<TITLE>03. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22   Now, tonight, I want to read a place here in the Scripture, just for a few moments. We're going to pray for the sick. Billy said he give out a bunch of prayer cards. And he gave out some yesterday, and I never got to any of them last night. And I wondered, when the Holy Spirit came... It's just... You can't make It work. It's just like a little lever, you pull yourself into a gear. You're the one does that operating of the Holy Spirit, not me. You do that yourself. So I, last night, I noticed even in discernment, it never picked up with the people just right. They didn't seem to take to it. I have found it, here lately, it seems like, more or less, just as I was speaking, laying hands upon the sick, they know.

L-23 We should realize that in us has been given, we who believe Jesus Christ and been born of His Spirit and filled with that quickening power, that power that's in you. By laying on hands, on the others, like the disciples did and down through the age, It absolutely healed the sick, raised the dead, It showed visions, prophecies. And the very same Spirit that lived amongst the early apostles is living in the church today, working the very same things. And as quick as we can recognize that! See, no matter how much it's a working, you've got to recognize that and believe that. It won't do one bit of good, until you do believe it. But the moment you believe it, your troubles are ended. That's true.

L-24   Now let us turn in the Scripture. I was sitting out there, a few moments ago, jotted down a few more Scriptures, to change my text for the night. And I want to read some out of the Word of God, out of the Book of Saint Luke, the 8th chapter, beginning with the 40th verse. Listen now, I'm going to read extensive.
And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.

L-25 Would not that be a fine attitude for the company tonight?
And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
... Jesus said, Somebody has touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.
And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and fell down before him, and declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith has made thee whole; go in peace.
And while he... spake, there certain one came from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.
But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.
And when he was come into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter,... James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.
And all wept,... bewailed her: and he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but asleep.
And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
But he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called the maid, saying, Maid, arise.
And her spirit came again, and she rose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.
And her parents was astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.


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