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OAKLAND
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We're getting some new gadgets for recording. We're hardly know each night where we're going to be at. That's just I think the--about the third move in the last four nights. So we got another move, I think, tomorrow night. So that's what makes it awfully bad, just kind of shifting around from place to place, then you'll hardly... It's just like a new place every night, and--and makes it very hard. I trust that sometime when I come back again to Oakland, why, maybe we can get something like the auditorium here for a week or two. That's when we can have a real revival and a real meeting. Don't you believe that? Yes, I believe we could too. It's just our schedule has been so irregular. Well, I would say this: we're just a night or two here and then a hundred miles farther. Just about the time we get the thing, the people settled down to where they can begin to see the supernatural moving of God, then it's they break up the meeting, go somewhere else two, three, four hundred miles farther and start again, and just when the people are becoming into the revival stage where they can be healed and many things can be done...
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So I think, after I get back now from Canada, well, before we go to Mexico or anywhere, I think we'll just make the revival places, stay about a month at a time in a place, or something like that, so we can just really get the people... When they can stay long enough till some of the people that's prayed for, will be--begin to come in, and reports coming in, getting well, getting well like that, and testimonies going... Like in my own home town at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Why, it's nothing there. My, just as soon we come into town, hundreds of people flock from everywhere, 'cause they have--they are... You're settled down to one place; you're not on the move like this.
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And then, friends, this is just about six months I've been going day and night almost. Today I had a wonderful day alone with God. No one was there but just the Lord and I. And I get myself more settled down when I get alone. Now, I've got five more meetings before I have any rest coming up: five more meetings. And then in the month of May, I'm to take a complete month, going up into the Rocky Mountains where, my, alone there when you kinda look like get... I like to be alone with God. That's the way to--that I find Him so dear to me. And then
coming back then to start into Canada...

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Now, we do not have much time. What time you have to close the auditorium? Eleven o'clock? Eleven o'clock, I think they said is closing of the auditorium. So I wish to speak to you tonight just for--just take a little bit of time and teach the Word of faith, and that you might know how to approach God. There's many of these great and deep subjects that people claim that they know much about. And when it comes down to the final showdown, they know very little of it. Now, that's true. And we're going to find out a few of those things tonight. And by the way, day after tomorrow night at the other auditorium, I'm to give a little sketch of my life story; that is, if you'd like to hear it. Would you like to hear it? Let's see your hands. That's--that's just fine. Have you announced where the auditorium is?
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want you to be healed. That's what I'm here for. I... This is a great sacrifice for me to be here, friends. I have a home, a family. And I'm new; I'm just a--a baby in the work. This is just a few months since the gift of healing came to me. I don't have--I don't...?... own my home. I just live in two rooms in a little "L" cottage. My wife packs water for somewhat, almost a half a city block, packs it back out of the house again. I've been offered wonderful homes in different cities where they tell me, "I'll build you a home worth five thousand dollars, just give it to you."
Friends, it isn't money with me. I--I'm--I wished I never even had to think about it. And that's the reason that many of you send, you offer me your gifts; I--I don't take them. Because it's not your-your finance; I want your confidence. I--I'm here for your healing.
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And as I was saying about the little home, wife and two children, I would--I'd love to be with them tonight. Just about now, it's eleven o'clock, that faithful little one's on her knees praying for me now. She knows it's just about time to start in the service. Lovely old mother, she's praying for me. The little boy, that his mother died when he was just two years old, he's praying for me. And somehow when I come into the pulpit, I just feel that their prayers will be answered. And I know He's near. You don't know how I'd like to see them tonight. When I left them at the plane, coming, a few months ago they were holding onto my coat and crying. The doctor in my church told me that I wouldn't live but
about a year longer: said at the rate I was going that I would drop some night in a heart attack in the pulpit. And my little boy is afraid of that, so he's just crying, saying, "Daddy, don't go."
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But there's something calls out to the sick and suffering. And friends, I can only help you if you believe me. That's the only way that I can ever do anything for you. And I would love to be there tonight. You don't know how I would like... Many of you know what it is to be away from home, don't you? But I... It's... I say it's just a little shack. But it doesn't take a big house to make a home. It's the character on the inside that makes a home. And I'm thankful for a home. So God bless you. And you pray for me, and I'll tell you more about it the day after tomorrow night.
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And now, tonight, friends, if you will, keep the little fellows just as patient as you can, and you be the same. And give me your undivided attention just for a few moments. And I'll try to explain to you, the best of my knowledge, the reason I'm here tonight, and how that you must approach God to receive your healing. I've suffered much, and I know what it is to be sick. And I--I want to help you. And I can if you'll just believe. I wish to take this opportunity, just now... I have so many things on my mind and tired and weary. But I want to thank the minister; I just forget his name, of who let us have this auditorium tonight, I think, give away his services: Reverend Jack Walker. If he's in the audience, Brother Walker, may God bless you my brother, you and your... make you... [End of record--Ed.]
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... Father, we're so thankful for this, another opportunity tonight to stand before Your lovely people to speak to them concerning the day and the hour that we're living, just before the coming of Thy beloved Son to take away a Church, a called-out people that's Blood washed, born the second time, and are ready to go meet a holy God: a way bridged for them by the Blood of the holy Christ of God. Bless us tonight together as we wait for Thy Divine Presence. And may the Angel that Thou did send into the room that night to speak to Thy servant, and the reason of being here tonight, may He stand on the pulpit by Thy humble servant tonight and confirm every word that's spoke. And may great signs and wonders follow. Bless the minister, Father, Brother Walker, who gave us the auditorium tonight. He and his, may they be blessed. Make him successful in Thy ministry, a fruitful branch. And may he have many trophies to lay at Your feet at that great day. Bless the minister that
sponsored this program here in this city, Brother Morse, all the other ministers, the co-workers. O God, may their churches be flames of fire, testimonies for the glory of God in this last evil days that we're living in the shadows just before the coming of the just One. Oh, speak tonight, Father, in a great way to the people. And may there be faith, and may the Holy Spirit tip His wings across this auditorium tonight. And may virtue come in such a way, that many, many great miraculous healings may be done, that His fame may be spread forth through all the regions up and down this western coast of this hemisphere. For we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.
Now, friends, as I say, we're shifted about so many times. I guess many of you here never even heard how the gift of Divine healing come. But only thing I want you to do tonight is to believe me. If you will believe, you shall see God's glory; I'm sure. The success has not been as I hoped it would be in the last few nights, though cripples, afflictions, deaf, dumb, lame... But it's very slow, it seems to be, since we've hit the west coast. Brother Charles Fuller was speaking to me when we was down at Long Beach, and he told me, said, "Brother Branham," said, "the reason," said, "this west coast here has everything under the name of Divine healing." Said, "They have Blue Flame worshippers, Father Divine worship and all, everything under the name of Divine healing." Said, "It's such a stumbling block." Well, that... That may be so, friends; I do not know; but that does not counteract God's power to heal.
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now, no man can do a miracle in His Name that can speak light of Him. That's what He said. So if anybody is getting people healed, I'm thankful for it. But I truly believe with all my heart as we go into the subject tonight that you, maybe, if God will just help us, that you'll get the vision and see what really the day and time that we're living. And then you'll see and believe.
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May God help us as I read some of the Scriptures now. Over in the book of Hebrews the 11th chapter, we will begin and read the first three verses. Listen very closely, because my words is just the words of a mortal. They will fail. But God's Word will never fail. It's always true. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were... made of things which do appear. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained a witness... he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it... being dead yet spake.
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All right. Now, I think that may be just a little--little better: kind of causes a rebound from... All right. Now, I wish to take my text out of the 3rd chap--or the 3rd verse, rather, and the last--one of the last phases, "God testifying of His gifts." And now, for my subject, it's found in the 1st chapter, the 1st verse, rather (Pardon me.), the 1st verse, "Faith Is The Substance Of Things Hoped For, The Evidence Of Things Not Seen."
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This day that we're living in, it's such a day of unsettled peace and unsettled rest everywhere. People are running to-and-fro seeking whatever they may seek. Most anybody can get a following. No matter what they teach or think, somebody will listen to them. And it's a day that the prophets spoke of. People, when they're hungry, they'll eat from anywhere. If children and people are starving, they'll eat from a garbage can, that once eat from a nice table. But if they are hungry, they'll eat somewhere. So I think real true ministers of the Gospel ought to be up and going, ought to be giving the people the right things: meat in due season.
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Now, this subject of mine of... As I have testified to you that I am not a preacher, I just merely have the gift of Divine healing, which I humbly say, it comes from God. I had nothing to do with it coming. I was--it was foreordained of God years and years ago. I had nothing to do... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... earth that brought it. [End of
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... is the keynote to the Scriptures. Faith, he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. This world was made by faith. Things were shaped in existence by faith. God just seen that dew drop hanging out there in the air, that whatever you want to call it, and He just spake, and said, "Let there be light." And there was light. And then He brought the land forth and dried it off and so forth. That was all done by an act of faith with God. The whole world is made by faith.
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You're here tonight by faith. Many of you told your employer you'd be back tomorrow to work. How do you know you will? You told your wife, "I'll be home after service." How do you know you will? You told the person maybe to come, a cab, to pick you up at eleven o'clock. How do you know you'll be here? You may be in eternity before eleven o'clock tonight. See? But it's all by faith. Everything's by faith.
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Now, so many people speak of this subject, faith, and know so little of it. Now, listen friends; I--I love you and I want you to see this. There's so many people speaks of faith doesn't know one principle of faith. Now, you're together, and I--we may never all meet again this side of eternity. But I... If I had a place where we could be together, and I could gradually bring the thing up to where you'd be able to see it plainer than what you will now, because many of you are going to think... And you're--probably many will get the wrong impression of me tonight. When I'm trying my best to get this to you, and you'll think it's self-exaltation. But it is not, my lovely friends. It's for your benefit if I can just get you to see what--what God has done for you.
Now, some--many people come through the line, and they say, "Oh, I have faith to be healed." And, friends, when they pass by, I know they haven't enough faith to cure a toothache. That's right. And some of them coming through with cancer, and say, "I have faith to be healed," they do not have faith. My Scripture lesson tonight said, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." See, it's a substance. It's something direct, something that you really have, not something that you imagine, something that you think you have; but it's some direct positive act that you have. You see what I mean?
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Now, here not long ago... I'll give you a little story of someone who came so you can see what faith is. Faith is a gift of itself. You may have a portion of it, but there is a gift of faith. Just like, some of you people anoint the sick and pray for them and you have a result. That isn't a gift of healing; that is a portion of faith. But that isn't a direct gift of healing; for there's only one direct gift of healing; there's only one direct gift of faith; there's only one direct gift of--of miracles and so forth. There was in the Scripture, the apostles had it. And many--they done mighty works of... Philip and all of them... But that was one gift of healing.
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Like when we leave the city, as many people say... I've
noticed in some places after I left some of them, maybe fifteen or twenty say, "The Lord gave me the gift of healing." Well, God bless their hearts. Some of them say, "Brother Branham, will you lay your hands upon me that I can get the gift of healing." I wished I could. I'd have every one of you pass right down this line here tonight. And I'd say there wouldn't be a sick person left in Oakland in a few weeks from now. That's right. But it's not mine to give. It's... [End of record--Ed.]
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"... is the substance of the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Let's take that part of the Scripture, "the substance of things hoped for." There's three things: hope, charity, and faith. Is that right? Now, hope is one element; faith is another element; and charity is another element. Charity is love. I've seen many people come by, lovely people, real Christians, but didn't have enough faith to be healed, and some sinner pass by and has the faith to be healed. See? It's another element altogether. It's not how well you serve God; it's a--an element that you possess yourself. Now, I want you to see this because it's for your benefit.
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Here a few weeks ago, a few months ago it was, I was home for just a few nights. And my, there's about three hundred people had gathered in the home and around the yards that day, and about two o'clock in the morning the wife got me into bed. And while I was just laying across the bed, my, my legs were cramping and hurting... I was laying down there, and I heard a machine drive up out front. And I said, "Oh, my, there's someone coming." And she said, "Well, listen, I'll go to the door." And while she was on her road to the door I went to sleep. And I could hear someone saying, "Well, the baby has been sick for a long time." And a little baby was crying till it didn't even sound like it was human, something like, you that's reading in my little book, "The Heavenly Vision"... How many has read it in--in the audience, let's see, "Heavenly Vision"? You see, something on that order. The little bitty fellow, it was about eight, ten weeks old. And it was--it had never stopped crying. And the mother said, "Well, I've--I... We've traveled all day and all night to get here." Said, "We seen where he--Brother Branham was to be home and we brought the baby."
My, the poor little thing, I couldn't sleep. And I went out there and prayed for the little baby. And I set down, and there in the chair
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just a moment, was talking to the mother. They'd come from way up in northern Ohio. And while we were setting there, friends, the little fellow ceased to cry. It'd been crying day and night now. Oh, that's worth more to me than all the money in the world. And there, I looked over, and the mother started crying, great big tears dripping off on the little blanket, the old dad setting there with a pair of overalls on, probably spent a good portion of his living to come, come over and put his arm around me, said, "I love you, Brother Branham." My, some of the best hearts that ever beat is under an old blue shirt. That's right.
It ain't the way you dress; it's what's on the inside of you. (That's right.) And there, I knew he meant that. That wasn't hypocrisy. He meant that from his heart; he loved me. And I looked at the little baby, and the mother, when I went in the other room she was... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] it just smiling at us. And, friends, that's worth every bit of it, isn't it? That's right. That's worth all of it. And then they said... My wife said, "Well, I'll fix you coffee or something for you if you wish." And they said, "Well, we'll just wait a little while. And my wife said, "Well, now..." "I'll tell you what," I said, "I'll lay down on this chair, and you let the mother and them go to bed and sleep for a little bit."
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And so we put them in a bed, and I was setting in a chair to try to rest till daylight. And just then another car drove up and a young man come up to the door. And he said, "Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes." I was trying to get awake. He said, "I know you're very sleepy." I said, "Yes sir." He told me, said, "I'm from Marengo, Indiana." He said, "My little sister is dying with appendicitis; she's to be operated on this morning." Said, "Will you come to her?" Well, that... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... and in my old jalopy Ford, that's waiting for me over at Houston, all the side of it's beat out with my knees, where I'd hit my knees like that trying to stay awake while I would go and pray for the sick people. I've left one meeting, going to the other, and get out into the field with my hand out the door of the car, saying, "God bless you, God bless you," sound asleep. I never will forget one day coming from Houston, I... There was... I'd hear a car blowing, and I knew I was on the wrong side of the road, only I couldn't get awake. You see? I'd set there fifteen days and nights praying for the sick people and seeing wonderful things. But, oh, my, friends, if my life will be short, maybe somebody else can stay because of my going.
And this man said, young fellow, he said, "My little sister..." He told me he belonged to a church. I will not call the name here, because it's not expedient; and I don't criticize anybody's religion. And anyhow, this church is my arch enemy. They claim that there's no such a thing as Divine healing and so forth. And I was at my church, the Milltown Baptist church, where I went to hold a revival. Many of you seen in the little book called, "Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday And Forever." A little girl in there that weighed forty-seven pounds, twenty-seven years old, weighed forty-seven pounds, by the name of Georgie Carter, with tubercular; and she belonged to this same church. And she said the people through the neighborhood said, "Let..." She'd been on her back now for nine years and six months. And said, "Let her get well and we'll believe it." But, my friends, she's my piano player in the Milltown Baptist church tonight. But do they believe? No, even one raised from the dead, they don't believe in it.
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And by the way, a man that laid in the morgue, pronounced dead by three doctors when I went in to where he was at, he's driving a Pennsylvania locomotive tonight, and still they don't believe. That's true. That is true. They won't believe. The hour is here where people's eyes are so blinded with the cares of the world and the other cares, till they don't even see God. He's right in their midst many times and they pass by like it was in the days of Christ, and they missed seeing Him.
And now, this lady--or this man, rather, he said, "Will you go?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Maybe I'd better take you." I said, "No, I'll try to stay awake." And the wife started crying; she said, "Now, honey, you'll fall asleep somewhere." I said, "No, I'll be all right, sweetheart." And I got in my old car and started trailing down. I said, "I'll watch him." Going down I was pinching my--and biting my fingers, and I'd take spit and wipe my eyes and everything else, trying to keep awake. I know that sounds very unsanitary, but I--I was doing anything to try to get to the child.
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And we drove about eight miles through an old road way up into the rural district, and there lay a young girl something about eight--seventeen or eighteen years old. And she was lying there in a terrible condition. When I walked into the room, she was real
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nervous, and she said, "Oh, and you're Brother Branham?" She said... I said, "Do you believe sister?" She said, "Oh, yes, I believe." Said, "I--I--I believe." Said, "I don't care what my church says." She belonged to the same church that this Georgie Carter did. Said, "I don't care what my church says. I believe. I believe." And so they, the man, the father come, met me and shook my hand. And he--he took me around to the bed. He said, "Sir," said, "she's going to be operated on this morning." And said, "She's... We're afraid she can't make the trip." Said, "We got to take her all the way to New Albany, Indiana." That was about nearly forty miles to the first hospital. And she had about eight miles through rural, just, oh, my, just a fence row, coming down like that where wagons would travel almost to come down. And well, I--I assisted and helped in operations and...
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that child could not go to the hospital. She would die before she got there. There may be medical doctors setting present now, usually there is doctors come to listen in on the service. And her side had swollen up and was turning red, the appendix were ruptured and were ready to burst at any time. Now, many time I've went in with Doctor Adair, the doctor of our city, the one that comes to my church. And we had the operation and cut the--the incision open. And when they'd burst on the table, and--and sometimes take the bowels out and spray them off and wash them out, and keep them from peritonitis from setting in, and cut it a kind of V-shape and put a tube in there to drain. Sometimes they'd get well. But that child couldn't... That appendix would've bursted and she'd a had thirty miles or more yet to drive. And she would've died before she got there.
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Now, friends, the girl was looking to me, and she said, "Oh, Brother Branham, you think I'll live?" And I said, "I believe you will." But she said... I said, "Now, do you believe?" She said, "Oh, yes, yes, I believe. Sure, I don't care what my church says. I--I believe. Georgie Carter got well." Said, "I'll get well too. I'm scared of the operation," (See?), just like that. Some of the neighbors had gathered in.
Now, look, here's where I want to get to you people now on this. The girl thought she believed, just like many of you come down
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this line tonight. You think you believe, but she did not believe. Now, many of you have female trouble, and maybe it's just something another that--maybe a ulcered stomach. And you--you have to take your... You can have a little time. But that girl, that had to be a emergency. Her life was at stake. Something had to be done. So I said, "Sister, I do not mean to hurt your feelings, but you--you do not believe." Now, it's just like the brother says here, when you have your head up, no matter where you are in the building... I don't say this, friends, you remember, I'm telling you this just for your good. It's not I, but God. I know when you got your head up; I feel it. Whether you're behind me, where you are... Like one last night setting with her head up behind me. I knew it all the time. And so, that's between God and the individual. You see? I can't help that. They--they hinder the people. Many times things are hindered.
So then this girl, she said, "Oh, I believe, I believe, Brother Branham." Well, she thought she believed. Now, look, she had hope. But faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You see what I mean? Now, I said, "Sister, an ordinary case," I said, "I could have a little time and let you have time, maybe to take about that much faith and go out with it. But you've got to have immediate attention, right now. For I'm going to be honest with you. You'll not live to see the hospital." Now, the parents didn't appreciate that very much at that time. But I'd rather be honest with you, let you know the truth... Wouldn't you rather I'll be honest with you? And remember, friends, I'm not wrestling with flesh and blood; it's spiritual power. I must be honest before Almighty God. See? And because I realize the danger of my own life, and not only mine, but yours. And so she said she would-she believed, but she did not. "Well," I said, "now, look." Now, I want you to notice this, and I want you to be real careful now and take up every word so you can divide it, of a little something that God permitted there. And I'll--I'll see if you've got faith. I said, "Sister, you do not have faith." She said, "Oh, Reverend Branham, I have faith to believe anything."
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you and show you, rather, that--that you do not have faith. Now, listen and catch every word of it. Hanging in the room from a chandelier was a string, and on the end of that string was a little bracelet, and it had... It was a white bracelet with little red sets in it where a child probably been playing with it, you know, swinging it in the room. Maybe some of you have your own babies to be pacified that way, swinging something around like that to play with it, to amuse them.
And I seen that little bracelet hanging down. It was... I said to the young lady; I said, "How far are you away from that bracelet?" She said, "Prob--approximately fifteen feet." I said, "Now, all you other adults here, all you people, just turn your back right around to me." I said, "Now, there's nothing going to be done to hurt anyone. I just got to speak to this girl, because she's got to catch the idea now." And that's the reason I'm getting into these things with you tonight. We got two more nights, and something's got to be done. You see? Now, I don't want you to go away and say anything wrong about this, because you might have to answer at judgment for it. And so I said, "Something has to be done immediately." And I said, "Now, you parents, you just turn your back." And some of the neighbors was setting up with her, and they all turned their backs to me and turned their chairs around. I said to the young lady; I said, "Now, you tell me you've got faith to believe for all things." She said, "I have, sir."
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I said, "How long has it been since you've eaten?" And she said, "About three days," said, "I can't even keep water on my stomach." And you know what appendix is and fever on her also.
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And I said, "Now, if you believe with all your heart, and you prove to me now that you've got faith... Now, you look right directly at that bracelet," and it hanging there in mid-air, "and you make that bracelet swing around and around in the room. Then you make it swing back and forth in the room, and then stop it, and I'll believe you have faith." She said, "Oh, Brother Branham," said, "my, why ask me something like that?" I said, "I wanted to see if you had faith." I said, "Jesus said, 'All things are possible if you believe.'"
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Now, that's just pure faith, friends. Magicians use it many times to play pranks and so forth, burst glasses and things. It will, if you believe. But I'm trying to base your--the thought on faith so you know what I'm talking of. And I want you to set still now so you'll catch this. Wake yourself up, so when I get through with it you'll know what it's all about.
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Then she said, "Why, Brother Branham, no one could do that." I said, "Oh, yes, anyone can that believes." And she said, "Well, I don't believe that anyone could do that."
I said, "I thought you said you believed for all things." See how she was caught right there. I said, "You said you believed all things. I want you to prove it." And she said, "I don't believe there's anyone can do that; that's material, Brother Branham." She said, "Could you do it?" I said, "Yes, ma'am." And she said, "Well, could I see it done?" I said, "If you desire." And she said, "I desire."
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Then of course, putting my mind on it, and having her to watch that and not me. As many times in a meeting, I'll take any cross-eyed child you've got in this meeting, you bring it up here without even praying for it, and just let me look at it straight in the eyes like that, I'll make its eyes come straight. But when I turn my head... [End of record--Ed.]
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And I used her for an illustration. She went back, she thought she wasn't going to get back through the line, taking two or three days before she got back. But when she come that time, she said, "Brother Branham, you told me to get back in line." There's hundreds of people piling everywhere, standing in the... way early in the morning, coming in soaking wet from out there, coming in to be prayed for. And then when God healed her eyes there, both eyes come straight and she was normal, went out rejoicing. You see? That's the difference from your faith and the faith of God...
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Now, then of course, fastening my eyes to that bracelet, which you can yourself, if you won't doubt it in your heart, and it started moving around. And then it moved back and forth, around, crossways, and stopped it. She said, "Brother Branham," she said, "that's spiritualism." I said, "I--I thought maybe you'd say something like that." My, isn't it strange how people that profess they know God, and know so little about Him. Isn't that right? She said, "You know, we belong to the Church of Christ." Excuse me, I didn't mean to say that. Excuse me, Church of Christ people, I didn't mean to say that. See? Anyhow, said, "We speak where the Bible speaks and silent where the Bible's silent." You know, you have that slogan. I've questioned that a few times. I said, "All right." She said, "There's no such a thing can be showed in the Bible of anything like that." I said, "I--I thought that's what you would say." I said, "Sure, that's in the Bible."
And she said, "Well, I never... I don't believe it." "All right," I said, "You don't believe it?" She said, "No, you show me where that's at in the Bible."
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I said, "One day Jesus passed by a tree, He wanted to find some fruit on it. There was no fruit on it. He put a curse on it, and the tree begin to wilt. And when they passed by at noon the tree was wilting down. Peter remarked and said how quick the tree was wilted. He said, 'If you would say in your heart for this tree to be plucked up and cast into the sea and wouldn't doubt it, it would obey you.'" Did He say it? And I said, "He said, 'If you'd say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and doubt it not in your heart, by and by it would come to pass.'" Did He say it? Sure He did. I said, "I know your unbelieving pastor, trying to justify his unbelief, said that was a mountain of sin. I--I went to school myself. He was kneeling by Mount Olives. It was Mount of Olives. If you'd say in your heart for it to be moved and don't doubt it..." I said, "How much more faith?" And He said, "If you had faith, size of a mustard seed..." I said, "Now, if the faith the size of a mustard seed would move that mountain, how much more smaller faith would you have to have just to move that bracelet?"
You see what I mean? Now, I've often wondered why He said mustard seed. I might drop this thought. Mustard seed is the smallest among all seed. That's right. But there isn't nothing will mix with mustard seed. It's all mustard. You can't mix it with kale or nothing and make it grow. It's all mustard. If you've got that much faith, all faith, not mixed up with something else, ask what you will; it'll be given to you. But it can't be wavering; it's got to be genuine mustard, if you know what I'm speaking of. All right, and I said, "How much more would it take?" "Why," she said, "Looky here, I want to ask you something." She said, "Did God move that or did the devil move that?" I said, "Neither one moved that." She said, "Then how in the world did it move?" I said, "I moved it." She said, "Well, you're fifteen feet or better away from it." I said, "No, it's my faith that moved it." See? If you ask anything and don't doubt it... See what I mean?
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agent; you're a human being. You can resent it in your heart, and I couldn't touch you if you had to. Jesus could not do many mighty works because of why? [Congregation says, "Unbelief."--Ed.] Correctly. See how little people know about--how little people know about faith? It's
amazing, friends, to find out how little people know about it. They talk so much of it and yet know so little of it.
And then she said, "Well, do you mean to tell me then... What part does that play with God, that part there?" I said, "Now, look, there was an Angel came down into the room and told me that way back, back 'fore I was born, was foreordained to have a gift of Divine healing. And He came and told me in the room one night that God had sent the gift, and it was a gift of Divine healing for the people. And if I could get the people to believe me (believe me), and would be sincere when I prayed, that nothing would stand before the prayer." I said, "Therefore, speaking face to face with this supernatural Being, I believe it with all my heart. And if I can get you to believe me with all your heart, that's what moves God, and then you're healed. Your faith has saved you." You see what I mean? Your faith to believe has saved you. Not what you worked up and thought in your mind, but what you really know, the very evidence of things not seen. You see what I mean? Then the girl said, "Brother Branham, I truly know that there's something above where I have ever reached." She said, "I'll try with all my heart, and God have mercy on me." She said, "Let me believe." And I took a hold of her hand then. There was a vibration pouring from that ruptured appendix, had prayer for her and it stopped immediately. I said, "God bless you, sister. Your faith now has saved you."
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A few moments later I was setting in the chair, and I went to sleep. Sun was coming up; I had to rest just a little before returning home, 'cause I was afraid I'd break up somewhere on the road, have a wreck. And I was setting there; they called the ambulance, told them there was no need. When I was--was waken up by one of the family, why, the girl was out of the bed and had eat a pint of ice cream. And the--she's never had a knife from that day to this. She was standing on the porch and waved good bye. She said, "Good bye, Brother Branham." Her testimony appeared in the "Herald of Truth" not long ago. Mrs. Edith Wright, at--at Milltown, or Depaw, Indiana, that was her there--there.
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All right. Now, you see what faith is. It's something... Now look friends; I know that all of you are, at least know this: This body is controlled by five senses. Is that right? All right, it's got five senses is everything that controls this human body. Now, listen real close, and give me your attention now. The sense, five senses, is this right?
See, taste, feel, smell, hear, is that right? Them five senses control the entire human body. Is that true? See, taste, feel, smell, and hear. Now, there's none of them that declare faith. Faith is the sixth sense, known to some people as you want to as mental telepathy or--or whatever you want or wish to call it, many of them call it names, but to me it's faith. And that is in and above all five senses of the human body. You see what I mean? [End of record--Ed.]... great... Faith is the only direct and positive sense, and it's the sixth sense. Faith is more than sight. Faith is more than feeling. You do not feel faith. You don't taste faith. You don't smell faith. You don't see faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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Here, see this Bible? Now, I want that Bible. Now, I'm looking at it. Now, I want it. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things I do not see. See what I mean? Here, in my pocket, I think there's an old Barlow knife I've carried for years. Now, I do not see that knife. I do not feel that knife. I do not taste that knife. I do not smell that knife. But I know that knife is in there. How do you know? Because I believe it's in there. Now, if it is not in there, faith will put it in there, if it's not there. That chokes you, I know. But--but that's true. If you believe, all things are possible. You're afraid to take God, friends. You're scared. Now, I might've left that knife laying on the dresser where I changed clothes awhile ago. But just as sure if that knife is on the dresser right now, if I believe it with all my heart, it'll be in my pocket. That chokes you. But God is able to put it there if you believe it.
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Here, I want to show you something. Come here, Reverend Kidson. Is this Sister Morse? Would you stand up just a moment? I want to show you something, friends. Just stand right here. And you don't mind, that's not making a--a public show for you, sister, but it's for the glory of God. Now, look friends, I want to show you something. I believe there's a-a woman standing in front of me. Could you tell me I'm wrong? [Brother Kidson replies, "You don't..."--Ed.] But... [You don't hear any woman?"-Ed.] No, I don't hear any woman. ["You don't feel any woman?"--Ed.] No, sir. Don't know how I know there's one there? ["You don't taste any woman?"--Ed.] No. ["How can you tell there's a woman there?"--Ed.] Because the sense of sight tells me I see a woman. ["Hum, well, are you sure?"-Ed.] I'm positive there's a woman standing there. Do you believe that I'm right? ["Yes."--Ed.] Audience, you think I am right? Now, is it possible I could be wrong? Yes. Every one of us may be blinded of our eyes. That might be a vision. Remember the five sense of the body is not so direct. Faith is positive.
Now, I know there's a woman standing there though, because that the sense of sight tells me there's a woman standing there. You see what I mean? Now, you think you could argue me down, tell me there's no woman standing there. Then you try it one time. You try to tell me I'm not looking at a woman standing before me. You think you could out argue me? No, sir, because I know this sense of sight is direct, and I'm looking at that woman, and I know she's standing there. Yet the only thing that I know is the sense of sight. Now, I want you to notice. Now, I'm going to close my eyes. Now, I feeled a woman's hand. [End of record--Ed.]
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I can tell it's a woman. She has a woman's hat on. She has a woman's hair; it's a woman's hand. I know it's a woman, because I feel her. You think you could out argue me? ["No."--Ed.] Huh? That's directly; I know it, that that was a woman. I've got my back turned to her, but yet I know it's a woman. See? Because the sense of feeling tells me there's a woman there. You see what I mean? Now, sight told me there's one there now. I don't feel her. That's the sense of sight. I know she's standing there, because I'm looking at her. I close my eyes. I know she's standing there now, because--not because I see her; because I feel her hand. I know she's standing there. I don't see her, but yet I feel her. The sense of feeling declares there's a woman standing there. See what I mean?
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Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence (See?), direct positive, just the same as my sight is positive, same as my feeling's positive... It's the evidence of things not seen, just as positive as that is. You see what I mean? So many people try to work theirself up and say, "Oh, I--I got faith." But, friends, it's not there. If it was, it would react. See? You know what I mean?
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Now, look... Thank you, Sister Morse and God bless you now. Now, look. Now, I seen the woman; my sense of sight said she was there. Then I knew she was there by the sense of sight. I closed my eyes; I didn't have sight. Then I felt her, and the sense of feeling said she was there. The sense of feeling was just as direct as the sense of sight, because it was a direct evidence. Now, faith is a direct evidence of things not seen, felt, taste, smelled, or heard. Now, look here. I'm going to close my eyes now. Watch.
FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 47-0412 E-55 That was orange juice. [Brother Kidson says, "You don't see any oranges."--Ed.] No, sir. ["You don't hear any oranges."--Ed.] No, sir. ["You don't feel any oranges."--Ed.] No, sir. ["You don't smell any oranges."--Ed.] No, sir.
["What makes you think that is orange?"--Ed.] Because I tasted it. ["Are you positive?"--Ed.] I'm positive that was orange juice. That would not have
been lemon; it would not have been grape. It would not have been grapefruit. That was orange juice, because the sense of taste. I--I didn't smell it; I didn't hear it; I didn't feel it; I didn't see it; but yet the sense of taste told me that was orange juice. You think I'm right?
["You're right."--Ed.]
Sure it is. Why, the sense of taste proved that it was orange juice. Now, no matter how much you tell me it was water; I know it's orange juice. I tasted it. See? You could taste it too. And if you've got a sense of taste, you would know it the same. And if you've got faith you'll know the same thing I'm talking about. Now, watch here again, now watch here. I smell perfume. That's perfume. [Brother Kidson says, "You can't see any."-Ed.] I don't see any perfume. ["You don't hear any."--Ed.] I don't hear any perfume. ["You don't taste any."--Ed.] I don't taste it. ["You don't feel any."--Ed.] I don't feel it. ["What makes you think that's perfume?"--Ed.] 'Cause I smell it. ["Amen."--Ed.] That's right. The sense of smell tells me that was perfume before my nose. [Scratch on the record--Ed.]... me? Try it. All right, know that was perfume. I didn't see it, did I? Did I see it? I had my eyes closed. Did I taste it? No, I didn't have it in my mouth. Did I feel it? Never had my hands about it, nor nothing else. How did I know it then? Did I hear it? No, I smelled it, and it was a direct evidence that that was perfume. I know it. [End of record.--Ed.]
FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 47-0412 E-56 Now... [Brother Kidson says, "...don't feel any music."--Ed.] No, sir. ["You don't taste any music."--Ed.] No, sir. ["Well, what makes you think that's music?"--Ed.] I hear it, and I know it's music. ["Are you sure about that?"-Ed.] I'm positive. The lady's playing "Only Believe." You think I'm right? ["You're right."--Ed.] Try to argue me out of it. I don't see it. I
don't taste it. I don't feel it. I don't smell it. But I hear it. Was I positive? Do I know that I'm right? Why?
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Now, there is the five senses of the body. Now, they're positive, aren't they? You know when they happen. You know. Now, you're looking at a audience. You know you're looking at me. Well, then friends, faith... Here it is. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. It's positive. You know it. There's no need of anybody telling you anything more about it. It's just as much declared as any of these other five senses of the body. You know what I mean? How many has a general understanding now of what I mean? Let's see your hands. See, see?
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It ain't what you try to make yourself believe. Now, for instance, I try to make myself believe I'm hearing music. I--I
wouldn't do it. May I make myself believe I'm smelling perfume. It's just not there. I've got to absolutely do it. You see what I mean? And faith is that positive. It is an act of positive. You know it. Oh, my, I hope you see it, what I mean.
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See, it's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You don't see it. You don't taste it. Somebody say, "I don't feel any better." Well, what's the matter? Why don't you feel any better? If you have your faith, according to your faith be it unto you. Is that right? See? No matter how you feel, you're healed anyhow. No matter what you see, you're healed anyhow. See what I mean? It is a... You know it. There's nothing can take it out of your heart. You know it. It's just positive act right there. Oh, my. If you could only see it, friends, something would take place. If you could only know what I'm talking about, something would react right now. See? It's a positive. It's right there, just as positive as these other five senses. These are of the natural man. Faith is of God. The natural man can be wrong, but God cannot be wrong. Oh, my.
Why, it would make us go to shouting. Think of it. And people tell me they got faith and say they can't believe in Divine healing? Friends, if you don't believe in Divine healings, you're lost. That's right. How you going to, if you can't have faith enough for God to patch up this body to glorify Him in, how much more you going to have faith to believe that God will take this old mortal and make immortality out of it to take it up. That's a direct Divine healing. Oh, my, there's going to be some awful disappointments at the day of judgment, at the resurrection. That's right.
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Faith... We've got to get in such a place till we be translated like Enoch was. That's right. Faith, testimony, that it pleased God. Did not Enoch... Our following Scripture said that Enoch had a testimony by faith that he pleased God. Is that right? And the Bible said, "Without faith it's impossible to please God." So you've got to have the same kind of faith that you believe, and know. [End of record.--Ed.]
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A gift of healing, not a gift of miracles, though many miracles are performed right along with it. But it's a gift of healing; the people get well. They go out, prayed for, they come back. And my, they're healed. Wait till I leave the city, friends. After I'm gone a long time you'll hear the people coming to your churches and saying, "Well, that cancer, it's gone." "That--that deafness I had, why, I--I hear now." "My affliction, why, it just left me."
It's just the simplicity of... It's nothing you can work yourself up to. It's no excitement. I notice people come in line, just get to shaking themselves, and saying, "Oh, God, hallelujah. Amen. Glory to God." Don't do that. You interfere with faith there. You interfere with God. Come up reverently and just lay your hand up and believe. That's all. Faith, you don't work yourself up to it. Faith is something that's already in your heart. You just come and believe. You see what I mean? Oh, friends, my, I love you. I wouldn't talk to you so straight if I didn't love you. But I love you too well to see you get by without this. You see? You--you must understand.
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And now look, now to my text right quick so we can hurry up. God testified of Abel's gifts. God always testifies of His gifts. Is that right? Now, I want you to notice, when the children of Israel were in bondage four hundred and twenty years down in Egypt, carried down there by Joseph when they went down... By and by there raised up a Jo--or a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph. And then the people got in bondage. And they had to make straw houses and bricks and things out of straw and stubbles. And then they begin to cry to God for a deliverer. Is that right? And they cried and cried. And God foreordained a deliverer (Is that right?), Moses.
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And when Moses came to the age of maturity, he went out and seen two Egyptians mistreating a Hebrew, and he slew the Egyptians and buried them. And the next day when he met the Hebrews striving among one another, "Why," they said, "will you kill us as you did the Egyptian?" Now, look, be quiet people. Moses, the very deliverer, God's gift to the people, they did not understand him. You see what I mean? They did not understand Moses. And Moses thought, surely, that they would understand that he was their gift to deliver them. But they did not understand. And now, friends, don't get me wrong. May I say this with reverence in my heart, knowing that I'm an eternity bound person that'll stand before judgment someday. Thousands of people are missing their gift. See? They can't understand it. And they'll look and say, "Oh, he's just a man." That's true. Was it God or Moses that delivered the people? It was God in Moses. See? They cried for the deliverer. And when God sent the deliverer to them, they failed to see it, because it was by a man. But it wasn't a man; it was God in the man. [End of record--Ed.]
"... that dwelleth in Me. He's the One that doeth the works." You see? But He was God's Gift to the world. God gave Him for you and I. Aren't you happy about it? Look, God gave Him. Well now, the people that believed that God give Him, they can be saved. But those who do not believe it, they can't be saved. Is that right? And there's no other way at all to enter the Kingdom, only by Him. Is that right? Well now, if you believe it, you can be saved. But if you don't believe it, you can't be saved, because He is God's Gift. Look, the Scriptures say, "No man... We know that God was with Christ, for no man could do the works that He done except God be with Him." Is that right? Then what was it? God was testifying that that was His only begotten Son. Is that right? God testified that; He said: "This is My Son." He said, "If you don't believe Me, believe for the very work's sake." Is that right? He said, "The man testifies of himself," you know how the Scriptures read, "but if--if he testify and that what he says is not true, then believe Me not. But if I testify and that what I say is true, My Father will testify of it." And if I tell you about a gift of Divine healing and God doesn't testify of it, leave it go; it's wrong. But if God testifies of it, believe it's God's gift to you. That's right. You see what I mean?
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I hate to have to bring this out like this, friends, but I'm trusting you're getting between the lines of it. Now, notice. See, it's God's gift. After Jesus, when He went away... He was taken up. Many people came to Jesus that never got healed. He prayed for many who never had no results of it, because they didn't believe. They didn't believe that He was God's Son. They said, "Why, He makes Hisself God. He forgives sins on earth: blasphemy." Don't you see? They said it about Elisha. They said the same thing about Moses. "Why, we would that we had died down in Egypt, than be brought out here to starve in the wilderness." See, God's messenger has always been rejected. You know what I'm talking of, don't you? I hope you do, friends. God bless your hearts. I--I want you to see it, friends.
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Now, then they were in need of a Saviour. God sent Christ to the world for a Saviour. Then after Jesus going away, many of the beloved people of God were sick and afflicted. God gave Peter the gift of Divine healing. Now, it... the people got healed because God testified through Peter of the gift of Divine healing just like he testified through Elisha as a prophet, through Moses as a deliverer, through Christ as a Son. He
testified through Peter as a healer. Did he do it? And the people got the idea. And they even got such a mob of people, that Peter couldn't pray for each one of them, and they knew that this apostle was God's gift to them. And he never shook their hands and said, "God bless you." They took the people on the outside of the building and laid them down on the street that even his shadow would pass over them and they would be healed. Is that right? Why? Because they knew that Peter was the gift of healing sent from God to the people. Oh, I hope you see it, friends, look. You see, it was God's gift. What now, I want to ask you, was it Peter done the healing? [End of record--Ed.]
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God is not in material things. God is in men. The Holy Ghost never fell on organizations; it fell on men. And so many people today say, "They don't belong to my faith." Well, if you're the faith of Christ, it's all the same. God doesn't care about... Your organization don't mean that to Him. And the peoples got theirself to a place it's just a big organized world. And it--that's the reason I'd rather have it in a auditorium. If it's in a--a Oneness church, the Trinity won't come. If it's a Trinity's church, the Oneness won't come. If it's in a Methodist church, the Baptists won't come. If it's in a Baptist church, the Methodists won't come. One body... One person said, "Should we be baptized over now in order to come, be prayed for?" Mercy, that's as pagan as we ever had it. That's right. No. For by one Spirit we're all baptized into one body (That's right.), regardless of who you are and where you are. That's right. So it don't make any difference what organization you are. You don't have to belong to the Baptist church, or the Methodist church, or the Pentecost, or whatever it is. You have to have faith in God. That's right. Now, and frankly, you don't have to belong to no church. But if you get healed and go sin again, it'll come back on you again worse than it was in the first place. You go somewhere then to church and serve God. God don't heal you for the devil's glory. He heals you for His glory.
Now, look: how the people fail. Now, Moses felt, I'd imagine how he felt. He just hated to come right out and tell the people, because he thought it'd be self-exaltation. He thought the people'd say, "Now, look at that man." We've had a lot of that in the world today. We've had a lot of people come through said, "God done this and He done that." But God didn't bear record of it. But if God bears record, He will respect His gift. Is that right?
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Yes, sir, God honored the gift of--of Abel. He honored the gift
of Moses. And Moses thought the people would understand. But they did not understand. And today, surely, looks like a person wouldn't have to come down any closer than what you are right now to know what I'm speaking of. All right, but it goes over the majority's head. And, friends, I love you, and I want to see you get well. Now, when they called for a deliverer, God sent the deliverer, and they failed to see it. Moses was God's gift to Israel. You believe it?
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On down, Elijah the prophet, they were God's gift. Many of them raised up false prophets. Right in the days of Elijah there raised up false prophets, but God testified of the prophecy of Elijah. If it's of God, God will testify of it. And there was Elijah, and he was God's gift to Israel. You believe it? He was even Ahab's pastor. He was Jezebel's pastor. She didn't want to admit that he was her pastor, but he was the man who told her where she was living. That's right. He was her pastor. She hated him, but yet he was God's provided gift for her down there to let her know her sins; and she failed to see him. You know what I'm speaking of?
Along come Jesus. And Jesus... Listen. Jesus was God's gift to Israel, to the world. Is that right? Jesus was God's gift. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." You believe it? [End of
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And it wasn't the apostles. Do you think Moses was the--the deliverer because it was Moses, his wits and his intelligence? Why, he said he was a man of slow speech. It was God in Moses, a gift to the people. It was God in Christ. He said, "It's not Me; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." That's the reason Martha said, "Lord..." (last night's sermon) Said, "I know that Thou art the Christ, the--the Son of God that should come into the world." She believed it. And there the people believed on Him.
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And look at Peter when he was walking by, why, he was a mortal. He was born of sinful flesh just like I or you. That's right. But the people had need of a healer, so they sent--God sent Peter to do that specific work. John was love. Peter didn't have the love in his heart that John had. John was God's agency of love. You see? Look here, when He taken Peter, James, and John, hope, faith, and charity... Don't you see? Those gifted people, them three, the hope, faith, and charity... Hope was in James; he was the one who set the church in order. Faith was in Peter. And charity was in John. Hope, faith, and charity, it was God's representatives on the earth.
And the people laid in Peter's shadow and were healed. Oh, friends. Oh, my. Don't think I'm yelling at you, friends. You might think I'm excited, but I'm not. I'm trying to get my point to you close enough so you'll see what I'm talking about.
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Now, Pentecost people has been praying for the last thirty or forty years for a gift of healing. We're living in the days when we've got the best medical science we ever had. We got the best hospitals we ever had. We got the best doctors we ever had. We got the best drugs we ever practiced with. And we got more sickness than we ever had. There's thousands and hundreds of thousands of precious saints of God suffering tonight. And they are crying and crying and cried for years for God to restore the gift of Divine healing to the church. And when God moved the orbits thirty-seven years ago, and foreordained it and sent it, many hundreds of people are passing by without recognizing it, friends.
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Now, it's brought to pass. I hate to say this. God have mercy. Look, friends, down through the rest of the country, over in Phoenix, over in Houston, over in San Antonio, down in Arkansas, down across the country, thousands are being healed, coming through there, of all kinds of sickness and diseases. Oakland, know your day. Someday, I shall meet you before the judgment bar of God, and you'll know I testified to you the God Almighty's truth. You cried for it. What? If you, just as you respect it as you believe it, God will testify of His gifts. That's right. He did for Abel. He did for Elijah. He did for Moses. He did for Peter. He did for Paul. He did for all, and He will do it yet today. When Pentecost first fell and the baptism of the Holy Spirit first begin to fall, the people said, "It's Fanaticism." But God testified of it, that He was so. That's why I'm with you tonight, because I know it's the hand of God. Many of them went off into isms with it, but there's a genuine Pentecostal article. God has testified of it. That's true. And the same thing He's done tonight in another manner. [End of record.-Ed.] FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 47-0412
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And I was going into the drug store. And when I went in, I noticed some fellow looking at me kind of strangely. I went on in the store, and I come back out, and I had the bottle cap. And I never forgot about him. And I was still had my uniform on. And he put his... The man put his hand on my shoulder, and he looked at me; he said, "Sir," said, "I seen you was an officer." Said, "I thought I'd ask you a question." Said, "You may think I'm kind of crazy."
And I said, "What's the matter, sir?" He said, "I live in Paducah, Kentucky." He said, "I've been failing in health for about two years." He said, "Last week I had a peculiar dream." He said, "I dreamed that I should come to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and get somebody by the name of Branham to pray for me." Said, "Do you know whether there's any Branhams live here or not?" My, you don't know how I felt. I thought, "Oh, God's testifying." And I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "I know there's Branhams live here." He said, "You know, is there anybody prays for the sick?" I said, "I'm the one." He just looked at me like that, and tears begin to roll down his cheeks. He just took me by the hand. I took him by the hand, took off my hat, laid my hat and gun down in my hat, knelt down on the side of the street and begin praying for him right there on the street. When I raised up there was mothers standing, holding the little children back, and men with their hats off like that, waiting for the prayer. There's been many things done in Jeffersonville, and they knew what was going on. And when we raised up, there they all were standing there with their heads down listening to the prayer. I raised up. And the brother, he put his arms around me, commenced to patting me like that. I've never seen him from this day to that. God healed him.
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And I was standing down at Houston, Texas, Reverend Kidson's meetings. And one morning standing there, oh, my, how I was thinking, praying. There was, we was having day service. And there was just hundreds of people coming in the line, being healed. And all at once there was a lady that ran in. Oh, the building was about as long as this auditorium, main floor here. And the lady run into the back. She had a little boy in her arms, and she set down. And she was real restless. And the prayer line about four in abreast was coming by like this. And she raised up; she said, "Just a minute, just a minute." And everyone stopped. She said, "I don't like to stop that prayer line, but I want to tell you..." She was real nervous and shaky, kind of excited.
She said, "I live over on the west side of Houston." Now, Houston's a pretty good size city, several miles across it, and we were on the east side. She said, "This morning my neighbor, the mother of this little child," said, "her father was an old Methodist preacher." Said, "He's been dead twenty years." And said, "Before he died, he used to go around preaching and saying someday God would give the gift back to the church for the Gentiles before the ending of
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the Gentile dispensation, like He did for the Jews." And said, "His baby daughter, this is her baby." Said, "She's kind of weakly." And said, "This morning after cleaning up her house, she'd set her dust mop up and was lying down across the foot of the bed and was resting." And said, "All at once she had a dream. She seen a big black cloud rising." And said, "Coming down out of that cloud, begin to move back." And said, "There come her dead father. And he said, 'Rise and take the child and go to the Houston Gospel Tabernacle. The gift of Divine healing is there.'" Well, she just thought it was just a dream: never heard of the Houston Gospel Tabernacle. So she just laying there a little while and went to sleep again, and she dreamed it the second time. The big black cloud come. Her dead father come walking right down out of the cloud. She said, "Well, that's strange; I dreamed of dad the second time." Said, "He said, take the baby." Well, she got up and got her drink, stirred around the house a little bit and went back and lied--was lying down again. And when she went back, she dreamed it the third time. The big black cloud come. And her... [End of record--Ed.]
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They called the recorder's office to see if there was, just what was to the dream. I don't believe in all dreams now. So then, called, but he said, "Your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams." And then she--she called the recorders office, and he said, "Yes, there's a Houston Gospel Tabernacle way over on the west side, on sixty-seventh street." And he said, "East sixty-seventh street." And the lady, the mother, so weak she could not... Now, the child was--had infantile paralysis, his little legs was crippled. And she could not bring the child. But she had the neighbor, and the neighbor kept changing busses and cars until she got over and got off of a car just about two blocks from the church. And there was an officer standing there. And she said to him, "Do you know where the Houston Gospel Tabernacle is?" Said, "Yes, ma'am. Right up there where that crowd of people is standing there in the street," said, "They're having a healing service."
Well, the poor thing was so weak when she got there, she, you imagine how she felt, walked right in there and seen that. And she told me. I said, "Bring me the baby." Oh, my, you know what happened, don't you? Sure. And I thought, even though the people, the Angels of heaven know about it. God will testify of it. His works will be declared, regardless of what people think about it. That's right. It's true, friends. God bless your heart.
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Here at Camden, Arkansas, with Brother Adams. I guess one of the Brother Adams' are here tonight? And at his place, he was pulling me out; we had thousands attend the service. And they were pulling me out of the service one day. And I kept hearing somebody hollering, "Have mercy, have mercy. Oh, where you at, Reverend?" And I turned around, Brother Adams said, "You can't stop." It was a colored man, you know. Yet even in Arkansas if you even shake the hands of a colored man they'll put you in jail. So there they are, such law they have there. You can talk to him, but don't put your hands on him. Now, that's not right. That's not. He's a human just as good as I am, or you are, or anybody else. That's exactly right. I don't know what you think about that, but I want to unload my soul about it. That's right. Sure. I'm for Abraham Lincoln, and that's all right. And look...
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There this poor colored man standing there, hollering, "Oh Reverend." And Brother Adams said, "Come on, Brother Branham." Said, "My, look at that crowd," said, "they press about you." And they pulled me out of the crowd. They don't mean to be harsh, but they try to take, 'Cause, friends, sometimes you get around, they tramp you to death almost. And they just pull you. I love them. God bless their hearts. I'd like to stand right there and touch every one of them and pray for them till I just, and breath will leave out of my body. Last night when I left the building, they had to lay me out in the car almost. Even my heart and everything, just shaking and jumping, like that.
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You don't realize the strain of holding them demons when they come out, and they're in the room. And you're responsible. What if something happens in the building? Why, they'd lock you up in jail, and they'd break the meeting for good. Is that, see what you mean? You don't know the responsibility of that. And here then, and so tired anyhow after six months of going.
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Then I--I said, "Wait a minute." And he was just a crying, poor fellow. He had his hat in his hand, gray headed. He was saying, "Reverend, Reverend." His wife said, "You's can't get to him, honey. You's can't get to him." And I said, "Wait a minute. Just a minute." And so I looked around, and I looked at him. I said, "What's the matter, sir?" And Brother Adams and the other man taken me back up where he was at. And I said, "What's the matter?" He said, "Reverend, Reverend." See, he was holding me like that. Said, "Reverend." Putting his hand
over on me. I said, "Yes?"

He said, "Just a minute, Reverend." He said, "I's come a long ways to come here." He said, "Night before last," said, "my old mammy, she's been dead about twenty years almost." And said, "She was a Christian woman. And I's been blind for better than twelve years." He said, "And last night, or night before last, I dreamed... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That God had sent His gift of Divine healing, and it was at Camden, Arkansas, and for me not to let you get by." Said, "Reverend, please don't pass me by." You think I could pass him? I don't care who he was. It's God. I don't care how much they'd put you in jail.
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Then standing there by that poor old fellow, take a hold of his hands. His eyes had been blowed out by an explosion. Taking a hold of his hands and was praying for him, his wife crying, the tears rolling down off her coat, like that. She's standing there. After I got through praying, he just--his eyes, he looked so amazed. He'd look around, begin to bat his eyes; he said, "Honey, ain't that an automobile setting right there?" And it was our car that we were setting in. Tears rolling down his eyes, out of his eyes, he begin to raise his hands and rejoice. Oh, brother, God will testify of His gifts. Heavens and earth might pass, but God's going to move. There's going to be somebody that's going to receive it (Yes, sir.), if you'll come and respect what God has done for you. That's right. God will testify of His gift. It's right now time to get started.
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Listen, not long ago I was in, was over in Illinois. And listen, while we're talking of the colored; this come on my mind. There was... I was in a big coliseum. Many of you know where I'm speaking of. And there looking around and seeing different things, I seen an old colored man with a little ring of white hair around his head; he come along like this, looking. And after while he come to a---a certain thing. He stopped. He took off his hat. He held it behind him. He bowed his head. And I seen he was saying a prayer. And I walked up to him after he got through praying; I said, "Sir," I said, "I'm a minister." I said, "I seen you praying. What was so startling about the box?" He looked up at me, his poor old wrinkle hardened cheeks, and tears rolling off the sides of his cheeks. He said, "Rev... Parson," he said, "just look over there." And I raised up and looked over there, and it looked like a little old dress laying there. I said, "I only see a dress." And that's what many
people just see, the natural signs. I said, "I only see the dress." He said, "You notice that kind of a circle in it, parson?" And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Feel right here on my side. Said, "There is marks of a slave belt. That's the blood of Abraham Lincoln." Said, "The blood of Abraham Lincoln took the slave belt off of me. Why shouldn't I take my hat off and say a prayer?"
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And I think tonight, if a colored man, for the freedoms and his right, could take his hat off to the blood of Abraham Lincoln, what ought you Christians to do to the Blood of Jesus Christ. See? Oh, friends, I expected to have more faith in Oakland and L. A. too. I'll tell you the people that received it not long ago, was the Spanish people at Arizona. They caught the idea right quick. They knew it was God's gift to them. They come right on the platform. And I'd see them dear old Spanish mothers faint and fall and pulled out of line before they could get to me. They believed it. One of them come, she even had a dream that she... She couldn't even speak English. And she seen that supernatural Being standing. (You got the letter here, have you?) Many... Why? God will testify of His gift. Is that right? Oh, friends, you know what I'm speaking of. Do you understand now what I'm speaking of? Faith, believe it. Come, it isn't the man; it's God in the man. You know what I'm meaning.
FAITH.IS.THE.SUBSTANCE_ OAKLAND.CA SATURDAY_ 47-0412 E-90 [End of record--Ed.]... please, O God, may people come
tonight just like they did in the days of the apostles. May they come realizing that this is the apostolic time for them. This is the hour that what they have asked for is now present: the Holy Ghost in the form of healing for their bodies. Grant it, dear God. May many people be healed tonight. Have mercy, Father. And may everyone that comes tonight, come like they did when they passed by Your humble servant, Simon Peter. And they were laid in his shadow and were made every whit whole, because they recognized God in the man. May they recognize God like they did in Moses. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. May they recognize God tonight in His people. Grant it, dear Father. Have mercy now and bless every one of them. And, dear God, at this time I pray for my little church at home that just had services tonight, crying, begging for me to come home. O God, people gathering in from different parts of the country... Take care of my little orphan boy, won't You, dear God. Oh, I'm out here striving, trying my best, dear God, to obey what I was told to do. And may the people see, Father, what a sacrifice it is, and what You've done for the people. And may they recognize this day and many be healed, and get well of their diseases and testify through this city. For we ask it in the lovely Name of Jesus Christ,
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Friends, they just fall from side to side. Oh, how I wish you could, you--I know you do. God bless your hearts. I just got confidence to believe you have. Let's all sing now, while the band plays and all, "Only Believe." Everyone now, lift your voices highly. Come on now.
Only believe, Only believe All things are possible,
(I can stand right here. That's all right, I'll back under the shadow in behind the microphone...?... I just get right on through here.)
Only believe All things are possible Only...
Just a moment now. Do you believe God is in our midst tonight? Do you believe it? Do you believe that He's sent to you people who's cried for deliverance? Do you believe He sent healing to you? Do you believe it with all your hearts? Then let's sing this with our hands over our hearts saying...
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Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe All things are possible, Lord I believe, Lord I believe, Oh, Lord, I believe, All things are...
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You're soon coming. Thou has sent Thy gift to glorify Thy holy Child. He's stretching forth His holy hand to heal by the agency of His church. Help the people tonight here. While the music is playing sweetly and softly, may the people believe. Father, if I've said anything wrong, forgive me. I pray that You'll let the people understand that this is the time that You have testified. And may they know that Thy servant didn't come because of my desire; it was Your will that I should come, Father. And may they lay every skeptic mind aside, every skeptical thought and come tonight and be healed. For we ask this in Jesus' Name and for His glory. Amen. Now, you laid aside every skeptical thought? Have you done forgot all about your skeptic idea? You're going to come be healed tonight? Do you believe it? Say "Amen" all that... God bless you, friends.
Now, they're going to take a picture. And I'll tell you what happens to these pictures. I hang them in my room. Every night when I'm home, I pray for them. How many wants me to pray for you when I look at this picture? God bless your heart. Now, be sure not to miss tomorrow night's service, and the next night, my life's story, the next night I want you to hear. And God bless you now while we stand reverently for a moment; they're going to take the picture. Now, the photographer will tell you what to do. [Photographer speaks: "If you folks would be seated now, please.--Ed.] If that balcony would stand, it'd be so much better, make a much better... Isn't that right, photographer, if they'd stand it'd make a much nicer picture? Especially in the balcony, is that right? Shows a better picture... All right, the balcony stand. They want the balconies to stand, all around. That's fine....?... in the presence of the...?...
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By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain; by this he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gift. Heavenly Father, I thank Thee for Thy testimony now, testifying of that which Thou has done through our lovely Jesus. May the Angel that spoke to me that night in the room be near Thy servant's side at this time to confirm the Word with many signs and wonders following. We realize that Satan is...?... And may many people be healed tonight, and may their faith be lifted up at this time to believe the testimony. And may they be healed of all manner of diseases. Make every spirit subject to Thy servant; for the glory of God we ask it in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Now...?... God's will is to make her well...?... just before the...?... tormenting...?... sister. I adjure thee by Jesus...?... Almighty God, I pray that You'll bless our sister who is suffering and may she at this...?... realize that it's...?... people Thou will testify of Thy gift. Come out of her, thou demon, in the Name Jesus Christ. Now, how can you...?... You believe God's told you...?... You believe with all your heart, sister? Dear God, it's impossible for her not to be healed, and she says she believes with all of her heart. And You told me if I'd get the people to believe me, that You have sent for this purpose and would be sincere in prayer, that no disease could stand before the prayer. O God, more than eleven states have I testified of Thy gift. And now, I pray, Father, that You'd grant...?... our sister may she be numbered with those that have faith. Come out of her, thou...?... [End of record--Ed.]...?...
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Heavenly Father, I'm thinking of overseas how You worked
with these lovely saints...?... How that You...?... humble himself to believe God... And I pray that You would bless, our dear brother, as he near...?... He's in need...?... Please, O God, have mercy upon him. Come out of him, thou demon, in the Name Jesus Christ...?... Do you believe now with all your heart?...?... Come...?... That's that the truth. You want be well, don't you? You believe that God hears Brother Branham's prayer? All right. Heavenly Father, as this lovely little girl is...?... little blues eyes looking up towards the...?... and smiling...?... faith to believe that she's going to receive that which she's asked for. And this vibration...?... Be merciful to her, Father. Thou demon, come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. ...?... my heart...?... Our heavenly Father, be merciful, a lovely little girl is suffering tonight, and Thou are here to make... [End of record-Ed.] You believe...?...
Heavenly Father, be merciful to our sister who's suffering...?... Thou knowest all...?... Oh...?... to realize that almighty God has...?... Lord, and He's testifying of His...?... Thou demon...?... to leave her...?... in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Dear God...?... I believe what they...?... I pray, Father, tonight for my dear brother who's suffering, Satan's trying to take his life. Bless him, dear God...?... Come out of him, thou demon, in the Name of Jesus Christ...?... up in the balconies, keep your head down, please. That left him and then went right back on him again. And I knew there's someone had their head up. Don't do that...?... Now, just a moment...?... Bow your head and believe with all your heart. Heavenly Father, Thou hast promised...?... to heal the people. I feel that the great messenger, the healing Angel of God standing near the pulpit at this time. Therefore with all the faith that Thou has...?... because my brother's in...?... how this demon who's come to send him to a premature grave. Come out of him and...?... in the Name Jesus Christ...?... Every vibration stopped in my hand...?... Go, God bless you with...?... [The words are difficult to understand--Ed.]...?...
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Go, and believe, my brother...?... all things now?...?... I can see...?... just now. I see you...?... The Bible plainly said...?... if you believe, for all things are possible if you believe...?... Nineteen hundred years has passed; He ascended on high, and He give gifts to men, and now God is still testifying of His gift. Therefore in obedience to that was commissioned...?... I rebuke this demon; come out of him in the Name of Jesus Christ...?... Maybe I'll give the audience a rest. Raise your head up. If some of you would like to see... How many's heard me explain what vibrations
were...?... let's your hands. How many in here understands about how the gift come, the vibration over my hand, let's see your hand. You all see what it is...?... [The words are difficult to understand--Ed.]...?...
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Just this man...?... See those...?... I thought I was...?... this vibration here. See? But it's...?... Now, every one bow your head and pray...?... Now remember, this can go from one to another, so be sure to keep your head down...?... Heavenly Father, be merciful, God, to our beloved sister, who has a right, Father, tonight to be healed; she's come to claim her Godgiven privilege of being healed by the Saviour Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore, Father, give Thy servant faith. May I be able to climb up just now, up into that...?... that faith...?... And now in the Name Jesus Christ I rebuke you, Satan, to leave her...?... Please don't raise your heads, friends. Now, it's hindering the lady. This is very--must be a cancer instead of female trouble, because it's very, very provoked. Now, keep your head down...?... You believe with all your...?... You believe with all of your heart that I'm able to do this through Jesus Christ? You believe that all you have to do is simply believe?...?... there's heads up somewhere, friend. Keep your heads down...?... Dear, heavenly Father, be merciful to our... [End of record--Ed.]
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Brother Branham, if anything happens on the tape...?... anything happens on the tape...?... like that, now, what would be if you had a...?... You see? I just wonder sometimes. I'd like to go to your houses, but I...?... back there some person dying wanting me to come on a airplane, charter a...?... One woman calling from over in... plumb up in Missouri, said, hanging on the phone and knelt down at the--by the phone crying, begging me to pray...?... to be over the phone like that, not to hang up for her...?... Wanted to charter a plane to come plumb back into Missouri where a little baby was dying...?... [Scratch on the record--Ed.]...?... My, it's pathetic, but what can--what can a person do? It'd make you lose your mind to think...?... [Scratch on the record--Ed.]...?... things like that coming from everywhere. I was talking to my wife and she just said it's masses of people and every thing, oh, my. Fifteen hundred letters come in from people in ten days' time to my...?... [Scratch on the record--Ed.]
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Now, this little girl is blind, no vibration in her hand. She's a cripple, and 'course that don't make a vibration, just a germ disease. Now, I'll just have to believe...?... [Scratch on the record--Ed.] I believe God will heal her...?... You believe it? Now, remember, I tell...?... I don't want...?... you...?... God will speak to us...?... nights I've got to
say to the church maybe give a few testimonies of things. Now, you keep your head down, and I'll ask God with all my heart that... Remember I'm not a healer; it's God. Little girl, you love Jesus, don't you, dear? Well, I'm going to ask Jesus to let you have your sight again, make you walk...?... Dear Jesus, the...?... son, send Your Divine blessings upon the little girl, and these eyes that are now blind, may they see again; may this body that's now crippled be whole again. I pray, Father, that You'll grant it in the Name of Thy beloved Son Jesus Christ. Can..?... see those lights...?... See that? Now, look out there...?... Now, look up towards me...?... See up there? See that? See that shadow over here? All right, you can raise your head, audience. [Scratch on the record-Ed.]...?... lens and everything was perfectly just covered over with like...?... But there's enough shrinkage... When anything dies it shrinks. Is that right? There's enough shrinkage on the child's eyes until she can see the lights in the room and can tell my hand before her face...?... Look up this way. [Record is scratched and is unclear-Ed.]...?...
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Let's all say, "Praise the Lord."...?... Oh, my...?... Now, we're going to put her testimony she can see in the paper so you can see. What's her name, sister? Ronna Mae Promise. Watch it in the paper...?... Your cancer's...?... All right. How many believes now? God bless your heart...?... Now, here's a deaf mute. There's got a vibration...?... in his hand. All right. Bow your heads, every one. Now, here's the vibration. This I can tell which way it...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... put your sign on it...?... have to be faith, just my own faith to believe it. Now, I want you to bow your head everywhere. How many in this audience believes that I'm able to do this through Jesus Christ, will you raise your hand? All right. All right, if there's that many to believe, you shall see the glory of God. Bow your head everywhere.
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You don't have to tell us, friend. It's known. There's no secrets with God; and He reveals His secrets to His servants. You have seen things that's been done, even habits and things. There was a person passed a few moments ago had a habit. When I looked at the person, I didn't want to call it out. Venereal diseases or habits, I don't have to do that. You understand, 'less you want me to. If you ask me, if you want to know... Of course as soon as you did, I felt that vibration...?... plugs in his ears. Now, bow your head, every one; be real lovely and quiet and just be
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Heavenly Father, oh, have to run right into this city and right out. And seemingly it's...?... about the time we get the people to a place where they're beginning to believe and things are being done, then we have leave again. I pray that You'll maybe see fit to send us back this way again. And now, standing here before me, this man is standing here, and Satan has plugged up his ears to make him walk before a vehicle or something sometime and be killed on his feet, oh, trying to do this harm to this poor brother, but we're here to make him whole, Father. And now, I have spoke to the people tonight concerning Your visitation of the Angel of God. And may You confirm it now before their eyes for this faith line will have to start... [Scratch on record--Ed.]
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At this time we're going to have a trumpet solo by my good friend, Brother F. F. Bosworth: Brother Bosworth.
[Brother Bosworth gives a solo--Ed.]
My, that was very fine, Brother Bosworth. We certainly appreciated that. And I wonder, while you're kind of tuning up there, if we could have a little chorus of "Down At The Cross." It's kind of a favorite to me. I wonder if you would play it. All right, Brother Bosworth.
[Brother Bosworth plays "Down At The Cross."--Ed.]
My, that sound like old revival times, a long time ago. Say, we're really enjoying ourself here in this little visit here with Brother and Sister McAnally tonight. I wonder, Brother Hooper, if you've got a word you'd just like to say something in the microphone now. [Brother
Hooper says a few words--Ed.]
Yes, sir. Brother McAnally is next to the best hog hunter in the country. He's the best when I'm gone. All right. I want to have a word from the wife here. All right, honey, what you going to say?
[Sister Meda Branham says, "I'm Certainly glad for the privilege I have of being in Arizona, and glad for the privilege I have to meet friends like Brother and Sister McAnally."--Ed.]
Brother Bosworth, what do you think about Arizona and these people here?
[Brother Bosworth says a few words--Ed.] [Brother McAnally comments on hog hunting--Ed.] [Brother Bosworth gives another solo. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Brother Mac, everything that you done for us since we been down here on this trip. And I trust to Almighty God that someday, we can be back together again. God bless you, brother. I've always wanted to hear your wife's voice. Sister McAnally, may I be many miles away, but when you play this, think of me.
[Sister McAnally says a few words--Ed.]
Okay, well thanks, Sister McAnally. That was very, very fine. Oh, she's just a little timid woman. I kinda like that though. Brother Bosworth, you got another one on that old trumpet there? We just-we just like to hear another one for Brother Mac and them. God bless you, brother. All right, Brother Bosworth.
[Brother Bosworth gives another solo--Ed.]
Fine, Brother Bosworth. Thanks a whole lot. Brother Hooper, you got another word to say? Nothing to say? Honey, oh, my. Mac, tell us something right quick over this microphone, will you?
[Brother McAnally says a few more words about hunting--Ed.]
Okay, fine. You want a word to say, Brother Bosworth? Say something else.
[Brother Bosworth speaks for a minute and a half--Ed.]
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Canada, and great part of the United States. And I don't know any place I'd rather be this afternoon than where I am right now at Phoenix Arizona. And I come in the Name of the Lord to pray for the sick people, to say that I believe that many mighty miracles will be performed in these next eight Sundays. I trust it'll be one of the greatest meetings that will just give Phoenix an old fashion revival to start here, that it shall not end until the Master Himself shall appear on the scene. This morning when I woke up and got up from my bed, and went to the window, and raised back the curtains on the window, and looked back towards Camelback mountain, green palms between here and the mountain, and just as the sun was coming up and shining over the mountain, I thought how thankful that the people of Arizona, Phoenix, should be to live in such a place. They're closest towards heaven in Phoenix, Arizona. So such a heavenly atmosphere. I love it. And I'm thankful I've got these eight weeks to be with you, or eight Sundays.
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This Sunday, probably there's many here that I've never met before, and I want to meet you. I'd like to have a time with each one
of you, to speak with you and shake your hand, and talk to you. Maybe I can later on. Soon as these services is over, I'm to go to--down in California right away, and then from there to Frisco, and then to Vancouver, British Columbia, to begin Tuesday. Expecting great crowds at Vancouver, because the Calgary meeting... That was my last service. The Lord Jesus came in the most powerful meeting that I've ever witnessed in all my life, at Calgary. It was powerful all through Canada. The Canadian people... Probably there's some of them here now. They will be after the service is over up there, 'cause there'll be hundreds that won't be able to get in the prayer line, will come on down here.
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But the Canadian people are some thirty to fifty years behind America. They haven't got that fast life that we live now. They're never in no hurry. They're very humble and sweet people, waiting for the power of Almighty God. And He certainly did manifest His great fine power among the Canadian people. Deaf, dumb, blind, cancers, cripples, wheelchairs, oh, everything taken place. And there was many thousands who did not get into a prayer line, which are reported already gathered at Vancouver. One of the most outstanding things that I can think of at this time, was a little boy in a wheelchair, which I had made the statement, and it is true as I stand here... He promised me, this Angel, if I'd be sincere and would get the people to believe, there would be nothing stand before... Therefore, they wanted to see what would happen in a prayer line where there was nothing but cripples. And so they gave out that there'd be a prayer line, be a miracle line, for nothing but cripples. And we would get some of the people, see what would take place by the gift of healing. Which it is not a gift of miracles; it's the gift of healing. They wanted to see what would take place in a--a line of that type.
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There was a young man in his thirties, that had followed the meetings from--all the way from Saskatoon down to Edmonton, so forth, and on down into Calgary. He'd run out of funds. His mother had sold some of her possessions, and there was nothing left then for him to--to thrive on, just enough money to return home. And when she heard there was going to be a miracle line just for the crippled, then she pawned her wedding ring to get the boy to stay for the miracle line. That come into my ears that the mother had pawned her wedding ring to keep the boy there. That mother's wedding ring meant just as much to her as my mother's does, or my wife's, or your wife's. Means much to her. Maybe her husband might've been dead, for all I know. Well, we
managed some way to see that she got repaid for that, and her money back.
But that night, my little brother brought into the line this boy. He was the most hideous crippled person that I've seen in many years. His arms was drawn down to his legs. He was a very, very much of a sight to look at. Just before me was a little...
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...Judgment of God, where I'll have to give an account for every word that I... Every word that I have spoke, I'll have to answer for it. But all of a sudden my hand, the one which the gift comes through, the vibrations, got real hot. And I... The little child was some eight, nine years old, maybe not that old. And I laid it upon her little thigh, and something just moved downward. And friends, God being my Judge, Who I stand before; the four inches lacking on the child's leg was perfect. She put this Bible on her head and walked up-and-down before the audience, just as perfect as anyone could walk, like that. She was healed, over a hour of prayer for her.
The next was this crippled boy. After he'd been prayed for for some thirty-five or forty minutes, I could not feel that there was any difference. I'll explain to you later, on what I mean by that, by feeling. And after awhile the--the liberty came. The power that had him bound was gone. The next morning the boy shaved himself. His hands was drawing down; he couldn't even feed hisself or shave himself, walked into the building, pushed his wheelcart up-and-down across the floor for the first time for thirty some odd years. He's to meet me. He got a telegram. And tomorrow, he is to meet me at Vancouver to be the first one to greet me and shake my hands, walk out on a field, have his picture taken walking out to meet me at the plane, after being in his wheelchair for all that time. Oh, God is still God. If I just had the time to tell you the things... But I'm sure that God will make it known unto you in many ways, through testimonies and things.
