<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30 Let me ask you something. What if that disease is on that purpose--that person for a purpose? Do you know, you can get in a lot of trouble to take something off of a person that God has put on there?
You know, a prophet stands in a dangerous position. You know, Moses kept hisself out of the promised land by doing exactly what God told him not to do, listening to the people. Did you ever think of that?
Did you ever think it was the will of God when Elijah, that mighty prophet, bald-headed, and those little children run down making fun of him being bald-headed? Well, what of it? He ought to have just left it alone. But under the anger, and that prophet turned around, and put a curse on those children, and two she bears killed forty-two little children: an angered prophet. Is that true?
You have to be very, very careful. That's the reason gifts are not handed out the way people think they are. See? True gifts of God is sent from God, and you watch them. On the platform watch and see.

L-31 Here's a woman maybe, standing here, just a little female trouble. What if she's done something over here that's caused that. It'll constantly get worse till that... I say, here's a woman laying here, standing here, or laying here on a cot maybe, or a man. Maybe that man is--is a immoral person, but he's laying there with arthritis. Certainly, I've never sincerely asked God for anything but what He did it, or either told me why He couldn't. And that's exactly true.
Looking over that man I see he has arthritis, but there he's done something wrong. Now, what if I take this bulldog faith of mine, if I--if I had it, I haven't; but if I had it, and run down there and jerked that man up, and make him walk; and then, that curse of God put on him, and I take it off with a gift; I'm in trouble with God.

L-32 That's the reason in a prayer line, I watch real close and see what He tells me. And if I keep speaking to them, and I see it keeps turning light, light, so forth, light, I see there's nothing wrong. Then I've got a right to come. You got a right to.
But you might pour oil on a man or a woman all day long, and jump up and down, and scream to the top of your voice, and curse devils. He will stay right there, because he's got a right to stay there: unconfessed sin and everything. See? So see?

L-33 But there's fifty healed in Brother Roberts' meetings to one in mine. But usually, mine is the ones that got failed in his. See? Comes down here, and you find out where the trouble's at, then it's straightened up. And then things are made right. See? How many's seen that taken place in the meetings of mine any? Why, sure. Certainly. Certainly. See?
So it's slow, taking time, watching, being sure that you're right. And then place that curse upon the devil. Then if that person will halfway believe it, it'll happen. Yes, sir. No matter how long it takes, stay with it. It's been said; stay with it. God makes a promise, and sometimes it's--it's weeks and months before it happens. But it's got to happen if you don't doubt it: got to. It's your faith in what you've seen done.


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