Usually it’s in a line of discernment. I never try to cast out a spirit, unless first I realize what I’m doing, ’cause that’s a dangerous thing. Did you know that? Very dangerous unless you understand what you’re doing. If you’ll notice on the platform after the anointing comes, you never hear me challenge a spirit ’less firstly I see where it’s God’s will to do it. Now, you say, “Is it God’s will?” Well, sometime people come to the platform who many times are even not Christians, and they—they want to be healed of diseases, and maybe they have been Christians, and done something in their life, or neglected to do something, and that’s the reason they can’t get healed. So under that power of discernment, when the prophetic utterance goes forth, it tells you just exactly where your trouble is. That—that…Then get that out of the way first. Then God’s got to heal you.

Faith without Works Is Dead, 1953-09-05, Chicago, IL, §9