<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>65-1207, Leadership, Covina Bowl, Covina, CA, 120 min
L-1       Thank you, Brother Williams. Greetings, Brother Salano and his wife, and all the delegates here at this banquet tonight. It's certainly a great privilege to be here. I've looked forward for this hour ever since we have started this way.

L-2 And I--I want to thank that lady. I can't think of her name, Billy just told me they had give me a box of Christmas candy, and just brought it out to the car a few moments ago. The sister, I can't think of her name, she's from here in California. That was my first Christmas present. So I--I thank you for it.

L-3 Now, tonight it's... Now in Tucson it's ten minutes after nine, but I think it's just ten minutes after eight here. So we... I have kind of a feeling amongst the people, I'm kind of long-winded in preaching, so I--I hope... [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you. Such a... some nice persons in here. I thank you.

L-4   But I'm--I'm just a little bit preached out, almost, tonight, I've been going so long from--from Shreveport and across the country (coming this way) night after night, and you get just a little--a little shook up, you know, and cold, and your throat gets hoarse. I started out at Shreveport. I lost my hair when I was... few years ago. And I had a little piece I put on when I'm preaching in the north country, to keep from taking a cold. I went to Shreveport and forgot it, and I really got a cold. Them wind coming across like that, you really just don't know. It was taken out accidentally, and the skin's still soft, and with just a little perspiration and I've really got it in the throat; had to close many meetings. So I'm just a teeny bit hoarse tonight.

L-5   We want to say we've had a wonderful time coming across here, though, in the meetings. Last night we had a wonderful time up in... with the brethren up, the other chapter. And so had a great crowd out and wonderful attendance, the people so reverent and nice. So it makes me feel real good to be a part of the Full Gospel Business Men. It's been...

L-6 I have a Message, I feel, from God. It's a little odd to some people. And I can't help being no more... I just got to be what I am. And we... I don't mean to be different, it's just that I--I'm living at a changing time. We're...

L-7   As long as you're building the wall one straight way, it's all fine, the--the bricklayers can go right down the row. But when you have to turn the corner, that's where the time... And we're not building a wall; we're building a house, you see, so these turns has to come. They come in the age of Martin Luther, John Wesley, and the Pentecostal age; it's here again. So we... it's hard to turn the corners. But I'm so thankful for... to God, even though how rough it's been, the people has responded one hundred percent. So we're very grateful, thank each one of you.
And now before we open the Book, let's speak to the Author, if you will, just a moment, while we bow our heads:

L-8   Dear God, we are grateful to You tonight for the privilege of knowing Jesus Christ (our Saviour) Your Son and the free pardoning of our sins, and to know that His Blood is sufficient that's covered all of our sins and our iniquities. They're so blotted out and put in the sea of God's forgetfulness and His Bride will stand at the Wedding Supper, pure, unadulterated, to marry the Son of God. How we thank Thee for this all-sufficiency and the faith to know that we do not trust in our own merits but in His merit alone, for what He did for us. We're so grateful.

L-9 Thank You for the--the success that these brethren had overseas and the countries over there where they're hungering and thirsting for God. I pray, Lord, that if they go back again, that those children that they brought into the Kingdom will be great-grandmothers and grandfathers of the children that they bring in also. Grant it, Father.


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