The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-10-09

sister, she doesn tknoW anything about having fath-she
doesn't know what faith isl Well' she said 'I guess
that is about right She doesn't know bit more about
what faith u.s. than the the moon knowsand neither
does the average churchmebr know anything about faith
nor the average preacher If comes here from
California or Florida somewhere ese what he needs is
not but eaching and want to tell you that when
that man gets to the right place the healing will come Just
as quickly when the old powerhouse is all thoroughly
equipped and the wires in and the connections are made
and turn the power and on comes the power and on
comes the light.
Now, will tell you how much faith many people have
and just about how much trust they have the morning
they want Elder Moot to and pray them and he
has just turned the when they say; wish YOU
would ask Elder Richer to come in and pray for me-" and
then when he is they say "Oh do wish Elder Carey
would and me and when he is gone they say 'I
wish Deacon Soandso would and pray for me" and
then they send word to me- "Soandso wants to know
if you will come over and pray"
Why, there is trust there-that is nothing but ho
low mockery that is all it is There some of you people
who up here for Tuesday afternoon
since have been in ZION CTY-yes and some of you for
about ten years before that that is nothing but hollow
mockery, it is dead and hollow and empty form What
is the matter?
HEALING COMES ONLY BY GETTING IN TOUCH WITH
GOD AND RESTING THERE
You have surely forgotten that Dr. Dowie used to have
COHlo Cnor0 weeks
time and then he would often send them back home without
praying for them at all and he quite right about it.
What is the for to waste his time praying for
when he knows that that person the right
place to be prayed for If you have responsibility and
if not capable of receiving the teaching and you
not accountable before God then is entirely differ
en matter and there of that kind If you want
prayerfor God to heal cancer want say you that
have reached that place which you ought reached
and if there is that faith in God which mount
aims and you lift your heart to God and pray then you
not need fifteen minuesthere is the mistake that is often
made by great many peopehey know very little about
resting in God and about trusting in Him. Where is the
trst Why will tell you, my brothers and sisters where
there is communion with God and everything is right and
you pray the prayer of faith has to be DONE and that
all there is to it. that is the Word of Cod do not
what you are what am, what anybody else the
Word of God is true do not make any mistake about that
And it does not matter whether you forty fifty
seventy hundred and ten DID, whether is
oothache or corn on your toe consumption
what it s,-God is able and willing to heal.
Be SURE OF YOUR HOLD UPON FAITH, AND OF YOUR LIFE
I will tell you, there are many people who lie My
brothers and sisters be very very careful that you do not
ie say to person, "Can you say, before God that
far you know your heart you right with God?"
there are people who eyes,, when they lie and
they know they lie when they say it. know more about
people than you think do Let tell you that when
woman comes into the Divine Healing Service who got up
this morning swapping and growing and raising the devil
around the house. and then after dinner gets ready and
puts face and here looking sweet and
angelic and wants to be prayed forere is to
prayer for Of that kind When people who spent
all day yesterday gosspng about their neghbor instead Of
doing their work and attending to their affairs and
reading the Word of God and communng with God,
here for prayer-one might just we'll ask for current
Of electricity to through broomstck for the power
Of God to go through person Of that kind.
Ny brothers and sisters do not forget that in the days
of the Prophet Elisha there many epers but that only
healed-and he probably would not have been
healed had not been for the good of his servants
You will remember that the Son of God Himself, said, when
in Nazareth could do there mighty works because of
their unbelief"
Do Not LIE ABOUT YOUR FAITH
There is thing would not do would not lie,
would not lie do not care what your trouble may be
today if only you will get to the place where you rest in
Cod and believe that God will heal you then you will get
your healing Founderng is not resting in God standing
upon head in the bed is not resting in God rolling
and tossing and making all the other members Of the family
jump and dance to your music not resting in God And
yet how hard people try to make themselves believe
and they make of you Elders think, too have
whom pov hot in