<TITLE>03. Par 20-30</TITLE>L-20 And I'll try to put our arms around everybody, and say, "We're all brethren. Let's just serve the Lord." And what little influence I can have, I don't place it upon any certain denomination, just on Christ. And there we... And we try to serve Him that way.

L-21 Everybody is invited, no matter. Everybody is welcome. As long as you behave and be orderly, why, you're just welcome as you can be.

L-22   Now, another thing, is our system of praying for the sick. Now, each day, Brother Borders, or Terry, or Brother Sothmann, or Billy Paul or... Usually, it's Billy Paul. That's his job. And if he can't get here, it'll be one of these other man will be giving out prayer cards each day. They do that; come down, take the prayer cards, a hundred of them, and mix them all up, right before your eyes, and then give the people the cards, who wants one. Now each day they do that. So that, when we first started, we found out that you had to have prayer cards. It's not an arena, you know, pushing over each other. It's a... You got to have it in order.

L-23 And then we found someone trying to sell prayer cards, and guaranteeing people to get up, the platform. And so, that, had to stop that. And then I put my own son on that, 'cause I knowed he wouldn't sell one.

L-24   Then the thought come up, "Give me a certain prayer card. Where you going to start praying for them, tonight? And then I'm--I'm going to pray... I want that prayer card." Well, to make that boy sure that, no, he don't know where that prayer line is going to start, he mixes the cards up, and then hands you. He don't know which one he is handing you. He just hands you a prayer card. One might get number one, another get fifty, and--and then so forth.

L-25 And then to double that back. I come down of a night; and nobody, and I don't know, myself, where I'll start calling them prayer cards from. I might start from one, and I might start from twenty-five. I might start from seventy-five or a hundred, and work backwards; sixteen, and go forward and then backwards. Anybody that's ever been in meeting, knows we do it that way, just back and forth, anywhere.

L-26   And, then, every day. First, we go down and give all the prayer cards out, the first day; then any newcomers come in, they fail to get a prayer card, that settled it, they didn't get prayed for during the meeting. But now we give them out, every day, so that ever anyone that wants a prayer card can have one. Maybe one night we don't get to all of them, but, hold your card, we'll get to it before leaving.

L-27 Now, but there is many, many healed out in the audience, many more than there is healed than when they're here on the platform. It's your faith that does the healing. It isn't our prayer. Our prayer will help, there is no doubt. We all get together, pray for you, it'll help. And if...

L-28 And then on Sunday afternoon, the Lord willing, we'll be praying for every one, taking up their prayer cards and praying for all; or maybe Saturday night, one, depends on which one of the brethren want us to do it.

L-29   And now we want to say this so that you'll understand. The reason I put that prayer line off, to meet every person, is because my principle, my--my objective, is this, that people will receive Christ as their healer without anybody laying hands on them.

L-30 Usually, you take an evangelist, comes to the city, well, he is--he is everything in the church. When he leaves, sometimes the congregation looks at their pastor, and say, "Well, what about my pastor?" I want you to know that your pastor is a godly man, and I want you to have respects and know that that man is just as ordained to pray for the sick as anybody else is ordained. And we--we want you... and--and by...


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