<TITLE>12. Par 126-136</TITLE>L-126 What is a gift? What is a gift, anyhow? Not to take something and use something, say, "I got a gift of healing! I go out and heal this one, heal that one." If I could, I'd certainly do it. Now, but, a gift, and you're--you're... You misinterpret a gift. A gift is just "get yourself out of the way and let the Holy Spirit use you." See? That's the gift.

L-127 That's what a minister is. He don't preach what he wants to preach. He just gets hisself out of the way, it's a gift, and inspiration comes, and he--he speaks through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Any other gift is the same way. Now, ministerial gifts, and so forth, has been. There is, first, of God-given gifts, is, "first apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists." That's the offices. That's our gifts.

L-128   Now, Jesus Christ promised that He would do this in the last days. If He does it, if He promises that and will do it, how many will believe and accept Him, tonight? Raise up your hand, say, "I will accept Him." How many in here then... Thank you. How many in here has never been in one of the meetings before, raise up your hand. My, nearly half the crowd. How many believes, before He does it, you believe anyhow? God bless you.

L-129 Now look. If I have told you the Truth, God is obligated to answer me. He will. He puts His Words in your mouth and They materialize. That's right, It's His Words, It has to do it. "I have sent My Word, It won't return void."

L-130   Now, if I could heal, I would do it. Just like the honorable, late, Brother Upshaw that we was talking about. That old man sitting back there in that wheelchair, a gallant old man, I would have healed him if I could. I started to leave the platform, frankly, and I turned around and saw him in a vision, going, walking. Called him, told him what it was, and that was it. He got up and walked, come to the platform, touched his toes, after being a cripple for sixty-six years. See?

L-131   The same night, a colored lady, with her baby, down there on the side. I said, "I see a--a doctor with glasses on, and--and he's operated on a little, colored girl, and it's paralyzed her from her throat."

L-132 An old colored woman, you couldn't hardly hold her off the platform. She said, "Lordy, mercy, that's my baby!" And here she come, a bunch of ushers couldn't even hold her.

L-133 I said, "Annie, it won't do no good to come up here. That isn't... That's God." I said, "It won't do no good to come here. Just believe." And she got down on her knees and started praying. I looked across the audience and I seen an alley, like, going. I seen a little colored girl with a doll in her arms, going down through the alley. And I looked at the little, colored girl, looked back, and it was the same one. I said, "It's answered." Up she got, and away from the cot. See?

L-134 It's God. See? It's God. See? He can't... No one can heal. It's your faith in God.

L-135   Now, the Bible said, that, "He is the High Priest, right now, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities." Do you believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] A High Priest! Now, if He is the High Priest, how would He act? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He would act the same yesterday, today, and forever.

L-136 Now you pray, and let the Holy Spirit then... You say to God, "God, this man standing there doesn't know me, but what He says makes sense. You are the same. You are Christ. I am sick. I need. And if You let me either... If I haven't got the faith to do it, let somebody that I know have faith, and let it... You call and let--let--let me or that person touch the hem of Your Garment in Glory. Then if that man is out of the way, then You use his mouth to speak back, and just do it the same way You did when You were on earth. I'll know that You're the same yesterday, today, and forever."
Let us bow our heads now.


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