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Chapter I A lady laid hands on me and prophesied over me. She told me that the Lord wanted me to go into a certain city to work for Him. Would you advise me to go or not? Sometimes the Lord uses one person to prophesy over another and confirm what He has already spoken, but the Lord will also speak to you about this ministry if He wants you to go. If you are not close enough to the Lord to know His leadings, you would not know what He wanted you to do if you should go to that "certain city." Perhaps you should carry that lady along with you to prophesy and tell you each thing you should do after you arrive .there. If 1 were you, 1 would not criticize the well meaning lady. But you should wait until the Lord says something to you about this ministry. Then the calling would be established by two witnesses. If the Lord led the sister to prophesy over you, I'm sure He will say something to you about it also. The Holy Spirit comes to "lead us into all tru'th." "As many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God." His sheep know His voice. If I have a Spiritual gift can I operate it anytime I want to? I read where the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets. Does this mean that I can use my gift at will? It is true that the Bible says that the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets, but this does not mean that. the Spirit of God is subject to the prophets. The prophets must all be subject to the Spirit of God. The gifts of the Spirit are operated by the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 12 :11.) They are not operated by our own power or holiness. (Acts 3 :12.) We should not try to use the gifts. The gifts should use us. It was when Paul perceived that a man had faith
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to be healed that he said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on thy feet" (Acts 14:10.) It was after the fortune-teller girl followed Paul around three days that he was led by the Spirit to command the devil to come out in the name of Jesus. It is when a man tries to operate the Spiritual gifts with his own spirit, without the leading of the Lord that he sees no results. I have been prayed for to be healed of sugar diabetes. I have seen people prayed for and not receive instant healing. Must I keep taking insulin or not? My advice to you is to be led by the Spirit, and d~ what you think is best. It depends on what you think is best. It depends on what you think and not what I think. It is according to your faith. If you still have sugar diabetes, perhaps you should continue to take insulin. If you do not have sugar diabetes of course, you don't need to take insulin. A crippled person walks on crutches until he is healed; then he does not need the crutches any longer. There have been many people instantly healed of sugar diabetes. We have many wonderful testimonies in our files. A lady in Brother Nelson's church in Dallas was prayed for to be healed of sugar diabetes. In about three minutes a purple paste came out all over her body. She ran from one person to another saying that the insulin was coming out through her skin! We saw the purple-looking paste on her arms, face, hands and neck. The next day she had not washed it off. She went from house to house telling her neighbors, "God has healed me of sugar diabetes. See how the insulin is coming out!" That caused quite a stir! I went to a doctor friend in Dallas and told him the story. He said it was quite possible, as that would be the color of insulin after it came in contact with the blood stream. That has been many months ago. I was back by Brother Nelson's church a few nights ago. That lady is still telling about her wonderful healing! -2-

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Can we have a revival before we get the sin out of the church? For years some evangelists have gone from church to church hammering the saints over the head and saying, "We are getting the saints ready for a revival. Nothing can be done until the saints are ready, in line, and are of one mind and one accord." Then about the the time their poor heads are about healed, another preacher comes along hitting them in the same spot, accusing' them because there were no results in the services. In many cases they were told that Sister S. must pull off her wedding ring, Sister J. should throw away her powder, and Brother M. should ask his wife to forgive him. One time when I went to Louisiana to hold a revival, a certain sister said during service, "We should not try to have a revival as long as the church is in the condition it is in." I told her that was the very time they needed a revival. That sister thought negatively, and sat back wondering how people could receive the Holy Ghost every night, and. most every day for seventy-five days in succession. If God must have a perfect church before He can send a revival, and each member is a part of His Church, then no church will ever have a revival. I went to a church with about a thousand members to hold a revival. A thousand people were in the building, while hundreds were turned away. About forty people were filled with the Holy Ghost each night. The pastor was a good man of God. He had a private interview with me. He said, "Brother Grant, I have been preaching for about forty years. Now I have learned something: I have taught and- believed that the church had to be in unity before anything could happen. In this church my general superintendent and a lady Sunday School teacher have been caught in' -3-

the basement in an immoral act, even while services were going on in the auditorium. This pastor knew what was going on among his members, so he did not believe anything could be done, because he thought negatively. I did not know what was going on, so I believed. I thought positively. That general superintendent and the Sunday School teacher both prayed through one night and were filled with the Spirit, after they saw what the Lord was doing. It is not the condition of the people, but our negative way of thinking, which hinders the workings of the Lord. Sister J. does not have to believe for you to be healed. Brother G. does not have to ask his wife to forgive him before you can be saved. It does not require Sister S.'s faith for you to receive the Holy Ghost. It is according to YOUR faith. People were saved and healed in Jesus' ministry even while Judas was walking near by. Simon believed and was baptised, but his heart was not right in the sight of God. That did not keep other people from being delivered from sin and the devil. Simon did not prevent other people from being filled with the Holy Ghost when Peter and John came down to Samaria. Recently I was in a church where there were six different brands of full gospel people, all teaching that the other group 'was wrong. People did not all believe alike at the household of Cornelius. Some ate pork and others did not, but they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. It is not altogether the condition of other people, but according to the way you believe. Even if your husband does not pay tithes you can be healed if you believe. It is according to YOUR faith. Chapter III Will sin in the church hinder the' progress of that church? In the first place, there is no sin in God's holy Church. All sin is outside the Church. There is sin

