<TITLE>01. Par 1-10</TITLE>65-0123, Broken Cisterns, Ramada Inn, Phoenix, AZ, 84 min
L-1         Lord, I believe; Lord, I believe,
All things are possible; Lord, I believe.

L-2 Let us remain standing just a moment and bow our heads. Lord Jesus, we are trying in our humble way, to express to You, by singing this, that we believe. And we pray, Lord, that now, that You will continue breaking the Bread of Life to us, giving to us that which we have need of, out of Thy Word. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-3   You be seated. I'm quite sure, if we should, if I'd say the all-sufficient word now of "amen," that the august blessings of God would still rest upon this audience.

L-4 I have sat this morning and listened close to the service, enjoyed the testimonies, the different ways each one has of expressing themselves. And to hear the newcomers, the Baptist brother here that come to apologize for thinking that a little wrong. So I--I certainly appreciate the human, somebody that can be human enough, or--or gentleman enough, too, if he thinks he's made a mistake. He didn't exactly apologize to me, it wasn't me he was apologizing to, it was God. So I--I appreciate that, see. God bless our brother, and his evangelist brother.

L-5 My, that Baptist, you know, I used to belong to the Baptist church myself. I was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. When I come among the people, I know how you feel. I felt the same way, just full of something that I--I didn't know.

L-6   I remember my first experience of seeing a pentecostal, it was in Dowagiac, Michigan... I beg your pardon, I had been at Dowagiac on a fishing trip, and was coming down from Dowagiac, to down into Indiana. And so I seen the names, of "Jesus" all over the cars and things, and I listened to their services that day. And the next day they asked me to come to the platform, to say a few words, and I did. And I... They asked me what church I belonged to, and I told them I was a Baptist.

L-7 And that night they had an old colored man was going to preach, and he must have been in his late eighties, and he come out to the platform. The old fellow, they almost had to lead him out. He was, one of those long ministerial coats on, the velvet collar, and just a little rim of white fur hair around the side. And I thought, "All these man here and theologians, great man, how they'd let this service be given to a fellow like that? Well, the old man should be in a chair somewhere, sitting down."

L-8   They had been preaching that day about what Jesus had did here on earth. And, but he came, took his text, I believe it was from Job...:7, 20, I wouldn't be sure that's the Scripture. However, this is the quotation, or some part of it, "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the world, when the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy?" And he spoke on what went on in Heaven, while they had been speaking on what went on in earth.

L-9 And somewhere, in about five minutes after he was speaking, he, the Spirit of the Lord hit him, and he jumped way up in the floor and clicked his heels together. My, there was so much room, there was almost half on this platform; and he went walking off, said, "You just haven't got enough room up here for me to preach."

L-10 Well, I was about twenty years old then. I thought, "If--if that will do that for that old man, what would it do for me?" So see?


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