<TITLE>16. Par -</TITLE>L-25-7 Remember my father, back in Kentucky years ago; the crops was all burning up, and the old circuit preacher come through, and he was a dandy old man. And when he went on his knees, he stayed there till something happened. That day they was all wanted to pray for the rain to come. Pop said when that old man went on his knees, and he seen them old shriveled-up hands went up in the air, he said, "O God, I have served You. These people are Yours, and their crops are burning." Pop said he slipped out of the church, and went out there and took the saddle off his mule, throwed it under the church, 'cause he knowed the rain was coming. Convinced? Yes, sir. Then he was concerned about his saddle. After you get convinced...

L-26-1 Martha said, "If You'd have been here, my brother would not died, but even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." That's right. "It's going to happen, if You'll ask God." Isn't that wonderful?
Jairus with a corpse in his house, his only child, twelve years old, a little girl... The message come, "Don't trouble the Master, because she's already dead." And Jesus said...
First, he said to Jesus, "My little girl is even now dead, but I'm convinced." (Hallelujah.) "Come lay Your hands on her and she'll be all right." Convinced? He had heard of Jesus; He knowed His works. He was a secret believer down in his heart. He believed that that was the Son of God. He was thoroughly convinced it was.

L-26-3 You know, isn't that strange? God forced him to the issue. God knows how to force you. Right. Sometimes He gives you sickness and everything else just to force you to it--show your color, what you are. Forced him... Jairus was forced to believe it. So then he showed what he was. Said, "If you'll come lay Your hands on my girl, though she's dead, she'll live." Oh, my, I like that. I think Martha said the same thing. Jesus was convinced of it too.

L-26-4 The Roman soldier, the centurion, he was convinced if he could only get Jesus to say the Word. Listen to that soldier, a Roman, Gentile, heathen. He said, "I'm a man under authority. I say to this man, to this soldier, 'You go here,' and he goes. And I say to this one, 'Come,' and he comes." Why? He was over him. What was he testifying? "Jesus, You're over all diseases. You're over it all. If I can just hear You say the Word, my servant will live. I'm thoroughly convinced."
And then after all of that, we still don't be convinced. See? What was it? Jesus said that was great faith; He didn't find that in Israel. "Just speak the Word."

L-27-2 Here It is right here: "When thou prayest, believe that you receive what you ask for, and ye shall have it. If you say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in your heart, but believe that what you said will come to pass, you can have what you said."
Then confess. What? "By His stripes I'm healed; by His grace I'm saved; by His promise, I'll obey, and I shall be filled with the Holy Ghost." There you are. If you're convinced that He keeps His Word, but first you've got to be convinced.
The woman with the blood issue, she was convinced. No matter what the rabbi said, and what the priest said, and what her husband said, and what anybody else said; she said, "That's a holy Man. He's the Son of God, and if I can touch the border of His garment, that's all I have to do. I'm convinced I'll get well." Though the doctor says, "She can't get well," but she said, "I can get well if I can just touch the border of His garment." She was convinced.


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