- Well, all right, here we go.

- Okay, this first one is from Helen.

"I am a 67 year old femaleand have been seeing

"a gentleman for almost nine months.

"I am a widow, and he is divorced.

"We are both Christians and attend church.

"He had recently encouragedme to be intimate with him,

"and I told him it was a sin,

"but he said that he felt like God

"would understand his needs.

"Am I wrong about this?

"Is intimacy outside of marriage a sin

"regardless of age, ordoes this only apply

"to people who have never been married?"

- Helen, I'm afraidyour boyfriend is wrong,

and I think you need to understand it.

Sexual relations outside of marriage

is considered fornication.

I don't care if you're 67 or 16.

It doesn't matter how old you are

or whether you've beenmarried before or not.

But if this guy is all thenice fella he thinks he is,

I think there's no battery

to keep you all from being married.

But he wants a littlecake without having to pay

for the cost of baking it.

So I think there are obligations

you take on when you are married,

you love honor and you know respect

and all of the rest of it,

and he just wants to have sex, well okay.

God knows about his needs, yeah sure.

God also knows how he made you,

and he also says what the rules are.

I don't make the rules,

I'm just telling you what they are, okay.

- Okay this is Stephanie, who says

"How can I fully trust God for healing?

"I try to pray and havefaith that He will heal me

"but I always second guess that He will.

"What if it's not Hiswill for me to be healed?

"Does He want us to goto doctors for healing?

"Do I stand by and pray for healing

"or do I move forwardwith modern medicine."

- Well you've asked some veryinteresting questions there.

When Jesus was here on Earth,

he healed everybody who came to Him.

So when somebody says,"Well it's not God's will

"that you be healed," that's nonsense.

He healed everybody who cameto Him and asked for healing.

So God wants people to heal,

but I also think God uses medicine.

I don't think it's a sin to use

the marvelous technologythat's made available to us,

but I think to rely on that is a mistake,

because like it or not, nomedicine is going to heal you.

The doctors don't heal.

You know the great doctor said,

"I bind the wounds butGod heals the sickness."

So don't worry about using medicine,

but if you really rely on the Lord,

ask him and then speak the word, you know.

If you don't believewhat you're asking for

you're not gonna have it.

You have to be convinced thatthis is God's will, all right.

- Okay this is Delores, who says,

"Pat, you answered a question

"on praying in tongues as edifying,

"but God showed me when he called me

"to be an intercessorin the Body of Christ

"that praying in tonguesfor someone or something

"is praying for the will of God.

"Doesn't scripture confirm it?"

- I don't think scriptureconfirms what you just said.

Scripture does say, "He that prays

"in a tongue edifies himself."

That means you build up yourself.

When you're praying in the Spirit,

Paul said, I would rather speak

10,000 words in understanding,

than 3,000, oh excuse me, 3,000, three,

but 10,000 words in a tongue.

So there are messages that arebrought to the congregation.

So you say God showed you specially.

Well, he didn't show youout of the Bible, all right.