<TITLE>06. Par 15-17</TITLE>L-15 Now, the way we do... The evening, along about a hour before the services start, so it won't interfere with the preliminaries, we send the boys down and give... an individual prayer cards. And each evening we do that. Because first, here's the way we did it. When we first started out, when I... 'course if it just like this here, why we wouldn't even have to give a prayer card with a little group like this. See? But when we have great groups... which we expected to fill and pack the place out tonight...
Now, we just left Vandalia... Visalia, it was, California, and the first night the... We got over there, and they turned away hundreds and hundreds, and the second night doubled it more and more. We went to a fair grounds, and there's enough people there at three o'clock they had to close the gates for--even get into the places. You see?
Just... When the meeting gets started, and people begin to... The hungry-hearted begin to see that... Well, it's--it's the Holy Spirit moving among the people. See? It isn't some preacher with a some high super-duper faith. I don't believe in those things. I believe that faith comes by hearing the Word of God. And the individual ought to straighten his life up and get right with God, if he expects to get healed. That's... I--I believe if healing's lasting it's that the individual's got to get straight with God.
All this laying hands on the sinners and telling them, "That's all right; just forget about it, God will heal you anyhow." I--I don't believe in that. I believe a man ought to clean up and get right with God, and straighten up, and come on, and live for God and do what's right. And that's lasting healing. During these thirty-one years I have noticed that's true, that the man or woman that's ready to come straight with God, God will come straight with them. See? You have to straighten up with God.

L-16 So then the reason we do this, when we first started we used to send the pastors, each pastor that was cooperating, a hundred cards, well--for his congregation and for those who he'd be inviting of the sick people and so forth. Well then, about the first pastor... Many of you has been in the meeting before, of course, I guess. Well, about the first pastor got his group up, that settled it. So we couldn't do it that way.
So then we thought, well, we'd just give out prayer cards the first day we was there and give everybody out prayer cards. And then, of course, that settled it. Anybody come, otherwise than the first day, why, then they didn't get a chance to get in the prayer line, 'cause we had enough there to last.
So then we went to giving out prayer cards each day. And then, when we'd get up maybe fifteen or twenty, whatever we'd got in that night, well then, just on the platform of what we could get on there. Then we found out the people, if they wouldn't get some number, or a card up to fifteen or twenty, they'd just throw it on the floor. They didn't want it. They wouldn't be called.

L-17 So then I thought, well, I'll get some little child along the front here to let him come up here and count, some little boy like this little lad looking at me here with the red tie on and the sport coat. And I... About the size of my little Joseph over there... And I--I'd get one of those little fellows to come up, and I'd say, "Can you count, sonny or sister?"
"Yes."
"Count." And he started counting, or she, and wherever they stopped, I'd start right there. Believe it or not, mama knowed just exactly where to tell Junior to stop at for her card. So we still got human beings you know; we're dealing with them.
And so then--then I got one minister I got to give out cards. And then, at his organization if he didn't show just a little bit of favor, it started some feeling with the brethren.
Then I got my brother to give out prayer cards, or before that I got another man, just picked up an outsider, and I caught him selling prayer cards.


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