(SINGING) I KNOW MY GOD
HAS MADE THE WAY FOR ME. I KNOW MY GOD
HAS MADE THE WAY FOR ME. ANNOUNCER: NO MATTER
WHERE WE ARE ON THE EARTH, WE CAN ALL BE IN AGREEMENT,
SAYING THE SAME THING WHEN THERE IS AN OUTPOURING
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. JOIN GLORIA COPELAND AND BILLYE
BRIM TODAY, ON THE BELIEVER'S VOICE OF VICTORY, FOR MORE
ON PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT. GLORIA: HELLO, EVERYBODY.
WELCOME TO THE BELIEVER'S VOICE OF VICTORY.
BILLYE BRIM'S BACK WITH US TODAY WITH SOME GREAT
WORD FOR US. HALLELUJAH. BILLYE: YES. GLORIA: WELCOME,
BILLYE. BILLYE: YES, REALLY. I KNOW--AND I CAN EVEN
SAY IT'S A GREAT WORD BECAUSE IT'S A WORD FROM THE LORD.
GLORIA: YES, AMEN. BILLYE: AND HE TOLD ME BEFORE WE CAME HERE
WHAT TO TALK ABOUT. GLORIA: GOOD. BILLYE: HE TOLD ME THAT HE
NEEDED PRAYER. HE NEEDED--HE NEEDS OUR VOICES IN THE EARTH,
AND HE NEEDS THE BODY OF CHRIST TO PRAY TOGETHER. GLORIA: YES.
BILLYE: THERE ARE THINGS THAT GOD HAS PLANNED THAT HE WANTS TO
GET INTO THE EARTH. GLORIA: HE'S RAISING UP PRAY-ERS. BILLYE:
HE'S RAISING UP A PRAYER FORCE. HE TOLD ME, "LIKE NATIONS RAISE
UP AN AIR FORCE, I'M RAISING UP A PRAYER FORCE." GLORIA: PRAISE
GOD. BILLYE: AND THAT'S YOU. AND HE WANTS YOU TO PRAY. AND HE
TALKED TO US ABOUT A SPECIAL KIND OF PRAYER THAT HE WANTS US
TO DO IN THE SPIRIT, IN TONGUES, SO THAT HE CAN GIVE US UTTERANCE
THAT PASSES OUR MINDS WHICH ARE SO LOW FOR TODAY. AND YESTERDAY,
WE SAW HOW TONGUES--WELL, WE SAW FIRST, OVER IN GENESIS, HOW, AT
THE TOWER OF BABEL, WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING IT, HE SAID THEY
HAD ONE SPEECH AND ONE LANGUAGE AND NOTHING WAS RESTRAINED TO
THEM. THEY WERE DOING AN EVIL THING. GLORIA: NOTHING WAS
IMPOSSIBLE. BILLYE: NOTHING WAS IMPOSSIBLE. YOU CAN EVEN DO EVIL
IF YOU SAY THE SAME THING. SO HE CONFUSED THEIR LANGUAGE. AND
FROM THAT TIME UNTIL THE DAY OF PENTECOST--PEOPLE WEREN'T
REALLY, REALLY ABLE TO SAY THE SAME THING. BUT NOW HE SENT
FORTH THE HOLY GHOST, THE HOLY GHOST GAVE THE UTTERANCE, AND
NOW WE CAN SAY THE SAME THING. HE CAN GIVE US UTTERANCE IN THE
HOLY GHOST. THE HOLY GHOST WROTE THE BIBLE. WE CAN SPEAK THE
BIBLE, AND WE'RE SAYING THE SAME THING. GLORIA: AMEN. BILLYE: SO
WE TALKED YESTERDAY ABOUT THE HOLY GHOST-- GLORIA: SO ALL OVER
THE WORLD BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD WE CAN SAY THE SAME THING.
BILLYE: WE CAN SAY THE SAME THING. GLORIA: DIFFERENT PEOPLE
DIFFERENT PLACES-- BILLYE: YES. GLORIA: --BUT ALL IN THE SPIRIT.