in the organized, local church sometimes, which will c~use a reproach and hinder the progress and the testimony of that local church. Even in the Old Testament days, when certain battles were not won because of sin, that did not keep people from being proselyted into the Jewish nation and becoming a Jew. Even in our day, when some professing church member does not live right, that does not keep a repenting sinner from being saved. Today is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time. Whosoever will may come. If a man wants to be saved and is ready to quit sin, I will not tell him that he cannot be saved because "Uncle Cha~lie" dips snuff. I will tell him that "he that comes to the Lord He will not cast out." Jesus never told anyone that he could not receive forgiveness of sin because Judas was a hypocrite. At one time there was a saying that the parents had eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth were on edge. But in this day of grace, when the law of grace supersedes the law written on tables of stone; when the law of faith is stronger than the law of sowing and reaping, everyone shall be put to death for his own sins. The father's sin will not keep the son from being saved. The unbelief of the mother will not keep the daughter from being saved if the daughter believes. This is an individual affair with God. (Jer. 31 :29). In a revival I do not tell a dying lady with a cancer that she cannot be healed because the deacon backslid and ran off with another woman. Jesus did not tell the woman with an issue of blood that she would have to die because James and John had the wrong spirit or because Peter had a devil. Even in the same letter which stated that a man took his father's wife, Paul told that same church that they came behind in no gift; that people would fall down on their face and report that God was with them of a truth; that they

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could yet pray and turn that man over to Satan, and yet have a revival. They did not let that one man's sin hinder the revival. Even in our day we can band together and pray that God will either deliver a man that sins or get him out of the way and let the revival keep going! I have no time for these "sincere people" who have been taught that we can have no revival because they get their eyes on certain people that back-slide and go to the devil. It is not the sin of certain individuals that hinders the revival fires from burning. It is the negative thinking and believing of certain people who believe the power of the devil is stronger than the power of God. They have more faith in the devil than they do in God. If the church must be perfect before we can get people saved, filled, and healed, and if the church includes all the members - backsliders, hypocrites, and snuff-dippers - then we will never have anyone saved, filled or healed! The church would be dead, dead, dead! Not because God does not have the power, but because too many leaders stand up and preach doubt instead of faith. Far too many people stand up and preach for people not to expect anyone to be saved or healed until we all "get in one mind and one accord." Even on the day of Pentecost they were not all in one mind and in one accord. Even you and your wife may not get your minds together, but you can yet get your hearts together and agree together in prayer. And there is power in agreement, whether it is for bad or for good. There is nothing so bad or so good, but talking about it makes it more so. Chapter IV Is it all right to receive members into the church on confession? Yes, it is all right to receive members into the churc.h that way if they believe with their heart. "By their fruit ye shall know them." In the fifth chapter of -6-

Galatians we see listed both the fruit of the Spirit and the fruit of the flesh. Paul says that if we have the fruit of the flesh we cannot see the kingdom of heaven. Jesus says that one tree cannot bring forth both evil and good fruit. It must be either good or evil. We need ministers in the church today who can discern spirits, in order not to fill the churches with unregenerated people. Paul set certain people who were spiritual in the church to judge. (1 Cor. 14:29) As the pastor started to receive members into the church at the close of our revival in Waco, Texas, the Lord showed me that one man was not saved. Immediately, I went to him and prayed. He was delivered from sin and went ahead and joined the church. In one tent meeting a lady came forward and was healed. Immediately she was saved before about two thousand people. She said it was the first time she was ever saved, although she was a member of a denominational church. Just last Sunday in Manila, a good number came forward and were saved. Then one lady told us that it was the first time she was ever saved, although she had belonged to a leading protestant church in that city. Some members who have not been really born again go back to serving Buddha. John the Baptist would not accept people on confession or by baptism. He told them that they would have to bring forth fruit to prove that they had repented. On the plane recently near Tokyo, I was talking to some university teachers. I took them aside one by one and asked them if they believed in Jesus. Each said they thought Jesus was a good man. Then they agreed that if Jesus was a good man He told the truth. I showed them that Jesus claimed to be Christ and Lord. Each confessed that he believed that He was what He claimed to be, but I saw that they did not have a change of heart. I did not count them as converts. They already had five hundred gods. They

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thought one more wouldn't hurt anything. There was no conviction. There was no repentance. When Phillip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them many of the people were delivered from devils and disease. There was great joy in the city. Some today claim to be saved, but they have not received joy, which is the fruit of the Spirit. Before the disciples went to the upper room to receive the Holy Ghost they had great joy. (Luke 24 :27). Some people claim to have received the Holy Ghost because they received great joy, but the disciples received great joy before they received the Holy Ghost. After the Samaritans received great joy, Peter and John laid hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost Baptism. One man slipped by Phillip, but not by Peter. By the gift of discerning of spirits Peter knew that his heart was not right with God, although he believed and was baptized. (Acts 8:13). He was almost taken in on "confession." It is impossible to know how many thousands of people received Christ in the Philippine revival. We did not leave them as they confessed. We took them and "showed them the way of the Lord more perfectly." (Acts 18:26). We taught them to give up their idols. They received great joy. Then we laid hands on them and saw them receive the Baptism of the Spirit. During this time I saw that two of them had not really been born again, although they had confessed, and were seeking the Holy Ghost. As I went to them God showed me their heart was not right. Immediately they were delivered from sin and were tilled with the Spirit. A few mornings, faith seemed to rise high enough for them to receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost instantly. We prayed for a few deaf mutes, blind people and those who were paralyzed, and when they were instantly healed hundreds were filled with the Spirit immediately. So that was more than just a -8-

