<TITLE>04. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 And then I put just an ordinary man in, and found him trying to sell prayer cards. Guarantee... A man said, "If you'll guarantee my wife will be in the front row, I'll give you five hundred dollars." And somebody overheard it, and got it in--in before it happened. So then that stopped that. And then I taken my brother. I knowed he wouldn't sell a prayer card.
And that's what the world will be looking for, you know, something like that. But anyone that knows the meetings, money has been the last thing in our meetings. I've tried to hold a good clean name. I never took an offering in my life. I've been preaching thirty-one years. Never took an offering in my life, and never asked for one, never intend to. That's not... We don't come for money. We come to see what good we can do, try to pitch in with these brothers here to help pull the load along. That's what it's for.
These gifts could--could make me a multimillionaire in a few day's time. You know what it is. Yeah, I guess you read in the paper where that multimillionaire in California sent me one million five hundred thousand in one offering. The FBI agents brought it to... "Well," I said, "I'll even refuse to look at it." See? I said, "I don't take money." I couldn't have no money, such things as that. Oh, mercy. Me? I ain't got... I haven't got the mental powers to take care of that much money. So then, what if it would? I'd have to worry with it. See? Let them worry with it. If I need it, the Lord will say, "Give him so much," You see? So then, that's all right...?...

L-11 I don't--I was talking, Brother Roberts, Oral Roberts, the great gallant soul, Brother Roberts. That man has to have around ten thousand dollars a day. Whew! Well, God knowed what He was doing when He didn't put that responsibility on me. I sure couldn't do that. Ten thousand dollars a day, that'd run me wild to have to get ten thousand a day. And the other... Well, now, what if I had to have ten thousand a day, and the Lord called me to come up here to Grande Prairie, what would I do about it? See? I--I don't have any radio programs, don't have nothing to sell, and I don't have to have ten cents a day. See?
Only thing I have to do is just keep myself free from all things, so I can go wherever He tells me. If it's down to a... I held a revival of two nights in a place that held thirty people. I know it was miserable. It was about ten below zero, and just stand out there freezing, with little sick babies and things. But the Lord told me to go, so I--I just went. And then if He wants me to go to Africa to preach to a hundred thousand, two-hundred thousand, He puts on somebody's heart to send me a check to go over, so I just go on over. So, see, My Father owns all of it, and I don't have to worry about it. Just... I like to be like that, where I can just go wherever He tells me to go. See?

L-12 My, Chris, we couldn't go bear hunting if I had to have ten thousand dollars every day. I--I just couldn't do it. But I'm glad just to be free, so I can come to my brethren, the little brother has got a little bitty church, or wherever the Lord leads, just go where He leads. That's the way I like to be: free (See?), nothing to bind me or hold me, and ready to go anywhere, any time, whatever He says do. And I've found it a great life, very fine.
And I have can say this sincerely from this pulpit (which may be the last message I ever bring to the human race). See? I'm fifty-two the other day, and I have never in my life ever sincerely asked God for anything, but what He gave it to me, or told me why He couldn't do it. Now, that's right. Many times I've asked for things, He's refused me, but He'd tell me why. And it's always His way is best. And I find out if He'd have give it to me, I--it would've ruined me. You see? So I just go along, say, "Lord, whatever You want me to have, here I am." And so He always takes care of me.


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