BILLYE: ALL IN THE SPIRIT. GLORIA: ONE SPIRIT SAYING
THE SAME THING. THAT'S AWESOME. BILLYE: THAT'S WHY HE GAVE ME
THIS AND HE GAVE ME A--I SAW, HE SAID, "MAKE A 24-HOUR CLOCK,
DIVIDE IT UP INTO 30-MINUTE PIE-SHAPED PIECES, GET PEOPLE
AROUND THE WORLD TO DEDICATE THEMSELVES FOR A 30-MINUTE
SEGMENT. THIS IS A NON-AGENDA PRAYING. WE'RE NOT PRAYING FOR
ISRAEL, WE'RE NOT PRAYING FOR THE FAMILY, NOTHING. WE JUST
START OUT--I USUALLY START OUT BY MEDITATING ON EITHER ROMANS
8:26 WHERE IT SAYS, "THE SPIRIT HELPS US PRAY WHEN WE KNOW NOT
HOW." GLORIA: YEAH. BILLYE: OR I MEDITATE ON I CORINTHIANS 14:2,
"HE THAT SPEAKS IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE SPEAKS NOT UNTO MEN, BUT
UNTO GOD." GLORIA: PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: AND HE SPEAKS MYSTERIES.
AND THEN JUST SAY TO THE LORD, "YOU HAVE MY TONGUE, USE IT."
AND THEN HE PUTS INTO THE EARTH WHAT HE WANTS. HE'S GOT TO GET
SOME THINGS INTO THE EARTH, NOT ONLY TO PRAY GOD'S PLANS INTO
THE EARTH, BUT STOP SOME OF THE THINGS THE ENEMY HAS PLANNED.
AND SO WE'RE--THIS IS A WAY WE CAN PRAY IN UNITY WITH TODAY'S
TECHNOLOGY, WHICH HIS-- GLORIA: HIS WILL, HIS PERFECT WILL.
BILLYE: HIS WILL, HIS PERFECT WILL. WITH THE TECHNOLOGY HE HAS
GIVEN AND ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL TECHNICIANS AROUND HERE. WE
COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT THEM. WE'VE GOT THE EASY PART, TO TELL
YOU THE REAL TRUTH. AND WITH THIS EQUIPMENT, AND HE'S
MANEUVERED KENNETH AND GLORIA INTO SUCH A PLACE THAT PEOPLE
TURN ON THE BROADCAST. GLORIA: PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: HE HAS TO
HAVE ESTABLISHED YOUR NAMES IN THE EARTH, REALLY. GLORIA:
PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: BUT HE DID IT, AND HE'S GOT US ALL HERE
RIGHT ON TIME. GLORIA: PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: AND THE PRAYER THAT
HE WANTS IS TIED TO THE HOLY GHOST AND THE HOLY GHOST
OUTPOURING. AND SO WE KNOW THAT, IN ACTS 2, HE POURED OUT THE
HOLY GHOST AND THEY ALL SPOKE WITH TONGUES. NOW THEY HAVE A
LANGUAGE AGAIN THAT'S GOD-GIVEN AND THEY CAN SAY THE SAME THING.
THE ENEMY-- GLORIA: PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: THERE IS AN ENEMY. THE
CHURCH WENT THROUGH THE DARK AGES. BUT GOD REESTABLISHED WHAT
THE CANKERWORM ATE. AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY,
WE HAVE AN OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY GHOST. GLORIA: PRAISE GOD.
