<TITLE>18. Par 61-63</TITLE>L-61 Our heavenly Father, I just now turned over the pages of the Bible. That is the written Word. Now, we want the Word that was made flesh and dwelt among us. May He walk down now in Person, and show to us His goodness and His mercy. May He show to us His resurrection. May He show His power that He's still the same. Now, we're just a small people, a persecuted, laughed-at people. And that's what it's always been.
And we like to stand with Paul tonight and say, "The way that they called heresy (crazy), that's the way I worship the God of our fathers."
And now, Lord, we're living in this great day that's been prophesied of unbelief on every hand. We have plenty of it. The world is just smothered down with it in this Laodicean church age, even when Your own church has been offended in You, and gone back, and took off after the things of the world. The church would've been better off if Jesus would've come forty years ago for it than it is tonight; 'cause it's all broke up in all kinds of conditions and traditions. And young ministers rising up out of the seminaries with their own mind and things, and not paying any attention to the Bible and taking traditions so forth. And they've gaummed it up just like they've always done it.

L-62 God, You still remain the same just as You did with back there in the days of the prophets. You're the same God today. I pray, Father, that You will manifest Yourself to let the people know.
Now, preaching--the world has been preached to death. The poor people don't know what to believe. They run here and there. Just as You said, in the last days there would come a famine, not for the bread alone, but for hearing the true Word of God. And if that time is nearing now, Lord, You said they would go east and west, north and south, seeking for the Word of God. Now, Father, it's truly that way now, hearing people say they would walk thirty miles over cobble stones, bare-footed, to get into another good spiritual meeting like they used to have forty years ago. But, oh, God, where do they find it? They get in a bunch of man-made dogmas.
But, Lord, You promised it would be that way. We seen You in the Laodicean church age. You were pushed out of Your church, the only age they put You out of Your own church--and You were knocking at the door. "If any man thirst, I'll open and come in." Father, I pray that there'll by many thirsty people here tonight that'll thirst. "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Now, we, as Your Church, submit ourselves to You. May You deal with us as Your children. We pray in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-63 Where's Billy? Was there prayer cards give out today? Forget it. Well, let's not use them. Let's let God be your prayer card tonight. I just feel led to do this. Before we... Yes, these are cloths that we pray over according to Acts 19, 19:11, we find out. Now, how many here doesn't have a prayer card? Raise up your hands, you don't have a prayer card and you're sick? Well, how many's got prayer cards then? Raise up your hands. Oh, my. One, two... I guess there isn't over thirty with prayer cards, and about three hundred that's sick. All right, so the majority's on the other side. Let's just hold them prayer cards till some other night.
Let's just say this. If God remains God... And forgive me for making that sacrilegious remark. God is God. And if He's God, His Word still remains the same. And the Bible says that by His stripes you were healed. If that Lord Jesus would come tonight... Which, He would, it would be the end of time, we know that. But if He was to appear here tonight and was standing here on this platform, as you see me standing, and you come to Him and say, "Lord, will You heal me?" He could not do it. He'd be defying His own law. See?
He'd say, "I have already done it." By His stripes we were healed. He might kinda get onto you for not believing it, but He would, He'd... By His stripes you were healed.


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