<TITLE>01. Par 1-12</TITLE>63-0126, Investments, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 114 min
L-1       Good morning, to everyone. Very happy to be here. I'm kind of short. You have to pull this down a little bit. This is kind of a surprise to me, being here this morning, because I was supposed to be leaving the city this morning at six o'clock, to go about a hundred and fifty miles north from here, with some friends. And so when they told me I was to be here this morning to speak at the breakfast, I kind of had to hurry up and change our program a little. It's always a privilege, though, to be where the people of the Lord is. "Where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered."

L-2   And I'm so happy to be here and to meet all of our friends again, this fine fellowship. You can imagine how I feel, standing here with a man who has been preaching the Gospel when I was a little bitty fellow, and--and that's taking a long time back. And, but, I'm so thankful to be assembled here with the people.

L-3 And now, tonight is another great night, we're expecting God to do great things.

L-4 And through this week, I have had the privilege of--of going up-and-down through the Maricopa Valley here, speaking with the people in their churches. And we've had a great time. So grateful for his... the fellowship, and of the Holy Spirit among His people.

L-5   And I am looking forward, also, to Sunday afternoon, when I... it's my privilege to speak again Sunday afternoon. And, then, Monday night at the banquet. Now, I'm trusting that all that's being done or said, we'll--we'll have a great climax Monday night. Brother Oral Roberts has been chosen to speak this banquet meeting. And we are... We want to pray for him. Pray that God will give him such a message that will--will send Phoenix to its knees, trembling, see, shaking the very Presence of God in--in the front of the people. And we are hoping that to come to pass.

L-6 And all along the line, everything that's done, we trust it'll leave such an impression upon Phoenix, that they can never be the same. And the people who has been here and will go back into their own cities, will not go back the way they come out. Go back, inspired, and with a more determination to do the work of the Lord, with a new vision from God.

L-7   I'm here because of a vision. And if any of you has ever taken any of the tapes... I'm not a tape salesman. Course, we have a tape business around the world. But if you ever bought a tape from me, or, not from me, but from Mr. Maguire. He is here somewhere, taking tapes, this morning, I suppose. Get that one, What Time Is It, Sir? I'm standing in a place till I--I don't know the next move.

L-8 I have seen visions since I was a little boy. First thing I can remember, nearly, in life, was a vision. And I, before people from anywhere, I ask anybody to tell me one time that one of them ever failed. It can't fail. It's God.

L-9 Therefore, this one has me in such a condition till I--I go to thinking about it, and it just tears me up. And I know something is going to take place. And I--I would be afraid...

L-10   Just like what I was saying to someone the other day. We realize that we don't want to take God and make it just a gimmick now. And we don't want to take the gifts of God and make gimmicks out of it. When you say the Lord said something, be sure the Lord told you; be not an impression. See? There's too much of that now, you see, and the people don't know how to have confidence. If God says anything, it must be just exactly that way. It must happen that way.

L-11 That's how we can trust the Bible. In the beginning, it promised a Messiah. Those Hebrew prophets spoke of a Messiah, what He would do. That Messiah came just exactly the way it was. The Bible, on one hand, says it'll happen at a certain time. It does, right on down.

L-12 Now we got confidence that there'll be a Rapture. Jesus will be coming. We're right here. Because, it's never failed anywhere else, and it can't fail now. That's our confidence.


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