Now, many times it turns dark around the patient. I know death’s laying there. And I just say, “The Lord bless you.” Or, “I pray that God will heal you.” And—and send them on off the platform. For I don’t know what it will be. ’Cause sometimes God could pronounce death on a person, and then their prayer could change the thing. Do you believe that? It did for Hezekiah, didn’t it? When God told the prophet, “Go tell him he’s going to die, and not come off his bed.” He turned his face to the wall and wept bitterly. And God spared his life fifteen years after death had been pronounced by God. Prayer is the most powerful weapon was ever put in the hand of mankind. “The prayer faith shall save the sick.”

Do You Now Believe?, 1953-11-06, Owensboro, KY, §12