BILLYE: AND THAT OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY GHOST AFFECTED MY
FAMILY AND THEN AFFECTED ME. AND I'M GOING TO BE READING TO
YOU--THIS IS MY--IT'S--IT'S KIND OF LIKE MY TESTIMONY. BUT I'M
GOING TO READ IT TO YOU ABOUT A--FROM A BOOK THAT I WROTE,
WHICH IS REALLY MY TESTIMONY TIED IN WITH THE HOLY GHOST. AND
WHY DO I KNOW WHAT I DO ABOUT PRAYER, AND WHY DO WE HAVE
PRAYER MOUNTAIN, AND WHAT IS ALL THIS BUSINESS? SO I NOTICED KEN,
AT THE LAST MINISTERS CONFERENCE, THE LORD TOOK HIM
BACK AND HAD HIM GIVE HIS TESTIMONY IN REGARD TO THE TENT
ANOINTING. AND I HEARD BROTHER ORAL ROBERTS SAY ONE TIME--HE
ALWAYS GAVE HIS TESTIMONY AND PAUL ALWAYS GAVE HIS TESTIMONY,
ALWAYS SAID, "I WAS ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS." GLORIA: YEAH,
MM-HMM. BILLYE: AND SO THIS IS MY TESTIMONY, BUT IT HAS TO DO
WITH THE HOLY GHOST OUTPOURING, HOW I GOT TO PRAYER MOUNTAIN,
AND EVEN IN THE HOLY GHOST. SO I--MY FIRST CHAPTER--I WROTE
THIS BOOK MANY YEARS AGO. SO I WROTE, "THIS PROPHETIC CENTURY'S
BEGINNING." AND THAT WAS THE 20TH CENTURY. BUT NOW WE'RE OVER
INTO A NEW CENTURY. BUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST CENTURY,
1900, 1901, THE--I'M GOING TO WRITE IT--I--I'M TELLING YOU
ABOUT THE DEALINGS IN MY FAMILY WHICH LED ME TO BE TO PRAYER
MOUNTAIN IN THE OZARKS. AND IT'S REALLY A HISTORY OF THE
OUTPOURING, THE OUTPOURING THAT CAME AT THAT TIME. IN THE LATE
1800S NEAR--IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI, NEAR A PLACE CALLED
FAYETTE AND ROCHEPORT, THERE LIVED MY
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, LOU JACKMAN PIPES. AND SHE WAS A
WIDOW AND SHE HAD CHILDREN, AND SHE HAD INHERITED A FARM FROM
HER FATHER. AND SHE--SHE LIVED UP NEAR THE ROAD. THE BIG
FARMHOUSE WAS ON THE ROAD. AND RIGHT ACROSS WAS ANOTHER FARM
AND SOME CANADIANS. WE THINK THEY WERE FRENCH-CANADIANS MOVED
IN, FROM CANADA. THEY HAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF BOYS, AND THEY
WERE REALLY LOUD AND THEY MADE MUSIC, AND THEY WERE THE TALK OF
THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND SO THE--EVERYBODY TALKED ABOUT
THEM, BUT FINALLY THINGS SETTLED DOWN AND THEY--THEY GREW TO LOVE
THOSE PEOPLE, AND THEIR NAME WAS PICKARD. BUT WHEN THEY GOT TO
MISSOURI FROM CANADA-- GLORIA: THEY BECAME "PICKERD." BILLYE:
--IT BECAME "PICKERD." GLORIA: IT DID, YEAH. BILLYE: (LAUGHS)
SO--NOW REMEMBER, MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER LOU, SHE
WAS A WIDOW, AND SHE MARRIED THE OLDEST PICKERD BOY, LEVI. AND
SHE HAD A DAUGHTER NAMED CARRIE, AND CARRIE MARRIED THE YOUNGEST
PICKERD BOY NAMED ISAAC. GLORIA: BIBLE NAME. BILLYE: SO MOTHER
AND DAUGHTER ARE MARRIED TO BROTHERS. GLORIA: THAT'S
DIFFERENT, ISN'T IT? BILLYE: AND THEY BOTH HAD CHILDREN. SO IT
WAS REALLY STRANGE BECAUSE MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER--HER SISTERS
AND BROTHERS WERE HER NIECES AND NEPHEWS. GLORIA: THAT CAN'T BE
POSSIBLE. BILLYE, ARE YOU SURE? BILLYE: AND MY GREAT--MY
GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, HER CHILDREN-- GLORIA: HOW DO YOU
WORK THAT? BILLYE: --MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, THEY
WERE HERE GRANDCHILDREN, AND THEY WERE HER NIECES AND
NEPHEWS. GLORIA: I NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING. BILLYE: MY
MOTHER--WHEN SHE MARRIED MY DAD AND THEY WOULD GO TO VISIT THE
MISSOURI KINFOLK, SHE SAID, "I COULD NEVER FIGURE OUT WHO THEY
WERE." GLORIA: I GUESS NOT. BILLYE: (LAUGHS) THIS ONE WAS
THAT ONE'S CHILD AND-- GLORIA: THAT WAS WILD. BILLYE: --COUSIN
AND UNCLE AND AT THE SAME TIME. AND THERE WAS AN OLD SONG. DO
YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD COUNTRY SONG THAT SAID, "I'M MY OWN
GRANDPA"? YOU REMEMBER THAT OLD SONG? GLORIA: YEAH. BILLYE:
MOTHER SAID THE MISSOURI GRANDFOLKS ARE OTHER--THE
MISSOURI RELATIVES ARE THEIR OWN GRANDPA-- GLORIA: ISN'T THAT
AMAZING? BILLYE: --OR THEIR OWN GRANDMA. (LAUGHS) SHE COULDN'T
FIGURE IT OUT. BUT ANYWAY, MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER MARRIED THE
YOUNGEST BOY, ISAAC. AND SHE FOUND OUT THAT ONE REASON WHY
THEY WERE SO HAPPY AND MADE A LOT OF MUSIC AND EVERYTHING,
THEY HIT THE JUG. GLORIA: UH-OH. BILLYE: YEP, THEY DID. GLORIA:
DON'T TELL ME, BILLYE. BILLYE: NO, YEAH, THEY HIT THE JUG.