hand-raising, church-joining revival where people are taken in on "confession." We wiII not know the results until we tell it to each other in the great beyond. Chapter V Dear Brother Grant: I believe in divine healing, but what bothers me is this: Why is it that so many people who are Christians die without being healed '! SOLUTION: You can equally ask the following questions: Why do so many Christians die in poverty when the Lord promises to supply all our need'? Why do Christians many times die before their time, when the Lord promises to fulfill our days and give us long life? Exodus 2:3 :26. Why do many Christians suffer agonies of death, when Jesus has tasted death for every man? Heb. 2 :9. When He has promised that we can go to sleep in Jesus without the sting of death? Why do many Christians die without receiving the Baptism of the Holy Ghost that is promised to all? Acts 2 :39. There is a common answer: It is because they do not lay hold on these promises by faith and take what God has purchased for them. It is because they do not take advantage of this promise. "And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" - Matt. 21 :22. Dear Brother Grant: I have the gifts of healing, but sometimes I don't see any results. Since the Bible says that "the spirit of the prophets are subject to the prophets," I understand that if we have a gift we should use it when we want to. . SOLUTION: That is right. The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet, but the Spirit of God is not subject to the prophet. We should be subject to the Spirit of God. That means we should not use our own spirit in any operation of any of the gifts. We should keep our own spirit in subjection, and not try to -9-

conduct a service with methods, talents, or traditions of men. We should wait on the Spirit of God. " ... let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith." Or if it is ministry, let us wait on our ministerings etc. Romans 12 :6. Anytime we try to operate the Word of Knowledge, the Word of Wisdom, Discerning of Spirits, Gifts of Healing, Working or Miracles, Tongues, or Interpretation, or any other gifts with our own spirit, we bring a reproach on the work of God. God does not give us all of His knowledge. He only gives us a Word of Knowledge. We should tell people only what God tells us and stop at that! We must not use the gifts. The gifts must use us. Dear Brother Grant: I came to your service one night to be prayed for , but . you did not pray for me. I'm puzzled and disappointed. SOLUTION: Sister, you should have come back the next night. If the Lord will forgive me for trying to please people, I'll never try to please anyone but the Lord from now on. I'll not try to operate the gifts, but I'll try to let the gifts operate me. Last Friday night I was in Clovis, New Mexico in a church service. The Lord gave me a message on salvation. I preached it. The Lord confirmed the Word with signs following. Several were saved, I did not have a healing line. Saturday night the Lord gave me a message concerning the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. I preached it. Faith rose. Several were filled with the Holy Ghost. Sunday morning, to my surprise, I preached a message to backsliders. Scores came forward to dedicate their lives to the Lord. Sunday night I started to preach a message, but the Lord began to heal people. A woman arose and said that she was healed of a blind eye the night before. (Although I did not pray for her, she contacted the Lord and was healed.) In a few minutes fifty-eight people testified that they were healed in the Sunday night service. Some of them -10-

had deaf ears for thirty or more years. They could hear perfectly! A girl who had not breathed through her nose properly all her life was healed. Then scores of people came forward to be saved and filled. They were there until almost midnight receiving the Holy Ghost. I hope I can always say, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. I can do nothing of myself, but whatsoever things He deeth, these also doeth I likewise." Chapter VI May only one gift work at a time? The gifts of the Spirit may work parallel with each other. For instance, sometimes a man may receive the Word of Knowledge. Then he also needs the Word of Wisdom to know what to do with the Word of Knowledge. God may show me the secrets of some man's life. I could act unwise and tell it all publicly to the whole audience. This could greatly embarrass the man, or maybe cause a broken home or separation. God reveals His secrets to them that fear Him. But if we reveal those secrets unwisely then He may not trust us with secrets in the future. Last Sunday night in Las Cruces, New Mexico the Word of Knowledge made me to know that someone was present who could not breathe through the nose. A lady came forward who had not breathed through the nose properly all her life. She was healed by the Gifts of Healing. People rejoiced when they heard her breathe over the microphone! Then suddenly a man came for prayer to be healed. By the Word of Knowledge God showed me he was not saved. By the Gifts of Miracles he 'was delivered from the bondage of sin, and saved. The Gifts of Healing will heal a man gradually, but it takes the Gift of miracles to heal him instantly. Is this true '! -11-

Many people have been greatly confused by the above statement, which builds doubt and uncertainty in the hearts of people. This statement is made by ministers who are afraid that God is not going to work. They are already defeated. Any time the Spirit of God makes a man well that is the Spiritual Gifts of Healing in action, whether the healing takes place suddenly or gradually. If nature heals you that is natural healing. The Gifts of Healing are not something that is little, weak, puny, and pitiful! The Gifts of Healing will heal all manner of sickness and all manner diseases or affliction. All of the gifts of the Spirit are miracles. The Gift of Miracles includes any miracle that is not included in the other eight gifts, such as casting out devils, -laying hands on people and seeing them filled with the Holy Ghost, raising the dead, dividing the Red Sea, making the iron to swim, or stilling the storms. God does not always divide the Red Sea, but He forgives all our sins and heals all our disease. (Ps, 103: 1-3). Jesus said that whosoever sins you remit they are remitted unto them. How can that be? That is right, but that does not bring out all t.he thought. It was all spoken together, but man divided it into verses. "Then Jesus said unto them again . as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you . Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whatsoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained." (John 20 :21-2~n Jesus said that it was not He but His Father that dwelled in Him that did the work. (John 14:10) After we receive the Holy Ghost the Father dwells in us also. (John 14:17) We then go in Jesus' name, act in His stead, and do the works He did. (John 14:12) But it is not we that do the work, but the Father that dwells in us. We can deliver people from sins just as easy as we can heal them. (Mk, 2 :9) But we can do neither. It -12-