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I wonder if there's any Canadian friends here? Anybody from Canada here? Would you just raise your hands, anyone from Canada? Yes, I see one. What part of Canada, sister? Quebec? Winnipeg. Was you in the Winnipeg meeting? You wasn't there. There was also another man at the Winnipeg, one limb about two inches or three inches shorter than the other one, who wore a high shoe, one of those big built-up shoes. And he bought him a new pair of shoes and brought to the meeting to wear away. And God did--will never disappoint anybody with that kind of a faith. He went away
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with his new shoes on, left his old ones laying on the platform. He was whole, made whole. He's wonderful, isn't He? Now, we don't have so much time in each evening, but we have many evenings to--or afternoons, rather, to pray for the sick. And I want you dear people, if you will, and all you people who know Jesus as your Saviour, or Healer, I want you this coming week, to go and pray with all your heart.
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And I have many thousand miles of flying ahead of me. I have... going up on the... plumb from Vancouver, work down the coast as far as California, coming back to Fresno where I'm to go tomorrow, to the Armenian people. They flew a boy, who prays for the sick, by the name of Abaick. They brought him from Cairo over to pray for a man by the name of Arkelian. The same time they sent for him, they sent up in Indiana and had me to come to a woman with cancer. And both breasts was taken off, and the cancer had gone down into her--her the lung cavity. And three days after the woman was prayed for, she was doing her shopping on the street. And she's perfectly sound and well now with no signs of cancer at all.
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And it so got the--the Armenian people over there to see that the Lord Jesus was such a great Healer, I'm... There's people that's calling now. There's another cancer case, which is a friend to the woman. By the way, the lady was just given a few more hours to live by some of the noted specialists of St. Louis, where they had flew her there by plane to be operated. But now, she's well. Makes me think of that song, "Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound," that would save, or we'd say heal a wretch like me. Now, this afternoon, I... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Demons that come from the people. It darkens the people's thoughts to see it. But if you'll be reverent, you shall see the glory of God here in Phoenix. I think now, if you will, let's bow our heads and have just a word of prayer, if you will, everywhere. To all of you here, the children and all, be just as reverent as you can be...?...
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Jesus, our heavenly Father, we're asking you from the very hearts, to come again into Phoenix, Arizona, coming in the Name of Thy beloved Son, Christ Jesus, coming with...?... that they will, beyond any shadow of doubt, see the glory of Almighty God manifested, where the deaf and dumb spirits leave the people, the blind to leave, the--the cripples to be set at liberty, when the power of Christ comes down to liberate those who are captured and bound by the powers of Satan.
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O Father, I pray Thee to manifest Thy power. Bless the ones who gave us the right to this auditorium. I pray that You'll be with every one of them, Father. If there be any unsaved among, may they be saved, Father. And may this house that's being used here for a different speakings, Father, I pray Thee just now that Thou will sanctify the building for the services of Jesus Christ. May sinners weep their way to Calvary right here in this building. May sick people be liberated, may demons scream, and come out. And may it give this lovely little city the greatest shaking it's ever had. Father, I believe that You have many people here, gathering in here in this health resort from the different parts of the world. And I pray, Father, that You will heal them, and let them know that There is a fountain filled with Blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins. O God, grant it.
Bless every minister, I ask again, Father, that's turned their congregations loose this afternoon to come. I pray that You'll be with all of us. And now, dear God, I thank You for the rest that You have given me up in the mountains, and now coming down with new strength. O Christ, may Your gift be more than a match for anything that Satan could lay before us. May the great shaking powers of God loose everything that is unlike God, even to the cold and indifferent hearts of sinful men and women, boys and girls.
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Help, Father, as the planes roar across the mountains, I pray that You'll bring me back next Sunday safely to Phoenix again. Father, Thou art the Captain of our salvation. I pray that You'll help. Now, bless in this afternoon's service. And may every heart here be circumcised. May the ears be circumcised to hear the Word of God, and circumcise the lips of Thy servant to speak that which is right. May great powers be brought forth this afternoon in liberation for the people. And may every one that comes to the platform, come with that one single mind: "This is my time, and I shall be liberated. If others are, so can I." And may they not be silent, but in the city walk the streets and testify this next week, giving praise and glory to God. And may it start even the merchants, and all, Father, until there's a great wakening here. They might know that the Spirit of God still has
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preeminence anywhere. You can pierce into the darkest places and pull those out who are crying. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Just an analysis to make an estimation now, that since I was in Phoenix, there has been at least six... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I'd say... Well, I'd say twenty-five or thirty-five thousand people, prayed for, maybe more than that. And there's been at least ten thousand of them healed. Would you think of that? Such as cancers that are laying at their last moment, are well people since the last meeting. I guess, in the--in the--the provinces of Canada alone, there was at least two hundred and fifty, or maybe more than that, cases of crosseyed people with their eyes straightened. And mutes, it's innumerable to count them, for there was multiplied scores of them that came, that were some deaf, dumb, some hard of hearing and everything that were made perfectly whole. Now, that's only done through the visitation of the Angel.
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A few nights ago, standing at home, when I came in home from Canada, I couldn't arrive at my house for five days. The people were laying so deep at the place, till they kept me out for five days. A few days ago, the people would come up, and they would have someone there to turn them away, coming from all parts of the nation. And their... Night... last Sunday morning, my little church asked if I would come by and have--teach for them in the Book of Revelations. I did. Then, at the end, the associate pastor said, "Now, Brother Branham is not praying for sick, 'cause he's waiting and holding his strength to arrive at Phoenix." And so, he said, "Don't no one ask for prayer." But I stood to shake their hands at eleven o'clock. And two o'clock they got me away from the place.
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And I had on a watch, and I took hold of a woman there first that had a tumor, and the tumor stopped... The vibrations stopped my watch. I can't pray for people with a watch on. I can show it to you this afternoon. It'll stop it every time, vibrations over that brand new Longines watch. It'll--it'll stop; the vibration would stop it. And I showed a minister from...?... He's in here the audience this afternoon somewhere. And he... It--it stopped. The vibration stopped it. Then Sunday night, when I was over to have just a sermon for them, why, there was some people formed a prayer line. And I asked them if I'd stand and pray for them in mass form, if they would believe, And they said they did. Then they... Bless their heart, they--they wanted to shake my hand, or something, you know, to get close. And they all passed by shaking hands. And then some of the people that had been healed with cancer, and
tuberculars, and so forth, they were standing that wanted to be seen. Some people that I have told you about that was healed, they were standing up.
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And I... While standing there, I felt the Presence of this Angel come near. Looking out over the audience, I felt the lady that He was calling for. I seen she was in the prayer line. God knows, I didn't know what was wrong with the lady. And I said, "Come here, you." And she just stood and looked at me. I said, "You, there." And the lady said, "You mean this lady here?" And I said, "Yes." Said, "Why, she's deaf." And I said, "Well, bring her here; this is the time she's to be healed." Now, see, that has to come from God. I said, "How long has she been deaf?" Said, "Her sister's somewhere in the building." And there was just about as many people in the building as there is this center aisle, I guess. Was all they could get in, in the outside. And the lady came up. And she said--her sister said, "She's been deaf all of her life, practically, since she was a child anyhow, around twelve years old." Well, as soon as I took hold of her hand, there showed... When I was praying for them, I was using my right hand. Then on the left hand showed vibrations. And a few moments, the deaf spirit was cast from the lady, and she was looking, and I [Brother Branham snaps his finger.-Ed.] snapped my finger. She turned and looked. I said, "You hear me, don't you?" And her hearing was perfect. And she begin crying. Very fine dressed lady, she begin crying with her hands up in the air. And the people begin to run around. Then they got me out through the back way.
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Because, you see, friends, I can only... I am just a human. I'm just a man. But it has to come from Almighty God. You see? Did you notice the Master? He would go into a city, and maybe performed one miracle, and then leave the city. Did you notice that? Many times like that. Was there many lepers in the days of--of Elisha, but only one was sent to him; that was Naaman. Is that true? Hard tell how many more lepers came, but one was sent to him, and that was the one the Lord had intended. And the only way that I can tell, is when I feel that something from the person that gives me the access to this supernatural power. That it's not mine; it's His power. Then there's nothing, no matter what it is... I say it in the Name of the Lord. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Now, who was He speaking to? Moses. Many of you in your Sunday school lessons has read of this great Bible character, Moses. I like him, because he was a--a shadow of the--of the coming of Christ. He was just a shadow of Christ's coming. Notice. Now, when the people of Israel had gone down in Egypt, and had come into bondage for four hundred and twenty years, which He had already told Abraham that they would do... When the time of the promise drew nigh, then I want you to notice how... Notice it now. How that when the time of the promise drew nigh, the people began at that time, to see that there was something happened to them, some troubles. And God always cause troubles, mostly always, to bring the people together. Did you know that? I believe there'll be a time when there won't be any more division amongst the people of God, such as "I belong to this church, and I belong to that church." I believe the persecution will run all the big ransomed Church of God together, and we'll be one in Christ Jesus. And then He will take her home. Now, we won't argue whether this doctrine is right or that.
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Now, notice. Then at the time of the promise drew nigh, there raised up a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph, and they put burdens upon the people. And the people were so burdened that they could not make the--the bricks and things that they were supposed to. And then, would you think that God would plague His people in that manner? Yes. For the Word of God is eternally true. Is that right? And He promised He would deliver them, and no other way He had to do it but this a way. So therefore, at the time of the persecution of Israel, then God had an Angel to come down to the earth. But before He had the Angel to come, He had a little boy borned down there by the name of Moses. Is that correct? And this little boy, Moses, was borned rather a peculiar birth. And then, at the age of maturity, he was sent out to deliver the children of Israel, for they were in bondage. And God told him before he went now, "I'll set My--send Mine Angel before thee." Now, God could have sent the Angel down. Couldn't He? He could have let the Angel come Hisself, but instead of that, He sent the Angel to speak through the voice of a man. God always used man for His work. Is that right? He don't use organizations, or so forth, and mechanical devices, but He uses men. The Holy Spirit fell upon men. That's God's instrument here on earth.
He was the first one who had the jurisdiction over everything in the earth (Is that right?), over all the animals. And he lost his--his power. And we're taught in the Bible what the first Adam lost, the second Adam, Christ, restored again to the human race. Then, friends, if that's so, ministers, what's the matter with the
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Church today? That's what I want to know. If Christ was the missing link between God and man, and He's come to hook God and man together again, what is the matter today? It's because of unbelief. And you'll start something, and you'll see a little something, pretty soon you'll say, "Oh, well, let it go. It wasn't of God." All things work together for good to them that love God. If you're building a house, and you say, "Well, this person just don't fit in here, 'cause look where this block is, this big open place here. Oh, that looks..." If it's... Move on. Keep building the house. God's got another block that'll fit in there, that'll fill that up. The house can't be built like that. So today, while God is moving, let's forget about it and move right out in the Spirit of Almighty God, and there see the house of God restored again.
Notice. Now, at the day that God was bringing His people together, there arose a great persecution on--on the people, and Moses was sent for a deliverer. He opened the Red Sea; he done all these miracles... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] They know no more about it than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian knight. That is right. And even spiritualists in astronomy recognized it before men who's claimed to even have the Holy Spirit recognize it. That's true. Any man can say those things. But if God does not testify of it, it's wrong. Is that right? But if God testifies of it, it's the works of God. Is that true?
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If I come here to Phoenix in the name of a prophet, and I do not the things that a prophet does, then don't believe me. But if I come in the Name of the Lord Jesus, in the name of prophecy, and as His servant, and I do the things that is written of His servant, then you believe me. Will you do that? If the deaf don't hear, the dumb don't speak, the blind don't see, the cripples don't walk, if prophecies of sin isn't foretold the people and your sins from the time you was a child foretold, then believe that this Angel that come to me is false and I'm false with It. But if It manifests Itself here on the platform before you, you believe it and repent of your sins and disbelief, for the hour of His visitation is drawing near. That's right. For He only does those things to confirm His Word. Look, anyway before any judgment's ever sent to the earth, God sends forth and warns the people. That's right. And friends, you listen to my word, if it's in touch with God. One of the greatest judgments that's ever hit all the world is on its road. Now, remember that. Someday I'll be gone, but you--you remember. Many of you younger people, and some of you older, will see that I have told you the truth. That's right.
Now, this gift comes by... If you people have prayed and asked for God to send a gift, He sent it. A few months ago when I was here at Phoenix, it was new. But now, no doubt, your leading newspapers, or your magazines--the Life, and Times and so forth... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and it's heard plumb around the world. Two nights before I come here in the house, five different nations called in. And the capital of Turkey called in and said, "We have heard that the Lord God Almighty has stretched forth His arms to heal in America." Said, "Is there any way that we can get a few crumbs?" Hungering, heathens... Oh people, rise in the Name of your Lord. Claim your God given privilege, for the hour is here for you to be healed. That's right, to glorify God and to receive of His Spirit and His blessings. Cut off of all formalities. Cut off of all this ritualistic religion and come into the realms of the living God, Who awakens the human soul and brings you into righteousness, into worship of Him in the Spirit and in the Truth. For the hour is come and now is that God has sent forth His warning.
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Comes by vibrations from the hand. The very God that sent His Angel before Moses... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Angel here. That is right. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I try to be sincere. Now, I want you to know this, that I may leave...?... before morning. I know not. But in the room that night when He came (to you people)... It appeared to me many times in a form of a--of a star. I've seen it many times. But when it came visible, it was a Man that would seemingly would weigh two hundred pounds. A little over two years ago now, I was sitting in the room. I was reading my little Scofield Bible, and I heard something. First, I saw a Light. And I thought it was an automobile that turned the corner. But it turned, but it got brighter. And I looked out the door and there was no automobile. Then I heard something coming like this, going... [Brother Branham knocks on the podium four times.--Ed.] walking. And I looked, and the Light got greater. And just above me hung a great Star. And the Light was kind of a, more of a green, between green and yellow, shining on the floor. And coming walking through this Light, came a Man that looked like, as I said before, would weigh two hundred pounds, a huge Man. He did not have beard over His face, like Christ's picture does. Who He is, I do not know. But He had... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... shoulder. He was more of an olive complexion; He had dark eyes. He walked as close to me as the microphone is there.
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Yes, it's true friends. I couldn't speak. And He said to me... I just sit there. And He said, "Fear not. I'm sent from the Presence of
God to tell you that this peculiar life of yours, peculiar birth... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world." And said, "If you'll be sincere, and will get the people to believe you, there will be no disease stand before your prayer, not even to cancer." And He said, "It'll come to pass that you'll tell the people their diseases from a vibration over your hand. Then if you will be reverent long, then you'll tell the people the sins of their life, and the things that they have done." Dear friends, with the Bible before me this afternoon, it has come to pass. I went forth. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Now, that's what I questioned. And I'm not going to ask you right out in the public like that, because many of you might put up your hands and say that you didn't understand. But I believe that there's some of you here, for I know this by the Spirit... Try to pull myself away this afternoon, talked just as stern as I possibly could. Notice, in the Spirit now I feel that there's going to be many, many things happen...?... mark... (See?), because there's faith setting there. I know a man setting right in the building right now that's afflicted. I can call that man to this platform; he'd be healed right now. That's right. I know he's here in the building. I feel his spirit is coming from the left side of me, over here. That is true.
I wonder if the little Spanish girl from Sacramento that was setting in that building that night, and set there; and she was setting way back in the building, and she had said within her heart... She was Catholic. She said, "I can't get to where Brother Branham is. But if he will only look at me in the eye, I'll be healed." I knowed nothing about the girl. She'd been down and set... down farther than Long Beach, or somewhere in there, with the meetings. I come into the service that night; I was preaching. And when I was preaching, I seen the--the seemed like the faith kept pulling it, just to my right side. I looked back down, and way down through the building, I said, "That young lady, setting back so far, tell her to come here." I said, "Come here, young lady." And I've got her testimony. She almost fainted. She said, "Me?" I said, "The little round hat on, come here." Walked humbly up. She had tubercular. I took her by the hand, I said, "You have tuberculosis. But 'THUS SAITH THE LORD.'" That was all. It was done. The next morning she re... gave her heart to Christ. She was baptized and brought her family. And she's to meet me here in Phoenix. I don't know where the girl is. Are you in the building, sister? Anywhere now, from Sacramento, up there at California? She's to be over here in the Phoenix meeting this time. If you are, raise up. Stand up, if you are, I might miss your
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hand somewhere, if you're in the building: a little Spanish girl, I guess about eighteen, twenty years old, something like that. She's to be here. She'll witness to you this week. That's just one of the things of the hundreds has taken place.
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Now, it can do the same thing here. And I'll call your attention if this man shall come in the line; because I'm afraid to call him now, because it will be conspicuous, sound like. I don't have just the preeminence to call him at this time, but I know he's here. There's a man here that's a perfect stranger, never seen him before in my life, just as deaf as deaf can be. That's right. But he's setting here. If that man is in the building this af... If that man comes in this prayer line this afternoon, and I get to touch him under this anointing that I have now, the man's ears will be perfectly opened. THUS SAITH THE LORD. If that isn't right, then call me a false prophet. I could call him to the platform. If He gives me one more... I'm waiting just a second to see what He says about it. Now, watch and see what I tell you.
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Now, we're going to form the prayer line just in a few moments. And I want you to do this: If there be a modern skeptic in the building, I warn you in the Name of the Lord Jesus, do not set in the building during this time, for cancers, deafness, epileptic, they come from one to another. I'll explain that later. You all understand? How many's heard me explain how diseases are germs, and germs are life. You're a germ yourself; you come from the germ of life. Is that right? Well, if you come from your--by your father and mother, a germ of life... A cancer is a germ; a cataract is a germ; a tumor is a germ; tubercular is a germ. Is that right? Where did they come from? What kind of life are they? The doctors call... That's medical names, saying, "cancer, cataract," so forth like that. Jesus called them a devil. Is that right? And that's what they are. And anyone knows "a devil" means "a tormentor." And it's something that's tormenting your body.
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Now, I want to know the... How many believes that God has sent His gift of healing? Now, let's see. God bless you. Oh, my, eighty-five percent of the crowd believes. Then, under such as that, I'll assure you to see the glory of Almighty God. Now, remember, while I step out for a word of prayer, after having prayer with you here, if... Let me give you some advice. For my sake and for your sake, it'll only cause reproach. Remember, one thing too. This is not a gift to perform miracles. He... The last time He spoke to me was at Vandalia, Illinois. Is anybody here from the Vandalia meeting, was up there at Vandalia, Illinois? A
person in the building here that was there when the Angel of the Lord came down, and said, "You are confined. It'll come to pass...
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Do you believe I'm Jesus' servant...?... Father...?... standing near you...?... Cancer. Vibration over my hand. We realize that her days is very short, not long until this soul that once lived here on the earth will be moving on to another dwelling. And life is dear to people all of them. We desire You will heal her this afternoon. Spare her life as she's wanting You to... Won't You Father? I remember when Your great Spirit has brought these things. The Angel of God met me that night in the room, come forth now, and help to give power over this demon. Thou demon, called cancer, I adjure thee, by Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, leave the woman. Thou demon of cancer, I adjure thee, by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come out of the woman. (...?... ) Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Thy power of healing. We thank Thee, because Thou does hear now answering the prayer. I pray, Father, that this woman will serve You all the days of her life. All glory and praise be unto Thee in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. All right...?... every vibration...?... Name. Now, remember, you're going to be terribly sick in a few hours, terribly sick as a result of the death of that cancer. Have you ever been in my meetings before? All right. Your cancer is dead now. And you notice what I tell you. I'll be here for eight weeks. And you'll find out that I've told you. During that time I want you to come to the platform and testify of your condition. Your cancer's leaving you.
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Mister...?... see, your soul's worth that to Him. You're nervous, awfully nervous. That's what's caused your stomach trouble, 'caused a condition of, something like acid rises in your stomach, and causes you to have a burning sensation, and brings a condition...?... foul breath it seems like. That right? How do you think I would know that? That's right, sir. I never seen you before in life as I know of, but there it is. I want you to notice here, right under these bumps...?... see those...?... Watch them. See how they...?... That's a vibration a condition of it...?... started...?... ulcers all over...?... Now...?... And if that's to stop, see what I mean? Those, like a white streak? See those little white spots, now watch them come and go. Now, that is...?... All right. Now, if I leave my hand like that, and those stop, and it turns white like this, then you're healed. If it isn't, it'll stay there. You'll serve God, won't you? If you can live... Our heavenly Father, this man, wearing a buttoned coat shows that he is a servant, Lord, and fights for that which is dear to all of us. And we thank Thee for his gallant soul, for it is... brings back... Now,
I pray, dear God, that this day, that Thou will show to him that the very rights that he's fighting for, the freedom of religion, a place to worship according to the dictates of our conscience, that You will reign in this place by healing him. God...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Keep that...?... Now, you just proved that...?... Now, faith comes...?... Dear God, that this man might know that Thou art truly the Son of God, the...?... his life, that I be Thy servant. Help me to have power to go forth to meet this demon that binds him...?... Thou demon, I adjure to leave the boy in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, come out of him. There he goes. Now, young man...?... Now, it's not...?... You understand that, boy? I'm not...?... All right, now...?... Now, you, audience, can raise head just moment. I'll call your attention in a few moments to one great...?... Now, my hand...?... laid hand on her hand, which is red slightly over this...?... and the little white pimples like stopped when it healed, coming across my hand. Is that right, sir? And my other hand is normal and fine. I never moved my hand. Set right between the conditions, against my stomach, laying right like this. Never moved it up or down, exactly where it was. And my hand's absolutely white. Now, something visible happened of it, something that you could see with your eyes.
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Are you a Christian? Now, you remember when you were saved? You went forth and believed God with all your heart? 'Cause something happened to you, wasn't it. You testified to it ever since. Satan has talked to you, tried to get you to doubt that, and get away from that. But you held out. Do the same thing. Your stomach trouble will be gone if you do that...?... That ulcer and everything will be healed up. You'll be a well...?... to you? Anthony, New Mexico. If you're back in this area, will you come to the platform and testify in the next few weeks, and tell the people what happened they might know? What's your name? Barnett? God bless you Brother Barnett. Listen for the boy's testimony. It's perfectly clear. The longer I held my hand there, you notice how white it gets all the time? You're healed, sir. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord", everybody. Bow your heads now and give praise...?...
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You put your hand on mine. What's that? What? Feel it with my hand what it was. Now, watch. Got a bad bleeding ulcer. You're also suffering with...?... Now, look. See how...?... looks on my hand now...?... Look at this one here. See how...?... Now, watch, and be-be reverent. Do you believe that Jesus can heal...?... ? Our heavenly Father, Thou Who knows all things, knows the healing
virtues that Thou hast died for at Calvary, bring forth Thy power. As Elisha said, after seeing Elijah taken, he said, "Let the God of Elijah speak." Let the God of Christ speak. Thou demon, I adjure thee to leave the lady. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, come out of her. I want you to raise your head, sister. Up. See the light? Now, you can see that with your eyes, can't you? The red spots will leave, setting...?... Is that right? Now, go home, you're going to be well. Go and praise God for the rest of your days, and God has let you be whole. Praise the Lord daily. Testify for Him when I only met you. God bless you.
Sister, you're--you're facing a nervous breakdown. Been very nervous, really worried. You get worried feelings. Seems like you just... Well, you don't know what to do with yourself. Is that right? All right. You thought lots of coming to be prayed for, haven't you? All right. You can go home and be well now. If I would ask the...?... of life, you do this for Him. Almighty and all omnipotent God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who brought Him again from the dead... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Leave her, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Come out.
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Now, while I was...?... them out... Now--now, that doesn't come by vibrations. There's no vibrations on the hand. Only, she did have just a little touch of female trouble, a little bag in her stomach. She's been having stomach trouble, such as having a little...?... like gas on the stomach, and so forth like that. Is that right, lady? Now, how did I know that? [The lady answers, "Vibrations."--Ed.] That's right. See? Well, now, here's what happens. She gets real nervous spells. But ma--mainly, a mental, psychic condition. See it causes...?... feeling, she gets worried, at first it's like a old piece of...?... And you feel like you're going to lose your mind. Isn't that the way you been feeling?
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Now, what is that? Now, it's not normal. If there's a doctor setting close. You know that's not normal for a human being to be like that. Now, what is it? It's not exactly a disease of the body. But how I feel like, around her is a gloomy feeling. Did you ever get into a dark place, in an alley, or something, and be scared all at once? Or walking on the streets, or anywhere? How many ever had that experience of being scared? There's something there to scare you. Is that right? There's something there to make you fret. There's something haunting this lady that makes her feel that way. But now, it's a lifted. It's gone. Now, the lady can go home and be normal. Now, you live close, sister? New Mexico. All right, if you're around
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here in the next four or five weeks, come in and see what happened. Now, you go on your road rejoice. Just start praising God, and saying, "Thank You, dear God." Now, all that gloomy feeling will be gone, and you'll have it no more. God bless you, lady.
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Now, just bow your heads a moment...?... Now, here's a poor...?... It really is a serious condition. I want you to raise your head all of you. I want you to look just at my hand. I want you look at this hand here, can you see it from where... Let me get back under these lights. Now, look at my... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... body. He's is got a tumor. Look at this hand here, how white it is. You see, I'm mashing down on this hand, same as I am on that one. See? See them white looking specks in my hand, red flags in...?... Poor little thing. What--what did the doctor say was wrong with you? Tumor? Tumor of the gland. All right. Now, 'course it's beyond operation now. And you--you have faith to believe that God will let the little boy get well? That's your only hope, isn't it, your only hope? All right. Bow your head now, friends. I want you to notice. I'm going to hold my hand this way, the way it was. Now, just bow your head. I don't say it'll leave. I'll only have to ask God that's all.
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Dear heavenly Father, I think, what if this was my little boy, little Billy Paul. And the little fellow is standing here with no other way to live in this life, except by You, now. Nothing can be done any more. But faith that framed the world together... You said, "I can, if you believe." Dear God, I don't know how to be any more sincere with You. This poor little fellow's going to die, Father. Doctors can do no more. And it's just mercy the mother's standing here, Father, knows it's her last chance. The last thing she could do, is to bring the little boy here to be prayed for. God, have mercy, will You, Father? I've showed the people the vibration of this demon that's tormenting the little fellow. God, his father or mother, or anyone who has sinned, forgive it somehow, anywhere through the generations, someone had sinned, O Christ, believe me, forgive it. And I pray that You'll give power over this demon. Thou demon, called tumor, I come to meet thee in the Name of Jesus Christ. This day, thou shall leave him. Come out of him. Almighty and all gifted God, help me, dear God. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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God may be known through his country, that Thou art God, and I be Thy servant. Thou demon, I come to meet thee. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I adjure thee. Come out of the child in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. All right. Audience, you may raise your heads. Now, you see, my
hand hadn't you... Watch what has some red... Now, just watch it turning white. Can you see it leaving? Any of the audience see it leaving? There it is, perfectly normal and white, not a vibration or unusual thing. Where do you live, lady? Here in Phoenix? Bring him back next week. I want to see what's happened to him. God bless you.
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We ought to say, "Thank the Lord, oughtn't we?" These are not... These are things that you don't notice, friends. But they're-they're in here, just the same. They're happening. Now, believe, every one. Keep your heads bowed. Dear Father, the brother standing here now, on crutches, one leg amputated, and Satan is bothering him with this past made condition. But Thou art here to heal. Thou art here to make him well. God, he's crippled along here on his crutches. Father, maybe You could construct the other limb...?... He might not have just right. But Thou has said, "It's better to enter into the Kingdom of God with one limb, or one eye than to be cast into hell." O Father, now that he has become Thy servant, has heard...?... Satan, leave the man in the Name of Jesus Christ. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... God bless you. You live here in Phoenix, sir. Vibrations has stopped. Won't you come back, you can come--come to the platform and testify so the people can see.
Oh, it's your son. See my hand? You watch it...?... Little boy, do you believe that if I ask Jesus, that He will let you get well and you'll be a normal. You...?... believe it? You're crippled. You just go when you get healed and tell all the little children that Jesus healed you? Done everything that's human, haven't you? God bless you now. There he come, a little boy...?... I speak in this...?... Mother, I want you to watch. It'll physically darken. Now, see where my hand is...?... Almighty God, the Author of Eternal Life, the Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the little lad. We realize that there's no chance of ever be well or normal, or anything. His mother brought him. O Christ, have mercy. This is near its last hope. Be merciful, won't You, Father? We realize, Father, that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. May this little boy return to his doctor; may the doctor say, "My, what has happened to him? He's getting well." God, grant it from death to life. Satan, leave the child. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I adjure thee, Satan. There he goes...?... Now, you see what's happened to my hand? From Minneapolis, Minnesota. Raise your head, audience. The doctors... Was it at Mayo? University of Minnesota. The doctors give him up. There's no hopes for him. And she brought him here to Phoenix to be healed. And as certain as I stand on the platform, Almighty God has touched the boy's body...?...
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Now look, sister. My hand was red in places, full of welts like a few moments ago. Is that right? Is that the same condition, my hand, lady? Did you notice it turned from red and frothy to white? Did you see that? All right...?... Little boy, you can return to Minnesota, I believe you'll live to be a normal man. Praise the Lord...?... If Thy servant... I'm thankful dear God, that You've shown me this afternoon that this is Your Divine will; after this over a year of feeling that I was out of Your will of letting those people bring...?... "Heal my wife". "Heal my daughter". God from this on, I'll--by Your help I'll follow what You say do, grant it Lord. And let man do what they think is best, Father, I shall follow Thy leading. Now, help me to go to this woman, Father, in the spirit of meekness and rebuke this power that is in her. Foul demon, come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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Oh, praise the Lord, love Him...?... all right, keep your heads down. Where you from?...?... California...?... many years, hear me all right?...?... Hear me now?...?... like the woman who was--that was determined she was going to get in, is that right?...?... you're Spanish, no wonder you believe...?... I've never seen one fail yet. That's right. Well that's mighty fine, now just go home and rejoice. God bless you, sister...?... God bless you, sister, now you can say, "Praise the Lord." Now watch, just--just watch the difference now when man tries do things and when God does it. Now bow your heads...?... This woman's deaf, totally deaf...?... Almighty God, I pray Thee be merciful...?... this woman that comes here now to be healed from...?... standing here deaf. And Father now I feel that Thou art near and blessings have smiled upon me and now this our sister can be healed. Oh God Eternal, have mercy now and forgive and forget Father, we pray of our error in trying to make Thy power a gazing stock unto many unbelievers. And Thou has never healed to show people...?... They must be healed...?... by believing...?... Thou has only... Thou cannot save people...?... so that You can save them. You save them because they believe You. Oh Christ, now I pray that You'll give strength and heal this woman. Thou deaf spirit, leave the woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of her. You hear me? [Brother Branham claps--Ed.] Can you hear me? Do you hear me?...?...
Now, all right, we want to pray for a little boy here...?... Father, I lay hands on the little boy, I pray that You Father, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. You believe now, Sister...?... Father, I pray for this little girl that they've arranged for Thy servant to pray for. I lay hands upon her Father, in the way that Thou hast taught that we should do. And You said the prayer of faith shall save
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the sick, and God shall raise them up. And I pray that You'll heal, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You believe, sister? God bless you. God, I pray for my sister here from California that has a general rundown condition. Now I pray Father...?... I pray that You'll...?... I lay hands on...?... Oh Father God, I pray that You'll heal her of this trouble she has...?... and I just lay hands on her...?... I pray that You'll heal her in Jesus Christ's Name. Oh Father, I pray that You'll heal this man of his...?... trouble. We pray that You'll let him get well...?... I ask this blessing in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. You believe, sir? All right. Oh Jesus, the Son of God, I pray that You'll heal this little boy, and will make him well, Father. He's got an infection they say, and I pray that You'll heal him, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, little boy. Father, I pray that You'll heal this little boy, who's been brought here this afternoon to be prayed for. And I ask God, as I lay hands upon him, that You will heal him and will make him well, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen...?...
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Father, I pray that You'll heal my brother and make him well. In the Name of Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen. Oh God, I pray that You'll heal this man... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and will make him well, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen. Oh God, I pray that You'll heal this boy and will make him well, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God, I pray that You'll heal this woman, and will make her well Father, in Jesus Christ's Name. Oh God, I pray that You'll heal my sister and will make her well Father, in Jesus Christ's Name I ask it. Amen. God bless...?... Wha--what was wrong with you?...?... No, you look at my hand. Now everybody be real reverent, I want to speak to you just a few moments. Don't leave, it's very vitally important, now don't leave. Just about two more minutes...?... God, I pray that You'll heal my...?... Lord, and make her well...?... in Christ's Name I pray...?... God, I pray You'll heal my...?... In the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. God, I pray that You'll heal my brother, in the Name...?... God, heal my sister. I pray that You'll make her well, in Jesus Christ's Name. God, I pray that You'll heal my brother in Jesus Christ's Name. God, heal my brother, in Jesus Christ's...?... God, heal my brother...?... God, heal my sister, in Jesus...?... You have never...?... ever been in a...?... sick, at least a half a dozen or two dozen or more outstanding there will perform, is that right? Raise your hand if that's right, if it is. That's right. Now what did that? I told you at the beginning that I... Brother Kidson usually wants to go down and pick up a bunch of sick and afflicted, and lay them up there in the front line; to make the people have faith to believe, to see them miracles performed. Is that right? You all seen that in the
meetings. And that's the way the people would rush and try to get to the front line. And I promised God, here before everyone of you, about two thousand people here I guess, or close onto it or I guess about fifteen, eighteen hundred.
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Now, look, I promised God, if it was His Divine will to perform all these miracles this afternoon, everyone that come before me. Is that right? How many remembers me saying that, say, "Amen". And I told Him if it wasn't His will, that I would know from here on, and would not permit it from this on for anybody to make miracle lines to come in front of the buil... in front of me first. How many heard me say that? Say, "Amen". And there hasn't been but one person come by here this afternoon, and they were pulled out of the miracle line, somebody pulled them up out there, that was healed of a deaf spell. Is that right? Now I've never seen it before in my life. Now by the help of Almighty God, I want no one to bring me anybody, that say, "Heal this person", no more. God has permitted it to this day. And how many here has heard me say that the Angel of God met me in Vandalia, Illinois, that morning witnessed before the people. Stood there in a big rainbow in mist in the room, standing there before those people, and told me that I was confining too much of this gift of healing to working miracles. How many remembers hearing me say that? All right, I went right ahead just the same because the people would bring me this and say, "You take care of this and that." And I have never in all my life, till this afternoon seen anything laid before the gift of healing without being healed. But I wanted to be sure that I was doing God's will. It just so happened that today, and God's knows that I wouldn't be hypocrite enough to say it, that I come right down and preached to sick people myself. But Balaam, them men telling, "Come on, go anyhow. Curse this people. Curse this people." If the--and the--last night I told you... night before last that the Angel of God was standing in the room where I was at; remember that? That's enough witness for me people. I don't want no one pulling anybody up say, "Heal this one, heal that one." Let God witness...?... all right. Now that's true.
Now, next Sunday, we're going to run the line just exactly like we always did. And now look, out of this entire meeting today, and there's been several deaf people come by here, and deaf people, and that, after I called that, even the vibrations wouldn't even leave, that's right. It'd leave, then take ahold of them and come back again. It was just a witness. Now, I want these same deaf and dumb people that was here today come in the line next Sunday, just in an ordinary line, see. Come right into the line, just ordinarily. And don't no one... Remember,
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don't no one come to me and ask me to perform any miracles any more, see. Now, God has permitted it up to this time, and everyone of you is a witness of it. Is that right? Say, "Amen". He will continue to perform miracles, but not those who bring the miracle. I want to be led of the Spirit of God on what I'm doing from this on; regardless of what Brother Kidson or anybody else says about it. This is enough witness to me and Almighty God. Do you think I'm right? If you do raise your hand...?... I think now I'm getting on the line where I can get things staightened up. May Almighty God bless and have mercy.
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Now, bring your... them same people back in the line next week or come through the other line, so they can be healed. But don't never anyone ask me, "Come here and heal this person, heal that one." I let the Holy Ghost tell me who to stop on and who not to, is that right? Amen, now let's bow our heads while I talk to Him just a moment if you will. Be reverent friend, don't be irreverent...?... Father, I thank Thee today, because Thou hast let me believe Thy great hand. I understand now why Your Angel come in the room the other night. He was a witness, God, I've been wrong. I've done wrong since the very hour...?... Now Father, You forgive Your servant...?... and from this day hence, as far as I know, I'll...?... And then today...?... to see if I should keep everything the prayer line, everything's a miracle line. And we told You, or asked You rather, if You would bring everyone by here and heal them, then I would continue on and have nothing but miracle lines. But if You did not heal the people in the miracle line then it was a witness that You were going to heal the people by letting them pass by and believe...?... Now the Angel of God had told me it would come to pass that they wouldn't believe unless there was a miracle. And Your Words have been proved. Almighty God, forgive me for my stupidity. And I pray that You'll be with me now and will help me as I journey from here. From this time hence Father, I shall only go as Your Spirit leads. Forgive me God, and help me now to go forward from this building this afternoon, knowing before witnesses of thousands of people here, or hundreds of people rather, that You are here and have confirmed Your Word this day before all. Grant it Father, and may next Sunday bring forth the greatest meeting as has been in the future, or in the past I mean to say. And then Father, Your great Name will be glorified, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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I want to know from amongst my audience in the meeting, how many that think that I'm doing that what is right? Here's what's been. It's been a fuss and a push to try to get to that front line, is that right? A fuss and push, everybody's trying...?... From this time,
God being my Helper, I shall just keep the same line I'm bring up there now like I am, in order. Just stand and pray for the people, and they're supposed to believe me; and they got so they won't believe. Why women's come back here and told me, "I didn't even get prayed for," and they went right through the line; because there wasn't a miracle performed. Hundreds of letters pours into my secretary and say, "They didn't even pray for me, I went through the fast line." You're supposed to believe friends, and take God at His word. Now, will you pray for me this week and for next Sunday, we'll come forth and see the Lord heal His people. God bless you.
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...?... Thousands and thousands of people have been attending. And each night, we've had to turn some away. The armory and building... Anywhere from three to five thousand people away from the--from the services... And the Lord has been opening the eyes of blind, and deaf, and the dumb, and the lame. And it's glorious and I got up there last week...?... I was one day late after being here at Phoenix, layover. So took me back down here and said that... If it'd be possible for me to get down here this week, wasn't going to let me come down. So we just headed out till that, till I got back again.
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I started Friday or Saturday morning. I was supposed to be here last night, and I just got in about a little bit ago. And so, eighteen hours layover. And I didn't get through till just a few moments ago. And I haven't slept any since night before last. So I'm pretty tired. And supposed to be so many. And night before last, I prayed for almost three thousand people, just alone in one night. So anybody imagine how tired. But it's always good to get to Phoenix. I tell you; there's something about this place that I really like. The other day, I had just a few moments with some of the brothers to run up on the mountain and look down. Up... Out from the place where I'm staying. And I went up there and looked down; I thought, "Oh, how heavenly, how..." You people are blessed with a wonderful city here. And I think it's the most simple place that I know of, the most heavenly looking place. The trouble of it is, we just don't appreciate it enough. That's right. This world's a wonderful place that God has give us, if we can just take care of it. See? But we don't do that.
So now, this is our... This is our fourth Sunday, isn't it? We have four more Sundays. And this was the Sunday that I gave away, if the Lord willing, to have nothing but miracles for this Sunday, if the Lord's willing. Just not for the masses of people, but just to bring up those that are afflicted and crippled, that they might be healed here visibly before this audience. That's an awful thing to do. You know that? I--I feel that I do wrong by saying that. No, it's not right in the first place to do it. But I just... It's not even... My gift is not miracles. My gift is to pray for the sick and the afflicted. It's healing, and not miracles. I'm awfully sorry that I ever did decide to perform a miracle before anyone; I am.
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And when the Angel of the Lord spoke to me, last time speaking... By the way, night before last, I seen Him again in the room for the first time for about six months. And... But He never spoke to me. He was just standing by the door looking at me when I turned around. Kinda quickly, I fell on my face. But when I raised up, He was gone again. So... But the last time He spoke with me, He told me what I have been... told you last week. At Vandalia, Illinois, why, He told me I was confining too much of the work to working miracles. And it would come to pass that people would not believe me unless there was miracles performed. And that is true. It's got that way. People don't feel like they're prayed for...
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Last week, I had a very strange thing... By the way, many of you come to the rescue up there in Oregon. I just... We're all Christians, and we like to hear good reports, don't we? And I was up there with Reverend Gordon Lindsay. And all the churches cooperating together, everything, even to the Baptists and all... And many of the leading doctors of the state came out and the governor. And the Lord had given me grace before the people. And it was certainly wonderful and glorious meeting that we was having. And many many thousands of people... I believe it's the best of attendance we've had since Canada. Of course, Canada was the best meeting we've ever had, was up in the-among the Canadian people. And how that the Lord worked among them. And we... One meeting had near thirty-five thousand people in--in the services. They could not even hold them in the fair grounds. We had to take them over in the big stampede halls and things to take care of them. And the dear Lord worked with them wonderfully, and mighty miracles were performed.
Being that I'm going speak just for a few moments. I wish to take just a few more moments of time to make a mention about the-the miracles. A miracle... It's--it's written in the Bible that... And I trust that many of you will understand the position that I'm trying to take this afternoon. You know the reason I done this? And God knows that I tremble at the very thoughts of this afternoon's service. That's right. 'Cause I look setting here before me: crippled, blind, afflicted, and twisted, and drawn. And me to come tell you what I'm--I'm telling you. Now, remember, the first place, this Sunday, I gave this a way the... And I trust that God will not hold it against me. And did you notice, the platform, even around me. I had them to have ever... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... through the audience. And my friends, I'm just hoping you'll give me your attention, your reverence this afternoon. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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He never did heal people to show His power. He, when Satan tried to get Him to show it to people. You see, it was a temptation of the devil. But he give Him the Scriptures, said, "It's written, He will give His Angels charge concerning thee, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone, they bear Thee up." See? But Jesus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Christ did not heal all the people that come to Him. He did not heal all the sick and afflicted. He just healed certain ones, the ones that He was led to heal. And that's the way the meetings has been going up in...?... all meetings bear me record. Now, there was many of them up in the country up there. Been many great outstanding miracles.
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The other night, they brought in a... The mute school, they brought child from the mute school. And then, all at once, I never seen so many deaf and dumb people in--in all the days of my ministry. Everything in the line was deaf and dumb. And I--I stopped. I was praying for them. And I stopped and asked why so many mutes. And then they had one little girl about twelve years old, and the spirit was cast from her. Very pathetic looking little thing and when the spirit was cast from her, she begin to speak and hear. The next night, they brought her back, said she couldn't speak and hear. Her doctor came with her, so, and a nurse. So they said they'd heard her speak from the platform, heard that she did speak from the platform, rather. Well, they got behind her and [Brother Branham claps his hands.--Ed.] clapped their hands like that, and no hearing at all, snapped their fingers, tried to get her to say something, and she wouldn't. They--they talk on their fingers like that to her. She wouldn't. And then they [Brother Branham claps again--Ed.] clapped their hands like that, no hearing at all. And the child spoke and heard the
night before from the platform. So then they tried to get her to say something. They'd say "Daddy," or "Mama," or something like that. She'd go... [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] like that. And she couldn't say nothing.
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I remembered the child. Well, then I said, "Well, bring her up here again." And they brought the little girl up, and then when the spirit was cast out of her, I was standing just beside of her, and I [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] like that. She turned and jumped, and looked around like that. I had to... come and let him clap his hands... do His hands like that. And she turned around; she heard that. So then, I got her to say, "mama," and she'd say, "ma-ma." I'd said, say, "da-dy" like that with my...?... with my tongue how to make it. She'd say, "da-dy." Now, she could speak and hear there on the platform. And then I told them; I said, now, "It's just like conversion. You can be a Christian tonight and a sinner tomorrow. You can believe and hold on to God, and believe it with all your heart." Now, and I asked why there's so many deaf and dumb.
And they brought a little girl there about seven years old, that was been--was born deaf and dumb. And she was speaking and hearing, and there was a big deaf and dumb institution's right there in Oregon. I was right by it. And that's what it was; they was bringing all their deaf and dumb in because of that girl. And this one failed to keep hers, and they brought her back. So I guess there was somewhat twenty or twenty-five cases of deaf and dumb people healed this last week. Definitely on the platform speaking and hearing. But now, all of them, I didn't pick them. Just as they come through, I could feel the pressure of faith. Now, whether that's my faith reaching out...
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Now, friends, there's only one way in the world that you can be healed, and that's only faith in God. Now, no matter how much that God will permit me, by my own faith, to take the spirit from you, unless you go forth and believe God, and serve God, and trust God, it'll come right back to you again. Did not Jesus say, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing than this will come upon you?" Don't never come in a prayer line unless you expecting to serve God the rest of your days. That's right. Always, don't never live a sinful life, because you'll be worse, way worse. God has promised that you will be worse off than you was at the first time. Don't never try to come... And especially this afternoon, to you who shall come in this miracle line, don't you dare to come, 'less you promise God, with all
your heart, that (and mean it), that you will serve Him the rest of your days.
Now, it's... Jesus told Satan there, "It's written that you shouldn't tempt the Lord." Or as some of the writers put it different, make a showing of God's power. Now, remember, in the Bible, there was many people who passed by Jesus, that He never even had no compassion on them. If He did, He didn't show it. It was where He was led to stop. Is that right? For instance, the man at the pool under the five porches. Being that the crowds of impotent people laying there, and here came--come Jesus walking through. And there laid one man who had been laying there for many years. He just raised that man up, and told him to take his bed and go home, and never even said nothing to the rest of the crowd. Is that right? One man, He took him by the hand and led him out of the crowd, plumb out of the city, prayed for him. Of course, he begin to see men like trees. Might've stood there a hour or two longer praying for him, for all I know. But anyhow, when He got through praying, his sight came to him. See, wherever He was led...
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Look at the man at the gate Beautiful that Peter healed, and John, passing through the gate. Jesus went right through that gate month after month while He was at Jerusalem. Why, didn't He heal that man? He'd been laying there forty years. Notice. Or he didn't...?... the gate there to beg alms, I guess. That's what he'd been laying there for many years. Now, notice. God only heals, not to show His power. He only heals those, not on the merits of your Christianity. He doesn't heal you because you're a Christian. He doesn't... But when He does heal you, He wants you to be a Christian from that time on. But He--but He doesn't heal because you--you'd be made well, "I'll go up there; I'll be healed, because I'm a Christian." No, God heals on your faith, your faith. If you're a--if you're a sinner, and know nothing about God, and never have been a Christian, if you'll promise Him that you will be a Christian, and will come, and you have faith enough for it to be done, it will be done, right then. But...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I don't even have a purpose in mind. And those... And then you go there and that makes you nervous. Look down on the street and see them mothers walking with little babies there in their arms. And see the--the cripples laying around there, expecting to stop and pray, emergency. I'm a human. I got a heart. And I feel for people. If I let myself go, I'd be a nervous breakdown before one week was over. I just got to
shut my eyes, and look up, and say, "O God, have mercy," and walk on. See? And I get to a place where it's getting me so nervous. A few moments ago, my little girl, nineteen months old now. Mother called, and she wanted to know if I just got the trip through all right. My little girl just been a talking. She was talking, "My daddy?" And she said, "I love you. Come home, daddy." Like that. And they took her away from the phone, and she started screaming, wanted to get back to the phone. That nearly killed me. 'Course it does. And I'd just only seen her five times since she was born. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Why, most fathers with their little children. That makes me feel... Oh, I just dread seeing that poor little sickly and afflicted thing. But the only thing that I can do, is to be honest with the people. And that is this: when you come into the line... That is, after today. When you come through the line, the prayer line, will you make a covenant with, just to be with God. If God will perform these miracles here for you today, whatever is brought to the platform, if God will heal them... And God knows that... Oh, may the Lord grant that I'm not trying to make a show of His power. No, I'm not doing that. But that you might be encouraged... I've always loved Phoenix, Arizona. I love you yet. The crowds has never been right, in Phoenix. They never have had the crowds here we have at other places. Now, why, I don't know. But I've always loved Phoenix. And I wondered... I want to live here someday. And there's a great something here that draws me here, just like it's leading me over there sometime.
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And I set this day aside for miracles. And may God, Who listens to me now, if He will just grant this to me today, that ever what is brought here before He and I this day, if He will let it get well, surely, you'll believe from then on. You--you'll pass through the prayer line and believe that God truly has sent this gift of healing. Won't you believe that? You won't have to have one more miracle performed in the rest of the meetings; you'll believe if you're prayed for. And remember, with the Bible here before me, is it true that this power is given only for healing. I pray for the people; they go away. And if they believe, they get well. If that feel, that faith, that prayer is said for that person, and if they believe it, the Angels of God will watch over that person. They have to get well, maybe not that hour, maybe not that week, maybe not that month. It may be six weeks before they're well. But they'll get well. They've got to get well.
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And friends, the lowest count that I ever had of any of my
meetings, counting by prayer cards, was seventy percent of what was prayed for. The highest percent was at Winnipeg, Canada. Ninetyeight percent of what was prayed for was healed. Ninety-eight percent... That hasn't been but about five months ago, four months ago. And they are healed now. They're... Some sent their--their testimony in that they are well. And at the Vancouver meeting, my secretary called me while I was at Portland, or at the Ashland, and he said, "Brother Branham, I believe it's going to be one hundred percent from the way the testimonies are coming in, and the prayer cards that we put out." One hundred percent, I hope it does.
Well, if God can heal those people on their faith in Canada, God loves Americans the same as He loves Canadians. Is that right? He's no respecter of persons. And He will heal you, if you'll just believe it. But He cannot heal you without your faith. You've got to believe that He will heal. Now, I think now, it's three minutes after two, or three minutes after three by this time here. Now, we're--we want to get out by five o'clock. And I want to speak just a little bit upon our lesson, and then we'll start the prayer line, or the keep faith line.
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Now, will everyone listen close to this? Closely? Friends, please, and may God, Who listens at me, remember that I am not bringing this this afternoon to you as a showing. And if I am wrong, may God have mercy upon me. I don't want to do anything wrong. But He told me, by that Angel, that "nothing shall stand before your prayer if you'll be sincere and get the people to believe you." And I have not yet seen one thing, regardless of what it was, when enough time was taken with that person, and stayed with it, but what Almighty God healed them while they were yet in front of me. You understand, everybody? And that is the truth.
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This once more, I shall try, making the ending of this at Phoenix. That's right. The place where I intend to live someday. And God can heal the people this day. And if He will grant that to me, and let these whatever comes up, deaf, dumb, crippled, blind, insanity, whatever it is, be delivered right here before the people's eyes, then the rest of the time, I'll let Him do the leading, if He will just hear me and answer my prayer. Will you pray for me, that God will help me? I realize that the work is in its infancy. It's a great strain. Friends, I can see the fruits of what I've always, try, I've, always true to Him... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... And I thank God for what's coming to pass now.
Great revivals are sweeping out across the country. The people are one heart and one mind. And they're just sending one to one another's church, let the people go to wherever church they wish to go to. Let them have their own preference. And whatever a person believes, go ahead and believe that, but don't criticize the other man. That's--that's... Let's stay together and serve God. Oh, I trust that God will yet do that. And if He will show me favor this afternoon and heal these people before you, then you listen to my word, friends. Don't hold nothing against anybody, or anybody's church. Let's go together as one like brothers and sister, and then the sinner on the outside will know that we really love Jesus. That's right. See?
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Jesus said this: "This will all men know that you are My disciples because you have..." shake one another's hands? Because you belong to the, this church? "Because you have love, one for the other." Is that right? The love, one for another, then you'll know... "All men will know that you're My disciples." And if we do not have love one for another, then we cannot be His disciples. And that's what's holding the sinners back. That's what's holding the coming of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... believe the God will permit me this afternoon, for this lovely little city, to prove His power and authority. If He does, then if you don't receive Him and listen to my words, I've done all I can do. That--that's right. And I thought I'd wait till last of the meeting for this. But I see now, if I do this, I'll have more time to make talks on us people coming together. Remember, friends, if you're black, white, yellow, red, American, Canadian, Russian, Spanish, Mexico, wherever you're from, we're all one in Christ Jesus, every one of us. God don't love one any more than He does the other one. He doesn't love me any more than He loves you. He doesn't love you any more than He loves me. So there we are; we're all one together in Christ Jesus.
And let's live like that. Let's live that every day before the world, and they'll see. That's the way you'll lift Jesus up to the world. Let others see Jesus in you. You're written epistles read of all men. Will you grant that to me, and will... And if God will grant the rest of it to me, I believe it'll be the breaking forth, this very day, of an old fashion revival through Phoenix. Won't... Wouldn't you like to see every church in a great big revival in Phoenix? Souls being born into the Kingdom...
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Let's bow our heads just for a moment. Our heavenly Father, this day, standing here tired before this group of people, and weary,
and my limbs aching, and hurting, and pushing, and pulling. O Christ, someday, let Thy servant depart in peace, so we can cross over the river. I trust that You'll give me rest at the other side. Father, You know how I feel today, how I would love to even be home for Thanksgiving, to get to just set down with the wife and family. But O God, that cry and pull up in Portland to that Oregon states above... And these dear people here at Phoenix from different nations, different people coming together to be healed...
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And Father, someday, may we have Thanksgiving together when You're crowned the King of king and the Lord of lords. That great Thanksgiving day, when all the saints shall rally together, God, help us to work for that day while we're here on earth, and may You give us Divine strength. And Father, as we open up Your Word now for a few moments, may the Holy Spirit come down and take the things of God and take them right out into this lovely bunch of people, and sow the seeds of love and fellowship in this congregation of people, until every church will be blessed, and the peoples will start a revival, Lord, among themselves, and bring in many lost souls in these next three meetings coming up. Grant it, Father, and we'll give You the praise for it, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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Now, the next three services, the Lord willing, we're going to have an altar call and have some people, sinners. So bring in your sinner friends and expect God to meet with us here, and--and to save, and to heal the people of all their diseases. Last Sunday, in the Scripture lesson, I believe was in Numbers 21st chapter, speaking of a brazen serpent. A... Sunday before that, we had the smiting of the rock. Last Sunday, we brought up to where that God had dealt with His people in such a way that He brought them out of Egypt, and had provided a way for them all the way along.
And we seen last Sunday, how that all that church was a type, or a shadow of the Church that we have today: the calling out, bringing out of darkness into the marvelous light, led by signs and wonders of God, bringing them from Egypt, going up into the promised land... And it's a very perfect type of the Church today being led out of darkness into the Light of Christ, and how He brought the people, see how they were down there among those Egyptians. They become like the heathens. God brought them out and give them laws, and wonders. They walked with God, and God kept sickness away from them. He gave them food to eat. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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There's a way for every sinner in here that's sinned. Here it is. There is a fountain filled with Blood, Drawn [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] veins, When sinners plunge beneath the flood, Lose all their guilty stains. Then you're a candidate to follow the Church of God on through this wilderness journey into the promised land. And our promised land is found in John 14. "Let not your hearts be troubled; if you believe in God, believe also in Me. For in My father's house there are many mansions. If it wasn't so, I would've told you. I go and prepare a place for you, and I will come again to receive you unto Myself." Isn't that marvelous, when I think of His love and compassion. "I will come, and I will receive you unto Myself," the love that He had.
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Sometimes I feel like the runaway slave. When Paul found him, he wrote back to his master, and he said, "Don't... Put all that he owes you, put it upon my bill, and I'll pay you when I come." When I think of that, I think of Paul there, that great Christian, how that his heart knew that there was a great charge against him, and Christ by His own Blood wrote his pardon at the cross and took his place. And he knowed how to feel for other people. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all had that feeling this afternoon? Just take their fault and lay it upon Me, let Me... If we'd bear one another's burdens like that... Now, that's the way God want... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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On they came to a place they begin to murmur against God, and--and against Moses. And God had to have Moses to smite the rock. And we took what he smote it with, the judgment stick, which we realize that that was the judgment, God's judgment stick. It was the one brought fleas, and lice, and--and turned the waters into a... Or frogs come up out of the waters and so forth down in Egypt, because it was God's judgment upon an unbelieving people. And notice. The only way that God could lead them people out was by an atonement. And the only way that God can lead us out today, is by an atonement. And the atonement's already made at Calvary.
Notice. They're going down in there, how perfect it was with the Scriptures. How Joseph, the younger son, rejected of his brethren: Christ, rejected of His brethren. He wore a coat of seven colors, Joseph. And the seven colors, of course, represented seven colors in the rainbow, which was a covenant. And God always has His covenant people. And then, this one young Joseph was killed, supposingly, by his brethren, and his coat was to be returned to his father.
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And I want you to see another thing, that he was throwed into a ditch, and was supposingly to be dead. But he was taken up from the ditch, and was taken into the greatest commercial city of the world, and was made a right hand man, that no man could enter into the gates or come into the courts, without first coming through Joseph: a perfect type of Christ. They thought they had killed Him, and throwed Him into the grave. But God raised Him up. And today He sets at the right hand of His Majesty, and no man can come to God except he come through Christ. Is that right?
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Notice in the butcher and the baker, one was refused and one rejected, like the two thieves at the cross: a perfect type. And then at the death of Joseph, he left the sign to the Egyptians, that his bones would be taken out when they went out. Many of the Egyptians passed them by, or the Israelites, rather, down in Egypt, and see those bones. They knew someday before those bones completely deteriorated, that they would move forward and they would move with them. Christ, not as I believe in His bones, but He left an empty tomb, that we who are Christians today... Someone said, "Brother Branham. The only thing that you got to know that you're a Christian is some Hebrew writing." I said, "I got more than that to know that I'm a Christian." Sure have. You have too, if you've been borned again. Notice. But we have an empty tomb.
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Mohammedan religion is the greatest there is in the world today. There's more Mohammedans than anything. But they keep a white horse setting at the grave of Mohammed, stayed there for two thousand years. A white horse is constantly been led there for Mohammed to resurrect and ride away. We go down to Ganges River today, we'd find mothers there that they sacrifice their little children, throwing them to alligators, and let the alligators crunch the little dark fellows, and their blood spurt up over their mouth, sacrificing to the god of the Nile. Now, somebody says, "Because I'm sincere, that's all that makes any difference." It takes more than sincerity. They're sincere too.
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Over in India today, and under the Buddha worship, people like Brother Jateph, Gadyce Moservan, he said, "Brother Branham, I have seen..." Know... I guess all of you know Gadyce. He's internationally known everywhere, Methodist church. He said, "I've seen them stand to where fingernails had grow through their hands, would say, 'O great Buddha, if--if you'll give unto me rest for my
soul, I'll never take my hand down.'" Leave it like that. Many of them who hasn't laid down for years, and they stand sleeping up side of the walls, praying. The Chinese, they break their feet. They have four hundred and something kitchen gods alone, and something or another like that, heathen worship, crying for peace to their soul.
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And you Americans can have it right now and reject it. Why, them heathens will rise in the day of judgment and condemn... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That's right. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... to your idols... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... All are dead and gone. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... but rose again; it's an empty tomb. You say, "Oh, well, they could've emptied the tomb." He made it better than that. He said, "I'll pray the Father, and He will send you another Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. He will abide with you forever." And He's here today in the building right now, ready to fill any heart that's... empty out the world; Christ will come in in the form of the Holy Ghost, and you'll be saved, and have peace. That's right.
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Oh, my. No wonder it thrills our heart, the great church, God leading it out. Then when they come to the place where they come to Kadesh, in Kadesh then was a judgment seat, and as we dealt, went through that last Sunday. And then after the Church come through, Martin Luther... There's a third stage of the journey. Martin Luther was the first stage of the journey, calling out of darkness. John Wesley was the second stage. Then there comes a Pentecost. And Pentecost brought the judgment. And the people went after the gifts instead of the... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] That's right. I believe God wants me to say that. Friends, when you miss the love of God in your hearts, you miss everything, no matter what you've done. Where there's tongues, they shall cease; where there's prophecy, it shall vanish. But where there is charity, it lasts forever. I'd rather my wife would love me than be afraid of me, wouldn't you? Sure, you love God. The love of God in your heart...
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Now, notice. Then when they met the judgment, and they all turned back, immediately sickness broke out into the camp, and fiery serpents came in. And God sent down the gift of healing for the children of Israel, a brazen serpent. Maybe He couldn't find a man that He could trust to put it on, so He put it on a serpent, a piece of brass and a pole. And the very same thing, only in another form, after you begin the bad luck, and break up, and get into hundreds of different of churches, and the organizations, and denominations, and fussing
among one another, sickness. There's more sickness in the land today than it's ever been known of. That great plague of cancer sweeping the nations, and Christians are dying by the thousands with it. And then to think at that very hour that the Angel of God came down and even specified cancer.
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Going to a hospital after a bit, a child here that's going to die. They say there's fourteen doctors give her up with cancer. Oh, may God meet me there. It'll be a witness to Phoenix. That Angel standing there which testified nothing like cancer. He said, "Nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even to cancer." But do you think all the Hebrews believed that brazen serpent? Certainly not. And there's thousands of Gentiles and people today, when you speak to them about the gift of Divine healing, they say it's fanaticism. How do you expect to ever be healed? It's not for you in the first place; it's for a believers, those who will believe.
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Now then, after we left them last Sunday, we're journeying on now into the 22nd chapter. And I'm not going to have time to read it-of it. But I may read a verse or two here, and listen close now. And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plain of Moab on this side of Jordan by Jericho. Notice, they had journeyed on. And as they went on... 'Course Aaron died during that time. And as they went moving on, Moses, moving on with the children of Israel, they wanted to go by, compass the land. The king told them, "No, you can't go through here." But when he come and fought against them and taken from the people, then God told him, told Israel, or Israel vowed to God, if He would deliver the king into his hands, that he'd utterly destroy the land. And that's a type today. If God will give you the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, utterly destroy sin out of your life. Move on. Nothing can stop the Church. They may call you fanatic; they may call you simply to pack a Bible. They may say that you're a holy-roller, or whatever they do. Nothing's going to stand in God's Church; she's moving towards Canaan. If you don't--if you don't go, God's going to take them that will go. That's right. He... That Church... There's nothing. It's a irresistible force. That's right. And God will move everything.
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Here a few years ago, they said they was going to throw you out; they was going to set you back; they was going to shut your mouth; but the Church moving on. That's right. And the Church will move on. There's nothing. It's coming time where you're getting big
enough, you ought to be able to talk and speak. Now, she moves on. And finally they came down through the land of-of Moab there, and the king, Balap, he--Balak, rather. He thought that he would be wiped out, and he said, "Oh, this great company here that's like, will lick us up like the ox licks the grass up off the field." He sent over to a preacher, a prophet by the name of Balaam. He said, "Come down and curse this people, Israel, for me, for I understand that whoever you curse, is cursed, and whoever you bless, they're blessed."
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Now, I want you to notice it. Here it is. The people knew that there was a power in that prophet, till if he cursed anything, it was cursed, and if he blessed anything, it was blessed. You Bible readers who read the Bible, is that true according to Scripture? Now, if we just had time to read it like we should, but such as...
I cannot, God puts in my mouth. Is that right? Now, I cannot say, no prophet, no man, no healer, nobody. You ask too much of a prophet. Certainly you do. There was many people come to Elisha to get cured of their leprosy. The Bible said there was many lepers in the days of Elisha, but only one of them was cured, and that was Naaman. Is that true? Certainly. How many more do you think came? There's probably hundreds of lepers came, 'cause there's many of them in the la--days of--of Elisha. But only one of them... But God recorded that in the Bible. Go look.
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Today, I've got on record, many months ago, of thirty-five thousand cases, doctor's statements of definite healings. Brother, I--I guess you think I'm excited, but I'm not. I'm not excited. I know where I'm standing. But look. Jesus said, "These things that I've done, greater will you do, for I'll go unto My Father." Somebody had to fulfill that Word. That's right. God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham.
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And notice. Now, at the great healings now, and this is the last days. If I didn't realize these things, I'd be afraid about saying that "miracle line." I can only perform as God says perform. I can only speak when God says speak. I can only heal when God says heal. I can only tell you the vibrations is gone when God stops the vibrations. Now, I can't stop them. I'm no healer; He's the Healer. But when I see them stopped, they're not stopped my me; they're stopped by God. And if I tell you that, if you doubt it, then you're going to be sick again. If you believe it, you're going to get well. That's right. Nothing can keep it from getting well.
I cannot make a deaf man hear. I cannot make a dumb speak. I cannot make these plugs that's in the people's ears go out. That's God does that. And if He will do it on the platform, go away rejoicing and serve Him, 'less a greater thing...
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Balaam said, "I cannot do it unless God would send me." Well then he prayed to God. But that night, the Spirit came and talked to him. And He said, "Don't you go." That looked like it ought to be enough, don't it? Now, I'm preaching almost conviction to myself, right here this afternoon. He's already told me, "You're confirming--confining too much of that gift of healing on miracles." And I want this to be the climax. And notice. Then he thought. "I can only speak as God speaks." No prophet can say anything 'less God puts it in his mouth, if he's a prophet. If he's a false prophet, if he's a hireling, why, he--he can say anything. But if you say anything, and God has to bring it to pass. If God said it, it'll be that way.
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Notice. Then when he said that, said he could only speak what God put in his mouth. And God told him to send them back. And he... Notice. Then Balaam, like a lot of hireling prophets now, for usury, for money, he come back again and asked him the second time. And he went to God again. Now look. There is a perfect will of God, and there's a permissive will of God. And God permitted His prophet to go on, yet he... It wasn't His perfect will. It was His permissive will. And I feel this afternoon is the same thing on these--working these-this--for this miracle line. It is God's, maybe, permissive will, but it's not His perfect will. You are supposed to take my word, and if--if...
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Look, friends, it's hard to say that. It's hard for people to see that. But I don't... There ought to be somebody... God grant someday, that I can have somebody, He will send me somebody who will do this talking for me, and I won't have to do that. 'Cause it looks like you're throwing something to yourself. God in heaven knows that I wouldn't stand here that much hypocrite before His people. That's right. But it is the truth. I shall be judged for it at the day of judgment. He did say it. And notice. Now, it might not be His perfect will, but I believe in His permissive will, for I've asked Him that for the sake of the Phoenix here, today; that you might see that I have told you that what is true. And the Angel of God, Who met me that night in the room, I pray that He will stand here to withstand anything that's brought up here this afternoon. Now, now, as I say, I'm not supposed to do that,
because I'm just saying, "Bring somebody up."

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Now, if you'd let me walk out through the crowd, I've already picked out at least four people setting right back out here in front of me right now, that could be healed right here by a miracle, right now, 'cause I feel them. One of them's an aged man, gray headed. The other one's a young lady, another one a little girl. They're setting right before me now; that can be healed by a miracle, right here. But if I should go out there and pick you out, then you'd want to find fault with me. You see? This gift I don't believe was given for holding mass meetings like this. I don't believe it was. I believe that I should be led of Almighty God to go wherever He'd lead me to place to place, like that. And then pray for the people and so forth, as He would lead me. I don't know. But whatever, I'm trying to get these things settled down, where I can find His perfect Divine will, His channel to walk in, and stay there, regardless of what anyone says about it. That's right.
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Now, He told Balaam to go on down there. Of course, we know on the road, the Angel of the Lord met him. And he could--he was so blind, so money crazy till he couldn't find, even see the--the Angel standing before him. And then the--the mule that he was riding on, turned aside out into the field. The mule (Oh, my.), the mule had more spiritual discernment than the man did when he got his mind off of God. Someone was speaking the other night, and I was telling my... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... "Putting a stumbling block in the people's way." I said, "What is true is true." I... "Christians ought... Christians would seen that, it would been different, seen these thing." I said, "Yes, but sometimes that Christians are so blind they can't see that." It was in the days of the coming of Jesus. Those astrologers went right on up there and worshipped Him, the three wise men. And the priest was in the temple debating whether this was right or that was right. That's the truth. And a little witch...
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Remember, I say it's the work of the devil. All spiritualists and astronomy is the works of the devil. And I realize I'm heading right now down in Mexico where black magic and everything else is there, but I know Who I have believed. I know God will take care of me. He will bring the thing to a showdown, like He did in Oregon the other night. That's right. It's true. But to get the people to set still long enough to see it, is the thing. Now. Then, these things that he spoke, and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
He didn't see the Angel, and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... turned aside. Then the Angel went and stand at another place. Watch Him, went to three places, representing three stage of the journey, the three stage of the journey then, the three stage of the journey in the children of Israel, three stages of Balaam's journey.
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We're in our third and last stage. And remember, the Pentecostal age is a rejected age. I hate to say that, for I've never found faith in any church like the Pentecostal church. But it's rejected, because it's the Laodicean last church age, lukewarm. It'll be spued from the mouth of Christ. But God in there will draw out His people, out of that Pentecostal age. You say, "Well, I'm looking for a great age." I know, many of you people... There's a teaching, the schools of the prophets. And they'd say it's all the great church age is coming. Don't believe it. The next thing to come is Christ for His Church. That's right. To... So remember, the last church age is the Laodicean church age, a lukewarm that's spued from God's mouth. It's true. And you know that.
"Oh," you say, "Brother Branham, you're just go on alone." Well, how about a whole council? That's the way the Catholic church started, by the council of men. God don't move in councils of men; He deals with individuals. Look at all that bunch of prophets up there telling Ahab to go on up in peace. And said, "Isn't there one more?" Jehoshaphat said. "Yeah, little old Micaiah." But Micaiah knew where he was standing. He knew his God. And I know many will reject this that I'm saying now. But remember, I believe with all my heart, I know God. And I believe the age here, that we're holding so much with this church and that church. And God's not pleased with it. We've got to come out of that. We've got to get together, our hearts together. That's right.
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And notice now. And as he come down there, and this mule seen standing... First place, he seen Him there at the gate, next place in a strait, and the next place, seen Him standing in a real narrow way. And finally the mule spoke out with human voice. Look. A dumb mule, a dumb brute. If God, an Angel of God could speak through a dumb brute, couldn't He speak through a man? The people are too blind to see Him. He said, "These... God's able of these stones to rise children unto Ahab--Abraham." Oh, my. Then Balaam went down to put a curse upon the children of Israel. We have to hurry. Oh, my. I just love this somehow. Where He gets just plenty of elbow room.
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Look. He'll journeyed on after the mule even spoke to him. And the Angel of the Lord was standing in the way. Now, God is not pleased with the way people are doing, the people in this lukewarm condition. Either be hot or cold; get in or get out. God hasten the day when Christians will be what they profess to be, and sinners the same thing. Oh, if I wasn't for Christ, I'd be against Him. I'd be standing here talking against Him. I'd...?... I ain't got no use for Him. There's nothing to Him. I'd be against Him if I wasn't for Him. But friends, I truly believe He's the Son of God, like the Bible says He is. I believe He ascended on high, like the Bible said He did. I believe He's coming again, like the Bible says so. And I have believe that He gave gifts back to men. Therefore, today I'm planning it, because I believe it. If you see me living anything else, you let me know, because I'm backslid. If I do anything different and live the life of that, I'd be afraid to walk before those demons and powers.
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I know it's hard, cuts me down. And I hate to say anything to people. But, friends, I have to stand at the judgment someday to answer before you people. That's right. And your blood will be upon my hands. You serve God with reverence in your heart, pure, holy love for Him. Walk every day in that mood of love all the time. Do good to others, and do good charitable deeds, and love God, and worship Him, and that's the way you're supposed to live. And treat your neighbor as yourself. That's right. Now. Notice this now. Then when he got down there, Balaam... Or, when he got down there, he thought surely... Here's another mistake. I'll get this part in just before I close. You'll give me your undivided attention right here till we meet the climax. Oh, my, I feel that He's here. I do. I thank Him.
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Look. When he went down there, Balaam went out with this idea. Now, I been bawling you out. You--you holiness people, full Gospel people, Nazarenes, Pentecostals, Church of God, and Assemblies of God, and oh, all the rest of you, and to you Methodists, and to you Baptist, and all you that love God, notice this. But look, when Balaam... Now, to bring it back to the Church; it's moving on. When Balaam went down there, he looked upon that people. Israel had done everything that was on the calendar, nearly, in the way of sin. They had backslid on God. They'd been up, they'd... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... church... the little church standard, they broke up men's homes, and run this a way and that way, and done everything that was doing. That's right. But don't judge all of them by that one. See? We've all had it. That's true. But they say, "Oh, that-that--that Holy Ghost church, all them shouters and go on. Look, I've
knowed one of their pastors that done this." Yes, and brother, if there hadn't been a little money behind it, there'd been a whole lot more said about these others too. But when they got a lot of money to smother it down, these fellows have to take the rub. That's all. But remember, we have good and bad in both.
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And Balaam looked upon that people, and he thought, "Looky here..." Now, listen. He thought, surely, that a holy moral God would have to curse a people like that, that done such things as that. But when looking upon them, he looked; he said, "Now, looky. They've done this; they've done that. Surely, there's not a holy God in heaven could look upon that, and--and absolutely have any blessing with that Church. 'Cause, look at them. They have done this, and they've done that." He looked at it from the eye standpoint, from the moral standpoint, trying to judge a people by a moral God, holy God. But he failed to see the smitten rock before them, and the brazen serpent, that atonement that forgave their sins. And so is it today, when a people laugh and say, "Them Divine healers, them holy-rollers, they done this and that." I'll admit it. But they fail to see the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, moving on before the Church. That's right. It atones. There's a sin atonement made for the Church. And people, you who know God, move on. God is for you. No matter how much they try to put a curse on it, it can't be done. The Blood of Christ separates that. God did not look upon any people as their own moral standards. The only thing He looks at, is the Blood of His own Son, Jesus Christ. And any persons that's under that Blood is safely protected. Amen.
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Oh, my. Under the Blood... I don't care how much you holler, or scream, stay there until morning breaks. That's right. They were under the blood, the blood of the lamb, the smitten rock, the brazen serpent. Look, they were under the blood of the lamb, as we took last week, the brood--blood was placed upon the door, the lintel of the door. They went out under the blood. And they got out there, and got hungry; God fed them manna out of heaven. They got thirsty; He gave them water from the rock. They got sick; He gave them power for healing. And Balaam failed to see that. He thought because they were so radical in this way and that way, that--that God did not have any honor for them. He didn't have honor for them, but He did for His atonement. Amen. God, today, no matter what the Church has done, the Atonement, the Blood of Jesus Christ still atones for the sins. Amen.
