<TITLE>15. Par 176-189</TITLE>L-176 I was speaking on faith being the substance, the substance of things hoped for. And I was speaking. And Brother Espinoza started speaking on, as I was speaking. Brother Jack started down to pray for the baby. And as I started to look, I looked out here in front of me, and there was a little Mexican baby, no teeth, it was so little. It was smiling, looking at me, a vision.

L-177 I said, "Wait a minute, Brother Jack. Bring the baby here." And so they opened up the way.

L-178   Here come the little woman, with the prayer beads in her hands, and falling on the floor, hollering, "Padre!"

L-179 And I--I raised her up. I said, "Don't." She had a little blue and white, striped blanket; a little, stiff baby, about that long, laying in her arms.
I said, "Ask her when it died."

L-180 Said, "It died in the doctor's office, that morning, about nine o'clock." And this was about nine-thirty or ten o'clock that night. And just soaking wet, she had been standing; her hair all down. Pretty little woman, and, she, probably her first baby. She looked to be twenty-five years old, or something.

L-181   And I said, "Brother Espinoza, don't interpret this prayer, because I just seen a vision of a little dead ba-... or a little baby out there laughing at me." I said, "It might be the baby."

L-182 And I put my hands upon the little blanket, and I said, "Dear Heavenly Father, I don't know what the vision meant, but I seen the little baby. If that baby, You are ready to call it back to life, I'll call for its life, in the Name of Jesus Christ." It let out a yell, and kicked that blanket and begin screaming like that. And I...

L-183   The Business Men's Voice packed it, not long ago. I said, "Brother Espinoza, don't say nothing about that now. You send a runner after that baby and that woman, and get it to the doctor and get a signed affidavit before you publish that now," I said, "because it must be true. We don't know." So, so they sent a runner.

L-184 And the doctor signed an affidavit, "The baby died with double pneumonia," that morning in his... at nine o'clock in his office. "It had no respiration. It's heart was gone, been dead and stiff."

L-185 And there that little woman was. Why? Because she was persistent. Nothing was going to stop her. She was persistent. She was perseverant, though her priest would have put her out of the church (certainly he would), no matter what happened. She happened to be looking at the fence, a few nights before, and she had seen that old blind man receive his sight. "If God could give sight to the blind, He could raise the dead!" And she had a need. She was persistent, like the Syrophenician woman. She got her desire because she was persistent.

L-186   Brother and sister, we're in the Presence of Jesus Christ. He said, "Wherever two or three are assembled in My Name, there I am in the midst of them. Whatever they agree upon, as touching one thing, and ask, they shall receive." Let us be persistent now in the Presence of God, as we bow our heads.

L-187   Our gracious Heavenly Father, we've been speaking for about thirty-something minutes now, or more, for Thy Kingdom. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God made the promise. God is obligated to His promise. Let us, Lord, remember, and be like that little woman, persistent. If Jesus is here in our midst, then let us hold onto Him until we have achieved that what we've come for.

L-188 If there is those here, tonight, who are not saved, may they hold on until the saving grace of God has received them.

L-189 If they are here without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, may they be like that little woman, let not time or anything else stand in the way. They'll hold and be perseverant until the Holy Spirit fills their life with the grace of God.


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