is the anointing of the Holy Ghost that does both. It is the Father that dwells in us that does the work. Any time the anointing of the Holy Ghost is present to heal, people are not far from the Kingdom of God. (Luke 10:9) It is so easy for them to be delivered from sin. In the healing line Sunday night God completely healed several deaf ears instantly! BliJ1d eyes could see! Stiff joints straightened. Then faith rose so high that several people were saved in the healing line, and several received the Holy Ghost. After that small church service, thirty-eight testified that they were saved from sin. That is what happens after the anointing of the Holy Ghost takes control. It is the Father that dwells in us that does the work. Chapter VII
If Christ actually died for OUt sickness, is not His atoning work a failure, for there is more sickness today than ever before'? All through the Old Testament we read that when one's sins were forgiven, or when bodies were healed, they offered an atonement. If healing were not in the Atonement then why did they ,offer an atonement? When the Children of Israel put the blood over the door post they also ate the flesh of the lamb as they marched out of the land. They were healed everyone (Ps. 105:37). All who looked at the brazen serpent were healed. Jesus said the brazen serpent was a type of Himself. (John 3 :14). Many times we read that God told his people to make an atonement in order that the plagues would stop, (N urn. 16 :46; 25 :13; II Sam. 24 :25). Everything we receive from Christ comes through the Atonement. If we deny healing we deny a great part of the Atonement. If we substitute a hand-shaking religion for a born again experience we deny the greater part. If we deny the Atonement we have the anti-Christ spirit, (I John 2:4). If we say that the atoning work was a failure just

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because one fails to accept healing, then the fact that one is not saved, for whom you have prayed, also proves Christ failed. We have more sinners today, and people are more wicked, than ever before. People today have a privilege to accept or reject what Jesus has already purchased for them at Calvary. If healing is in the Atonement would not the same Atonement which forgives sins upon confession also heal the bodies of God's people upon confession? Before one can be saved he must confess what God's Word says about forgiveness of sin. Before one can be healed, he must confess what God's word says about healing. It is after we receive forgiveness of sins that God sends His Word and heals us. (Ps. 107:20). Healing is the children's bread. Because you teach salvation for the soul and tear down the doctrine of healing for the body, some of your people accept salvation and reject healing. You are to blame for them dying before their time! Confession alone will not forgive sins. The devils confessed Jesus as the Son of God. You must have faith in God's Word and apply it to your life. The same is true with healing. " ... and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." Jesus fulfilled the scripture, "Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sickness" (Matt. 8 :17) before He went to the cross. Does He any longer need to heal '! Jesus also forgave sins before He went to the cross (Mk. 2). But it would be ridiculous indeed for us to say He no longer needs to forgive sins! God forgave sins from Adam until now. He has also healed people since Adam's day. When David received forgiveness of sins he was looking forward to the cross. The blood 'of bulls and goats could not take away sins. When David was healed he was looking forward to the cross (Ps. 103 :3). -14-

Death is also included in the Atonement. Why are not people raised from the dead? Here you acknowledge that healing is in the Atonement. Death is in the Atonement. Christians may just go to sleep in Jesus instead of suffering death (Heb. 2:9). Jesus has conquered death. But death in general will be the last enemy that shall be destroyed. (I Cor. 15:26). Before that time we must all pass off of the stage of action. But it is not the will of God for us to die with cancer or any other disease. Raising the dead is the gift of miracles and not the gifts of healing. God has not promised to raise all the dead, but He promises to heal all our diseases. Just because we pray for the sick you tell your members that healing is not right unless we raise the dead, restore missing limbs, or divide the sea. They will not believe you; you don't even believe yourself. "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." (I Cor. 15 :26). Chapter VIII There wiJJ be poeple come up to the judgment and tell the Lord that they have cast out devils in His Name and done many wonderful works in His Name and then the Lord will turn them away. Does this mean the Full Gospel people of our day who claim to cast out devils? To say that these people were ever saved is to take their word for it instead of the statement that the Lord made. Jesus said that He never knew them. (Matt. 7 :23.) They had never been saved. They had never been filled with the Holy Ghost. They had never been born again. No doubt they are the group of people who build beautiful churches, claim to get people converted and saved from sin and the devil. They claimito have changed people's lives. They use the wonderful name of Jesus, but their names are not on the Book of Life. They are members of some church. -15-