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My, my. We'll be ready to shout in here directly, sure enough,
won't we? When I think of it, the Blood... Under the Blood, it all looks sons and daughters to Him, as long as they're confessed under the Blood. So if you've done wrong, get under the Blood today and confess your sins. For if we fall from grace, we have an Advocate to the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, if it wasn't for that Advocate, we'd all be gone, wouldn't we? But in there we're brought under the rich, royal Blood of the Son of God. And before God, we are pure and holy. Hallelujah.
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I guess it's not against the law to say it in Phoenix. Hallelujah. I mean "Praise our God." And I think He's worthy of every praise and hallelujah we could ring from these mortal lips. The Bible said, "You are a royal priesthood, a peculiar people, offering spiritual sacrifices to God, the fruits of your lips giving praise unto Him." Oh, my. The fruits of your lips, pouring up praise daily before the people. What a High Priest we have; what a priesthood that we're in: the priesthood of the circumcision, not of flesh, but of the heart (Amen.), the heart circumcised by the Holy Ghost. That's right. Then you can offer praise and adorations to God, the spiritual sacrifice, your lips pouring out praise unto Him.
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The other night when the people were standing there, where a little blind baby laying in the mother's arms, his little eyes were blind, but after being prayed for, holding the little baby in my own arms like that, and looking at it. I was looking out, and I said, "Mother, it sees the light." She looked at it, and she put her hands before it. It'd bat its little eyes. And I took my hand, it followed my hand around like that. Why, the people just rose; those rafters rang with the praises. Somebody stood there, said "They make a lot of noise." I said, "If they'd hold their peace, I believe the rafters would praise God." Something's got to take place. Amen. Oh, my. No wonder the poet could sing:
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now I'm found, I was blind, but now I see. Oh, it was grace that taught my heart to fear, His grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed! (Oh, my.) After we've been there ten thousand years, That's... Since then we have no less time to sing His praise, Than the hour when we first begun.
How wonderful. No wonder Eddie Perronet could screamed out in his dying hours and throw his hands across the cross and scream:
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All hail the power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown Him Lord of all.
My! Old blind Fanny Crosby had never seen in her life; she screamed,
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.
What can You offer me, Lord? What can You offer blind Fanny Crosby, who was blind all of her life. She has found the stream of all... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You see what I mean?
More than life to me. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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this afternoon, Father. And may this not be to bring Thy power down to make a show of it. But O God, may everything that fell on the pulpit this afternoon be healed by Thy Divine power, that the people of Israel, spiritually speaking, might rejoice in the power of their salvation. And may them who are unbelievers be brought to shame. Grant it, dear God, and they'll humbly bow at the foot of the cross on next Sunday, and this week sometime, and say, "Lord, I've been wrong. I persecuted the people who believed in Divine healing. I've said they were holyrollers; I've called them everything. But I failed to see the Blood and power of Christ going before them." O Christ, encourage Your people. "O Jacob, how godly is thy tents set." Oh, no matter what side they look from, it's godly. There's joy; there's freedom of sin; there's power of healing; there's everything in the tent. O God, may blind Balaam see it this afternoon and glorify the God of heaven. For we ask it in His Name, and for His glory. Amen.
Just one moment. I'm going to ask another of them in here to come forth now. Everyone just remain in your seat. We're going to have a--one of the brothers to step out here at the pulpit.
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Now remember, dear friends, God's power is not to be made a show. Do you hear it? And if Jehovah God, my Saviour, Jesus Christ will hear my prayer this afternoon, and will heal these people that's brought here in the way of miracles... Then, if you don't receive Christ then, then Phoenix, I've done all I can do. I've done all I can do. I've tried to tell it to you; I've tried to preach to you; I've tried to show it to you by the Word; and then if God will manifest Hisself in the power, that's the only thing I know to do. Then, I trust, if God will do that, when we make an old fashion altar call here, that the sinners will weep their way through, and Christians will go back, shake one another's hands, and there'll be a revival sweep through here.
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I hear there's two or three revivals started now. The Brother James Outlaw, I believe, is starting a revival. And some more of the brethren here in the city. I trust that there'll be a revival start in every church, everywhere, and people will come to Christ. Oh, my. Do you believe we're in a stage of the journey now? Do you do it? Raise your hands. Now, I want to ask you this one more thing. (Brother Hooper, if you'd get ready to come out in the platform just a moment.) Now, I wonder this: if any in here today, if you don't believe this with all your heart now, friends, if you do not believe it...
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Here last week we had some things to happen in our meeting, in all that lovely meeting. But there were two ushers standing right beside of me when a epileptic spell was cast out, and down went the two ushers, one on one side and one of them plunged forward, another one run back like this. A few hours later, they tried to get the woman in, couldn't do it, fine woman, business woman there of the city, had a--a stro--a store where they sold women's clothing and things, a very fine woman. And about two days later, they had her out there in front of the hotel there, frothing like a mad dog. See? They could not... It was the powers of hell was liberated, and the demons will go from one to another. Now, let me quote--quote that again just...?... yonder. Listen. Remember, this is casting out Satan. With my Bible over my heart, friends, it's casting out powers that's bound those people. And when that power is cast out, that demon will go somewhere if he can get somewhere. Do you remember when Jesus cast out Legion, demons, they said, "Suffer us to go over here in this herd of swine." Is that right? And He--He give them permission to go. And they went over there, and those hogs, thousands of them, run down to the river and drowned in the river. Is that right?
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And now, remember, dear friends, with all my heart, take this
as a warning. If you have one skeptic thought, please do not stay in the building now. 'Cause there'll probably be insanities, blind, deaf, everything brought here now. And you must be perfectly quiet. And if you feel that you can't keep your head down, then don't stay in here. Now, we'll try to give vent about every fifteen minutes, if the Lord should perform some miracle of course. Now, I don't say that there'll be but one. There may not be but one. I may not even get to that one. I can't say. Let me make myself perfectly clear. Back and forth, check and double check on it so you'll know.
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Remember, I have said this is a gift of healing. Everybody bear me record. If you do, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] The Angel has never told me to perform one miracle. Everybody hear that, say "Amen." He told me if I would pray for the people, that they'd get well, if I could get them to believe me. You've heard, remember that, say "Amen." But through faith, faith in Him Who is invisible here this afternoon, I have been permitted by Almighty God to open the eyes of the total blind, to unstop the ears of those who were born deaf and dumb, that they'd speak and hear. The cripples that were hideously drawn physic--unfold right before the people's eyes and walk away by the power of Him Who is invisible.
But remember, it is none of my own power. It is His power. I have no way at all to perform any miracles. I am just a man like you, your husband, your brother. I'm a man. But He is God. And this Angel is Divine that's sent from the throne of God. See what I mean? It's by... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Angel, and God's Word... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... miracles in here. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Is that right? Now, how many will believe with me? Let's see your... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... I've got you...?... Thank you. Now, slowly, let's give them a little chance to rest. Everyone stand reverently now while we sing, "Only Believe," now. Everyone. Well, that's the song that the Angel of God likes. Now, everyone, let's get quiet, and be just as lovely. Do you love Jesus, say "Amen."
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Now I've got to get myself perfectly quiet. And now, while we sing. Now, everybody slowly now going,
Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe; Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe.
Let's just bow our heads and hum that one real softly. [Brother Branham begins humming.--Ed.] Oh, thank God. While you're humming that, I want to...?...
Now, let's just real reverently look to our Lord Jesus. O God, how humble I feel standing here. I brought this, Father, to this part of the service, telling the people that these things would take place. O God, I preached it...?... today, on a hireling, prophet Balaam. And I know that You said, dear Jesus, to the devil, "Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God." Satan said, "Yes, but it's written in the Scriptures..." Yes, Father. And Satan would like to tempt today. Dear God, all things is in Your hands. And I pray to You from my heart today, here by this microphone, as usually, into the room by myself. But, Father, Thou knowest my heart. And I believe that Your ministry that has been so neglected, Your people has been cast down inside the...?... The hour is come that You're going to take Your Church.
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Help me, dear Father. Will You honor the words of Thy servant today, those so poorly and unworthy to be honored? I've told that that Angel that met me in the room that night, said, "Nothing shall stand before your prayer." Dear God, if that's not Your Divine will, please stop it. But Father, Thou knowest all things. Not these people might hear me, but that Thou would hear me. I want to see a revival in this city. O God, there's something pushing my heart ever since I knowed I was going to Phoenix. Help, dear God. And may it start an old fashion revival. Someday, may Thy servant live here in this lovely little city. Now, bless us together. Anoint me, Lord. Please, let Your Angel... And Thou knowest, Father, that I give all praise and glory to Thee. Thou knowest that I've told all the newspapers and magazines that I'm no healer. Thou art the Healer. Willing to be humble, Father, for I'm nothing but dust, to give You the praise. Just let... Permit me, Father, to help these poor, sick, suffering, blind, crippled people. Will You, Father? And then next week, we'll just, Father, do according to what You say. Permit this today. And do not hold it against Thy servant or against the people. I pray Thee, Father, to give Divine power now, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. May be seated now, reverently.
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Now, I would that you ushers, some of the little babies are fretful and things. This must be perfectly quiet, friends. Please, mothers, don't let your little children stir around. And if the little babies are crying, haven't you got a place here, ushers, to seat... How many ushers in the building, let's see your hands? Ushers, are you at the post of duty? All right. Watch, and help the mothers. And don't permit no one running on the floor, 'cause this is a very, very sacred time.
Watch healing services...?... diseases for vibrations? All right. Well, okay. Now, you've got somebody sending those vibrations. I want each one to see my hand. Now, just this one more time...?... See what--how white it is? How many understands, and seen the vibrations over my hand, let's see your hands? You mean that's all the people that's been in meetings? Almost a new crowd in here. It's hard to believe, isn't it?
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Friends, it comes by vibrations, you can see it over my hand. My hand turns real bloody red, and white pimples jump up on it according to the disease. People don't tell me what diseases they've got. That Spirit goes down and tells them what kind of a disease they got. I was examined by doctors up there last week. Each one of the doctors, they bring cases out of the hospital... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Now, that's right. Now, I--I... this person ever who this person standing behind me, now just a moment...?... I seen what they are right now...?... Now everybody be seated. Don't no one...?... be real quiet. Everybody just be... sit down now,everyone. Don't stir around at all, because remember, I'm warning you in the Name of Jesus Christ, you're...?... be before, if you don't obey Him. I'm not...?... for it, till I find out what it is. Bring the person here. Yes, ma'am, you got tumor turned into a cancer. That right? You got a little more than that too. Is that right? Did I tell you what was right? Cancer? Came into your female...?... And you're worried...?... And then, you've been having female problems. And you've got a... You had one kind of operation, and still got a infectionary and your stomach trouble that's...?... Now, look here. Ask those in the line down here. Have you got cancer? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Are you suffering...?... That's what that germ is...?... And I see...?... I will...?... to discern...?... Now, to you who are standing by, I want you to look at my hand, if I can get out here so you can see back here. See? Now, you audience put your head up. Let me walk over here. I want you to look here at my hand...?... Now, I want you to look at this hand here. See how white my hand is? Can you see it? Look how...?... Now, watch here when I take and put my own hand on there. Now, watch this; I take my hand off of there...?... hand on there, can you. Watch here. I'll put my own on. See? See how white it is? Now, just the woman put on her hand. There it is. Dark and reddish. Now, my hand feels like it's on fire. See it...?...
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Now, I want all the audience to bow your heads everywhere, and I'm going...?... I want to...?... patient, I want you to watch my hands. Now, you watch my hands. Rest of you bow your head, 'cause
she's the one that's got the cancer, 'cause if it comes off...?... Remember, you may find yourself...?... dying with cancer...?...
Now...?... Now, here's what it is. The lady's cancer died. The germ run out of it, the life went out of it. Now, here's what takes place. Now, many of you here, are--are takers or...?... How many in here have...?... mercy...?... does he have a prayer card? You people with prayer cards, now look, now remember this. Somewhere in seventy-two hours, you're going to get real sick, and will do a lot of vomiting. Now, remember this (See?), because the cancer being dead (See?), why the life goes out of it. And then after the life goes out...?... You're going to get sick...?... You may pass it, friends. If you do put it in a bottle...?...
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O Eternal God, hear this prayer of Your servant, may they be...?... stand here tonight and All of the ministering...?... Thou, demon, called cancer, I come to meet you in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I adjure thee to leave her. Come out of the woman, thou spirit of cancer, in the Name of Jesus Christ...?... If that be Your will then for me to... not to take those...?... But let them come by, and the ones that has faith, that...?... of the deaf and dumb, and let...?... then I know, Father, that Your...?... And now, if there be those, let it be known by...?... without something. Then, Father, I'll know that You're present. But I'll know that it's Your will that I pass the people through the line without having any healed...?... deaf, and dumb, or blind, and standing in the line, and putting Your power to a show, Father...?... O Father, forgive Your servant, and people...?... Answer the prayer of Your servant now...?...
Thou deaf spirit, I come before thee in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of the man. I adjure thee to leave. [Brother Branham snaps his fingers and claps--Ed.] Hear me?...?... Say, "Amen." [Man answers, "Amen."--Ed.] Praise Lord. [Praise the Lord.]...?... Say, "Amen." Say, "Father, I believe You."...?... Say "Amen." ["Amen."] Say, "I love God." ["I love God."] Say, "Lord, I will serve you."...?... Now, what's your name?...?... Where you live? Here in Phoenix...?...
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... be back again this afternoon and to be...?... I tried to get here last Sunday and the planes were all grounded. I tried to get-and it just had stopped. There was no way I could get here at all to be with you, but, I certainly, as much I knew of, I prayed for you all the time. And I hear that the brethren--a lot of you brethren stood up on the platform and prayed and had many people prayed for and healed. And I'm sure thankful for that. Now, this brings us up to sixth Sunday of our series of Sunday services here at Phoenix, and which we--we have more two Sundays after this. And I trust that many people will receive of the great benefit of the Presence of God being here for many Christians such as... I hear that there's some in here that--a lady from Chicago, and different ones that's come. They just got the one day longer to stay. And I missed seeing her last Sunday, so all those who does not, or cannot stay longer, let me take them first in the line. So, sister, I got your--your message in the room a few moments ago and the other on the outside, and I'm going to try to pray for every one.
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I guess many of you remember the bad thing that happened two weeks ago Sunday here, a few weeks ago today here at the pulpit. Many of you remember it, don't you, what taken place? It was one of the most--one of the most horriblest things for the time being, that's ever happened to me in all my life. And many of you does not understand... Well, I thought maybe it would be a good thing this afternoon and once for me to...?... that I would explain these things to you and take it, maybe a time to give a testimony. Of course in doing this, that--that you would have more of an understanding of it. And this has been a great meeting through the Northwestern territory, a little too much for me. I had got in such a place till I was unconscious for forty-four hours before I came to myself. But there's-there's thousands and thousands of people who...?... for me and the sick was healed...?... and to be...?... for the Lord to be prayed for. And then...?... But all down through from Vancouver, all around to Portland, from Portland to Salem, to Ashland, over to Boise for five...?... service, that received a great benefit that I'm very happy to announce all...?... But one thing that I--I have cried for and asked for in a sign to give me... It may seem a little out of...?... to explain what the meaning... It means more to me than all the healings that could be in the world. And I believe that my very reason of being on earth... And if I could get everything to working the way it is there now, I believe I--I would be taken home then, that working a little, because my ideal has always been to see the church together, to see the people
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And then, last week, I got to see the uniting of the Assemblies of God, the Church of God, the Foursquare church, and the Pentecostal Oneness together. And their having union revivals, every one in the form of baptismal services and things. Let every man be fully persuaded with one heart and one mind, and hundreds are being saved daily up there. A great union revival (Oh, my.), it just means so much to me. That means more... That's more benefited that there than all those meetings which taken place since I've been on the...?... To see God...?... in amongst His church coming together...?... which I'm seeing...?... Pentecost. If that could just happen everywhere, Jesus would come. And it's just little differences of people's religions that keep them apart, but the real main evangelical fundamentals they're all the same. And I--I like to see them when they'll be willing to agree with each other and have a revival. And that's what we need. And because that's what's happened all the way from Vancouver into--into Boise: one heart and one mind, see those Assemblies of God preachers, the Foursquare Gospel preachers...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] of you setting present now. And even ones that represent the district, the Churches of God. It was certainly a... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And they all come together in such a unity I never seen in my life, and just hugging one another across the table...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and tears streaming [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... that's what I like, I like. Now there'll be real revival. And they're having union revivals. It'll be in the Assemblies of God for one week, and then to the Foursquare for the next week, and the Church of God [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] the Pentecostal Oneness the next week, and just keep moving like that around. Oh, my, then that's wonderful to me. I think that's worth more than all... That's a healing of the body of Christ. See? That's the--that's real Divine healing (Isn't it?) when the body of Christ can be--we can be brought together then. That's the real Divine healing now.
Now, last week... I--I have been teaching on the book of--of Numbers and bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt, bringing them into the promised land. And we had great times. But if you'll just excuse me on it today and forgive me, I'm so weak and wore... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] till I--I'll just try to give you some testimonies and little highlights or something as we go along; then we'll have the healing line. And I've tried... What I was doing that for--what I was teaching that for, was for this one thing. And I--I see that my own human strength won't--won't do it. But I--I pray that God will help me. Phoenix has been the hardest that I have ever had yet. The smallest crowds that's
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And what I've wanted to see in Phoenix, and I'm just going to pray that God will do it, because I want to see the churches all in Phoenix like they was up in the northwestern territory: all one heart and one accord, and one place. We can do it, friends. We can do it, can't we? And--and I--I believe God will help us to do it. Let every person... I don't mean for anybody to--to--not to have their own doctrine of their church. That's all right. But what I mean, if we can just be one heart, one mind, one accord. That's all of us Christians...?... I...?... surely can. It's just Satan gets between us. Don't you think so? And he does that, and that's his... But I believe the hour has come that when God is going to move the order.
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of my text to finish up, for I left the children of Israel last Sunday at the prophet of the Balaam. And there's where I preached conviction upon myself. How many was here Sunday 'fore last to see it? Well, you seen what happened to me. Well, I--I brought down conviction to myself. Brother Kidson and I had always... I've made this statement that there was no disease, regardless of what it was, would stand before the prayer, or no affliction, no matter how bad it was crippled but what would be healed if I'd took time for that person. You've heard me mention that everywhere, haven't you? And that's true. It's still true. But now, today the great test is over, and I'm going to let it be to me a stepping stone in the stead of a stumbling block and so to teach me the ways of the Lord better, and that I might live closer to Him. And as I live closer to Him, I can help these people more and to be led by His Spirit.
And now, the first thing I wish to do now before we start in on it is to have a word of prayer. And then we're going to speak a few moments, and I'll give you some testimonies of some things that's happened, and then we're going to start the prayer line and give plenty of time to pray for everybody that desires to be prayed for, and especially all those who cannot come back to other services. And then I'll give you the reasons... And before I say this, 'fore I have prayer, I want to thank God for returning to me again the gift of healing and for more success: since Sunday before last and--and then in them two weeks, and really praying for the sick than that's been in months. That's right. It come
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back more blessed than it was at the first place. And you'll notice it, I'm sure, in the meeting.
But first can we reverently bow our heads everywhere for prayer. Father dear, we come to Thee today just as humbly as we know how to approach Thee. And realizing the last time that I stood on this pulpit, I was a condemned man: I stood here and realized how helpless I was without You. To feel Your Presence leave me and to see me come here before a little girl that was just merely hard of hearing and see her go deaf right here on the pulpit; to see a man, hard of hearing and return deaf... Oh Christ, I realize without You I'm a failure. I cannot go alone. And so, in these times, Father, I've decided without You I--I'm not even going to go home, because I'd only bring a reproach upon You. And far be it from me, God, to ever do that. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] They'll all be healed, every one of them. Help me in the testimonies, Father, that I'd speak of this afternoon. May it be that the people will understand. And may everyone here receive a blessing [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Father, every [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] the rich, the outcast, the white, the colored, all... Be with us now, and shed forth Thy Holy Spirit upon us all. Get glory out of the service and help Thy tired, weary servant. For we ask it in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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My last... The--the last time that God sent His Angel down... Many of you, here... How many has heard about how the gift of healing was brought to me by the Angel of God? Most all of you do. Well, dear friend, after realizing, laying in that condition for that many hours, I even got a little piece of paper and sketched out, before going out, I thought it was the end of life, and I wrote to my wife what to do, and a little sketch to Brother Kidson and different ones like that. And I realize that I had no hold on life to hold my own life; it might go any time. But if this is my last meeting with you people, the visitation of that Angel is true, before God. That's right. It's true. And as I stand here with this Bible beside me, and He did come, and I have told you the truth; even if I was going to die this moment, it's true.
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And--but the thing of it is, that in my own nature I--I love to listen, and I like to help every one that I can. In doing so, I let my nature get away from God. Don't you see? My will of things is not always God's will of things. And people will ask me to do things, and I love people, as I've told you before... At one time, I didn't have many friends because I was considered amongst the people that I was with a sissy, and I--I didn't have many friends. But since I come out and
found God's people, He's given me up in the millions of friends. And I love them so well till I--I'd just do anything for them. I--I--I realize this, with all my heart, if something... If I don't get some kind of a strength from somewhere else, by this time next year, there'll be somebody else a-doing this besides me. It's because, no matter how much they try--anyone tries to encourage me, I feel myself, I see my human strength leaving. It's because that something in my heart reaches out for the people. And I--I--I made this statement; I must live by this statement, that I had rather, and when I leave, I always liked that Psalm of Life: "Partings leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time." I want people to know that when I leave that I have done the very best that I know how to serve God and His church while I was here (That's right.), for His church, and it's for His glory.
Now, at Vandalia, Illinois, was the time of the visitation of the Angel, as I told you of last Sunday, you--or Sunday a week. You, remember me telling you that of Him coming? The next time was just before I come here. Sunday two weeks ago I was in the room. I'd been all through Canada and around. I'd never seen Him at all, and I was setting looking sideways, and I happened to see something in the room; I turned and there stood the Angel of God, standing looking at me. And I fell on may face, but I--I... Brother Lindsay was the campaign manager of the campaign in the north from the Assemblies of God. And he--he stepped into the room, and he heard me scream out. And he stepped into the room... Why, he didn't mean to do it; he's a fine man. And but when it did, it must've interrupted something, and the Angel left.
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And then a following Sunday I come right on down here. That was on Friday. And Sunday I come here, and not knowing what part of a Scripture... I never get to read in the Bible, but I got the 22nd chapter of the book of Numbers, and in there I begin to speak on the prophet Balaam, got up to his part, and when he came down, and how God told him in the first place, "Don't not go with them men." But then he prayed again and kept on, and--and finally I believe for Balaam, it was the love of money is the reason that he wanted to go. I'm not sure; I've never knowed till I come in. I don't think... It was the love of money. But in my case it wasn't the love of money, it was a sympathy for human beings. And no matter how little or how big, it's all wrong to disobey God (That's right.), regardless of what it is.
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Then Balaam, he went on down to there, and the Angel of the Lord met him in the way. And when I got to that, friends, I--I don't know. There was something struck me here, and we had just a line laying out, nothing but miracles could be performed; that was all,
nothing but miracles. Well... And standing here in the pulpit when I got up to Balaam, preaching to you all and I seen that Angel standing in the way, and Balaam could not see it... It was a mule he was riding on seen it. Then he got to a narrow way, to a narrow place, like where a gate went through. And there the Angel appeared again, and the mule saw it, and Balaam could not see the Angel of the Lord, and how that we have disobeyed God so. So then when I did that, I seen then what the appearing of the Angel was; and I realized for my first time that's true. What a mistake that I had made. I've made an assertion to the people of a power of God that even the Son of God never made any statement like that. I made a challenge to bring--to what was healed right there to what was...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] to find out... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
How, it must have been so good to me to let me get by with such as that when even I wouldn't make any believe it or not; just bring them on (You see?), because I knew the strength and the power of God. And how that God let me get by with that, I do not know. Because Jesus Christ, there was many mighty works He could not do (Is that Scripture?) because of their unbelief. And look what He was. Look at the power was in Him. And then merely with the gift of healing challenged anything, belief or unbelief, come on up. And He let me for six months get by with that. That begin to break my heart when I seen that, what I had done. And I tried to hold up before you people and preach; I couldn't do it. It just melted me right on down. And I come to the pulpit and I seen then that I was preaching and telling how bad Balaam was and I was setting in Balaam's shoes. I was doing the things that the Angel of Lord met me up there and said don't do it. And I'd wondered, He hadn't visited me for six months, and said I was confining too much of the gift of healing to performing miracles. There's miracles performed all along the line. So let God do the picking out if He will. Let me feel led in my spirit wherever the--what--whatever the Lord tells me to do. Well, that's--that's Scriptural.
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When Jesus went unto the pool, where there was as many people laying there crippled as there is people probably in this building today, maybe more... He walked in amongst all those people and just picked out one man. He was led of God to do so. And He told him, "Will thou be made whole?" He said, "Sir, I have no one to put me in the water." He said, "Take up your bed and walk." See, He didn't have to argue with him, because Christ knew that that man had faith to be healed; and the man picked up his bed and went on. He never healed one more in the city, walked right on out. He took another man and led him out of the city, and standing talking to
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him, and spitting on the ground and made a little, put a little pate and put on his eyes, and told him to go wash in the pool of Siloam. Many thousands lay in His path. He never healed them all. But when the Spirit turned Him aside for somebody, then He had compassion, not compassion for the human heart, because God was speaking through Him to go to that person. Then I seen then that I've made something that was wrong. And I was condemned and I was ashamed of myself. And I told you people about it.
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And then I come to the pulpit and I prayed, "God, if it's not Your Divine will, and I've done wrong, will You help me? And You make it so that if there is... If I bring any persons in here, and if they're not healed, then I will know from this on and never in my life will I make that challenge again or have anyone to bring a prayer line, or make out a miracle line as they call it." And you know what happened, the very first person was brought, that little girl... I hope she's here today from California, I believe it was. And she was hard of hearing, and I talked to the child beforehand. And I put my hands upon her and the vibrations was hitting my hand from probably some kind of a bursted eardrum that had caused an infection and that little something to grow over it, little growth, 'cause it had a life somewhere. And the vibrations stopped, and I said to you as always, "Now, the child is healed." And I tried to talk to her, and I couldn't even yell at her or beat my hands together and she couldn't hear. I turned her--took ahold of her hand. The vibration's back. I cast it forth again and it come back. So I left the child alone.
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The next come was another man hard of hearing. I said, "You believe, sir?" He nodded his head real... I called out to him; he nodded his and bowed his head. And when I did, I took hold of his hand: no vibration; that was purely spiritual by anointing of the Spirit. It's dead nerves probably. And when I prayed for that man, he couldn't even hear me beat my hand together behind him. And I seen that I was condemned. And there I stood in this pulpit for the first time and I knew what it meant for a man to be left alone without God. I was helpless. I'm ashamed of myself before you, friends, today. I'm ashamed of it. I am. And I'm sorry that it had to happen here in Phoenix. But it had to happen somewhere. That's right. And it happened here.
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I went off. And Brother Sharritt and I, we went out, and I was-I was weary. I couldn't sleep. I started up on a plane. I started crying in the plane. The hostess come around and said, "What's the matter, sir." I--I couldn't tell her. She wouldn't understand. I got off the plane. I went in. The ministers when they come and met me and
took me in, they put me to bed, and they got down. They begin to talk to me. And a Reverend Baxter, a wonderful man of God, he came into the room, slipped in by himself. He said, "Brother Branham," said, "I can assure you that the gift of healing hasn't gone from you." Said, "Gifts and callings are without repentance." Said, "God will deal with you, but He absolutely would be untrue to His promise if He took the gift from you." Said, "It can't leave you." Said, "Samson slept all night with a harlot, and the next morning walked out and picked the gates up and walked away with them." See? That's right. And David and so forth around like that. And said, "He'll deal with you." Said, "Moses smote the rock when he supposed to speak to it." See? Said, "That's right, but the waters come forth. That was true." But said, "He'll deal with you, and He'll make you pay for it. But, see, the gift is there." Somehow I just couldn't... Now, I was afraid it was gone. I couldn't feel God at all, nowhere. And I--I hope and trust that I'll never in all the days of my life have to go through another three days like that-that. That was hell on earth, friends. It was... I... Now, the God... God was gone. The Angel was gone. The Holy Spirit... I--I--I had nothing...
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hitting my hand, and you don't know how I felt. I knew that it was still there before I prayed for the little girl. I'll never be guilty of...?... I'll never... And I'll--I'll do everything that I can for you. And I'll walk humbly and quietly as I know how to walk. And the little girl was also deaf and dumb and had tuberculosis [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] just a little [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... her and she could speak, hear, and tubercular was gone. God had healed her. Then following that same night, I've got their pictures here. I--I was going to bring it too, friends. I'm sorry; I've been so nervous and broke up. And a picture from the mute school up there, that their teacher, they brought seven children from the mute school that was born deaf and dumb, and five of them got into the line that night. And all five are pronounced perfectly well. I've got their pictures, their testimony, and sent home to their loved ones, all five of them. Born deaf and dumb, pronounced by the doctor, not--by doctors who taken over to California and California doctors pronounced them well. Five of them... I got--I've got letters there then from a legal defense and everything like that if they come in. The governor of the state of Oregon come to my meeting, and the governor of the state of Idaho set in my meeting night before last, and some of their leading doctors and everything. So the Lord has just now begin to bless (You know?) in that way. So it's just moved out wonderfully. And--and I am so thankful. May I never be guilty.
And the way I do the people now... I found out that these last two weeks has put forth more miracles than any two week's time that I have ever had. I just pass the people through the line and pray for them. Then when something upon me stops and pulls the people, maybe it's someone doesn't have enough faith or something; then when they come through it stops me; and then that's when miracles are performed on the pulpit. Otherwise, I only go as God says...?... not what some man says do. "I'll bring my mother and you make her get well. She's crippled and neighborhood will believe." I find out that you didn't--brings more reproach than it does anything else. And just... That's right. Because she don't believe in the first place. And the so... And mostly like that, people take advantage of that. So I... If God has forgive me for it, I know. And I want--never want to be guilty of that again.
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And in these last few weeks there's been more miracles performed in my services than there has been in the last three four months or five (That's right.): more miracles. And we couldn't even take care of the crowds. If there's anybody here from the Oregon meetings and over there, they realize that their auditoriums and skating rinks and the pavilions and things we would get to, there'd just be thousands turned away each night, and thousands times thousand of--brought into the place. And the Lord has been blessing and doing great things. Now, there's been more people get well since then, 'cause I was just trying to get down where God wanted me to be. And I'm sure that you understand it. I want... Do you understand what I mean now? I'm not supposed to work miracles for the cause of people. If God should stop me on anyone...
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But now, dear friends, here's what it is. The vibrations move just the same as... That's God's Divine gift. Now, if He's going to take that away from me, I'd rather not come out of this pulpit this afternoon. 'Cause when I can't be a help to someone else, I don't want to stay here. And I--I... Then I went ahead and I started through the line, and the people begin to see after that God begin to perform more miracles than ever. Sometime they'd be prayed for and go back and set down with crutches, and would raise up. All at once the power of God would come upon them setting in their--in their seat, and throw down their crutches and run through the building real fast. And here'd be some on a cot, laying there just shaking with palsy. All at once while they was yet being prayed for, maybe a half hour before that, they'd stop shaking and raise up out of their cot. And some of them would go home, and--and maybe would be home maybe a few hours and woke up in the night, or something another like that. And here they'd come back to the services just a praising God, healed. You see? But that's what the people's got to do. They
got to believe. You see? It's got to be a part like Mary told--or Jesus told Mary and Martha: "Take ye away the stone." See? You got something to do yourself. And you got to believe it. And God will work. Like here. This way I was taking all away from the people; I was the one doing it all. You see? But there you've got something to do yourself. And you go, and you believe, and you'll get healed.
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And a little boy... It was so pathetic; the little fellow come by. And I might just tell this. It's hanging there in the auditorium now. A little boy with braces over his legs, and he come through with polio. He said, "Brother Branham," he said, "will you say the prayer for me?" I said, "Yes." And his mother was there, and--and I said... And she said, "If you'll just say the prayer for him, Brother Branham..." And I said, "All right, sister." And I said, "Now, you're not..." She said, "I do not desire a miracle." She said, "I just desire you to pray the prayer." And I had the prayer for the little boy just a moment and laid hands upon him. And brother, sister, two nights after that, the little boy was standing at the door, the entrance where I come in, his braces hanging on his back. He was standing there. See? The simplicity, the humbleness of the mother, to know...?... "I can believe God; I don't have to see any outstanding miracle. But I can believe God."
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And then my ministry become more blessed than it ever was in the first place. You see? So... And there the little boy standing here and shake his little limb and just like that. In three night's time now, the little boy was back and had the braces hanging on his shoulders like, standing there. Held them up: big shoes, even had to have his shoes made to keeps his braces out here [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... That's it. That's what a healing's to be, friends. Don't put so much rely [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] to man. Put your faith in God Who is almighty (You see?), 'cause it won't work anything. But His will heal you. And you get [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] the--the simplicity of a child believe that you're going to get well, and believe that this little prayer is what God asked me say for you, and you shall have what you've asked for, if you just believe it.
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Now, into that... Then I want to tell you about what happened. At the end of the week, there was so many people coming in from... They come from Canada, from everywhere. And so all according... I never seen the sun shine until I come back to Phoenix. I was so happy to see the sun, I didn't know what to do. And I was looking up there where we had to pay--went into a restaurant and had to pay
fifty cents for a grapefruit. Two half a grapefruit, fifty cents, and I seen where you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I said, "This is God's...?... then." That's right. You just see them growing on the trees, and--and like that, and fifty cents apiece for grapefruit... I said, "Well, I can go down there on the street and kick them around footballs in Phoenix." I said... Oh, friends, you've got the most lovely place in the world to live. I just wish you could just get together and pray, and... You--you could have the best church in the world right here, the best union of people. You've got everything a... The brother awhile ago I was so nervous so he taken me out to ride me around (Brother Sharritt)--and to ride me around a little bit before coming to the meeting, and I said, "Just look at this paradise here. Why, you're ready for the millennium if you just get together." That's right. You're ready now. So it's certainly wonderful and nice.
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Now... Then on the Friday night, last Friday night, I'd had my reservations made through to come down to Phoenix for the services as I had promised to do. And so the planes was grounded all week long. Then I said, "I'll catch a bus and go over to San Francisco, and perhaps the fog would drive away." Sometimes it'd be off for a hour; then it would come back. And planes would go around, and then they got a chance they come down; they would land at San Francisco: and awful foggy. And I said, "I'll go over by bus." And I was getting so weak. And here's how the gift was to begin...?... working; and therefore, I know now that something... Either I'll have to let up and-or I won't be long.
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The people passed by me; they never even put their hands on me or me on them. And they passed by me, and such strength went from me on account of that healing... Those people believing. I didn't have to pray for them. Their faith reached in and got it (You see?) just the same as I was praying for them. So I got so weak from the prayer line on the last night, where nearly three thousand passed by me alone on that night, three thousand, till I collapsed in the floor. And they picked me up all around the arms, two men, and packed me to door. And there'd been many spirits had went out of the people and got into others. This one woman had went insane. She was--got her mind off the Lord onto some woman was talking to her, setting there, she turned around while I was praying to talk to the woman and an insane spirit come upon her. I had to leave the poor soul like that; she's still insane. And there's many epileptics that went from one to another like that until...
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Then when I started out the door, and I went to the--to the
bus station... And Brother Lindsay and some of the--the ministers, they said, "Brother Branham, you can't start like this." I said, "I want to go back to Phoenix." And they said... "Well," I said, "such a thing as happened; I want to go tell that our heavenly Father has granted me another chance." So I--I said, "I--I want to go tell them." And they said, "Why, you can't go." One lady said, "I'll drive you in a car." Oh, and I said, "No, ma'am. I'll take a bus." And so I waited out there at the... Dropped off, and we went to wait for the bus. And I got my ticket to San Francisco. And setting... And the bus come in; it was already three hours late. And the fog, you couldn't hardly see at all. And while setting there at the table, I so nervous, I passed beyond the reach of human senses again, and they thought I was asleep. And then they taken me on, and when I roused out of it, well then, the-the bus, when it come in around towards one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning, why, he couldn't go no farther; he had to put up. He couldn't even drive over the mountains then. That threw me out from Phoenix altogether.
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Then when I went home, went over there, I begin to see myself failing real fast, and then forty-four hours I got normal. Then when that taken place, then I knew then how weak I was, and how really...?... body was. I went... From then I begin to feel weak and weary, and so I wanted to come on to the meeting. And I come back again to Phoenix now to pray for you sick and afflicted. And I know you'll understand, won't you? You'll understand, and believe me with all your heart, that when these sick people pass by, remember, they'll get well. You just go believe. And if you come by, your faith will reach in and take ahold of that gift of healing and you'll be healed. Won't you believe that, all of you? If it works every way... And listen. You dear people of Phoenix here, I want each one of you to go to your pastor, each one, and say, "Let's have union revivals here in Phoenix." Don't you think you could do that, have union revivals and get everybody saved and going, living for God. Don't you believe you could do that? Sure you could if you just only believe. Have faith and believe God, for He wants to do that. And He cannot come... And I'd hate to know that little Phoenix was left out of the program.
Now, to catch back to my Scripture, where I left off at. You remember Joshua, all the way through the Scriptures you bring the children of Israel, it typed down to last part. Is that right? Now, I've told you that how the children of Israel had three journeys; they did: three stages of their journey. Is that right? And the church has come to its third stage. Is that true? Remember... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] back with the evidence of the new
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land, and that's where you people stand now. But you...?...[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] of the church could not believe; they got into confusion and went out into the desert again, and there the... They begin to get sick and there's where the br--brazen serpent, the gift that was give to the church. Is that right? To Pentecost... Look, after the Pentecostal church got broke up in so many, you full Gos... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] then sickness came into your midst...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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You notice one more thing before I close this series of this. Now, before... Now... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] shadows and types here has come on up to this hour. If that was shadow and type, then the rest of it must come to pass. Now, so that you'll get this... And I want you ministers especially to get this. Remember, their leader Moses all the time was a type of Christ the spirit today. Is that right? But Moses never took the people across Jordan. There was a new order came. Was that right? Moses never took the people across Jordan, the church manager. Joshua took the people across. Is that right? And friends, our great organization is not going to take the church across Jordan. Now, remember that. Joshua come in on the scene. See? God is going to send the nine spiritual gifts to the church. It's going to pull it together and she'll cross Jordan. Remember He said, "Rise now, and let's cross this Jordan," He said to Joshua. And I believe that if there ever was a time of all the church history, that Voice is now, "Rise, we're going across Jordan now." That's right. The church has been pulled through everything. It's broke up in sects here in the denominations. This is my last words on this. And I tried hard.
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I--I love Phoenix. I love you people. Now, I'd like to see everything in one heart and one accord. I'd like to come here and make this my home where I could... You just have every Sunday afternoon service on and on and on as far that goes, until Jesus comes. But I--I can't do it myself. But I'm going to give you my vision. Now is the time that our churches... They will not agree with one another. See? And it's time for you people to agree with one another, the church itself. And this is the way the gift that's coming into the church, that's pulling in from both sides, not pulling people out of their churches. No, you go right to your same church. Your church is all right, your organization. I have nothing against that. But, brother, don't never think that you're a little bit better than somebody else, or somebody's a little lower than you. You remember, we're all on one equality with God. We're His sons and daughters. And if we're sons and daughters of God, let's act like it, talk like it, and live like it, and be like it, sons and daughters of
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And now, these gifts is what's doing that. See, the system's changed. The church has led the world ever since Martin Luther's time. Is that right? But the church age is dying out now. It's right. That's the Moses part. It's dying out, because as Moses failed God, so has the church failed God: I mean the denominations. You see what I mean? How many thinks you understand what I'm speaking of? Thank you, friends. Look. Satan tries to tell me sometime that they--they don't get it. But I know you do. See? That has failed. The church has failed, because it's got to a place if you're not Methodist, you're not in it; if you not Baptist, you're not in it; if you're not belong to the Assemblies of God, you're not in it; if you don't belong to the Oneness, you're not in it; if--if you don't belong to this one or that, you're not in it.
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The church has failed. See? Instead of bringing the people together as one body, it separated them out. Just like Moses, instead of speaking to the rock, he smote the rock (You see?), and it failed. So the church will never take the people over Jordan. That's right. But now, God has changed His order, and He's sending back... You who mark my word, there's great men on the road to this world. That's right. There's great powers on the road to this world. And it'll be a people that'll call out a people. Remember, "Come out of her, My people." Is that right? Babylon, confusion that... And not the people now, not out of your churches, but come out of that confusion among you. You see? Come out; let's serve God with one heart and one mind and one accord. Is that right? And then God will take His church over Jordan. That's over death. Now, you believe that with all your heart.
I was just reading here... How many of you... I know. I know you haven't got the "Herald of Truth." This brother sister, where's he at? You've never issued this yet, have you? This is the new "Herald, Herald of Truth." And I was noticing in there this year, this month's...?... about... The other night I had a surprise. My wife has... When she heard that I had had that exhaustion and passed out up there, it liked to kill the poor little thing. And she's wearied. I never... She's so backward, I couldn't get her to have her picture taken. But she finally took it, and she sent it to me. And I was talking to her a little while ago... And my little girl, twenty months old, prayed for me on the--over the telephone. Bless her little heart, she's seen daddy, "Jesus, help my daddy. Jesus, help my daddy to come home." And they got our pictures in there this month, or--hers and mine and my secretary, Brother Cox and Sister Cox. They're very fine people.
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And in here, I happen to notice this testimony that I wish to-to read just a little bit. And it...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that was healed by the, some many good doctors, her nerves down. She had went wild. She only seemed like a little...?... You can see her little picture there. She's just a little chunk of human love; that's all. And God healed her instantly, right then. She got from the bed after laying there month after month and walked down in her little pajamas. Why, you couldn't even get around her, she had [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] on herself and everything. She was blood all over and everything. She just calmed in a moment and walked in her little pajamas, with her little slippers on, down to the soda fountain and drank a soda with me, and people coming from all over, everywhere, looking at her...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I had a testimony here that I--I wanted to read. You know, a-accordingly, I got about fifteen minutes now to get to these testimonies to you, and then have the time for the prayer for the sick. Here, not long ago, I guess, in the midst of people there was a--the... You all read the--"The Azusa News"? Anybody get the "Azusa News"? All right. Do you get... Did you ever get that "Jonesboro Evening Sun" that great write up it went... You notice, in the "Azusa News," in there, of a--where I was to fly to California, in the "Jonesboro Sun" it was placed in there, about flying to El Dorado in a airplane for a case that was dying of cancer? Anybody... You read that in the "Azusa News"? I was having services there. There's where a minister standing at the platform, big cancer hanging on him, oh, probably that big, hanging on his neck. The doctor said there's no chance for him and standing there with the reporters, stand there flashing the pictures. That cancer turned white, fell off of his neck, and rolled over my feet. I got it in alcohol now. There was a pit in his neck, and his picture in the paper showing. There was a man who set in a wheelchair for--for I forget how many years, bound down like this, was setting there in the chair, a Baptist deacon. And he... A moment, got up out of the chair and walked through the building glorifying God and things like that.
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And then I was flown down to El Dorado with a little Cessna, a plane, to a girl that was a poor people, that was, the girl expecting to die at any time. She'd been a cripple all of her life, a victim of polio. She was about twenty-eight, thirty years old. And the cancer had become a fibery cancer and went all through her and the doctor, as I spoke to him as I went in after the plane landed... And if they had me--went out there and met me and took--taken me in to the home
and there was... The doctor said that he cut around four to six pounds of cancer out of her of surface where it'd growed. He sewed the girl back up and less than two weeks time, more than that had growed back in her again. There was no hopes at all, nothing at all. And her people was keeping it from her. So I went. I never shall forget. This may not mean much to you people, for some of you, but think if that would been your mother, if that had been your daughter. It means much to me. I have to answer for these things at the judgment bar. And just awhile ago I happened to pick up... I dreamed of this girl last night, and here I picked up the little "Herald of Truth" awhile ago, and read her testimony in there. And then just how it was come out--like there's such a coincidence.
Then standing there, walked into the house, rather, the little, humble white cottage there in El Dorado... Going in, the loved ones was setting in the yard and they were all looking and a watching for me to come. And I went in and I gathered the family together. I said, "Does she know what's wrong with her?" Said, "No, don't tell her, Brother Branham." I said, "Now, I can't promise that. See?" Said, "Well, we've never let her know." I said, "Now, the first thing, I want to know if you all have faith?" Said, "Well, we've heard of others..." And poor old man standing there, the old blue shirt on, you know, and her daddy a great big fellow. And he was just crying; I said, "Now, don't cry, dad." I said, "Don't cry." I said, "Now, that'll cause your faith to be wavering." I said, "You must believe that--that the--that what you--the requirements for your child is now met." I said, "Are you a Christian?" And he said, "Brother Branham, she's the only one in the bunch that's a Christian." He said, "I guess that we're too mean." Said, "That's the reason that she's--God's taking her from us, because we're not Christians." And I seen then the opportunity that God had give me. See? Don't never fail your opportunity.
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And there was at least about fifteen or eighteen of them standing in the little kitchen. And I said, "Are you all relatives?" "Yes." I said, "Is any of you a Christian?" and one of them was a member of the Church of--of Jesus Christ and that was as much as any of them was in the line of Christianity. And I said, "Will you do this? If God will let then this girl live, will you promise Him that every one of you will-will repent, every one of you and be Christians and be baptized, and so forth?" They every one said, "We'll do it, if God will do it." Well, I walked out. She said, "I'll tell you when I come out what
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And I went into the room, not letting anyone in there. Poor girl was laying there. She just had a few days to live, just maybe two or three more days said she'd be done, 'cause she was sinking fastly. As I walked in, she said, "I presume that you're Brother Branham." And I said, "Yes, ma'am." And she--her side was still open where it didn't heal or nothing where the cancer was taken from her. And, oh, she was swollen way up like that, just pounds of that flesh had been taken out and it's where the cancer... You know what fibrous is like that? It just went right through her, surplus flesh growing all the time. And so she said, "Well, I presume that you're Brother Branham." I said, "Yes." And she said, "Brother Branham, I understand that you can tell people what's wrong with them." I seen right then what was happening. And I said, "Yes, ma'am, by the help and mercy of God, I can." She said, "Brother Branham, will you tell me what's wrong with me?" She said, "They--they won't tell me." Said, "Now, I know the way you're coming here...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] all sins are hidden." And I said, "Yes, ma'am." "You be honest with me, Brother Branham..." I said.. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] if I be healed." And I took hold of her hand; I said, "Yes, ma'am. It's a cancer."
"I thought it was, Brother Branham." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "But besides that," said, "your--your doctor, as I just met them out there in the kitchen when they was talking, says that your time is within the next two or three days. And I..." She said, "There's one... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that there's nothing between my soul and the Saviour." She said... Worth more... "Yes." "Sing." She said, "I tried to lead my.. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And I--I couldn't. And said... And I said, "Maybe this is the opportunity; they all love you so well." I said, "They everyone promised now, that if you got well that you would serve God... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that--that-that--they did.
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And just then, friend... Now remember, one day I'm going to leave this world myself. The Angel told me to--would take place, it took place just then; I felt it. And I went down and had prayer for her; the vibrations stopped. And I said, "Sister, you're going to be well." She said, "Brother Branham, I don't know what's happened to me,"
she said, "but just--I just know I'm going to be well again." And I said, "You are. You're going to be well." I walked out and all the people out there in the kitchen crying, and I walked out and shut the door as I come out. They said, "Well, what about it, Brother Branham?" I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, the girl will live." Her poor old daddy just broke down to crying. And here's her testimony wrote in this paper. Says... Here's... She quoted my words here. "Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever... He is also performing miracles in these last days. On May, the 16th, 1947, the doctors found it necessary to operate on me. When they did, they found a raging cancer. All that--all--all that some of the best doctors of this city could say was that my time was very short. My friend, God came on the scene. Brother Branham flew here from Jonesboro, Arkansas, by plane and prayed for me. The Lord immediately killed the cancer germ and healed my body. I can never get through thanking the Lord for sending Brother Branham to pray for me and for the healing of my body. Mrs. L-a-d-d-i-e M-y-r-i-c-k: Laddie Myrick, 325 West Cook Street, El Dorado, Arkansas." Write to her. See? Now, if that woman, where the best of doctors with that cancer... Was no miracle. It was a miracle. She accepted it as a miracle, but it was weeks later before she was perfectly well, but they... I told her the germ of that cancer was dead. She believed it, and that's what happened. Can't you believe the same thing?
Now, one more little thing kinda boosted my heart when I read this. Is was a dear mother in Canada. And give me your undivided attention now, as I read this little article. We'll have prayer and have the healing service. "All things are possible," title for that. "Humbly dedicated to Rev. William Branham, by a Canadian mother." There's where God healed. Bless her heart, I'll never forget them. And that little song of "All Things Are Possible." You can just hear it sung anywhere. They say you hear a mother rocking her baby; she's singing it. And out on the street they're singing it; in their work they're singing it, "All Things Are Possible," and they've got a revival sweeping plumb from coast to coast in Canada, everywhere. Little churches that was once turned down, they've reopened them again. Missionaries or evangelists has went out into the field there and opened it up: such a stirring. That's what we need, isn't it friend?
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There are some, dear Lord, that You have chosen, Called out from this world of sin To be ready to go or ready to stay,
As the Master has called to him. You only choose the pure in heart And those that will follow You. Then, dear Lord, You'll give to them A priceless gift as no one else can do. O heavenly Father, we love You so As you sent an Angel down. He came with a message, O how sweet And promised, "On one a crown." The angel said, "I will give to you The gift of healing Divine. Will you go and tell them to believe? This promise, then, is thine." "Yes, Lord. I'll do my very best," As he knelt at the throne of grace. "I know, dear Lord, all is possible. I'll do it at Thy request. I'll go, dear Lord, where You want me to go; I'll be what You want me to be. I'll pray for the dumb and they shall speak. I'll pray for the blind and they'll see." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You'll be healed by the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Just to get one touch from Him. And he files along the--They file along the sidewalks For one temporal glance at Him. The sick are brought from north and south And some are [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] lame Some are brought [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... to be healed [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] O Angel, dear [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] him--dare him...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] To cast the devil from this child and it shall be. O Jesus, Lord and Saviour, Do keep and bless Thine own That they... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Bless Thy servant whom Thou has loved [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] With thy power, and give him strength from [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] sin... To that blessed hour. EXPERIENCES_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1207
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Our Heavenly Father, I thank Thee for this humble privilege that I have, dear God, that someone has--that they believed, Father. And Thy Angel Who so dearly...?... and this dear person who has formed it into poetry now, I pray, Father, that You'll let me always be humble. And may, today, the dumb speak and the blind to see; and that child that is possessed of that devil, may it be cast out. Just a touch from Thee is all I want, Lord, to know that You're standing near. I know, Father, that all demons are subject to Thee. When Your great power is near us, nothing can stand. And I pray that You'll heal
everyone here in Phoenix, Father, today in this auditorium, for this is where Thou hast taught me a lesson to listen to God instead of man. O Father, help me, never again, Father, never to do anything that would be displeasing to Thee. And may now, Lord, that last Sunday or Sunday week, for such a rebuke to me, may this Sunday be a great blessing to me, Father, to see Thy people healed in this auditorium. Today, I pray that Thou will grant it, Father, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen.
EXPERIENCES_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1207 E-46 [A brother speaks before Brother Branham prays: In the ministry, now will soon be thirty-four years. Of hundreds and hundreds of preachers of the different faiths, and of our own faith, the Pentecostal faith, I have never yet met a man manifesting the humility from day to day, that Brother Branham manifests. The weight of this is crushing the very life out of him. You don't realize what it means to fight the powers of darkness. All the powers of the enemy are turned loose against him. You, perhaps, only have a small portion against you. Remember, the reason that Jesus suffered so on the cross was not because of His own sins, but because the powers of hell were determined to crush him. So if you have anything special from God, the powers of darkness are going to do the best to crush you. So this afternoon we want you to do your best now to believe God. You've heard what Brother Branham's had to say. How many of you now believe that God is here, that He will heal? Let's see your hands if you believe it. God bless you. That's all it takes is faith. So we want you to be humble and believe. Be back with you in just one second. We have a case waiting at the door, brought in the man that was dying with cancer. Brother Branham is slipping out to pray for this one now, while we're forming a prayer line. Now, Brother Kidd, if you'll be now when, start the prayer line now. All of you listen attentively so that you'll know. I don't know some of you ushers by name, but the usher that was over here a little while ago when I asked who had been here for three services and lived more than fifty miles away from here. If you let those folks come first... Those who live over fifty miles away and have been here three services or more... Now please don't take advantage of these things, friends, when we ask a question like this. If you do, here's what may happen: the disease may stay on you or you'll get something else. Remember that you're not just dealing with us. We want to be just as fair with you as we can be. The reason I say this is because people take advantage. I'm going to give you a little illustration for a moment, 'cause Brother Branham will be up in just a minute. Blank.spot.on.tape. You'll hinder us if you don't do it. Now, we--we want you to please as obedient and as nice as you can because it'll interfere and you'll cheat yourself and somebody else out of an opportunity. Please do not stand or get in the prayer line at all until we call for you. Now remember, we want, as Brother Branham prays, everybody keep your heads bowed. Be as humble as you can for the...?...--Ed.] EXPERIENCES_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1207
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Shall we bow our heads...?... Our heavenly Father, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] now, for this meeting. Dear Jesus [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... platform again today, after two weeks absence. And here stands lovely people who are wanting to be well. I have tried humbly to tell them, Father, that Your blessing was if they would just believe me, that their faith, Lord, is what makes them
whole, their faith to believe it's there. And now, may each one that comes by, be touched by Thy Divine power. And I pray now, as I feel Your Angel standing so near, O God, may we bless each one and they be well. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray.
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Believe, sister, with all your heart? Dear heavenly Father, seeing that our sister here is suffering with this hideous demon, Thou art near to liberate her, Father, that she'll be well. Grant it, dear God. Thou spirit of the devil that has bound this woman, I adjure thee, by Jesus Christ, to leave her. There it is...?... every speck is clear. You'll be well then. Have you had...?... Now, you just...?... How long have you had this arthritis, sister? Now, don't doubt anything. You don't? You want to serve God, don't you? Father, in simple faith, our sister comes this afternoon, crippled here, with this arthritis, and also has been bothered with this blood pressure and many pains, Father. Her poor body is breaking down. And You, Who sent Your great Angel in the room that night, said I was to take this to the people, O God, may her faith reach in for it now. Satan, you bound our sister. I adjure thee to leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, sister, it stopped so quickly, that I believe a miracle has been performed on you. Now, don't doubt anything. I want you to raise your feet up and down like this, real... Move your hand. There you are. Now, walk right out and down the steps. A miracle has been performed on the lady. Walk on, sister. Now, you can raise your head and look. There she is, stiffened up with arthritis... Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Let's give God a praise of this type, friends, like this, for...?... See how that the Father works? She was crippled up with arthritis.
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Now, bow your heads, everyone, and be in prayer. Just be real reverent like that. God will just grant great things. I believe this. Our heavenly Father, I thank Thee for Thy goodness and Thy mercy. And I pray, dear God, that You'll show mercy to our dear brother who's come many miles now to be healed. Help him, Father, while we pray. Satan, thou power of infirmity, leave the man; in the Name of Jesus Christ, I adjure thee to leave him. Sir, the only... You heard me tell about the lady with cancer awhile ago? Well now, the same thing that's happened to the lady with the cancer that was dying has happened to you now. Every vibration, everything that I know to tell you, it's over. So you can go and be healed. God bless you. God bless you, sir.
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You believe if I'll ask God, He'll let you have back your
eyesight again? I see you have a little more than that ulcer, don't you? Yes, sir. What kind of asthma did... Now, there's only way that I'd ever be able to know those things, sister, and tell you that would be by God. Is that right? For it's... Only way I know you have it, I can tell the vibrations, know you got a asthmatic...?... for it. Now just believe with all your heart. Our Father, You Who reveals the secrets of all hearts, I pray that You'll be merciful to sister now. After, by Your grace and Your help, O God, Thou knowest how I feel, standing here now, since Sunday before last: Your Presence gone, and now, Your Presence here, and that each one is passing...?... Help our sister, Father, just now, be healed. And this demon that's come upon her to cause this trouble and her eyes are going blind and Thou art... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... in Jesus Christ' Name, come out of the woman, in the Name of Jesus Christ...?...
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You...?... Look around through the room just a little bit and see if you can... Look around. See those lights up there? Can you count them? Point to them. Let's see if you can point now. That's right. That's...?... that way. Somebody out in the audience raise your hand. Fifteen lights she sees in the building now. All right, someone raise your hand up out there. You see them hands. You see them hands. Wonder if that lady there with the green looking coat on, kind of a--a gray hair... Has she got just one finger up or has she got her whole hand up. Now, she changed it. Just a minute...?... If she could just... Raise your hand up again, sister. See? Now... Yes, yes. Can you tell her? Can you see that she's got a green sweater on from here? Yes, ma'am, that's fine. How many fingers would you think she has--she's holding up there? Can you count that far? It's kind of shadowy but... That's exactly right. Now, say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. You can raise your head. Now, sister, your sight has coming and you're going to be a perfect well woman again. Let's give God a little praise like this, everybody please.
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When someone asked the other day why didn't people... Said, "What I can't understand, Brother Branham, is that people who are prayed for... and when they're healed," said, "the people in Pentecost, they usually like to shout so much," said, "wonder they don't do more shouting than that." I said, "They are just dumbfounded. They're just the... They just... they just are--It just happened then." I said, "You ought to go outside of the building sometime and see them when they coming out of the building, then you would understand." All right, now, bow your heads everyone while we pray.
The ones that was here...?... the vibrations. Don't no one have nothing in your right hand, 'cause I...?... Every one bow your head.
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Everything is put in the hand of God. While I was praying for the lady, the vibration stopped on my hand. Now, that came to me for her life. That woman wants to live as same as the rest of us.
And now, I believe with all my heart... She's a Phoenix woman; you'll see her on the street again, well. Now...?... Now, I thank you for your kindness of how you kept your heads bowed and things. You're awfully nice and I--I know that faith... I wished I'd have had that lady that had the--Sister Waldrop here to testify to her. I don't know where she's from. And I wonder, Sister Waldrop, if you'd walk out here and give her a testimony, tell her your condition. Here goes one of your Phoenix women was dying of cancer. Fact it already had passed out, right here, with a cancer, when I was here in the other meeting. How many knows her, let's see your hand? Mrs. Waldrop, there she is. Hold--tell them to hold the ambulance just a minute. I want to try a testimony for this lady here. All right. Thank... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Remember, my heart wants to be sincere with God; it'll be better, don't you think? Better to let them get healed than just let them pass it out. Don't you think so? Now, the lady will be well. She'll be like Mrs. Waldrop here, on the streets with you one of these days, and you'll be glad when the judgment comes that you set and was very reverent. Now, if you'll bow your heads again while we pray for more. Yes, ma'am. Now, you're... How long have you known? You're... Now, see, the doctor's done all he knows how to do for you, sister. Now, your only chance is now. Just... Your loved ones has done what they can do; your doctor's done all he can do; now your Saviour, He can heal you. You believe that? All right. All right now bow your head then. Father, realizing that life is near the end, for this our sister; she's going to leave us, Father. She's going out into dark eternity, somewhere. Thou knowest her conditions and knows her soul, and knows where she'd go to if she dies. You know us all, Father. You know us by name. You know every hair of our heads; You know all about us. Our doctors has done all they can do all in their knowledge. They've given her x-ray, and they given her treatments, and she's constantly now the cancer's claiming her life. Thou alone can heal her, Father. Thou demon, I adjure thee by Jesus Christ the Son of God, that you come out of the woman.
Now, just keep your head bowed, everyone and just try to hold her in your... Now, where do you live at, lady? Globe, Arizona. Nice country up there, isn't it? I want you to look at me...?... I don't want you to be melancholy; I want you just to try just let yourself relax now. You're going try? Are you--have you... You're married, are you? Uh-huh. Have some children? You have a boy overseas. You want to see him again, don't you, mother? You will. I want him to see you too. Now, look here. I want you to be honest with me. I'm honest with you; you'll do the same with me, won't you? Now, there's something holding you back from your healing and I'm going to tell you what it is. Shall I tell you out, just let it go? You...?... in secret. Now, you know I know what it is, don't you? All right. Don't any more. No, I know...?... the revelation here. Now, you're... Yes, you can. God can take it away from you. Yes, but now look. There's no way in the world for me to ever know that, only by the revelation of God; but I found this cancer won't leave you. See? That's the reason it's holding. Now, you pray. Will you do it? By the mercy, you'll do it? Sure He will deliver you? Father, she's willing now to lay it on the altar. God of heaven, You know how I could find that out; and I pray, dear God, that You'll take the desire from her now and that she'll never do it again. Satan, upon the confession of this woman, upon her desire to serve God with a pure heart, I come to You in the Name of Jesus Christ; come out of the woman. Now, sister, looky here. Every vibration has stopped. You're free from your habit also. Go on now and serve God with all your heart. You'll see your boy, sister. Put your arms around his neck and tell him, "Mother's delivered." Every vibration is stopped. Got a funny feeling, haven't you? Yeah, that habit's gone from you too. Now, keep it away from it as long as you live. God bless you.
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EXPERIENCES_ PHOENIX.AZ SUNDAY_ 47-1207 E-56 [A woman speaks to Brother Branham at length, during which Brother Branham speaks--Ed.] Yes. That is right, sister. God bless you. That's
a good spirit to have. Now, just keep your heads bowed for a few moments. This lady's coming here to the service today. She flew in from Chicago here, and she's suffering here with here a tubercular, and she's got a hemorrhage--and just had a hemorrhage here. Uhhuh. Dear God, Thou will regards faith. I imagine, Father, if that brazen serpent was still lift upon the plain, that people would fly across the sea to get to look upon that brazen serpent, because they know that others looked at it and were healed. And O Father, Thou has not lifted up a brazen serpent today, but Thou has ordained Thy gift. And the people are coming everywhere. And Father, this poor woman coming down from my own home country to be prayed for, thousands of miles across the mountains and deserts... She's laid in that hotel up there, Father, close to where somebody who didn't take You and
committed suicide. And she's heard their scream and howls all week long. But almighty God, You're here today to stop the hemorrhage to send her back home, well woman. Grant it, Father. Will You hear the prayer of Your humble servant, I pray? And Father, I believe the woman will live a consecrated life to You, and give You all the praise and glory if You'll grant this to her. Now will You hear me, Father, this moment that's been looked forward to for weeks. Grant it, Father. Thou demon that's bound my sister, I adjure thee to leave her, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I adjure thee, come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Every vibration's stopped then. You'll be well woman now. So just go and believe Him with all your heart now. Not one vibration is...?... That's got it. God rewarded the woman of her fine faith...?...
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I pray for her healing, in the Name Thy Son Jesus. Young lady, look here. You got an infection in your body of some sort. I can't catch it just what it is. I want you look at my hand here a moment. Look at this one here; then what if it's...?... wrong...?... Look at that...?... Even I believe you could almost feel that vibration yourself. You feel a little roar like? That's the hardest I feel--felt one hit. Coming through my whole body, it's shaking my whole being. Can you feel that? That's only the fourth time that anybody has ever felt a vibration themself. Friends, I want you to raise your head a minute. Here's a vibration hitting so hard on my hand, till the lady can feel the shaking in my own hand. Can you feel it, sister? Tell them there. She can feel it herself.
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Now, she's suffering with a heart trouble, which is causing a block in her heart. She's got a asthmatic trouble also. She's extremely nervous, a deep thinker, and real--worry about things before it happens. And then so... Now, I want you to watch my hand, sister, yourself. So you could feel if it stopped. You can feel it. You must have a very good faith or something. Where you from? Superior? Is that Arizona, is it? Why, it's the first time. That's the fourth person that I've ever knowed that felt the vibration, the reaction of it. It's not the--the rolling and tumbling, but it's hitting so hard on my hand till it's rolling back there. She can feel it back. Now, just bow your head. And you watch my hand, sister. And if it turns... It'll turn back normal like this one here if that leaves. Or you can tell it when it feels... Now, you see when the feeling of that leaves and my hand will turn normal. Father, I pray for sister, that You will heal her. Thou demon, I adjure thee by Jesus Christ the Son of the living God come out of the woman. You don't feel it now, do you? Look at my hand. Now, you may raise
your head, audience. It's stopped now, hasn't it? You don't feel it at all. And there my hand's turned white. Now, you got a reaction of what I feel in vi--in vibrations for the sick people.
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Now, I want you to give a little testimony here. It felt to you more like--like you'd put your hand upon a--a rail that was charged with electricity, kind of a shaking. Is that right? And while I was praying, that's when it begin to lope--jump, and then all at once it went away. Is that right? That's when your air came in. That was one of your women from Arizona here. And then when looked down my hand which was red and had white spots on it had turned white. Is that right? See? Now, that's... I don't know the lady, never seen her in my life before. This your first time here? Been here every Sunday, wait to get your... That right? Well, you should go home now, rejoicing, sister, 'cause you're healed. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everyone. That's mighty fine. God be praised and blessed for it. The little lady's from Superior. Where's that at here in Arizona? Up towards Globe, up toward Globe. I seen your ad in the paper where you was cooperating. That's mighty fine. You're Brother Faulkner? Thank you, sir.
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Do you believe, sir, if I'll ask God it will leave you? I see you have a few more things, but that's your major thing, isn't it? Uh-huh. I think you got a ruptured nerve there or something that's going on...?... That's right, isn't it? Now, say it's in this ear over here, and your--your kidney. Is that right? All right, you believe with all your heart now it'll stop? See, these... On these... The only way I'd know that, is by some way I could tell it here. 'Cause you know you never said at the outlet... Our heavenly Father, Thou Who knowest all things, come and be merciful to my brother. He's suffering now. And Father, by Your Spirit, by Your grace, I was able to tell the man what was wrong with him, Father, right to his face. How could he doubt when he's seen. But Thou art here to make him well. And I pray that he'll start right now, Father, and not suffer. May it all go away from him, and ever where he's from, he'll be thankful and tell the men that he works with and so forth, of Your great power, and someone else will hear, and they'll come and be healed; and they'll give their hearts to Thee. Lord, make him a testimony among unbelievers. I rebuke this demon, in Name of Jesus Christ. There it stopped, sir. Every vibration left. God bless you, my brother. Be a testimony in your neighborhood now.
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last Sunday a week...?... Now, there's a vibration. I want you to look. Can you see
my [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] like in here [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... this one looks. See, now I put my hand... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... pressure's on this. See? You can't see the spots, of course, from where you're at. How many can see it, like where the difference in the hand? Let see your hand. Certainly. Now, see on the balcony? Can you see the difference in the two hands? Now, this is the first deaf case. One of his ears are deaf. He's got a kidney disorder, suffering with his kidneys. All right. Just a moment. Everybody be lovely and reverent.
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Eternal God, the Author of Eternal Life and the Giver of every good gift, I've trying now, Father, to find favor with Thee for our brother. He's suffering. I know not him; Ye know him. And I pray, Father, that Ye will make him a testimony in the community where he is and among the men that he works with. May the--everyone he comes in contact with he will represent Ye, just like the others did in the days gone by, when You were here in flesh. I pray that You will grant this to my brother. And now, Lord, the last deaf person I prayed for on this altar, I feel that I was out of Your will. But I thank Thee today, Father. I feel that You forgive me and I am in Thy will, and I pray that You will hear me. And Father, I'm not asking You to perform a miracle, but I ask You, Father, before these people, that they might know that that Thy servant has been forgiven of his sin of trying to challenge unbelief to be prayed for, even that in above which the Son of God has said. I pray that You will open his ear immediately, Lord, that the people might know that Thou art Christ and I be Your forgiven servant. Thou demon, I come to meet thee in the Name of Jesus Christ; I adjure thee, come out of the man. Come out of him thou spirit, in the Name of Jesus Christ, thou evil one that has deafened his ear and causing this kidney trouble; leave the man. Now, just keep your heads bowed, friends. It's lessening. Hear me? Open your--raise your heads. How long you been deaf in that ear? Ever since he was born he was deaf in this ear. Listen at this now. Put my hand here. Oye? Oye? Oye? That's whispers. Listen here now. He's speaking back in Spanish, the... Oye?
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Now I want to offer a little prayer of thanks to God. Our heavenly Father, that man was born deaf, and now he can hear. Thou has testified by Thy own lips today that Thou has regarded Thy servant and has forgive me, Lord, of my stupidness that I did two weeks ago. And Father dear, let me always walk softly by You. And I pray that You'll let me serve You as long as I live. And then, Father, even if I get tired, I'll try to weary on. And then someday when life is over, may I meet every one that I've prayed for, Father, when we rally at Your throne. O Christ, grant it. How I thank You. With all my heart I thank You, Father. And I pray now that You'll continue to be
with me and heal the sick people, for Thou seest that our doctors are just limited to certain power. But Father, Thy power is unlimited, and Thou has raised up a--a horn of--of healing to the people. And we thank You for it. And I pray, God, it'll continue on and on, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ, I ask. Amen.
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Thank you very much for everything. All right. Let--let him run in before. Now, the child is in... Yes, young man. You understand English? You do? I see you're suffering with a tubercular. Now, look at my hands here. See them little spots coming up on my hand? Look at this one here. See the difference? Now, God has certainly regarded you Spanish people. I presume that's what you are, the Spanish speaking...?... There's many of them healed. I'm going down into your home country, down in Mexico, in a few weeks. I trust that you'll be a testimony. You will serve God, will you, young man? You will. Our heavenly Father, You Who created this young man, Who brought him here to the earth, and he's just here, a youth, to mean so much to Your Kingdom, Father, among young men today that's gone astray... But he wants to serve You, and Satan has bound him, but now Thou has for him to be healed. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... come today just as he--the children of Israel did to the brazen serpent: to look and live. Help him, Father, and may this young man to be a strong fine young... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... with a testimony that'll just alarm among his people. Grant it, Father. May he start gaining weight from this very day. Now, Satan, thou demon of tuberculosis, I come to meet thee in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of the boy. I adjure thee to leave him, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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Now, young man, before I raise my head to look at my hand, my hand has turned white, hasn't it? Where it was red and flashing, I'm pointing to it. Is that right? Turned white... I kept my hand in the same position. Is that right. What's the matter? It's your sign you're going home to be well now. That's right, sir. All right, you may raise head, audience. Young Spanish boy standing here the vibration of tubercular on--on my hand, and now, every bit of it has left, every bit of it. Now, you can go and be... Now, you was looking at my hand; you noticed it that that... You're all right. When you go home, you're going to get well and start gaining weight right away. Eat plenty of good wholesome food and get sleep. You're broke down, so just--to build up. Let's praise the Lord, every one.
Believe it? You speak English? No. You speak English? Ask her if she will believe God will heal her. All right now, bow your heads
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everywhere, just... Our heavenly Father, Thou art here to make the sick to be well again. And here stands this poor little old Spanish mother, crippled up here with rheumatism. Father, I--I cannot talk to her. She does not hear my prayer, doesn't understand it. But I know You do, Father. You understand all languages, speak in all languages. And I pray, dear God, that somehow that You'll let her know in her in heart that I'm interceding with all of my heart, Father, that You'll liberate her from this rheumatism today. Grant it, Father. And I feel that You're going to give us such a great meeting down in their country, down in Mexico. Now, may she walk out of the building whole today, Father. If it be Thy Divine will, grant it, dear God, for I beg it for You, of You for her, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Thou demon that crippled the woman up with rheumatism, leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Keep your head bowed. Seemingly the vibration left her hand. I don't know what it's done for her. Now, young lady, you--you talk to her, and you tell her that I said to raise up her--her right foot like this. Now, tell her to walk following me; don't doubt nothing. Tell her to walk right on following me. Now, walk. Now, you can raise your head. Walk right here.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. She looked around; she just smiled like I knowed what she meant. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. My, isn't the Lord Jesus wonderful? Isn't He a wonderful Healer? Now, if you just bow your heads again, real lovely, for a few moments now, and... Yes, ma'am. Sissy, how did that... Did you injure it some way; it's turned into an ulcer. Uh-huh. You don't know how it come? That's... It's probably some... You see the vibrations coming? It's an ulcer. How long have you had it, sister? Thirteen years it's been running. Now, do you believe if I'll ask the Lord Jesus... Now, there's something there that's a doing that, keeping that corruption all the time coming from it. You see? Is it below your... Is it... Oh, in your ankle... Well now, how old are you? Twenty. Now, little lady, if I'll ask God with all my heart, do you believe that--that thing will just start to dry up, and get well now, and be well? Will you serve Him all your days? You'll love Jesus, and you'll serve Him? Will you do that? You will?
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Now, just bow your head. A little Spanish lady standing here that's got an open sore for years. It's an ulcer, running from her foot. O Father, no doubt but what many doctors has took that foot into their hands and weeped. They've went to their prescription pad and wrote out different things, Father, just to help this little lady. They've done all they know how to do, Father. She's done all she knows how
to do. And now, she's come to me, and I'm doing all I know how to do. And now, Father, I know You know how to do it. You're the only One that can do it. And there's why we're talking to You, Lord, from the very depths of our heart. Father, I believe that the little lady will be a testimony for You; her little life might be given to You, that You could use her to testify and tell her people of how that that sore had been on her for years. Now, Father, I pray that You'll hear me, for the praise of Thy Son, Jesus. Thou, demon...?... the lady all these years, I come to meet... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Name of Jesus Christ, I adjure thee...
