<TITLE>22. Par 73-75</TITLE>L-73 I said, "Now, Brother Espinosa, don't interpret this." I said, "It's a vision I just saw."
He said, "What?"
I said, "A vision. Don't say nothing. Let me pray."
I said, "Heavenly Father, I--I don't know what this means. But I was looking out there, and before my eyes come a little baby looked to be about this size." I said, "I'm going to lay my hands upon its little dead form." And about that time it started kicking and screaming, as hard as it could, like that. I said, "Brother Espinosa, go to her doctor, get a written statement." He did.
Why? She was persistent. Why? She didn't care what the church said, whether she was excommunicated, what it was. If a blind man could receive his sight, her baby... No man could restore sight to the blind. Anybody knows that. Like, even the Pharisees said, "Who could restore sight to the blind except God only?" No man could do that, and she knowed that. And she knowed if God was here on earth in power enough to give a blind man his sight, He was the same God that could raise the dead yet.
She was persistent. She stayed all day. The undertakers calling for her baby, she stayed all day anyhow. The ushers trying to keep her out of line, and she stayed anyhow: turned down every way, but she stayed. Why? She had perseverance. Why? Faith caught a hold. Faith said, "It's so." And Faith knows no difficult. Faith knows no defeat. When you got faith, you have perseverance.

L-74 Let's pray a minute. How many wants perseverance? Our heavenly Father, I believe, Lord, with all my heart, that if the people could only realize... I believe they're good people. I believe they're Your people. I know they are. They love You. They've passed from death to Life. But right in their minds is Satan all the time trying to misquote something to them, trying to--to take away from God's Word. I pray, Father, that You will rebuke him. Grant it, God. Let Your Holy Spirit come upon this audience just now.
They have, no doubt, the bigger part of this people in here today has felt Your Presence. They believe. But let them realize that they have a hinderer also, and that's the enemy. He might speak through precious friends. But yet Your Word is the same. You--you... How could You raise that dead baby for that Mexican woman because she had faith, and wouldn't raise somebody else's baby? How could You heal a blind man that couldn't see, unless You would heal some other blind man? But what it is, many of them are stopped.

L-75 Some of them has perseverance. They just move on anyhow, no matter what it is, like the little Syrophenician woman that we spoke of this afternoon, that stood before You. You just told her, "Go thy way. The devil's left her." That's all she wanted to know.
Now, You don't have to come in our midst to say that now, Father, because You've already said it. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, just believe you receive them, and you shall have them." We know that's Your Word. Now, if we ask anything, then we should be perseverant after that. We should know that it's ours. You give it to us. You can't lie; You're God. If You give it to others, why don't You give it to us?
Then we ask, we shall receive. You said so. "Knock, and it'll be opened; seek, ye shall find; ask, and it'll be given." Well, God, promise after promise You've given us. "If anywhere two or more are gathered in My Name, and shall ask anything, it shall be given to them." Now, You promised that. "Wherever two or three are gathered," no matter how small the meeting is, "I'll be in the midst of them." Now, You promised it, Lord. That--that's Your own promise, that's Your own Word. I believe it.


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