They have used the name of Jesus with their mouth. (Matt. 15:8.) They have put His name in front of their great structures and temples, but they are yet unconverted. To say that they have cast out devils is to take their word for it instead of what Jesus said. Jesus says Satan cannot cast out Satan. (Matt, 12 :26.) He says that a house divided against itself cannot stand. No fountain, can send forth sweet water and bitter. A corrupt tree cannot bear good fruit. Satan absolutely will not come out unless a power stronger than he comes in and binds the strong man and casts Him out. The only power stronger than Satan's is the power of God. A man without God cannot cast out Satan. Satan does not cast out Satan. (Luke 11 :22.) One man tells me that the spiritual gifts are resident in the believer; another says they are resident in the Holy Ghost; a third man says they are resident in the Church. Which one is right? All three men are right. First: The spiritual gifts are in the Spirit. They are given by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit divides them to every man as He wills. There are no spiritual gifts apart from the Spirit. All nine gifts are in the Holy Ghost. Second: The Holy Ghost dwells in us. Our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit). (1 Cor. 6 :19.) The Holy Ghost comes in us to abide' forever. (John 14:17.) Our body becomes the tabernacle for the Spirit. Third: The Church is a group of Spirit filled believers. We are the Church. The church is not an organization, but an organism. We are members of the body of Christ. The Church is not creeds, rituals, or doctrines. The Church is not a meetinghouse, but a building not made with hands. Each of the Spirit-filled believers is a stone in that building. It is very plain that the gifts are in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is in the Church, but we are the Church. We find in the Bible that by one Spirit we are all -16-

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baptized into one body. Some people say that means you are not in the Church until you receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. Others say that. it means that you are saved. Which one is right? Neither group is right. In studying the Bible we see that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is a different experience from being saved, or conversion. You cannot receive the Holy Ghost until after you are saved. (Eph. 1:13.) (Mark 16:16-17.) The disciples had their names written in heaven before they received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. They had great joy. Unclean spirits came out of the Samaritans. They believed and were baptized. After that, Peter and John came down, laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. (Acts 8.) The Holy Spirit baptizes us into Jesus at conversion. (I Cor. 12:13.) The Minister baptizes us into water. (Matt. 3:11.) Jesus baptizes us into the Holy Ghost. (Matt. 3 :11.) Chapter IX

I have gone to several healing campaigns, but I have never seen a miracle. What do you think is wrong? I have gone to healing meetings myself, for twentyfive years, and I have seen very few miracles. I had rather not see with my natural eyes, for they are prone to doubt, or to have a question mark in them, My natural reasoning might hinder God from doing His work. I remember one night at a little church in Arkansas, a few years ago, I told them that there was a man in the audience who walked on crutches. He stood and was healed instantly; and went to work the next day! I did not see him healed with my natural eyes. I saw it by the eye of faith, before hand. This past week in McMinnville, Oregon a man came along who had his foot broken the day before. He was in a long cast, and on crutches. Instantly, he discarded his crutches. The men cut the cast off. He ran all over -17-

the house, perfectly well, but I did not see that miracle. I saw him before and after. I saw the manifestations. Gary Hathcock, of Wynedot, Michigan shot his eyeball with a B. B. gun. The doctors operated on that eye, leaving it small and rather square shaped. He was to be totally blind in that eye for life. They said it would be a miracle if the other eye did not go blind. We prayed for him in the hospital in Detroit. About three days later they brought the boy to our meeting in Flint, perfectly whole. Both eyes were the same size and shape. Both of them were perfect! Mrs. Manning from[Baird, Texas came to our meeting in Breckenridge, Texas. God showed me that a lady was there who was totally blind in her left eye. She came forward and could see fine print by the time she got to the front. Her eye was perfect. She had been totally blind in that eye for fourteen years. On the plane on my way to Collinville, Illinois to a tent meeting, God showed me that there would be a woman there with a total blind eye - with the eyeball paralyzed. I called for her when I began to preach. She came forward and was instantly healed. I did not see the miracle. I was not looking with my natural eyes. I saw it with my spiritual eyes on the plane before I arrived. In out tent meeting in Malvern, Arkansas, two people were there with cancers on their faces - a man and a woman who did not know each other. After prayer both of these testified that the cancers fell off their face. One fell off under the tent. Many people saw them before and after. I did not see the miracle. The other night a lady came for prayer who had one eardrum missing. She was totally deaf in that ear. After prayer she could hear a whisper. The ear was just like the other one. That miracle took place on the inside of her head. I did not see it. A man outside the church told me that he was a sinner and wanted to be saved. As I prayed he rejoiced and accepted the Lord. It was a great miracle, but I -18-

did not see it as it took place inside the man. The Spirit is like the wind. You can't tell from where it came or where it goes. You hear the sound thereof. A Baptist man who had been a teacher ill the army and a noted wrestler, came to the prayer room about three weeks ago. I started to pray for him, and he was gloriously filled with the Holy Ghost. I saw no miracle. I saw only the manifectation. If I had my choice of seeing an angel with my natural eyes Or not seeing- one, I would choose not to see one. If I had my choice of hearing God speak to me in an audible voice or hearing Him with my spiritual ear I would choose the latter. Why? Because it is more real to me. My natural senses may fool me, but not the spiritual ones. I would be prone to doubt the natural senses, but never the spiritual senses. Chapter X What does it mean when the Scripture says that God hated Esau? One place in the Bible we see that no man ever hated his own self. (Eph. 5 :29). Another place we see that we must hate ourselves (Luke 14 :26). We see that we must come unto Him hating our kinsfolk. We also read that Jesus loved His kinsfolk. (John H) :26). When we search the Scriptures we find that there are two kinds of hatred: one is the fruit of the flesh, the other is the working of the Spirit. One is of the spirit of the devil. (Gal. 5 :20). The other is of the Spirit of God. (Prov.6:16). There are two kinds of jealousy. God is a jealous God. (Ex. 20 :25). Paul was jealous with a Godly jealousy, which is the fruit of the Spirit. But there is a jealousy which is the fruit of the flesh. This God is against. There are two kinds of anger; one is a righteous anger, the other is the fruit of the flesh. Wrath is the fruit of the flesh. (Gal. 5:20-21). When Jesus became angry He was not angry with -19-

