<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 Did you ever see people you love to be around, just love to be around them? Because they create an atmosphere, a heavenly, and you like to be around them. Others seem to be good people, but you just--I have to get away once in a while, that... You know what I mean. And yet they seem to be good people. It's not creative.
And man was made to be a god; we know that. Genesis 1:26, he had domain over the whole earth, and he was made to be an amateur god. And now, when he receives God, he becomes a son of God again. He was made in the image of God. God had hands; God had feet; and so therefore a man was made like Him. So he is an amateur god. But sin has blinded every fiber in his body, in his mind, in his heart. But now, don't never try to study it out. You cannot figure it out.
In the garden of Eden Satan chose his part of the man: his head, his intellectuals. God took his heart. The intellectuals will reason. "Why, well, I'm--I'm this way, and I'm that way." You'll never get anywhere with God there. But your heart, your faith will make you believe things that your mind knows nothing about. You cast down reasoning. See, you must be positive, and you stay there until you are positive. Then when you're positive, there's nothing can turn you.

L-20 Now, let us bow our heads just a moment before we approach the--the Author of this Word, as we read It. And I wonder tonight, with our heads bowed and our eyes closed, is there any here that would like to be remembered in prayer, and let it be known by your uplifted hand? You'd say, "Lord, I need Thee. I need Thee for my health. I need Thee for my soul." God bless you. God bless you. That's good. "Father, lead me. I need Thy guiding Spirit."
Our heavenly Father, as we come approaching again in the Name of the Lord Jesus, You said that we would ask abundantly that our joys would be full. Now, we're coming to ask for mercy, first, for our own sins--the things that we have thought and did that was contrary to Your leading. We pray that You forgive us. And as we stand here in this holy sanctuary, where the Holy Spirit present...
And, oh, how I have often wondered how I would feel if I could hold in a glass just two drops of His literal Blood. How I would draw it up to my bosom and weep, because I know that it was that Blood that saved me. But tonight Thou has given me a greater than that--the very purchase of His Blood to speak to. "For He loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life." Now, He thought more of His people than He did of His own Blood, so He gave His Blood to purchase this church. And here I'm standing tonight to teach the ways of Life to this church.

L-21 Oh, merciful Father, there's no one worthy to do that. We pray, Lord, that You forgive us. And if You were looking for someone worthy, where would You find them? We have none. We're all unclean, Father. But be merciful to us because of Your promise that You said You would do it. You said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches," and if we abide in you, that we can ask what we will, and it'll be given to us. You said, "The works that I do, shall you also; even greater than these, for I go to My Father." Now, that Your Word might be fulfilled tonight, Lord, I pray that You'll manifest Your Presence among us in an extraordinary way.
I pray for those who raised their hands, Father. God, be merciful. And I also offer a prayer again for the little, blind little girl standing in the hall tonight, wanted to return to her people to be a missionary. O God, may that child receive its sight. I pray for that precious brother there in the hospital, belongs to the First Assembly of God here in town. He's dying. O God, stay the hand of death as this church, this body, calls out for mercy. Hear, great prayer answering God and Father.


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