<TITLE>02. Par 5-8</TITLE>L-5 Our heavenly Father, we are bringing before Thee now, as a group--a group of people that are pilgrims and strangers, sojourners, professing that this is not our home, we are citizens of another great Kingdom that shall come, that Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy Kingdom come, Thine will be done." Father, tonight one of our brothers, Brother Tommy Hicks, Your servant, sadness is floating across the wires to his ears. His precious brother (believing he was an unsaved boy) and his wife, and little ones, all was just destroyed today by an automobile accident. And our brother is in the air now, flying to meet up the body of his precious brother. I pray for Brother Hicks, Lord. I pray that Your Spirit be upon him, and help him. Comfort him. And may the great hand of the living God reach down and give him sustaining grace in this hour. Feeling the sharp feeling myself, Lord, of just a few weeks ago, something similar happening, and I feel sorry for him. And I pray that You'll comfort him in every way that You can, Father. We ask this in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-6 There's just so much to be said, so little of time to say it. We're terribly sorry tonight, that and people standing inside, outside, and around the walls of the church.
Now, this next week, next Thursday starts the convention up here at the Ramada (I believe I pronounced that right), up on the right hand side of west, or east VanBuren Street. And the Ramada; it's kind of a big hall there with enough seating room to seat twenty-five hundred people. And it has been deemed a great privilege to me to be invited here by the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship, to which... I have spoken over most of the world for them, and they invited me here to this convention, Brother Williams, and the president here of this chapter and many of the fine men.
And we're expecting a great time up there, and there's going to be some fine speakers, as I understand, to be there. And I understand that it's going to be my great privilege to speak to the Saturday morning breakfast. And if that be so, I want to speak on the subject, "The Worst Man I Ever Found."

L-7 So... And then Sunday afternoon I'm to speak again, to address the body of believers there Sunday afternoon. All through the week I've got church to church, church to church, sometimes two in a day, and so, to visit my brethren. And I certainly deem it a privilege, friends, to get to meet the different organizations.
And here a long time ago this would almost have been impossible to get the people together of the different phases and organizations. But God is so wonderful. He has just worked it around so that all of them now are beginning to fellowship one with another, and forgetting their little differences, and pressing on towards the mark of the high calling. That's certainly fine. I'm very grateful to God to see that. And now, may it just continue to grow is my prayer.

L-8 Brother Outlaw, as he just said, was the first one to invite me to Phoenix. I come here many years ago with Brother Kidson, and we had a great meeting. That meeting was a red letter mark in my life. They didn't have tape recorders then. They had a little sound-scriber and they made record. And I've still got the records that was from Brother Outlaw's church, and from Brother Garcia's church over there, the little Spanish choir that sang in Spanish, like these do in--in English.
And every once in a while we get kind of lonesome at home, and I kind of get the blues to see the folks--folks out at Phoenix, and I put that record on and play it, you know, and you... It's pretty near worn out. But I just know it so well that I know every little time it's going to jump and skip a line, and so forth. So I just stay right with it.


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