GLORIA: YOU'VE DONE SO WELL SO FAR WITH YOUR FRUIT-- BILLYE:
(LAUGHS) AND SHE-- GLORIA: --YOUR INHERITANCE. BILLYE: --MY
GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, CARRIE PICKARD WHO MARRIED IKE, HE
WANTED TO GO TO INDIAN TERRITORY. THEY WERE--HAD A LAND
RUN DOWN THERE. AND HE WANTED TO GO DOWN THERE BECAUSE SOMEBODY
IN HIS FAMILY HAD GOTTEN LAND. AND--BUT AT THE TIME, IT WAS
STILL INDIAN TERRITORY, BUT THEY OPENED IT UP. SO SHE HEARD THERE
WAS NO LIQUOR IN INDIAN TERRITORY, SO SHE AGREED TO GO.
AND SHE GOT A COVERED WAGON. GLORIA: MY GOODNESS. BILLYE:
1901. THEY PACKED UP THEIR LITTLE GIRLS, THREE LITTLE
GIRLS, IN THAT COVERED WAGON, AND A BABY SON, AND THEY HEADED
DOWN FOR INDIAN TERRITORY. AND THE FIRST THING SHE SAW WHEN SHE
GOT OVER THE BORDER, A DRUNK PERSON. GLORIA: OH, NO. BILLYE:
AND HER HOPES WERE DASHED. SHE HAD LEFT HER MOTHER, WHOM SHE
LOVED DEARLY. NOW SHE'S DOWN HERE IN THIS WILD TERRITORY, AND
THEY HAVE LIQUOR. AND SO THEY ENDED UP--AFTER SOME MOVES, THEY
ENDED UP IN A LITTLE TOWN THAT'S ABOUT--IT'S ABOUT--NOW I'D SAY
ABOUT MAYBE 15, 20 MILES VIA THE NEW HIGHWAYS FROM TULSA. AND
IT'S CALLED COWETA. AND THEY BOUGHT A FARM OUT IN THE SAND
DUNES--SANDY BOTTOM LAND OUT AT--A HALF--ABOUT HALF A MILE
SOUTH OF COWETA. COTTON WAS KING. THEY PLANTED COTTON. AND
MY GRANDPA, IKE, GREAT-GRANDFATHER IKE PICKARD,
HE WAS A HAPPY DRUNK. HE WAS ALWAYS HAPPY. GLORIA: WAS HE
NICE? BILLYE: HE WAS REAL NICE, AND HE HELPED PEOPLE ALL THE
TIME. COTTON WAS KING, AND HE WOULD TAKE HIS COTTON TO THE
TOWN, AND HE'D TAKE IT TO THE GIN, YOU KNOW? AND HE'D HAVE A
POCKETFUL OF MONEY, AND HE'D GET DRUNK. AND THE HORSES KNEW THE
WAY TO GET HIM BACK OUT-- GLORIA: THAT'S GOOD. BILLYE:
YEAH--TO THE FARM. SO HE'D JUST BE DRUNK, HAPPY, SINGING, AND
THE HORSES WOULD TAKE HIM. AND ONE NIGHT, MY
GRANDMA--GREAT-GRANDMOTHER CARRIE, SHE HEARD HIM SINGING
LOUDER THAN EVER. AND SHE SAID, "GIRLS, GO AND OPEN THE GATE.