the fruit of the flesh. Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, He was angry at the devil. (Mark 3:5). When we have this kind of anger we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual wickedness. (Eph.6:12). We were having a real battle in a revival service in Vidor, Texas. I did not give up, but became angry at the devil with righteous anger. I was determined to fight the battle through. I went home feeling as though I had made a failure, but the next night God gave us victory - about. fifty prayed through. A lady gave the report that she was healed of cancer, after the doctors had given her up to die. We must be angry at the devil, but not take our spite out on people. We must not stand and preach or testify against people. We must preach them in instead of out. After we are saved must we reap what we sowed while in sin? My aunt said that her boy would be a drunkard because his daddy was a drunkard. She did not believe that he would be saved because her husband had to reap what he had sown. According to her faith so it was; her boy was a drunkard. I refuse to believe that my boy must drink because I drank when I was a boy. The law of faith supersedes the law of sin and death (Romans 8 :2), just as the law of faith is stronger than the law of gravity, and caused iron to swim. (II Kings 6 :6). A good man came to me and told me that he could not be healed because he was reaping what he sowed while he was in sin. I told him that he did not need to reap the wages of sin, that although he brought it on himself God would forgive him. and heal him. He was delivered. If everyone had to reap what was sown regardless of being forgiven, then no one would be healed, for we bring afflictions upon ourselves because of the way we live, act, eat, dress, etc., or by the way we believe. The curse does not come without a cause. -20-

(Prov. 26 :2). This does not mean every time that one is sick because he sins, but he may ignorantly disobey the laws of nature, or health, and he must suffer for it until God heals him. But God heals all of our diseases, regardless if we brought them on ourselves. (Psalms 103-1 :3). Chapter Xl Do healings last? Anything that God does lasts. However, Jesus himself told a man, "Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon thee." - John 5 :14. Jesus did not say that it would; He said it could. There is no protection when you go back into sin; Satan may bring a disease upon you at any time. The exact thing that God delivers you from does not come back, it is usually something worse. For instance, I was healed of the itch. It did not come back, but I caught the itch again. One woman worried until she had a cancer. She was healed. She continued to worry, and another cancer came on her, not the same one. Are there people who stay right with God who have kept their healing? One lady in Little Rock, Arkansas who had been deaf and dumb for thirty-seven years, was singing specials in church eighteen months later. Another lady in the same town who was also healed, could still hear a watch tick one year later. Two weeks ago I was in Waco, Texas, and a certain man came to the platform and told the audience that he still had his healing which he had received five years ago. He had been totally blind in one eye for sixty-three years. He can still see perfectly. Do not some people who are healed of cancer later die with cancer? It is possible for one to have another cancer after he has been healed of one, just. as it is possible for one to sin again after he is saved. However, I can take you to a number of congregations and ask them how -21-

many have been healed of cancer for as long as ten years, and there will be scores raise their hands. We prayed for one Methodist lady, and she ~as healed of an incurable cancer. One year later she died. The people said that she died with cancer. Later, her children wrote me that they sent specimens to five different parts of the United States, and all five sent back the same reply, stating that she did not have cancer. How does one die if God always heals? One does not need to be sick to die. You can go to sleep in Jesus, and sleep the sleep of death. The Lord does not want us to be like a rotten apple that falls off, full of worms, before it is ripe. We can live to be a ripe old age. Do the great revivals last where people come to God by the hundreds'! . Jesus gave a parable of the sower showing that only twenty-five per cent fell on good ground and brought forth fruit, so you see, it depends on the ground. A lot depends on the church that takes care of those converts. If one hundred chicks are hatched out and half of them die, that does not prove that they were not hatched - it shows that they were not cared for. Are churches built as a result of these healing revivals? It depends on the follow-up program. It depends on what the pastor preaches; whether he is for or .agamst a healing meeting. It depends on whether he IS after members or souls. Just one revival won't last. ?ne shave won't either. We must strive to keep the revival spirit in our churches continually. Chapter XII

Must one throwaway his remedies when he is prayed for? It is according to your faith. Some people have faith to throwaway their medicine or crutche.s and go without them, but others don't have that faith. It -22-

is up to them as to what they should do. Don't YOU tell them what to do. Let the Lord lead them. The next day after I was prayed for I threw my medicine down in the woods. Why? I had the assurance that I would be all right. In two months I had gained twenty-five pounds. Now I have been healed twentyfive years. You should put forth some effort and believe God after you are prayed for. Take your arm out of the sling and try to use it. Try to get out of the wheel chair and walk. Re-gain use of your arm keep using it. You can put a well arm in a sling for a year and lose the use of it. You gain use of it by using it all you can. If you see that you can move your legs and walk some without your wheelchair; keep moving them and try to walk alone. In Denton, Texas we prayed for a lady. The next morning she could get out of her chair for the first time in years. The next day she walked by pushing a chair. In a few days she was carrying five gallons of water up the hill. In a few more days she was traveling from state to state telling people the good news. If you were a deaf mute, and were prayed for, try to talk and hear some, then do not use your sign language anymore. Gain use of your ears and tongue by using them. It is more convenient to use your sign language which you have used all your life. Of course, you are in a new world, but you must not be so lazy. You must learn! Learn! Some people go to Germany and learn German. Others stay there for years and never bother to learn the language, because it is more convenient to keep talking their own language. You must learn a few words each day, until you can carryon a conversation without your old "crutches," or sign language. If you keep using the sign language you will never learn to talk. At this writing I am in a revival. Last night a young man received a very beautiful healing. He was totally deaf in his left ear. He could only hear a very little in

