<TITLE>12. Par 134-150</TITLE>L-134 And the old mother and father was standing there. I had left a meeting, and the--the old mother and father said, "If you'll come pray, my child will live." The boy was about seventeen, eighteen years old. Had a cardiogram, a machine there, of some sorts. He had been unconscious for two or three days, and he knew nothing. The mother and father received me as I come in. I knelt down and prayed a simple little prayer of faith.
I said, "Sir, do you believe God?"

L-135 He said, "With all my heart, only thing I want you to do is ask God. God will give it."

L-136 I said, "Thank you, brother, for your confidence. May I never betray it."

L-137 I laid hands upon the little fellow, and prayed, "Lord Jesus, let this father and mother's faith join with mine, and come before Your throne tonight. Let this boy live and not die, because we believe. In Jesus' Name."

L-138   Got up. And the father reached over and grabbed the mother across the little old iron lung, of a thing he was breathing in there, and said, "Mother, isn't this wonderful? Isn't this wonderful? Oh, it's so wonderful!"

L-139 And that little nurse standing there, she was amazed. That little cap liked to have fell off her head. She looked around, and she said, "Sir, I don't understand. How can you act like that, you and your wife, and your son dying?"
He said, "Honey, my son is not dying."

L-140 "Well," said, "doctor said that he was dying." Said, "That," ever what the machine was, said, "when a heart ever goes that low, with this fever, it never has been known, in history, to ever come back."

L-141   I'll never forget that old patriarch's faith. He belonged to, I believe, the A. B. Simpson movement. Walked up and put his hands upon the shoulders, he was about sixty years old, put his hands upon the shoulders of this little girl, looked her in the face. He said, "Honey, you are looking at that machine. That's all you know to look at. But I'm looking at a promise, that God said He would do it."

L-142 It depends on what you're looking at. They were hugging one another, and rejoicing there, brother. And he is married, and a missionary in Africa now, with two children. Why? Because a father and mother could hold on when the darkest hour. Persistent! Yes, sir, persistent! Have faith in God!

L-143   Little Micaiah, in the presence of all them four hundred trained prophets, were persistent when he had a vision from God. Though they... He was contrary. They met him and told him, "Now we'll put you back in the association if you'll just say the same thing, you, they say."

L-144 He said, "As the Lord lives, I'll only say what He tells me to say." And his vision was examined with the Word of God, and he pronounced his prophecy, no matter.

L-145 They said, "We'll throw him into the inner cells, and give him sorrow, bread of sorrow, and waters of sorrow." "And when they come back," he said he'd deal with him, Ahab did.

L-146 He said, "If you come back at all, God hasn't spoke to me." He was persistent. He knew where he was standing.

L-147   The blind man that had been healed by Jesus could not argue their theology. They said, "Who opened your eyes?"
He said, "A Man called Jesus of Nazareth."

L-148 Said, "This Man is a sinner. We know not whence He come from."

L-149 Now, he gave them a good answer. He said, "You are the religious leaders of this day. And this Man has give me my sight, and yet you don't know where He come from." He had pretty good theology of his own. He could not argue with them. But he knowed one thing, he could see. And he wasn't ashamed. His father and mother was ashamed to say something about it, but not him. He had seen it. He had felt it. He had the results of it. Something had told him, and he was persistent.

L-150   Philip, as soon as he seen, last night's lesson, what, when come up in the Presence of Jesus Christ, when he saw Simon's... or Andrew's brother. Phil-...


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