When I was a little boy about seven years old, or when I was first borned, very peculiar thing happened the morning when I was born. And a Light came into the room. All of them started crying. Up in the mountains where I was... Kentucky where I was borned. Went on for seven years. And at the age of seven years old, It appeared to me the first time as a Voice speaking to me, and told me never to smoke, or to drink, or to defile myself in any way; because there'd be a work for me to do when I got older.

Later on in life It kept appearing. It would show me things; I'd say just what It told me. It never has failed to come to pass yet. 1947, '46 Rather, on April the se--or May the seventh in the room, an Angel of the Lord came into the room. When I seen the Man, It... When He spoke, I didn't know Him. When He... seen him, was the first time I'd ever seen Him, human form. It appeared many times. Down on the river after my first revival, It came down in the form of a--like a star when it's in a distance, but when It comes close, It looked like a Light. And It's a... It appeared and many people fainted where it was some ten thousand people, I guess, was present to see it. And then It just... I never knowed what It meant.

Later on, why, when He met me, He told me what it was to do, was to go pray for the sick people. I told Him that they would not believe me. He said, "There'll be giving you signs, like was given to the prophet Moses. As Moses was given two signs to prove to the people that he--God had sent him to deliver them," said, "so would I be deliver--given two signs. One of them would come immediately, and the other one would follow along if I'd be sincere. That, which I guess, there's many of you here tonight, know that how it come to pass. First was to discern the diseases... kind of diseases. Then I did that till it got to a perfect way where It never failed. Then It started in to telling the people the secrets of their hearts, the things that they had done in life, all the way down through life's journey; which many of you might stagger at that now, and get it wrong.

But remember, when Nathanael came to Jesus, and Philip, his brother had went and found him, and said nothing good could come out of Nazareth. And when he came to Him, Jesus said to him when he was in the prayer line, said, "Behold, a Israelite in whom there is no guile." He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi? Whence knowest Thou me?" Said, "When you were under the tree before Philip called you, I knew you." And he said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." His heart was prepared to receive Him.

At the woman at the well, when Jesus was speaking with her, He said, "Go, get your husband." She said, "I have none." Said, "You've said right, for you had five, and the one you have now is not your husband." She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet. And we know Messiah cometh, and so forth." And she went into the city and told the men of the city, "Come, see a man Who told me the--the--everything that I did. Is not this the very Christ?"

Now, Christian friends, we're all an Eternity bound people. Every one of us here has got to meet God and face God someday. And we're going to give an account for the deeds that's done in our lives.
Now, if I told you I was a gangster, and had the spirit of--of John Dillinger was upon me, well, you'd expect me to have guns and be that kind of a character, because his spirit was on me. If I told you I had the spirit of an artist, some great famous artist, you'd expect me to be able to catch the scene of the waves when it was tipping of the sunset, and almost bring it out in life's color. If I had the spirit of an artist in me, I would do the work of an artist. And if we had the Spirit of Christ, then we do the works of Christ. And the Spirit that was upon Him, He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet, you'll see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the age." Ministry Explained 50-0711