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Little lady, if you raise your head... Something's happened around my hand here. It's turned a different color, hasn't it? Now, what's happened; that's my sign. That's... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, do you believe that with all your heart? Do you believe you're going to get well? Where you live at, sister? Miami, Arizona. Oh, I believe I have an invitation to come up to your country up there. Now look, if I get to come up there, you going... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... testify about this and tell the people that... You will? Now, you notice, in a few days... What you been bathing in? Salts, Epson salts or stuff like that? No, nothing so far. Now, you're--you're... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] look that place on there, that ulcer, it's going to start drying up; you'll begin to notice it, around the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] like anything that's putting something on it to heal it. You see? But it's God has done the healing. See? The life that was in there causing that--that germ, the infection in there, is gone now. See? It'll--it'll start... Now, if you believe it with all your heart... You see, it's your faith that's going to save you. (You see?) if you believe it? Well, God bless you. You'll get well then.
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Doesn't matter... Got quite a few down there? Excuse me? Yes, I seen that. Now, mother, of course you understand, the days are very short for you, aren't they? There's not much more can be done. And you want to live. I want to live; we all want to live, mother. Don't cry now. Don't... Now, look. I've got a dear old mother at home today, if she's living. I trust she is. She's praying for me. I've got a wife and two little children praying for me, a church of people praying, and all over the nation. That's why I'm stay in the--way I am, sister. There's thousands and thousands praying for me everywhere. Now, Jesus hears their prayer. Now, you've got a cancer. You know it, don't you?...?... Now, if you'll just believe. The others are healed. Not everyone that I pray for is healed. No, many of them die, mother. Many of... But what--it'll determine what it's going to do right away. I'll... You'll either get well
or die right away. Now, you want to be well, and I'm going to ask Christ to let you get well. And you believe it with all your heart, your days will be prolonged for many years... You believe that? You believe...?...
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Our heavenly Father, as this poor old mother lays her hand on mine, and her hand all wrinkled up, I'm thinking, Father, of my own poor little wrinkled-handed mother, many miles away. No doubt but what this hand has washed a many a hard day in the tub; might've worked to keep soul and body together, raised the little children. When they would cry, there's no hands in the world could stroke back the tears and bring joy to their little cheeks, like this hand could. But now, Father, it's laying on mine. It needs a touch of another hand, the One that was scarred at Calvary, so freely... O Christ, help us to believe You, just take Your Word. And this big hideous demon of a cancer, blackened spirit; she's helpless, Father. The doctor's powerless. But Thou has power over him. I bring her to Thee, Father. Leading with my own unworthy hands, I lead her to You. Will You heal her, Lord? Now, give Thy servant's voice power, will You, Lord, that'll scare this cancer from her. Thou demon, I come to meet you as the anointed gift of God. And I meet you in the Name of Jesus Christ. You come out of the woman. I adjure thee to leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, leave her. Now, mother, you've seen what's happened here. Now, go on your road rejoicing; doubt nothing. You'll get well now. Oh, my. Let's just give God praise. She said, "I knew all the time I would when I got to her." Bless her little heart.
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Mercy, here's another cancer case. Say you come from Chicago, lady? I'm going to visit that lovely city one of these days. I'm supposed to be there in this May, the last part of February, there at the stadium. I'm not sure yet. Will you come to the platform and give a testimony at the stadium when I get there, wherever I'm at? You will? All right. Now, not a...?... I want you to testify that God has healed you, if He will do it now, you'll love Him and serve Him all your days? Now, just be real reverent. Here's a lady who's come many a hundreds of miles, yes, and the thousands of miles with a cancer. She's from Chicago. Now look, sister, you're watching my hand there, I guess...?... see those spots, how they come and go all over my hand. Now watch, sister, when I'm praying. See them white spots going there? Watch...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Felt like it's...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
She's suffering with cancer. And Thou alone, Lord, can heal her. And she's come all the way from Chicago... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Dear God, if You'll let... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... And she's promised that she would...?... people. She would come up to the stadium if Thou should send Thy servant there, and will witness to the healing power. And You're the only One Who can take this demon from her body. Therefore, dear God, I come to You, asking with all my heart that You'll do it. Satan... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... this cancer, the very life of it. I come to meet you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. I adjure thee to leave her. Come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Cleared on up there, didn't it? See how that was? It means, mother, that you're going to live yet, and will return to Chicago and give testimony for God. You may raise your head, audience. Everything left the lady there. God bless you, my sister. What's your name? Mrs....?... God bless you. Let's praise God. All the way from Chicago down to Phoenix, Arizona. All right.
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Look, that sister from Chicago. Now, you may have in a few days, a sick spell. But don't notice that. You see? You're going to get sick and upset to your stomach. Don't notice that. Don't never notice nothing; just have it in your mind now to believe. See, that's the reaction of the... Just, you from Chicago, just a moment, sister. Turn around. Sister Waldrop, would you stand up? There's a lady that died in my prayer line with heart, colon and liver, about eight months ago, or two years. Is that right, Sister Waldrop? I told you'd have a sick spell. And you had it, didn't you, sister? So you see...?... there if you will. Now, you have two ladies there. One that wasn't prayed for with a cancer of the heart, and here a colon, liver, and here is a lady just now prayed for from Chicago. Isn't it wonderful to see sisters, who talk one to another? One is healed and well, the other one's just been touched by the hands of God. Let's say, "Praise God," for His healing...?... All right.
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Yes, sir. I see you're... You have several things wrong. This burning in your chest, does it seem to be up around--up in this way? Oh, down at the...?... Oh, down in here. Yes. Now, I see a rheumatism... Have you...?... 'Course you have a cough too, don't you, cough quite a bit? Causes you to miss your sleep, everything, just cough and hacking in your throat...?... Now, there's only one way that I know that; that's through God, isn't it? That's the only way I'd
know it. Now, you have faith and believe brother... [The brother speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Oh, thank you, brother. That's very kind of you, thinking that. Dear heavenly Father, as my brother comes now with this... Satan's crippled him and bound him, and he's suffered. O God, he's just in a prison house. And You alone, Lord, can bring him out of this prison. You're the only One Who can make him get well. And he said, "I believe that Jesus--with all my heart. And I believe Jesus sent you here." God, what a testimony that he loves You. I know that You'll hear his prayer. I know You hear mine, Father, and that You're going to let him get well.
Therefore, Satan, I come to meet thee in the Name of Jesus Christ. As God's anointed servant, I adjure thee, by Jesus that you leave the man and come out of him. Yes, sir. God has seen your tears. He has seen your faith. And you're touched by His power now; you can walk on; be well. God--God bless you, my dear brother. Walk right on down the steps. You don't have to worry no more. Now, friends, you can raise your head. (Get pretty used to it.) Let's praise the Lord. Then the thing... He said I'm praising. Glad I met you... Glad he met Jesus. We're thankful for that. Now, bow your head, everyone again, just for a few moments now.
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You've been pretty sick, haven't you? All right. Ask her if she'll believe with all of her heart now, she'll get well of the...?... The way you mothers here that... are near to your hemorrhage... Dear Father, I realize that Satan has set a trap. And now, he's caught our sister for her to have one of these brain hemorrhages now and leave the world. And You're the only One Who can dissolve that blood clot. But Father, will You do it? Grant it, Father. Satan has done this, and it's his work. But Thou art here to liberate our sister. Satan, I adjure thee by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, leave the woman...?... brother... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... in my heart. May the Lord God bless her. It stopped too. She's going to be all right. Yes. Do you speak English? No. Ask her now, and tell her so she'll have faith to know that I know what it is. Tell her her stomach [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] hurts. Just tell her. Mucho. "Mucho," that means "much" and "a whole lot." See what it is? She's got a gastric ulcer in her stomach. Now--now you tell her that how I could tell that, was by a vibration of her hand, so she'll know in order to have faith. "She believes," she said.
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All right. Now, if you'll bow your head. (How much time have we got left? Oh, it's five o'clock. We have five minutes. And then...
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See, we promised to let the people out...?... Let's see here just a moment.) Dear Father, You Who knows our heart, and knows our God, this poor old mortal is standing here. She's suffering with this stomach trouble. And Father, I can't speak to her in her language, to let her know, Father, that this ulcer will have to dry up. It'll take a few days to do it, unless Thou does just go down and move it with Your hand and brush it away. You have the power to do this, Father, even make a new stomach. O Father, I know that's a miracle. But it'll be a miracle also, Father, secondarily, if You'll just let her get well. She wants to be well. The doctor has given her medicine, and she's tried. But seemingly can't catch the faith, Father, for the poor thing is nervous, that's causing this abdominal, called...?... I pray Thee, Father, to just give me that sign, and I'll tell her. And if she'll believe, she'll be well, won't she, Lord?
Satan, you come out of her. I adjure thee by Jesus Christ, that you leave her. Brother Joseph, she... Now, you explain to her; tell her now that it'll just take her a few days to get well. The vibrations leave her. She's all right. Now, you're going... You're going to be well. It'll take maybe--maybe anywhere from one to fifteen days, or something like that, for you to be well. Tell her, after while she'll just... If she--if she can just forget about it... Tell her, "Just forget about it and go on. She just..." Tell her like...?... Tell her to always serve Jesus. God bless her heart. All right.
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You held your hand on the side...?... I don't see a vibration from it. Now, sir, there's only one thing that can help you then. There's a little lady that comes here not long ago, that her spine... it's... By taking a spine anesthetic, it done something, and her nerves from the waist down... And she taken it for childbirth. You see? And she was paralyzed all the way down, no feelings, couldn't walk or nothing. I prayed for her, and I guess it was somewhat about--about eight or ten days, and she was out on the street, walking, out of her wheelchair. Now, if that God can heal that woman...?... Do you believe you'll get well if I'd ask the Lord Jesus to let you to get well? This your wife...?... And you want to be happy together. I know it. I know how you feel about yours, brother. When my wife called me awhile ago... I know how... You want to be happy together, and I want you to be happy together. Will you always serve Christ all your life if you'll just-if He'll let him get well? Now, regardless of whether it happens now... Now, you're to believe it's going to be done anyhow, don't you? Yes, ma'am. All right.
Now, bow your heads, every one. We're going to pray for brother here who's paralyzed. Dear Father, I--I feel those vibrations from the man, but he's paralyzed, dear God. Something has happened, dear God, that his nerves has died in the lower part of his body. You're the only One Who can make life come into those nerves again, take this condition away from him. Will You hear my prayer. Seeing his lovely little wife standing near him, O God, how she must feel looking at him, him looking at her, and to see other young couples down the street. O God, have mercy. Let him recover from this. Will You, God? You Who can make the deaf hear and the dumb speak, I pray that this will be the day that life will start back into those limbs again, this paralyze condition will leave him. I pray this blessing for him in the Name of the holy Son of God, Jesus Christ. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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My brother, you're in an awful condition too, I see. Do you believe with all your heart now? Now, regardless... And you know that I have promised God not to ask Him for miracles, faith. I see you have a vibration too. Yes, sir. I feel that. Now, there's no way at all that I'd ever know that, is there? Not a way in the world, only by Almighty God. Is that right? Now, there it is. You've got this ulcer condition. You're nervous. You're very nervous. And you've got a broken back. Now, if I'll ask God... I can tell whether your ulcer stopped or not, but the other depends on our faith. But if I'll ask God, you'll believe anyhow, won't you? You will? Dear heavenly Father, my brother's standing here with a broken back, and knows that there's no other way in the world for him to ever be well, only by You. He's suffering with ulcers also. You're the One, Father, the Healer Divine. You're He, Who can do all things. And I believe the man has faith, God. I believe it. And I believe he understands the story, Lord, of the Angel of God, and the visitation and Your gift. Therefore, for this demon that's bound him, called ulcer, come out of the man. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I adjure thee to leave him. There goes your ulcer, sir.
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Now, Father, please have mercy for the brother. And may he
be seen in this city, or wherever he comes in a few days, walking on his feet with his crutches on his back, walking along, testifying to the people, saying, "Why, I was once with a broken back, and it healed up just in a little bit. And I'm well, because Jesus Christ made me well." Grant it, Lord. And may this man testify of it, I ask in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Sir, I really believe with all my heart you're...?... be well now.
"Now, I believe." He said, "I'll be healed, sir." It'll heal up, won't it, friends? Don't you believe it, everybody? Let's praise God for it now. All right. Bow your heads. How much more time we got, Brother? Five o'clock. How many is here now that can't come back, and maybe we could get them to at least pass through the line and be prayed for. Got about twenty or thirty here that say they can't come back.
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And custodian of the auditorium, if you'll just--just--just bear with us just for a few minutes. I'll just have a prayer for these people and pass them through line. And I appreciate it very much for their time. Now, could you be reverent just a moment. I want to pray with each one anyhow. The loved ones, you here, you in the line here, that can't come back now for the next service... Well, will you--you go believe God if I'll just ask Him, you're going to get well, aren't you, young lady? You believe it. You believe it too, don't you, sister? You're going to get well, aren't you, if I ask God? Do you believe it? I guess she's... Oh, she's deaf. Oh, well, all right. My, Brother Kidson brings me word here that there's a bunch back in the audience there, said if I just pray from the platform, they'd be healed. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] There's when God can move, isn't it? That's right. Now, all right. Bow your head, and I'll--I'll try to pray for just a few more. Give us about ten more minutes, and then we'll-then I'll pray for the entire audience then. That's lovely, friends. Christ will love you for that. Now, just a moment.
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Father, I pray with all my heart that You'll heal this boy and will make him well. In Jesus Christ's Name I ask it, Father. Amen. God bless you, young man. Now, is this the young lady that's deaf here? Is she deaf and dumb...?... You're her sister? You're a niece? Was she born that way? She just went deaf and dumb. A paralysis made her deaf and dumb. Now, it can happen that way... Where you from, Phoenix? Oh, I see. Oh...?... there? Yes, ma'am. Well, last week, five from the meeting here went home speaking and hearing at a... Now, if you have faith, she's a... Now, of course, when she begins to talk or speak, it'll be like a little baby. You see? There's no vibrations from her; she's just
paralyzed and things, paralyzed her nerves and vocal chords. Now, here's a young lady that's deaf and dumb. She's from Michigan. And she speaks... Ma--Mesa. Excuse me, I didn't get it right, from Mesa. She's going to...?... And now, if she's... (She's had what, what? polio?) Polio paralyzed her hearing and... Of course, that's on the same nerve, we know, the speech and hearing. Now, if I'll ask God, the lady's going to believe that--that the girl's going to get all right. Now, He can open her ears now. That, I don't know. I can't say. He can make her speak now. I couldn't say. If He does, it'll be like a baby. She couldn't talk plain. But if the... If I ask... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] All right, make signs with her and ask her if she believes.
Father, the lovely little girl stands here. Bless her heart. Demon come along and cut off her hearing and her speech. And I don't believe she wants to be healed for any evil thing. But this other person standing by her, Lord, with tears in her eyes (...?... to be near her), wants her to get well, Father, so she can come back out of her school, and maybe go to church and hear the message and sing the praises of God. O God, I'm thinking of those five little children up in Oregon last week--or, Idaho. How that You healed them, brought them out of the school. And the doctors pronounced them well and sent them home to their loved ones. How that that lovely...
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O Father, have mercy on her now. I pray that she'll recover from this immediately. And if it be Thy will, Father, when Thy servant sends out this rebuke, may Satan leave her now, and she be able to speak and hear right now. If not, Father, Thou knowest my heart. We believe that she will, for I ask him to leave her in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
Now, keep your heads bowed, everybody. Everyone, keep your head bowed everywhere. Let the Lord and I watch this. Hear me? (Just keep your heads bowed. Her hearing is coming to her.) Seemingly, she's heard that. I ask if see heard me, not to think she can... Every one, just a minute. This life's coming to it. If it's so... If God doesn't do it, it's perfectly all right. He will do it in time. This is healing and not miracles. Amen. Hear me? You say, "Amen." [The girl says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right, raise your head, honey. Hear me? Do you hear me? Amen. [Amen.] Let's give God praise, everybody. Now, sister, she's going to get an awful headache. The girl that's with her, she's going to have it... Oh, you're going to wait for her. She's going to have a headache, sister. And you tell her that she's... It'll make her head hurt, that she'll be all right. Don't worry nothing about it. God bless you. Says she hears me. Certainly she hears...?...
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Sir? Here's a--a minister who brought his niece, and she's deaf. Now, you know about last--last Sunday a week, I don't ask for miracles. Now, bow your head, everybody. Heavenly Father, as Thou art always near... And this lovely little lady comes up here to be healed. And I believe, Father, that Thou art here, and You hear the humility of our hearts. And may they bring the sick and the afflicted, and the deaf, and the dumb, and the blind. And Thou alone, Lord, can heal. I pray that You'll restore the hearing to this girl's ears. Will You grant it, dear Father. May she begin right now to hear me and get well. Nevertheless, Father, I believe Your promise, that You said, "If you get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer." I believe it'll leave her, Father. Whether it does now or not, I know not. That's in Your power, Father, not in mine. And my power comes from You. And I pray that You'll give me power over this deaf spirit to drive it away from her. Thou demon of deafness, come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. She hears...?... I believe that. Especially the left one. Hear me? Hear me? She's... Yes, that got it. (Just a moment now, she's...) Hear me? (All right. You may raise your heads.) If we just had time to wait here a little bit. She's got...?... Hear me? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... God bless you...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right, bow your head everywhere now.
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Ever who's with her, just tell her... It just starts coming now. (Bow your head, we've got a...) We got to hurry; he told me, it's ten minutes after. Yes, ma'am. Now, sister dear, are you a minister's wife? Well, my wife knows how to sympathize with you, dear, since I'm gone, while I'm... You're... What it is, you have a gastritis of the stomach; you have stomach...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Dear Father, and Thou Who knowest the heart of all people, and this is Your servant... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... a young minister... O God, may their life be fruitful for You, Father, for we feel we haven't got many more days to work, and then [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and we shall see Jesus. And Father, we... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "Sirs, we would see Jesus." Oh, how we love Him. And I thank You for the young minister. And I pray, Father, that his life will be very fruitful. And his companion comes up now today before You... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that You have sent for him, that his wife might be healed. And now, Father, hear the prayer of Your servant. And as they go back to the country, praying, speaking, may they take this testimony that Thou art the Healer also.
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God bless you, young lady. Every vibration of it has gone. Now look, your stomach's raw. It's like that there's come a rash on your hand, and you'd put something on it and it--and it started to getting better, not well. After while, you'll even forget you ever had it. You'll be all right now. God bless you. What's your husband's name? Walter Beckman. Now, this is... God bless you, young lady. That's mighty fine. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ...?... Friend, setting up like this, she's wondering...?... head's hitting the back of a car... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He said, "That's all right. When I get up there to see Brother Branham, when I go back, I'll...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] place in my arm." The little boy was instantly delivered, took off the brace, and walked down the floor with it on his back. Is that right...?... ministers? Let's say, "Praise the Lord." O God. God bless you.
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See, God is real...?... Now, let's see. How many more? The brother says he's already... Guess they're going to have to close the doors. And if these people cannot come back, I'm just going to ask a prayer for every one of them. And let there be as many as there can through the line. (You will believe, will you, sister?) It's not that I... You understand how it is. I want to have a prayer with each one of you. Let's... First thing I want to say, that we thank God for deliverance for every one this afternoon, don't we? Now, we want to pray for every one in the line, and let them pass through so I can put my hands on them. The Bible says, "They'll lay hands on the sick and they shall recover," didn't It?
Our heavenly Father, Thou knowest that our time is up. And we know many times in...?... the multitudes, and went aside to rest. But, Father, this is the time that these ministers ought to be with their churches. And O God, may You send souls to be saved because of this afternoon. May their ministers be anointed tonight. May Brother Faulkner and Brother Outlaw, Brother Fuller, all the brothers here, Father, Your ministers in here, may they be so anointed tonight, that the power of God will be in their midst, and they'll speak like never before. May sinners weep their way to Calvary, and there be filled with the Spirit of God. O Father, may many, even tonight, be saved then. And these who are coming through the line now, Thou knowest. And may Your Spirit be so strong that when they pass by, and I take ahold of their hand, may the blessing of God rest upon each of them. May they leave this building this afternoon rejoicing and thanking You
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for their healing; for we realize that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. God grant it. May they all be well. And we offer Thee thanks and praise for all that You have done, and all that You're going to do yet, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Now, let's stand, every one of us just for a moment. Now, while I'm passing these through, I want you all to sing that song with me. And brother, one of the song leaders, will you come here, song leader? Ever who's the song leader for this--this...?... here... Come here, Brother Hershel. I want you to sing, "Only Believe." I want you ministers to walk right out there where the prayer line is, and be praying for them as they come through the line. Will you do it now? Everybody just stand just a few moments. We're going to pass about fifteen or twenty through here, just to shake their hand when they pass through. Singing softly, everybody... [Audience sings, "Only
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Lay your hand up, sister. Oh, how she's serving...?... down in this in her left side. Look at her. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. [Audience sings, "Only Believe"--Ed.]
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And if You were here in this city, we would all rush over to You, Father, if You here in this place. But You ascended on high and give gifts to men, according to the Bible. And they must all across the country here to bring the child. Father, have mercy on it. Give Thy servant Your sign before the people that the child shall be well. Satan, I come to meet thee in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Come out of the girl. I adjure thee, leave her in Jesus Christ's Name. There, it stopped 'fore I raised my head. All right, mother, looky here. (Now, audience, here, I want you to look at my hand now at the same thing.) Now, little girlie, you're going to be well now, sweetheart. Now, mother...?... You take a string from the...?... your room, and put it around her little waist, like this, like that. Are you going to be here for a while, or you going back? Now, you take that string and put it around her, like this, then you'll know whether I told you true or not. You cut that string off, right even. And then by tomorrow night, or the next night, one, you take that same string and put it around the little girl like this, and cut off how much it's shrunk. And do that for at least two to three nights, then you'll know that I told you that's what is true. God bless you, sister.
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Yes. God bless you, sister. You're in a worthy cause, the Salvation
Army. I certainly appreciate it. God bless you, sister. Father, here a Salvation Army woman stands here this afternoon. Oh, I pray that You'll heal her and make her strong. She's nervous and breaking down. After while Satan will have her setting in a padded cell, if he had his way. But Your way is different. Your way is the way of health. May she walk in that path from now on, in the path of health. I rebuke you, spirit of nervousness, leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, my sister. Go on your road rejoicing, testifying.
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Dear Father, I pray that You will heal my brother. He comes all the way from Minnesota to be prayed for. And Thou art here to make him well. I pray that You'll grant it, Father. Satan, you have bound my brother with this asthmatic condition. Leave him in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, my brother. I trust you return back rejoicing now. The vibration leaves my hand. And go and you'll be a well man. God bless you. All right...?... Father, I pray that You'll heal my sister in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, my dear sister. God, I pray... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] this brother of this lung trouble in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God. God bless you. It's just nervousness... Go believe... God, I pray that You will heal this dear man, Father. I pray that You'll restore to him the sight of his eyes this day. Hear my prayer. In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. God bless you, my dear brother. Oh, dear Jesus, I pray that You'll bless this dear woman who comes from New Mexico, that she could be made well. Father, may she return rejoicing, excitingly thrilled, and be well; for I rebuke this blind spirit. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman.
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I tell you what was brought to me today. Was about... tried to make me so weak. I just could not understand how I would get so weak. Always when I would have a meeting... I--I never want to be a sickling. Everyone knows that heard me tell my life story, and how it was caused; the fever caused it, not smoking and so forth, when I was just a young man. And I--I never wanted to be a sickling...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] to God, and do everything, played football, and broken me...?... It just pull games out on the...?... out there, and just
pulling me...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And I wondered why that was. I couldn't not understand; I get so weak sometimes I'd pass completely out, you know. Had them take me out, may be hours before I'd even come to myself and knowed what was wrong...?... I think... Somewhat about...?...
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That I was too sincere about it, that I thought too much on it, set my mind on it too much. Said, "You pray for John Doe's baby; forget about it. That's God's business to heal it." Said, "You just think too much sincerely of it." Said, "Then when you do, going to cause to have a mental collapse." My nature is not... Well, more like carrying on, but I... They told me I'd have to forget about the thing; I was too sincere for them. I don't believe you can get too sincere about the work of God. That's right. More sincere you are, the better God can lead you. So I... They told me that I might have a mental break-up. But I--I went along. And many of you that know me, know that from the first time I was here, for awhile, I would try to stick things in my mind...
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healing, probably before I was born. And I--I seen him at seventy-one years old, and yet was more needful then than my first...?... Now, I looked and then and I heard him say that he could hold a meeting for a year, night after night... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I believe It would take my very life. Well, I did not understand why that was. I knew that I had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And Brother Bosworth said, "He'd received the baptism of the Holy Spirit." That made us brothers. And God was the One Who saved us both. And then I wondered why he could hold up and I could not hold up. And I thought, "Well, maybe that he was just--had more of the Holy Spirit, and more than I would." Then I thought... Well, that's the way I kind of--kind of consoled myself with it. And I thought, "Well, I'm going to pray today. I'm going over in the meeting, and I'm going to see if God won't give me more of the Holy Spirit then, so I can hold up more." So last night in the services, I was really just the same, even when miracles was done.
I went home. I--I did not say anything to the loved ones. But this morning, I got up early. I went out to the desert, and I just had to talk it over. I just couldn't understand. And He understands. And He--He knows all about it. So while out there on the desert praying, after a bit, after a prayer, it never spoke with a audible voice as you hear mine, as sometimes He does speak. But it just seemed as if Something just come down and just said it.
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And it just settled in my mind forever what it was. Something said, "Those men preach by the Word and this is a gift. Each person depended on their own faith and this is by the gift. So was I, take from Me." Now, I am not the gift. You see. I believe that there's gifts (That's true.), that's in this world. But the gift is what God sends down out of heaven. And this is just occupied then by a human body, or by anything that God wishes to put it on. One day, it was His choice to put it upon a--a brass serpent on a pole... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I thank you all. Now, while we're standing, and remain standing just a moment for prayer while we bow our heads if you will. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight, because that this is another hour that we've been permitted this side of eternity to meet together and to worship Thee in this Phoenix meeting. And we pray, Father, that Thou will be with us tonight, and may many great things be accomplished for the glory of God. Bless every one that's here in Divine Presence now. Bless the service, the healing, and may the great Name of Jesus grow, O God, until It spreads forth, till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more. Grant it, Father. Bless us now and the farther part of this service, for we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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I don't know any place I'd rather be this side of heaven, than where I am now, standing here again tonight. Tomorrow night will be the--the one year, tomorrow night, since I met you all. When I come here, I wondered; they--they told me I was going to a Spanish church. And I thought, "Well, I imagine they won't receive me." But when I got that hearty welcome, I've always wanted to come back again. So for three nights now we'll have the service here. And then Sunday, to be with another church over at Sunny Slope, I believe it's called. And then Monday, or the eleventh and twelfth, down in old Mexico, at Tijuana. And I just want to have plenty of time to call the countries everywhere. And this is supposed to be my vacation now. I... I was in Miami last week. And they had quite a service in Miami. I was very tired, especially last night. Several hundreds of people passed through the line. The Lord give to us a great work in Miami. That...
And then they told me to go home and rest, because this would be a very hard stand. I'm to begin now the twenty-ninth again at Pensacola, and be there for five nights where they're putting two of
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the big circus tent together, because there's no auditorium to seat the people in. And then from there, I have four days to go about, I guess two thousand or better miles to Kansas City, at the municipal auditorium at Kansas City. And then from there to Topeka, and back to--to Elgin, Illinois, and then over to Chicago, and then out to Washington, and up into Canada. Then we--the services continue on up until November, the--the fifth of November--of October, rather. And then from there, I get three weeks vacation. And then the next place to begin in South Africa. I'm to go from there then to Australia, and all the European countries through next year. And I'm sure that I--I'll... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Life as it is burning out, and one more year has passed by, I'm thankful for this extra time to have seen that many things has been accomplished for Christ in this last year. And as I think it now, that we're facing a time such as never been known. The nations everywhere are breaking. They're in such a--an awful turmoil. And I truly believe that it will not be long until we see Who we really love, coming in power--Jesus. And it's my determination by His help to try to do more this year than I did in the year before, by His grace. Some... After leaving here, and the end of the year coming, it's some thirty-five thousand definite cases of healing was done in my services by Jesus, last year alone. That isn't just what someone testified that's been healed. That's doctor's statements. And I don't know how many hundreds of different things of cancers, deaf, dumb, blind, almost everything.
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Now tonight, we--we're--we certainly have services come ten o'clock out there. Tomorrow night... Remember to get to the meeting tonight. And tomorrow night, we go right on, also the messages. Each day, it's... Every morning at ten o'clock, Brother Garcia...?... here to instruct for the Spanish people on healing. And on the way of giving your hearts to Christ:...?... for all people who understands Spanish, to come out for those services. Maybe I could come in here, maybe tonight's services...?... Just at this time, I would like to introduce a guest of mine. I guess, one of the most Biblical authorities on Divine healing. Been in the United States for many years. Many of you know I was raised...?... and that makes it...?... And I never thought when I was a little boy, of reading his book, that I'd ever meet him. I heard that he was gone on to heaven years ago. But in Miami the other day, I met this dear sister and brother. And they were setting at the meeting, in the services of mine. And then to be with my other friends, or met the opportunity to...?... there. And he met me last Sunday.
Many of you know him. I want him to step up here and say "Hello" to the people. And I'm sure he couldn't speak it in Spanish, so he will have to say it in English also. And that's Dr. F. F. Bosworth. How many in here ever heard him, Dr. F. F. Bosworth? All right, Brother Bosworth, come, sir.
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Thank you, Brother Bosworth. It makes me feel good for a man of that caliber to say those words, Brother Bosworth. I think... I guess he was preaching Divine healing before I was born. So that's quite an authority, isn't it?
So now, I guess there's quite a few here to be prayed for tonight. How many would understand English here could say--raise your hand and say, "I'm here to be prayed for." Let's see your hands, that's to be prayed for. Well, that's quite a few. And of course there's some here that don't... not understand English. I'm glad to see some of the little Choir in here again tonight. And I wonder if tomorrow night if I come a little early, if you'd sing, "Only Believe" for me. You understand English, don't you? That's fine. That's fine. I got your pictures in the--I have them in my study. And I never look at it but what I pray for God to bless the young lady. She was so nice. A little young man that's been there also, he sang bass, I believe there's something here, that I don't know nothing about singing. So every time I think of that Spanish word, "Oh, yes," or something like... "Oye, Oye," wasn't it? I never heard one... hear me, or something...?... You all gave me your laughs. I know I sure butchered it up. And then I said that, there was some lady that was deaf. And I'd felt the vibration leave her hand, and I knew that she was healed. But I couldn't make her understand. She was looking at me and smiling. And I kept saying, "Do you hear me? Do you hear me?" And the little brother says, "Tell her, 'Oye'" And I said, "Oh, yes," or something like that. And the lady ever what was it, the young lady laughed. And I... Well, anyhow, she heard, didn't she? That was fine. That was just... That was so she was healed. And I was going down to Mexico next week with knowing two words, "Oye" and "Phoenix." Anyhow, we're going to visit with the people who knows God. Now, just for a few moments to the English speaking people and to all around, I want to speak to you just a few minutes, reading just a little bit of the Word. I think that faith cometh by hearing, and hearing the Word. Is that right? The Word is... If you can get your faith based upon one certain thing.
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Here not long ago, I was facing a very hideous demon that was cursing me and spitting on me, trying to, and biting at me, in a straight jacket. And when I went to meet that demon, I knew that one thing, that first, Christ died to free that man from that demon. That's the Word. I know the Angel of the Lord came to me that night and spoke to me, telling me that nothing would stand before the prayer if I could get the people to believe me, and would be sincere when I prayed. Therefore, I had a double witness. Then I could ask him through the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of the person. And the man was took out of his straight jacket and went home normally in his right mind. Why? Because in the authority of the Name of Jesus Christ. Oh, my. Every demon in hell is subject to that Name. That's right. It's the Name of all names, Jesus. It wasn't given by human lips. The Holy Ghost, the great Gabriel it was, came down and told Mary to call His Name Jesus.
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And the first time that Name was ever spoke by mortal lips, went into the ears of a mortal, a dead baby in the mother leaped for joy...?... John the Baptist. Is that right? It was six months without life, received life. Then as soon as these words come into her...?... her babe leaped for joy. And if it'll make a dead person leap for joy, what ought it to do for one that's already alive. Is that right? And now, over in the Gospel of Saint John, the 4th chapter and beginning at the 46th verse, just to explain some. Now, I do not wish for anyone to be in a hurry. Always be just as quiet, and just as calm and cool. Now, many things upon this gift has increased, and many things I have learned in the past year that I knew not while I was here the other time... And of course, I believe that as we go on, it'll just keep moving on and on. I trust that way. Anyhow, I--I believe that He will. And now, as you come to a closer, don't never come... Don't ever come in a hurry...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
If I would come back and send a plane and get... bring me down there and back. Of course, I--I could not do that. So I... they send him back word, the secretary. I don't guess they answer any of the letters. So secretary sent him a handkerchief, or otherwise, a little piece of ribbon, 'cause we send out several thousand a week of them, and instructions on what to do with it. And they placed it upon the baby. And even the Army doctor said it would never be normal again. In four hours from the time that the handkerchief was pinned on the baby, it was a normal child again. See? Oh, God can do all things. I was just speaking last night... evening after leaving at the...?...
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What's the name? It was on one of their little newspapers, said, "One as good as the dead, raised by prayer." And I sent her a handkerchief, or a ribbon, and she was in the last stage of a cancer. And in three weeks later, her doctor pronounced her well. She was perfectly well. And it told all about the service. That just spread throughout. And literally hundreds and hundreds of letters from them parts of the country pour in asking for these handkerchiefs.
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And now, remember, these handkerchiefs, you've wondered about them. "Now, Brother Branham, what about them?" Your letter might be a form letter. Your answer to your letter might be a--from the secretary, but your ribbon has been personally prayed over by myself. Now, if you'll notice, many people anoint letter--anoint handkerchiefs. But if you'll examine the Bible, they wasn't anointed, they taken from the body of Paul (Is that right?) handkerchiefs or aprons. Now, what that is, is a blessing. Just like Elijah. He took his staff and told Gehazi, "Go, lay it upon the child." For he knew what he touched was blessed. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, how do you ever do that?" Well, when I'm in meetings, I go down, and they send me hundreds of yards of half inch white ribbon. And I take those and go to myself in the daytime, take each one of them in my hands and pray for them, and pray that God will heal the person. And then send them back to the secretary and the different offices, and they rush those right out to the sick. The letter is a form letter, but the--the ribbon has been individually prayed over, praying with all the sincerity that I know to pray. For I think, "What if my baby was sick and I sent for some man to pray for it, I'd expect him to do it." Wouldn't you? And I try...?... as I can. And likewise, with your prayers tonight.
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given for the glory of God. Now, as I say, this being our last night together maybe for some time, you heard me make this statement, that from anything... I see nothing left that I did not do if he stayed there, unless I knew that the person was going to die, I would reveal that. But do you know, you can get in trouble with that? Do you know Moses did? Moses had power to smite the rock, even the second time, which was firmly against the will of God. And he even broke the whole program of God. Is that right? But he had power before God to do it. He smote the rock first, and the water didn't come, and he smote it again and called for the water. And--and I never did think that he...?... do not... Many of us know that that wasn't the will of God. But the prophet had power to do it. But it kept him from going over into the promised land with the children of Israel. See?
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Now, many times when these things are cast out and I feel them come back, I--I just leave them alone, for I'm afraid. See up in... one of the meetings up, I believe it was in Vancouver recently, a blind woman, German woman, blind for years. As soon as the blind spirit was cast away from her, she begin to speak out in German, showing her daughter standing there. They were all screaming and crying. She turned her head to walk away; it went back on her again. She come back, it cast out again, and it went... And she could see again. She was so elated. When she went away, it come back again.
When those people come up different doctrines, not the same [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... but with one heart and one accord. Let every man greet you. As long as you're...?... by one Spirit and member of the Body. Now, my body couldn't operate tonight with a big cancer on it, or with a big sore. Or if I was upset somewhere, my whole body would be tore up. That's the way it...?... all around.
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Now, there's coming a confederation of churches. It's already national. You know, you...?... And they're confederating. And there's two great powers a moving in the world. You know what they are without telling. There's one combination of power, and the other one
is Catholicism and communism coming together. One against Christ, the other, the Catholic church. Those two powers are coming together. It's... Every person in the world is going to be under obligation to take sides with one or the other. That's when the little Holy Ghost Church will come together. That's when... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the hall of critics for a long time. And I believe that God is going to hang It in the hall of fame one of these days. Persecutions...
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Speaking with a man here. I spoke with him this morning, a minister, belongs to another organization of churches. He came in here, and he stood on the platform. You know how the Holy Spirit fell last night in our meeting. He was setting here, he belongs to ano... He said, "Brother, if..." He said, "I just rejoiced with all of them." Now, that's the way to do it. It done something else; it was then told. Just in a few moments, it'd been a--a hurt place, because he was a minister. He was in the body. See? He'd been a sore place on the body. But instead of that, he just gave his spirit in with It. And the Holy... Now, if that would work like, in one little group of people like this, what would it work in the God's Church. You see? Well, if they'd all come together, it's hard to tell what would take place. Is that right? All with one accord in one place, and started up in heaven as a rushing mighty wind, and It filled all the house where they were setting.
Sister Garcia, now you got your... all ready? I know all of you will like... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Setting on the other side of the hill. I'll be over there just setting under that bush listening at you. So I--I want to... So look for me when you get there. That's very fine. How'd you like that? Fine. Oh, my. We got a record of that now, and we're... The brother's going to bring it...
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How many believes It's the Word of God? All of us do, don't we? All right. You that have it now, turn with me to Saint Luke the 5th chapter. A little familiar Scripture here we wish to read and speak on it just for a few moments before going into the prayer line. Now, listen close as we read the Word. And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, that he stood by the lake, And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen
were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one ship, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little into the... a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down the net for the draught. Simon answered and said unto him, Master, we've toiled all night, and taken nothing: but nevertheless at thy word we'll let down the net. And so when they had thus done, they pulled a great multitude of fishes; and their nets brake. And they beckoned to their partners, which were in the ship, that they would come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
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Shall we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for this, another opportunity that we're permitted to be here in the house that's called by Your Name, the house of God. We realize that this is a house of correction, a sanctuary, a place where we're indicted, and our indictments are pleaded. Now, we pray, Father, that You'll forgive us of every sin and every trespass that we've done...
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Thou deaf spirit...?... come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Leave the woman, through Jesus Christ's Name I adjure thee to go....?... I'm not yelling at you, but you can't baby demons...?... Can you hear? You hear now? You are healed. You can raise your head...?... Hear me? Say, "Amen." You say, "Amen" now? [Woman responds--Ed.] Can you hear me now? [Woman responds-Ed.] Can you hear me now? [Woman responds--Ed.] All right, you're healed. Your other disease cured, you're well. Go home and rejoice. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody.
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All right, listen. All right let's bow your head and be reverent...?... Oh Jesus, the Son of God, have mercy upon this woman. Grant her healing this night. Thou demon, leave the woman in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. I adjure thee to go...?... normal, your stomach trouble also. Hold your head up, eat. Go on your normal...?... cause you to raise your head up, raise your head up, all right...?... God bless you, sister. Everybody believe with all your heart now.
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Bow your heads, everywhere, while a patient comes. Everyone in prayer. This woman...?... Oh, Oh, I see her crossed-eyes. Well, bow your head, and believe with all your heart. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... And I pray that You heal her, and make her every whit whole. Thou demon that bound our sister, I adjure thee, by the Son of God, Jesus Christ, leave the girl.
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While you have your head bowed. You realize...?... Do you believe me? Do you believe that every word I said was...?... All right, I want you then to open your eyes, and slowly, when I tell you; and look towards me in the Name Jesus Christ, and your eyes will be
perfectly normal. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I ask it, see...?... your eyes are straight. Now, how many fingers do you... how many fingers do I have. Her eyes come perfectly straight. Keep your heads bowed, everybody. Look out across that audience up there. Don't you doubt nothing. See those people? Look back there, you see those normally? See this man here? You know what's happened to you? You're healed, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. All you can raise your heads. There's the girl. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Everyone bow your heads, now bring the...?... Pray now, getting late, now everyone bow your heads. Stomach trouble. Heavenly Father... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Everybody believe with all their hearts? All right, now, bring her to me...?... eyes...?... straight...?... for you. Do you believe with all your heart?...?... I'm going to ask you to do something for me, while you have your head down, I'm going to ask God to bless you. I'm going...?... each other. Every cross-eyed person can be here, to heal. There's not been one pass this platform the eight nights that I've been here that I know of, but what's delivered. Even the one I sent to the same thing I'm going to ask you to do, that the audience might know, God is God, can heal. Almighty God, as I lay hands upon this young lady, and bless her in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask these crossed-eyes to become straight. I rebuke this demon that's bound her, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Keep your head bowed. Young lady..?... put your...?... down, would you put your hands up, crossed-eyes won't...?... Lord Jesus, I believe You with all my heart...?... we pray before we... you raise up your head and come back the platform a few moments, and be healed. Have faith, all right. You may raise your head now...?... How many believes that she'll have the straight eyes? I believe it with all my heart. Every strength, every ounce of strength that's in me, I believe it.
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Everybody should have lots of faith now...?... talk to you just a moment...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... talk to you now...
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You have quite a bit of faith of the people on the cots and the wheelchairs and so forth...?... Trying to check over these people just a moment, down here in front. Sister, you there in the wheelchair, what do you think? You going to be healed tonight? Here, you believe you're going to be healed tonight? I--I know...?... my question, sure about... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Thou demon, I adjure thee by the Son of God, come out from her. Everyone just be reverent. Thou demon, that's bound this woman, I...?... In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Come out, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Everyone keep your heads bowed...?... spirit...?... Keep your heads bowed everywhere...?... Have faith...?... All right, you may raise your head up. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Thou knowest all things [Blank.spot.on.tape. A brother speaks for a few minutes--Ed.]...?... Coming through the line, the Lord Jesus will make you well...?... All right, everyone bow your heads now, while we're praying...?... in the line...?... Everybody...?... appreciate...?... bow your heads, everybody. Father, we thank Thee tonight for Thy mercy and kindness. We thank Thee for Thy healing power. And now may the mercy and power of Jesus Christ be made known unto this audience, through Jesus Name we pray. Amen.
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Are your heads bowed...?... you accept it. I won't stop...?... How long have you been afflicted? Nine years, will you accept Him? You will? Do you think now that if I lay hands on you, that Christ will make you well? Is that right? This lady comes through, something stopped me really right quick, bound her back and her throat. And she says...?... cancer here, so, we're going to ask God, at this time. I think friends, that we ought to have the right-of-way night, that where ever the Lord will take us, stop at the people, and deliver them right here at the platform.
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Don't you think that they got that much faith? [A brother speaks-Ed.]...?... the microphone now, and the Lord will deliver. Then if you go through this line, if you feel like that you're not healed and want to come through another line, you're welcome to come. Now I want you to believe. I want you to believe it...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?...
Here's a woman born deaf and dumb. I'm going to stop at her, just bow your heads...?... by the Lord Jesus. How many believes that the Lord Jesus sent me here to do this tonight?...?... All right, bow your...?... Now, remember friends, this is casting out evil powers. Almighty God, Author of Eternal Life and Giver of every good gift. Send Thy blessings upon this woman to heal her. Cast out Lord, this evil power that's bound her. Realizing this has bound her ears and her mouth. And Thou art the only One Who can deliver her Lord. And
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I pray that You'll grant it this very night. Thou deaf and dumb come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
You that wheeled her up, have her to look at me...?... By the way, she has crossed-eyes. Almighty God, the Author of Life, and the Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this girl. It's the same spirit, believing that Thou art able to do this Lord, we... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Father, I pray...?... thou demon leave her, in Jesus Christ's Name...?... Now, while you have you're heads bowed, how many remember last night what I said about a deaf and dumb spirit, when it's bound down, like a--a... just like a transparent band around the hand? You remember that, say "Amen." That's what...?... are made of. This woman maybe never spoke to her in her life, she'd know nothing about it. Now I'd just have to...?... Everybody be praying. Don't be...don't be upset, think you're not going to get prayed tonight. I want to...?... early, and then she can go home and be healed, and be well...?...
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As I lay my hands upon the shoulders...?... As my sister, I already know that the enemy has...?... I'm now claiming the sick. I'm now claiming the faith...?... In the Name of Jesus Christ, you can't hold this woman longer. The people believe...?... you come out of her in the Name of [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Daddy [The sister responds--Ed.] There it is, it's gone. Amen. There it comes, keep your head bowed...?... Daddy [The sister says, "Daddy"-Ed.], Mama [Mama] That's what it is, learning to talk. Amen [Amen]...?... you can raise your heads. There it is, her eyes are normal. Ma--Mama [Mama]. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." There it is, you see that? God loves you, you're healed. Amen. Praise the Lord.
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All right, everybody bow your heads now, everybody. Lord, heal our...?... ever who knows that woman there. Keep her back...?... the deaf and dumb spirit has gone from us, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ...?... You're healed. God bless my sister...?... in Jesus Name. God grant it...?... medical science...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Heavenly Father, as I stand here tonight holding this hand. Take this minister to the needy, the sick and the afflicted. I'm thinking of that...?... physician, Luke, that was with thy disciple. And our brother's arm has been paralyzed Lord, and realizing that there's nothing can help him, except God be merciful. Therefore Father, I'm asking with the sincerity of my heart that this man's arm may be restored. May feeling begin to creep into that arm, then may he be able to minister again to the sick and the afflicted. I ask this blessing for the Glory of God, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Everybody...?... All right, everybody be reverent, the patient's loosening up now...?... walking up and down the platform here...?... there's your faith. Amen...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Come back to me, wave your hand up and down, all right bow your head now and...?... Father, we just ask that You heal her I pray Thee in Christ's Name, and for Your glory...?... In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ...?... Heal our sister in Jesus Christ's Name. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I ask it. God...?...
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Poor, little girl with a stiff neck, born that way, paralyzed in the side of her neck, her mother said. Just a moment, let's ask the Lord...?... that's right Doctor, just keep sitting there like that, just believe with all your heart now. I believe Doctor, as certain as I'm standing on the platform tonight, you're going back...?... You're going right back to work. Almighty God, I pray Thee to be merciful Lord, to this poor girl, standing here with this stiff neck, can't turn her head, has to turn her whole body...?... I pray that You'll be merciful and heal her. May the power of the devil that bound this child, loose her in Jesus Christ's Name. Now turn your head back this way, now turn your head this way. There you are! Now, that's fine, believe it? Now you can raise your head. Look this way honey, look over here to me. Look over here, there you are. Now look back that way...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
All right, bow your head everywhere now, be prayerful. Got to hurry, there's a lot of people to be prayed for. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Have the ministers to line up here to be praying for these people as they pass down the platform, if you believe, everyone...?... In the Name of the Lord Jesus. Everyone being prayed for now, as you go through the line. Remember the other night when I asked that lady to go sit down. The second night she was back here to testify. How many still remembers that say, "Amen." The lady's in the building now with the baby, and about forty-eight hours after she'd been prayed for, the eyes of the baby come straight. So will you, as you pass through here. Just believe. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Father, be merciful to this boy, wearing a vest with buttons. I pray God, that You'll heal him. Give him perfect hearing in his... back Lord. I ask Thee to be merciful to this boy. Thou spirit of infirmity,
deafness that's going to try to cause this boy to be deaf and walk before a vehicle and be killed. I adjure thee leave the boy, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of him. Just be reverent now, just a little bit now. Vibrations still hitting his hand, that deaf spirit...?... Almighty God, have mercy upon my brother. Thou demon, leave him in the Name [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Christ the Son of God; come out of him. Just be reverent, the boy will be healed by and by...?...
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Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on our brother. I pray that You heal his body tonight. If it by Thy will, send him out into the field Lord, to work for You. Fought as a soldier, now Lord may the Holy Spirit armor; send him against the wi... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Heal him, in Jesus Christ's Name.
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Keep your heads bowed, the vibrations left him...?... you're healed...?... full time since you've done that. You may raise your heads. The boy's perfectly delivered. You hear me, sir? All right, stoop yourself down like that, show the audience how you... You're delivered my brother. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Everybody be in prayer. Everybody passed him now. God deliver our...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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That this man coming here with trumpets in his ears, Oh merciful God, show Thy hand of power. Deliver our brother perfectly, Lord. Weak and rundown; Thou art here to make him well. Thou demon, I adjure thee to come out of the man, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. May the curse of God be upon you, you'll go where you belong. Come out from him...?... The man has...?... every vibration...?... You hear me? Hear me? You're perfectly well! You may raise your head up. Watch this. Can you hear me, sir? Say, "Amen." [The man says, "Amen."--Ed.] Can You hear me now? You're all right, perfectly. Isn't that wonderful? Amen. Amen. God bless you. How many...?...
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Do you believe that He sent me to do this? You'll notify your people of the great power of God. God bless you, everybody bow your heads...?... Almighty God, Your commission by the Son of God was "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel." And we know that the Gospel is power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. And here's a lady coming from a...?... where Paul taught so many things. And I believe Father,
that You're here tonight. You're among all people just as You were with Paul, back in the days of her forefathers, just the people has come on down this age. Thou knowest how that we're planning by Your grace to go shortly. Now the woman's setting watching the line pass through right here of the sick and afflicted, blind and halt. Seeing that tonight Satan is trying his best to hold, but he's losing ground. You're winning, Lord. Now we know that you're here, then the people might know that You are near with us. I am the servant, Lord. God, I've left home, and all that's dear to me on this earth to follow You. It's such a privilege I have of doing this. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?...
Just now, through Jesus Christ, by a gift of healing that was ministered to me by an Angel. You come out of the woman, in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Every vibration stopped. Just hold your head...?... Fear not sister, swallow that swallow of water in the Name of Lord Jesus. There she is, drinking the glass of water. She swallow it all right? Oh, come back on you? Pour that glass of water out, get me another. Lady, if I stand here till day break, the devil's going to turn your throat loose. The rest of you hold your peace...?... I believe that, I believe you're going to swallow that water...?... mouth, it comes right back...?... you about it, is that right? All right, may every person's head be bowed, and every eye closed. And I pray...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Come out from the woman, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I adjure thee. You might as well go. We're staying right here until you leave. So leave her in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. And not one head move. Now...?... All right, He remains the Son of God. Thou demon, leave the woman. Yes, Lord. See, when I put my hands on you it opens up. Everyone believe...?... I'm believing. I know that God is here to deliver...?... Keep my hands on, that's what works...?... in the power of faith. See, the laying on of hands. God grant it. That one went down and stayed down. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... That one went too, didn't it? So you can hear the microphone, that one went too, didn't it sir? Keep your heads bowed. Two drinks of water, keep taking it...?... time go along now, three years, two years. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Spirit, God takes His man, but never His Spirit.
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miracle after miracle performed: deaf, dumb, blind, lame, and everything. A man come up on the platform totally blind, received his sight; followed me all around, circling around through the platform, down the aisle like that. And another man come up blind, received his sight. There was, oh, some three or four younger women, and young girls, little children that were just as cross-eyed, hideously cross-eyed, and were healed right there. And two doctors standing there, right one... both of them right from my right side, checking it, watching it, and checking the patients and so forth. And come to the microphone and testified that they could see perfectly... That was medical doctors; one's a specialist in San Francisco, California.
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So God is God. He's still the great I AM, not the I was, I AM, now, present tense. And He's--He always here to heal to those who believe. But only those who believe are the only ones that's going to be healed, regardless. You've got to believe it. If you would... God might permit you right here this afternoon to get up and be crippled, and you walk around on this platform. You could walk off, and doubt and unbelief hit your heart, your condition will come right back to you again. And if you walk off and don't serve Him, a worse thing's going to come back to you again. That's right. You must serve God reverently all your life, believing Him with all your heart.
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And now, today, we got plenty of time this afternoon, because we're going to pray for everybody in the building this afternoon. 'Cause we got time to do it. And then before leaving, I want to pray for everyone 'fore leaving Phoenix. And I won't talk to you very much, because I want to put the time in. You've got good preachers here. You got a fine bunch of ministers. And they preach; and I'm not a preacher in the first place. So you can... These ministers can speak to you as they did this morning in their services. And how many attended church this morning, let's see your hands, all over the building? Well, that's fine. And how many intended to attend tonight, let's see your hands, all over the building, going to go to church tonight? That's fine. That's about one third of you that didn't; I hope you do tonight. I hope you go to church tonight. Go somewhere to church. Don't never miss going to church on Sunday. And... for the prayer meeting.
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And you people, who have little churches here, who's struggling. My advice would be for you to stand at your post of duty
just as loyal as you can to the cause of Christ, and back up your minister and everything that's--that's--that's going on, and--for the cause of Christ. And do that, and God will bless you. The only way that you can respect God is to respect one another. Is that right? If you want somebody to say something good about you, you say something good about somebody else; they'll say something good about you. Cast your bread upon the water; it will return to you. As the brother said in Canada the other day said, "Yes, Brother Branham: buttered." So that's about right. You see, if you'll just cast it upon the water, it'll return buttered. That's the way, so it comes back. So you do... You do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. So that's a good thing to live by.
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Now, I want to take just a little of time to explain to you a few things that's very essential. And some of the things that I think that hinders our services many places, is because of the lack of time of staying. I don't get to stay long enough in the place. Maybe two days, three days, or something like that. The meetings should stay thirty days. That sounds like a long time. But I've noticed this: that every day that I stay, the next day it's a larger crowd with new enthusiasm. And each day just builds, and builds, and builds. And then the healing results is... Oh, there's no comparison to the difference. Now, it's just like in our meeting here at Phoenix; we have one Sunday, the devil gets a chance to snuff the minds over 'fore I can get back again next Sunday. That's right. You've got to take the thing and hit it, and just keep driving it. You can't tap a nail, and then walk on off, and let the kids play with it around awhile, and then come back next Sunday and tap it again. You've got to drive that nail right on home, like that, anchor it down into the wood.
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Well, that's the way it is with faith. You've got to get it anchored in the people. They'll run in here one Sunday, just a few moments, they're restless, "Am I going to get prayed for?" They'll rush through a prayer line, not even knowing what they're coming through about. The next week, get around some critics, say, "Aw, there's nothing to that. I know Jim Jones' wife was prayed for. Didn't help her a bit." That's right. It wasn't for Jim Jones' wife. It's for you who believes. That's for believers. It's only for believers. And remember, if you do not have faith, it will not do you any good. Now, in the first place, this gift was not given to do the work that I'm doing with it now in these auditorium meetings. That's not God's Divine plan for doing it. The Divine plan for God is if I had the opportunity to stay just a few weeks here to explain it all. It comes by revelation. At nighttime, in daytime, when I meet this Angel, He will send me to
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Let me give you an illustration, something like it, and you might understand. He will... I'll go into a place just as natural as I'm standing here. Maybe there's a lady meets me at the door. She has on a red sweater. And in the yard, there lays an old hoe laying. I noticed it as I come in the gate. And there's a Bible laying on the--on the washstand, and there's somebody laying in a bed crippled. Well now, I go to that house, by and by I find the place. And when I go to that house, I see the hoe laying in the yard. Yes, the lady with the red sweater on meets me at the door. I go in. But the Bible's not laying on the washstand; it's laying on the desk. Now, I cannot say, THUS SAITH THE LORD. I can't tell them until somebody picks up that Bible and puts it over here on the washstand, not knowing what they're doing. Then you can stand and say, THUS SAITH THE LORD. And... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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This one will come to me, "Brother Branham, am I going to get well?" I--I--I trust you will, sister. This--this one will come to me, "What about this one? Well here, my uncle, my... oh..." Why, it will just run you wild. If you let that keep on your mind all the time, why you'd soon be a mental case (You see?), not--wouldn't take but a few hours to do it. Well then, I don't know about that. But in these auditorium meetings, the reason that we permit them, there is a great amount of people. Now, this Angel very seldom sends until some case... But I notice, when He sends me to a case, there's more glory seen of God there than if you had fifteen auditorium meetings. That's right. Because you go with THUS SAITH THE LORD. And there it happens.
Listen. We got plenty of time. I want to tell you just of one case, so that you would understand. Just recently taken place. I give you the name of the people, so you can write it. I was at my mother's house. And this happens quite often. And I was praying in the room. I wasn't going up home, because I wanted to be alone in there. It just felt like I wanted to be alone, just a burden on my heart to pray. Did any of you ever feel that way? And I just started praying. And I went, was--was lying down across the bed. And I went to sleep. And I woke up; it must've been about two o'clock in the morning. And I still had that burden. I started praying again. And I knelt down on the floor to pray. I looked over in a corner like that. And we're very poor people, and we had a... Mother usually does her washing, and brings them in and puts it on a chair. I don't know whether you women ever do that or not. But pile them up on a chair just piled up in the corner.
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And I thought, "Well, poor old mother, there's the washing." I seen a big white something there in the corner. I said, "Well..." And I happened to notice that washing. I hadn't noticed it before. But looked like that washing was moving up in the air, like this. Well, I thought just the room's dark, and I rubbed my eyes, and... I noticed then... Either I was going to that washing, or that washing was coming to me, a white looking... Come to find out, it wasn't a washing in the room; it was a white misty cloud there in the corner. And here it was coming to me. Now, remember, when I testify this before you people, I'm going to have to answer for them words at the judgment someday.
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Now, I notice you've preached of fanaticism. God bless your heart, brother, I'm finding plenty of it (That's right.), of pure fanaticism. And it's only the works of the devil to hinder everything he can against God. That's right. And this come right up, moved right up to me. And I went into the cloud or--or something. I don't know what taken place. But when I was going to it, I found out that I was going to a little white house, setting... A little long three roomed house, or two room house, kinda made in what we call the "shotgun" house, kind of a little straight house.
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And I entered the front door, and when I did, I looked to--to my left, it was, and there set a red duofold chair. There was an old mother setting in there, a crying. Over to my right was a duofold itself, and a young man was setting there with blond wavy hair. There was a black headed woman leaning against the door that went out into the kitchen, or the other room, a crying. And I looked over here at the bed, a little iron poster bed, and one of the hideous sights I ever seen in my life. A little boy was laying there with a blue corduroy overalls on. And one of his little legs had been twisted just like that, till it was wound against his little hip. And the left one was twisted like that. And each arm was twisted vice versa against his side. And something had been laying on his little chest here, and his little body was twisted up like that. Oh, it was a... And his father, a tall dark looking man was standing crying over the baby. Well, I said, "Isn't that strange? I was in mother's just as... just as... Strange it's not..." You're not dreaming. Just like you're having a nightmare. It's just as much reality as I know I'm standing here at Phoenix, Arizona, in this auditorium, more so. And I thought, "Well now, that is strange." And I started to turn... It always is to my right. And when I turned towards the right, standing there stood the Angel of the Lord with His--that Man Who comes to me. Who He is?
Now, remember, you get this. When Brother Branham leaves, don't... I don't know what His Name is. He's never told me. He's a large Man. He weigh over two hundred pounds, I guess, in human weight, wears a white robe, and got dark hair. And He stands just like this. And He was standing to my right. And He said, "Can that baby live?" And I said, "I--I... Sir, I know not." He said, "You pray for it." The father brought it to me. And I laid my hands upon it like this and prayed for it. It dropped out of its father's arms, and it hit on one of those little crooked legs. And when it hit on that little leg, it just went to unwinding. First leg unwound. It made another step, and another leg unwound, the left leg. And it got into the corner, and it made its next step, and his little body unwound. It come walking back to me and put its little hands up to mine, said, "Brother Branham, I'm perfectly whole." And I said, "Well, praise the Lord."
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And then this Angel walked to my right again. And He picked me up, and I set down on a little old country road. And was standing there, He said... He showed me a graveyard. He said, "Take the numbers off of it." And I did. He set me down next, and I was at a little place where there's just a little gasoline station and a store a yellow front store. And there was an old man walked out with a pair of blue corduroy overalls, or blue overalls with a yellow corduroy cap and a white mustache. He said, "He will show you the way." Then He taken me into a house this a way, turning to from the north coming south. And when I walked in there, there was a... I walked in, there was a old stove setting there, old wood burner, what they call chunk stove. I don't think you have them here in Arizona. How many knows what a chunk stove is, let...? Are you from Arkansas? That's where they have plenty of them. How many Arkansas'ers are here, let's? I thought so. See? All right.
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"God Bless Our Home." They taken them signs down now in the modern homes and put a pin-up girl. I'd rather have the old sign, "God bless our home." Wouldn't you? That's right. And then... I noticed in a--a big brass bed over to my left laid, it was either a girl or a boy. It had a mannish look to its face. But I thought it had long hair. Had a heart shaped lips like a woman. And its right hand was like this, and the left leg was twisted in toes, twisted sideways. And He... I thought, "Well, isn't that strange?" I thought, "Is that a man or a woman?" And I was looking. And I heard Something speak to me, and I looked standing here, and
here stood this Angel. Said, "Now, you go and pray, and put your hands like this," both straight, right across the stomach of this person.
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Well, I thought, "Must have been a girl, or a boy, you know, 'cause if it was a girl, it's a young lady." He told me to put my hands across the stomach of the person. Well, I daresn't not to do what He would say to do. And I put my hands at--upon the stomach of the person, and I prayed. And when I did, I heard a little voice say, "Praise the Lord." And I looked, and I seen that crippled hand straighten out, its legs come back to its normal condition. I seen it raise up. And when it was, her-the pajama leg come up high, and it showed the round knee like a girl's. You know how a man's knee is, kinda bony like. Well, the--the girl's knee was round. I seen it was like that on her--when her pajama leg raised up. And she was perfectly made well. And about that time, I heard the people saying, "Oh, thank God." Well, I thought, "Isn't that strange?" I heard somebody hollering, "Oh, Brother Branham, oh, Brother Branham." I thought, "I hear someone." "Oh, Brother Branham..."
I--I was coming to myself in the room. I was standing right in the middle of the floor. I hadn't been nowhere, it looked like but right in the floor. There was someone had come in to the door. I said, "Yes, come in." Somebody... He opened the door and come in. He said, "What's the matter?" And I said... He was crying. He said, "Brother Branham, do you remember me?" And I said, "No, sir, I don't." And he said, "My name is John Emmel." He said, "About four years ago, you baptized me and my family." And said, "During the time of the war, up here at the powder plant, you..." I said, "I remember you now. You killed a man, didn't you." He said, "Yes, sir. I hit him with my fist and broke his neck in a fight." And said, "And I--I ran away." He said, "I backslid." And said, "Last year, my little boy died with pneumonia." Said, "I got a little boy left, and Doctor Bruner of our city says he's dying now with pneumonia." And I said, "Is that right?" Said, "Yes." Said, "Will you pray for him?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Well, I'm going down to get Graham Snelling..." He's my associate pastor now at the Branham Tabernacle at Jeffersonville. He said... "I'm..." That was his cousin. Said, "I'm going to get Brother Graham to come go with us." And he said, "The baby..." Said, "Do you know where I live?"
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And I said, "No, sir." He said, "I live about four miles above Utica, Indiana." And Utica is seven miles from Jeffersonville. I said, "All right, I'll go." He said, "Well, don't get your car, I will take you in my car." And I said, "All right."
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And as soon as he went out, mother called me, she said, "Honey, what was the matter with that man? He just kept shaking and calling, shaking the door." And I said, "Mother, I... Something's happened." I said, "I--I was in a vision." She said, "Oh, were you?" And I said... She said, "Is it anything good?" And I said, "Yes, the man's little boy is going to be healed." And so just in a few moments, he returned, and I got in the car and we started up to the Navy yard. And I... So going up the road, and he said... I said, "Mister Emmel, I guess it's awfully hard on you being backslid now."
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He said, "Yes, Brother Branham," said, "I'm ashamed of myself. I was even ashamed to come after you." Said, "The baby's been sick for about two weeks." But said, "I--I was ashamed to come after you." Said, "And Doctor Bruner said it was going to die." Said that he left at about two o'clock. It was then about four, four-thirty. He said, "He says it was going to die. So there wasn't nothing to do but come and take the last thing I knew to..." I said, "Mister Emmel, you said you lived above Utica?" He said, "Yes, sir." And I said, "You live in a little white house, don't you?" And he said, "Yes, sir." And I said, "The front door faces south of you?" And he said, "Yes, sir." I said, "You have a red duofold in that house, don't you?" He said, "Yes, sir." And I said, "You have red baseboards, or--or around the side, like this, tongue, made out of tongue and groove stuff." Said, "Yes." I said, "Your baby's about... I'd say about three years old, and is wearing blue corduroys?" He said, "Was you ever up there?" And I said, "Uh, uh, not in--in the way that you would think I was." He said, "Well, Brother Branham, that's..." I said, "And the--the baby's barely breathing, isn't it?" He said, "It is."
Well, I said, "It's THUS SAITH THE LORD, your baby's going to live." He said, "Brother Branham?" And I said, "Well, is it... How..." "Well you never was in my house?" I said, "I was just there a few moments ago." He said, "Well, I never seen you, Brother Branham." I said, "No, I was... It was a vision, Brother Emmel." And he said... I said, "But don't worry, your baby will live."
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He just pulled up the brakes on this old Model-T Ford he had, threw his arms around, one around the Brother Graham and one around myself. And I never heard a man cry and repent so in my life. He said, "God, I'm ashamed of myself." He said, "I'll never, never go back on You again, if You'll just forgive me." And there, he gave his heart back to Christ there at our... And we were there about fifteen minutes, and he was crying. And he felt that God had forgive him. He went up, walked into the house. And as soon as I walked in, I seen the mother.
Now, here's where you can always speak out of turn. Being that I brought this case, is where I almost missed, and caused something to happen. You have to watch what you're doing. And--and I--I walked into the room, and there laid the little baby laying there. There was the baseboard. There was the duofold chair with the duofold. And the man that was with me was Brother Graham Snelling... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God's in no hurry, we're the ones in a hurry, not God. And I said, "Bring me the baby now if you got faith. They brou... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And the mother was... The baby just barely living. They only way you could tell was hold a little piece of fine paper to its nose to see if there's breath coming and going from its nose. That's how bad it was. Well, I seen that twisting of its body was the pneumonia. It was just dead, practically, all of it up to here, and that's the only place it was breathing. That's what that sign was of the twisting. I said, "Bring it here." And they brought it over there. And my, when I prayed for it, if anything, it got worse. Its little eyes set; its tongue came out; its little head went back. Well, I thought, "Wait, there's something wrong." I have never in my life seen that fail, because that--that's just as true as the Bible. God has already spoke it. Something... There's no way you can doubt that. You don't have to ask the person. "If you got faith..." It's already pronounced by Almighty God. It's going to happen.
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And I thought there was something wrong, and I happened to think, "Why, there's one person that wasn't in the house. And nothing was in order." This old mother... Was nobody there with them glasses on. Where was she at? Well, I thought, "Well, now, that..." And they took the little baby over there, and it just choking, went [Brother Branham makes choking sounds--Ed.] And the mother run over to it, and the father, and they begin to work with it, and put this stuff over its nose, and things. And they both got to screaming and left the baby alone. Brother Graham started working with it. So... Just like past... Now just as blue as it could be its little body, it laying stiff like that. Lungs, already... Lungs was congested. It was even folded up, and pushing his little ribs like that where the lungs was--was swollen in the little thing. And that's the way it was laying. And I--I thought, "Oh, my, something's not... I knowed that mother wasn't there. Then I knew that I had--that I had missed--failed God.
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So they worked with that baby from then until it got daylight, sun come up. I never spoke one more word. I couldn't speak a word. I couldn't tell them. But I seen the duofold; I seen everything. So then it got time that Brother Snelling had to go to work. And so, Mr. Emmel was going to take him back home. He said, "Brother Branham, do you wish to go?" And I said, "No, sir. I'll just stay here." And I thought, "O God." I was praying, "Forgive me. Forgive me."
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That's... Well, you remember two or three Sunday's ago, standing here on the pulpit when I done something. That's the only thing I... Oh, it's... I--I look at humanity, and I try to listen to what somebody says, instead of waiting to see what God says. You pray for me. That's what I need your prayer. Now, I'm just opening up my heart to you here today, 'cause ser... May be the last time we'll ever meet in life. And then, I turned around, and I--I didn't know what to do. He said, "Well, you want to ride down with us, Brother Branham?" I said, "No, I'll wait here." I knew that if God would hear my prayer and forgive me, there was a chance for the baby. But yet I'm... Every... Nothing was lined up right. And... Now, that might not seem very much to you, but in the sight of God, it means everything. It's got to be right to the dot. That's right. And I--I he said, "Well..."
Brother Snelling said, "Well, I got to go, because I've got to go to work." He was driving a tractor at Colgate, down there was Palmolive Peet Company there. So he--he got on his coat. And I
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thought, "Oh, my, if he leaves, I may have to set here two or three days till he comes back." 'Cause I knew he was the man that had the blond curly hair was in the vision. Well, you don't know how I thought, friend. And you'll never know until we meet in judgment, at the day when I'll have to answer for these words that I'm saying close to this microphone. And I--I set down on the duofold. And the sun was coming up. It was awful cold. It was wintertime. And I was setting there. Brother Emmel had on his coat, and his big heavy cap. And--and Brother Snelling had on his coat and wraps. And they was started to go out. And he told... He was talking to his wife, Brother Emmel was. And I was setting at the window, looking like this, down. And I happened to notice coming up the sidewalk, the little old path, it was, little dirt path around the house. And here come the grandmother of the baby. She had on glasses. Oh, my. You don't know how you feel then. I thought, "Oh, if they just don't leave now." I thought, "O God, how I thank You."
And the woman always come to the front door. That's where they visit, coming through the front door. But that morning, my car wasn't there, just her son-in-law's car. She had left sometime in the morning, 'cause the baby was so bad. And she had went home to get some sleep. And she come around to the back door. I couldn't say nothing. I just had to set there and watch now, why? But you'll never know how I felt when I watched and seen that woman come over. I recognized it to be her. I never seen her before in my life. But I recognized it to be her, seen her pass by like that, go by. I thought, "O God. Praise the Lord." And Brother Snelling was... They was all ready to go. And she come in the kitchen door, and come to the middle door, and knocked at the door. And if she hadn't have done that, the vision still wouldn't have be complete. Her daughter went to the door to open the door to see who it was. And it was her mother. And she said, "How is the baby? Any better?" And Mrs. Emmel said, "No, mother, no." And she just threw her hand up like that to cry, like that, you know. Put her head up against the wall. And that's just the way it was in the vision.
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Well, I was setting on the duofold where Brother Snelling was supposed to be. I got up off the duofold, walked over like this, wondered what was going to take place. I thought, "She's got to be setting in this red chair." And I just stood there a little bit. And I--I wondered. And Brother Snelling, he started crying too, 'cause he seen her crying. He just took off his hat, just set down on the duofold. I thought, "Oh, my." Just one more thing to happen. I looked all around to see where everything was. And I looked over,
and the lady, she was... Oh, no, she set down her little satchel she had. And she backed over here, and set down on the duofold, took off them glasses and begin to wipe them, just exactly the way it was in the vision.
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Then I could feel Something standing near me. I knew He was there. And I said, "Brother Emmel." And he looked at me. I said, "Do you still have faith in me?" He said, "Brother Branham, I love you with all my heart." I said, "I'm telling you now; I'm sorry for what I done awhile ago. The vision wasn't complete. But now, you got to show that you still got faith in me." If you believe it... The baby was just as blue as it could be. And I said, "If you still have faith in me, bring me the baby." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Baby... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "...?... the vision. I'm sorry for what I did awhile ago. Forgive Your servant, and heal this baby in the Name of Jesus Christ."
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And when I said that, the little baby threw his arms around his daddy's neck, and said, "Daddy, daddy." Oh, you talk about a screaming bunch in the house. And then... So they begin to run. I said, "Now put him back in the bed; it'll be three days before he's recovered, because he made three steps, bringing it out." I went back, reported to the church what had happened. And on the third day, I said, "Now, I won't hear no more about it. On the third day, go up there and see if he don't come across the floor and put his little hands in mine, and say, "Brother Branham, I'm perfectly whole." And so then, you can about imagine how many went up to see it: the whole entire church. There was cars all up-and-down the road. And I told no one to go. I had to go first (You see?) for them, so they could see it was coming from God. And they gathered around.
I went up to the door, knocked at the door, and the mother was back in the little kitchen. She come running through the house, and--and she opened the door, and she did, she said, "Oh, it's Brother Branham. Come in, Brother Branham." Said, "Looky the difference of him." He'd been drinking some chocolate milk and had one of them little mustaches, you know, chocolate milk on him. And he come walking across the floor. Everyone standing there looking through the windows and everything. He walked out, I just stood in the floor, never said a word. He walked over and put his little hands up to mine, he said, "Brother Branham, I'm perfectly whole." See?
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I begin to tell about the rest of it. Two weeks later, I started out of my office. And usually, we have a little--little pigeon holes where we put our mail. But Herbert Scott, very fine man there, and he said--he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "before you go down, on my desk over here (I was on patrol.)..." He said, "On my desk is a letter laying for you." I said, "I'll pick it up." And I started down the steps to go down into the main part of the office, as our local office is around the top. I started down, and seemingly, something moved me, strangely, about that letter. I walked over to the letter, to the place and picked up the letter; I looked on it, it said who it was from. I tore it open, looked at it. And I said, "Well, I'll say."
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Looked on there, it said, "I am Mrs. Harold Nail." She said, "Reverend Branham, I've got a afflicted girl that's sixteen years old." And said, "She's been afflicted for some time, and arthritis has set into this affliction." And said, "She just cries day and night." And said, "I belong to the Methodist church at--at... just a..." I'll call the name of the place just in a minute. It's below Salem, Indiana. Is anybody here from near Salem, Indiana? There's somebody back there. What part of Indiana you from, sister? What part of Indiana? Salem? Salem, Indiana. My... Do you know Harold Nail? You know Harold? There, fine. Now, this is the evidence now. Now, we got it right here. Fine. I want to see you when the service is over. That's... Now, I'll tell you where it... South Boston. You know where South Boston is? That's... All right. Now, we got the story lined up with the evidence. The other day, I was... I like for people to be near. All right.
