<TITLE>01. Par 1-12</TITLE>64-1212, The Harvest Time, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 150 min
L-1      Thank you, Brother Williams. Good morning, friends. It's a privilege to be here this morning. And to have an introductory like this, it still makes me feel smaller. And I'm... was very grateful for this opportunity to come, this morning, to Phoenix.

L-2 I remember when I first come to Phoenix, I was about seventeen years old. It certainly has growed since that time. Out this morning where we come into Phoenix, we could hardly tell when we left Tucson and got to Phoenix. It's almost tied together, so many places has sprang up. Places where we used to go out here and even run burros on the desert, and now there is motels and ten-cent stores, and so forth. And, course, that makes me getting old.

L-3   And then I sit down here by the side of my good brother here, Brother Valdez, and I--I said, "Well, brother..." We was talking, and I said, "Well, course, I'm getting old." I said, "I realize that, my miles are building up." I said, "Wait till you get my age," or something like that. I was--I was surprised to know that he was about twelve years older than me. So, I, then I felt lots better then. I said, "Brother Valdez, I want you... How long you been preaching the Gospel?"
He said, "Fifty years."

L-4 Well, I was a very small child when he was preaching. So I said, "I wish you would just take the service this morning, Brother Valdez." I said, "I--I'm a young man," I said, "I hate to kind of set up here and try to speak," I said, "my elders."

L-5 And he just laughed, said, "What do you think I drove down here for?"

L-6 So I'm very grateful for Brother Valdez. He was telling me about having a rest home out here. That's--that's really nice. I appreciate that. Invited me out to come and visit with them sometime. And it's out here by New River. I don't know whether any of you know where it's at, or not. I'm sure, if a Valdez is behind it, it's all right.

L-7   So then, every time I come to a convention, I usually meet somebody that's--that's been healed in the services or something. And when I was standing here at the table this morning, a precious sister sitting over here, the name of Erb, she comes here from Michigan. Her son is the announcer here on this Christian station. And she was telling me about being in the meeting way back in Flint, Michigan. She got a prayer card, and was trying to be prayed for, and she never did make it. And she's very seriously ill. And right here this morning, I believe God healed the woman, standing right here by the side of the place.

L-8 I said, "What a time now! That's been about twelve, fourteen years ago, and now in the city called Phoenix, Phoenix is something that's built--built up from ruins." I said, "Well, that's the same thing happened to you this morning. God built you up, I believe, this morning, from a--a ruined health to good health."

L-9   I was just hearing last evening, the calls was coming, so many. I'm your neighbor now, I live in Tucson and the calls were so many I couldn't get out to get them all, so I just praying for them by phone. And they, then, they just had to leave their numbers.

L-10 And there was a lady, eighty-seven years old, an old Christian, she had been out of her mind for a while. She was in the street, screaming, and calling the police, that somebody had taken her baby. Eighty-seven years old, see, her mind had left her. And she was a dear old woman. I never knew her in my life. And so Billy rang, and said, "Go immediately to prayer," said, "the lady is seriously, and they think she is going to die." Said, "She is just... she is beyond herself."

L-11 Then I just hung up the receiver, and went into the room and prayed. In a few moments, she was asleep. She woke up, normally well, eat a full chicken supper, with all the ice cream and cake, behind it. Yeah.

L-12 You see, God is sovereign. He is so real, He can... You don't have to be there; just--just ask this.


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