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his other ear with the aid of a strong hearing instrument. He had been that way since he was one year old. When I tested him he could hear a small watch tick with either ear. Naturally he kept reading lips. His mother must be patient and teach him the sound of words. It will be harder for him to learn than for someone who has never learned to read lips. I advised that boy to keep the hearing aid out of his ear. He did not realize that the hearing aid could become a "doubting stick" to him. 1 explained to the boy: "I can talk better by speaking over this public address system; yet there is nothing wrong with my speech." 1 formed the habit of talking over the microphone and can hardly do without it. One who never had that experience can't imagine how it is, but you can actually hear better over the loud speakers. 1 could have put that hearing aid in my ear and heard better with it than without it. This boy should train his ears to hear normally just as we hear. He must step out by faith. Faith without works is dead, being alone. A deaf mute was healed in Evansville, Indiana. I asked her if she could hear my watch. She said "just a little." It was not supposed to sound as loud as the organ, but she did not realize that fact. She had to be taught the difference. If praying for people would take the place of learning, then I could lay my hands on my boy and pray; then he would never need to go to school. Chapter XIII

Why do greater miracles take place in tent meetings than in churches? That is not true. It is true that more miracles take place in some tent meetings than in some churches; it's because there are more people - that. is, in union meetings. Usually there are more sinners in a union tent meeting, therefore, there are more people saved. If there are more people -24-

there who are not filled with the Spirit, then more people may receive the Holy Ghost. The percentage is no higher. We have seen miracles in churches which equal those that take place in our tent meetin+s. In OUI' last meeting in Grants Pass, Oregon, a vertabra, which had collapsed, was replaced in a lady's back. She was made whole instantly. Two ladies came in one service with short limbs. The whole audience saw both of these ladies receive perfect healing, instantly. Measurements showed that the legs were the same length. One of them had a shoulder that was hi jher than the other. After prayer her shoulders were the same also. One of them went home and put on a pair of tennis shoes instead of her high, built up shoe! The same night these people were healed, a deaf lady received perfect hearing. I just thought if the crowd had been fifty times larger, fifty times that could have taken place in one night. Why does it take some folk longer to be saved than it does others? Some feel that they can merit their salvation by being guod, trying hard, or praying long and loud. It is not wrong to do that, but everyone does not have to pray for weeks to be saved, if they will depend on what Jesus has already done for them, instead of what they have done for Jesus. The other night a lady came up for healing, who was a prominent business lady. Before she reached me she began to tremble, shake, and cry. She was filled with the Holy Ghost immediately. We learned that she had been a backslider for thirty years! She was saved and filled with the Holy Ghost without praying an audible prayer. She received more than healing! It is not how long you pray. It is the attitude and condition of your heart that counts. We read the account of the salvation of a very wicked woman in Luke 7 :26-50.She came depending -25-

on who Jesus waa, and not on who she was. She came with a repentant heart; she came with the right approach and attitude. She was saved instantly, without saying one word! This lady was saved even before she joined a church. She was saved before she was dipped under the water. She was saved before she made resitutions. Jesus did not say, "I'm going to watch her a month to see if she joins a certain church, or if she asks a certain sister to forgive her before I pronounce her saved." He said, "Thy sins which are many, are forgiven you." I believe what Jesus said. After the business lady was saved instantly, and so easily, others saw that the power of God was present to deliver, they also came and were delivered from sin instantly. One man who had been a backslider for about twelve years came in the healing line. He was instantly delivered from sin also. The power of God did it! He accepted what Jesus had already purchased and paid for. About that time another lady began to shake and tremble under God's power. She was saved. It was impossible for us to know how many were saved in the audience as they also began to shake and tremble under the anointing of the Spirit. Without saying a word with their mouth they cried out to God in their heart and were forgiven, then confessed Him with their mouth. "As a man speaketh in his heart so is he." Others worship the Lord with their lips, but their heart is far from Him. That is why it takes them longer to be saved. "Why didn't I get saved," asked a lawyer, "I pled my case and pled my case." "You should have pled guilty, as I did," said a convict. Chapter XIV

I think I have sinned against the Holy Ghost. Please pray for me. Can you help me? No, I cannot help you, if you have sinned against the Holy Ghost. There is no use in praying for you -26-

