Now, maybe the privilege of getting that person before me, maybe there’s something causing that. Well, if I get it, maybe when standing before the person, or this lady setting here, you, or any of you, it might see the reason. Now, you notice I’m very particular how I rebuke a spirit out there. Because you have to watch. Sometime God uses sickness for chastisement for the people, did you know that? Sometimes it’s brought upon them for a whip to bring them back to God. And what if God has permitted something there, and I, by a Divine gift take it off without the repentance of that person. Did you notice the man here, that told me a couple of nights ago, or something or another, that was standing here on the platform that he—he professed to be a Christian; he belonged to a modern church and everything; and he had some trouble wrong with him. And I looked and I kept seeing it turn dark, and I kept watching. I seen him standing on a corner with a cigar in his mouth, smoking, like that, blowing the smoke. I said, “Sir, you have a habit, and that’s what’s standing between you and God. If you’re ready to lay down those cigars, God is ready to heal you now.” See?

The Angel of God, 1951-07-20, Toledo, OH, §25