<TITLE>05. Par 19-22</TITLE>L-19 Enjoyed Sister Shakarian's testimony. And this little Stevie, how he's growed up here. I used to pat him on the head, and now he can pat me on the head. My, he's growed up, and made such a fine boy, and following his... No wonder, he's got a good background, something behind it. See Brother Demos here after all this, and Brother Williams, and oh, so many here. I don't know just how to say it, but I'm grateful to be here, this fine time of fellowship. And this is the kind of places that's just heavenly to me, just set together like this and have a great joy. Now, as we have rejoiced, can... Something come on my mind just a few moments ago, a Scripture. And just before we approach this Scripture could we just pray, just for a moment.

L-20 Gracious Father God, into Thy Presence we come now by the way of grace, by the bidding of our Lord saying, "Ask the Father anything in My Name, I'll do it." We know that it shall be given. We're grateful to You for this gathering today at this upper room. Oh, if this blind world could only see and feel the joy, every drunkard would come from the alley, O God, if they only knew what true joy was. They're trying to take and drink, and many are laying on the beaches, and in dance halls, trying to substitute something for this great joy that God brought them on earth to receive. God, I pray that there'll be light go from here today that will bring many into this saving knowledge and the joy of God be in their hearts.
Thank You, Father. As I quote these few words, bless them to the furthering of the service. In Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-21 Over in the book of Isaiah, I'd just like to quote from one just for a--just a few moments. Isaiah 32:2: "And the--the Name of the Lord is a mighty tower. He's a rock in a weary land, a shelter in the time of storm."
I would like to think of that, the rock in a weary land." And I... Seeing this group kind of brings something to my memory. That is, I'd like to state this, or text this, to say this: "Letting Off the Pressure." I think that's what's happened this morning.
You know, the world is built up under pressure. Everything is going at a breakneck speed, and they don't know where they're going. They go down the road at ninety miles an hour, to stop in a tavern and drink two hours 'fore they get home. And it just seems to be such a pressure: everybody irritable, pushing, shoving. And I--I just wonder what the cure is.

L-22 Then I remember a few days ago, our pastor... I'd come in, and I was late with my calls, and people gathering in, you know, internationally around there, and set in the hotels, and motels and things, waiting. And then the pastor was worn out. He couldn't make some of his calls, and some of them were emergencies. So I took some of his and went to ones--the--the City Hospital.
And the--a room 331, I believe, was the number. I was to go to a woman facing a--an operation. And I went down to 331, and the woman wasn't there. So I went back up, and a nurse was standing there patting her foot. And I said, "How do you do?" I said, "Could you tell me where Miss Such-a-name is?" I said, "She's supposed to be in 331."
She said, "Well, if she's supposed to be in 331, she is."
I thought, "Oh, my." I said, "Yes, ma'am. Thank you."
I went back to 331 again and they said, "Well, maybe it's 332, across the hall."
"No." Said, "She isn't here. It might have been 231."
So I went down the stairs, and there was a little doctor setting there at the desk, a little man. The first one I've ever seen as broad as he was high. So he was setting there at the switchboard, and I passed by, and I said, "Howdy do?" He just looked at me kind of strange, and I thought, "Uh-uh, I don't want to ask him."


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