- • would clean out our altars if folks would get rid of sin and get rid of things of the • would clean out our altars if folks would get rid of sin and get rid of things of the world.
- o don't receive the Holy Ghost just because you merely want it. o don't receive the Holy Ghost just because you merely want it.
- o don't get it because you have made a surface repentance. o don't get it because you have made a surface repentance.
- o don't get the Holy Ghost just because you have been baptized in Jesus' o don't get the Holy Ghost just because you have been baptized in Jesus' Name!
- o received the Holy Ghost because you have surrendered your body, your life, o received the Holy Ghost because you have surrendered your body, your life, you mind completely to God!
- • was just a sinner and had begun attending the brush arbor meeting during the summer • was just a sinner and had begun attending the brush arbor meeting during the summer nights in Oklahoma depression days.
- o day I was working in the prairies baling hay. o day I was working in the prairies baling hay.
- o of the conviction of sin I was feeling I started crying so much that I o of the conviction of sin I was feeling I started crying so much that I couldn't see what I was doing.
- o was so hungry to receive the Holy Ghost. I had been seeking God in the revival o was so hungry to receive the Holy Ghost. I had been seeking God in the revival services. I was dirty and I didn't know any better.
- • day we had to quit baling because of a light rain. • day we had to quit baling because of a light rain.
- o had other work to do so I took the team and wagon to the cotton field and o had other work to do so I took the team and wagon to the cotton field and began to cultivate the rows of cotton behind the horse drawn cultivator.
- o begin to cry and pray going down the cotton rows. We were going to church o begin to cry and pray going down the cotton rows. We were going to church every night and working everyday and I was seeking the Holy Ghost.
- o was doing everything I knew to do at that time. Finally, I fell down between the o was doing everything I knew to do at that time. Finally, I fell down between the plow handles in the middle of the cotton row prayed, "God I don't know anything about this, but I've got to have the Holy Ghost!"
- • a bit I got up and finished the row, which about a quarter of a mile long, and I let • a bit I got up and finished the row, which about a quarter of a mile long, and I let the team loose on some grass by the fence while I crawled under the shade of the wagon and begin to seek the Holy Ghost!
- • 59:12 • 59:12
- o know our iniquities! o know our iniquities!
- o know more about what prevents you from receiving the Holy Ghost than o know more about what prevents you from receiving the Holy Ghost than anyone else does.
- o are the one that needs to get stirred and lay it all on the altar. o are the one that needs to get stirred and lay it all on the altar.
- • my own pursuit of God I had been seeking the Holy Ghost night after night when one • my own pursuit of God I had been seeking the Holy Ghost night after night when one night a backslidden man came to the altar and prayed.
- o he prayed he reached in his pocket and pulled out a package of cigarettes and o he prayed he reached in his pocket and pulled out a package of cigarettes and placed it on the altar.
- o I saw that man cleaning out his pockets I begin to search my heart and o I saw that man cleaning out his pockets I begin to search my heart and asked, "Is that what I've got to do?" I didn't have any cigarettes or chewing gum, but I did have a plug of Horseshoe Chewing Tobacco in my pocket, and I really liked it.
- o was my comforter all day long. I even took a chew before breakfast! I o was my comforter all day long. I even took a chew before breakfast! I chewed it all day (except for meals). What a comforter when you are driving a team, to be able to chew and spit!
- • I knew what why I had been unable to receive the Holy Ghost. • I knew what why I had been unable to receive the Holy Ghost.
- o had been praying about a year without victory. o had been praying about a year without victory.
- o God began to convict me of my habit, that plug of tobacco became a large o God began to convict me of my habit, that plug of tobacco became a large as a wagon box.