Father, we thank you tonight for your word.

And I pray, Lord, as people are listening with open hearts and open minds,

that I receive the anointing to deliver this word tonight accurately and plainly.

With simplicity. with simplicity and but at the same time depth of revelation and insight and knowledge and concepts of this life of faith.

And we thank you and we praise you and ascribe all of the glory to the magnificent name of Jesus.

Amen.

Glory to God.

Thank you, Lord.

Let's go to the Gospel of Mark.

As... As everybody knows that knows that knows anything about this ministry, my father in the faith,

O'Robberts, while I was, when I went to O'Robberts University, I was 30 years old,

Gloria said I was the oldest freshman at work.

And then had the honor and the privilege

of being part of the flight crew

on the ministry's airplane.

And I was so thrilled with what I saw. Watch him, I saw him use faith on purpose.

I saw him and I thought this man uses his faith like a mechanic uses a tool.

And he said to me in the healing room where people are so sick and ambulatory and so forth couldn't manage it. You know big crowds make sick people

very, very nervous. And my first night in the healing room, in the invalid room. He said you're going to do the praying,

you're going to do the laying on of hands and don't touch them till you're ready to release your faith.

I thought this man uses his faith on purpose and I was, oh, I just, I studied him and everything he said and a few weeks later, I was given my first tape by Kenneth E. Hagen.

You know, a little big tape, one on each side. This is a long time, we never heard of a cassette.

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