PAPA'S DRUNKER THAN EVER." AND HE WAS DRUNKER THAN EVER. BUT
THIS TIME HE WAS DRUNK ON THE NEW WINE. GLORIA: HE RECEIVED
THE HOLY SPIRIT. BILLYE: HE HAD COME INTO CONTACT, FACE-TO-FACE,
WITH WHAT WAS HAPPENING, A BREAKTHROUGH FROM HEAVEN AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY. GLORIA: OH, MY, MY. BILLYE: HE
HAPPENED TO HIT IT. AND WHAT HAD HAPPENED--SEE, AT THE BEGINNING,
1900S--JUST BEFORE, LATE 1800S, GOD'S MOVING. HE'S MOVING IN THE
JEWS. HE'S BRINGING THEM HOME. HERZL HAS A--THEODOR HERZL HAS A
PLAN, A ZIONIST PLAN FOR ALL THE JEWS TO COME HOME THAT GOD GAVE
HIM. AND IN THE EARTH--IN THE NATIONS, THERE'S GREAT
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT. RIGHT UP UNTIL 1900'S, MEN TRAVELED
REALLY NO FASTER THAN HORSES COULD RUN OR SHIPS COULD SAIL IN
THE SEA. BUT SOMETHING HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNING OF 1900.
EDISON--SOON HE GOT LIGHT. GLORIA: MM-HMM. BILLYE: HE SAW
HOW TO DO LIGHT. AND THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, THEY FIGURED OUT HOW
TO FLY. AND--AND THEN KNOWLEDGE BEGAN TO INCREASE JUST LIKE
DANIEL SAID. GLORIA: PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: DANIEL SAID, "KNOWLEDGE
WILL INCREASE." GLORIA: INCREASE IN THE EARTH. BILLYE: NOW,
THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE JEWS AND THE NATIONS. BUT WHAT
ABOUT THE CHURCH? AT THAT BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY,
THIS--THIS FORMER RAIN OUTPOURING THAT CAME IN ACTS 2,
THE CANKERWORM ATE IT. THE GRASSHOPPERS ATE IT, LIKE IT
SAYS IN JOEL. GLORIA: DISSIPATED? BILLYE: YES. IT WENT
UNDERGROUND BECAUSE THE CHURCH ENTERED THE DARK AGES. BUT GOD
HAD TO GET EVERYTHING BACK TO THE CHURCH. HE GOT BACK, "THE
JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH." HE GOT BACK DIVINE HEALING THROUGH
SISTER WOODWORTH-ETTER AND JOHN G. LAKE AND OTHERS. BUT HERE
HE'S GOING TO GET BACK THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY GHOST.
GLORIA: PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: AND IT STARTS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF
OUR COUNTRY, THROUGH A MAN IN A BIBLE SCHOOL THAT HE FOUNDED,
REVEREND CHARLES PARHAM. "HE WAS LED OF GOD--" AND I HAD--I'M
READING NOW FROM MY BOOK "--TO BEGIN A BIBLE SCHOOL. SOMEONE
TOLD HIM OF A LARGE, ABANDONED MANSION ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF
TOPEKA, KANSAS. IT WAS KNOWN LOCALLY AS STONE'S FOLLY. MR.
STONE, THE BUILDER, HAD MOVED WEST. HE BUILT, OUT IN THE
MIDDLE OF KANSAS' WHEAT FIELD, A TUDOR MANSION, ENGLISH TUDOR,
NOTHING BUT GRASS AROUND IT. AND PEOPLE CALLED IT STONE'S FOLLY.