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Now, I--I brought this letter down. It said, "I live in Salem, Indiana, or at South Boston, Indiana." And said, "Our pastor come down, and he--he told us... We had a prayer meeting, and somebody brought us a little book called 'Jesus Christ, The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever.'" And said, "We were reading that little book about healing, and something moved on my heart to send for you come pray for this little girl." And it happened to be, that when she gave what night it was, it was the same night the vision came to me. See? Now, check with that. I went home; I told the wife. I said, "Looky here." She said, "Yes." Said, "Oh, that's that vision, isn't it." I said, "That's it." At the prayer meeting that night at the church; I went over, I showed it. Everybody wanted to go. And there was some people there by the name of Brace: Ad Brace.
I've looked for them many times. I... They might be in this meeting. Is Ad Brace here from Texas? Or anybody that knows him? They'd come up there to be healed, Mrs. Brace. She's a tubercular case. And so they--they wanted to go. And I said, "Now, first thing, where is South Boston?" Somebody told me where it was at. So... And I went down below New Albany. Do you know Hoosier, back there? I went down below New Albany, and went way down. And it was New Boston down there, instead of South Boston. Well, I never heard of South Boston. I thought, "Well, now--now, that's strange, isn't it. New Boston." Well, I come back up. And there's an old fisherman by the name of Wisehart, down on the river. He told me, said, "No, South Boston is way... You go up towards Salem, Indiana."
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So then, I went up to Henryville to turn off. And they told me to turn off in Henryville. And you know where that road is leading through from Henryville, I guess. That was one muddy, muddy road. Well I... And so I got back on that little old gravel road and kept going. And there was a little song that they... They were Pentecost people. And they were teaching me a song about--something about:
There are people almost everywhere, Whose hearts are all aflame. The fire that fell on Pentecost, That cleansed and made them clean; Oh, it's burning now within my heart, Oh, glory to His name! So glad that I can say I'm one of them."
You ever hear it? Well, they were trying to teach me that song. Now, there's something about there, and said the... something or other about the lame was made to walk, and so forth like that. And I just thought that was fine. I said, "Come on, let's have that again." And we were singing, and going along like that.
And all of a sudden, Something that struck me that I almost was paralyzed. And I--I thought it was... I thought maybe I was sick. And I stopped the car. And I was up top of a little hill. And there's a church back over to my left. I thought, "Maybe it might be the Angel of the Lord. I'm passing a church." And I got out and went around behind the car. And I had a little old Ford run-about. I put my foot upon the; back there by the trunk. And I was standing there. And I thought, "Wonder what it is." And I happened to look over to my left, and there was a graveyard. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Me that piece of paper. And she brought it over there, and we checked the names and numbers on the tombstones and that's just exactly the place. I said, "This is the road. We're on the right road now. And that was the Angel of the Lord that stopped me." I went right on by it and not noticed it. See? You know how the Bunker Hill graveyard sets over. And I'd never been in that country in my life, knowed nothing about it. So I went... I want... Just kept on going. And I met a man standing by the side of a--a place where he was--a little filling station; he was rolling a cigarette. And I said, "Is this the way to South Boston?" He said, "Yes, sir. Go straight ahead." I said, "Do you know of somebody over there by the name of Harold Nail?" "Yes, sir." All right. So I just went on. I kept on going. They said, "Now..." I said, "Now, if I hit the place... (The place, South Boston.) There'll be a man come out that's got on a pair of blue overalls. He will have a yellow corduroy cap on with a white mustache." I said, "He will come out the little store. It's got a yellow front in it." And so... And she... Mrs--Mrs. Brace said, "Well, I--I just never seen anything like that, Brother Branham." Said, "I don't know what I--I... I don't know what more I'll do." Said, "When I think of them names back there." She couldn't get over it. She never seen anything like that.
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And so we went on. I went down. I... We'd come around some bends, and I got mixed up on the road there. And I said to the fellow, he said, "Well, you--you know how Indiana is. You jog to your right and jog to your left." And so I must've got the wrong jog. So anyhow, I... He said, "Go right on straight through this way." Another man standing there said, "You--you'll get to South Boston. Just about four or five miles." I was driving on. We was talking, you know. After while, I come into the little place; I passed it. I said, "That's the place. There it is, right there." Just a wide place in the road, like, you know, a little country road there. I said, "That's the place, right there. That's the yellow store front. Watch." We moved up a little bit farther. Out of the store stepped a man with the blue overalls on, yellow corduroy cap, and a white mustache. Mrs. Brace just toppled right over in the car, fainted. And she--she didn't know...
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I said, "There he is. That's the man." I said, "Now, watch, he will act real funny, because It... The power of the Lord is so near to him." And I drove up close; I said, "Sir." I said, "You're to tell me
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where Harold Nail is." And the old fellow's lips begin to quivering like that. He said, "Yes, sir." Said, "You go right up here to this road, and you turn down. It's the third house on the right-hand side where a big red barn sets up on the hill." I said, "Uh-huh." He said, "Why?" And I said, "Hasn't he got a daughter that's pretty sick or something?" Said, "Yes." I said, "She's going to be healed." Great big tears begin to rolling down off his poor old cheeks. And we turned around. And Brother Brace was talking to Sister Brace, and rubbing her in the face with his hand. And we turned around, and went back up, and went down the road, turned in to where the place was.
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There was a--kind of a heavy set lady, Mrs. Nail, came walking out of the house. And she said, "I know you're Brother Branham by the looks of your picture in the book." I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "Come in." We walked in. So they went walking up with me. We turned into the way it was. And when we were... entered the door, I said, "Watch now what's in the room." Soon as you get in the door, there's a big old chunk stove setting there. There's the sign up, "God bless our home." There was the--the big poster bed. There laid the girl laying there, kind of a boyish look, rough looking, and her hands drawed up with arthritis, and her foot like that. And over to the paper was yellow, and with the red figures in it. Mrs. Brace taken another fainting spell. Down she went again when she seen it and seen what had happened.
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Now, and--and then it seemed like something strange happened. It seemed like that my spirit, or my being, or something, moved out. And I remember walking over and laying my hands on the stomach of that young girl. And I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, sister, you're going to get well." And I begin to pray. And when I begin to pray, I heard something say, a little voice say, "Praise the Lord." And that was her. She'd been crying day and night with that affliction. And when I noticed, her hand was back normal, her foot was straight, and when she raised up, her pajama leg raised up high enough here to show her round knee. And when Mrs. Brace seen that, down she went again. So she toppled on the floor, and he said, "Mother, mother." The girl walked out of the room, come back in dressed, combing her
hair with that crippled hand, and her crippled foot. And she lives in Salem, Indiana, today. You happen to know her, sister? What--what's your name? Laurel. From Salem, Indiana. Do you know Mrs. Nail? Do you know the girl, and know the case? There's a witness. Now, let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. What you doing way out in this country? It's a fine place, isn't it? It really is. That's mighty fine. From Salem, Indiana... That's about-just about thirty miles, thirty-three miles from my home, I guess, from Salem, Indiana. Now, you see? Now, that's just one of the cases of God making His way to perform these things.
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Wonder if I got time to tell you one that's on my mind if I could take but just a few minutes. Wonder if we could do it. Would you say, "Amen," if you want to hear it? Does it bore you talk of them? You want to hear it, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."-Ed.]
That was at Little Rock, Arkansas. How many knows G. H. Brown of Little Rock, Arkansas, a pastor, G. H. Brown. Somebody back there in here? All right. Do you know him, do you? Now, you write to him for this testimony. And now, this man if you want to write for this testimony, see the lady back there, first thing if you want to. And then write to Mrs. Harold Nail at South Boston, Indiana. Or write to the other one, is Mr. John Emmel, Utica, Indiana, RFD 2. And if you want to write to this man for this testimony I'm going to tell you now, it's Reverend G. H. Brown, 505 Hickory Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. And I'll try to make this just as quick as possible, have a word of prayer, and when we start the prayer line.
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How many's here today to be prayed for, let's see?
Prayer line closely. I always call it a miss...?... in a happen, or something like that. It's a whole lot to do with the person's faith. But when He sends me to any place, friend, I--I don't care if the person has been there in his grave, dead, for fifty years; they'd come up again. 'Cause God's already spoke it. It's got to be. And... Now, that's just as true, friends, as I'm standing here. The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established." Is that right? Now, you ask.
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Now, that's the way the gift is supposed to be working. See? Now, I want you to notice this. It wasn't my sincere prayer that brought this gift. Gifts are not brought by sincere prayers. Gifts are foreordained of God. They're ordained and sent. Here at the municipal bridge. Sister, no doubt you know where the
municipal bridge is, don't you, cross from Jeffersonville to Louisville? Twenty-two years, when I was a little boy, just a little bitty lad about five years old, or six years old, when the Angel of the Lord appeared in the bush... You've heard me tell that haven't you, when I was packing water? Well, about two weeks after that, I was playing marbles with my little brother. And I thought I'd got sick, some real funny feeling came on me. And I went and set down by the side of a tree. And I looked down at the river, and there went a bridge, a big, great big bridge going across the river. And I counted sixteen men that fell off of that bridge and drowned. And I went and told mother. And I told her I seen it. And they thought I was crazy or something. They thought I was just at a little nervous hysterical child. And twenty-two years from that time, on the same ground went the municipal bridge across, and sixteen men lost their lives on it. See? Wasn't nothing that... It's--it's God sent it. Your prayers brought it. See?
And there may be the man setting in this building right now that's Divine prophet is coming. He may raise; he may claim things. There's lots of fanaticism usually follows these things. Beware of it. I'm warning you before it comes. But God will testify of His gift. Is that right? He will testify of it. Now, notice. And get real close to this. That... You heard me tell you of the healing of that woman, that maniac the other day, was on her back there at Little Rock, Arkansas. You remember my telling you about that. I just had a phone call, Brother Brown to come to get me. And I had a phone call from Memphis, Tennessee. Is anybody here from Memphis, Tennessee? Around in Tennessee? There's plenty. I see some Tennessee cars out there, so I thought... All right, this was at Memphis, and it's your Postmaster is the one that it happened to. And... Anybody, what's the name of that Arkansas place, brother, sisters, where that taken place? That's it. Where that Paul Morgan's daughter... Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Anybody here from around Walnut Ridge? How many knows Paul Morgan at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, raise your hands? All right, you'll know the case then. That's fine. Walnut Ridge, Arkansas...
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Well, I was at Corning, Arkansas, in the meeting when the Walnut Ridge case come up. They was just laying on the... You know how they are in Arkansas. The weather don't stop them there; they just bring them on. And they'd lay them out there around on the streets, around the church, around the parsonage. And I was just going day and night then. That's what's the matter with me now. See? I'm just broke down. In the beginning I was just... They didn't
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have no certain closing times, I... Just them churches just kept me going all night. And so there was a phone kept ringing, ringing. And you know Mrs. Nelly Riggs there at Little Rock? Or--or at the... Not Little Rock, but Corning? Well, she was the one was answering the phone. She said, "Well, we can't get him up, sir." Said, "He just... We just got him to bed." And the man kept on, so--so persistent. So I--I said, "Let me talk to him." She said, "That's Paul Morgan."
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What was he, brother? What is he there in Arkansas? Tax collector of that county. And so... I don't think he was that then, was he? Clerk, the city--or the County Clerk. And so I went--went to the phone. He said, "I'm the County Clerk down here at Walnut Ridge," which is about seventy miles below where I was at. And said, "Sir, I've heard of the great works of God." Said, "I desire you to come perform a miracle on my daughter." I said, "Mr. Morgan," I said, "well, I can't perform no miracle." I said, "God is the Healer." He said, "Well, I've heard..." Said, "Look, sir." Said, "My--my little girl is dying." And said, "She's--she's in a very serious condition. And we don't expect her to live but just a--just a two or three more hours." And said, "I love my little girl." Said, "She's my only child. And she's about twelve years old." And said, "I would... I--I would desire you to come." I said, "Mr. Morgan, I will be glad to come. But looky here, sir." I said, "Here's people standing here on the porch with little babies. And they're soaking wet from standing here all night in the rain." I said, "They couldn't even get around the place." And he--he said, "I know that, sir." Said, "And I appreciate it." But said, "You're a father too, aren't you?" I said, "Yes, sir."
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Said, "Just think. Those mothers, their babies are not dying." Said, "They may have different things." But said, "My baby has got pneumonia. And the best specialist I can get says she ain't going to live but about three more hours." I said, "Well, sir. I couldn't even get there in three hours." He said, "But Brother Branham," said, "don't think I'm trying to use my authority now for pressure." And Mr. Morgan is a fine man. He followed us a long time, didn't he, Brother Kidson, right along in the meeting. He said, "If you'll just come," said, "I'll just... You don't know what..." Said, "Sir, their babies, if they been standing all night." Said, "Maybe they--they can wait a little while. But my baby can't." He said... And I just lost a little girl here about twelve years ago. My
first little girl died, it was a long time before healing came to me.
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And I knowed how he felt, that poor little thing dying. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Said, "Well, Brother Branham, you can't go down there, honey." Said, "My," said, "well, you're--you're just about dead." I said, "Well, let me lay in the back of your... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] little Plymouth car." And drove down that highway at the speed of seventy miles an hour, around through Arkansas. And on the road down, I was praying. And the Angel of the Lord set in the car with me for just a little piece. He said, "Say this to him. 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, waters are running clear ahead,' that's My Word to give him." When He left, I--I was just as wide awake as I am now. And I went to shouting and praising the Lord, and Brother Johnson said, "What's the matter?" I said, "The Angel of the Lord was setting here, Brother Johnson." He said, "Oh, Brother Branham..." You know... Any of you know Brother Johnson, he's a very fine man. He pulled up his brakes. He started crying. I said, "Just go ahead now. Go ahead and go right straight."
And when we got there, well, the Arkansas people love one another. And they love Paul Morgan. And all around that clinic there, there was just people gathered everywhere waiting for the last word. They'd been setting up there all night waiting for the last words for the little girl who was loved among everyone. But you don't know how to--how it felt. Got out of there and started pushing up through the crowd. And here was the--one of the doctors standing there. And they was at the door. They wouldn't let no more in, but just what could get to the steps. And they was waiting; everybody loved them. He said, "Are you the Reverend Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir, I am." He said, "Mr. Morgan's waiting for you." Said, "Shall I show you to the room?" I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "The child still lives." And he said, "It does." And I said, "There..." And then on the road up we met the intern. He said, "This is the Reverend Branham," said, "Mr. Morgan's waiting for." So... Well, the intern went back with me, and he said, "Will you be left alone, Brother Branham?" I said, "I would rather. I'd like to see the father and mother first." Said, "Why, they got two nurses in the room, and they're giving it oxygen."
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They could not put it in a tent, they had to put it over... a rubber mask. Now, if there's a doctor here, I never seen it before. They put it on there, and force the oxygen in--in--into the baby. And it would take a couple of breaths, go... [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] Then they'd put that on her again, go... then go... Then go down again, then the nurse would take and push it over, go... Take that like that, and that's the way they was keeping it alive. When I started to knock at the door, oh, my, I just felt Something standing near. Brother Johnson standing there, I said, "Don't come in, Brother Johnson. Let me go alone." I got to the door. One of the nurses opened the door. She said, "What do you want?" I said, "I'm Brother Branham. I want to see..." Said, "Step in." I walked in. Mr. Morgan said, "Are you Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes." And he just come put his arms around me. You know how he is, a great big fine fellow. He said, "Brother Branham," he said, "I try to live right. I--I try to do what's right. I don't know why God's taking my baby." I said, "Don't be excited, Brother Morgan. Set down." I walked over to the nurse. And she said, "We'll have to keep this oxygen going." I said, "That's all right. I want you to."
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The little girl was laying, kinda stooped over like this. I laid my hands down upon her, and I said, "Now, father (to the father)," I said, "do you and mother promise to serve God, testify wherever you go about it?" "We will." I said, "Don't fear. I have a Word for you, 'cause it's from the Lord after I pray for your baby." Putting my hands on the baby, I called over it the Name of Jesus Christ. And whenever I did, they didn't have to put the oxygen on its nose then. I turned around, and I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, Mr. Morgan." I said, "Many specialists has pronounced your baby dying. But THUS SAITH THE LORD, your baby shall live." I said, "It'll recover. And here's your Word. Remember this the days of your life. 'The waters are running clear ahead.'" You don't have the testimony right there, do you? No. And he signed by notary. And so I walked out of the building. And on the third day, the child returned to school. It was healed, well. See?
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Now, then at Little Rock, they sent for me to come to... What
was that man's name? Postmaster there at... Ever who it is, you from--from Memphis know who I'm speaking of, I guess. He's--he's a tall fellow. But anyhow, when I get through with the description here, you'll know. And the man was with him was named Kenny. I remember that, Mr. Kenny. And they sent for me to come over there to pray for this man, said he was dying. Well, I got ready to go, first plane flight. And instead of going over... I was getting ready, and I was putting on this suit of clothes. And I heard something like a wind blowing in the room, begin going, whew, whew, whew, whew. [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] I thought, "My, the wind's awful high today." And I was putting on my shirt, you know, and coats and things. I was a singing. And Brother Brown was going to fix me to go over there, said the man was dying.
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And that man that went over to doctor General Patton... You all remember him? They'd brought him in there by plane for this man. Everything said he's dying, a pneumonia case too. Said, "He's dying. The man can't get well," had asthma, asthmatic pneumonia. And so I started to put on my coat, and I was thinking Brother Brown would be there most any time. And they couldn't get a... And Mr. Kenny had come by a fast car. He was some kind of an official of the law there, you know, and he had a--had a red light and siren on his car. And he come over, had left early so he could get me, so if the plane did miss.
And I looked over there, and just a whirl like going around in the room. And I knelt down to pray. And when I did, the Angel of the Lord spoke, and said, "Do not go over there. His time has come." All right. I got up and took back off my coat. In a few moments, they come up to the door. And as Brother Kenny run in, said, "You, Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes." And Brother Brown was with him. Now, you all know Brother Brown, or any of you wish to write to this testimony. He put his arm around me, said, "Oh, I've had faith to know." Said, "He's a personal friend of Paul Morgan." Said, "He knowed of his daughter." And said, "Of course, he's unconscious now." But said, "He's a bosom friend of mine." And said, "You know..." I said, "But sir, you'll probably find your buddy gone when you return back. For THUS SAITH THE LORD, the man is going to die."
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EXPERIENCES_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 48-0302 E-56 Well, you just about... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
"Well, the Holy Spirit is warned me not to go. He spoke to me here in the room a few moments ago." He said, "But Brother Branham," said, "they just... His wife said...
They're just... They're coming in out of the... of a big church, you know, into their church." And said, "If you just... If you," said, "it'd just mean so much to her." I said, "But I can't help it, sir. I cannot go against the will of God. I can't go." He said, "You mean my buddy's going to die?" I said, "He will probably be dead when you return." I said, "However, what time will you get back?" He said, "I'll get back by eight o'clock tonight." I said, "Call me in the morning. I'll be praying." I said, "I'm interested in him. And let me know when he passes away." I said, "You call me in the morning and let me know his condition, and just when he passed away, if he was passed away when you got there. And never mind calling me tonight, 'cause I'll be in service. And don't call me, 'cause I don't know, may not be in from service till two or three o'clock in the morning." Well, he was so... He started out crying. He said, "My poor buddy. My poor buddy," like that, going back crying.
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Well, I went on to service that night, and that was the very night the maniac was healed. See? Went back and got in the bed. And the next morning, as I went in about two o'clock. And the next morning, I--I woke up in the room... Now, I want you to listen to this real close, now, so that you can get the story from Brother Brown. When I woke up in the room, I just... like that. And I thought, "My, it's daylight." And looked, setting there by the side of my bed, and there set a lady. Well, my room was locked. The door was locked. She had on a brown suit, light brown suit. She had kinda mingled gray hair. She had on a white waist, what--ever what they call the women. I think that's called coat suit, isn't it, when it's got the dress and the coat up here of the same color, you know, and same thing? So she was setting there. And she was--she was just looking so sad sideways. And I said... I raised up; I thought, "Why, here. How'd that woman get in here. The door's locked, and here's the key laying here. And that woman setting there." And I said--started to raise up to say, "Madam..." And when I did, I looked back over here, and there set a man setting there. And he was a tall man, wore a light suit, and gray hair, and had a red tie on. He was just looking so sad, like that. And she looked around to him, and he kinda smiled. And they kinda looked over at each other.
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And I thought, "Well, what is this?" And I raised up right... Just as natural, friends (God is my Judge.), as if I'm setting right here looking at you, like that. And I said, "Well, what is this?" And I looked
up, and I was standing on a platform, somewhere in a church. Well, I... Well...?... Or--or I bit my finger to see if I was just sleeping, or what was wrong with me. And I seen this was--was not, it was a vision. And I looked at it, and just then it went... It just went fading out. And I seen them laughing at each other. And they was bowing their heads towards me like that, and smiling to one another, and bowing their head like that. And they just faded out of the room like that.
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Well, I got up, and I prayed. And I said, "God, I don't know them. What does that mean? There'd probably be somebody come in today with that description." Sometimes I see people coming into the meeting like that. I said, "Now, when I see them..." You hear me... You heard me many times go and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, stand up." See? 'Cause God's already spoke that. That has to happen. And I thought, "Well, somebody be in like that." And so I--I thought, "Well, I will read my Bible," this very Bible. I said, "Lord, where would You have me to read in Your Bible this morning." I just love to read the Word of the Lord. I just took my hand like this, laid it on the Bible and opened it up. And it opened up there to where Isaiah was sent to Hezekiah to pronounce to him that his time had come. Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed unto the Lord. And the Lord heard his voice and come back and spoke to Isaiah, said, "Go tell him I've spared him fifteen years." You remember that? "Well," I said, "isn't that a strange thing?" Well, I--I said that Scripture seems... I done forgot about that--that case over there. I said, "That's strange, isn't it."
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And about that time, the phone ring. I said, "Well, that's Brother Brown coming up to help come get me and take me down. You know how... There, two or three with him. I thought, "That's him coming to get me for breakfast. And I took down the receiver. I said, "Hello." He said, "Hello. Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir. How are you, Brother Brown?" He said, "This is not Brother Brown. This is Brother Kenny in Memphis." I said, "Oh." I thought nobody knowed what room I was in, and no one knew where I was staying (You see?) but--but Brother Brown. And I knew Brother Kenny knew then. I said, "Yes." I said, "Well, what kind of a news you got?"
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And just then it dawned on my mind what the vision was. And he said, "Well, Brother Branham, we've set up all night. We thought he was leaving." Said, "The... They're here now." Said, "They're just
looking for the last minute any time." Said, "Brother Branham, I'm... I reckon I could get my wife to come over if I... In your next meeting, when you go over to Jonesboro the first of the year." Said, "Bring her over, put her in the meeting?" I said, "It may be you could, sir." But I said, "You saying sh...?" He said, "Yes," said, "He's dying." I said, "Is his wife there?" Said, "Yes." I said, "Does his wife ever wear a brown suit-like and got a white waist on it. She's kind of a gray haired woman?" Said, "Sure." I said, "Does he ever wear a light colored suit? Does he got gray hair, and he wears a red tie?" Said, "That's the way he dresses all the time. Why? You know him?" I said, "Yes, sir. Tell the wife to come to the phone." He said, "Well, Brother Branham, I said they're looking for him to go at any minute." I said, "Well, tell him to come to the phone." Said... Well, said, "I already told her that you said he was going to die." I said, "But I want her to come to the phone." She come to the phone, and I said, "Hello." And I asked if it was her. Said, "Yes." And I said, "Well, this is Brother Branham." Said, "Yes." Said, "I heard, Brother Branham." I said, "But look, sister. Are you ready now?" She said "What do you mean?" I said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, your husband shall live." I said, "Do you--do you... Do you believe that?" And I didn't hear no answer. I said, "You believe that?" I couldn't hear no answer.
I thought... And I heard somebody carrying on out there, and she'd fainted. And the... And she'd fell down on the floor. So then, Brother Kenny picked up the phone, "What's the matter, Brother Branham? The woman fainted." I said, "I told her, THUS SAITH THE LORD, her husband's going to live." He said, "What?" I said, "Yes, he's going to live." I said, "I described him. I seen him in the vision a few moments ago. She is going to live... or he's going to live." He said, "Oh, can I come after you?" I said, "Just meet the next plane. I will be there."
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EXPERIENCES_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 48-0302 E-63 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... went up that hospi... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... doctors were over there. I walked in. Here come his sister
down the hall, she said, "The very idea...?... holy-roller preacher around here, and my brother dying in there. I think it's a disgrace." Oh, my. That couldn't... Nothing could stop it. The devil couldn't send enough imps out of hell to stop that. There's nothing. There's nothing. It's absolutely there. That's all. That's done said, THUS SAITH THE LORD. It's there. Oh, you don't know how I felt to walk in there. Walked down the hall, here come a nurse out from in there, you know. And I said, "Is there anyone in there, lady?" And she said, "Yes, there's two doctors in there." I said, "Tell them to get out." Oh, my. Oh, my. You don't know how I felt. In the room, there's just them two. Walked down there... Friends, you... I know you think... Some of you would judge me a fanatic, but God is my Judge, Who I stand before. Just walked into the room like that, and them doctors went out, that very sarcastic look, you know. Walked in, and poor old sister, she was just about to faint. And I said, "Now don't worry."
I didn't have a overcoat, and I borrowed Brother Brown's. And I had this--this Bible sticking down in the pocket. And the overcoat was too big for me; I just carried it to make... keep me from looking so bad. It was cold weather. And so I laid the overcoat down in the chair, and I told her, "Now, you go get the Bible and turn to a certain Scripture," where I'd seen there in Isaiah. And he--she begin to read it. I--I--I looked at him, and that muddy looking color in his eyes, you know, of where his eyes, like, you know, that water coming out. His mouth was back; his ears was about like that. He was laying there under that oxygen--oxygen tent like that, you know. And...
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I took... reached over into the oxygen tent and got a hold of his hand. There's the vibration's hitting. And I shook him a little bit. I said, "You hear me, sir?" She said, "He's been unconcious for about two days there." I said, "Don't... You don't--you don't doubt a word I say, do you?" She said, "No, sir. I do not doubt a thing." She's a fine little woman. I took hold of his hand. I said, "Dear God, You Who spoke to me this morning in a vision, I know these people are to meet me at Jonesboro, Arkansas in the service... For I was standing on that platform and this is the man and woman." I said, "Now, let the Angel of God speak." I felt the vibration leave. I just kept on praying. I felt him grip my hand. I knowed God was there. I felt him grip my hand, squeeze that a little bit. Directly, I looked up, and I begin see him wetting his lips. She was still down at the foot of the bed, crying. And I just waited just a little bit, directly I seen him look over like that. I said, "You know me?"
And she raised up right quick; and she looked. She seen him raise up on his head, like on his hand, like this, looking at me. Said, "Know me?" Said, "Yes, it's Brother Branham." My, she just dove through that oxygen tent nearly. She said, "Dad, dad, dad, dad," like that, grabbed him up around like that, and just went a hugging him and everything. I just slipped right out of the room like that, while they was going on, right on down the steps, went right back to the plane. When I started out to the plane, the Assemblies of God had enough people out there, I don't know where they was... They're going through the line. There's a little girl, polioed. They had to play her... pack her to the piano. And when I stopped on the plane here... trip next to this, I was setting in a restaurant there, and the girl come up and set down by the side of me. Said, "You remember me, Brother Branham?" I thought... I just about fainted on the ground just a few moments. And I said, "No, ma'am. No." She said, "You prayed me. I was a polio case...?... up over there." And there... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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And on the third--the second day from then, the man was up out of the bed, shaved, eating ham and eggs for breakfast, and went home, and went back to his work. He's living there now. Why? It's THUS SAITH THE LORD. See what I mean? Now, Phoenix people, here's what it is. That is the way that God intends this gift to work perfectly. Do you understand it, all of you? If you do, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Now, remember, write for that man to get that testimony. Reverend G. H. Brown, 505 Victor Street, Little Rock, Arkansas. And the other is Harold Nail, at South Boston, Indiana. And John Emmel, Utica, Indiana, RFD 2. Now, for those testimonies... Case after case...
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Now, when the Angel of the Lord speaks like that, there is not nothing can stand before it. It's absolute... Then wha... My faith? Well, I know it's going to happen. There's no need of saying anything more about it; it's got to happen. If that person had been dead and in the grave for twenty years, and He'd say, "Go there and speak," I'll believe all heaven would shake out of its orbit before that prayer would be refused from being answered. God will do it. Now, that's when it's really, THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, when we come to these meetings, I detect vibrations. Sometimes I can ask the vibrations, and God will honor my prayer. He will send it away. That's true. But if there's anything between you and God, and you don't make it right... If it's your faith that's weak,
and you're just waiting for a slow line for that to be cast away... If your faith ain't just right, it'll return right back to you. It'll just move out to a place. For I've prayed for them. I've kept this back from you. But I've prayed for them coming through the line, and set them down there somewhere else, and walk back in fifteen minutes time to check them, it'd be back on them again. See?
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Your faith is the only thing that can do you any good, your belief, your faith in God. See what I mean? Without faith, it's impossible. Is that true? Now, you believe it with all your heart when you come through, that you're going be well, and you'll get well. If you don't believe it, it won't get well, no matter what happens. You won't be healed unless you believe it with all your heart. Now, look. How many of you people would say that I got on a white shirt? How many of you out there now say I got on a white shirt? How do you know I got on a white shirt? You see it. That's the only way you know it. Are you positive it's white? Well now, look. Sight is a sense of the body. Is that true? Sight is one of the senses. How many senses are there of the body? See, taste, feel, smell, and hear. How many senses are there to spirit? Two: faith and doubt. Are you two people in one? You're soul... Your soul, that's the nature of the spirit of course. But now, you're body and spirit. Is that right? You are a body, flesh, and you're inside, then, spirit. Is that true? All right. The out... The inside man leaves; the outside man's dead. Is that right? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I think I got that...?... now...?... All right. Now, looky here. I believe there's a man standing before me now, and he's got on a dark coat. How many thinks I'm right? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] got a white shirt. Do you believe I'm right? All right. Now, just think that I know he's standing there. I see him. Is that right? Is there any other way in the world that I could tell he's there, only but by seeing him? That's the only way, isn't it? Now, looky here. Now, I don't see that man now, do I? But he's still standing there. How do I know he's standing there? I feel him. That's the sense of feeling. Anybody that's got a sense of feeling would know the same thing. Now, perhaps he's got a... Argue with me, I don't see him. But yet I feel him. I don't feel him, yet I see him. See the senses? They're direct, aren't they? They're perfect, what you call perfect.
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But could I be wrong there? Sure I could. I could be color blind. That coat... You could be color blind. Yes, sir. You might be... It might be altogether different. He might not have on a white shirt.
You're not... But you'd swear by that. Am I feel him? I'd say he's standing there, because I feel him. See? But I could be wrong against that. But yet, I know it, just believe it with all my heart that he's standing there, because the sense of feeling says he's there. Now, I want you to notice. (Walk over to the piano.) I have another sense. I want you to notice this. If... (Up down on the note.) [A brother plays notes on a piano--Ed.] I hear music. There's music in the room. (Just keep hitting them, brother, just hitting up and down on the keys anywhere there.) How many hears that? How many knows that that... Do I see it? Do I feel it? Do I taste... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Do I smell... [Blank.spot.on.tape.] How do I know it's playing there? I hear it. It's a sense of hearing. See?
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Now, I know someone'd say, "You don't hear that." Yes, I do. Play it again, brother. I know I do, don't you? Why? You hear it. You don't see it, but you hear it. You can't see music, can you? You can't taste music, feel music, can you? But how you know it's music? You hear it. That's right. Well, brother, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But you know it. It's a faith. Oh, God bless your hearts. I wished I could get you to see it. Looky here, friends, it's positive. Is that shirt white? Well, healing's right then, if you believe [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The substance, not what you... Most of the people just hope, say, "Oh, I believe I'll get well." Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand passes by don't know the first principle of faith. That's right. They have hope instead of faith. Faith is positive.
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Oh, I... Real, when you can know it's going to be. If you know that you're going to be healed this afternoon... If your sense of faith... Here it is, get it. If your sense of faith declares to you that this gift come from God, and you're going to be healed, just as much as your sight declares that that's a white shirt, you're sure to get it when you pass by. See what I mean? Now, if you can trust the human part, why not trust the super-human part? If you can trust the body, why not trust the spirit? For the spirit is superior over the body. Amen. There it is. See what I mean? It's faith, the substance of things hoped for.
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Look. It isn't this... It isn't this, "I believe it, I think it." You know it. It's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. If you believe it, it's there anyhow. Some people go away and say, "Well, I don't feel any better. I was
prayed for last week." Ha. Probably never feel any better too. That's right. You've got to believe it. Not if... Jesus never did say, "Did you feeled it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" You believe it. And you have faith you know it. Then when this revelation of the Angel come, there isn't enough devils out of hell could stop it from being so. Now, don't you go around say, "Well, I been feeling bad for two or three weeks, and I was prayed for. Don't feel any better." Don't pay any attention to that. If you believe this truly is a gift of God, rise up, and don't care how you feel, go about rejoicing, praising God. It's gone. That's all. You know it.
When I was healed with stomach trouble, why, I remember holding my stomach going along there. And when I was prayed for, I didn't have nobody with the gift of healing to pray for me. The elder anointed me with oil. He told me... I read in the Bible. I seen God's Word was right. And I know he had a right. Though he was a Baptist preacher, he come along and anointed me, said, "The Bible said so." He poured some oil on my head. Said, "Now, you believe you'll get well?" I said, "...?... God, I'm asking with all my heart. Let me get well." I went right down home to start into my eating. I'd been drinking barley water and prune juice for about three, four months. The doctor said, "One mouthful of solid food would kill you right now." You know what I done? I went right down home, and we had corn bread, beans, and onions for dinner. I don't know whether you ever eat it like that or not. Boy, it's good. I could stand some right now. And... Mom baked... My mother baked it with a big old pone in it like that. And I always get the corner where it's nice and greasy, you know, and brittle. So we're still enough Baptist around home to break bread. You know, we don't cut it. Jesus broke bread and blessed it. So we break it out... And just reach over and break you off a piece. So I...
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Mother said... We never had had a prayer at home. And dad... Dad was Catholic. So I--I said, "Now, I'm going to try to ask the blessing." And I never will forget poor old dad, how he cried. And mother said, "I don't mind you having religion, honey, but you... The doctor said it would kill you." I said, "But God said I would live." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "If I die...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And if I die, I'm coming up to Your house. And when I meet You at the door, I died trusting Your Word." I said, "I've tried doctors long enough. And they can't do me no good." And I took that big mouthful of beans and a onion, great big chomp
of that corn bread, and I started on it. And I chewed. It taste pretty good, a little funny, but... Hadn't eat in about, over a year of anything solid. And when I swallowed the first mouthful, here it come right back up again. When I did, I held my hand over my mouth to keep it from coming up. Got me another spoonful till I eat the whole entire plate full of them. When I got up from the table, I just had to hold my hand. Just as sour of acid as it could be. Mother called doctor. Said, "He will die. That's all there is to it. One mouthful will kill him. That's all there is..." Here I was, going across the floor, you know. She said, "Are you... How you feeling?" I said, "Wonderful, fine." She said, "You're about to die." I said, "No, ma'am." Just swallowed as fast as I could. Hot water in my mouth, you know, went on across, and I seen they's all gone. I got in the room, I started across the floor, saying,
I can, I will, I do believe. I can, I will, I do believe. I can, I will, I do believe, That Jesus heals me now. I'll take You at Your Word, I'll take You at Your Word,
Like that, you know. On down, believing that with all of my...
I just got so weak, I just almost fell across the bed, like that, I thought, "Oh, mercy, mercy." And I got up the next day, I walked down the street, you know. My, I didn't care. Mother come in. She watched me all night long, thought sure I'd die, you know. Next morning, all them beans was laying right there at the same place. Said, "What do you want?" I said, "I want some more beans and corn bread." Yes... Oh, devil wasn't going to cheat me out of it. No, no. God said so.
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And every promise in the Book is mine, Every chapter, every verse, every line.
(Is that right?)

I am trusting in His Word divine, For every promise in the Book is mine.
That's right. He--He... I'd rather He said, "Whosoever will," than said, "William Branham. There might be a hundred William Branhams. But every, "Whosoever will," I know means it's mine. That's right. I just said, "I believe You." Yes, sir. And I started on, went down the street... Said, "How you feeling, Brother Branham?"
And I said, "Wonderful." I'd go down the street going... Mouth full of beans, swallow them back. No, no. I wasn't going to spit them out. No, sir. Swallowed them back. The Lord blessed them. They were mine. Kept on... Go down there, say, "Hello, Brother Branham." I said, "Hello." "How you feeling?" "Wonderful."
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Somebody told me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, you was lying." No, I wasn't. No, I wasn't. They was asking me how my body was feeled; I was answering how my faith was. It was wonderful. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. My--my faith was feeling wonderful, because I took God at His Word. I didn't care how I felt. If I'd still been belching up, I'd still say I'm healed. Amen. That's right. Sure, because God's Word is right. Do you believe it? Let's sing it then.
Every promise in the Book is mine, Every chapter, every verse, every line. I am trusting in His heart divine, Every promise in the Book is mine.
All you sick people now that's going to be prayed for, sing it with me.
Every promise in... (Raise your hand.) is mine, Every chapter, every verse, every line. I am trusting in His Word divine, Every promise in the Book is mine.
What do we have to do?

Only believe, only believe,
(That's all you have to do.)

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I'm not very much of a song leader. But I do know in my heart that you have to believe it. Is that right? All right. Now, brother, give us a key on it and we get it. All right. Everybody again now.
Only believe, only believe, All things...
The Bible said so, didn't It. Didn't God say so? Didn't He promise you the gift? They're here. Others are being healed, can't you? You? You? Can't you?
... only believe, All things are possible, Only believe.
(Praise God. Yes they are.)
Lord, I now believe (Do you?), Lord, I believe, All things are possible, Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe, Lord, I believe, For all things are possible, Lord, I believe.
Listen. If I don't...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... at the judgment, I'll still say I believe that every promise is true. It's right. Do you believe it? All right.
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Let's bow our heads. Now just kinda just chord that, if you will, brother. Let's bow our heads now while they're getting ready for the prayer. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee today for every promise in the Book. We thank Thee because Thou has brought down the Holy Spirit, for the--the people that owns It, and the lodge. And we pray, God, that You will have them, every one, be saved and in Thy Kingdom at that day, for they've been kind to spread--spread forth their doors to let us come in. Bless everyone. Bless the doctors of this city. Bless all the nurses, the institutions. God, let the people know that I'm here trying to help poor suffering humanity. I'm not here for any other cause but to try to help these hollow-eyed, sick, dying people. And O God, how could anyone say anything evil against something of that type, when trying to introduce to them a lovely Christ, Who heals all sickness and diseases?
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Bless Your ministers, Lord. May they be anointed fire brands. And may there be an old fashion revival break out now down here in Phoenix, and go from church to church, from place to place until this is one place that all the nation will say, "Come to Phoenix, Arizona, for the Holy Spirit is being poured out again down there, and great signs and wonders are being done among the people." O God, Thou knowest how I love this little city. And I pray that You'll keep it, Lord. Do grant it, Lord, and send an old fashion revival. Heal everyone, Father. And may Your Angel, Who I've tried to make it plain to the people, that I can only speak as He speaks. My prayer is only that for the people's faith. But O God, may they have faith to believe this afternoon as they file through this line. There's several hundred people. And as they pass, may they be healed, and we'll give all praise and glory to Thee, for we ask it in His Name and for His
glory. Amen.
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Now, for a little farewell song while they're finishing the prayer line, give us a chord there, brother, of "He Careth For Thee." Will you? "He Careth For You," you know.
He...
This is what I want to sing to you, and you sing back to me now, everybody. How many know it? "He Careth For You," let's see your hands? (All right. Lead us off now. All right.)
He careth for you, He careth for you; Through sunshine or shadow, He careth for you.
Let's all together now sing it. Come on.

He careth for you, He careth for you; Through sunshine or shadow, He careth for you.

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Listen. Let's let this middle aisle sing it for the rest of you. Sing it with me, just this middle aisle through here. Come on now.
He careth for you, (They're singing He careth for you; Through sunshine or shadow, He careth for you.
to you all.)
Let all the sick people that can to stand, all the sick people, stand, that's going to be in the prayer line. Now, you people here that's well, let's you and I sing it to the sick people that's going to be in the prayer line.
He... (Point your finger to He careth for you, He careth for you; Through sunshine or shadow, He careth for you. He...
them.)
(Let everyone stand now.)
Now, turn around and shake hands with your neighbor. Everybody sing "He Cares For You." Shake hands with somebody standing by you.
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He careth for...
handshake.)
(That's right. Turn right around with a good it again.)
He careth for you. (Let's sing He careth for you, He careth for you; Through sunshine or shadow, He careth for you.
Let's all say "Amen." Come on. It won't hurt you. Now, say, "Praise the Lord." Come... Praise the Lord. Now, let's hear us all say together. "I love my neighbor." [The congregation says, "I love my neighbor."--Ed.] "From this time on, I'll try to be Christ's servant." From this time on, I'll try to be Christ's servant.
He careth for... (Oh, my, get He careth for you; Through sunshine or shadow, He careth for you.
right into it.)
Chord it slowly, brother. Now, let's bow our heads. The governor of your state is in serious condition, and sent word for me to pray for him now. Bow your... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, Father, just cooperating with us so lovely. Man that's in the higher places, up in the seats, dominion over the people... God, spare our governor's life here, of Arizona. God, we love him, and we know that Thou has put him up to be an overseer over the people, and the things of the nation here of the--of this state. And I pray that You'll send Your Angel to him right now, and let him know that we are praying for him now. And God, answer our prayer, and may he recover immediately. May he be well, and love You all the days of his life. Grant it, Father. I ask for the governor's life to be spared in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. Amen. Now, you be seated everyone. Thank you.
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[A brother gives instructions to the people in the prayer line and to the ushers--Ed.]
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All right. Now, everybody be real reverent now. We're going to start the prayer line. And you--you ushers know how to keep the line a moving. I'll pray for every one that I possibly can. Now, I'll tell you what happened. Now, I don't know what's going to happen along the line, but I feel there's a shaking in the mulberry
bush. That's right. It's a... I wish we just had about eight or ten days, where you could just keep climbing on and you're gaining ground here. That's right. Now, it's--it's four-thirty. Now, I don't know what time we'll be out. We will be when everybody's prayed for. That's right. So now, I want to do that. And I thank you all for your kindness. 'Cause probably, when I get under the anointing now, I won't want to come out from under it. You see? And I thank every one of you for your kindness.
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Do you still love me as your brother...?... Well, I still love you and got perfect confidence in you. I trust that you have in me. And may God watch over us, and watch between us, until we see each other again. And if it's at the judgment, I pray that we'll all set down under the Tree of Life, and I'll have a thousand years apiece to talk with you all. That's right. So God bless you now. And now, if you have to go home, when you get up, go reverently. But if it's casting out an evil power... Sometimes I feel a person, when they come to me, I feel that pressure of faith come against me. Maybe they're blind, or deaf, or dumb. When I feel that pressure come against me, that I know that it's faith, I usually stop like that. Because if them people have faith for it to be done, no matter what's wrong with them... But if I don't feel that faith, I just ask a prayer of faith and let them go by. See what I mean? You all understand, don't you.
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All right. Now, everyone bow your head and be in prayer now. Dear God, our sister's now passing by. Let her go not according to her feelings but her faith. May she go and be healed in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, little lady. Now, I wished all the ministers here that can cooperate, will get right down along this line here and go to talking to these people and praying for them, if you would. All cooperating ministers that will, get along that prayer line, and be praying. God hears your prayers, brother, all of you all that's ministers. Jesus, have mercy upon our sister, and heal her. Grant it, Lord. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may this be healed. That's right, young lady. Go now, rejoicing. God bless you, brother. You're in serious condition. You realize that, don't you?
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O God, I'm thinking now of that x-ray that just come in awhile ago with that doctor's testimony. Over half of her lungs are--was gone, and the x-rays showing. Now... Right here in Phoenix... And now, her next one shows negative. O Christ, please have mercy on this man that's come all the way down from that lovely state of Ohio,
my neighbor, to be prayed for here at Arizona. Thou demon, come out of him in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now dear brother, you're my neighbor up there. Don't doubt. Your vibration has stopped. Now, if you can believe it with all... You felt it? Fine. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Praise the Lord, everybody. The man come from Ohio down here to be prayed for, right next door to me there.
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All right, now, bow your heads. Oh, my. Why don't you have this kind of a feeling all the time around Phoenix here. This is the kind of a feeling you need for people to be healed. Now, bow your head, everybody now. Yes, sir. You know, sir, that you're time is very near at the end of life's journey, if something isn't done. Where do you live, sir? Fennell. All right. Have faith now. Don't doubt. Just have faith. Remember what I told you? Just believe with all your heart. Heavenly Father, I pray for my brother now with cancer. His life is being eat up with this big demon cancer is doing it. You're the only One Who can take that "octomus" out of him, that demon, stretching forth his powers and limbs in there to eat the very life out of this man. Father, he's our brother. And we come to You as Your children. Thou demon, come out of him in the Name of Jesus Christ. Brother, you can look at my hand yourself. It cleared. Go rejoicing. God bless... O Jesus of Nazareth, I pray that You'll help our sister here who's suffering with this hideous powers that's bothering her. Satan, come out of the woman in the Name of... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. God bless you there.
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God bless you, sister. Father, I believe that this woman now that we're asking this blessing, is a worthy of what we're asking for; it's our brother's wife, Your servant. And she's constantly been used in the service here. Reward her for her fine cooperation, Father, by healing her today. Will You hear the prayer of Your servant? God, You Who sent me out to Harold Nail's house, You, Who sent me up to Utica, up to the Brother Emmel, and over to the man at Little Rock, and different places, You Who done these things, hear the prayer of Your servant as we're hastening through here, and give this woman deliverance from this, right this very day. I ask this in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, Sister Outlaw. Don't worry. I believe you're going to be all right.
Fine. I just heard a report from Sister Outlaw. I had her to run and pray for her sister the other night, who was very serious. And
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she's gaining, getting better, and the little boy, little Spanish boy, little Brother Joseph... I haven't seen him today. I'd like to see Joseph before I leave. Will you take me in the room where the little Spanish boy, they thought was dying, laying there, crushed brain and everything. The little boy regained conscious, was healed, and went home from the hospital. Keep your heads bowed now as we pray. (You can ask in there.)
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Father, I pray Thee to help our brother now to be well. Satan, I adjure thee to leave the boy in the Name of Jesus Christ. There went the nerve condition. God bless you, my dear brother. Go with faith now. I see you're wearing a trumpet in your ear. Do you believe that God sent me do this, to give you your healing without this trumpet? You can't hear me? All right, brother. Heavenly Father, the man is standing here now with this trumpet in his ears, and You're the only One Who can deliver him. I pray that You will heal my brother. He's tired of this old trumpet. He's tired of people gazing upon him. And You're here to liberate him. Speak, dear God. Thou demon, come out of the man in the Name of Jesus Christ. Hear me? Hear me? You can raise your head now. The man couldn't even hear me with his trumpet. Listen. Hear me? [The man answers, "Yes, sir."--Ed.] Hear me? ["Yes, sir."] He couldn't hear me with his trumpet awhile ago. Hear me all right? ["Yes, sir."] Praise the Lord. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. God bless you, brother. Go, praising the Lord. God bless you. God bless you, my brother. Oh, my.
And this is like heaven to me, Yes, this is like heaven to me; I crossed over Jordan to Canaan's fair land, And this is like heaven to me.

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Now, bow your heads, everyone now, while we're praying. O Jesus, You're the only One Who can heal our sister. Grant today, Father, that her hearing will come to her, and her veins, the varicose veins will be dried up. Grant it, eternal God, in Jesus Christ's Name. Thou demon, come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. Hear me? Hear me? I'm whispering, lady. All right, you can raise your heads. Hear me? Hear me? Say, "Amen." [The woman says, "Amen."--Ed.] Praise the Lord. ["Praise the Lord."] Now, I'm whispering, lady. Excuse me. See, that's what I--I was hearing. See, you--you didn't get it. That's what it was. As soon as you do that (You see?), I see that somebody would... or they'd do that (See?), sometimes they'd just
say, "Well, this, that." That's the reason I stopped you right quick (You see?), so that you'd get it. You hear me? She hears me fine. Let's say, "South Dakota." South Dakota. Let's give her a big praise for the Lord. God bless you, sister. Oh, my. I felt that He would do it today. That's right. Oh, don't you love Him? Say, "Amen." All right. Now, keep your heads bowed, everyone now as they come through.
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Brother, do you believe that if I'll ask God, He will heal you of this tuberculosis? Dear God, You Who can make the deaf hear, or the blind see, the dumb speak, Thou can heal our brother of this tuberculosis. I pray, Father, that You'll grant it. May it leave him in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, my brother. Now, look. Here's what it is--the simplicity of prayer, your faith; it isn't a long prayer. It's your faith (You see?) that does it. See?
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on the back like that. There's hundreds are going by the same time, and the woman's sound and well. Go on. You're going to be well if you believe. God, I pray for this little baby, that You'll heal it and let it get well, Father. I pray through Jesus Christ's Name that You'll heal it. And bless its mother with this heart trouble. God, may this be a new day for them. May they go forth from here rejoicing and be well, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. You believe, mother, with all your heart? Your baby shall get well, and you will too if you can just believe it. O God, I pray that You will heal my brother. Who's standing here now and is totally deaf. I pray that You'll give him his healing, now. In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. I'm going to pass this one through, and you all check him there, and see what happened now. Check couple of these now, while we pass them through.
God, I pray that You'll heal my dear brother with this gallbladder trouble, and let him get well. In Jesus Christ's Name, I pray. God bless you, sir. That's just what done it, right then. You've got it now, go on. God... Oh, my. He seen the vision of it right away. My, my. That's free. O God, I pray for my sister, that You will heal her. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask You. Amen. You, sister, if you will. God, I pray that You will heal the sister of this throat trouble. In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. God, bless my sister. I pray that You'll heal her, Father... Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. I never knowed about it. Bless her...?...
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O God, this poor little stiffened up boy here with this muscular condition, looking up in his little blue eyes, O God, You're the only One Who can do this. Satan, come out of the boy in the Name of Jesus Christ. Somebody's got their head up. Keep your head down, friends. This come right straight back. Brother Tora, you seen how it turned my hand there...?... You believe, honey? Everybody keep your head bowed. Father, have mercy upon the little boy, and heal him of this muscular condition. You're the only One Who can do it. Thou demon, come out of him. I adjure thee by Jesus Christ and His holy Angel. Now, walk over towards me honey, raise your feet up and down like this...?... There you are. Raise your hands up and down. Now, put your... Like this. That's fine. Now, go right down the steps just as hard as you can go. (Raise your head, audience.) You're not stiff no more. Look, walk down the steps. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. That's right. Come back up the steps now. Come back up; show them. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Now turn and go right down here, just go right on down this way. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right, bow your head, everywhere now in the building, 'cause we got several hundred to pray for. Now, bow your head, and be real reverent.
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Father, You're the only One Who can heal this brother of his ulcer. We know, Father, I was speaking a few moments ago of how my stomach was one big bloody raw ulcer, almost to a cancer. But I took You at Your Word. May our brother do likewise, and be healed in Jesus Christ's Name. God bless you, brother. God bless my dear brother. I pray, Father, that You'll heal his body in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, brother. Go rejoicing now. Dear Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister now. May she go from here rejoicing and be well in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You want to be well, sister? Go on your road rejoicing. Forget about it now. Go on, have faith now. Dear Father, I pray for the young lady that You'll heal her. And may she go by... Not... Just as she would the brazen serpent, or the troubled pool, or more than that, as she was passing by Calvary. Grant it, Father, in Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. Amen. God bless
you. You believe you're going to be well? That's your...?... Kidney trouble... God bless you, sister.
O God, this poor deaf woman standing here with this crippled up body, poor little drawed thing, seeing her sitting down there this afternoon, and felt she had faith. Therefore, Father, come to the rescue, and may that demon that's bound her come forth. I adjure thee to leave her. Come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Father. That got it. You seen that, didn't you. You hear me? All right. Can you raise your head now. I seen her jump. You--you know what happened, didn't you? Hear me? Amen. Come over here, you're not stiff with arthritis no more either. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, she was watching me. The poor thing... I was standing there. I felt her faith coming through there. I... Stick both my hands inside your ears. And when I jerked my ears--my hands back like that, hearing was to her just like that, done in a moment. All right now, mother. That's fine. All right. Bow your heads, every one. Put... Dear Father, I pray for our sister that Thou will heal her body and make her well. Grant it, dear God, that this throat will be healed up, her eyes will get well. Grant it, Father, in Jesus' Name. God bless you, sister. You believe it? You shall have it if you can...
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God, have mercy upon our sister, and heal her of this colitis in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. God bless you, little lady. You believe now? All your heart? All right, you shall have it. Almighty God, this poor man standing here, even in this healthy climate, dying with tubercular. We know it takes Your power, Father, and may he stand in this simple little blessing, just simple child faith to pass by and be healed. I pray in Jesus' Name for his healing. Amen. God bless you, my brother. Go rejoicing. Don't pay any attention to how you feel, get well. God have mercy on our sister, and heal her of this nervous breakdown in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, you going to get well, sister? You're not going to worry no more about it. It's gone. That's right. Go away rejoicing. That's fine.
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Father, I pray that You'll heal our sister and will make her well. May she leave this pulpit just rejoicing with all of her heart in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. You believe, sister? Dorsa, is that right? A fine name. All right. Now, go rejoicing, Dorsa.
You believe, sister, God will let it go away for you? Father, I pray for our sister with this choking spirit. May it leave her and bother her no more. I rebuke it in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, little sister. What? Oh, you mean it was showing? It isn't now. Say, open your eyes just a moment. This girl had a goiter that disappeared from her throat right here. There it was, a--a showing goiter. Was that right, young lady? Looky here. Swallow. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." God bless you, little lady...?... got well.
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How old are you? You believe God will hear my prayer if I'll just ask Him? Why, I believe you're already healed. I do it with all my heart. God, bless this young lady. I believe, Father, with all my heart that her faith has done saved her. In Jesus' Name, I thank You. Young lady, you was healed when you walked to this line. Friends, I want you to open your eyes. I... This is the... I--I've said it was a poorest place for faith, but I believe it's greatest this afternoon. This girl was healed before I took hold of her hand. Just... I felt something move, and the girl was healed. A strange feeling come to you, didn't it? You're healed, young lady. All right. You mark my word and see if that isn't right. Glorify the Lord.
Look, dear friends. It isn't my prayer that heals you; it's your faith in God, what heals you. It's the simple part of just to pass by and believe it. And remember, I told you, the Angel of God and held my Bible in my hand. He told me that nothing would stand before the prayer if I'd be sincere, and would get the people to believe me. That's all you have to do: just believe and come on by, and you will receive it, friends. And if you believe it, act like it. Go about and rejoice and testify, and tell the people. Sure, faith is not what you feel; faith is what you have (Is that right?), what you believe. Now, bow your head while we're just praying. Oh, it's just doing fine. I trust to God that this will keep up. Father, I pray that You will heal our brother for... of this asthma in Jesus Christ's Name. God bless you, dad. Do you believe? You shall have it.
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Do you believe it, young lady? God, bless this young lady and her tender heart. I pray that she'll go about now rejoicing for her healing in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. God, bless our brother who's standing here crippled up with rheumatism. Thou demon, leave him in Jesus Christ's Name. Just guide this then. Well, now, you're not crippled with rheumatism. Go on down the steps. Walk on down the steps. There he goes. Look at him.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Bow your head now, everyone.
God, I pray that You'll heal this boy with this impediment of speech. May it leave him right here at the pulpit, now. I rebuke this impediment of speech in the Name of Jesus Christ. Say, "Amen." [The boy says, "Amen."--Ed.] Praise God. ["Praise God."] Daddy. ["Daddy."] Mama. ["Mama."] Listen to this. Amen. [The boy says, "Amen."--Ed.] Daddy. ["Daddy."] Mama. ["Mama."] Say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Go on...?... Father, have mercy upon sister and heal her of this high blood pressure, and she's run down, Father, and weak. I pray that she'll go home today and be well in Jesus Christ's Name. Are you, sister? You now believe it? "Lord God, I now believe You healed me. With all my heart, I go rejoicing for it." Is that the way you feel about it? Go right on your road rejoicing then.
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God bless this man who's losing his sight. May his...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... will not lose your eyesight. Look around over the building now. This usher standing here on the platform. Raise up your hand, sir. How many fingers has he got up? Can you see his hands? That's exactly right, brother. You're right. See what's happened to you? God rewards you of your faith. All right...?... son. God this poor mother standing here, she wants to be healed for Your glory. May her great faith look up to Thee now, lay aside everything, and believe You with all of her heart, and be healed in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. May God grant to you your desire to you, sister. Your sister... Father, I pray Thee to heal this girl that's deaf. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may she receive her hearing, now. Now, check her speech, brother. God, I pray for our sister that You'll heal her in the Name of Jesus Christ. God, heal this bronchitis case in Jesus Christ's Name. Heal my brother's stomach trouble in Jesus' Name.
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Heal this little girl, Father, I pray in Jesus' Name. Do you believe, little lady? What...?... crossed eyes--cross-eyed. Lady, do you believe that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world and died for healing? All right. Bow your head...?... Do you believe I'm able to do this? Colored people sometimes up in my other meetings don't get to come in much. But do you believe, you believe me for the...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God bless you, sister. Your daughter shall be healed now.
Heavenly Father, I'm thinking now of that blind colored girl in Jonesboro, Arkansas, how that she grabbed my old ragged coat and said, "Don't pass me." You know them, Father. Thou hast died for this colored race just the same as all of us. And we're all one in Christ Jesus. Thou art no respecter of persons.
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And now, they bring to me a little cross-eyed girl, asthma, affected head. Thou art here, Lord, to make her well. Now, You Who was bearing the cross through Jerusalem that morning, and when You fell, then Simon the Cyrene, that colored man, came and helped You bear the cross. God, I know You understand. And to prove to these people here in Phoenix that Thou art no respecter of persons, I therefore rebuke these crossed eyes in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, keep your heads bowed, every one now. Almighty and omnipotent God, let it be known today that You are God and I be Your servant, that the people might know that Thou art the only living God, and You have anointed me, and sent me forth, and I speak not of my own words, but them words in which You revealed to me. Therefore, Angel of God, You Who told me to go, and if I'd be sincere, the people would believe; there would be nothing stand before the prayer... I ask for this. I'm leaving Phoenix. And, Lord, I love the country. And prove that Thou art God and I be Your servant. Thou demon, I rebuke thee. Come out of the child in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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Just keep your little eyes closed honey. Now, raise your head, but keep your eyes closed. (Everybody keep your eyes closed.) Now, slowly open your eyes, looking towards me, slowly now, like--like mine. There they are. All right. Her eyes are straight and normal. Look out here in front, if anybody who wants to look out... Look out to the audience. Look here, sister...?... right. Just perfect. Let's all say, "Praise the Lord." Yes, sir. Head trouble's gone too, mother. Everything is all right. Look at her...?... Oh, my. You love Jesus? You do? That's fine and dandy. Look out there at that audience now. Now, watch here, friends. Her eyes, cross-eyes are...?... You follow, look at my finger. Now, you...?... You move your eyes with my finger. Don't...?... your eyes. Here's what I want you to do to your eyes...?... like that. Close... Ba-back and forth. Now, raise up so the people can see. Perfect. Let's offer praise to God. Thou art here, Father...?... Thy Word...?... Glorify Thee. And I pray that You will keep this little girl every day to be in Your will, Father, in Jesus' Name, Amen. God bless you. Run along now and tell the people what Lord done for you. All right. Keep your heads bowed now. A whole lot to be prayed for.
O God, You Who created the side of this mother, taken the child. And now, here she has a misery in her side. I now rebuke that misery. Leave the woman. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I rebuke thee. Come out of her. I think it was a defective spleen there, but it's stopped. Go... Where do you live at? You be a testimony to God, sister... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Has come to be healed. Oh, help me now. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] it's tubercular, that's hitting this man... Oh, Satan, why would you do this? Leave him in Jesus Christ's Name. Now just a moment, friends, this holds on the man. Look, sir, this way to me. How long you been suffering with it? Fortyfour. I want the audience, maybe some of them never seen a vibration. I want them to look at it. Move out here just a moment. All right, raise your head, audience. There's a tubercular vibration. See them white welts rising and falling on my hand? Red, see how white this hand looks? Look at this one. Look here, see them white welts, see them coming and going? Do you see it? See what I mean, sir? See here a minute. Now, if God shall take that away from you, sir, that'll stop, and my hand will be like this one. Quite a difference between them two hands, isn't it? Now, you just watch my hand, and you, the patient here. You watch my hand. If it clears up like this one (And I won't move it.), and if it clears up like this one, that's you're witness. Something happened then, won't it? You see that something has surely happened. Now, bow your head, everywhere.
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Almighty and omnipotent God, You're the One Who made heavens and earth. You made the body of man. And this demon is trying to take this young man's life. O Jesus, You're here to help him. Help, Father, and may they know down in their people, and amongst their neighborhood, that Thou art Christ and I be Thy servant. Therefore, I come to meet this demon in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of him, thou demon of tuberculosis; I adjure thee by Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Leave the man. Before I raise my head, sir, or open my eyes, my hand's turning white, isn't it? All right. Now, there it is. (Now, you audience, can raise your head.) Now, sir, you know I never moved my hand at all. It stayed right that same way, hasn't it? And it was red all over it with white spots over it (Is that right?), coming and going. Now, it looks just like that one there, does it? Yes. Now, something natural happened, didn't it? The vibrations stopped. Now, if you believe with all your heart and straighten yourself up, go down the street rejoicing, testifying of God healing you, you'll be a well man. God bless you, my brother. That's fine. Let's say, "Praise the Lord..."
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Now, everybody... How many's to be--left to be prayed for?
Let's see how many stands there. Now, let's see. Now, to you people that's got to hurry for your church now, it's five o'clock. It's five o'clock. Did I get... Is my watch right? Is that about right, Brother...?... At five o'clock. Say, while I got a opportunity, I want to thank Brother Faulkner, Brother Outlaw, Brother Garcia, Brother Fuller, and this brother I can't think of your name. Well, Truman, Truman, and the various other ministers... This...?... Is this a minister? Ballard, Brother Ballard. And all the rest... Brother Garcia, and all... Here's Brother Garcia setting behind me. And all these cooperating ministers everywhere... Brother Beamons from Mesa. Where... Where's he? This him? Right here with the--with the camera. That's fine. We want to thank him. All of these brothers, and all of you members, and everything, for cooperating with us here in the Phoenix meetings. Let's all give those ministers a hand, everybody. Come on, they're worthy of it, of a good hand of praise. That's right. I'm sure glad that you got ministers like that here in Phoenix. My, I hope you have great union revivals and fill these auditoriums and everything full of people, and get people down at the altar.
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I talked to Brother Sharritt. There's another man I don't want to leave out. Listen. I think Phoenix is blessed with a man like John Sharritt. What do you all think about it? Amen. Is that right? Let's give him a hand too, 'cause he's been a brother to me. That's right. A very... And now... Yes, Brother Gibson, I couldn't forget his wife. That's right. She's a lovely little character that doesn't have nothing to say, but just, "Well, yes." She's a swell cook. And she's been to me like a sister, and like a brother, and I'm very thankful for them and their little children. Well, in fact--fact this. I thank God for all of you. Amen. Very fine. And I'm certainly thankful to see this welcoming spirit here this afternoon. When it comes to a place where you have to believe, in or out, that's when the Lord will come down. Is that right? And I'm just thankful, friends; this has been the greatest meeting yet we've had in Phoenix, this meeting now. That's right.
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Now, just keep your heads bowed, and we're just going to try to pray for everyone. Now, you... Don't be late at your church. You who have to go to church, you get right on. Don't miss your church now. 'Cause I... But if you can stay, and not going to church, why, you just stay on. If you can stay a little longer, just make yourself welcome. Remember, till we meet, God bless each one of you. Now, while you pray, keep on with your music, if you will, sister. God bless this woman. I pray that You'll heal her, Father, of this trouble in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. You going to get well now?
God, have mercy on... Oh, wait, she's got more than...?... Oh, sister. I'll--I won't tell you what it is till after I get through praying for you. You could... Do you believe? Almighty God, have mercy upon the woman and heal her body. Thou demon, come out of her. I adjure thee by Jesus Christ. You can keep that faith now, sister. It's stopped. You see? Do you know what was wrong with you? You're not scared now. You know you're going to get well, do you? Cancer. All right. You have a suspicion of that? Now, just go on believing now. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] EXPERIENCES_ PHOENIX.AZ TUESDAY_ 48-0302
On here with cancer. And here the little boy has got pneumonia on the verge of, and wanted to send his little handkerchief to be prayed over. Father, we're taught that they taken from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons. And we know we're not the Saint Paul. But we realize it wasn't he anyhow that done the healing, it was Your Spirit that went before and stirred the faith of the people. I send this handkerchief this afternoon to that little boy for the healing of his body. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may he and his mother be healthy and happy many many years for Your glory. Amen. Go rejoicing now, sister. God bless you. O God, have mercy upon our dear sister and heal her. In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I ask this. Don't worry, sis; you're going to get well. God bless you, little girlie. Got a ulcer, haven't you? All right. Where, you go to Brother Garcia's church. Oh, you can't... All right. You believe in God, don't you. Heavenly Father, as this little lady stands here this afternoon suffering with this ulcer in her stomach, You're the only One Who knows how to take it out. And she's come reverently, Father. And I pray that You'll help her. Thou demon of ulcer, I adjure thee to leave this girl in the Name of Jesus Christ. Little lady, you have nothing to worry about now. Your ulcer will get well. You'll be all right now. God bless you, sister.
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Heavenly Father, I pray for our sister, that You'll heal her body and will make her well. Satan, come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless her dear husband who's waiting at home. May his wife return shouting and praising God for her healing. May he also rise and go to shouting, God. You spoke the Word. In that same hour he begin to mend. Go, mother. Doubt nothing. Go rejoicing. O God, to this little boy standing here, I pray that You'll heal his little body. Whatsoever is wrong, Thou knowest, and I pray that You'll make him well, Father, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, little boy. God, bless this woman. I pray, Father, that You'll heal her body. We
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God, have mercy upon our sister, and heal her, Father. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I ask for her healing. Amen. God bless you. Ma'am? What was that? Stopped, your vibrations. What it was... See, it was made me to my forehand. It's left you now. Ever what it was (See?), it's just gone. When the vibrations leave, that's... Do you believe...?... Go rejoicing, go be happy, that's right. That's right...?... God bless you, mother. Our heavenly Father, I pray for this dear soul standing here with this cane in her hand: old, and broken down in health. But Thou art here to restore her health. I pray that You'll grant it in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, mother. God, heal this poor sister here of this heart trouble. O God, this female disorder, Thou knowest all things, the poor soul. She wants to be well. I ask for her healing in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, sister. Go now rejoicing; you'll get well. God, I pray that You'll heal our sister of this heart trouble. Grant it, dear heavenly Father. I ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Go, believing now, sister.
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God bless you. What happened? Hand? Oh, it's a bone died in the leg. Now, look, sister, how old are you? Seventeen, just a child. Where you from, Phoenix? California. Now, look. If you will believe this with all your heart... You're going to serve God. That's what you want to do, is that right? Are you a Christian? You are. And you will serve God the rest of your life if God will let that calcium begin to come back into the bone and life come there again, make it a normal bone? You'll use that leg, not to dance, but just to go serve God. Is that right? You'll do it. All right, let me have your hand. Father, this young lady, who's no doubt heard across the nation of the many things that You've done. And now, she's had a wreck. And we're taught that all things work together for good to them that love God. And now, the bone will not heal; it's dead in her limbs. O God, just a child. Have mercy upon her. She promised me that she'd never dance, and she... And she promises You, Father, she'll never dance, and use this leg for nothing but for Your glory. Now, Almighty God, You Who are the whole resource of life, I ask You in the Name of Your loving Son, Jesus Christ, to start life in that bone this afternoon, that she will be well, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Sister, as firmly as I believe that I'm standing here, the blessing of God has happened to you, and you will be a normal, well girl. What's
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body under nine major heads. Remember that. We're close at them now. Now, you people ought to know it. I can't do this. And I'm afraid now, I'm going to hold some of the ministers up from their meetings. And we're going to start praying for the people, just a little more... Look. It isn't my prayer that heals you. I've already prayed for you. It's your faith in God what heals you. Now, look. 'Course I do take the people here and cast out them spirits, and things like that. You can see it. And I told you now, there's only one time that I ever seen it fail in my life. That was two or three Sundays ago when I stood here on the pulpit, and asked God if He didn't want me to work them miracles, not to let them happen. How many was here that day to see it? All right. That was the only time I have ever seen it in my life, that things wasn't healed when I took time to...?... on the pulpit. And I just have to let Him stop me. When He stops me, I stop. When He doesn't stop me...
You know what I promised Him? How many remembers what I promised Him? That I would wait for His witness. And that's right. I've done that since. And there's been, really, more miracles performed since then, than there wasn't before then. So I want to keep the favor of God. And you want me to, don't you? Every one of you wants me to. And I--I want to live a little longer. When you pass out one of those powers, brother, sister, it takes more strength out of your body than praying for five hundred people. Something goes out of you; you just have to watch that. You find a good streak of faith, like that poor little boy awhile ago, standing here with his little legs walking like that. Little fellow looked up at me, the tears come to his little eyes, kinda smiled like that, why, the faith was just a moving. I knowed something had to take place. You see what happened? Sure. Satan knew that he had to give away. That little child wasn't calloused like many of the adults. Now, you just have faith with belief.
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And we're... Now, we're going to pass the people, and get right through the line. I want to pray for each one of you. Want to pray, not just pass by and just not pray for you. I want to have a little prayer with you, but we're going to have to start a constant walk, like that. Now, ministers, you all get up here. Come up here, if you will and
check some of these cases now when they come through. And if they don't, seemingly, get it, well then, send them back. Why, we'll do the best we can. All right. Now, everybody, just be in prayer now. And you all just get to lined up, or the ushers will tell you there, and we'll start the line coming right through. Now, everybody bow your head while I ask prayer, so every one of you will know that you're prayed for. Every one of you...
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Almighty God, I pray... You know, Father, that many of these people are waiting to go to church tonight. And they might have a loved one that gets saved. And I realize, God, the brazen serpent didn't pray for anyone. The water that was troubled didn't pray for anyone. The woman who touched the hem of Jesus wasn't prayed for. The ones that laid in the shadow of Peter, wasn't prayed for. The ones who had the handkerchief taken off of Paul's body and brought to theirs, wasn't prayed for. But God, they got well because they believed and recognized Your gift. Now, Father, I pray if these people, not only here locally in Phoenix, but Thou hast so ordained it, that it's known world wide now. And may they come through, not because it's Your poor, humble, illiterate servant standing here, but because it's Your gift that You have honored. And Father, Thou knowest there's nothing I could do about it. I never called this message to go over the world like this. It was You, Father. I just obeyed and done what You said, and You brought it to pass.
Now, dear God, may the people see it's just simple child faith to believe and take You at Your Word. And may every sick person in this building, as they file across this pulpit this afternoon, may every one of them go home. As soon as they get out of this building, may they just raise up their hands and go to praising You for their healing, going down the street testifying like Mary did before she felt life or anything. She knew that she was going to have a baby not knowing a man. Oh, the impossible, something that had never happened before, but she knew that it was right, because the Angel said so. And Father, I know this is right, because the Angel said so. And I know that You have declared it. If it wasn't so, You wouldn't have testified of it. If would've been a fanaticism, it would've fell shortly. But now, Thou hast took it all over the world. Now, dear God, may these people see this afternoon and believe and come through this line, each one, and be healed, and set down in the next few days and write their testimony in, saying, "Thank God for healing me." May it be an alarm all over this city, everywhere, Lord, in all parts of the country. I pray for every one of them in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Father, heal our sister in the Name of Jesus Christ. Father, heal our sister in the Name of Jesus Christ. Father, heal our brother in the Name of Jesus Christ. May he be able to come out of this wheelchair, or stretcher, and go home rejoicing in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. You believe, sir? You shall have that what you've asked for. It's impossible for you not to receive it if you believe. God bless you, my dear brother. God bless this little girl. I pray that You'll heal her, Father. O Jesus, bless the mother. I pray for her healing. God bless our brother... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, she just didn't know. She's Spanish. You see? She's hard of hearing. But I know it...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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God... (What was the matter? Oh, really?) O Jesus, I pray that You'll heal my dear brother and make him well. May he go out of this building rejoicing, throwing his hands up in the air, shouting, Lord, in Jesus' Name. Heal my dear brother, Father, I pray Thee in the Name of Jesus Christ. Heal this little boy, Father, of this bad eyesight in Jesus' Name. Heal my brother of rheumatism in the Name of Jesus Christ. And asthma, heal my brother in Jesus Christ's Name, I pray Thee, Father. God bless you, little boy. You're going to get well now after passing by here. Did you know that? You are. You're going to take the cast off the leg and you're going to be a normal well boy again.
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was at Vandalia. All right. Let's bow our heads now while we pray for them. Kinda nervous, aren't you young man. Dear heavenly Father, they're from many miles away. And You're willing we'll be flying over that lovely state in a few days. And I pray, Father, that You will heal this brother. And when he returns back there, may he go rejoicing. May this nervousness just quieten down, and may he go out on the street as Thy servant did, testifying, telling the people, "I once was nervous. But look at me now. I'm well, because the Lord Jesus has healed me." Satan, leave him in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, brother. Go rejoicing. That's right. You've got a fine faith, young man. You're going to receive a blessing from God here. O God, I pray for this man who is here totally deaf, they say. I pray that You'll give him his hearing this very afternoon. Grant it, dear Father. In Jesus Christ's Name I ask it. Amen. Now Brother Hooper, I want you to check this man. Just let him stand here a few minutes. Picking his vibrations up this hand. I want you to check him just in a moment. And if he doesn't... Let him stand there just for a moment. Check him.
