just judge that by yourself, I'm... Your pastor is more apt--a better position to tell you those things. If I said wrong, or...Forgive me.

L-11 But however, I'd been fasting for a couple days, or three, which is about as long as I can ever fast, 'cause I'm on the move so much. So then I thought, "Well, I'm just going to preach this afternoon, so I'll just... I'll go over and get me a sandwich." And I thought, "Oh, oh, they're closed." Over across the way was a--just a regular little old common American restaurant, typical. Well, I just slipped over there while they were down making the preliminaries. I thought, "I'll just get me a hamburger and that'll kind of press out the wrinkles so I can... Tonight I'll eat after service."


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