IT DIDN'T FIT, DIDN'T FIT THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND HE MOVED TO
CALIFORNIA." GLORIA: HE BUILT IT AND LEFT? BILLYE: HE BUILT IT
AND LEFT, AND WEEDS GREW UP ALL AROUND IT. "AND SO ONE DAY,
CHARLES PARHAM, REVEREND CHARLES PARHAM--THE LORD HAD TOLD HIM HE
WAS GOING TO HAVE A BIBLE SCHOOL. AND HE WALKED DOWN THIS
ROAD AND WHEN HE PASSED THAT PLACE, THE LORD SAID TO HIM, 'I
WILL GIVE YOU THIS BUILDING FOR YOUR BIBLE SCHOOL.' AND PARHAM
SAID, ALOUD TO HIMSELF, 'THIS IS THE HOUSE.' A GENTLEMAN CAME
FROM AROUND THE BACK OF THE HOUSE, AND HE SAID, 'WHAT ABOUT
THIS HOUSE?' PARHAM TOLD HIM WHAT THE LORD HAD SAID AND THE
MAN IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS MR. STONE. HE HAD BEEN IN
CALIFORNIA, BUT HE CAME BACK TO CLEAN UP THE PLACE. AND HE SAID,
'IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS BUILDING FOR A BIBLE SCHOOL FOR
GOD, IT'S YOURS.'" GLORIA: MY, MY. BILLYE: "AND HE HANDED THE
KEY TO PARHAM. NO WRIT, NO NOTHING, 'YOU USE IT.' THE NEXT
DAY, PARHAM WENT TO THE TRAIN TO MEET THE FIRST STUDENT, A
MISSIONARY, A QUAKER MISSIONARY ON LEAVE. SHE TOLD HIM THAT WHEN
SHE WAS PRAYING, THE SPIRIT OF GOD TOLD HER THERE WAS GOING TO
BE A BIBLE SCHOOL IN TOPEKA--" GLORIA: WOW. BILLYE: "--WHERE
SHE COULD FIND OUT, 'WHAT DOES THE BIBLE MEAN WHEN IT SAYS,
"THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT?"' 35 STUDENTS CAME JUST
RESPONDING TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD, NO ADVERTISING." GLORIA: GLORY
TO GOD. BILLYE: "PARHAM HAD BECOME CONVINCED THAT NOTHING HE
SAW TALLIED UP TO THE BOOK OF ACTS. AND SO HE HAD A QUESTION,
'WHAT DOES THE BIBLE MEAN WHEN IT SAYS, "BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT? WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE OF IT?"' SO THIS BIBLE SCHOOL WAS A
BIBLE SCHOOL WITH A QUESTION AND WITH NO ANSWER. AND SO HE
ACCEPTED A SPEAKING INVITATION AND HE--THIS--THIS MANSION HAD A
WHOLE BUNCH OF TOURISTS AND ROUND PLACES, AND ALL THE
STUDENTS COULD GO AND PRAY. AND HE LEFT THEM. HE SAID, 'I'M
GOING TO GO SPEAK AT THIS PLACE. AND WHEN--YOU--YOU ALL GO BEFORE
THE LORD AND YOU ASK HIM, EACH ONE OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY, "WHAT
IS THE EVIDENCE THAT SOMEONE HAS RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT?"'" NOW, WILLIAM SEYMOUR, HE WAS THE ONE-EYED BLACK MAN OF
AZUSA STREET FAME, HE WROTE THIS ARTICLE AND PUBLISHED IT IN HIS
MAGAZINE, "THE APOSTOLIC FAITH," IN THE 1906 ISSUE. THE AZUSA
STREET OUTPOURING CAME IN 1906. SO SEYMOUR WRITES, "JUST BEFORE
THE 1ST OF JANUARY 1901, THE BIBLE SCHOOL BEGAN TO STUDY THE
WORD ON THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY GHOST TO DISCOVER THE BIBLE
EVIDENCE. THE STUDENTS KEPT UP A CONTINUAL PRAYER IN THE PRAYING
TOWER." THEY PRAYED. "A COMPANY WOULD GO UP AND STAY THREE
HOURS, AND THEN ANOTHER COMPANY WOULD GO UP AND WAIT ON GOD,
PRAYING THAT ALL THE PROMISES OF THE WORD MIGHT BE BROUGHT OUT IN
THEIR LIVES." GLORIA: PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: THEY PRAYED AROUND
THE CLOCK, 24/7. ON NEW YEAR'S NIGHT-- GLORIA: NOW, WHAT YEAR?