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O God, have mercy upon our sister, and heal her, Father, of this nervous and spleen trouble, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. See? God bless you, sister. Now, go rejoicing. Go... Be happy. O Jesus, I pray for our sister now, that You'll heal her. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I ask it. Amen. Have faith now. Little sister, I had a brother home once that laid in a hospital up there dying. They said he would never be well. He'd never get...?... out of chair. He's an acrobat now. You believe God will heal you? You serve God, do you? Seeing you have good faith... Catholic. Most always Catholics are healed, because they see the vision. Heavenly Father, this little lady standing here with this rheumatic fever, and she's been taught, Father, to believe and to trust. And I pray now, that You'll have mercy and heal her. Satan, thy power of hell, that has bound this child to take her life, to cause her to go in this heart attack, come out of her in the Name of Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you, little lady. It may seem awful strange to you. You... Have you ever had fluttering in your heart when you... Flutter in the belt. It hasn't probably got to that part. My brother had three valves open in his heart. Now, you're going to be well. Go rejoicing.
O God, have mercy upon our sister with this enlarged heart. Thou alone can heal her. I pray that You'll grant it in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Say, I want to make a statement just now. There's a little Catholic girl come by here, was prayed for with rheumatic fever. I don't know
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where she went. But she was healed. Yes. I... This fellow just come back across the pulpit just a few minutes ago. Where'd she go to? Was a little Catholic girl with a... All right, sister. That's fine. That's the kind of faith to have. I felt it come back. It left you when you went down the... You have a peculiar feeling, kind of a odd feeling when you come off of here, kind of a strange feeling? That's what it was. It left her right there. I felt it come back across this way. It was... Now, you may think that's strange. You watch her and see if I'm not right. Let's say, "Thank the Lord," everyone.
I tell you, it takes the Catholic people to see the vision of it. You see, here's what it is. The Catholic... My people are Catholic. My mother... my father, rather. We're taught to believe what the priest says is right. And that's where this is in here. You see, they've got to believe me. They believe God. How many believes God? All of you. Sure. Well now, God's ability is not in question. This is, whether the Angel come to talk to me or not. See? And Catholics are taught to believe what their priest says is right. And when they see some of these things performed, these miracles, they get healed (That's all.), believing it with all their heart. And they... They do. By the way, my aunt--my great aunt founded a convent at Montreal, Ontario. Now, bow your heads, everyone, while we're... How far are we down now? How many more we got to pray for? Let's see the hands go up. Say, I--I'm getting more all the time. I'm getting more all the time. Well, brother, let's see what time... How many in here wants to go to church tonight that wants to be prayed for, that's trying to get to church; let's see you put up your hands, going to church tonight.
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Oh, my, brother. We're going to have to do something about this. That's right. There's some of your people's in there too, aren't they, brothers, some of you ministers? Yours too, Brother Garcia, I guess. All right. Now, have faith now. I'm going to pray, and just ask God to bless them. We're going to have to start... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, yes, I see. I see. All right. Whatever you... All right. Now, everyone believe now while we come to... Brother Garcia, brother here, I can't get your name. I didn't know you was ministers. Ballard? Brother, all you, now get down along here. Brother Outlaw and you all, just pray with all your heart for these people. And encourage them to come through. Now, you stand here call their diseases, brother, and you test them. Is there... Father, heal my brother in Jesus Christ's Name I pray.
God, heal this poor blind woman in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Merciful dear. How long you been blind? Three years. Sister, look up toward them lights there. See them lights? See them? Now, look out here towards these lights out here. Believe now that you're going to get your sight, and you shall have it. Are you with her, sir? It's your wife?
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O God, blessed Father. This poor woman standing here for her healing. Have mercy now. And may her sight come to her in the next few moments, Father. May she be able to see these lights. And she'll have a witness of Your healing, in Jesus' Name. Amen. Just sit here awhile, right here where I can watch her. Then I'll check her in a few moments. Now, keep your heads bowed. Here's a deaf woman.
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Just a moment. I'm going to try for this one here. I feel them two spirits that's battling together over there. This girl's deaf and dumb...?... to me. She don't know what hearing or speech is. Now, bow your head. Everybody be real reverent. See if I can get her to understand. Dear Father, this little girl, born deaf and dumb. We realize that she don't know nothing of speech or hearing. But You're the only One Who can grant it to her. Now, help me, dear God. Help me to have power over this deaf and dumb spirit. Grant it, dear God, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Thou deaf and dumb spirit, come out of the girl in the Name of Jesus Christ. [Brother Branham claps his hands--Ed.] Hear me? She's not...?... Now, keep your heads bowed now. Amen. You. See? Amen. [The girl says, "Amen."-Ed.] Very good, honey. Daddy. ["Daddy."] Raise your heads. Born deaf and dumb. Watch here. Hear me? ["It's hear me."] [Brother Branham claps-Ed.] Hear me? ["Yes."] Hear me? Pretty little girl. Amen. ["Amen."]
Now, can you see that? I want to tell you something now. Watch. Here's what takes place. See, it's... I want to know if you all noticed this. We're fixing to close, you know, fixing to go into the meetings. Have you noticed, always, after I ask or rebuke over a spirit, I'm always perfectly silent for a few moments? Who's noticed that in the meetings, let's see your hands. Have you noticed that? Now, here's what it is. There's three words that I have to repeat at that time. See? And it's the three high words of the Bible. No mortal on earth know it. See? And when I ask that, and then I feel that drop,
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Now, I did that so you wouldn't keep questioning me about it coming through the line. So that is true. Now, I know that you had noticed a lot of times when I ask to rebuke, I stand still just for a few minutes and repeat these three words that the Angel of the Lord told me to repeat. Then if I feel it come back, then I know it's done. That's what happened to this girl with us. And that's the reason I never said nothing about it, 'cause I knew she--she was healed. The power had gone from her. Now, of course she don't know what speech is; she don't know what hearing is. She just have to begin like...
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Did I tell you about five--seven coming from the institution in Oregon, and five of them passed through the California medical tests? How many remembers that? I've got their pictures right there, right there in my--in my grip to show it. Uh-huh. Mark that on the side, healed. Passed through the Oregon tests, and down through California for the doctors went home. Born deaf and dumb... Oh, my, He's wonderful, isn't He? Sure is. Let's give God a praise. Hear it? Hear it? Hear? Amen. Thank you, brother. All right. Bow your head, everybody now, while we pray. Father, heal our sister in the Name of Jesus Christ. God, I pray that You'll heal our sister in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. God, heal our sister in Jesus Christ's Name. Dear God, heal our sister in Jesus' Name. God... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Mercy upon him, and heal his body...
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In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Give vent to that TB you have now, sir. An odd feeling, isn't it. The Angel of God is standing near, brother. You realize that your days are short, again. You even be--had a fever, burning. Don't worry. Go believing. You believe you're going to be well then now? You shall have it, in Jesus Christ's Name. Where's he live? Glendale. Now, don't doubt, sir. You the driver? Thank you, sir. God bless you for waiting. Father, I pray in Jesus Christ's Name that You heal him. Don't doubt, sir. Go believing. God, heal this woman, I pray, Father, in Jesus' Name. And heal this man, Father, in Jesus Christ's Name I ask You Father. Heal our brother, Father, in Jesus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... her
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Say, friends. Talk about some faith, this little boy was standing here with pink granulated eyelids. They disappeared from him. I can raise him right up here before the people. There it is. Look at his eyes. See? Perfectly clear. Granulated eyelids standing here on the platform. Friends, that's true. You know that God is standing here somewhere? The very Angel of God. Go show that sick man laying there, honey. Go show him your eyes that was pink awhile ago, and now they're clear. Sir, here comes a little boy down to testify to you. Brother Hooper, that little boy with pink granulated eyelids, was just now healed instantly. Now, I don't know how much you believe this, but if God, Who I stand before, may take my life standing right here if this isn't true. When I looked at the little fellow just then, the pink place went right up above his little head and vanished away from him. That is true. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. God, heal my dear sister. May she go rejoicing now and be healed in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen. God bless you, sister. And you shall have that...?...
A little girl with water. (All right.) Do you believe, sister, if I ask God, God will do it? Dear heavenly Father, I lay hands upon this darling little girl and pray that You'll heal her, God. May she start from this very hour to mending, the head go down and be normal. And the child be... way to be a normal child. I ask this blessing in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, don't doubt. Is that your baby? Your sister's. You believe she will get well now? I'd like to hear from her, sister. He's a brother. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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O God, I pray that You'll rebuke the granulated eyelids from this baby. Come out of him, thou demon, in the Name of Jesus Christ. And that one left. Looky here. Not a pinkness at all about his eyes. Look here, honey. If there's a doctor in the building, you can examine him freely. Run down, sweetheart. If you are a doctor, just come look at his little eyes. They was granulated a few moments ago standing here, pink. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Praise the Lord. Were they sick, were they brothers? They were brothers, the two little boys. [The woman says, "And their sister has it. She's out there."--Ed.] Is that right. Amen. Where do you live at sister? Is that right? Well, they sure been raised around faith or something. Well, that's fine. That's... See, bring up a child in the way it should go. Is that right?
Her--their mother was feeled--healed of asthma in February. Was that here in Phoenix? Right here in Phoenix, healed of asthma. There you are. See, friends?
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Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing over life's solemn main, For a forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Heavenly Father, I pray Thee, to heal this sister, as she comes through with her gallant heart looking up to Thee for her healing. Pray that You'll grant it in Jesus Christ's Name. Bless this handkerchief, Father, and the people for the healing of their body in the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask. Say, by the way, 'fore I forget it. How many in here wanted a handkerchief prayed over? Let's see how many hands in here wanted one. I've explained it to you. See? Why, you just write me now. Don't have a handkerchief in here, 'cause I don't get to pray for it. But mail it to Branham Healing Campaign, Post Office Box 325, Jeffersonville, and you'll be sent a cloth with instructions on how to use it.
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Every morning at nine o'clock, put your hand over your heart, put it on prayerfully, the cloth first, get it over your heart on the inside of your garment, put your hand over your heart and pray at nine o'clock, twelve o'clock, and at three o'clock in the afternoon. Confess all your faults one to another; call in the neighbors and pray and have prayer meetings. You'll get well. See? The instructions will be sent to you. Just send in my name, Jeffersonville, Indiana, and you'll get it. All right. Bow your heads. Father, I pray that You'll heal this dear gray headed mother sitting here. May the power of God that raised Christ from the grave bring her from this wheelchair, and make her a well woman, as I pronounce this blessing for her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you. God bless you, sister. God bless you, brother. Wait, I'll... Just a second here. This poor lady fainted. Oh, my. God bless you, lady. I know you'd been laying there. Now, look. God bless your dear heart. You're just a young... And you know you're--you're laying down for the last hour this way. Oh, my. How I wish that they would... something that I could just reach down and do for you, you know, to... If I could pull out here and say, "Here it is. You see it?"
and throw it away from you. See? Wished I could do that. But there's only one thing that I know that will let you live, sister. And you-you're very, very... [The sister talks to Brother Branham--Ed.] That's why that faith was pulling from you. Now, we're beginning to hit the right place.
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Last winter, when I was... she was at Booneville, Arkansas...?... She was at Booneville, Arkansas, when I was at... Where was it? At Corning, Arkansas... Are you people from Arkansas... This woman was. And she prayed that sometime, God would let us meet. And--and--and somebody went out and got her here. Where you at here now, sister? At Superior, Arizona. And God has permitted it. I believe that this is the hour, don't you? The little, poor little woman's laying here dying. That was just sure as it could be...?... Now, friends, even if some of you is waiting a long time. Let me have just a moment with this woman, will you? Little lady, God bless you. How many children do you have? Two little children. My, my. Is your husband here with you? God bless you, sister. I... You believe you're going to get well if I'll ask God? All this time you've waited. And dear sister, have you got one of my little books here, "Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever." Did you ever read one of them? If you will, give it to her...?... And I want you to read little Georgie Carter's testimony, that only weighed forty pounds, a woman with tubercular. And now, she's my piano player in the Milltown Baptist church. She's about a hundred fortyfive, fifty pounds. Now, have faith. I'm going to ask God with all my heart.
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Dear God, I don't know why when I looked down upon that poor scene there this afternoon, and seen that little, thin, delicate woman rolling around there on that place, and nearly dead now, and her lungs is about gone. The doctors is done all they can do. She's been in sanatorium. And there's something about her, Father, that just attracts my attention, her pathetic look, because she's sincere. She knows she's going to die right away if something isn't done. O God, I plead. Oh, before You, I bow to ask You with all my heart. Angel of God, You Who came into the room that night, and told me these things... I've tried to live true to it. Oh, won't You please have mercy on this poor little woman. Show Your great power, dear God. Not so much as the people have to see it to believe You, but for Your glory, and the sake of the children in this poor woman's life. Oh, help her, dear God. Hear the prayer of Your servant when I call with all my heart, with all my soul that You'll let her get well. Grant it, Father. May Thy servant hear from her. Now, that she's begin to gain weight; she's getting well now. Oh, grant this, Father. She'll serve You all the
days of her life, will testify of this whenever it's permitted. Do anything that we can to show our appreciation, if You'll just spare this poor woman's life. I ask it in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Little woman, I... There's something about you I like. And I... Need I tell you. You look forward to being... When the deep calls to the deep. Now, you believe. I believe it with all my heart, you're going to be fine. Now, you go serve Him...?... You are... God bless you, father. God loves you. That's... Take good, dear brother. May the Lord ever bless you for your gallantry. Did you ever have your attention just called to something? That poor little woman. All right. Bow your heads, every one of you. God, have mercy of this woman here with bad eyes. Faith cometh by hearing. And she's come now and even took off her glasses, for she believes that something's going to happen. Grant it, Father. May she not be disappointed, but be healed in Jesus Christ's Name. God bless you. God, have mercy upon my sister and heal her in the Name of Jesus Christ. You believe it's going to get well? God, bless my little brother here suffering with kidney trouble. May he get well, Father, and it not bother him no more. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen. Now, do you believe you're going to get well, honey boy? Huh? All right.
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God, have mercy on our brother with this arthritis. May he go right out of this building, stomping, and jumping, and leaping, and praising God. I rebuke the arthritis, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Go, believing, sir. Go right on out rejoicing, you shall have it. O God, have mercy upon our sister, and heal her of this cancer. In Jesus Christ's Name, I ask it. God bless you, sister. You believe now with all your heart? Be sure and testify and tell the people about God's glory. God, I pray that You'll heal this dear, old, broken down mother that's passing through the line now. I lay hands on her in the Name of Jesus Christ. God, have mercy upon our brother and heal him, Father, in Jesus' Name. God, have mercy upon our sister, Father, and heal her in Jesus' Name. God, heal this poor heart. O Christ, take away all the misery, I pray in Jesus Christ's Name. God, heal my brother. I pray Thee in Jesus Christ's Name. Is that right? What is your...
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I know the next thing to happen is the restoration of the gifts to the Church. And it's the hardest thing I've had to do in this pioneering work, is to do this, as to see the people that... God cannot give back the gifts to the Church as long as His Church is divided. We've got to get the Church together first 'fore the gifts can come.
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But if all of the full Gospel people would come one heart and one accord, there would be a revival that would shake the whole world. And every spiritual gift would be in the Church within a hour's time after it took place. Signs and wonders that was done by the apostles would be a minor thing to what would do if we could just get the Church together. It's got to happen. It will happen. It may be after I've passed off the scene. But I want to put my word in this that you might know, that my voice is this...
O Christian people, bind yourselves together with one heart and one accord. For God cannot no more send the gifts to the Church while the Church is separated, than He can send the Holy Ghost unless we're in one accord. That's right. For it comes by the Holy Ghost. Believe it.
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These claims that I have made about the Angel of God, these claims that I have made about healing, I don't believe there's a person that's ever been in a meeting but what knows that it is true. Do you believe it? You've seen it before your own eyes. Certainly. I've seen people pass over the platform and--and not be healed. There was thousands come before Christ that wasn't healed. He said, "I can if ye believe." But many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Come by Jeffersonville and see me sometime. Will you? Be glad to have you. Write me a letter, send it to me. If I can just... Send it to my house. Any time that I could... You could call me. For you're sick, I'll pray for it on the phone. I can't say I could come every time. I used to say, "I'll come to you rain or shine." I come down from Canada, and about sixteen or eighteen airplane tickets laying there. Oh, I just wonder then. See, you can't go, 'cause when you're going to one, there's another. The one here, and here's another, and you--you don't know where to go to. But I--I love you. And I'm here to help you. I'm going to do all that I can for you to try to prove to you that I do love you. God bless each one of you.
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Now, let's bow our heads just a moment, if you will, everywhere over the audience. Now, be real reverent. I want to know before I start praying now, with your head bowed, how many of you that's coming in the prayer line, that believes if I'll ask God, God will hear my prayer and heal you? You believe that? Would you believe He will? God bless you. Friends, the Angel of the Lord told me, "If you can get the people to believe you..." Now, I tell you what you do, when you pass through this line tonight, you go out of here just rejoicing, just as happy as you can be, telling the people that you're healed. And go testify. The disciples were ten days and nights in Jerusalem constantly praising God before the Holy Ghost ever fell.
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Father, I thank Thee for this, another privilege for this evening, the third trip to this lovely little city of Phoenix, where the valley of the sun, where my heart has yearned to be since a little boy. O God, somehow I pray, God, that You'll start us a--a revival in every church there is in the city. Grant it, Lord. May a great moving revival come
to this city. Father, I pray that You'll move. I pray that tonight, that the Angel of God will stand here at this pulpit, and may there not be one pass by this pulpit, but what's healed. Hear my prayer, Father, as I cry to You with a sincere heart. Knowing that I am trying with my whole heart to serve You the best that I know how, and I pray that You'll hear me tonight. Bless Brother Garcia... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, I was half... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And it was... [Blank.spot.on.tape.]... the line. And there was a man just come up with a woman. And she was... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... us until...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And when I took hold of her hand. Of course, there was... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] feel the vibration, because arthritis is caused by acid. And I had prayer for the woman. And while...
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Her eyes, she seemed to go into a trance. I just passed her on, of course. Then I left and was gone, come back again in a few days, and her husband was at the door. And he said, "Brother Branham," he said, "something's happened to my wife. She talks like she's delirious." And I said, "What seems to be wrong?" He said, "Well, here's what it is." Said, "When she was praying... When you was praying for her, she seemed like she was in a trance until we got home. And she asked me, who was that other Man that come down there with you when you prayed for her?" And I said, "There was no other man." Said, "Oh, yes. A Man with the white robe on with dark hair." I said, "Say that again, brother." And he said it again. And I said, "That is the Angel of the Lord that appeared." See? She said, "Why, He was looking down upon Brother Branham when he was praying." And said, "He talked to me." And He said, "Now, you're looking for healing." Said, "Brother Branham's prayer will be answered; you'll be healed." But said, "Doesn't Brother Branham look awful frail?" Said, "But he will be strong after while." So that give me encouragement. See, "He will be strong after while."
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Now, the woman never heard the story. And she described and said He was a large man, brown dark face with black hair hanging down near His shoulders. She said, "I seen Him come down off the pulpit." And she'd never heard of it in her life. And said, "When Brother Branham knelt down to pray for me, then this Man looked, come up there; instead of praying He just ke--kept looking down at Brother Branham." And said, "He looked around at me, and said, 'Now, you come for healing, and you'll be healed.'" And then said, "Now, doesn't Brother Branham look awful thin?" Said, "But he will be strong after while." See? And said, "Then when the--they started
moving the stretcher away, He walked right on out the door with me, and that's the last I seen of Him."
Now, that's the Angel of God. He's been seen many times in the services. And I know that He's here tonight. I know that He's here. I've felt Him three or four times since I been here. Now, that someone might know... Now, many people misunderstand. Now, this is in no means, friends, an Angel worship. It is not. I do not pray in the name of the Angel, or even know His name. But if you'll check the Scriptures, when God sends His people, it's an Angel that directs them. Moses... You say, "Well, how about the New Testament?" Certainly. It was always the Angel of the Lord. That's right. Peter, when he was in prison, the Angel of the Lord came down (Is that right?), delivered him. And oh, my, many times. He's... How about Paul, when he come over in Macedonia. And when he was on the shipwreck, the Angel of the Lord appeared to him that night and told him He'd given them all into his hands. Certainly. It's always... Paul never worshipped the Angel. John the Revelator, after the whole Book of Revelation was written, then John said, "I fell at the feet of the Angel (Is that right?) that showed me these things." He said, "Worship God." He was of his fellow men and of the prophets. See? Notice. God always sends down the supernatural upon the natural. Like upon the brazen serpent, the pool, and so forth. Even Jesus Himself: He never took credit for healing anybody. Is that right? He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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The doctors knew he was dead. I went to offer sympathy to the family. And starting out of the house, the wife seemingly crying of the man. And as I started out the door, a human hand, seemingly, touched me by the arm. And I felt it hold me. And as I started forward, I could not move. When I turned back, the hand left me. I went to the bedside and looked down upon the man. There was a Methodist minister's wife in the room, and another sister. And I started to have prayer. When I come to myself, I was laying on this man's body, the dead man, had a sheet over his face for at least a half hour. My face was laying right against him, and I was calling out into the spirit land, "Brother Elijah." His name was Elijah. "Brother Elijah." Calling out into the land for his spirit, not knowing what I was doing... In a few moments, I laid still, calling. I felt that man's hand coming up around my ears. The man is working on the Pennsylvania Railroad tonight, alive.
Now, God knows that's true. If it isn't, He'd let me pass away from this pulpit right now. But that don't mean that everybody could believe. I can do nothing within myself. I have to act as that Angel says act. But when you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] But what is in need of healing. And your very... Notice. The thing that you're seeking after is already in the deposit box of heaven for you. Christ, He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we're healed. Is that right? See, it's already made. Just like if I say... Here: If I gave you a postal check, or money order, that calls for five thousand dollars. Well, you'd say, "Is that money order any good?" Certainly. If the government is any good, why then--or the--the one that wrote the money order, the whole government... Before that money order could be written, there had to be five thousand dollars deposit first, before that money order could be written. Is that true? The deposit has to be made first.
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for your healing was put in God's medicine cabinet, or His bank on the day of the crucifixion at Calvary. You see what I mean? Then He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we're healed. And your healing is done bought and paid for. Oh, my. It's yours. All you have to do, is just reach out and get it. Now, in order that people would see and know, God promised that He would send gifts. Is that right? There's nine spiritual gifts promised to the body. That is the body of believers. It's not for the unbelievers. Divine healing is not for you who do not believe; it's for those who believe. The Holy Ghost is not for those who do not believe in It: It's for those who believe It.
Now, a few years ago when the Holy Ghost had--before It came, and the Church began to get formal back in the days of Methodists, and you people cried to God for deliverance, and God sent down the baptism of the Spirit. Now, since then, people has been liberated from their sins by receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Is that right? Now, those who do not believe in It, they can't receive It. You've got to believe in It. Therefore, He sent anointed preachers to preach the Word, and you received It. And now you received... How many in here has received the Holy Spirit, let's see your hands? Now, that's fine. My, looky there, almost a hundred percent. Wonderful. Oh, my. We ought to be able to do anything. That's right. Why, there's nothing now...
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Why, that much believers in here that's received the Holy Ghost, why there oughtn't to be a feeble person among you in the
next few hours. That's right. What do you think about it, sister on the cot? Do you believe that's so? All right. Now, notice. If you can believe. Now, many of the miracles that's performed, I always see them in my room in prayer before I come to the building. How many all of you in here has heard how the gift of healing come to me, haven't you? Most all of you I see, 'cause I told it last time here. About... Do you still believe it? Oh, that's just fine. That's fine. Now, we want to read just a little out of the Word here, and teach it just for a few moments, and then we'll get ready for the service, for the healing service.
Now, this is during the time of the early ministry of the Master. He had been healing the people everywhere, and His fame had went out. Now, if the people would've doubted Him, that He was the Son of God, that He was the Healer Divine, they could've not been healed. Even His prayer for them would've not have healed them. His hands would've not have--laying upon them would've not have healed them. Jesus never took credit for healing anyone. He said, "Thy faith has made thee whole." Is that right? "Thy faith has saved thee." A woman once touched the hem of His garment, then everybody wanted to touch the hem of His garment. And you notice in the meetings, you'll hear people say... I'll hear them. I'll tell somebody maybe under inspiration, "Go up this street, or go up to the corner, throw down your crutches." Then the next one come through, say, "Brother Branham, tell me to do so." See? They just keep whatever they see somebody else doing. Well, friend, if somebody in here now could just raise right up and touch Christ by faith, looks like the rest of you could.
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Here the other night... I might make this statement. It was just last week. We were in Miami. And it really is a city of confusion. There's all kinds of doctrines and everything that falls around the nation comes in there. Everywhere... And when... Coming in, I was trying... They said people wouldn't come out, but they--they did; they come to the meeting by the thousands. But here's what happened. In the service one night, we were having to hurry, 'cause we had several hundreds to pass through the line. And we brought up first a few deaf, dumb, maybe I believe a blind man, a few things like that that were performed. And it was in the last night. There was two boys born blind, without sight all their life, received their sight; and different things of that type. Which we was having a hard struggle of it, because there was such a confusion amongst the churches; because many people come into those places and they just break up churches, you see; go and start
their own church. It's hard to get to the people that we're not wanting to start a church; we're trying our best to get the church together. That's what we need. Don't you believe that? We need cooperation together.
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And then, in that, I was praying for the people coming along like that. And the first thing, I... Someone now, faith had begin to drop in the line; you could feel it. And that's one thing that I...
Ever get interested in... The Spanish people: you're humble, you're willing to eat or just take the crumbs, whatever you... You come in that attitude, and that's the reason you get healed. That's the reason you're healed, because you come humble. Anyone who comes stiffnecked will never receive nothing from God. You've got to see how low that you can get, and then Christ will heal you (That's right.), or He will save you. He will give you the Holy Ghost, if you'll just... Now, when... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Up to Him, not He to you. And then you'll receive from Him.
Then while I was praying, I had my back turned to the audience. There's several hundreds of people. And I was praying like this, the people coming through the line. Once in a while, I'd have to stop one, because they seemed like they wouldn't have faith to come to be healed then. And while I was praying, I felt Something. I turned around. I said, "A crippled person is healed, somewhere, because I felt it." And in a few moments, I said, "Some crippled person..." I heard somebody scream out back there. There was a young business man of the city setting there with his wife. He had a crippled arm. And here he was with his arms up in the air, of thanking God. And he told us then that he had set there, and said, "I wanted to get into the service. I'd been there for two or three nights." But said, "I couldn't get in amongst those people. So many of them there, and so much needs. And I said, 'O God, if that's Your gift, You heal me.'" And that quick his faith, and went out (You see?), and with my back turned to him, I felt It move. I... Then he raised up.
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Now, friends, that wasn't me. But that proves that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. For He turned around and said, "Who touched Me?" Is that right, Brother Bosworth? Now, those things here in a meeting... One night there, I was standing, I heard a spirit pass by me, a choking spirit. I felt it come back again. In a few moments, it was at Keel Auditorium. Was fourteen thousand people in there that night. And I said, "Somebody with a goiter is healed, for the spirit just passed by here." And I said,
"Frankly, here it comes by again." And it... As it passed by, I heard it strangling; that may almost drown some of you. But it's...
I know there's lots of things that's said that's not true. But there is a true God, and He heals. That's right. And when it went by, I a... made announcement of it again. And I said, "Somebody... Look through the line. Somebody's healed with a goiter." And up in the second balcony, I heard somebody scream out. Said, "Brother Branham, it's I." And it was the Post Dispatch reporter up there with the newspaper. A goiter, inward goiter he'd had for years, left him. He said, "The whole thing illuminated around there with the power of God." See? When his faith... He come over there to criticize. He give us a full page write-up and everything in the paper the next day. He come to criticize. But when he begin to see God working and seeing what God was doing, he himself believed. And then when he did, God rewarded him. And he never even had to get into the prayer line, he was healed up in the second balcony. Oh, my. Tell me He's not the same yesterday, today, and forever. His power is unlimited. And He can do the same thing, even this very moment.
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Now, look. We're all here to want to be, we want to be well. And the more deeper you get into this, the better off you're going to be. Don't come haphazard about it. Come with a sincere heart, believing with all your heart, and receive your healing while I'm praying. See? That's the way you do it. Now, don't come halfway believing it. Now, remember, I'm here. And these claims that I make about vibrations, about these things... How many in this meeting, has been in my other meetings, has seen deaf, dumb, blind, cripples, and so forth, healed, let's see? How many has seen people told of their diseases, and told of their sins and things, of vibrations...? Well, how many's seen that? Oh, see? Now, if I make these statements, and they're--and I just make them myself, there's nothing of that happened, then don't believe it, because my words would be untrue. But if I make those statements, and God backs that up, then that's God's testimony to it. Is that right? That's God's testimony saying that it is true. Well then, if God says it's true, and confirming the Word with signs and wonders following, isn't that what you prayed for for years?
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Well, my, my. I believe we could be healed right now. Sure. My I like to feel that welcome spirit coming back like that. That--that feels wonderful. All right. Now, to read some of the Word. Now, this is
of the nobleman's son was healed. Then we won't take but a few moments of time so we can get right into the healing service. So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee where he made the water wine. And (this) nobleman whose son was...
As I was speaking of a few moments ago or something. Was he? All right. I just wondered if I'd took somebody else's text. Anyhow, He had returned now into alo--into Galilee where He had performed one miracle. And now, He was returning back again. And that miracle He performed then was at the wedding, of course, at Cana when He made the water wine. And He was a young man, rather. He come up a--a very poor environment.
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And today, if Jesus had've never been thought of in the world, He had never been here, and would come on the scene today, they would probably class it right down with a bunch of fanaticism. Is that right? Now, remember. There was many, many hundred Jesus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... passed from us. All right, then a little later from that, the lady give her place up to two or three people. And then after while, the line come at the end of the service where there was no more miracles, it was a fast line. And when she seen the great multitude of people, she just absolutely didn't have the heart enough to come anyhow, seeing the rest of them, and her crippled on her foot. And she said, "Lord, I know that that hundred and twenty pound man can't heal people. But I know that Your Angel is there, because Your Words are confirmed." And she said, "I believe You now." And her foot come straight. She raised up and said, "Brother Branham, I don't need my crutch any more," and laid it down and walked out as good as anybody. Why? She had preferred; she was humble; she was willing to wait; she was willing to do anything. And that's what God respects (Is that right?): preferring one another. That's right.
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Now, this man here. Look at him, how humble he was. Sending him. Now, Jesus gave him a rebuke. He said, "Oh, well..." and, Except ye see signs and wonders, you won't believe. We're supposed to believe whether we see any signs or wonders at all. Is that right? But... Now, watch. He tried him out there. The nobleman said unto Him, Sir, come down ere my child die. My, what a feeling. Could you imagine your son dying, and coming out to see the man now to pray for the sick. The Man told him, "Well, except you see signs and wonders, you won't believe." Now, look how humble he got. He said, "But Sir, come down or my
child will die." Now, watch what Jesus said. Now, He could've went. But He seen the faith. He seen the humility. He seen that the man knew what he was speaking of. Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way; thy son liveth." (Oh, my. There you are.) "Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man, B-e-li-v-e-d. He believed. Now, he come for Him to go down to his house to pray for the child. But Jesus didn't go. He said, Thy son liveth. And the man believed it. Now, that's what... Now, listen at the rest of the story. The Word that Je... Believed the Word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was going down, his servant met him, and said unto him... told him saying, Thy son liveth... (Listen to this now. Oh, my. I like this.) Then he called the... enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And he said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed... (There you are, when it's put together. All right.)... and his whole household. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when He came out of Judaea into Galilee.
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Notice. Now, he wanted Him to go with him to pray for his son, and He did not go. But He said, "Thy son liveth," and the man believed it. Now, if the man had not believed it, it would not have been so. But Jesus had already questioned it to him to know that he had faith enough. Many of you has noticed in the meetings when the line's passing through, once in a while you'll find one that's got faith. You stop with that person just a moment, just enough to stir that faith up just a little, and there it takes a hold. See, if you can get them to believe. Now, the one... The hardest thing that God has ever had to do, is to get one mortal to believe another. It would be easy if that Angel that spoke to me was standing here on the pulpit tonight telling you this, why, you'd run up to Him and worship Him. You'd want to fall down to His feet. He was standing here looking the way that I seen Him when He comes: great stern man standing there. I know how I feel.
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But friends, I never done nothing in my life, any miracle, any of these miracles in these twenty-one months that I've been out, where thousands of them has been performed. I've never performed one of them. He is the One Who does that. See? He's the One. I don't have nothing to do with it. He's the One. I'm just a mouthpiece for
Him. I just speak what He says. How would I know when people had faith, and people who did not have faith. And how would I know what you done ten years ago, or twenty years ago. I would not know that. It's God. So the hour has come for the repeat of the Bible, and the fulfilling of the Word. Now, God promised that He was going to send a former rain and a latter rain. And He promised the former and the latter rain in the latter rain, in other words, a double portion. Like the garment of Elisha. When Elijah dropped it, Elisha picked up and had a double portion. He was a type as a type of the Church and Christ. Christ was taken up. And the same Spirit that was upon Christ is on the Church tonight, the Holy Ghost. See? "Nevertheless, if you see me go away," said Elijah. And he took the garment. Now... And struck the Jordan and said, "Let the God of Elijah speak."
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Now, notice. The Church tonight, supposingly, you're supposed to keep our eyes on Christ. Hundred and twenty did when He was taken up. And they went into the upper room. And you say, "Was that the same Spirit was on Christ?" A woman asked one day, said, "Let my sons set the one on righthand and the left in Your Kingdom." He said, "Can you drink the cup that I drink? The persecutions, so forth?" "Yes." "Can you be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with?" She said she could. He admitted that she could. And that baptism was the Holy Ghost. And then, He said, "Yes, but the right and left hand is not mine to give, but the Father's." But notice. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Remember... As I was speaking to Doctor Bosworth a few moments ago about Saint John 5:19, where He said there that... When He healed the man at the pool, and He went up and the Jews were testing Him, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son doeth nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth He also." See? Now, notice. He passed by that pool there where there was probably ten thousand people laying. Now, when the Bible said, "Great multitudes," that meant, "many people," didn't it. Maybe ten thousand people there of lame, blind, halt, and all kinds of people laying there: deaf, dumb, lunatics. And He went to a man that'd had an infirmity for twenty-eight years. And He said, "Sir, would you be made whole?" And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water. And when I'm going to the water..." See, he could walk. "When I'm going to the water, somebody a little better off than I am steps down before me." He said, "Take up your bed and go into your house." Now, the man
never questioned Him. He just obeyed. And obedience is better than sacrifice. Is that right? He never said, "Well, Who are You to tell me that?" He just obeyed what he was told to do, picked up his bed...
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Now, why didn't He go to some of the blind, and the lame, and the halt? Is because... Now, He doesn't... He didn't look any different from the other men. He didn't dress any different from any other man. Now, that's one... Anybody. You can... You can... Ministers and so forth, they can dress any way they want to. Someone was asking here a few days ago... Many of you has heard of Abaick. You know, they come over here that time. Well, we've been trying to meet each other for some time. We met a few days ago in Florida, and put our pictures together and said, "...?... American...?... consults Divine healing."
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Anyhow, fellow, why he--he--He was a man that had long beard, and long hair. So what that's his own opinion. That's--that's perfectly all right. If you want to dress that way or be that way, that's all right. But that doesn't make you "Yes" or "No." It's the condition of your heart before God what makes you what you are. That's right. Now, when He passed through, He was just Jesus; He was just a normal dressed man. And He went through the crowd and He seen that man, not nothing to be conspicuous to look at. He just said, "Would you be made whole?" He said, "I have no one to put me in the water." Said, "Take up your bed and walk." And he did. And then when He was questioned, then He told them that the Son of man could do nothing except what He seen the Father doing before.
Now, here He come into... to Canaan again, and a certain nobleman's boy was sick. Now, look, 47th verse: When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto Him, and besought Him, that He would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Now, notice. "When he heard..." Notice that 3rd--3rd verse there in the 47th verse. "When he heard Jesus was come back into the country," where He had performed a miracle, "he come to Him for his son, for his son was near death." Get it? He knew He could do it, for He'd already performed one miracle there. Well, if He performed one miracle, would cause that nobleman to believe that His Word would heal his son, then why can't we believe when He performs hundreds of miracles here before us. You see what I mean? Notice. How many was here the morning that that woman passed
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away there on the... This Mrs. Hattie Waldrop, here to see... Is that lady here in the... Is Mrs. Hattie in here tonight? Mrs. Waldrop? Well, here she is right here. That passed out here with a cancer of the heart, colon, and liver... She's a living, isn't she? My, very much, aren't you, sister. There you are. Her doctor's got the X-Rays here and so forth.
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Now, here we are coming back tonight in the same city where the lady, that was laying here dead with cancer, is alive tonight. And this is the second miracle. See? Oh, my, the second. It's dozens upon top of dozens of them that's performed. Is that right? Now, watch. The nobleman, he brought his son, he cam... Here, he couldn't bring his son. But he just come to Him. And he said, "Now, You come down to pray for my son." Now, watch. He... Faith cometh by hearing. He heard that He done it. Now, how many's heard that Jesus healed in the last meeting here? Let's see your hands. How many knows He healed in the last meeting here? Now, here's the proof of it here. How many was healed in the last meeting here, let's see your hands? Now, there you are. Now, you can't deny it. Well now, if one miracle was done in Cana, caused a man to come down and believe on Christ, how many more in Arizona ought to come tonight (Is that right?) and believe, because look how many more's been healed.
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Now, notice here now, in the 48th verse. Then said Jesus unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe. In other words, give him a rebuke to see if He was able to stand it. Now, you know what would happen in Phoenix tonight, if the Master was here and say something or other like that? Why, my, they'd blow up and walk away. Why, you don't have to come. But that fellow wasn't that kind of a fellow. He was a humble man. The main thing was to get Christ to his boy. But you see, a people who take the attitude, saying... Well, they feel like they'd be preferred before somebody else. They don't get nothing from God. Those who's willing to set back, those who's willing to--to give--prefer one another. That's the one who gets something from God. A little lady here the other night in a certain meeting, she was back there. And she was crippled. She walked on a crutch. And it had come her time, her number been called. And she seen a lady setting back there with a cancer. She sent, and the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] One.
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"... after this, the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you'll be
witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the world." And that included Phoenix, Arizona. That's right. March the fourth, 1948. Then His power is still the same tonight as it was the day that He poured it out upon the Church. Then you people who tasted the realms of the golden cup of His blessings, how could you believe anything else but what the Holy Ghost is here tonight to heal every one, or to fill every one here. My, if He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, His power is the same. He's unlimited, His powers is. I could stand here tonight, testimony after testimony, hour after hour of telling you what He's done. But one testimony from Him healing somebody will speak louder than I could if I spoke for fifty years. That's right. Let Him speak, and let us be silent. And He can speak.
Now, every one of you is well instructed. You know how this comes. It must be perfect reverence. It must be eyes closed, heads bowed. For it's not in no way... This is not an arena. And it's the house of God. And it's a place where we should respect Christ. And then here is something else. If any person that's coming in the prayer line, let me sternly warn you. If you're aiming to come in the prayer line, do not come until first you give your heart to Christ. Then do not stop at that. After you have repented and been baptized, tarry until you have received the baptism of the Spirit. Friend, I say this reverently. I realize I haven't got long to stay here. None of us has. We're nearing the end. Now, everyone knows that. There's not a person in here tonight over fourteen years old but what knows that we're nearing something. And I wish you would listen to this. Surely, if God, by my prayers, will open the eyes of the blind, unstop the ears of the deaf, and make the lame walk; surely I ought to know something about what I'm speaking of. We're near the end. That's right.
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And you young people, or you old, who's out of Christ... Oh, God help you, friends. Now's the time. This is the hour. If you haven't got the Holy Ghost, receive It now. For those that are in Christ will God bring with Him, the rest of them will go under the judgment. If you're not in Christ tonight, hear my word; for only those that are in Christ will go in the rapture. Tonight, if you're not ready, be prepared. And if you come into the prayer line a sinner, you can't... You say, "Can a sinner come?" Yes, sir. A sinner can come. But when God touches your body, if you don't then, come into Christ, look for a worse thing than that to follow you right away.
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Here a few weeks ago, a woman came into the line who was
somewhat... The newspapers give us an awful write-up about the ambulances blocking the streetcar tracks and things. And the lady, I went to touch her hand. Before I could touch her hand, she said, "I have cancer." I took hold of her hand, I said, "Not cancer, sister, but you've got cancers." She had around, ah, ten or twelve. And they were hitting from different parts. And my hand swoll quickly, the vibrations running over it. And she said, "Can anything be done for me?" I said, "If you can believe. But if I should rebuke it and send it away, and if you doubt it, it'll return back. And if you do not serve Christ, then it'll return back." I said, "I perceive that you're not a Christian." She said, "No, I'm not." Then when she looked at me in the eye... Might as well tell you this, because many of the people already know it. When sometime when I can catch their eyes, that's how I get them in that channel. You see? And then, it's not a mind reading; it's not psychology. If it is, then Paul used it when he looked upon the man and said, "I perceive you have faith to be healed."
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I will grant you this. It is psychology in this way. If... "Psyche," of course means "mind." And It's the mind of Christ, that the human being has the privilege to enter in, and know the mind of Christ... Hallelujah. My, what a--a reality to dwell in the channel of Christ. We unworthy mortals have been brought in to be sons and daughters of God to be fellow citizens in--in... Oh my. I get to shouting when I get... Notice. Into that realm where even Angels can't come... Say, "Angels?" Yes, sir. We're sons and daughters; Angels are servants. That's right. The servants cannot go where sons and daughter will go. They can't enter into that relationship, for they're servants, and we're sons and daughters.
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Notice. And this woman, looking at her, I perceived that she was a cigarette smoker. And I told her; I said, "Now, you smoke cigarettes." She said, "Yeah." I said, "You forsake them. And you give your heart to Christ." She said, "What church should I join?" I said, "I... It's not for me to tell you. That's for you to seek out. But if you haven't received the Holy Ghost, you receive the Holy Ghost and go to some full Gospel church that preaches and believes in Divine healing and the Holy Ghost." She laid there a little while. I said, "Will you do it?" She promised. When she did, the vibrations left my hand in a few moments after the first rebuke of the cancer. And picked it up a...
Doctors just give her a few days to live. And the woman got up. She went around; she done her work; she done her neighbor's work, still smoking those cigarettes. And she belonged to the... joined the church... Before that, she'd belonged to the church of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And even her pastor... If he understood the Scriptures right, if anybody got healed of God, that they should forsake their sins; and told her she should quit smoking them cigarettes. Another reverend of... A Gospel minister in the city went over to her and warned her not to do it. And she said, "Well, I just can't give them up." Said, "That's not what you promised Brother Branham and Almighty God." And the woman died a few nights after the last time the minister visited her, of a heart attack.
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See? Oh, my. Don't sin no more. Now, if you do sin, as soon as you sin, you have an advocate of course. But I mean, don't walk out there, and go following the same path you followed, because a worse thing's coming upon you. Remember, if my voice is right before God to heal the sick, it's right to warn you. Because, you look for a worse thing. What if this lady here with cancer of her heart, colon, and liver. Why, abscess on your liver would kill you. And she had cancer. Why is she living now when she's passed out of this life right out there on the streets. How's she living? Because she purposed in her heart she would serve Christ the rest of her days. And that's why even a doctors and things. Why, she's living here in Phoenix tonight to walk up-and-down the streets to glorify God, because she's not ashamed of it. She'll tell anybody about it. That's right. See, she's serving God.
Now, if you're in that condition, purpose in your heart you're going to serve God from tonight on. No matter if you're a sinner, when you're here to be healed, just fall right down at the altar and give your heart to Him, right then, and then receive the Holy Ghost. Come up here, and come into the church of wherever church you prefer. But remember, make it a church that believes in Divine healing and the full Gospel, because some of them others will pump poison into you, and you'll lose your experience after all. That's right. You go somewhere where it's really a full Gospel people who believe in the coming of Christ. I believe the separating time is here now. Letting him that's filthy be filthy still; let him that's holy holy still. The hour's come when God's drawing the separating line. That's right. Church is near to be in the rapture. Now, friends, we got about an hour and fifteen minutes for prayer
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Now, listen to me, friends. Remember, I love you with all my heart. I want to see you well. And that's what I'm here for tonight, is to see you well. I give up my vacation of rest to come here to pray for you, 'cause I love you. I promised these Spanish people I would come back. And if a man is not as good as his word, he isn't no good. That's right. And no matter for my own thoughts, I was morally obligated to be here. And I wanted to come back. I love you with all my heart as well as I might. I took your records of hear you singing. Sister Garcia sang a song there, a solo. And many a hour when I would be a way off somewhere in Canada, up in those fields, my, my. Oh, so tired... Sometimes in a service there, they'd have as many as... One night's thirty-five thousand people were gathered there. There in... on Sunday afternoon alone, eighteen hundred came to the altar and a thousand gave their heart to Christ. And that night, five hundred received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost at one time. That's right.
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Now, He's here to save, He's here to heal. And a lot of times, I've been going through now, just speaking of Divine healing. But it's getting to be very essential that I speak to you about your soul also. For you got a soul that's going to meet God yonder. You must be reverent. Wonder while we bow our heads, wonder if the sister here, the pianist, one of them would go to the piano. Play "Only Believe" for me, just a minute. Piano player. Thank you, brother. I wonder while you're setting here now, do you know what? Where you going to be a year from tonight? Where you going to be five hundred years from tonight? You know why? Probably somewhere that's sandy, and will blow across your tombstone and your soul will be somewhere in eternity. You know that. Is that right? Well, where you going to be a year from tonight? You may be the same way. Where you going to be tomorrow night? You may be in eternity.
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I wonder while we bow our heads now for prayer everywhere Christians, please, everyone... Father, the great hour has come again now for the healing of the sick. Many times I've tried to struggle here at the Phoenix believing that somehow, some way, down in this little desert town here where there seems to be great confusions amongst the people, that You have a Church, a remnant You're calling now. O Eternal God, the Author of Life, speak now just at this time. There maybe even be someone in here tonight who does not know Thee in the pardoning of their sins. If there be that person, Father...
Green light, I go there. The great march of the antichrist has started. O God, have mercy. Grant tonight that some lost wayward boy, girl, man, or woman would like to speak to You in the pardoning of their sins.
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While you have your heads bowed, each one. If there's an unsaved person, just raise your hand, say, "Brother Branham, I want you to pray for me; I'm unsaved." I'd do it right now. Unsaved person. God bless you, young man. See you on the outside. You there, and you, and you. there's someone... God bless you, sister. You, sister, I see your hand. God bless you, young man, I see your hand. Someone over here? God bless you, little lady. I see you. God bless you, my brother. Someone over to my right now? Say, "Brother Branham, remember me. I'm certainly in need of Christ. I need Him tonight." God bless you. God bless you, sir. God bless you, little girl. And you, young lady. Someone else back there? Oh, God bless you, my brother.
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Oh, friends, don't you see, we need an old fashioned revival. We need an old fashion mourner's bench in place of... God bless you...?... God bless you, brother, and you, brother. Yes. Now is the time, even right now, friends. Standing here, kinda tired tonight. I feel the Holy Spirit moving over this building. Bound to be. What would bring conviction to human heart? Realizing we'll we may be in the grave this time next week. A little boy standing on the steps here a few days ago, standing there. Fell in an irrigation ditch. And two hours later they pulled him out, and his little soul was in eternity. Think friends, just how quick you can go out to meet God. O Father, tonight Thou did see the hands of those who love Thee, and wants to be saved. God, there's going to be a--a number of people come out of this Babylon and confusion to come into the Kingdom. Oh, this great dark hour when the nations are breaking, Israel awakening, the signs that the Bible foretold. O God, have mercy. I pray just now, while they're setting there that You will speak a pardoning peace to their soul. Grant it, God. May they not go to bed tonight until they're on their knees there crying, saying, "God, have mercy upon me, I'm a sinner tonight. I want to be saved. I believe that You're sending Your warning voice. And I want to be saved." God, grant it. May they humbly come to Thee and be saved. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen...?...
I want everyone's close attention. If there's an unbeliever, do not stay in the building now. I'm not a preacher. I come to pray for
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the sick. And everything must be real reverent. Now, you mothers get your children close to you. You know what happens. You've seen it in meetings before. Sometimes these demons come right out and go right out into these people. And they just go from one to another. And they follow meeting after meeting trying to get into the prayer line. I don't know when. I'm going overseas. May be my last time to ever be in Phoenix. So I--I don't know. And I want to help you as, so I know this: So when I leave here, that you all will say to me, "Truly, Jesus sent me." And I'm going to do all that I can for you tonight. I've got to have your cooperation.
Now, look. What's the matter with your sister? Is that yours? What say? Now, look, sister dear. No doubt but what you tried many things to get well. There was some lepers set at the gate sometime begging. The city was besieged by the Assyrians. They said, "Why do we set here till we die? We can go into the city, there's nothing to eat there." They were starving; they were eating one another's children. And if they set there, they would die, surely. They only had one opportunity, that was go down to the enemy's camp. And if they... Said, "If they kill us, we're just going to die anyhow, 'cause we're going to die setting here. If we go that way, we're going to die. If we set here we're going to die. If we go down there, if they kill us, why, we'll just be out of our misery, 'cause we're going to die anyhow. But if they do have mercy on us, why, they-why, we'll live."
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And they went down there. And God, upon the merits of that kind of faith, rewarded them. And caused a great rumble to come upon the desert, and they thought that Israel had hired some more soldiers to come. And they ran away. And they went into the tents and found life, food, wine. And even not only saved their own lives, but the city's life. Now, tonight, I'm not asking you to come to the house of an enemy. I realize you're tubercular. And even this lovely place here where it's a healthy climate, and you... way that you are, and you with tubercular, you're sure to die. That's right. You realize that. Now, you--you--you believe in God, don't you? Now, as you have believed in God, you believe in me, that that Angel of God came down and told me that. You've heard the story of it, have you, sister? You ever hear the story of how it come? The Angel of the Lord came to me? Yes.
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While I was setting in the room. Since a boy, I had a calling on
me. And I was setting in the room... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Hitting right on the floor. A supernatural Being come walking into the room. An Angel said He was sent from the Presence of God. He said, "If you get the people to believe you, would be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even to cancer." Then you would ask me, "Does everybody get well, Brother Branham?" Everybody that truly believes gets well. Thousands have been healed.
You're liberated now. That's your wife, is it? I know how I think, how I would feel if that was my wife. Frankly, one day, my wife laid in a casket. Tubercular. That is right. That's the reason I hate that demon, and he hates me. He's the one who tore my family up, years ago, and took from me the dearest that lived. And that's the reason today, when I have power over him, I-I'd love to see him drove away. And I--I'll tell you, my dear brother; we may never meet again in life. But if your dear wife will believe with her whole heart that this Angel came and told me this, your wife will be a well, happy woman. Now, believe, sister, with all your heart. You'll be able, with your own strength, to rise up from there, walk right on out of the building and leave your cot. Tomorrow, you be about your work. Like the lady here that's passed away right there with a cancer.
Now, it's no harder for God to heal tubercular, than it is with a cancer. That's true. Seeing that the vibration has left, the cancer died, the woman rose, and believed God, and went on. She believed what I told her. Is that right, sister? She believed what I told her, the cancer germ died right in her. And her doctor, he may be in the building tonight. He sent for me to come, he said he'd like to shake my hand. Wanted to show me the x-rays of the woman. All right. Now, if she can believe, can't you? I got a letter from a minister here not knowing where... It's a Spanish church. I got it on file. It's a picture before and after. He was standing here with tubercular. One of the most hideous looking sights. He couldn't hardly breathe; he was so weak. And he was healed right here. Cancer. How God is... His testimony was a doctor's records find... Three or four doctor's names underneath it, like that. Dismissed perfectly well from cancer.
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Only that? Hundreds of x-rays. And you're going to see one of those... Now, in the meetings, there's somewhat about seventy to eighty percent that passes through the prayer line, you here, that's healed within the space of ninety days, are well. And thirty percent that doesn't. Now, you'll be on one of those sides. Let's be on the seventy percent tonight, and be well. God bless you.
Now, while the brother and things... Where's Brother Joseph? Where is he at? Thank you. I want Brother Joseph to pick up the prayer cards because he doesn't know. That he can't speak Spanish... pronounce his words. Now, I will tell you what I want the rest of you to do. If you're an unbeliever... Now, you remember in this last meeting, right here in this auditorium. The man may be in the building here tonight, that that demon come upon him. And he stood and said that was psychology, right here in Phoenix. And the man come on down through the west, trying to get into the meetings. And the last night, Santa Rosa, his wife come there and caught Brother Brown and I, and almost fell across the path where we were walking. And there her husband setting there, and his eyes bulged out, a Phoenix man, from Phoenix, Arizona. Is the man here in the building tonight? If you are, raise your hand. And there, in his... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Over forty-five minutes in there with the man. Then the demon come from him. He's in his right mind, returned back home. He said it's psychology. But a few days, he got... had a funny feeling come upon him. And there he went walking like... Police picked him up here in the city.
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Now, if you're a believer, stay in the building. If you're not, you're not. That's outside, wherever you are. Now, you must keep your head bowed until you hear me call. This is not a fanaticism now. Don't think that. It's not a fanaticism. God will have us to answer at the day of judgment. Is that right? Where the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed. And I've told you, God before has performed it. And you be real reverent, and keep your head bowed. And when you hear my voice on this microphone say, "Raise your head," then I'll... If anything should happen, a miracle... I have no controls of miracles. Them's what... My gift is not miracles; my gift is healing. All of you understand that, don't you? There's nine spiritual gifts. But many times, the Angel of God will perform miracles.
How many remembers down at the auditorium here that day, not long ago, when I stood there and was making a challenge, bring anything up in the miracle line. Preachers fell down there under conviction, come to the platform, and asked God if--if it was His will for me to--to bring the people up to heal every one then that come to having a miracle line. That if it wasn't His will, asked that Angel to met me upon and told me not to do that, then, to stop it. And how many remembers what happened. Was it at the auditorium? Even a man with hard of hearing went all the way deaf. A little girl, the same way. Is that right? That's right. Now, you see, I watch. When I feel perfect leading of the Holy Spirit,
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then I speak. Now, today I've been all... We went visiting around the city, taking my wife and them around the city.
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Now, notice. Tomorrow, I'm going to stay in prayer. I'll probably know more about it tomorrow night. But tonight, you that's in the prayer line now, you--you... Brother Joey will tell you how to form the line. And you'll come up one by one. And now, I will promise you this, by the help of God, I'll pray for every sick person passing through this door before I leave Phoenix. And I'll do everything I can. I--I mean to pray for you, come by and pray for you the very best that I know how before I leave this building. Now, do you believe these things that I've told you? (This is the prayer side over here? I want some in the prayer line here). Do you believe these things are true? Do you believe they're true? And now, if I'll ask God sincerely, with all my heart, you'll believe Him the same way with all... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] That you'll get well? Do you believe that? All right. I want everybody to bow their heads now. Father, I pray Thee to send Your Angel among us. And let Thy servant, not...?... tonight, but let the Angel of God, Who met me that night in the room and told me these things, that's stood by me these twenty-two months now. I pray that He will stand by me tonight. And may He take the things that's of God, and speak them to Thy servant... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the midst of all of us. You're going to get...?... I'm trying once more now, so I'm coming in the Name of Jesus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, help me, God. And I'll give all praise and glory to Thee, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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You may raise your head now? While I step into the room for prayer. I'm just asking... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Everyone just be reverent now, and bow your heads. Be real reverent now if God should perform a miracle. The first thing I want to know now, do you all firmly believe this with all your heart? If you do, raise your hands now. And now... Now, just keep your heads bowed while I speak to you just a moment. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Help me to bless others. Grant it, will You, Lord. Now, my brother's standing here, Your servant, suffering with this diabetes. Realizing that the blood now is becoming sugar. Just a few more turns, and a little place and hands would drop off, and feet. And then Satan would have the victory. God's servant would be laid up for the rest of his life, for it to be shortened. Now, no doubt that he's tried many things, God. But tonight he's not coming, trying; he's coming tonight to be healed. Grant it, Father. I know You hear my prayer, for You are here
to open the eyes of the blind, and the deaf, and the dumb, the cripples. How much more give blood of life to my brother. I now rebuke this diabetes. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the man. May God give double punishment if you hold him longer. Come out of him through Jesus Christ we ask. How about you, sir. Depends on what the doctor...?... If you can accept it...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Then look at my brother suffering now of his trouble. Thou art here to liberate him to make him well. Thou does not fail. You're from everlasting to everlasting God. The ages move on. You'll raise up men, take down men; set up kings, and take down... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Send gifts. You ascended on high and give gifts to man. Now, my brother's suffering. I pray, Father, sincerely, with all my heart that You will heal him. I rebuke this asthmatic cough, in the Name of Jesus Christ. May it leave him to never return no more. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Could tell them what's wrong with them? Now, remember, we have just come from the doctor's. I said if you do not approach it critically, I'll do what God says. They brought the baby in, put its little hand on mine... Now, remember, that was being broadcast over a powerful station. And their doctor was listening in. And they'd been to the doctor day before. I said, "Yes, sir. The little baby, it has a weak kidney, which wetting the bed at night. And another thing, it's been vomiting up all of its food recently, because he's got a spasm in his stomach." He said, "Brother Branham." said, "Doctor, you hear that." There they was, say just exactly what the doctor told them. Said, "Now, my wife." She come over. I said, "The baby inherited the kidney trouble from the mother, because she also has trouble with the kidneys. And another thing, you got a real weary scary feeling all the time, haven't you." I said, "Your age is about forty years old. You're going through the change of life." And said, "That's just exactly what the doctor told me."
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Now, he said to me... He put his hand over there; he was an owner, owner of the station. And he... I said, "Well, you're worried. And here's what you been thinking about. But for one thing, you think you've got tubercular, but you've got pleurisy pains in your side." He said, "That's just..." (with the doctor listening in), "so that's just exactly what the doctor told me yesterday." I said, "Now, here's something that the doctor couldn't tell you." I said, "You're halting between two opinions. You think that you're serving God, and want to do that by keeping this broadcast like this. But you've got a call, and you want to go in the ministry." And I said,
"The thing that I would advise you to do was forget about the broadcast and get out there on the harvest field." He threw his arms around me and screamed out right there. And it happened to be that that man is a member of Brother Bosworth's church here. That's right. There you are. So you see, it's perfect. God cannot lie, for He's God. Is that right? Now, it's not me; it's Him. Now, can't you believe with all your heart? Amen. Now, just bow your head and be real reverent, every one. AT THY WORD, LORD AZ PHOENIX
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Victory over every demon that's possessed the people of this land. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Their...?... is together, Thou art our Saviour, and our God, and our Healer. Oh, come Lord with such power that'll shake the building. May there be an outpouring of the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] May every heart be caught away, Lord, up into the seventh heaven, above all the earthly things to live and be...?... Give us Thy assurance tonight of this, by sending forth the Holy Ghost now in this hour. Help me; speak through these mortal lips just now, for we ask it in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. Amen.
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Someday 'fore long we're going to see Him Who is the invisible One in our midst tonight. At this point of the reading of the Scriptures, that Jesus' ministry had become very popular. About seventy percent of His ministry was upon Divine healing. He healed the people, not to show His authority; He healed the people to fulfill the Scripture. For the Scripture said that many of them came out to Him, and said, "We desire signs," and so forth. Said, "You hypocrites. You can discern the face of the skies, but the signs of the times you cannot discern." Said, "When the sky is red and lowering, be foul weather; and clear, so forth by the setting of the sun." But He said, "Now, if you can discern that, you ought to know His days, because the prophets had said, Isaiah said, 'The lame shall leap like a hart; the tongue of the dumb shall sing.'" And that was the day that the people were living in, to see the manifestation of God's testimony concerning His Son, Christ Jesus.
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And God is the same. Christ had made the claims that He was the... He, the I AM. And He said... Therefore, the testimony of two, in the law was right. "Mouth of two or three witnesses, let every word be established." He said, "If I testify to what..." He made His claims. And God testified in Him. Then that made it so.
Well, isn't it just the same tonight? He, in His days of His visitation, He had people who looked for Jehovah way back, as He was in the wilderness with Moses. But He said, "As you have believed in God, believe also in Me." God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Now, He said, "You believed in Him back there when He was in the form of Spirit, now the Father is in Me. And I am in the Father, and the Father in Me. Now, you believe Me for the very works' sake."
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Now, many people are looking forward... Some of them say, "I believe God can do all things." Anyone that's even got their right mind knows that God can do all things. If He cannot do all things, He's not Almighty God. But if He is Almighty God, He can do all things. Therefore, the trouble of it is tonight with people, they're looking for God way millions of miles away, when God is right here in your midst now. Think of it. The One that you love, the One that you serve is here. He spoke these Words, "Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, there I will be in their midst." That's just as true as any of the rest of the Scripture.
Now, He promised that He would do these things, sending signs and wonders. And now, God has made that known to the people. Now, if you can get the vision of it, and will believe it, tonight will be your night to be healed. Now, if you doubt it, there's no matter... If Christ Himself was wearing my suit and my shoes, He was standing here and you had the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You would go away from here just as sick as you are now. He cannot save you against your own will. He cannot heal you against your own will. You must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Amen. And is that right? Now, He's here to heal tonight. Why would He heal some and leave others go? See, it's not God's will for any of you to go unhealed. It's not God's will for any of you to go unsaved. He died. He came to get a... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... And sickness is because... Sin is because of sickness.
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To rid it, put it away. Divorce it, get away with it. God divorced everything of the de... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Upon the human... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] When Christ died at the cross, a perfect deliverance. Delivered everything... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He's free from sin, free from sickness. Only through... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Christ at the cross. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Right. What would be the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] For... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] to have God...?... free him... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, in there, the minister was speaking before me, building the
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One man come there from Texas with his wife in a wheelchair, had been there for sixteen years in the wheelchair. Flew her in by plane. And a few moments after she was prayed for, she was walking the aisles, a glorifying God. The next night, the man come in the prayer line. I didn't know. I took hold of his hand; there's no vibrations. I looked up and he was crying. He said, "Now, Brother Branham, I guess I played the part of a hypocrite. But I understand you're a poor man. I want to give you a--a little offering to the Lord." I said, "I don't receive offerings." And he said, "Well, here is a little check..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Said, "Not just for saying the prayer." He said, "Look. That's my mother setting there that was crippled for sixteen years." I said, "Well, I never healed her. Christ healed her." And he said, "Well, here. I just made out this check." A check made out for five thousand dollars. He was an oil man worthy of it. I tore it up. I--I didn't want none. Then, you see, what I want is your faith.
Look. In a few years from now, I will say within the space of five years, maybe a little longer, maybe a little less, your money won't be worth the paper it's wrote on. It won't be worth nothing. Over in Russia today, they have their houses papered with thousand dollar bills. It ain't worth nothing. Confederacy... That's right. And we're coming to the same thing. A missionary here in Miami the other day was talking to me. He walked down the streets of London, England, where we were going to there at the London Hall. He said, "I had six hundred pounds in my pocket," which was dollars. And said, "My little girl wanted a little cookie. And those six hundred dollars would not buy that little cookie. I had to have a stamp first. It's rationed." Mark of the beast... No man can buy or sell except he that had the mark. And it's coming right here. You listen to it. You'll probably be seeing it 'fore I get back here again. It's right at the door, and we're near the end.
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So don't think of money. Don't think of homes and land. Think of Christ Who is coming. There's nobody can put hopes in anything else but Christ now. That's right. Everything, our whole future is on the coming of the Lord. That's right. That's the hope of those who are
asleep, and of we who are alive. Now, notice this. Now, in--in that meeting there that this minister had spoke to them, upon... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... miraculous God; how that God came down. In the beginning and created the heavens and earth; how that He come upon a brazen serpent. And then somebody, of course, when those claims was made, they said the... "Why, who ever heard of such." You couldn't prove it by the Bible. But God told Moses to make a serpent. Why did He do that? That the people could have something to look at. Now, that's just human. That's just human for somebody to--to look at something. The natural eye has to see something.
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Now, the serpent wasn't a healer. But God put His gift of healing upon that serpent. Do you believe that? He did. And now, if somebody looked, 'course wouldn't believe. But somebody looked and believed. And when they did, the serpent bite was cured. Then others begin to look and believe. They knew then that God was testifying through that serpent, that He was Jehovah-rapha, the Healer. And He's yet Jehovah-rapha, the Healer. He's not the I was; He's the I AM, not something that was, something that is, now, present tense. All right. Now, when they looked upon that brazen serpent, and they were healed, now, that was miraculous. Then after the days of the brazen serpent, He came down with His Angel upon the pool of water.
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Now, look. That brazen serpent could not pray for anybody, could it? It could not lay hands on anyone. Yet they recognized God in that brazen serpent, His gift. The pool could not pray for anybody, could it? But God put His Angel upon that pool, and the people that recognized it by getting into it was healed. Is that right? Now, the miraculous God. And then he went ahead to say that God came down and dwelled in Christ. God also sent His gift down in Peter, the apostle, also in Paul, even to laid in their shadows they were healed. Is that right? They recognized God, His miraculous... And then he said, "Now, isn't it a strange thing, that the God back in the days that promised deliverance to Israel, after sojourning down there for four hundred years, He brought it to pass when the people's in need of healing or of deliverance. He brought deliverance to them. Now, the people of God is in need of healing. And God promised to send the gift. Isn't it a positive fact that God will keep His Word? Sure He will."
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set down, and listen to an old fashion, Holy Ghost, godly sermon preached. Oh, my. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... But it seems like, when you get there, every thought's on healing then. And then pray for the sick.
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I came up tonight and I heard them girls singing. I want to get here real early tomorrow night, hear some more of it. That helps me. It encourages me. I like to hear it. I like to hear good preachers. I would--I would love to heard Jesus when He went down to the seashore that morning to speak upon what God was doing for Him. I would like to have heard Him that morning, wouldn't you? He went down, and the people pressed upon Him to hear the Word of God. Now, look. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God. Is that right? And He was the Word. In the beginning was the Word, the Logos that went out of God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. He was the Word of God manifested on earth. Do you believe it? Here He goes. And they were standing there hearing the Word. Now, some of those sisters... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Now, notice. Then, when they all pressed down to hear Him, there was a... Two or three fishermen had been fishing all night long. One of them's Simon. I always believed that Christ knew right then that, just what was going to take place and He knew that Simon was up there. And it had been said... They pulled all night and hadn't caught any fish. I guess you people here in the... out here in the desert don't know
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very much about fishing. But--but anyhow, it's the most discouraging thing to fish and don't catch nothing. So they'd pulled... I see a lot of them laughing. There's some fishermen here. So they'd pulled all night long and hadn't caught any fish. And there they'd set down washing out their nets. And then I can hear Peter say to Andrew, say, "Well, there comes that Divine Healer down." They heard so much about Him. "Let's hear what He's going to say." I can see him; he set down on a stump, you know, down, way down on the river somewhere. You know how the... Some of the... Fellow when he comes in the meeting the first night, a little skeptic. He's as far back as he could get...?... All right. He set back there, you know, the... wondering what was going to take place.
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And I can hear Him begin to speak about how that God promised that He would heal the people through Him. Isaiah's prophecy was fulfilled. He was the One that was to come, the Messiah. He was speaking to them upon those subjects, telling them how God had healed by Him through other parts of the country. Now, He's healing right through Him then, bringing salvation, deliverance to the people, and so forth. And I can see the old apostles pick up chunks, move up just a little bit closer. Oh, my. I like to get just a little bit closer, don't you? I can see him move back, say, "Come on, Andrew. Let's...?... move up a little closer. Then first thing you know, He just left a chunk alone, got standing up with the rest of them. Listened to Him.
My, I like to have heard Him speak, wouldn't you? He spoke not like one of the scribes. He spoke with authority. And He begin to speak and tell the people, not what somebody else, but what "I." Now. Now. And I can hear Simon say, "You know, there's something about that Man's speech that seems a little... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I like Him. I like the way He delivers that message." I can see him walk up a little closer. Then after Jesus had got through speaking, He was in Simon's boat. I can hear Him say, "Now, Simon..." Oh, my. I wonder what he thought. "Simon, thrust out now, into the deep. Launch out into the deep, and let down for the draught." Now, that was kinda peculiar. "Go out there in the deep and let down for the draught? Why--why, look. We're--we're fishermen. Now, we're just not somebody that has a--a--a line stretched on the banks...?... we--we fish. We know what kind of... How the signs are to catch fish. And we fished right through here all night long, and we haven't taken a thing. Just think, all night and haven't taken nothing." Well now--now Peter... Now, watch. Here's a test of faith. Now, I believe that God always puts people through a test of faith. Prove him first. Prove all things. And a real Christian enjoys a test of faith.
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Then when he come out here to the side of the mount... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Isn't that something? I believe the apostle said that our trials are better than gold to us. Think of it. God might've let you get sick, in order that you might be a testimony, that He might heal you, that you can stand on His Word. Then when you reach the opposition, you can say, "I know." Beyond any shadow of doubt, you're... Oh, my. Witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria. A witness is somebody who's really done something, been somewhere, and seen something. Is that right? Now, remember. A witness has to be a witness, eye witness to know what they're speaking of. It can't be secondarily. If you go down here at the courthouse and say, "I seen a wreck on the streets," and you looked at it through a window glass, you could not be a witness. Got to be right there personally. You can't double see things, you've got to be a correct witness. Now, isn't that a thought to think of now, sister, you setting there with the blinded eyes, with the glasses on: probably bad eyes or you wouldn't even have the glasses. Now, isn't that something, to know that God let that sight get in that condition, that He might give a testimony? Isn't it wonderful? That we would know that He come up...
"Why is he blind?" and they said, "Who sinned, he or his father?" Said, "This case, neither; but that the works of God might be done." God wanted some witnesses. Now, He sent His gift of healing to heal you, that you would go out and be a witness, then stand the test of faith. Walk out and claim your God given privilege. Sure. That's right. Now. Then I can see as He said, "Now, thrust out into the deep, or launch out into the deep, and let down for the draught." Now, He was educating that man, so that he would know just how to... After while, he had a great trial, remember, many of them. But he had to be educated.
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Now, maybe you have to be educated. Maybe that's why the sickness is on you, that God has to educate you to a place that He is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Maybe that's what your faith is give to you. That's why the sickness come upon you, to test your faith. Then you can walk out here in Phoenix, or--or Douglas, or wherever you're from, and say, "I know. Nobody can tell me; I know He's a Healer." How many in here's been healed by Divine healing, let's... Do you know it? It's true. Amen. It's true. You are His witnesses. Oh, my.
Now, here we are. I want you to notice it. Then He said, "La--la-launch out now and let down." So he said... Peter said, "Lord, we've toiled all night long." We seined through these waters, in other words. "We've fished and fished, and we haven't even got one fish." Here it is, get it. "Nevertheless, at Thy Word, Lord, I will let down the net." See? "I know we've done everything humanly. All... We're... Our knowledge, our ability, we're at the end. But at Thy Word, Lord, I will let down the net."
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Now, look. You probably been to doctor's. You had a operation. You've tried everything. You might been through prayer lines before. But "At Thy Word, Lord, tonight I'm going to let down the net. I'm coming tonight to let the net down. I'm going..." Well, you say... "There's no fish there." "You seined through, Peter. You kn--you know you seined through all night, and there's no fish there." If God said, "Let down the net," He will put fish there. See? And I believe tonight, if the doctor says you can't be well, and the Word of God says you can be well, God can put anything... He can put new cells; He can put new eyes, eardrums, whatever it is, He can put it there. Don't you believe it?
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When He met Abraham, 6th chapter of Genesis back there, He met him in the Name of Jehovah, of God, the Almighty. Now, the word in the Hebrew is from the word "El Shaddai," which means "the-the breast, the nourishing," like the woman nourishes her baby. Abraham was ninety and nine years old, no children. His wife, Sarah, was past eighty. She had... They had no children. But God told him, "I am El Shaddai. I am the brave--the breast. I'm the Almighty." In other words, "No matter how weak you are, I can nourish you back to health again. He's still Almighty God. He's El Shaddai tonight. You say, "I'm old, Brother Branham. Is healing for me?" Yes. Amen. It's "whosoever will, let him come." You say, "I belong to the Methodist." I don't care where you belong, healing is for you if you believe it. El Shaddai, the Almighty. Let down the net, Lord. You say, "Well, I'm old. Well, I've had this infirmity, this female trouble; I've had this for years and years. I've tried the doctor and everything. But at Thy Word, Lord, I will let down the net."
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See, if you've got something to stand on... The Word of God speaks of healing. It says there's healing. And it is... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... And I wouldn't have the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... wouldn't be tonight, ask Lord, I'm going to
let down the net... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] There was woman with a blood issue. She'd been... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Spent all... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... for use with the doctors, and not any good. Some of them, of course... of even trying any farther. Maybe she'd been prayed for. Maybe she'd made the offerings...
The prayer line was so great, she couldn't get through the prayer... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] So she said in her heart... Glory. "If I can touch even the border of His garment, I'll be healed." And she pressed through the crowd and touched the border of His... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
Turned, and said... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Peter said, "Behold the multitude..." He said, "I perceive..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Has gone... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Friends, weakened. He's still the same tonight.
The maniac at Gadara, his mind was gone. Everything, every hope was gone. He'd lo--left his family. He was a maniac, into the wilderness, tombs, the graveyard, a real devil's hangout, an old dead place like that. All right. They still like them kind of places. Notice. But he...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The doctors... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] They'd failed. Maybe he knowed that God... that the Messiah would come... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] His right mind. He's still God tonight just the same as He was in that day. Friends, wake up. The hour... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... His gifts, the power, the promise of God stands near tonight to whosoever will, let him come. If it'll work on others, then God testifies of that. And if God testifies of it, it's true. Don't let it pass by you. Take God at His Word. Yes, sir.