if you have crossed the dead line. God's word says there is no need to pray for you if you have sinned the sin which is unto death (I Jno. 5:16). But the very fact that you think that I can help you, shows that you are not sincere in saying that you have crossed the dead line. When you say for me to pray for you, that shows that you do not really believe from your heart that you have sinned against the Holy Ghost and grieved away God's Spirit forever. Evidently the enemy is telling you that you have commited the unpardonable sin; but down deep in your heart you really feel that God still loves you and you yet have a chance. Read the rest of this message; then decide which you are going to believe. If you really believe that you have gone too far, then never again ask anyone to pray for you, because it will do no good. If you decide that you are still in the grace of God, then never again repeat what Satan is telling you. Don't ever hint to anyone that you believe the "accuser of the brethren". Jesus said that to attribute the power of God to the power of the devil is the unpardonable sin (Matt. 12:32). You see Jesus did all works under the anointing of the Holy Ghost (Acts 10 :38). When the people said that he was doing it by the power of the devil He let them know that they were not talking about Him, but about the Holy Ghost that was anointing Him to do the works. Have you attributed the power of God to the power of the devil? Have you said that the Holy Ghost is the devil? Then how can you figure that you have committed this sin? THE ONE WHO SINS AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST DOES NOT THINK THAT HE HAS DONE SO. The fact that you think you have, proves that you have not. The Holy Ghost comes to reprove the world of sin (John 16 :8). When He leaves you forever, then you never again have anything there to reprove you of -27-

sin. He will not leave you unless you truly ask Him to do so, from the depth of your heart. You must do so wilfully, maliciously, and purposely. Have you deliberately turned Him away forever and for the last time? If you have you know it. If you don't know it then you haven't. If you have not decided from your heart that you will never have the Lord, if you have not told Him to leave you forever, then you still have a good chance. AFTER THE HOLY SPIRIT LEAVES A MAN FOR GOOD, THEN HE BECOMES AS A NATURAL BRUTE BEAST. His conscience becomes seared as with a hot iron. He has no more conscience than a hog. He would not know right from wrong any more than a hog would know what your rug was if you brought him into your living room. His mind and conscience becomes defiled. Just as you would put a hot iron to a raw piece of meat, and cause it to be seared, the man's conscience is seared. He will never, never become condemned about anything else while he lives. The reason he is never condemned again there is nothing there to condemn him. The only agency that may condemn him of sin has taken its flight! Are you as a brute beast? Is your conscience defiled? Do you still feel condemned when you sin? If you don't, then why don't you steal, lie, curse, and murder? You must not be in that group! You talk as if you still have a heart of flesh. You talk as if you still feel condemned about sin. AFTER THE HOLY SPIRIT LEAVES A MAN, HE RECEIVES STRONG DELUSIONS. He is deceived into thinking right is wrong and wrong is right. He does not know right from wrong. He no longer knows what sin is. He received seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. He goes into false doctrine. He denies the doctrines he once believed, such as the Virgin Birth and Blood Atonement, or the doctrine of holiness. He justifies himself in the things

he once taught against. He is deceived into really believing false cults and doctrines of devils. He goes into a way that seems right unto man, but the ways thereof are the ways of death. He does not realize his condition. He is deluded. When a man is lost he really thinks that he is not lost. When a man is deluded he really thinks he is right, when he is not. He does not realize that he has sinned against the Holy Ghost. Have you given up the fundamental truths which you once believed, such as the born again experience, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, and the doctrine of holiness? Have you accepted and believed doctrines of devils, gone into apostacy, and denied the Lord that bought you? Have you denied that Jesus is the Christ? Have you fallen away as the Jews did when they denied Christ, crucified Him afresh, and went back into Judaism (HeO. 6 :1-6). Have you purposely and deliberately and "wilfully" asked the Holy Ghost to go away and leave you alone forever? (Heb. 10:25). Do you still know what sin is? Does the Holy Spirit still condemn you when you sin? Then He has not left you. Then you have not become as a brute beast. THE MAN WHO SINS AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST RECEIVES A REPROBATE MIND. He changes the truth of God into a lie. He completely turns himself over to the devil; and that purposely. He thinks wrong is right. A man who receives a reprobate mind cannot repent It is impossible to renew him to repentance. He may repent himself as did Judas, but he has no true godly repentance. He may confess and cry as did Esau, but he does not repent. Why? Because he cannot cease from sin. He confesses, but he continues on in sin, and denies that it is a sin. He has nothing there to condemn him. (Repentance means one quits sin.) He crys and confesses, but he can't quit sin. He has nothing there to help him quit sin. For the Holy Ghost has departed! His wiII-power is completely broken down. He is no -29-

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longer willing to quit sin. He is no longer willing to walk in holiness and serve the Lord. Are you still willing to live right and sene the Lord? Then you are in the group that can come to Him. For the Lord is saying that whosoever will, may come. That includes you! If you are still willing you may come. "Whosoever will let him come ann take of the water of life freely." That includes everyone except those who are not willing. "Whosoever" includes you if you are willing! A man who has sinned against the Holy Ghost really thinks he is right when he is wrong. That does not include you; for you think you are wrong when you are right. The trouble with you is this: After the Lord forgives you, then you are not willing to forgive yourself. You still condemn yourself when the Lord does not. The Lord says if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That includes everyone except those who are not willing to confess that sin is sin. Anyone who is willing to confess that sin is sin can be forgiven! In the day that you seek the Lord with all your heart He will be found. Everyone that seeketh findeth. A man who has sinned against the Holy Ghost has a heart of stone. He is not willing to seek with all his heart. He is not willing to seek, for he does not know his need of the Lord. Your condition is this: Satan is lying to you, and telling you that there is no use. Satan only tells people that who have not gone too far. Satan is not after those he already has. Those who have crossed the dead line, he tells them that they are alright. Their conscience is seared. Satan is a liar. He abideth not in the truth. You have believed Satan up until now. If you believe God, then you will stop believing what Satan says, and begin to say what God says, "Whosoever will may come". Will you? -30-

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