BILLYE: WELL, 1901, NEW YEAR'S--ONE MINUTE BEFORE--ONE
MINUTE AFTER MIDNIGHT, 1901. GLORIA: 1901. BILLYE: 1901, ONE
MINUTE AFTER MIDNIGHT, MS. AGNES OZMAN WAS--SHE'S THE
MISSIONARY--WAS CONVINCED OF THE NEED OF A PERSONAL PENTECOST. A
FEW MINUTES BEFORE MIDNIGHT, SHE ASKED THAT HANDS BE LAID ON HER,
THAT SHE MIGHT RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. GLORIA:
PRAISE GOD. BILLYE: DURING PRAYER AND INVOCATION OF HANDS,
SHE WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND SPOKE WITH OTHER
TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT GAVE UTTERANCE. SHE LITERALLY
SPOKE--" NOW, BROTHER PARHAM HAD A DAUGHTER--HE HAD ONE SON, AND
THAT ONE SON MARRIED TO PAULINE PARHAM. PAULINE PARHAM, I KNEW
HER FOR YEARS, AND THEY HAD A DAUGHTER, BOBBI HROMAS. BOBBI
HROMAS IS STILL LIVING TODAY. BOBBI TOLD ME THAT THIS WOMAN
SPOKE A LANGUAGE THAT WAS IDENTIFIABLE. AND SHE-- GLORIA:
IT WAS A KNOWN LANGUAGE. BILLYE: IT WAS A KNOWN LANGUAGE. GLORIA:
NOT KNOWN TO HER. BILLYE: NOT KNOWN TO HER. GLORIA: MM-HMM.
BILLYE: AND SHE COULDN'T--OH, IT WAS CHINESE. CHINESE! GLORIA:
OH, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING, WOULDN'T IT? BILLYE: AND SHE
SPOKE IT FOR DAYS. AND FINALLY, THEY BROUGHT A PAD FOR HER TO
WRITE-- GLORIA: MM-HMM. BILLYE: --AND SHE WROTE IN MANDARIN
CHINESE. GLORIA: FOREVER MORE. BILLYE: AND BOBBI HAS STILL GOT
THE PAD. GLORIA: WOW. BILLYE: AND THEY GAVE IT TO LINGUISTS,
AND THEY JUST DETERMINED WHAT IT WAS. GLORIA: MM-MM. BILLYE: WHEN
MS. OZMAN DID THIS, SHE SPOKE NO ENGLISH EITHER AFTER THOSE--FOR
THREE DAYS. "IT MADE EVERYONE--ALL THE STUDENTS,
HUNGRY, SCARCELY EATING OR SLEEPING. THE SCHOOL, WITH ONE
ACCORD, WAITED ON GOD. ON THE 3RD OF JANUARY, 1901, BROTHER
PARHAM RETURNED FROM THE MEETING HE WAS HOLDING. AND SUDDEN--WHEN
HE WALKED IN THE ROOM AND OPENED THE DOOR, 12 STUDENTS WERE THERE
SPEAKING WITH OTHER TONGUES. AND WHEN BROTHER PARHAM RETURNED AND
OPENED THE DOOR TO THE ROOM WHERE THEY WERE GATHERED, A
WONDERFUL SIGHT MET HIS EYES. THE WHOLE ROOM WAS FILLED WITH A
WHITE SHEEN OF LIGHT-- GLORIA: GLORY TO GOD. BILLYE: --THAT
COULD NOT BE DESCRIBED. AND 12 OF THE STUDENTS WERE ON THEIR
FEET TALKING IN DIFFERENT TONGUES." NOW, JUST AS THE UPPER
ROOM IN ACTS 2 COULD NOT HOLD THEM--THEY WENT OUT ON THE
STREETS OF JERUSALEM PREACHING AND THEY WERE--LOOKED LIKE THEY
WERE DRUNK IN THE HOLY GHOST. WHEN BROTHER--WHEN THEY RECEIVED
THIS BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY CAME DOWN--SUDDENLY, THAT
ROOM COULD NOT HOLD THEM. AND THEY WENT HOLDING MEETINGS
AROUND IN THE AREA. THEY WENT TO BAXTER SPRINGS, THEY WENT TO
GALENA, KANSAS, AND THEY WORKED THEIR WAY DOWN, EVENTUALLY
GETTING TO HOUSTON, TEXAS, WHERE BROTHER SEYMOUR, THE ONE-EYED
BLACK MAN, HEARD THEM. BUT ON THEIR WAY DOWN, TWO WOMEN
STOPPED IN, NEAR COWETA, OKLAHOMA, AND PREACHED THE
MESSAGE. AND IT WAS--IT WAS THESE PEOPLE THAT IKE PICKARD
RAN INTO THAT DAY. WHEN HE WENT IN AND HE--MY GREAT-GREAT
GRANDFATHER-- GLORIA: GOD MANEUVERS. BILLYE: --WHEN HE
WENT IN AND SOLD HIS LOAD OF--HE WAS ALWAYS A FRIENDLY GUY, LIKE
I TOLD YOU, AND HE SAW THESE PEOPLE. THEY WERE PENTECOSTALS.
