<TITLE>04. Par 21-27</TITLE>L-21 And now, before we...?... For the lesson tonight... And I don't want to keep you long, 'cause I see the people standing up, and one taking his place, and then another set down, so forth. We're trying hard to get a--a permit to seat about three or four hundred more people, but the city seems to hold us back on it, because we haven't got adequate parking room. We got the permit from Indianapolis, and then the city. We have to have parking room. Oh, when we put four people in here, we got to have enough room to put a car out here. And this parking lot here really belongs to the city, so, see, they... We're--our church here is just about one foot from the city line. And the--really, the highway, the reason it's built out there... 'Course some of you people, young fellows here, wouldn't understand this, but this used to be a pond. And I remember when I was a boy; we'd ride down here, and we had to go around out there in the field and get around the pond. They built the road right around--the road around the pond.
And I bought this lot here. Praying right here where this is, the Lord told me to buy it about thirty years ago or thirty-two years ago, that is, I think. Right here in a great big swamp and horseweeds over my head... And I bought the lot for a hundred and sixty dollars, this corner--corner right here, and built the church.

L-23 Now, the Lord bless you. I want to (if it would be called a text, for some of the...) read some of the context on notes; I would like to speak to the audience tonight upon the subject of "The Influence of Another." And before we speak or read the Word, let us bow our heads and talk to the Author of the Word.
And now, with our heads bowed and our hearts...?... too in His holy reverence, I wonder if there's some...?... tonight would have a request that they--is burning on their heart, that they might just raise up your hand before God and say in your prayer, "Lord Jesus, I have needs. Speak to me tonight. Heal me. Give me my financial needs," or whatever it is. He supplies all our needs. God bless you. About ninety percent of the congregation.

L-25 Our heavenly Father, we are approaching Thee. Now as we leave this little tabernacle of clay that we dwell in, this little ship that's sailing life's solemn main, by faith we're coming up above Mars, Jupiter, Venus, the moon, the stars, the milky...?... way, and arriving now by faith at the throne of the Father. See setting there, His pierced hands and His feet; may that Blood now make intercession as we lay our gifts upon the altar of gold around His throne.
We thank Thee first for Jesus, Who made all these things possible to us through our faith that we're going to ask. Thou did see the hands. You knowed what was beating beneath the hearts of the people. And I lay my faith Lord on the sacrifice in the great golden altar of God where the incense is being burned daily. I pray that You'll hear and answer their prayers, Father. Give to them the desires of their heart.

L-27 And now, as we assemble, Lord, tonight for these three gatherings, we are here in this hot building tonight for no other purpose but a closer walk with Thee. Knowing what to do...?... Lord, what to do... As the prophet said, "They that wait upon the Lord, they shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as an eagle. They'll run and not be weary; they'll walk and not faint." Lord, teach us how to wait after we have asked and...?... have faith to know that You heard, and in Your own good time You'll send our answer right down the golden stairs from the corridors of Heaven right into our soul. And we shall receive what we ask for, because we believe it.
Sanctify our ears tonight to hear and our hearts to receive; and may when the service is over, may we say like those who came from Emmaus, "Did not our hearts burn within us as He spake to us along the way." For we ask it in His Name. Amen.


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