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There was a man; his baby had died, his little girl, twelve years old. Jesus was on His road to Jairus to heal his daughter. And the message come that the girl's already dead, "Trouble not the Master." I can see his countenance fall. My. He thought, "My girl is dead." He joined hisself with the unbelievers. But all the time he wanted to believe Jesus. There's a many one in this city tonight wants to believe the full Gospel, but they're afraid of their position. That's right. They want it. They're hungry to have enough salvation to holler, "Gloria a Dios" That's right. There's a lot of them like that. But the trouble of it is, they think more of their pride and their dignity than they do of the lovely Christ of God. Oh, my. But He's here. He's still Christ. And He proved Hisself, that He will
give those the Holy Ghost that'll come God's provided way to receive it. Amen. That's right. Now, He will heal those likewise that'll come God's provided way to receive it.
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Now, notice. At the great difference... And these people now as they come along. This little old Jairus, his heart dropped; "The child's dead; trouble not the Master." I can see those sacred eyes as they moved over, said, "Fear not; only believe." Oh, my. He knew where He was standing. He knew that child would be raised, for Jairus had true faith to come in the midst of all the doubters. I can see them as they walked back. One of them say, "What'd I tell you about that Divine healer? What'd I tell you about that? He went off down there now and he brought disgrace upon the church, and so forth." But Jesus moved right on down the line. When He went into the room, He said, "The daughter... The girl is not dead, but sleepeth." They laughed Him to scorn. They still laugh at Him. And He put them out. And today, those who laugh at God's eternal power, being omnipotent, they're put out of the Kingdom. All right.
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There was God raising the dead. Yes, sir. Said He hungered. When He come off the mountain, looked upon the trees, there was no figs to eat. They said He was hungry like a man. I know He was a man hungry when He was look... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] But when He took five sandwiches and fed five thousand, He was God. That's right. That's true. I know that to be true. I know that when He was down there on the boat one night where, I guess, ten thousand devils of the sea had swore they would drowned Him. He was laying asleep, tired, and weary from the healing
services, laying in the back of the boat. God knows I have a little idea of what He suffered. Laying there so sound asleep. Even the waves and the wind could not wake Him up, He was so sound asleep. But then when He was laying there, He was asleep like a man. That's right. Then when I see Him raise--sleeping like a man, but raise, put His foot upon the brail of the boat, look up to heaven, and said, "Peace." Then down to the earth--to the waves and said, "Be still." When He made the winds and waves obey Him... He was a man sleeping, but He was God that stilled the winds and waves. That's right.
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When He was dying at the cross, crying, "My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken Me?" He was a man in His death, but He was God in the resurrection. That's right. "Only I can have power to lay My life down, I have power to raise it up again. No man taken It from Me, but I lay it down freely." He was. He's still tonight. When He was standing there at the side of the grave of Lazarus. And I can see Him standing there as a man, frail, crying, and the tears running down His cheeks. Yet He knew He could raise Lazarus. But that was His human feeling for the people. And when He stood there by the side of the grave, He said, "Take ye away the stone." He knew that somebody had to do some part. You got your part to do. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... move the stone. Those two little frail women. And when they took away the stone, I can hear Him clear, "I thank Thee that Thou hearest Me always. But for these who stand by..."
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Look at Him. Here it is; get it. I can hear Him scream with a loud voice, way out there in spirit land, "Lazarus." I believe if He hadn't have called him by name, there'd been the general resurrection right there. And I believe it. That's what I think of Him. That's right. He said, "Lazarus, come forth." Oh, my. Corruption knew its Master, the spirit, likewise. Lazarus had been dead four days. His soul was somewhere in eternity. I don't know where it was at; neither do you. We won't argue about that, where his soul was. But anyhow, it heard the Voice of the Son of God. And a man that had been dead four days, stood up on his [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] again. He's the same yesterday, today, and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You believe it? "Nevertheless, Lord, at... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I will let down the net."
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Old Paul, at the end of his... The saint, at the end of his journey, "I've fought a good fight, I've finished the course; I've kept the faith. Henceforth, there's laid up for me a crown that the Lord will
give me at that day." Notice another thing, what he said there in his going away when he said he fought the good fight and everything. He said, "Oh grave... Death, where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy victory? Oh death, show me where you got...?... Where you at?" A challenge. "Come down, death. See if you can scare me." All right. Looked down and seen that six foot of mud laying there, said, "Oh grave, where is your... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "Show me where you can show it to me." Say, "I can hold you. I can show you an empty tomb in Jerusalem." Amen! He's still Christ tonight. "Death, where is thy sting; grave, where is thy victory?" May I add this with Saint Paul, "Sickness, show me your place to stand before our God...?..."
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But nevertheless, Lord, at Thy Word, I'll let down the net. I don't know how You're going to take my soul from here when the wheels of mortal life stand still, but at Thy Word, Lord, here I'm coming into dark eternity, trusting you... "I don't know, Lord, how that through a prayer of somebody, that You'll heal me. But at Thy Word, Lord." You say, "That's in His Word?" "These signs shall follow them that believe; In My Name they shall cast out devils. (Is that right?), speak with new tongues, take up serpents, drink deadly things; and if they laid their hands on the sick, they shall recover." "At Thy Word, Lord, here I come. I don't know how it's going to happen, but here I am." Don't try to figure out God, take Him at His Word.
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There Peter up all the night and the boat tossed about. And the first thing you know, he seen Jesus coming. He said, "Lord, if it be..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Didn't know what he was saying... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] But ye shall receive. "Come." "Lord, I know it's probably forty fathoms deep here. I don't know how I'm going to walk. I know it's just as impossible for me walk on this water as it is on that air. I am not trying to figure out the chemical first. I'm not trying to figure out whether there's a board under there for me to walk on, if You told me to walk, at Thy Word, Lord, here I come." That's right.
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If he could take Him at His Word, what about you tonight, after nineteen hundred years of tests... Hallelujah. Why, brother... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Word... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... to figure it out... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... "I'm taking You..." [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
Some old boys one time that took Him at His Word, wasn't afraid.
There was some Hebrew children down in--in Babylon. Daniel purposed in his heart he wouldn't defile himself with the king's meat: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, also. And there come a decree, that ever who would not bow down to a certain image, would be put in a furnace het seven times hotter than it ever was het. All right. Now, there come the test.
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tomorrow, the next day's going to come the test. Don't you worry. You... Everybody in here that ever received the Holy Ghost, a few days afterwards, come the test. Is that right? When you're healed, that demon in there, the body of it begins to die out. The test is coming. Satan's going to try to return back. When the unclean spirit's gone out of a man, he walketh in dry places. He returns back, brings seven other devils worse than he was. Is that right? Notice. Let the house be garnished, and swept, and ready at that hour... Here it is, get it. He returned back. But he found the house garnished and swept. Then there the Holy Spirit in there to keep him away at that hour.
Now, these Hebrew children, I can notice them. As they were praying, they didn't pay any attention to the king; they didn't fear his command. They wanted to know what THUS SAITH THE LORD. And they turned their faces... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... prayed just the same. Notice, closely now. All right. The decree was made. Then if the king put his seal upon there, he must keep it. He's going to burn these three Hebrews up. I can hear Belteshazzar, or--or Nebuchadnezzar, rather, say, "We will teach these holy-rollers what to do around here. We will show them who's boss around here." And don't you worry, but what that time's coming again. That's right. Right at the door... Oh, my. You're living in the shadows now.
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Notice. Watch. He said, "We will see what will happen to these boys. We will test out that Holy Ghost religion and see what it does. We will burn it out of them." Brother, it's been tried to be burned out of a many a man. But you can't burn the Holy Ghost out; It's fire Itself. That's right. They tried to boil It out of John. But they couldn't boil It out of him in hot grease. That's right. You can't boil It out; you can't scare It out; you can't run It out; It's there to stay. Notice. I can hear them say, "We will throw them in the fiery furnace." I can see king Nebuchadnez... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... highest robes, and set down, priestly robes around him. Said, "Now, watch them... Watch them scream at their test." [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Any of those old...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... you after this
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"But at Thy Word, Lord, here I come." Oh, no matter how big the opposition looks, I... You meet me as a Philistine with an armor..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." There it is. Satan says... All the doctors says you're going... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] I'm coming, claiming that he... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... for this purpose. "I meet you right back. You can't have no power over me, for I am free. Christ, He makes me free."
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I can see them walk on up there. Tie their hands behind them, march them down the death march to the fiery furnace. I see that scaffold as they went up to the top of the big pits. That morning was... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Blazes going up. I can see that great sight. Notice just a minute now. Give me your close attention and pray. I can see them as they started up this pit now. I can see King Nebuchadnezzar setting up there and saying, "Now, look. Watch them how they shriek and holler there when they get up there." This time is shaky time. I can see... First thing you know, Shadrach looked around at Meshach, said, "What do you think about it?" Begin to feel this heat coming on him. We will feel it; don't worry. I can hear it... Meshach say, "Listen, I don't care. Our God's able to deliver us from that. But at Thy Word, Lord, here I come. That fire will probably could consume us like that. But at Thy Word, Lord, here I come. I will not bow down to anything else. I'm taking You at Your Word. I'm a coming." All right. They walked a few steps farther. Oh, my. The heat was so great, till the men begin to get a sickening feeling. They was pushing them to... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
The time come. I can see them begin to shorten their steps; the spears stick up a little harder. "Move on. Move on." I can hear Shadrach say again, "What do you think about it, Abednego?" "Well, I'm taking God at His Word. We know that our God has done many things. He opened the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] He brought us here. He's done those things." And the God that lived in that day lives today. Tonight, friends, we've got hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of years of testimonies this side of that. Surely we can take Him at His Word.
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On up to the fiery furnace. Right down, stopped there, into the furnace they go. Looked like nobody's concerned. Said, "What do you think about it, out there? What do you think about that religion now that you trust Jehovah? See if He will deliver you." "Oh God, look at them remarks. Nevertheless, at Thy Word, Lord, I'm coming these next few steps." See them raise up...?... God's always concerned about His people. Don't you believe it? While there's something going... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Let's look up in the heavens and see if they ain't something going on up there the same time. Oh... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I can see Him setting on His throne looking down. I can see something coming to the right. What is it? It's an Angel. They call Him Gabriel... [Blank.spot.on.tape, fourteen second portion unintelligible--Ed.]... concerned in Babylon, He's concerned in Phoenix tonight. There was three in Babylon; there's hundreds in Phoenix. He's here... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Prayer line... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] At Thy Word. I will have to be judged for what I say. You'll have to be judged for what you believe. Notice. I have seen them all night... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... them world...?... the wicked... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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"...?... the powers. And I turned over a mighty--and turned on all the water faucets there was in all the deep, and I flooded the earth and drowned everything that was. Let Me go down there. I'll wash Babylon off the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... believe He could've done it. Don't you? He had the power to wash Babylon off the face of the earth. I can hear the Majesty say, "Yes, Woodworm, You can..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Last... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Sister Morgan's here. I believe she's one step... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] See them raise off the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] the final steps. A king...?... of the saints... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Raised off His... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... I can see Him stand up there upon His throne. I can see Him say to a big white cloud out there...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I can see Him say, "Come here east wind, north wind, west and south." Called the four winds... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "...?... towards the earth.' Everything in heaven obeys Him. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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Let our hearts be...?... We're afraid to take Him at His Word. Said, "Come here." How do the winds do it? That's not for me to question. Down along the throne came this big white cloud. I can see Him step out on this big white cloud. Glory to God. Like the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Lightning. He say, "East wind, north wind, west and south, I'm going to drive you into Babylon this morning. I see our brethren is in need. Woodworm, I can't let You go. Gabriel, I can't let You go. I'm going Myself." Amen.
I can see Him as He... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Across the sky... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Last, He picked the time. And about the time they took the last step... And, "At Thy Word, Lord, here we come." [Record.skips. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Hallelujah.
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He's still Christ tonight. Don't be a scared. Take Him at His Word. "Nevertheless, Lord, I will just take... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] But at Thy Word, here I come, Lord. I will take You at Your Word. Here I am, Lord. I don't know how I'm going to take this last step. I know the doctor says I'm dying... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Thy Word, Lord, here I come." You don't know how... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "I'm not trying to test how it can be done. Lord, at Thy Word, here I come. Nothing in my arms I bring; simply to Thy cross I cling. I'm taking You at Your Word." Shall we bow our heads. O God, have mercy tonight. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Enough You're standing here. Thou has been the Healer through the ages. You was the One that said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." The last words that was spoke from Your lips...?... before You departed from this world. The last Words that's recorded in the Gospels, You said, "They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." O God, the Scriptures said You ascended on high; You give gifts to men. Some nineteen hundred years is gone. Won't... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] From the Tree of Life, for You... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Let... people go... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] O God... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I do not know, I have to be honest... with what's standing before me. Now, you know...?... them diseases are demons. You call them cancer, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Jesus called them a devil. Now, anybody knows that the word "devil" means "a tormentor," not tormenting your soul, you're free from that by your Gospel preacher and the Word of God. Is that right? I'm not for that; I'm not a preacher. I come for healing of your body. Now, to rid that tormentor, I... You can't... You'll never be saved and receive the Holy Ghost, unless you believe the Word of God and the man that's preaching it. Is that right? That's the way you get healed, the same way.
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Now, I'm going to pray for as many as I possibly can in these next thirty-five or forty minutes so you can get... And tomorrow night, bring all your sick. We're going to stay right here until everyone's prayed for tomorrow night, 'cause the next night... Is tomorrow night your last... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
And I want to see everybody. All you dear Spanish people who's got your people around close, they can't get in at Tijuana now. They called me today from Oregon, up in there, to see if they could get a-a white man to come into the--the prayer line at Tijuana. Only one promise of the white people at Tijuana, that's one man given to the Spanish people...?... So now, you come in...
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And I certainly thank God for the hospitality and the friendship of these Spanish people who's permitted all to come together. Yet the meeting was just for the Spanish. We love them, don't we, white people. Is that right, everyone? I tell you, friends, I have not seen the faith amongst my people that I have seen here. That's right. That's true. And I'm just... Oh, I wish that I could get down in Mexico for awhile. But they won't permit it still, on account of the riot. But if I could just get down there a little while with Little Joe, or somebody here, who could interpret it for me, and I could just stay a little while. Oh, my. I believe God would turn the nation upside down. I believe it, 'cause they're... The Catholic people are taught to... Is there a Catholic in the building? Let's see your hand if so. Sure, there they are, plenty. Now, watch. Fine. Catholic is taught to believe what his priest says is right. Is that right, friends, Catholics. I know. I... My people were Catholic, was born...
Now, notice. Listen to this. You see, the protestants just believe it. Yes. If they don't believe in this church, they'll go over to that one. But Catholic, as long as he's a Catholic, he has to stay... Now, here. They're taught to believe. They believe Divine healing. And here, they're taught to believe a man, to believe what he says is true. Therefore, when they come, and I tell them this, and they see a set of cross-eyes straightened, or deaf ears opened, they know that has to come from God, and they'll believe it. They'll just sometimes fall prostrate right at this, to your feet like that. You never see them come by humbly and appreciative. Oh, my, that's where God moves, right in that channel. It's wonderful, isn't it? Certainly. God is making up His jewel. You understand what I'm speaking of.
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Now, shall we bow our heads now for prayer. Father, realizing that I be afraid to step into this realm now, without You would hold my hand... Now, my mind is going back to around two years ago, when in the room that night, that Angel of God came walking in there and said, "You are--been borned in this world to take a gift of Divine healing to the people. Many will not believe you; yet many will. If you'll be sincere and will get the people to believe you, not even
cancer shall stand before your prayer." Angel of God, I do not see You. But I know that You are standing near. Please, Thou knowest my heart, and know how I love these people. Stand by me tonight. And may not one go through without faith. And I know that Your Words have been true. I've took You at Your Word, for You said You were sent from God. I believed You. And You've stuck by me. You have confirmed the Word with signs following. Now, again tonight, in this March the fifth, this Memorial night, may You stand now and heal every one. Grant it. May every demon be submissive to the Name of Jesus Christ. And now, Father, I step out here in this realm of Spirit faith, challenging every demon that's here in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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Here's a little deaf boy standing. Vibration plugs on his ears, born that way. Now, remember, the little fellow don't know what hearing is. There it is, moving. Now, how many believes now. 'Course, the first one stepping right here to be a miracle. Now, stands the One Who talked to me. I felt It just then. I feel It now. If I'm not telling true, God is my Judge. The One Who spoke to me in the night, that night in the room, said, "When you feel this feeling (like I feel now), I will be standing by your side." He's here. How many believes that I was sent to do this? Now, will you please, do not raise your head until you hear my voice on this microphone say, "Raise your head." That's inside, outside, 'cause you're... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Work on the little boy.
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We was looking at her little leg there, Brother Joey and I, how she'd move her little leg like that, just before prayer. And then in a few moments when that pressure left the little thing, they walked off like any other little girl...?...
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Thank you, Brother...?... That's the way I love you too. [How many loves Brother Branham, let's see your hands?--Ed.] Oh, thank you much, and it's mutual I'm sure between us all. Shall we bow our heads now while we talk to Him Who we all love, our Lord Jesus. Our heavenly Father, we're very thankful to Thee this evening, for the love of Thy Son Jesus that's shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. His Presence already has met us here and we're so happy. And we're looking forward to Him tonight, that He will just make us so full of His joy tonight, that we'll lose sight of all of the things that is wrong. Grant tonight, that if there be sinners in the building, that they will not go over the threshold this building, till first giving their hearts to Thee for service. Bless, Lord, those who are suffering bodily. O God, there's many here that our beloved physicians of this earth have tried so hard, working day and night to try to save their life, but seemingly, that the enemy is determined to take their life. And they're here tonight, Lord, knowing this is their last resource to results, resort to is to Thee. O Father, I'm sure, with Divine faith, You will not disappoint anyone. We pray that everyone will be healed tonight. Father, I pray Thee, that this will be the breaking forth of the revival, that the people here has long days ago sowed the seed.
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And I pray, Father, also, that there'll be a great union, a revival where all Thy people shall come together in heavenly places. And may the things that's been placed years ago by Your holy prophets, may it come to pass here. I pray, Father, that You'll hear the voice of Thy servant. Bless all that's here tonight, all the Christians. And, Father, we thank Thee for the deacons, for the co-workers, for all that's gathered tonight, may we say when we leave, "Did not our hearts burn within us because the Presence of the Son of God." We thank You for Your great power that just healed a Ethiopian girl laying there just a few moments ago suffering beyond measure. Passing by, saying, "Just lay your hands here, Brother Branham." And immediately, Lord, You healed her, and now she's rejoicing, once suffering and now free. How we thank Thee. And now, Lord, I pray that that'll be the experience of many, many others in the building tonight, for we ask it for God's glory in the Name of His holy Son, Jesus. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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... fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases... torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those which had palsy, and he
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healed them. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amen. Now, this second stay here in the city of Zion, has just brought me to know you more and to think more of you; and I apprec... and want to thank you for everything that you have done. You've been so kind, lending your support for the service, and I thank you each and all.
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Now, tomorrow morning, the Lord willing, I have to go to my home, and then begin in Fort Wayne right away. Then down into Jonesboro, Arkansas, then to Shreveport, Louisiana, then to Dallas, and back up across the waters here to Flint, Michigan, and then from Flint, I go to Tacoma, to Bellingham. And then from Bellingham, we go into Canada, and across Canada, and then over the seas to over in Finland and the Scandinavian countries. And I certainly, with a sincere heart, I say this: that I covet the prayers of you people here. For it was your prayers that turned me from St. Louis to come back. And God hears your prayers. And I wonder if you all will just promise me that you'll pray for me, to hold up and be at my best for the service for the Lord Jesus. Will you promise me? [Congregation says, "Amen!"--Ed.] Thank you. And I shall rely on that, and I will be praying for you. And I trust that the great revival, that you've looked forward to so long will soon come to your city.
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Just recently, this afternoon, one of the brothers that's on the platform now, handed me a letter from a lady, said... A very saintly looking, motherly lady, aged, was standing in the hotel lobby, said, "Give this personally to Brother Branham." She was acquainted, of your, our great renowned brother that's--that's sleeping tonight, no, not sleeping (his body is); his soul's with Jesus: Doctor Alexander Dowie. "And forty years before... When he died, he prophesied," she said. He said, "It'll be forty years after my death, that this city shall go on the rock, but after that forty years there'll come a revival, that'll be more glorious than it was in the first place." And I have the writings here in--in--in just in part that I might read there. It's kinda... "Doctor Dowie prophesied that some forty years after his death, that the churches would be restored in more power and glory than they were in--in the former." "He said that in the meantime the churches, and the church and the town would go to the rock, and the glorious truths would be trampled in the dust and spoke that; but after forty years, he said, that there would come a revival that would make the city more glorious than at ever."

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Now, I believe the revival spirit is in the city now. And dear friends, I'm leaving you, and I don't know when I can get back. I hope to come someday again to you. But I hope that I hear this: I trust to God, that an old fashion revival has come into your city. It's on right now; if you'll just keep it going. I pray that your--your founders here, and your pastors will be one heart and one accord, and set an old fashion revival here that people will come from the east and the west. They come into Zion again for--for the glorious Gospel of Christ. I believe we are living in the latter time. Now, I...?... do not want any of you go away and say that Brother Branham said that--that Jesus would be here in a certain amount of time. I do not know. But I believe, as far as I know the Scriptures, that something's got to happen soon. The world's in a terrible condition.
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And I was just thinking a few moments ago upon the subject of science. And I, just thinking of how that science, how they are taking the natural man and how he's went into the research from the fall of the natural and what he has done. And how little the spiritual man has progressed in the Kingdom of God. And I was thinking that the natural man went out at the unseen of his eye and pulled an atom down out of the sky, and split that atom in two that destroys human life. And if the natural man that knows nothing of God and cannot know nothing of God except he be converted, then his soul becomes alive with the supernatural... If he could do that in the natural realm, what ought the man of God to be doing? My, my. Friends the church is so far behind. Let's pray, my that God will move His church up. They--the natural man with the natural resource is getting greater results than people are that calls themself Christian. Let's press into the unseen. The blessings are yours; they're for you.
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Now, in these meetings I do not wish to--that anyone would miss--be misinformed. I do not take--try to take the place of a medical doctor. This is not Mayo Clinic. This is the house of prayer. When medical doctors, God put them here; they're doing a good job. But medical doctors does not claim to heal you, friend. They claim to assist nature with operations, and surgeries, and with medical remedies which is an aid to nature. But nature has to do the healing, and nature is God. God is nature. Now, therefore, we salute the doctor for his--how progressive he is, and how he has broke out into them realms and finding things to aid
humanity. But now the time has come until seemingly many things, the sickness is heaping on every side. And I wish to make this statement also: that these things that I claim of praying for the sick, I do not claim to do one thing myself. I have no power within myself to do anything; I'm just a man, unlearned, uneducated, but I am sure that my testimony is right. That truly a supernatural Being came to me and made these statements, and I have not been disobedient to the heavenly vision.
I've carried it the best of my knowledge. And anyone that ought to know that a man that as unequipped and uneducated, I have nothing I could present to the people. No education, I'm not a preacher; I have not even a personality to give to the people. And to see that since it's been spoke of, that it's swayed out into every nation under the heavens. Will be three years, the seventh of May. Therefore, it shows that there's some supernatural power moving with that works. And each night, I believe if the person just did not want to be critical, would see that there is something besides human effort taking place at the platform. And I leave that entirely to the audience to judge. Now, if you do not understand those things, I--I would not criticize it. If you--if you'd criticize it... I--I'd rather be silent. If I really...?... didn't even believe it but seeing some supernatural moving, I would rather just keep silent and keep my record clear with the Almighty, wouldn't you? And...
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Because, remember, if you're here from different churches, no doubt, you are; some of them don't even believe in Divine Presence...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] never be forgiven. And Christian friends and sinner friend also, lawyers, doctors, whoever you are, I wish to say this also, that there has been much mockery in the name of Divine healing. There's been much mockery in every phase of religion, but there is a real--real power of the Holy Spirit that delivers the human being from the bondage of sin. There's a real power of the Holy Spirit that delivers the sufferer from his suffering. And I do not see how that clergy could say and could preach the Gospel without including Divine healing in the atonement, because "He was wounded for our transgressions; and with His stripes we are healed."
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If you take away one, it is the same Blood from the same Man on the same day. Is that right? It's an act of faith heals you. That's what Jesus Christ your Master, that each knee in here will bow before
someday and give an account for every word... Is that right? He'll... He was the One who made that statement, that it is, "If thou canst believe..." It's an act of faith. Act of faith on salvation will change a prostitute, a drunkard to a lady or a gentleman. Isn't that right? To...?... It will change a cancer-eaten person, when a lovely doctor has done all he could do and burnt with radium and x-ray and everything; it'll bring that person to normal health again. Dear friends, God Who is my Judge, Who I stand before, knows that's just a true statement and hundreds of them...?... that is true. So, if you do not believe it, I would not condemn anything that was trying to help humanity, would you? Now no, it's not a financial affair with me and you all know that. You know my home, or you can check behind us anywhere you wish to go; it is not...
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When I was a minister, a Baptist preacher in my church for twelve years, I never even received one red penny of salary. I never tried to take but one offering in my entire life. And that was when I got up against it once and was going... I had... I just couldn't make ends meet. And I told the wife I was going to pass the hat in the church for an offering. When I seen some poor little woman, about four or five rows out from me, reach down, get a little pocketbook, and begin to fool around with pennies and nickels in there... Bless her heart, she'd give me everything she had. I told the audience I was just kidding then; I didn't mean that. See? Because I could not... I would've felt guilty of taking that poor old mother's money. In here of course, there's large sums of money offered to me. Not long ago in California, some of the Armenian people, who had all sold out of their winery and things, sent me a check--a check that amounted to more than a million dollars. And I wouldn't even put my hands upon it. I sent them back. I'd rather be poor and live in a shack and have favor with God, and the feeling that I had the satisfaction I love Him, than all the wealth the world owns. And when one of those little cross-eyed children, and their eyes are straightened... That poor old mother done crippled up, for her to be healed, that means more than all the money the world has. And it's no charges; it's absolutely free. I have nothing to do with it. I'm just trying to make my body an instrument to help other people.
I want... That's my--been my attitude all along, and I want to go out of this world with that same attitude, knowing that someday, I shall receive a reward, if I can only be faithful until that time when the rewards are given. I trust to meet every one of you in a better world someday where there is no sickness, sorrow, or heartache, no disappointments. I trust that when the big wedding supper is set in
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heaven, I trust that every one of you in this building tonight will be present there with your offsprings with you. I want to be there too; I want... I know I'll have a little girl there and a beloved wife who's passed beyond the veil. And I have two children at home; I want them to be there also. Last evening... I wonder how many is present, about the lady setting here on... She, coming by the platform; she had a little old child, that was physically cross-eyed. Sometimes we wonder about a line up there. Have you all remembered in the first of the meetings there is no miracles performed, most of them that is...
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Now, remember, I do not say I'm a miracle worker; I do not, friends. This is just a gift to discern diseases; that's all. Your faith's what works the miracle. Not... See, your faith in what I have said, brings forth the miracle. This lady brought the little baby by, and she said... The little thing being cross-eyed, I laid my hands upon it, and I just asked God to bless it. And she said, "Brother Branham, just hold the baby just a little while." Here's what it is friends.
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All things that are done in the line of miracles, that I know of, I foresee them before they happen. How many of you, you remember me telling you that? In my hotel room, when I'm in prayer, I send the manager over here, knowing no one, "Go over, and you'll find a woman in a certain position; you'll find a man looking a certain way, and this baby it'll be in a certain... It may be a dozen babies like that, but it's dressed in this way... I'll see that first. It's shown to me first. And then they line those people to the platform, and I've never seen it fail in my life. That's right. And that's where the A cards and C cards and so forth are given.
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Now, I haven't... Now, to you who say, "Is that Scriptural?" All right, Saint John the 5th chapter: Jesus the Son of God passed by the pool of Bethesda, where great multitudes of people were laying afflicted, halt, lame, blind. You remember the story? And there was one man had an infirmity, not crippled or blind. He had an infirmity for thirty and eight years, and Jesus went by and He healed that man: Saint John 5. In the 19th verse of the same chapter here He--what He's, when the Jews was in questioning, having questions, He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth He likewise." Is that right? It's always foreseen. That's Divine gifts, friend, when something is foreseen.
People, be in prayer.
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There's only one mistake that I've seen in the entire meetings that I made, that I'm sorry for. That was the lady that set in a wheelchair here the other night. I was definitely sure. I don't know what happened to her; I haven't seen her back since, that there was the time. But two more women was setting by her in wheelchairs. If I'd asked for that one to be set up on the platform, it would've showed a respect of person, and I thought the people...?... When the woman, she was the one that God was speaking to...?... I promised the Lord I would never do that no more. However, the little lady that passed by with the baby, that I'll continue to tell. I said, "Walk over and sit down." And then, if you will believe this to be the truth, sister, with all your heart, don't doubt at all, just believe that the blessings of God is pronounced upon the baby, and it will get well. For your baby's eye's crossed. I wanted to do that, that the people here in the audience, if you had to pass through a--a line just passing by... You'll be healed there just the same as anywhere. That is true. If your faith is strong enough to throw yourself into the vision, it can be for you. If not, it isn't.
And the lady walked over there and set down. I was very tired that night, been, stayed so long with you. And after the service... And last night she came back and was setting in the back of the building with the little child, still cross-eyed, but still believing. And while I was in prayer here at the altar, a-praying for the sick, she was playing with the baby and both eyes of the baby came normal. Amen. I wonder if the lady's in the building tonight with the child.
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Our thanks to our sister... Now, she just touched what I told her to be the truth. I believe this, friends. If you pass through tonight, if you come through the line, just go on and believe. If you will believe it, only thing I have is the Word of God. And this One Who talked to me, He said, "If you (that's me) will be sincere and will get the people to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even to cancer." Now, that is true, friends. And that... If that little baby's eyes could come straight, just passing through and laying hands on the child... The mother confirms, you might talk to her if you wish to; she believed it with all of her heart. She's setting there waiting. If it'd taken six weeks, she'd have still believed it. And the baby's eyes would've been all right. You believe that?
Sometimes when God shows me something to do, I can do it. And then... As far as diagnosis, that is when the Angel of God is near; that's positive all the time. See? That's the phenomenal such things as miracles. I have to see it first before it happens. God be with you all. And I hope that someday we meet again. I hope that I can come back to your city and have a great revival. And I thank all the ushers, to the ministers, the newspaper, the mayor of the city. And I believe the mayor of the city is someone who wanted to come to the platform tonight to see a case diagnosed. Well, that is certainly your privilege to that. I'd be glad to do that. [Brother Branham coughs.-Ed.] (Pardon me.)
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And now, at any time that I can be of a favor to you, you all have my address about sending for anointed handkerchiefs and so forth, do you? If you don't just write William Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana, Post Office Box 325, or if you can't think of it, just write William Branham. It'll come to me; I'll be glad to help you in any way that I can. So God bless you all now, while we bow our heads for prayer again before we have this line starting here. Can you hear me in the basement? I forgotten to come down to speak with you tonight. Just in a few moments, I'll take a moment's rest, and I'll be down to see you.
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Our heavenly Father, tonight we pray that this will be a glorious time. May Your Angel of healing, of mercy, the Presence of the Lord Jesus be in the building so gently. And may it be tonight one of the greatest nights of all yet, Lord, here in Zion. God bless the very ground that this city sits on. Bless all of these dear people, Lord. I never quite seen such in any city before. Somehow, Lord, I believe that the prophecy of Your servant who's been gone some forty years will surely come; may there come a revival throughout the entire city, Lord, sweeping across the nation and this city once more. Bless us tonight now, and may Thy servant be anointed with such of Thy Presence that everyone passing by might be healed. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen.
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you to meet my Canadian manager anyhow. This is Reverend Ern Baxter from British Columbia, which will be in the Canadian meetings, seeing that it's to go across Canada and overseas. All right, Brother Baxter. [Brother Baxter speaks and leads in "Only Believe."--Ed.] I was just going down the steps, and a man met me out there. He
said, "Brother Branham," said, "I'll always be grateful to you. My..." said, "I wished I could be with you all the time." I don't want to talk about that. My, that just kills me nearly to leave good friends. Said, "My daughter was healed of epilepsy." His wife, oh, I forget what she was healed with. But oh, I want it to be so much different. Oh, I...?... That's just--that's worth more to me than all the money that's in the world: Epilepsy gone from his daughter...?... Home is different now, isn't it? When Jesus comes... God is our great Healer; He's the One Who does all things well.
Now, if there's someone here... I have to make this statement each night, friends. If there's someone here that doesn't believe and just a little bit skeptic, just remember now, I will not be responsible for what happens to that individual during the meetings, because these things come from one to the other. Everyone bear me witness down there, I say that statement: you should leave and not stay in the building. You will have to remain with your head bowed. And you not only do that, you do with the audience. Now, if you're a Christian, I'm sure you'll cooperate. Now, the people downstairs, I went down there and there's just almost as many there as there is in here, just a lovely audience. And those people down there in that basement, listening in the service... Just tell me that the love of God don't bring people to the Lord. See, they're setting there. They've never seen one thing happen. They're not even in the meeting, but they're just keeping just as quiet... A platform, pulpit, just enough down there to have a prayer group. Just a good crowd out amongst the people. They're setting there just as reverent and lovely as they can be. And I'd imagine even when were praying they bow their heads; they're just that type of people. Down in the basement, you just be in prayer also, and loan your strength, to me with all your hearts now, while we pray.
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Now, they're going to be praying, while we're praying. Here sister...?... Your trouble's in your back, sir. That true? You got...?... tumor there. How long you been that way?...?... deliver...?... complications cause you to be nervous. Those things true? Now, you're a stranger to me...?... But do you believe now...?... 'Course it's been thirty years you've tried and no doubt that many fine medical doctors and so forth has tried to help you. They just done all they knowed how to do. And everybody likes you, everybody wants to do for you what they can. And they have done pretty near...?... but they can't, that's as far as they can go. But now you come to the Lord Jesus to heal you, come confessing your faith in Him and believe that He will heal you.
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Our heavenly Father, we love You so tonight, and--and we believe that Thou art now near to make whole our brother, breaking forth into the power of the enemy that has bound him and make him anew after practically all of his life he's been bound by the power of the enemy. And this has been tested by many doctors, and yet cannot help the man any. And he comes tonight, Father, to try his faith in Thee. And we are taught in the Scripture that the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much, like Elijah. And we realize that we're not righteous; but Thou art righteous. And with all my heart, I ask for mercy for this man. Lord, we thank You for every effort's been put forth for to spare him, but it's failed. We thank You for the men that did it, that tried, but now, Father, let Thy power of healing be known to our brother. I rebuke this demon power which is unseen to the medical eye. I rebuke it in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Leave the man, come out from him...?... Now, you...?... All right, you can raise your head, audience. The man is healed. What? Let... He wants to...?... yourself over brother. Feel all right now, raise your hands up...?... All right...?... Now, just everyone bow your head, or, just come woman, she wanted to go...?... Bring your patient.
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on her face that's eating her up. Fact is, good part her face is already gone from a cancer. 'Course, sister dear, you realize that life is very short for you if something isn't done, if it isn't dried by God. Where do you live at? Zion? You live here in the city. Do you believe if I'll ask Jesus, that you'll get well? You know you will. All right, that's quite a faith. Now, I want everyone to be reverent and in prayer. Our Father dear, I realize that our sister here, beloved to Thee, is dying. A hideous cancer is eating off her face, and it's seemingly, that nothing will stop it. You alone, Lord, can do this. And wouldn't it be wonderful, Father, we just would--just appreciate this so much if You would heal the woman tonight. Maybe this is why You turned me back, maybe for this person here, that it might cause a testimony through Zion here. You Who healed the blind, and made them see, in the city here, been blind for many years. You Who taken the little twisted children and brought them into a normal condition. Thou art here tonight to heal our sister [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Do you
believe? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Do you believe now with all your heart? It might seem just a little too much for you to believe, friend, but since prayer, you who knew the woman, the cancer seems to be drying on her face. It's already...?... God bless you. Let me hear from you. Now, you can raise your heads if you desire now...?... Look at her face. Look this way, sister. That dark... Let's just say, "Thank the Lord for her." How many knows the lady? All right. Watch her just for a few days. God be with you, sister...?... She's testifying the glory of God.
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All right. Now, every one be reverent. Come forward. The patient, don't have anything in your right hand for about two or three minutes 'fore you're prayed for through here. Here... No, though here. Take your handkerchief out. Hold your hand. Everyone just-just be reverent now and in prayer; let's see your hand just a second. If you have anything in your hand. Yes, stomach trouble. Isn't that right? You have a female trouble also, standing and so forth. You have a gallbladder disorder also. Yes, ma'am. Of course, you've been in the meetings and have seen the vibrations and so forth, know what I'm speaking. All right, you believe with all your heart? But now, you know that... See, you're a stranger to...?... and there's some way I have of knowing that. Do you confess and believe that it is the Lord Jesus Christ, the gift that He sent to poor suffering humanity? All right.
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Now, that... Can you see those places on my hand. That's what we call vibration. Now, that's the name that I give it. It just feels like my hand getting numb. See how it looks? Now take my hand off of yours; I'll put my own hand on. Doesn't look like that now. I'll put Mr. Baxter's hand on it; still doesn't look that way. Now, put your hand right back here again. There they are. See those little white things running over my hand? That's how I knew what was wrong with you. Now, if you will believe with all your heart... All right, you know that. Please bow your head everywhere. Father, Who brought again the Lord Jesus to Life, though all the world seems to be so modernistic, and the--they're going, Lord, to knowledge instead of just a simple faith in God. We realize that in the garden of Eden when they tasted the tree of knowledge, they broke off relationship with the Tree of Life. And since then man has went after knowledge and destroys himself every time he bites from the tree: gun powder, automobiles, and now an atomic bomb. Knowledge, knowledge... Truly the prophet Daniel said, "They'll run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." But back tonight to a
blackness of two thousand years past, to faith in the Lord Jesus, ministered by a gift of healing by an Angel. Thou demon that's bound this woman's body, I adjure thee by the Son of God, that you leave the woman. Come out of her.
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'Course, sister, you're watching and it never changed a bit. It's still there. Now, I am not the healer. The Lord is the Healer, but this...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and the Scripture says in three witnesses...?... Father, be merciful to our sister. And the power of the enemy that has bound her life, come to take her life... Thou art here to help her. Thou demon, I adjure thee by the Son of God, Jesus Christ, to leave the woman. Now, there... Now, you're looking, and see for yourself. Is the hand in the same position, but it's changing; those little white things running over my hand, have stopped, haven't they? Speak out sister. [The sister says, "Yes, they do..."--Ed.] My hand has gone back to a normal looking hand, is that true? Ma'am? ["Yes they're gone."--Ed] All right. Something has happened, hasn't it? Now, audience you may raise up your head. Something happened to the lady. Now, there's three witnesses for you. What do you think is going--happening? You think you'll--you're healed? Ma'am? ["Going to go back a well woman."--Ed.] Go back a well woman. Where are you from? Tennessee, Cleveland, Tennessee? Well, God bless you, sister; you can go on your road rejoicing then. All right.
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Bow your head every one now. Be in prayer, all of you. Bring your--your patient...?... Look here, friend. Just a minute...?... Oh, this little boy is afflicted. That's because he had polio...?... Is that what makes him walk like that?...?... Spastic. All right. Now, do you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ can make this little boy to walk normally? You do? Oh, he... All right. I want you to believe with all your heart now. Now, the little boy is--doesn't speak, or hear, or walk right. He doesn't walk right. He just swings his little body kind of in a, oh, weaving condition. Now, I do not know how long it will take to pray for the little boy, but I want everyone to just be as reverent as you can. And if anyone should raise their head... This is not psychology now. Don't get that. If it is, Jesus Christ used it too. He put the people out of the place, out of the house. If that is the Bible truth, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Yes, He did. So did the apostle Peter. Now, I'm trusting that you will keep your head bowed until you hear my voice say, "Raise your head."
Heavenly Father, in love and mercy I come to Thee for a deaf, dumb, crippled little boy. What a pity, this mother, her darling baby... "Doctors," she said, "tried so hard." Human efforts seem to fail to rid the little boy of the cause. Give him hearing, and speech, and right control of his little body, that he staggered between the people that led him here tonight. But Thou art here to heal him, Father. And I pray that You grant this blessing tonight for the little boy. Hear the prayer of Your servant, Lord. Thou, demon, that has bound this little boy, making him deaf, dumb, and crippled, I adjure thee by the Son of God, leave the child. Come out from him. Friends, you'll have to keep your head bowed. As I raised my head, at least two dozen cold waves of vibration struck across me...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Thy glorious hand before the people, if they can only have in You faith and obey You. I pray Thee, heal this little boy. Give Thy servant power of faith to make this evil spirit that's closed the ears to speech, and his little crippled body...?... Thou, demon, come out of the boy in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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Hear me? Keep your head bowed everywhere. Pressure of spirit in that little...?... Say, "Mama." Say, "Mama," [The little boy says, "Say, Mama."--Ed.] Be reverent...?... "Daddy." [He says, "Daddy."--Ed.] He hears me perfectly speaking behind him perfectly. Jesus, Jesus. [He says, "Jesus."--Ed.] "Amen." [He says, "Amen."--Ed.] Keep your head bowed now. He's hearing and speaking to me. Now, just a moment 'fore we...?... Little boy, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has healed you. Now, you come walking to me. Just let your little arms drop and come walking to me. Want you to stoop over like this real low, get down. Now, raise back up. Hold your hands steady. Keep walking. Put your head down; you're sure to throw it back on the child. Keep your head bowed...?... Now...?... Look up this way...?... Amen. ["Amen."--Ed.] "Mama." ["Mama."--Ed.] "Hear me?" ["Hear me?"--Ed.] Now, walk again, in the name of the Lord Jesus. Straighten your little shoulders up straight like a little man. That's right. Now, praise the Lord. Keep your head bowed everywhere--everywhere. There he comes straight. Keep your head bowed...?... Now you can look up over... Amen. Straighten his little shoulders up, real straight like a little man.
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or...?... God can heal you. Keep your head bowed...?... This is a case of mental deficiency. All right, everyone bow your head now. Mother, do you believe that the Lord Jesus can give your little girl back to you normal again? Back to a normal child? Now, this when... Everyone must keep your head bowed. This is demon power that struck the child, come on it suddenly. Six years ago it come upon the little thing suddenly. It's afflicted her; she can't balance herself...?... Very pretty little girl that...?... How old is she, mother? About two years old...?... Now, she won't hardly know. You'll have to kinda pack her, and teach her to walk over...?... It's taken from that possibility of feeling like... We trust that it'll leave her in a few moments. Everyone be reverent. Father, that made heavens and earth, send Thy blessings upon the little girl. Satan has did this evil to her...?... but Thou art here to make her well. Thou demon, we adjure thee by Jesus the Son of God, to leave the child. Come out of her Satan. Thou demon, come out from the child; in the Name of Jesus Christ I adjure thee, leave the girl...?... Come here. Every head bowed everywhere...?... What's her name? What's her name? Nancy? Nancy, how are you? The girl is healed.. She's just all smiles now. She knows that she's healed...?... You love Jesus? Love Jesus, Nancy? All raise up so you can see. Let's say, "Praise the Lord" for the little...?... Lord bless you...?... We're thankful. She's going to be all right now. Mental deficiency... Just as sure as anything, the child's healed; the mind of the child will be all right. Look at her noticing things. Nancy? Nancy? Do you hear me? Praise the Lord. Mother, just write a little old testimony if you will. God bless you, sister. Just tremendous faith.
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Bring the next patient. All right. Bring the little girl. How do you do? Now, everyone bow your head. The little girl, cross-eyed and has lumps on her feet. Heavenly Father, You Who made heavens and earth, bless this little girl who I bless in Thy Name, standing tonight, waiting for Your glory to be made known to her. Oh, how we love You, Lord Jesus. And we pray that You will heal, that You will heal these eyes. Thou art here...
Everyone be reverent. This is the first night of the meeting I have discerned one person that was an unbelieving, but there is one in our midst tonight. That's right. And it makes it awfully hard on me. I would... Sir, you--you'd be better off to help the meeting...?... to be
together. You're hindering. Makes it awfully hard. One unbelieving spirit... You got to be in unity. It's making it very hard...?... [A brother
says, "Everyone now stand by in prayer. Will you cooperate with the brother as he ministers to this child?"--Ed.] That's right. Amen.
Heavenly Father, be merciful to our little sister. And grant, Lord, the healing of her eyes and her little feet. Thou art here to make her every whit whole. Now, I pray that You'll grant it, Lord. Thou demon, I adjure thee by the Son of God, leave the girl, come out from her. Keep your eyes closed, honey, till I say. Now, open your eyes slow...?... Almighty God, the Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the little girl. Thou demon, I come to meet thee in this duel of faith. I adjure thee, through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, leave this child. Come out of her. Keep your heads bowed just a moment, please. Something's happening. Now, keep your little head down. Now, raise it this way. Now, look this way. Come here...?... Oh...?... to the child... You may raise your head. The little girl is healed: both feet and eyes. Now, look this way, honey. The audience can see. Look right straight at that...?... Look over there. Look up this way, right straight ahead...?... There's her little feet that they said had bumps on them. They're-they're just as perfect as they can be. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everyone. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
...?... Ask you before if it's your--it's your eyes. All right. Do you believe that God will do this for you, brother? I seen you had a little...?... Sorry, rather, causing you...?... hurt your back. Prostate also. It makes you nervous; isn't that true? How long have you been that way, brother? You was born that way. All right, you bow your head...?... You was born cross-eyed also. Almighty God, the Author of Life, send Thy blessings upon the man and heal him tonight. I pray Thee, Lord, show mercy to the man, and may faith now rise into the building, into the people that they might believe on Thee with all their hearts. Thou demon, I adjure thee, by Jesus the Son of God, that you leave this man...?... Keep heads bow down; everyone reverent...?... Yes... Where you live at, sir? Washington. Your eyes are bad, you know. Yes. Yes, sir: they're forming like...?... Just have faith now. We shall ask the Lord Jesus once more. Very fine man, tears dropping off his cheeks, standing there, he realizes the great Presence of the Almighty. Almighty God, Who is hovering on this--this platform tonight, we pray that You'll be merciful to this man. Grant the desire of his heart
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tonight, that those crossed eyes might come into their normal place again. Since birth he's been this way, Father. Thou can straighten his eyes even now. I pray that You grant this blessing, and may the man be healed of these infirmities also, for I rebuke the power of the enemy that's holding him, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. Every eye closed. Now, the vibration from his back trouble, the prostate gland was swollen, and that's stopped. Now, for the eyes, of course, that's not a germ disease or infection. Every eye closed now. Don't doubt. Keep your eyes closed yourself until you... Look right at me...?... How long ago?...?... Doesn't matter, glass or not... You won't even need them. As your glasses? Your eyes are straight. You may go home now, rejoicing and praising God. Raise your head, audience. There's the man. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody...?... Everybody... Praise the Lord, everybody. Everybody bow your head everywhere. Keep your head bowed...?... Hay fever is not a disease, that's the reason I said keep believing, throat bigger than the skin in their nose...?... have a physical vibration...?... But I could pick up a vibration on the child's hand...?...
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Brother Graham, thank you. Good morning, everyone, and a merry Christmas to all of you. We're so happy to be back again this morning here at the Tabernacle to be with this lovely little group. Brother Graham and I were just discussing in there a matter. He said, "Brother Bill, you got anything on your heart this morning?" I said, "Just Christ." Amen. That's all. We always have that. And so that's in common to us, that we have Him.
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Got in late yesterday from Dallas where we had a--one of the most glorious meetings. And the thing we been praying for now is fixing to happen. It's already in session right now; that is, for a nationwide revival. All the ministers yesterday, the--or the last few days, that's had any size and caliber of ministers or services, we met together at--at Dallas for this convention. And there was some fifteen, eighteen ministers there that--that has a ministry that carries up anywhere between three and fifteen thousand, maybe twenty thousand people: Raymond T. Richey, for instance, and Bosworth, and--and Oral Roberts, and Jackson, and all those fellows there. Brother Jackson, the other night in his meeting had five hundred receive the Holy Ghost at one time, so that's just wonderful.
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Yes, sir, I... Yes, Brother Graham. That's the thing that I always... Good. You know, Brother Graham and I work together so well; he's so tall and I'm so short. So I... [Brother Snelling says, "He picks the low fruit, and I get all the high fruit." Brother Branham and congregation laugh--Ed.] Sometimes I have to have him shake some down so it'll fall... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
Thank you, Brother Graham. I still haven't figured that out...?... the fire. We want it on the altar, don't we? Amen. Oh, I guess... The other night where we were setting, thousands deep in there, and all of them clapping their hands and praising God, we just had such a glorious time, we had Fire right on the altar then.
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Tried to have a--all of us have a prayer line down there, but we just couldn't do it; one minister at one place, and one another in the prayer line, but, my, it just wouldn't work that way, and just Brother Jaggers had to go ahead. And, say, another thing I want to announce. Brother Jaggers stood and took the stand like we did at Calgary. He... The Missionary Baptists and the Free Will Baptists, and all (You know, Texas is full of
Baptists.), they stood for him, but the fundamental Baptists rose up against the--the program. And, oh, how they wrote him up in the paper and everything. Well, he, they wrote him Bible questions, so he answered back. And they got a... After they had no proof, then some bunch of political stand, why, they wouldn't put it in the paper. So Brother Jaggers, we called a meeting there, and seventy-five cooperating ministers of the city came in together; we took a photostatic copy of it, and said, "Is this freedom of speech? Is this freedom of press?" Like that, and sent it out. And the paper lost ten thousand subscribers the next morning. And they come, crying, on their knees, said, "We'll publish in the paper, just freely, you don't have to pay us a penny."
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Oh, brother, listen, you church. One time we lived down by the railroad track; we don't no more. We live on Hallelujah Avenue now. Yes, sir. We rank into the millions. We used to be, there was only a few hundred of us, but we go into the millions, millions now. And united together, we're the most powerful church in numbers there is in the United States (That's right.), oh, I guess, in the world. Last year, alone, we had a million five hundred thousand conversions. Think of that: a million five hundred thousand conversions in full Gospel people, that is, with the general order last year. Oh, we're coming up now.
And these little papers and things they said, they wouldn't talk about the Catholic people, they were afraid of them. See, they were afraid to do it. But we're numbering right on up there now. We got a right. Let's claim our God-given right. That's right. So we're going forward this year, and with God to be our Help and our Shield, to call the--try our best to have a revival, Now I... [Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Oh, up here? You all will have to tell me when to stop. Up there, right up there. All right. I can walk out this way and look back.
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And so good, how many feels good for Christmas? Say, "Amen." Oh, my, my. This is a time of rejoicing, a time of when all of us can come together and worship Christ. And I--I don't, haven't got a message, not a thing. I just opened up the Bible here when you was talking there. I turned over here; I said, "Where's the birth of Christ?" Nearly everybody is talking about that now, and so I'll just have to read a little while, and then find something, and just keep staggering along till the Spirit of the Lord picks up something. Now, to start, let's begin at Luke, the 1st chapter of Luke. That's the beginning of the--the birth of Christ. And we'll read some in here, and
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just teach some on the Word if we can. We don't know what the Lord will do for us, but we just trust that He'll give us a great blessing.
Say, I heard your broadcast; it was fine. Just keep a going, keep a going, preach the Word. Just telling Brother Graham in there, "If there ever was a time that Christians need one another, it's right now, right now." Whatever you do, lay aside everything; 'cause I believe, by the grace of God... I'll just talk on that a little bit in a few minutes, that how we--we need each other right now. The great... I believe that we are facing... Are you listening to me? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. We're facing, now, looking at a greatest drama that's ever been set in all human history, working out here before us. The great field of the world here, and a drama that God is going to act out, right now; that it's a startling to look around over the world and see how the thing is moving together. Oh, it's just something's fixing to happen, friend. This what we've talked about and said about is right now here. It's already starting, everywhere, breaking out.
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There's a great picture I'd like to picture to you this morning. I see a lamb out in the field a feeding. The little fellow becomes nervous; he just--he wonders. Look over in the reeds right behind him, I see a lion slipping up, real easy (see?), patting his tail on the ground, getting his feet ready for a spring. That's the church out there in the field. The darkness of communism is pushing all over the world, closing in like a great shadow. And this is the law of contrast. Take like before day, it's always the darkest before day, because the day's a breaking, pushing the darkness. It's the law of contrast (You see?), makes it the darkest before the day breaks.
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And we're in that same thing now. It's just the darkest before day; the great shadows of darkness is pushing in to fulfill the man of sin. Did you notice, in this very Christmas-time, all the communist countries are, instead of sending out Christ in the manger, they sent out little books of Stalin, putting Stalin's picture on it; the man who opposes himself above all that's called God, so forth, getting a great part of the world into his clutches. And another thing then, and all these, that's to fulfill the Scripture.
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And then, again, I want you to notice another thing, one of the fulfilling. These people who are formal in these formal churches, is rising up against the move. And the Bible said, "They'd have a form
of godliness, but would deny the power thereof; from such turn away." And they're taking their stand. Communism is taking its stand. Praise God, the Holy Ghost is taking Its stand. Yes. "When the enemy comes in like a flood, then I'll raise up a standard against it." That's right. And the Church has taken her stand, I mean the Holy Ghost Church. Now that's all I'm interested in, friends, when I'm here. Out there I'll pray for the sick. But in here I'm interested in one thing, and that's God's born again Church. That's right. That's what I'm interested in anyhow. I'm not interested in bylaws, and deacons, and so forth, like that, or orders of churches. I am interested in the baptism of the Holy Ghost upon the Church for this day that we are living in. That's the fundamental part, and that's what we're looking for. Just a word of prayer now.
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Heavenly Father, move down this morning into our midst. Grant it, Lord, and may the Spirit of God take over the service. Bless the work here, Lord. Bless our brother, Brother Graham. God, give him words of wisdom tonight at the radio broadcast, may he be able to-to shake the people with--by preaching the Word. Grant it, Lord, and may sinners weep, kneel down in their room and give their hearts to Christ. If there be any unbelievers here this morning, or any that has not accepted Christ, may they come, also. And now start a revival in the hearts of the people this morning, Lord. May this be a renewing time, a time when the Spirit will be renewed. And, O Father, we'd pray it this way. Come get us by the hand, each one of us, and walk us down this lane here. Show to us this great picture that's set in order here, revealing Your secrets to the saints' hearts this morning, that we might see what's out here just before us. And as we walk down then, Lord, in the armor of God, may we go as gallant soldiers to face the enemy. But how could we face him unless we know his tactics? And help us this morning to understand, and show us the--his foregrounds there, so we'll know where to meet him. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Let's... The 2nd chapter, let's read this. And it came to pass that in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, to all the world, that they should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made... by the governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one to his own city. And Joseph went also up from Galilee, unto the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and the lineage of David:)
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days of her accomplishment that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in the manger; because there was no room for him in the inn.
Now just as a background, till--till we get up to the part of it that I would use this morning. All of you just let yourself be in the Spirit of the Lord. We are today all over the world is being cel--celebrated of the birth of Jesus, which now is just traditional. Jesus was not born on no December the 5th or nothing like--or December the 25th. We know that's impossible. The hills of Judaea was full of snow at that time, so how could it be that? Jesus commonly by astrology and so forth, and by all of them was born, first, around first of April, so when it was springtime. But this is a day, which is all right, just set aside to worship in memorial of His coming to the world.
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One of the greatest gifts that God ever give to the world was Jesus Christ that... We know that. And now I want to speak this morning upon His Deity, Who He is. So many has Him a little Baby laying out there in the cradle and so forth. But that--that was just one of the pictures, just one of the setting forth of the drama to bring it up to what He really is, His Deity. And he said in the Scriptures of His coming, He would been spoke of since the days of--of John. Plumb back even into Genesis it was prophesied that the woman's Seed would bruise the serpent's head, promising this Child--Child, Christ Jesus. And He'd been down, all the prophets, most every prophet that was ever wrote in the Bible, spoke of His first and second advent, when He would come to the world.
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Jesus come three times. He came the first time to redeem His Church. He comes the second time to receive His Church. He comes the third time with His Church. Everything in the Bible travels in trinities, threes, but all in one Christ. He... Remember, the first time to re--redeem His Church, the second time to receive His Church, the third time with His Church, as King and Queen. Now, but on His first coming, we'll speak of just a little bit, and then on His being here; and then on His second coming; on His--and then on the third time; if the Lord willing.
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Now, in these days there was a great persecution against the
church. Caesar Augustus had made a great plan that he'd tax all the people. And that was only done for one purpose, that God's great prophecy would be fulfilled. Only thing you have to do, when you see something in the Bible, that sounds just a little mystic and a little superstitious to you, just give God a little bit of time. God's in no hurry. We're the one gets in a hurry. Just give God just a little bit of time, and you'll see the old prophetic wheels, cogs, run right up into the picture. It'll develop, just like the bringing up of a picture.
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Like someone was speaking the other day; he said, "God, what was He?" When He was back yonder, millions and millions of years ago, when He was no--just like this space here; and then He gathered up into the Logos; and then He came from the Logos down into Christ. See, it's just God coming down like this to the earth, then going right back into God again. Don't you see what I mean? Just revolving, coming down from space, from eternity; rolling together, coming down into the Logos, and the Logos down into man, then returning right back again for one purpose, to redeem that man that had fallen. Now, that's what He came for, to be a Redeemer. And before God could be a Redeemer, He had to be, according to the law, a kinsman Redeemer. He had to be kinfolks to us.
And God in the beginning made His first man. He made him out of spirit. And spirit is the invisible part of man that you don't see. Now, God made man in His Own image. Are you listening to me? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] All right. God made man in His Own image. "And God is a Spirit," says the Bible. And the first man that was made had the government over all the creation, just like the Holy Spirit has government over the Church today. He led the creation. He led the animals. But there was no man to till the soil, so God made man out of dust of the earth. And that man, He might have give him a hands like a monkey; He might have give him feet like a bear. Whatever He did, He just throwed it together and made a man. But this man, He put this immortal spirit that never dies into this man, and he become more than a brute, he became a man.
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Then this man here, that's what I think that atheists and some of them standing around arguing. But the hour has come when God shed forth His Light; there's a hour here that when God's doing things. That's right. And so now when they argue, "Well, his feet look like a bear, and his hands look like a--a ape or a--a monkey, or so forth," they try to say his origin come that. That has nothing to do
with it. This is the body of flesh that he's just living in, like a house, it's going back to the dust of the earth. But the spirit is immortal; it comes from God. That's the image of God. God is a Spirit. That man lost his origin in the garden of Eden. His relationship, communion with God was cut off there because of sin and unbelief. Unbelief in what? The Word of God. A picture was painted one time to Eve, and told her how much brighter it would be if she'd just--just discard the Word of God, "look over here to reason." You can't. God... There is a difference between reason and God's Word. God's Word is true; reason is false. You can't reason out nothing. That's right. Our mind is not (See?), is not good enough or never will be, to fathom God's eternal wisdom. And therefore, you can't reason it; you just got to believe it.
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And so then the picture was painted out back there through our first father and mother, and they fell. And that broke off relationship with God, and was drove from the garden of Eden. From that hour God begin to scream up-and-down the garden, hunting for His--His lost child. And then the only way that God then could ever redeem him, would have to be to make--to come down and redeem him, Himself: not in another, or not send somebody else. He couldn't send an Angel; that wouldn't be right. But the only way God could redeem the man, was come down Himself to redeem it.
If somebody sins here, and, my, I was the judge of this--of this group of people, and I had the jurisdiction over you all, and if I... If someone sinned, and I said, "Now, Brother Graham, I want you to pay the price." That wouldn't be just. If I said for my own boy to pay the price, that still wouldn't be...?... just. The only way that I could be just, is for me myself to take his place. And what? I was the one passed the judgment, and then if I want to redeem the man, I've got to take his place myself. Are you still listening at me? [Congregation,
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The baby is always the blood of its father, never of its mother. We all know that. Without... I've taught that before, here in times. And you know that the baby has not one speck of its mother's blood in it, not a bit. No, nothing does. It's always the blood of the male. A hen can lay an egg, but if it isn't fertile, it'll never hatch. No matter how pretty the egg is, and how well she warms it, it'll always be infertile. It'll lay right there and rot (That's right.), unless the male bird has been with the female bird, and the germ of life comes from the male.
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Therefore, when Mary, knowing not a man, she was with the Male, God, the Almighty Jehovah, and He overshadowed her, and God is the Creator that created a Blood cell in the womb of Mary, knowing no man at all. And that brought forth the very creative Blood of God to redeem us from our life coming in here being born by sexual desire. And then that Blood was drawed out of Immanuel's veins on Calvary's cross, and today has the same saving, redeeming, holy power that it did the day the transfusion was made out at Calvary. You believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Amen. Now, that's right. We're redeemed by the Blood of God. The Bible says we are bought by the Blood, and redeemed by God, God's Own Blood.
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How was it God's Blood? God has no Blood. How could it be? Because it was God's creative Blood that He created in order to redeem us, and came and lived in the same body that He created. Therefore He could not... God had to suffer temptation; He couldn't suffer temptation. He had to suffer sexual temptation. He had to suffer all kinds of temptation, to be tempted by the devil, in riches and powers and--and dominions, and so forth. He had to suffer all of that. In order to do it, He couldn't be as God in Spirit; He had to be God in flesh. Now, I'm speaking this morning on the Deity of Christ, so that you'll know Who He is that we're worshipping today: not a baby in a manger, or not Santa Claus; but we're worshipping Almighty God, in the Deity of His Son.
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And notice then, that Blood came down and was... and it was Christ Jesus. And God Himself, coming out of Spirit, went into Christ Jesus. And the Bible said that, "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." Is that right? God Himself, Jehovah, lived in Christ and was made a Kinsman to us, because He was born in human flesh
like we are. Is that right? The Blood cells were developed by God, and the--the flesh cells were developed in the womb of Mary, that brought forth the Child. And God came down and lived in human flesh, and was tempted in every manner just like we are. Do you believe that? All right. Now, then when He did that, He freely gave His Blood. He didn't have to do it. He made that sacrifice. He could've went right on up into glory. He could've been transfigured like He was on Mount Transfiguration, went on into heaven and never died for us. But to be willing to die for us, He gave freely His Blood at Calvary. That's right. And He picked out... He was a Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief, and He made a public testimony.
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In the Book of Ruth is a very beautiful picture there, how that Boaz, type of Christ, how that Ruth went over in a strange country, as a backsliding, went out of the land, and brought back with her... I mean Naomi, and brought back Ruth. And when Ruth came back, she was a--out of the country of Moab. And when she came back, she was a Moabite; absolutely a picture of the Gentile Bride, of the Church. And when she went to leave Naomi, Naomi told her, said, kissed her and told her to go back to her people. She said, "I will go with you to your people. Let your people be my people, and let your dwelling be my dwelling; let your God be my God, and nothing but death shall separate us. Where you die, I die. Where you are buried, I'll be buried."
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Now there's a picture of the Gentile Church coming into Christ. 'Cause we were once aliens away from God, only the Jews was--was the ones to be saved. But we, being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's Seed and are heirs according to the promise, and Christ got a Gentile Bride. That's exactly right. Now, in order to redeem, Boaz to redeem Naomi's lost estate; that was the backslidden state of Israel... Then Moab--Moab had to come out, and when he did... Boaz, rather, and when he came out, he had to kick off his shoe before the gates of, before the elders to make a public testimony that he had redeemed that lost woman and her estate. And in doing that, then he bought back, also, he got in there his bride, the woman he--he was looking for. He had to redeem the woman first, in order to get the bride. Don't you see? And that's the same thing Christ did. He made a public testimony at the gates of Jerusalem, when He was beaten, smitten, afflicted, and was led up Calvary to Cal--Golgotha's hill, and bathed the hill with His Own Blood as a public testimony that He had redeemed all the fallen estate from back yonder in the beginning, and has redeemed His people from the curse of sin and from the clutches of hell.
And knowing that she would need something more in the last days, than what she's got now, He said, "I'll not leave you comfortless. I'll pray the Father and He'll give you another comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. He will abide with you forever. A little while and the world seeth Me no more; but I'm going up to heaven and get this thing fixed up, and I'll come back and be with you, even in you, until the end of the age." That's what I'm talking about. If you hear me, say, "Amen." [Congregation,"Amen."--Ed.] That's right. That's what I'm speaking of now, is Him coming again in His power.
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Ages has flowed on, "Oh, Who is He?" My, this morning, they think of some little object of worship, some little manger out there, some little... And I'm not thinking of that. I'm thinking of Christ, the hope of glory, in our hearts this morning by the Holy Ghost. That's right. Oh, condemned by the world... God has always come into the world; when He did, the world hated Him. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of God." We're in that day, friends.
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And now notice, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet you'll see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, even to the end of the world." That's right. He's here now. And in the days, how His big picture always revolved up and made the same thing come to pass that we're seeing now. The great drama is set, and we're ready now to see great things happen. The Church has been brought from the cradle. That's right. Pentecostal rocked it down yonder a few years ago, back there while the people throwed stones, and made fun, and laughed at, but she's growed to maturity now. That's exactly right. The hour is here. Hallelujah. That's right. That's what I'm interested in, to see God's Church coming together now. We've been beat out here, and beat out there, but the hour is coming when God's throwing the blanket around us all to draw us in, while the enemy's at the gate. Hallelujah. Yes, sir. He's standing now for His people. Daniel said, "The great things of the last days, when these things come to pass, my, the great exploits will the people then, the men of faith will do, in that day."
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And the hour has come now that when the great drama picture of God set forth of the latter rain. Joel said, "In the last days, it shall come to pass, that I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Upon my handmaids and maidservants will I pour out of My Spirit. And I'll show signs in the
heaven above, and signs in the earth below, and pillars of fire, and vapor of smoke. It shall come to pass, before the great and terrible day of the Lord shall come, that whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved." Jesus said in there, "These things that I do, you shall do, and greater than this, for I go unto My Father." Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Here's what It said in there--in... And the--the Word back there, He said, "If ye abide in Me, and My Word abide in you, ask what you will and it shall be given unto you."
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A few years ago, the people around here said, "You people up there at that Tabernacle is holy-rollers. You're all this, that, and the other. You're crazy!" But, oh, my, we've stood on that Rock that's True, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and now the power of Almighty God is pouring on and the church, coming forth. Hallelujah...?... I just want to shake the whole thing everywhere. Brother, it's already in session right now. It's going on. That's right.
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The Deity of Him, Who is He? Some of them thinks Him a little baby back there. He's the One that stood on the invisible (oh, my) platform, reached out His hands, and spoke, and said, "Let there be light," and there was light. That was Jesus Christ. "For He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world recognized Him not." He was, and He's the Deity of God. Look what He did back there. Talk about the miraculous back there, you talk about shouting? When He performed the miraculous things, to make things which are now, out of things which was not, He spoke and it was so.
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And that same power, that same Christ... Hallelujah. Let the fundamentalists, let them people who deny the power of God say it's wrong; but that same power that spoke the world into existence is in those people that's got the Holy Ghost. That's right. Men and women, it's time that we found out who you are. The devil's trying to hide you back, tell you that you're some little trod-down something. You're not. You're sons and daughters of God. The Deity is not in heaven; it's in you. Hallelujah. I know you think I'm crazy, but let me tell you something, brother. When you realize that Almighty God lives in you, Immortal Life. "My Life, I give Zoe," the Life of God is in the human being.
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He stood back there; He's the Creator of all things. He made life, frogs, and all these ducks, chickens, animals, created everything. "And nothing was made but what was made by Him." Who? Christ,
the Deity. "He brought down pla--plagues and everything in the days of Egypt." Who? Christ. "He stopped the--the mouths of lions. He quenched the violence of fire. They escaped the edge of the sword. They raised the dead from the grave." Who? Christ. Oh, my, what would it be? Who is it? Christ, the Deity.
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And, brother, sister, that Deity's in you. "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the age." Christ in the manger? No. Christ in you. Hallelujah. We're not worshipping Christ in the manger, but Christ in you, the Holy Ghost, the hope of Life (Hallelujah.), the Creator, God Himself dwelling in the human being. "It does not yet appear what we shall be, but we'll see Him as He is." For we'll be made like Him...?... no room for Him.
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People around here saying that they--they are of Christ, their church is of Christ they go to, and what happened last night? Opened up their Christmas presents. Let's see about daddy; in there, there was a--was under the Christmas tree of a many a man last night, set a big box of beer somewhere. No room for Jesus; all for beer. Opened up mama's present, a deck of cards. No room for Christ; the cards. That's right. Instead of a little Bible or something to the children, it's a little G-man book, or a little something like that. No room for Jesus. Instead of going to church, they go to shows, dances, everything, and call themself Christians. Brother, when the Deity of God, by the Holy Ghost, comes into the human heart, It culls out everything that Christ hasn't created. You know that's the Truth.
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Oh, Christ the hope of Glory in you, not in the cradle, in you. That was one time; God was back in the beginning, then He come into Moses, He come in the children of Israel, He come in the cradle. But now they're worshipping Him way back like some prehistoric something, when Christ is in you. Here He is today, the Son of God moving up; His great Church is moving.
Today, the church has soup suppers, pie suppers, see who can dress the best, go into the church for pomp, glory who's got the best church, the best seats, who can play this, who can do that, and no room; all times they got something else to do besides prayer. They can't pray any more. They got something else to do; they can't pray any more. They just can't lerve--serve God like they used to. "No room for Him in the inn." And this is in the end time, friends. "No room for Him in the inn." 'Course, I know what that inn meant, but
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But the prophet also said, "It'll be Light in the evening time." That's right. The path of Glory you shall surely find. That's right. The evening time's come. The church now, that was once dressed like that little manger experience that we've been through, has come to a place now that the people are realizing that the Deity and the power of Almighty God is living in the human being.
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Oh, brother, sister, let me speak to you in the Name of Jesus. What, do you still hear me? [Congregation, says, "Amen"--Ed.] Oh, my, let me tell you something! The time's coming when women and men are just about alike. They dress so much alike you can't tell one from the other. That's right. All the things that the Bible said would come to pass, it's here. That's right. You know that's the Truth. Is it the Truth? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Is it Truth? ["Amen."--Ed.] It is the Truth. They act alike, look alike, talk alike, talk alike. The Bible said it would be that way. He said, "In the last days, that perilous times would come. Men would be lovers of their own selves, more than lovers of God; trucebreakers, false accusers." Is it here? That's right.
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Oh, glory to God. I feel something rolling in my soul though. Oh, when I look out here... "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." Noah had some faithful ones in that day. God's got some faithful ones today. The hour is coming, this great drama setting. Men and women, if the Holy Ghost is dwelling in you, the Christ that was born nineteen hundred years ago came to manhood. He never stayed in the cradle. And today, that memorial of His birthday, what do they do? They get some tree, cut it down, make a Christmas tree, for the kiddies. But they think... That's all right; I'm not kicking against that. But the thing of it is, they put more on the Christmas tree than they do for Christ.
Kris Kringle's all over the country. Who was he? A German, a Catholic saint years ago, an old man went about doing good. And today it's become almost a worship. That's right. It's all right to tell the kiddies, or whatever you want to do, as far as I'm concerned. But
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the thing of it is, it's so easy to fall in that rut on the other side, and push out Christ, the real fundamentals of Chris--of Christmas. And man take Kris Kringle instead of real Christmas; that's right, "No room for Him in the inn." It's all drawed down, if we had time. I know it's getting late, and it's getting late.
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But look, friends, the hour has come, and is now, that when God's great drama set here before us. The Son of God, that was in the cradle, is in the heart now. He's the Deity of God. He's God the Creator. He said all...?... "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not." And, today, that's what's the matter with the church. The hope of Glory, the baptism of the Holy Ghost has come into the people's hearts, and they don't recognize what It is. They think it's a little church-joining or something like that.
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But that is the God, the Creator, living in you, and giving you all the power. And you're in possession of anything that He had. So is It in you to abstain from evil, to do good, to shun evil and flee to righteousness, to turn away from temptation. All malice, hatred, strife, envy, and so forth, come away from it, for that'll take Him from your heart, if you will receive Him, embrace Him and love Him, and hold Him in your heart and love Him. I tell you, the church together in that kind of a power, has the power to bind the heavens, heal the sick, open the eyes of the blind (Hallelujah.), the deaf speak-the dumb speak, and the deaf hear, the cripples walk, the blind see. Why? It's recognizing the power of Almighty God into your heart. There He is, the Deity. You love Him? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] No wonder the poet said:
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Dear, brother, sister, if you haven't got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, this morning, run into the Kingdom of God as quick as you can. The sealing time is on. The enemy's coming like a flood; He's raising a standard against it. The drama's set; the church is going home just as certain as anything. See? You haven't got a long ways to wait, friend. You haven't got all the time to wait. You better come now. You better make it today (That's right.), while today is today. Make it now. Remember, friends, it may seem strange. The world never, the religion of Christ never was popular; it's always been unpopular, the
ways of God, because the devil is the prince of the power of the air. He has all the governments. Every government is controlled by the devil, according to the Bible. Devil said it was. That's right. He controls all the governments.
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And then the Bible said, "Re--rejoice, all you holy Angels, and you saints upon the earth, for the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God, and of His Christ, and they--He shall reign." Satan took Jesus up on top of the mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world, said, "These are all mine, and I'll give them to You." And Jesus said, "Get thee hence, Satan." That's right. He wasn't care... He said, "If My Kingdom of this world, I could call many legions of Angels; but My Kingdom is not of this world, but My Kingdom is in heaven." And He said, "The Kingdom of God will be within you." So therefore the legions and powers of the backing of the holy Angels (Hallelujah.) is in you, was born into the Deity of Christ by the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Yes, sir.
Who are you this morning? Who is Christ Jesus? He's in you as much as you'll let Him be. He's pressing, trying to get into you, to move into you today. And you stand off, and wonder, and look and gaze, and hold back a little while. Don't do that. Move right straight into the Kingdom of God. The hour's here. Hallelujah. Oh, how I love Him. He's coming one of these days. I want to see Him. Don't you? I want to see Him. I believe we will see Him. Don't you? He's here now. His power is moving. What makes the people cry and shout, go on? What's the matter? It's the Holy Ghost moving in them. If they could only realize and--and-and embrace Him, embrace the Holy Ghost, believing in Him, hug Him to your bosom. Live right; do nothing that would hinder Him. Say, "O Lord Jesus, I want You. I want You to stand by me. I'm going to stand by You, Father." And as you do, He is just pressing to get into you. He wants in there. He's wooing you to Him all the time.