IN THOSE DAYS, THEY GOT--THEY GOT TOMATOES AND--AND EGGS
THROWN AT THEM, ROTTEN EGGS. AND WHEN HE WENT IN AND HE SAW
THEM--THEY HAD BOUGHT SOME LAND. AND PEOPLE IN COWETA WEREN'T
HAPPY ABOUT IT, BUT THEY HAD IT. AND THEY WERE PUTTING UP A
CHURCH, PROBABLY AN OLD TABERNACLE. GLORIA: MM-HMM.
BILLYE: AND HE SAW THEM OUT THERE. HE ASKED THEM, "ANYTHING
YOU NEED?" AND THEY SAID, "YES, WE'RE GOING TO BUILD AN ALTAR.
WE NEED SOME LUMBER." SO HE SAID, "I'LL PICK IT UP FOR YOU
IN MY WAGON," THAT HE WAS--IT WAS EMPTY NOW HE HAD UNLOADED
HIS COTTON. AND HE GOT THE--HE GOT LUMBER FOR THEM TO BUILD THE
ALTAR. HE CAME BACK AND HE SAID, "NOW IS THERE ANYTHING YOU
NEED?" AND THEY SAID, "WELL, YOU CAN HELP US BUILD IT." SO HE
HELPED THEM BUILD THE ALTAR. HE'S A DRUNK. AND SO THEN HE
SAID, "ANYTHING ELSE I CAN HELP--" THEY SAID, "YEAH, WE
NEED HELP DEDICATING IT." THEY TOOK IT INSIDE TO DEDICATE IT
AND WHILE HE WAS IN THERE DEDICATING IT, HE GOT BORN
AGAIN, HE GOT BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST. GLORIA: PRAISE GOD.
BILLYE: FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST! IT WAS THAT IKE WHO WAS
COMING HOME, THE HORSES WERE LEADING HIM HOME OUT TO THE
FARM, DRUNKER THAN EVER. AND HE CAME OUT THERE DRUNKER THAN EVER
IN THE HOLY GHOST AND HE STAYED DRUNK IN THE HOLY GHOST THE REST
OF HIS LIFE, PRAYING AND PRAYING LOUDLY. GLORIA: PRAISE GOD.
BILLYE: AND MY GRANDMA SAID, "OPEN THAT GATE," AND HE CAME
IN. THE TOWN FATHER SAID IT WAS A TERRIBLE THING THAT IT HAD
HAPPENED. MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A TERRIBLE
THING. BUT EVENTUALLY SHE SAW THE CHANGE IN HIS LIFE AND SHE
WENT WITH HIM DOWN TO THE OLD MISSION AND SHE, MY GRANDMA
PICKARD, GOT BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY GHOST TOO. GLORIA: PRAISE
GOD. BILLYE: AND THERE ON THAT FARM OF THEIRS, THEY HAD A DEEP
CANYON, AND THE HOLY GHOST PEOPLE WHO UNDERWENT LOTS OF
PERSECUTION, THEY COULD GO OUT TO MY GRANDPARENTS' FARM NEAR
COWETA AND THEY COULD GET HAPPY OR THEY COULD GET A BURDEN. AND
THEIR FARM BECAME A PLACE OF PRAYER-- GLORIA: PRAISE GOD.
BILLYE: --IN THE HOLY GHOST. BLESS THE LORD. GLORIA: YOU HAVE
A GREAT HERITAGE. BILLYE: IT'S A GREAT HERITAGE. AND THIS IS THE
HERITAGE THAT--THAT MY FAMILY HAD AND THAT THE LORD SHOWED TO
ME LATER ON WHEN I CAME INTO THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. I
DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS HERITAGE BEFORE. NOBODY TOLD ME
ABOUT IT. BUT LATER ON, WHEN I CAME INTO THE BAPTISM OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE LORD SAID TO ME, "THIS IS THE
CORD OF YOUR INHERITANCE." AND I KNEW I HAD TO FIND
A PLACE OF PRAYER AND THAT I HAD TO HELP PRAY-ERS.
GLORIA: IT'S CALLED "PRAYER MOUNTAIN IN THE OZARKS,"
AND WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. ANNOUNCER: EVER WONDERED
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