<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0122, Confirmation Of The Commission, Assembly Of God, Tempe, AZ, 126 min
L-1 You may be seated. It's... I was so carried away with listening at a testimony till I forgot to tend to the crowd. So happy to be here tonight in the service of the Lord and get to meet Brother O'Donnell, and... I was watching this giving those signs to the deaf and dumb. And the brother was telling me the lady the other night that was in the wheelchair, that had the big cancer on her that (like that), she was so miraculously healed till she was out of the wheelchair, cancer's gone, and just having a great time. And I was so thankful for that.
It's good to be here tonight with Brother O'Donnell and to this fine congregation of people up here at... Is this Tempe or Mesa? Tempe. Tempe--and I... It's all growed-up so around here since I was in this country, about thirty-five years ago, till I hardly know the place any more. And it's really nice to be in the house of the Lord.

L-2 As I was coming in a--a little girl stood there, which was little Miss O'Donnell and--and a little--two more little girls, and was talking to me at the door. And--and I said, "They tell me it's going to freeze tonight here."
I said, "You southerners will about freeze up down here."
So then the other little lady looked over at the other one and said, well, she was from Iowa; and the other one said she was from Minnesota. And I said... Before that I said, "When I left home it was fourteen below zero." This little girl from Iowa, or Minnesota, one, said... Well, it was fifty-two below when she left. Come to find out I was the southerner. Fifty-two below... If we'd get that in my country we really would freeze up. Fifty-two below; that's kind of cold, isn't it, when it gets that cold?

L-3 Now, we deem this a great privilege to be here with you tonight in this time of fellowship just prior the convention of the Business Men. The convention will start this coming Thursday down at the Ramada. That's on east Van Buren Street. And we certainly invite you all down. There'll be some wonderful speakers in the convention. And Brother Velmer Gardner is one that I know of, and then I think they have some of the businessmen that's going to speak. And I--I believe Jim Brown was one of them, and Dr. Reed, and, 'course, Brother Rose is always there, Brother Osteen from Texas.
And so I'm sure you'll have a great time in coming down there. We're really thrilled for--waiting for this convention. Trust that it'll be like it was the other time, only greater. And remember it's come one, come all; everybody's invited.
And then, if it be the will of the Lord, I think I've got a little time set aside that they're going to let me try to speak again at--at the breakfast on Saturday morning, I think, and the meeting Sunday afternoon; that is, if the Lord willing. And so I deem that a great privilege to get to stand with those great men and--and give a testimony to the Lord--for the Lord, rather.

L-4 And I pray that God will bless Brother O'Donnell here and this fine group of Christians here that's sojourning, waiting on the Lord. For truly, we are sojourners. We are pilgrims and strangers. This is not our home; but we're seeking a city whose Builder and Maker is God, and we're just sojourners. We're not... This is not our home. We're just passing through this a-way. And it gives such a great privilege... (maybe if I'll set this around this way...) It gives such a great privilege (Is that better? Uh-huh.), such a great privilege to be here to put in this time of fellowship with you wonderful Christians.


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