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Now, friends, I know this to be the truth. I know people don't realize who you are? Every person in here can live above sin, can live without sin, live in God; you'll make mistakes, but the Blood of Christ will forgive you. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Is that right? That same power of Christ that was hung on Calvary's cross, the same God that raised Him up on the day of the resurrection, is in you now, you that's got the Holy Ghost. Oh, don't
you love Him? Oh, my. Hear His voice calling today. Move Him up to your close bosom, and say, oh, close unto your bosom, and say, "Now, Lord Jesus, I've been a little different, but this Christmas day I realize Who You are now. I once worshipped You as a little Baby in a manger. I seen You back yonder as a little bitty Fellow nineteen hundred years ago, and I thought, 'Oh, if I could've went up to Jerusalem!'"
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Today, they're getting passes and everything to go up to the-to the cradle, up to the place where He was born, the same manger. But, friends, it's not up there, where He was born, it's right here where He was born; God has brought Him down to every one of us, and His living Being is living in us. Oh, the Creator, the thing that created the world, and created the heavens, created the earth, created man, is right in every individual that's got the baptism of the Holy Ghost today. That's the thing. That's the secret. And He's the Holy Ghost, He's in you; He's the hope of glory.
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And look here in the Old Testament, as I've referred to it many times, when the contract was made, it was tore apart over a dead beast's body. And those two contracts had to be come together, them contracts had to dovetail one with the other. And today God's made a contract, not because you were good, not because you joined church, not because you been a good member of society. You can be ever so good; you can live a clean life; you can go to church every day; you can sacrifice every day; you can give a part of your money; you can give up all the sins of the world, and everything, and live just as true and faithful as you can, and you'll miss heaven just as far as east is from the west. That's right. It isn't by goodness that we are saved, but it's by His mercy that we're bought, that God wanted to make sons and daughters. Goodness never makes them. The Spirit of God makes them. If it wasn't so, He wouldn't have had to send the Holy Ghost. How could the Holy Ghost be complete unless--or how could the--the contract be complete? Jesus said, "I go away, yet I'll come again and be with you, even in you. Pray the Father, and He'll give you the Holy Ghost. He will abide forever."
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And people put their name on church books, trying to turn a new page on Christmas day, trying to walk yonder at church and just pay a few tributes to the manger back yonder. When the Holy Ghost pushing you just where...?... and the Word of God. And so blind they walk around, say, "Well, that's a bunch of holy-rollers." Just like it was in the days of Noah, so is it now. The coming of the Son of God's drawing nigh. That's right. And only
those who are charged by the Holy Ghost, who has Immortal Life living in them, the Holy Ghost, that's the type that's going to be drawed from here, just as certain as anything. There was something another about that little old ark in the days of Noah, that floated on top the water. It was a drawing power from above, that was right in the top, that the glory of God shined from heaven down upon them...?...
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And I tell you, today, friend, hear my Word. There is a drawing power, not from the church, not from the pastor, but from glory, this baptism of the Holy Ghost moving down in that life channel to draw up a Church. What is it? The power of God, the access to His Life, Zoe. "These things that I do shall you do also; greater than this shall you do." He was persecuted, laughed at, made fun of, and died, and went in the grave. But He was true; He had the Spirit of God in Him, and God raised Him up. If we go the same way, so shall we come out. Oh, hallelujah. I love Him.
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Eye has seen, ear has heard, what's recorded in God's Word; Isn't He wonderful, wonderful...
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Heavenly Father, O Jesus, I'm looking forward for a great hour. I see it coming. I see there's no hope nowhere else. I see the age amoving up. I see the great red lights of communism, swaying around over the earth. I see the formal churches taking their stands against Your Church, trying to condemn them, saying, "Divine healing's wrong. It's a bunch of fanaticism." A bill in our own White House to close It down... Oh, but, God, the other day, setting there and seeing those saintly people, all illuminated with the power of God; looking upon their faces and seeing the glory of God they could be like the Hebrew children at the fiery furnace. "We'll never bow down. No. Our God's able to deliver us. You'll come quickly, Lord Jesus." And I see the hour is setting in, when, "The form of godliness the people have, but deny the power thereof: from such turn away," You said, the Spirit speaking for the last days. And here we are in that day today.
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who I believe loves You. And I pray, God, that that Spirit that's filled many of their hearts, days gone by, will now come deeper and more. May they lay aside every malice, every strife, everything that's unlike You, and move up today, not to the manger, but to Calvary; not as altogether to Calvary, but to Christ, the hope of glory, the Deity of God, the magnificence of God, the power of God that's now in our heart, trying to draw us out of the things of the world, that He might take us out of this earth someday unto a better land. God, grant it today. Hear the prayer of Your servant, and speak to the people. If there's any lost in here, any without the Holy Spirit, may they receive of Thee this morning. Grant it, dear God, for we ask it in the Name of Thy dear beloved Son, Jesus, Who nineteen hundred years ago was born in a manger, Who suffered thirty-three years later at Calvary for our sins, Who ascended on to high a few days after that, forty days later. He was received up into glory, then ten days later come again in the power of the Holy Ghost, and now living in the Church. And soon, with that same power that raised Him, the Holy Ghost in the Church to take it out. O God, come, will You, and save the Church? For we ask it in His Name.
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While you have your heads bowed, we're going to sing, "Calling Today." If there's anyone here without Christ, without God, without hope, will you come now?
Calling today! Calling today! Jesus is calling, He's tenderly calling today. Jesus is tenderly calling today, Calling today!
Are you without God, without hope, without Christ? You realize...?... that you haven't got just a life full of God won't you come?
... farther away? Call (He's calling) today! Calling today! Jesus (is tenderly calling today) He's tenderly calling today.

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Listen. Father's here and He wants to save you, if you're unsaved...?... But listen, friends, I want to do something this morning for you, while you're standing here. I want you to just to have your eye closed; I want to pull down a curtain and let you look over somewhere. We're going to take a little visit this morning...?... strong. I'm going to pull the curtain down, just for those who set in
this Tabernacle, young and old and all. I'm going to look over to the portals of hell for a while this morning. They know down there it's Christmas-time up here. They know what they done through Christmas-time. Some has drank, some run around, some to the church, some mocked, some made fun. What if their creeping bony frame could get back to this church door this morning? You know, next Christmas you may be there. You may have been there a year next Christmas. Now, remember that you're dealing with human souls; you're dealing with spiritual things. And each one of you has got to answer at the day of judgment. I can only be honest. I can only say, if you haven't received the Christ this morning, He stands at the open door of your heart...?...
And you that's got the Holy Spirit, remember, you're going to be judged by what you done with It. You might've received Christ, by the Holy Ghost, but you'll be condemned; every man is judged according to the works done in his body. After you receive the Holy Ghost, what have you done with It? Have you talked about your neighbor? Have you done things wrong? If you have, remember, I'd start life anew right now. Say, "Lord Jesus, today, from now on I'm going to be what You want me to be. I realize that the immortal part of God, the Spirit of God, lives in my body. And if I--if I been wrong, forgive me now. I want--I want to...?... My, I--I want to be better." How many's in there this morning who's like that would raise his hand showing...?... Say, "I want to start new today, Brother Branham." God bless you. I got mine up too, you know; I want to start anew. I want to do more for Him next year. Are you setting...?...
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One of the most saddest stories I ever heard... A young lady, a very fancy young woman. She lived in a fine home, talked to her about Christ. Her--her father said, "I--I ain't staying here with her." 'Course she was dying. She's going to meet that class of people because she's... Now, remember, as despised, she couldn't see herself with a man called "crazy." But she got the best of education. When she gets ready to break through the old society and go with different fine classes of men. Death struck with something. She took a heart attack. All of her training did her no good; she went somewhere else. Which way you going this morning? What are you training for? I don't care which kind of groups of life you belong to, you're going to go back to eternity one of these days. And without Christ, without the Holy Ghost your soul is lost. Remember that.
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Spirit. If He's in you, He's the power of God. Live by It. He's God in you. The Bible said, and we thank God... is upon me, O God. And Jesus said... The Pharisees answered, said, "Ye make yourself God." Said, "Isn't it written in your Law, 'Ye are gods'?" He made Moses a god to Pharaoh once. And He made you a god to the people. That's right. And you this morning are written epistles of God. Your--your lives are of God, and even carries that Holy Ghost. Look here, friends, don't let it pass. Don't just let this go by, as just a little mythical something...?... Will you do that?...?...
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Father, we come this morning, as Your humble children. I realize that--that we're living in the last hour, closing time, something can happen at any time. Men, women, boys, or girls here, are without God. And I pray Thee, Father, You be merciful. I pray Thee, to be merciful to those who have received, and now realize that You're near in their hearts. And realizing that little things of the world, through cares of...?... I pray, God, that every one of them this morning, will be really consecrated to You, for the coming days to come, and...?... how much longer we're going to wait before Your coming. We believe it's right at hand now. And after while, they're going to try to get saved...?... I'm thinking of those young people that night, down there at the altar, trying to be saved but had crossed the line: no redemption for them; they were gone, could not be saved. Father, I just--I just pray that You'll bless them each one, while there is time for salvation, that they will receive it today. For we ask it in Jesus Christ's Name, Amen.
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Let's stand. How many love Him with all your heart? Don't you want to get just a little closer to Him, love Him just a little bit more? Let's sing "I--I Surrender All," as we raise our hands to Him, this morning...?... Will you do that? Give us the lead there, will you, sister.
I surrender, (I surrender all,) (all surrender, (I surrender all,) All to Thee, my blessed Saviour, I surrender all.
your habits, all your ways)...
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I surrender, (I surrender all,) I surrender, (I surrender all,) All to Thee, my blessed Saviour, I surrender all.
O Father, have mercy. We love You so much, Lord. Some of these days the trumpet's going to blow. I may be out on the field somewhere. Lord, I'll be thinking about the church then. When the winds begin to howl, the world's begin rocking, some say, "What's the matter?" Skies are turning to red; judgment hour is near. I'll think, "Oh, where's Brother Graham? Where's all of them at home." But, Father, then after while we'll hear a sound like never before, the Trumpet; the Angel sounds a Trumpet. O God, those who have entered the chamber of death, shall rise up. How screams will go out, "What's the matter with the world? We can't stand still as she's rocking." And then we'll be caught up together to meet You in the air.
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O Father, if death shall come to us before that time and... I mean the natural death of this earth, separation here, may we enter the chambers with a gallant faith, wrapping the robe of Christ around us, the Holy Ghost. Someday we got to come down there, Father. And I realize I got to walk that line too. It's right out there before me somewhere, that hour that I enter that death chamber. When I hear my sentence read, I don't want to go like a coward. I want to go like You went, Lord. Not try to wrap the old robe around, but wrap the robe of Christ, the Holy Ghost, around me, as Paul did, and say, "Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is your victory?" enter that dark chamber among those who are dead, listening then for His voice of the Archangel that shall sound, and we'll be called out from among the dead, to meet our loved ones again. O Lord, if we miss that in life, life has been nothing to us; we've failed. But if we find Him Who's precious in our heart, then we've found all the purpose of God. Oh, how we love Him this morning. May every Christian, this morning, see the vision quickly, Lord. The hour is getting late now, and I pray that You'll let them see the vision and take hold of Life today, and live forever, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
THE.DEITY.OF.JESUS.CHRIST_ JEFF.IN V-20 N-12 SUNDAY_ 49-1225 146 You love each other? [Congregation says "Amen."--Ed.] Turn
around and shake hands with each other, say, "God bless you. Christ be with you." Instead of "Merry Christmas," say, "Christ be with you," as you turn around. Now don't leave yet, just turn around and say, "Christ be with you." Christ be with you.
All... Now just a moment. All to Thee, my blessed Saviour, I surrender all.
Why, I thought it was after twelve. It's after eleven. I thought it was twenty minutes after twelve. Just... [A sister says, "Let's stay another hour."] What's that? Amen.
THE.DEITY.OF.JESUS.CHRIST_ JEFF.IN V-20 N-12 SUNDAY_ 49-1225 148 Everybody love the Lord? Say, "Praise the Lord!" [The congregation says, "Praise the Lord!"--Ed.] Let's just have a--a little
of just a--just now just about only three or four words of testimony, like, "I love Jesus." Just say no more than that. [Someone says, "I love Jesus."] That's right. Somebody else. [Many people say, "I love Jesus!"] Glory to God! [Many say, "I love Jesus!"] I love Him. I love Him. O Jesus.
Jesus, Saviour, pilot me Over life's tempestuous sea: Unknown waves before me roll, Hiding rocks and...?... Chart and compass come...
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DISEASES.AND.AFFLICTIONS_ LVL.KY V-25 N-2 50-0100 1 I want to explain something... [Public address system causes loud feedback noise--Ed.]... some vital things that you should know. My voice
is not very loud, so I probably have to get over here. If the Lord permits, Sunday afternoon, I want to speak to you in a evangelistic Gospel sermon, for Sunday afternoon. And we are expecting some great things for the Lord to do for us this week. One thing is concerning... Many here would not hardly understand just how that these prayer cards are--are given out to the sick and the afflicted. In three years of trying, this is the only program that I've ever found that was really looked like was blessed of God.
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First we would just go in and have no cards at all, and just let the people line up. It was such a congestion to... Then I'd get to pray maybe fifteen, twenty minutes at a time; the crowds would get on
me, and they'd have to pull me out. And then the next, started, we would send the prayer cards ahead to the ministers. And each minister sponsoring, maybe there'd be fifty or more churches throughout the area would sponsor the meeting, and each minister would have at least a hundred cards. Every minister wanted his congregation first. He would give them to his congregation and probably the entire four or five nights, just one minister's congregation would get in, the rest of them would feel very bad about it. Then we thought about having the local people, just the local people in the community; and sometimes people come for as many as seven, eight thousand miles to the meetings. That wasn't right.
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And the only way that we found that we could be really... let the Lord make the way, is to come and take prayer cards, about fifty of them, and just give them out to the groups of the people, and no one knows just who is going to be in. I seen the time that I give out fifty cards and not one of them be called. Start into the meeting, and the Spirit of the Lord lead me right out amongst the people, like that, never even use the prayer cards. I seen the time I'd sit on the platform, and I'd just start to speak, and I'd just lose my whole self for an hour or more, time, while calling the first one, and then the other like that. I'd... Every one healed. Many people rally for the--the line then. I've made this remark; it's the truth; it's been good for five year... for three years now. Pardon me. Every person comes to this platform is healed. There's never been nothing, no matter how bad it was twisted, and crippled, or afflicted, it's always healed. There's been some hideous cases. But I... Maybe, in one night's time, I'd just be able to get maybe three or four or five. Maybe sometime...
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I seen once at Calgary, Canada, where only got two, where twenty-five thousand people had gathered: two. One was a boy been afflicted for eighteen years; his hand was drawed under him. He was in a wheelchair. His mother had pawned her wedding ring to keep him. He had been in about seven or eight meetings, never could get a card. Finally his time arrived for him to be at the platform. Boy walked off the platform. Next morning, he shaved himself for the first time in his life. Met me out there on the ramp when the plane came down at Vancouver to shake my hand. The little girl was the next. The little girl, Catholic by faith, one leg was four inches shorter than the other. We had about a hour and something with that little girl. And this same Bible... When they brought her there, she would go way down to the side. I laid this Bible on her head; she walked just as normal as any child, back and forth across the platform, when--when the twenty-five thousand
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I don't know no one in here who has a prayer card, or who will be first. We give out those cards and then we come in. I will try and give you an idea. My brother says, "I gave out fifty cards." I come into the building; I might meet a little child. I'd say, "Can you count?" Say, "Yes, sir." I say, "Start counting." Maybe he'd count up to ten, fifteen or twenty, and stop; wherever he stopped, I'd start the prayer line. If he stopped at twenty, I'd start the prayer line at twenty, and maybe go forward or backward. Maybe the next night I would count off so many people in a row and divide it by two, and see what number it is, or something like that.
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I believe this is all new to you people here. In all the meetings I've ever been, this is the smallest second night meeting I ever had in any meeting since I been in the field. Usually, on the second night, at any auditorium, or been announced any way, usually runs seven, eight, ten thousand by the second night. 'Course, it's just locally advertised. What makes the crowd, because it's internationally advertised, and so many hundred come from one state, and the other states, to make up the group. My next meeting after here will be in Houston, at the coliseum. I think it seats seventeen thousand, I believe. It's already in about four or five international papers. That's where the people come, from across the seas and all, everywhere...?... I wish to read just a little bit of the Word tonight, for God's Word never fails. My words will; His Word will not. It's found in Psalms 103, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd verse. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all of thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; May God add His blessings to His Word. All of this, speaking of "Diseases And Afflictions," I wish just for a few moments to make some statements concerning it. And I want you to listen and give it
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Diseases and afflictions are all the results of sin, maybe not in your life, but in somebody's life before you. The devil is the author of sickness and afflictions. Before we had any devil, we had no sickness or affliction. But when Satan came, he brought with him sickness and afflictions. There's so many times that we refer to them as blessings. I never could think that God could get a blessing out of a sick person, unless it was a sinner, driving him to God, or a disobedient child, bringing him back to be reconciled to his Father. But sicknesses are the results of the devil and of the fall. There's... Today, we have the best doctors we've ever had. We got the best medical science, best hospitals we've ever had; and more sickness than we ever had. And in the day that when we've got the best medical science we ever had, they're constantly building institutions for the incurable. Right when we got the best scientific work on afflictions and sickness we ever had; building institutions, yearly, for the incurable.
But there never was nothing that came before Jesus Christ, the Son of God, but what He was more than a match for it. And He's just the same today as He was yesterday, and will be forever. And He proves that. And you'll see it night after night. And if it isn't so, then you have a right to doubt. Someone said, "Does the healings last?" They last as long as faith lasts. But when faith fails, then your healing will fail. Would you say every person that came to the altar and got converted would be a Christian all their days? He could be tonight a child of God, and tomorrow be a child of the devil. It's when he loses faith in God, what sends him back.
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And any power that could heal you here at this platform can keep you well. That's the reason I made this statement, that nothing comes here but what it's delivered here. Outside here, it's according to your faith whether it stays. I've seen people come to the platform, totally blind, and read this same Bible. In less than five days, come back again just as blind as they ever was. Why did they read here? The power of the devil recognized that gift of God and he had to leave. Now, that's an aw... that's a... I know that's a real statement to make, but I know where I stand. And I know Who I have believed, and I know His power to heal.
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Someone said, not long ago when I was in Phoenix. Prayer lines was way down the streets; they couldn't even get into the auditorium. Going in the line, someone said, "Are--aren't you afraid, Brother Branham, to stand there before all those things and realize that critics are standing there and newspaper reporters, and so forth, to criticize?" I said, "I'm not afraid as long as I feel that He's near. But if I can't feel Him, I would get off the platform and go home." No man can do nothing. All has to come from God.
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For instance, we'll take the... to speak for a few moments about cancer. It seems to be one of the major enemies today. What is a cancer? Where did it come from? Tumor, cataract, ulcer, pneumonia, tuberculosis, all of those names are medical names that medical science gave them. The Bible declares them to be devils. For instance, cancer, what is a cancer? It usually comes from a bruise.
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All the natural things of the earth type the spiritual. Everything in the natural types the spiritual. You know that, most all of you.
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Now, it's someone is sick or something, so just give me your attention. If you miss these things, you'll probably miss your healing altogether.
"There are three that bear record in heaven." Now, when we're... On our conversion... The elements came from Jesus Christ's body when He died; there was water, blood, and Spirit, and these three things make up the new birth. Is that right, ministers? These three elements make up the new birth: water, blood, and Spirit. That make up the natural birth, when a baby's born... What's the first thing? Water, blood, life. All the natural things type the spiritual.
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And Satan's against you. Therefore, this cancer he--he starts, or this tumor, whatever it is; from a germ he begins to multiply, in to, like a tumor becomes malignant, so forth. It's a body, just like you're of a body. It has a spirit just like you are spirit; only it has not a soul. But it has a life like you have a life. And therefore, then, in you, in your flesh, there is two lives. One are you and the other one is another being, multiplying cells, growing a body, just like you growed in a body. Is that right? Well then, what does that? The devil. The--the germ is a life. First, the germ is a teeny little cell with a life in it. And that life only can come from two resources: either from God or the devil. And you came from the germ of life, by God. The cancer, tumor, or so forth, come from the germ of life by the devil. And he's trying to destroy your life. He eats up your blood stream and--and in different ways he works upon you. Therefore, I know that they are devils. Jesus Christ called them devils. And what He says is the truth. They are the devil. The devil is a tormentor. He's here to tear up your body, to eat you up, to destroy you, shorten your three score and ten, if he can.
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That's why that when this Angel of God comes down to where I am... I know nothing about any of you. But that's the reason He tells you the kind of disease that you have in your body, because that life is subject to the Life that God has sent down to discern it. And then the things that you've done in your life, it's done by the power of God, then I can tell whether it's there or whether it's gone. And you can see it by a physical results shown. You can see the patient, when its body becomes straight and normal, or its eyes opens up, or its
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Now, what is it? You say a man, like the little boy here, or I believe some of you was over at the Tabernacle a few nights ago to see. Here's a picture here of where the "Chicago Tribune" gave of nine mutes, and that they set out there, that came from the institution, born deaf and dumb, one of them deaf, dumb and blind. Now, perhaps some of the managers has read those notes to you. Now, those people, newspapers like "Chicago Tribune," are not fanatics. Them cases has to be absolutely thoroughly examined before that can be placed in a paper like that or the "Waukegan Sun," or "Post Dispatch," or any of those papers. It's not a fanaticism. It's not a work up, mythical belief, or a theory. It's the power of Almighty God. And He's here to confirm It tonight, and will do it. And the sooner that our audience gets with one mind and one heart... If this--if this group of people setting here, probably the one's that's to be prayed for tonight, to come on the platform, if they will be in one in heart and one accord, just in the next five minutes, there won't be one of them in these wheelchairs or cots. If they'll believe that this is the truth... And as they come, one by one tonight, to the platform; if they're, each one, not taken from those wheelchairs and cra--cots and things, and walk off this platform normal, then you can say I'm wrong.
And I refer back to God, Who, He's infallible. You will be healed. Now, He's here to make His Word good. Every Word God says is true. But you've got to not half way believe it; you've got to know it. Some people come, say, "I believe." They think they believe; but you find one out of every thousand that really believe. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
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We're controlled, our bodies are, by five senses. How many knows that to be true? Let's see your hand. Five senses: see, taste, feel, smell, and hear, that controls the natural man. Now, there's another man on the inside, which is the man of faith, the spirit. He has two senses: One of them is faith; the other is unbelief. Which, makes the perfect number of God, seven, senses you have. Now, most any of you in here would certainly swear by your five senses. Now, notice this just a moment.
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Would you stand here, just a moment, Dr. Cauble? Now, I believe that there's a man standing before me, wearing a little checkered-like suit; he has glasses on, with a red tie. How many
thinks I'm right, let's see your hands? Well, how do you know there's a man standing there? Because you see him. Is that right? Now, that's the only way, the only sense, that I have now would tell me there's someone standing there, because I see him. Sight declares him. Well, I do not see him now, but I still believe he's there. [Brother Branham turns his head away from Brother Cauble, but touches him--Ed.] Now you say, "Saying is believing." Is it? I believe that Dr. Cauble is standing there now, and I do not see him. Because I'm possessed with an individual sense, outside of sight; it's called feeling, and I feel he's there. And I know it's Dr. Cauble. It isn't Dr. Bosworth. Cause, Dr. Cauble had a little Testament in his hand, and it's still there. So I-I made that statement one time and someone slipped someone else up on me. But I noticed that Dr. Cauble had this little Bible in his hand, and it's Dr. Cauble. Now the only way that I could tell that he was standing there now is by the sense of feeling. And I know it's true.
But now I do not feel him at all. That sense is dead to me, but I know he's there because I see him. See what I mean? There's two distinct senses of the body that says that he's there. One of them: I see him, the next one, I feel him. Now there happens... Just stand right there just a minute, brother.
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Now, I have another sense, and that is of hearing. Strike some music of something. [The pianist begins playing--Ed.] How many believes there's music playing? Let's see your hand. Do you see it? How many sees that music? Do you smell it, taste it, feel it? Well, how do you know it's music? You're possessed... What if someone didn't have the se--the sense of hearing now in here? They wouldn't know that music is playing; that sense is dead to them. They couldn't hear it, because they can't hear. But you who have a sense of hearing know it's playing, because you hear it. You can't see it, you can't feel it, you can't smell it, you can't taste it, but you can hear it. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But the sense of faith is just as real as your sight is or any other of your senses. You see what I mean? You believe it, you just... There's no one can make you doubt it, because you're possessed with that sense that tells you it's so.
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You'd say, "That shirt was white." What if I'd tell you it was red? Well, you wouldn't believe it, because it's white. Your sense of sight says it's white. Your eye says so. Well, now if you believe, you here to be prayed for, whoever you are,
if you believe tonight that you're going to be healed, just as firmly as your sight says that shirt's white, the work's done right now. Thank you, Dr. Cauble. That's right. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. It's another sense. It's in the other realm. It's nothing natural.
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You can't have anything from God, only by faith. By faith the walls of Jericho fell. By faith Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. By faith Gideon did so-and-so. By faith, only way... And without faith it's impossible to please God. And if you want to please Him, you must be--come to Him with faith, believing His Word is Truth.
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Why is it I stand and make this declaration of words and say that nothing can come to this platform without being diagnosed and tell the diseases, the secrets of the hearts? And no matter how bad it's crippled, there's no one, that's been in other meetings, but know that every time they're healed. Why? When the Angel met me, He said, "If you'll get the people to be sincere..." Or, "If you'll be sincere and get the people to believe you, nothing will stand before your prayer." I believe it. And if I can get you to do the same thing, Louisville, Kentucky, will have a shaking like it's never had before. That's a challenge.
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But what I'm trying to do tonight, is--is to get you to see what I mean. Then when you come here, and delivered, stand right on that Word. He--He's the High Priest of your confession. God can't do nothing to you till first you confess that He is. Then when you confess it, then believe it, act upon it, and stay with it, and God will bring you out. Do you believe that? Truly. Here not long ago at Fort Wayne, Indiana...
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By the way, I have a little statement there, Dr. Bosworth, in my overcoat pocket, they'll bring it to you, of the--the meeting we just come out, in "We The People." I believe it was a little blind girl, that they published it. It's going to come in "We The People" now, a book that goes over the world, of a newspaper reporter that wrote up a critical statement, said, "The girl claimed that she was healed, and wasn't." And the little girl's got the doctor's statements, and so forth like that, and published it. And then they examined it, and now it's even went to "We The People." God will move, and there's no one that can... I'll let Dr. Bosworth read it for you, maybe, in tomorrow afternoon's service. It's been just sent down by the--by the Fort
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Mrs. Bosworth, in meetings they were going on, some of them were saying... There was a man setting there with multiple sclerosis, been paralyzed for ten years. He had creeping paralysis, came into his spine. He was a business man of the city. And they didn't know... They had him setting there. And they'd seen many in the wheelchairs, and afflicted people, delivered. And that night, a little cross-eyed girl at the back of the building had seen many people delivered, cross-eyed. I have never seen any cross-eyed child ever come to the platform but what was healed. And we seen better than three hundred cases of cross-eyes, healed, less than six months time. We had a record of it. Forty thousand testimonies to the sick, to the date, of healing, witnesses, signed by doctors, and so forth.
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The hour is here, people. The time is here. I say this, and you can brand me a fanatic, if you wish to. I believe that this indicates the second coming of Jesus Christ. Amen. For there'll be signs and wonders. And the thing of it is, if you're not in the Kingdom of God, press into It. Surely I would have some knowledge of what I'm speaking of, or God would never honor my prayer to do what He does. And you outside the kingdom, seek Christ as your refuge now, while it's time and while you have the opportunity. I shall never forget a statement. One time I was standing at the...
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By the way, to finish telling you of the little girl at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Bosworth told her, said, "Honey..." She was selling literature back at the back of the building. She come out there, crying, said, "Mrs. Bosworth," that's Brother Bosworth's wife, said, "I seen all those cross-eyed people healed." She was a young lady, about eighteen, hideously cross-eyed. Said, "If you'll..." Said, "If I could just get in there and get in that prayer line... But I can't even get a card." Mrs. Bosworth's compassion went out to the child. She said, "Honey, if you'll walk right back around there where you can see him, and really... Don't--don't just imagine now, but believe with all your heart that that's a gift of God, I'll assure you he will call you out in a few minutes."
I was praying for the sick on the platform, had my back turned to the girl. All at once, I felt that set in, faith moving. I looked around, and I couldn't pick it out; there was too many, just standing so congested. And I knew it was coming from there, and I tried to
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The first time, when I met Dr. Bosworth, here, was in Miami. We were having meeting. Dr. Bosworth's internationally known, forty years experience in teaching Divine healing. He thought that someday God would send the--the gift to the church. And then when he heard I was down there, he just thought, "Well, there it is again, just somebody preaching Diving healing." He came to the meeting one night. And coming through the meeting... We were having, what they call, the fast line; thousands were standing. That afternoon, two little boys on WBAY, broadcasting station, been interviewed, been born blind. Both of them had their sight, and they had them down there at the broadcasting station, interviewing them. So Brother Bosworth came out to the meeting. And it happened to be, while the fast line started, there was several thousand we had to pass by that night, nothing but just laid hands on them coming by, four abreast.
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They pushed a little girl through. I shall never forget the child. She was a cute little thing. She was a little, blond-headed girl, one tooth out in front, and had a little, new little manicure in her hair, or what you call them things that women put in their hair. They pushed her... She was in braces, down over her--her little waist here. And they'd push her through the line, and I'd lay hands on her. She'd get off the platform, and they'd push her back in the line. Why, the poor little thing... And she kept coming through. And then someone would bring her through, and they lay hands on her. And while she passed through again, she looked up, kind of one of those little bitty grins, you know, and that tooth out. And Something just said, "Stop the child." I said, "Honey..." I seen she didn't have faith to be healed at that time.
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notice how He sometimes, you have to work. The people say, "Oh, I believe, Brother Branham." But here they are, down here; and here's where they ought to be, up here. Well, then those things of telling their diseases and the secrets of their heart, the faith rises up till I get the person to believe me. That's what He said, "If you get the people to believe you, then be sincere when you pray, no demon can hold over there, then." He has to know the Master. Then... And I know He told me that. And when I can get that patient up to a place till their faith comes to this, that's what gives me a perfect faith. I've never seen it fail. And it never will fail. It can't fail.
And then when the girl, they pushed her through, I said, "Honey, you stand right behind me." And she stood back there, just holding her; she held on to my coat tail. I said, "You pray, honey." And she'd have her little head down, praying. And Brother Bosworth was setting, taking all this in, still just a little bit skeptic. And he was watching, 'cause he was out there, just watching the last of the meeting going through. And she was... It was the last night, I believe it was. And she was holding my coat, and I just kept on praying. I'd forgot about the child. I turned around again; I said, "Honey, keep praying," like that.
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And after a while, I begin to feel that faith begin to set in, like a heart beat, pump, pump, pump. And when it begin to... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... go like that, I turned around to her. I said, "Now, sweetheart," and I laid my hands upon her and asked the Lord Jesus. I said to the mother, I said, "Now, take the braces off of her." She said, "But, Brother Branham, I tell you, she's..." I said, "Uh-huh, don't you doubt that, lady. You do what you're told to do." She walked over there and took the braces off the child. Here she come back down and holding that great big braces, through those people like that, perfectly normal, just as normal as she could be, those little legs. Is that right, Doctor Bosworth? And went on with the meeting. Just a few moments, I kept...
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Oh, twice the distance, or maybe better, of this building, under the great circus tent where the people were standing, plumb back out into the highways, there at the Princess Gardens. Then on back, I kept... I felt something set in, begin to again, "Whew, whew." I knew it was the faith. I couldn't tell just where it was coming from. I kept turning, looking; but the people passing so fast, and them crying, trying to
touch you and things. After while, I spotted It, way back towards the back, a fellow with a white shirt on. I waited, find out what kind of a spirit had him bound. The man was crippled. He'd fallen off of a horse, a few years before that. Was a merchant in Miami. His hand was crippled up and his arm, like that. He came down as a critic to criticize in the meeting. And then he begin to get faith. I stopped, and I said, "Sir, you way back, fourth from the row, going back this way, with a white shirt up, on, stand up on your feet. Jesus Christ has healed you." And when he stood up, there went his hands up. His little painted-up wife, you'd thought she was a holy-roller, as the little brother said this morning on his broadcast, to hear her screaming. There he was, perfectly delivered.
Brother Bosworth investigated the case, then he come to me. He asked the man all about it. And when he come to find it this way, he said, asked me, said, "How did you know that that was the man?" I said, "Sir, I begin to get weak. I knew it was coming from somewhere." And he said, got to the microphone, he said, "That proves Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. It proves it." Said, "Now, the gift that was in Jesus Christ would be like this whole ocean out here, beating against the bank. The gift in our brother would be like a spoonful of water taken out of it. But the same chemicals would be in the spoonful of water, the same kind of chemicals that's in the entire ocean." That's right. And I--I could feel myself getting weaker. And there was the man perfectly delivered.
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Now, that's happened hundreds of times. And there's people in this building, I believe, that's been in other meetings, to witness it. Have I got friends in here that's been in other meetings, could witness and say that's the truth? Raise your hands if you are here. Now, you can see. The Bible said, "In the mouth of two or more witnesses..."
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Now, when, you can have the same thing here in Louisville. There's no need of anyone going away from here without being perfectly delivered. I might not have just the time for everyone at the platform, but everyone can benefit by it. If God can prove Hisself here to be God, and what... has confirmed what I've said to be the truth, then believe God. Then act upon your faith, and put your faith as living action, and God will go to work on you right there, and will make you well.
Hot Springs, now, it was... I believe it was in Little Rock. One night the ambulances had got so thick, till it blocked the street cars. They had to bring the police down there to make them get off the corner, just below the castle in Hot... in Rock... Little Rock, Arkansas. Rev. Mr. Brown was one of the pastors there. If you wish to get this testimony, write to Rev. G. H. Brown, 505 Victory street, Little Rock, Arkansas, and listen to this. Talk about demon power... I'd just... That was about my fourth or fifth meeting, 'long about eleven o'clock; after my hand had got so numb. Sometimes when I go home, my hand is so numb, plumb, till I have to run hot water on it for pretty near a half hour, to get feelings back to it again, from the physical. And there's a watch; I take a hold of a human's hands, with that on there, it'll stop that watch dead still. I've got a Longines watch now, just come from the factory. I took a hold of it. What physical reaction, or what mechanical thing does it, I do not know.
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But Mr. Brown said, "Come down into the basement, Brother Branham, of the auditorium." He said, "I've got a case down here that you've never seen anything like it." Well, I went down while I was resting. I've seen some horrible sights, but I never seen anything quite like that. I've went into institutions where young ladies used the bed pans, smear it on their face, insane. Seen some horrible things, but never nothing like this. Lying on the floor was a woman about thirty years old, thirty-five, strong-looking woman. And her--her legs were sticking right up like this, and they were bleeding.
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There was a man standing on the steps, just a good old Arkansas brother with a pair of overalls on and a blue shirt. Friends, I will say, sometimes the best of hearts beat under that. That's right. That's true, I believe. I--I don't like any put on. I--I like real old fashion men and women (That's right.) God-saved, twice borned. And he was standing there, had his old faded-out-looking clothes on. I said... Walked down. I said, "How do you do?" And he said, "Good evening. Are you Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir." Said, "I thought you was." The PA system was taking it down in there also. They had a bunch of insane on one side.
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But they couldn't keep this woman with no one. Taken about eight or ten men to bring her in. They couldn't bring her in an
ambulance. They wouldn't put her in an ambulance. And they sent someone up there in a car, and she kicked all the glasses out of the car, and them men trying to hold her in the car. And there she was, laying on her back. Doctor had give her some shots for premature change of life had run her into this. And there she was, laying on her back. And I said, "Well, I will walk out and see if I feel any vibrations." He said, "Brother Branham, don't you go out there." Said, "She'd kill you." I said, "Oh, I think not," just like that. And I walked out. She was laying there, looking at me, kind of batting her eyes, staring. And I said, "Good evening." She never said a word. I took a hold of her hand. I said, "Good evening." Said, "She don't even know her own name, Brother Branham. She hasn't known for two years."
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And I took a hold of her hand. And just by God's blessing I happened to be on the guard. She just gave me a jerk with both hands, like that, and she would've probably broke the bones of my body. And I threw my foot out and caught her right across the bosom. She just pulled me way down. I jerked away from her. And then when I run from her to get on the steps, I seen a sight that I've never seen before. That woman, with her two limbs sticking up in the air, like this, come chasing me, on her back, like a snake. You could hear her crawling like that, on the floor. Now, that's the devil. You can say other, what you desire, but that woman was bound by the devil. She came to me on her back, like a serpent, and she got up there and she hit against the side of the floor like that. She turned around, put her big strong limbs up against... kicked like that. There was a bench setting there. She hit it with her head; the blood flew out of the side of her head. And--and she knocked a piece of it off. And she grabbed it in her hand, threw it at her husband and struck the wall. And the plastering fell from the wall, where she hit it with such a terrific... Maniac, twenty times her strength, probably... And there that great... She was a good size, strong woman, anyhow.
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And then she started making a real funny noise, going, "E-e-ee-e-e, eeeeee," like that. I looked at her, and I thought "Why, I've never seen nothing... God have mercy on a poor human being bound like that." And the man commenced to crying. He walked over and put his hands around, his arms around me, said, "Brother Branham, now you say there's no vibration?" Said, "And I don't know what am I going to go." He just broke down, to crying. He said, "She's got five little children at home." And said, "I--I... She's been a good woman." Said, "She harrowed these old clods and helped me to raise cotton crops."
And said, "When she taken sick," said, "I've done everything that I could do. I--I sold my farm." And said, "In order to get her here, Brother Branham, I had one thing left, a pair of mules. And I sold them to get the brother to bring her two hundred miles, to bring her down here. And now she's kicked the glasses out of the car, that's why her limbs are bleeding." Said, "She hasn't been off her back for two years, and don't even know her own name." I said, "Well, brother, sure, God can heal her."
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And about that time she turned around. She said, "William Branham, you have nothing to do with me. I brought her here." He said, "Why..." I said, "That's not her. That's that devil speaking out of her." That's right. They recognize. They know. He said, "Why, Brother Branham, that's the first word she spoke in two years." I said, "The devil's just using her lips, just like it was in the case of legion." She come crawling over that way to me, said, "You ain't got nothing to do with me," crawling like that.
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I said, "Brother, do you believe the story that you heard me tell about the coming of that Angel?" He said, "With all my heart," he said, as he threw his arms around me. I walked to the corner step, and I prayed with all my heart to the Lord Jesus. I said, "God, look at that poor woman, five little innocent children at home, no mother, one suckling baby." I said, "What can happen? O God, have mercy." And the Spirit of the Lord came. And I asked the devil to leave the woman. Turned back around, I said, "Now do you believe it?" He said, "With all my heart. What shall I do with her, Brother Branham?" I said, "Take her back. Take her right on back to the sanatorium." I said, "If you don't doubt one thing that I've told you, watch what will happen."
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Two months after then, I was at Jonesboro, Arkansas, there where many things was being happening. Some twenty-eight thousand people had gathered into the city. And I was speaking, and I seen, pressing or waving their hands at me, some woman. She said, "Don't you recognize me, Brother Branham?" I said, "No, ma'am." She was setting out like that, and everyone... Said, "I... You all, all of you excuse me." She said, "I just wanted to see you."
And I seen somebody laughing there, it was her husband. And there she was setting there just as normal and in her right mind, with her five little children, just as perfect as she could be. They'd taken her back. She never kicked the car one time, going back. They put her back in the padded cell. The second morning, they went in to feed her, and she was setting up. And on the fourth, third or fourth morning, they dismissed her as a well person, and sent her home to her children. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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Look, friends, demons recognize God's power sometimes before ministers do and Christians. Did you know that? Many times... Read the Bible. When the priest said it, "Oh, He is Beelzebub." The devil said, "We know who you are, the Son of God, the Holy One of Israel." Is that right? You remember when Paul and Silas, when the ministers said they were impostors, that little old fortuneteller said they were men of God, who had the way of Life.
If I'm not mistaken, Rev. Hooper, from Phoenix, Arizona, setting in the back of the building, he could verify that statement. Wasn't you there that night, Rev. Hooper? There's a man there was right there just when it taken place. Write to Rev. G. H. Brown, 505 Victory Street, Little Rock, Arkansas, and ask him for the testimony. Let him send you... Let the sanatorium testify of it. That's one of the thousands.
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Just once more. The day after this, the Angel of the Lord came into the building... And then I will start the prayer line. I was--I was down to El Dorado. I'm to be there at the race track about two nights, just soon as I leave here, I go to Shreveport, and then to El Dorado, and on down. I--I was over to a little church. They said, "If you'll come over to speak at this church..." Thousands had packed the city. And the reporter had been converted on this picture, the keeper of the--the hotel, both the same time. They wanted to know how to find Jesus. Been members of churches for years, but when they seen the work of God, that God was doing with it, in among His people... They had me in a--a--a little room. And I was preaching.
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And when I went out, there was four men gathered around me, started out the door. And stand in the rain out there, a holding canvas over their loved ones and everything, for city blocks, people
waiting; no place to go, no, couldn't even get in, place nowhere, no private homes. They had newspapers laying down, holding canvas, when a shower rain would come over, little crippled children, and waiting for their turn to try to get in the prayer line. I tell you, brother, that's people who love God. That's right. I never will forget. So many phenomenal things, mystics has happened along the line. I was started out of the building, people crying, pressing, trying to get over to where we was at, like that. They had this line moving on towards the car.
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I kept hearing somebody hollering, "Mercy. Mercy. Mercy." And I looked around. I could hear it somewhere, look like Something just jumping in my heart. I looked. Standing way over to one side... In Arkansas they have a--a law: the colored and the white can't be together. Standing off to one side was a colored man, just a little cap hold in his hands, standing there in the rain, and the rain hitting him in the face. His wife, hollering, "Mercy. Mercy. Mercy." I thought about old blind Bartimaeus. And I started to go on, and looked like Something just telling me not to do that. Hundreds of them, pressing, I said, "I want to go over to where that colored man is." They said, "Brother Branham, you can't do that." Two of them was police. They said, "You'd start a race riot right now." Said, "You can't do that." I said, "But the Lord's telling me to go over where he's at."
And I just broke out to one side and went over there. They formed a little ring. And I heard her say, when I come up; the old wife, she said, "Here comes the parson, honey." My, my. Got over a little close to where he was... He said, "Is this you, Parson Branham?" And I said, "Yes, sir." He begin to feel me on the face with his hand. And he said, "Parson, have you just a minute to hear my story?" I said, "Yes, sir."
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He said, "Parson," he said, "my old mammy was a good religious woman." Said, "She never told me a lie in all her life." Said, "She's been dead now about ten years." Said, "I never heard of you in all my life, even." Said, "I live about a hundred miles from here." And said, "Last night..." Said, "I been blind now for many years." Said, "Last night, I woke up, and standing by the side of my bed, stood my old mammy. And she said, 'Honey, child, you go down to El Dorado, Arkansas, and ask for somebody by the name of Branham.' Said, 'The Lord has given a gift of Divine healing. You shall receive
your sight.'" Oh, my, it feel like my heart would get that big. I seen God was speaking. If man won't believe it, God will declare it some way to the honest in heart. He will.
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I put my hands upon him; I said, "Brother, the Lord Jesus that has sent this vision to you is standing here now to make you well." I took my hands off of him. Took a hold of his hand; cataract was dead. Tears begin to... dripped off his cheek. He said, "I thank You, Lord. I thank You, Lord." She said, his wife said, "Honey, do you see?" Said, "Yes, I see." Said, "Oh, you--you really sees, honey?" Said, "Yes." Said, "That's a red car setting there." Oh, my. She just started screaming like that. And then they grabbed me, took out for the car. Later on, I come off of a plane down near Memphis, Tennessee, one night. I started in; I heard somebody holler, "Hello, Parson Branham." I went over there. And who was it? There he was, normal, could read his Bible or anything.
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I think, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that would save a wretch..." He's still the same tonight as He was then. He's here, friends. The only thing I'm asking you to do is believe that I've told you the truth. And watch the power of Almighty God do as I have said. If it doesn't, then you say that Brother Branham is a false prophet. If it does, then you believe God for His testimony. Shall we bow our head.
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Our heavenly Father, oh, I think, someday when we come down to the end of the journey, and I come up to Your house, I pray that You'll let me in, and I can have a seat somewhere over there with all these dear people that I've met. We can talk over the things, the memories we have of these great things that Thou has done for us. And how wonderful, along the pilgrim journey here, to see You and know that You're near, and You're here tonight to deliver these sick and afflicted people. Lord, to this time, we know not who Thou has chosen to come into this line. Thou does know. Someone's here. There's fifty people that has cards. Lord, Thou will provide. You know who's here to come. And we commit it to Your hands, Lord.
Now, bless every one. And may those, Lord, who will not be able to be in the prayer line, when they see others that's afflicted and
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tormented, as they are, see them delivered, O God, I pray that their faith will mount up and believe. And, O Father, grant that there'll be an old fashion revival just start all over the city, Lord, that every church will have revivals and lost souls will be coming in, believing upon Thy beloved Son. Grant it, dear God. Now, Father, Thou knowest the--the weakness of man. And we know the power of God. And I pray that You'll send Your Angel, the One Who separated me from my mother's womb, bringing me into this life, and has ordained for this purpose, will stand here tonight. Dear God, upon making this great statement, boldly before the thousands, and hundreds of thousands of people, Thou has never failed yet. And I know that You will not fail us tonight, but You will grant tonight that every secret sin of the heart will be told to the people, their diseases will be told them, the demons that's binding them. And every one will be delivered, won't they, Father? because we trust You, and love You, and believe You, and ask it in Your Name and for Your glory. Hear the prayer of Your servant now, Father, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Might say, while he's getting the lines lined up, every one in here knows the... We're trying to say this, that you must be reverent. We will not be responsible... I have to say this by law every night. I am not responsible for any critic in the meeting. These things go from one to the other, especially epileptic and so forth like that. I've seen people come in the meeting perfectly normal; see a spastic setting here, and this spastic go out normal and the critic go out crippled. I've seen them come in as many as twenty-eight at a time, fall with epilepsy, in the floor. These demon powers will find a place to go. And, friends, that's the Bible. How many knows that's Bible doctrine? Let's see your hand. This is just the New Testament church in action, isn't it, friends? the power of Almighty God to deliver.
And while they're lining the peoples up, I think those in the wheelchairs, they just wish you to set still, they'll come get you whenever they... When your card number is ready, they'll--they'll call you.
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Now, I want everyone to remember this. You're--you're always welcome at the meetings, everyone. But when I ask you to bow your head, you must bow your head. And then when I... Do not raise your
head until you hear me say over this microphone, or Brother Bosworth standing here, to raise your head. If you do before that, I will not be responsible for what happens.
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Mr. Hooper, setting close, he was at a... I like to see someone that was in another meeting. He was at Phoenix, Arizona, with us, where one of the officials of the city, setting in the meeting. He said, "Well, that's a good case of psychology," said, "I will just... Nothing to it." I kept feeling the man. He was setting back to my right. I said, "Someone to my right, with their head up." He wouldn't keep his head down. One of the ushers told him, said, "Keep your head down." He was an official of the city, so he said, "I don't have to." "All right." So they just brought me word back.
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I had a little child there, and he had a clothes pin with a rag wrapped around it, trying... He'd had an epileptic fit, was having one right on the platform then. Sometimes when an epileptic comes, it just throws them into fits. And I said, "All right, sir, I asked you. That's all I can do." I prayed. I said, "God, don't let this innocent child suffer for that child--for that man, his disobedience." Left the child. The man just smiled and went on. About two days later, he come--begin to have a funny feeling, said, "Oh, it's just me thinking that, that's all." Said, "It's just--it's just my imagination, is just getting the best of me." Tried to shake out of it. A day or so later, the officers picked him up downtown, walking around and around. About six weeks later, he come over...
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I was having a service at Charles Fuller... with Charles Fuller, over in Long Beach. If any of you was there, you know how many was in there. There was literally thousands in there, standing up-anddown the beach, so they... He couldn't get in there. Went up to Los Angeles, couldn't get in there. And, finally, at Modesto, His wife, on a rainy night, fell across the path. Beard had growed out on his face, horrible, hideous-looking. And there he was. Said, "Brother Branham, something's got to be done." Said, "He--he--he don't, he won't even eat. We can't poke water down him." Oh, he looked horrible, setting there, his eyes just stared. I walked in. He started going, "Hummmm," getting back from me, like that.
I told them to lock the doors. And we was tired, been in the Saturday night clubhouse there for hours, dealing with the sick. I had Brother Brown and Brother Moore to lock the door, to keep the people away. His wife was muddy from falling across the path, and held onto my trouser legs. I couldn't even move. They couldn't drag me, her holding on, to get to her husband. About forty-five minutes later, it left him. He put his arms around me and hugged me, put his hat on his head like that, shook my hand, went home to be a well man.
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Tell you, friends, if I was a critic, I wouldn't even set around where it was going on. I'm here to help you and not to hinder you. Well, now, just remember that. If you'll keep your head bowed, if something would happen, I'm responsible for that then. Now, you couldn't story about it, because I'll know it when you come here. But now, you just be reverent, be in prayer. When I ask you to bow your head, you keep your head bowed. You did last night, very lovely. And you do the same thing tonight, everything will be all right. Are you... Have your lines ready. Shall we bow our heads now just a moment.
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Father, I realize that--that this is a great time. It's a time when we standing face to face with the adversary. And here's crippled, afflicted, and dying people. Here's people that's standing here in the line, that maybe with cancer or maybe with heart trouble. I don't know what's wrong with them now. But Thou will tell Thy servant. And I pray, Thee, that Thou will deliver every one of them perfectly well. And may Satan be called out each time, and may he be exposed before the audience. May every one be lovely, Lord, co-operating, all Christian. May we have a great meeting tonight. May the power of the Holy Ghost just sweep through the building, heal every one that's in the building, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. Let's sing, just once, if you will. Only believe... (Everyone just as reverent as you possibly can be.)
All things are possible, only believe; Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe.
Wonder if we could sing it like this now:

Now I believe...
How many believe? Just raise your hand while you're singing it. Now I believe, (Praise the Lord.)
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has a cancer or a female trouble. And just a moment; they both hit almost alike. It's
female trouble, is what it is. That right? Yes. It's almost to a cancer though, that's what it is. Life hasn't been a flowery bed of ease for you, has it? No, you had a lot of troubles...
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It's a great privilege for me to be here tonight in Houston again. It's been some time since I've seen you, and there's been many great victories won, many sorrows is past. Still tonight I'm thankful that I'm still saved by the Blood of Christ, the Son of God. So thankful that I'm here again tonight in Houston to minister one of my longest meetings. We have seventeen straight nights to be at Houston this time. That's the longest meeting I've ever held since our meetings has got into a larger calibers. I trust to God that it'll prove to be a great meeting. Many of the afflicted people, sick, suffering will be delivered during this period of time. And I trust also that many that are wayward, indifferent towards Christ will know Him as their personal Saviour during this time, and altogether that God will get glory out of all that's done or said.
And I want you all tonight, while the meeting's just beginning... A very bad night, just a few people out. I want you to try to help me during this time. I don't get to meet the people during these meetings as I would like to, because that I use my time in prayer. I must be prepared for these things that comes on, such as the healing service. I come here to help. And I must... My help cometh from above, and I--I must stay in contact with God constantly, if I expect to help someone else. And as well as I would like to take each person and have a good private talk with each one of you, that's almost impossible in this service.
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But there is another time coming when I believe that we'll have all the time to spend with each other, that we desire to spend in a better land, where we won't have to be busy praying for the sick and the afflicted. There'll be none there. We'll be living door neighbors to Jesus. And there'll be no more sickness and suffering there. God, hasten the day when all this troubles will be over. And then we shall see Him face to face and know as we're known. That's what we strive for. That's what I'm striving for tonight, is to try
to make that my home. And I went...?... see how many that I can bring along with me. For it's just as real... more real than we're here tonight.
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The meetings will continue here for quite a few nights. Then we have two empty spaces, two nights that we'll try to arrange some other auditorium. Then we go to the coliseum. We're expecting a great time. Everyone bring out your sick and afflicted. And come, bring the sinners. So many times when miracles are performed, or something is done, it changes people's hearts, their attitude towards Christ. Here recently I had a meeting, one of the largest conversion altar calls at one time I ever... Two thousand accepted Jesus at one time. Two thousand people came to Christ. And I trust I'll meet every one of them over in a--the other land.
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Now, the healing in--in the campaigns, you can have that as it is. And... So get one, especially you sick people in the line, I want you to read that little pamphlet, "He Ascended On High." If haven't the five cents, take it anyhow. And so we're not here for money. We're here to help you. That's our heart's. We're here to help you. Now, I can only speak of what I know is truth. Now, if I tell you the truth, you should believe me. And if I speak of myself, and say something that God has done, and God does not speak back of that, then that's wrong. But if I tell you something that God has done, and God comes down and testifies the same thing, then you ought to believe God. Isn't that right?
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Now, what I tell you tonight, I want each one of you to remember just what I telled you. And then, if those things doesn't happen just the way I say they are, then when the service is over, at the end of these seventeen days, you can go around town and say, "Brother Branham is a false prophet." But if God testifies back just exactly what I say is the truth, well then, you believe God if you don't believe me. Isn't that right? Then you can go around and say the Lord is right, the Lord has told us the truth. He sent us.
Now, as far as the... a gift to heal, there... Many people do not understand what "gifts" means. There's nobody can heal you but Christ. I don't care how much a gift you possess, Christ is the Giver. See? And you're only healed through Christ. I wish to read just a little Scripture now and explain to you some of the operations of the gift. Then you'll know how to come. And then
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you'll... I'll tell you what we can do. How'd you like to do this, all of us? If you can just take this little group here, like maybe, probably eighteen hundred or two thousand people, something like that... If you could... If you could take this little group here tonight, and--and settle it down, and let everyone believe just exactly what I've told you to be the truth, there'll be a meeting that'll shake Houston. That's right. He will.
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Now, remember. If you can just take... Maybe there's some of it you do not understand. Frankly, friends, there's much of it that I do not understand. I just accept it. Don't never try to figure God out; you can't do it. God is not understood by knowledge; God is understood by faith. Is that right? What if Peter would've tried to figure out how deep that water was, and how impossible it was for him to walk on that water; he'd have never walked. See? But he just took Christ at His Word and walked on. Well, that's the way I did this. I just took Him at His Word, and there I went. And you just take Him at His Word tonight. And if you, maybe be a sinner and do not understand how to take God at His Word, then God sent me here. I want you to take my word for it, and see if it doesn't come to pass, that God will bless you.
Now, can we bow our heads while we talk to our Maker, just for a moment. Our heavenly Father, we're thankful tonight with... And our hearts are made to rejoice in our--the--our salvation, because that Jesus, the Redeemer, has come and has blessed us. He came to the earth, the Messiah, a made after the manner of sinful flesh, and taken our sickness upon Him, and our iniquities; and He--He bore them to Calvary's cross, and then ascended on high sitting at the right-hand of the majesty tonight, making intercessions, become our High Priest, a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. And tonight, after all these hundred years is past, isms has rose, fanaticisms has come and gone, but yet the glorious power of the Son of God still rules and reigns in the hearts of thousands of His people. And now, I pray Thee, Lord, as we're entering into this great revival, that we believe is just on the threshold of it now here at Houston, that the glory of God will come down in our midst. And may every crippled, blind, afflicted, twisted, spastic, mental deficiency, all manners of diseases be healed here. May thousands of people come flocking around the altar, giving their hearts to Thee, the Holy Spirit be poured out. It'll just... Lord, may seventeen days not even start it. May it go on, and on, and on until Thy beloved Son appears in glory, and we may appear with Him, clothed in His righteousness, to look
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Bless us, Father. Now, as Thy poor humble servant stands tonight to make this great proclaim here, or proclaim this great thing that Thou hast done... And may every listener here have faith. And may Your Spirit, Lord, that's performed these things, may He stand in this meeting tonight and verify everything that's said. And night after night... And may there be an old fashion revival here, that'll just shake this city and every church. May thousands be borned into the Kingdom. Grant it, Father, for we ask it for the glory of God in the Name of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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In Exodus the 23rd chapter, very familiar verse that I read usually in the starting of the revival, because that this is the... this is... Deals something with the way God is dealing today, God speaking to His servant Moses and sending him. The 20th verse of the 23rd chapter, if you're taking it down, and read down to a portion of the 23rd verse. And behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions... my name is in him. But if thou will indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then will I be an enemy to thy enemies, an adversary to thy adversaries. For my angel shall go before thee...
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God speaking here to His servant, Moses... It was a time that-that the children of Israel got away from God, and got away from His precepts and so forth, and had become--gotten in trouble, and were down in Egypt in the Egyptian bondage. And there come a great need. As long as they were faring presumptuously and had need of nothing, why they went along all right. But when God's prophetic time come to pass, after He promised Aha-Abraham that his seed would sojourn in a strange land for four hundred years, and He would bring them out by a strong hand... Then when the hour of the time of the promise drew nigh, there rose up a Pharaoh who didn't know Joseph. No matter how impossible it seems that it will not be, when the time of the promise draws night, God will make things heap up to fit His prophetic promise. Do you believe that? He always does. He always... It's always that way.
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Who would've thought that those people, how they were
respected, and almost worshipped because of Joseph, that young prince that was down there, that told the--the dream, and saved Egypt many times. In a space, short space like four hundred years they'd ever forgotten him, but when God's promise drew nigh, there rose up a Pharaoh who knew not Joseph, and he caused taskmasters to be put upon the people, and--and so forth. And they begin to be burdened, and they cried to God because of the reason of the taskmasters. And then during this time, after they begin to cry, well, God had a peculiar thing to happen.
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Now, it's to my humble belief, that gifts are not handed out with hands. Gifts are foreordained of God. Gifts and callings are without repentance. You can say things, and try and make these things act right, and believe right, and to work right; but they are not unless God Himself is behind it. It's not nothing you try to bluff. You can't bluff Satan. He won't be bluffed. You've got to know where you're standing. That's right. And gifts and callings are without repentance. They're borned into the world. God foresees things and knows His prophecy, what's coming to pass. And He starts something here to meet it up there. And when He seen that the time of the people's going to need this, He had a little boy borned a peculiar, odd birth, by the name of Moses. He was given the name of Moses from Pharaoh's daughter, because he was taken from the water, if you know your--the Bible, Sunday school story of it.
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And then when he became the age of forty years, God called him for His purpose. And he thought, surely, that--that the people of Israel would understand what he was sent for. But the people misunderstood Moses. Now, get this close, friends. The hardest thing that God has ever had to deal with His people, is to get one mortal to believe another. That's the hardest thing God ever has done, to get one mortal to believe... Well, they believed Jesus would been the Son... They couldn't believe He was the Son of God. They believed God. But He said Him being a man makes Hisself equal with God. How could He, a poor peasant, how could He be? A man born in a manger, a background like He had, from a poor family, raised up, one garment on Him, and lived the way He did, not even a place to lay His head. The foxes has dens, and the birds of the air has nests, but the Son of man has no... How could that Man be the Son of God? How could He be what He claimed to be? But He was, wasn't He? He was.
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Now, they believe it. But it... It was too late for them now.
Their destination is sealed away, those who rejected Him. And God sends those things that people might be simple and humble. And listen, friends; more simpler you can be, more God can deal with you. I'm not against education. Educations are all right. But people get so highly educated, till they think they know more about it than God does. And then they miss the goal. You've got to forget all you ever knowed in your own knowledge to know Christ. Well, you just come childlike and accept Him. That's all. That's the way you accept God. And more simple you can get, more humble, and get away from yourself, your own ideas, just take God's Word for what it's worth, and believe It. And it's by faith that these things are come, not what you can figure out. You'll never be able. There's never been a man on the world, no saint, nor no one has ever figured God out. You can't. So don't think that you can do something that they cannot do, 'cause they--it can't Be. That's right. You just believe Him. That's what He wants you to do, not try to figure Him out.
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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, then God sent this Moses down there. And the people said, "Who made you a ruler over us? Why, you think you're someone great." That wasn't Moses' attitude. He was sent for a deliverer, knowing that the time was there. And he thought, surely, the people had been reading their Scriptures and things, and they would know that the time of the promise was near, or been reading the promise of Abraham, that the time was near at hand. And they failed to read... Can't... Does... (Am I standing too close to this mike? Does it rumble up back there in the... Back over in the balconies back there, can you hear me all right back there? If you can, raise your hand. I haven't got too much of a voice.)
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But when the promise drew nigh, they thought, surely, that they would understand. But the people of God... Usually Satan works right in there with their understanding, and makes them dull of understanding. And there they miss God nine times out of ten. But God had His promise there. Now, then when Moses went down to deliver them, why, they--they refused him, rejected him. And it cost them forty years more suffering. Isn't that right? Forty years more suffering. Moses run to the backside of the desert, of course. And after while, was finally called again of God when the people begin to groaning and crying. And--and then this same Moses, that they rejected and accept Pharaoh yet as their leader, this same Moses, God sent back to them to be a leader and have jurisdiction over them.
Now, look. The peculiar part of the sending of Moses is what I want to get to you. Moses was herding his father-in-law's sheep, Jethro, on the backside of the desert. And one day a--an Angel appeared to him in a burning bush. Now, an Angel came down to bring the Message to Moses--and otherwise was to be his guide. Men are... They can't... You can't guide yourself. There's two ways: that's your way and God's way. And when you're in your way, you're out of God's way. And you have to forget your own way to find God's way. And man cannot lead himself. He was called a sheep. We're likened to sheep. If there's anybody around here knows anything about raising sheep, when a sheep gets lost, it's perfectly helpless. It'll just stand and bleat till it dies. That's all. It's helpless.
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And we, without a leader, are helpless. And Christ is our leader. And God was Moses' leader, though He sent a--an Angel to lead him. "I send My Angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I have promised." The Angel was to be his leader. The Angel performed the miracles. Moses never performed any miracle. The Angel of God in Moses performed the miracles. You see what I mean? The Angel of the Lord was with him. The Angel led them, performed the miracles. Now, God has always, by all men, through the Scriptures, through all ages, has ordained that Angels should guide the people. There was Moses; there was Daniel, and oh, how many more could we say, all the way down.
Someone was speaking to me here not long ago. Said, "But Brother Branham..." [Brother Branham clears his throat.--Ed.] Pardon me. Said, "Not after the Holy Ghost is come, no Angels guide the church, or guides individuals. No, sir." Said, "It's the Holy Ghost that guides us." That's misunderstanding between Angel and the Holy Ghost. That is error. The Angel's led the Church right on, and still leading the Church. Correctly. How many would say that Philip had the Holy Ghost? Let's see your hands over the building. How many thinks Philip had the Holy Ghost? Philip, the apostle Philip? Surely, see. All right, he did, didn't he. Who was it spoke to him down there at--at Samaria and told him to go to the desert Gaza? An Angel. Did he have the Holy Ghost? Sure he did.
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How many says that Peter the apostle had the Holy Ghost, that preached the--the inauguration sermon for the Church, the Day of Pentecost? Well, when he was laying in prison up there, and Who was it come in to the... and touched him and brought him outside? The Angel. Is that right? How many says Saint Paul, the apostle had the Holy Ghost? Let's see your hands. When the ship was tossed about for fourteen days, and there's no hopes at all, and he come out there and shook his hands and hollering, and I guess, "Glory to God, be of a good cheer. The Angel of the Lord, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night." Is that right? How many believes John the Revelator had the Holy Ghost? The whole Book of Revelations was showed to him by an Angel. Is that right?
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And they had the Holy Ghost, friends. The Angel... We're not a worship of Angels. It's God sending His ministering Spirit in the Church to minister to the people. There's no flesh can glory before God. If anybody could've gloried, it would've been Jesus. But He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Is that right? They said, "We believe God." He said, "If you believe God, believe also in Me." Now, when the Angel came to your servant here, He said, "If you'll get the people to believe you." Now, there's the hard thing. "If you'll get the people to believe you..." How many believes God? All of you, don't you. You believe Christ, you believe the Holy Ghost.
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Now, that's not the question tonight. I'm glad you do that. That makes you a Christian. But that is not what I'm trying to get to you--you now. I get to that when make my altar call. You must believe them first. If you're not in connection with them, you'll never know this. But as much as you believe in them, you still got to believe that I'm telling you the truth, and what I say is the truth. Jesus was the... He was... His hands was bound and tied to any miracle, or anything, any kind of a miracle, because the people did not believe Him. And the very people that believed God killed Him. Is that right? No matter how much they believed in God... They were very religious, orthodox. Very religious. And they believed God. But to believe Him, oh, no. Uh-uh. See? That was too much. Ma... A man? They couldn't believe no man. They could believe God.
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And tonight, so many people can believe God. Sure. You
believe Christ, you believe the Holy Ghost, and so forth. But when a man comes to you and tells something, that's hard to believe. "I don't know whether I can believe you or not, friend." That's where it's at. See there? That's the reason God can't... That's the reason your pastor sometimes, when your pastor comes to you. The reason he can't help you, you've got to have faith in your pastor. You've got to believe that he's a man of God, sent of God to do these things for Him.
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Now, Divine healing died out for awhile here a few years ago; it just let down, as it happens through the age of the history. It's let down so often. And during that time, cancer broke out, sickness in the Church. Oh, my. Eighty percent of the people are sick now. And the people... Medical science, I salute them. They do great things. They make medicine to sell. And... I said to sell. All right. It's all right for those who want to take it. It's all right for them. But look. But in the phase we got today, the best doctors we ever had. Do you believe that? We got the best hospitals we ever had. Have we? We got the best drugs we ever practiced with, haven't we? And we got more sickness than we ever had, haven't we? Because we got more unbelief that we ever had, haven't we? That's right. Exactly. Only God's the Healer. That's right. And did you ever notice? Right in the days when we got all these fine drugs, and operation, and surgeons, and so forth; constantly they are building infirmaries for the incurable. Is that right? And there never was nothing that ever come before our Master, Jesus, but what He was more than a match for it. And no incurables to Him. All things are possible. Is that right? And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Is that right? Then nothing too incurable for Him.
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Now, when the people begin to cry out, "God, do this for us, do that for us. Send us deliverance, send us..." And thousands of His people dying yearly, cancer and so forth, then God heard their cries. And don't you think it's just as possible for God to send down deliverance for the sick people, as He did to bring the people out of their bondage back there in Egypt? Isn't He just as kindhearted to your cry, listen to your cry same as He is to theirs? He promised in the last days that He would have a Church, that these signs would follow them. Isn't that right? Well, don't you think the last days are here? Isn't it time now for these things to happen? Why it's here; we got it. Amen. It's here. You'll see it.
And Moses, of course, he didn't want to go. It was hard, because he wasn't a man, a good speaker, and he wasn't eloquent,
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and so forth; he had many things, slow of speech, and many... But God had ordained that man to do that job. It must be done. Now, He gave Moses... He said, "Them people won't believe me." He said... He gave him two signs then. He said, "You go perform this sign," of casting a serpent down--or the snake--or the rod down. He said, "If they won't believe that, then I'll give you another sign. And if they won't believe the first sign, they will believe the voice of the second sign." Now, he was given two signs that the people who rejected him might believe that he was sent of God to deliver the people. Is that right? How many believes that story's right, say, "Amen." [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That was true.
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Well, isn't He the same God tonight? Is them miracles impossible tonight? No, they're not. And they're just as possible as they was then. If God would deliver His people out of the bondage back there, from under the Egyptians, so can He deliver the people from under the bondage of sickness; because He died for that purpose. That's in the plan of redemption. You are redeemed. You're... When you get the baptism of the Holy Spirit, that's the earnest of your salvation. Is that right? In other words, it's a down payment. And if it'll make us feel like this on a down payment, what will it do when we get the full benefit of it? It'll be glorious, won't it? Well then, do you believe that you'll raise again and have an immortal body? How many believes that, in the--in the resurrection, that you'll raise and have an immortal body? Divine healing is the down payment, or the earnest money of your immortal body. My! See what I mean? You've got to have... It's the evidence that you will have an immortal body. When you see a...
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You'll see come to this platform, little old crippled, twisted children. You'll see them stand here all misformed and out of shape. And you'll see it with your own eyes, see their hands and arms come straight and walk off the platform, normal children. You'll see people come here that's all kinds of conditions, and see them healed and leave the platform. What is that? That's the down payment; that's the earnest, to know that that person someday, if they stay under the Blood of Christ, will receive a immortal body. Cancer ridden, blind, deaf, and dumb... It's the earnest of our salvation.
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Now, in the calling of this time, the going out on--on--on this I... to... I was borned of--of a very humble parent, a very humble home. I have no education at all, and I'm not... When I made that
remark awhile ago about education, I wasn't trying to take crutches for my ignorance. But what I'm trying to say, that it doesn't take education to know God; it takes a submissive heart to know God. And I was raised poor. I was raised in an irreligious family. But from the very time that I was born, something happened, not of my goodness, not of my parent's goodness, but by the foreknowledge of God. See? He brought it. I don't know why. I guess to show that He can choose what He wished to, whether it come out of the Vatican City, or--or He could take it out of the rubbish heap and make it (See?), wherever it come from.
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Then on down through life... Many of you know the story. You've read it, of how It would appear in different forms. When I was a little boy, just about twelve years old, It made It's first... About seven years old, It made It's first visible appearance as a wind in a bush. And then on later, knowing nothing about religion... Only thing I knowed, somebody told me there was a God, and that's all I knew about it, on till I was a man. And then after being converted, and become united with Baptist church... And one day on May the seventh, while coming in... And I was a--a game warden in Indiana. By the way, on the street today, I met a man. He's maybe here in the auditorium now, a Mr. Price, from Corydon, Indiana. I used to stay at his house when I was patrolling through there. And he's probably in the building now. Little did I ever know that I'd meet him on the street in Houston. But he and his wife are here. They're vacationing through to Florida, and came by for the meeting.
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And there's something pulled at my heart all the time. But on that day, It made Itself visibly known. It was a man of about six foot tall, weighing some two hundred pounds. When It came down, when It come... A few years before that, come down in the form of a Light, hung over where I was at. It's come down many times in the form of a Star, where thousands of people stood and looked at It. It's made Its visible appearance right in the auditoriums and so forth. And different things has taken place. This time when He come, He was a Man. And He... I--I was scared. He walked towards me. He said, "Do not fear; I'm sent from the Presence of God," said, "to tell you that your peculiar birth and--and peculiar life has been to indicate that you're taking a gift of Divine healings to the people of the world." Then said... And--and said, "If you'll get them to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, there'll be nothing stand before your prayers." Well, I said, "I'm uneducated, Sir." He said, "I'll be with you." And said, "That you might know, it'll come to pass that you'll take people by the right hand in your left." And
said, "You'll feel the results of it" (Now, I call it vibrations.) "upon your hand. You'll become familiar with that. And you'll tell people all of their diseases, and what they've got in their body. And then if you'll be..."
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Now, when I was in Texas the other time, that was in operation. Is that right? Any of you was in my meeting before, raise your hand if that was in operation? And if this... Now, you people raise your hands, all that was in my meeting, and know that was in operation. Not perfect, because I--I guessed at the diseases a whole lot. See? Because I didn't know how it felt. I'd feel a funny feeling; sometimes female trouble and cancer. I couldn't detect it; it sounds so much alike, was--felt so much alike. "Do you see the visible results on my hand?" And so forth.
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And I told you people... Now, remember, I told you people. I said, "He told me, 'If you'll be sincere (See?), then it will come to pass that you'll tell the people the very secrets of their hearts, and the things that they have done in their life that's wrong, and so forth, if you'll be sincere with what I give.'" Did I say that? How many remembers me saying that? Well, that has come to pass. It was standing at Calgary--or at the Regina, Saskatchewan, last--about three months ago. And I was standing on the platform talking like this to my audience. And we were having a great meeting. Some, I guess, close to ten thousand people were gathered in for that night at that pavilion, or the--the Queen Gardens it was, out where they have the stampede. And I was--I was speaking and I said, "Now, the Lord has told me that if I be sincere, that someday (I did at each meeting), it would come to pass that the secrets of the people's heart would be told."
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I just give you this before we close. And I turned around to get a drink on the platform. And they was forming the prayer line. And when I turned around to get a drink, Reverend Mr. Baxter, my Canadian manager... I was taking a drink of water and he taken his handkerchief and just wiping the perspiration off my forehead. He said, "God bless you, Brother Branham." I said, "Thank you, Brother Baxter." And I turned around; he walked around; and there stood a lady standing by the microphone, or been brought up from the prayer line. And I walked over like that. As I looked at the lady, I said, "Howdy do." And she said, "Howdy do." Something happened. I--I knew there was something that happened somewhere. I never felt it like that before. It was that anointing. It
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And I looked at that woman, and she was standing there a-her--her regular size. And I seen her get real little and start going back. Now, you'll hear that spoke right here. And I seen a little bitty girl, standing way down where she went down to a little bitty girl of about twelve years old. And I seen her setting by a desk. I said, "Something's happened, friends. I see a little girl." That woman left me. I said, "I see a little wo--a little girl. She's setting in the room, she--a school room. She's hitting her pencil. No, it's a pen. Oh," I said, "I--I see it fly; and it struck her in the eye." And the woman begin to screaming. It left off. She said, "Brother Branham, that was me. I'm blind in my right eye." And she said, "The pen se..." I said, "Well, I never had anything like that." I said, "Well, say..."
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And there she went back again. I seen a young lady about sixteen years old, and she was just a running just as hard as she could. And she had a big ribbon tied on her hair, on a double plait hanging on her back. She had on a checkered dress, and she was running real fast. And I looked, and there was a big yellow dog a chasing her. I said, "I see a young lady with a checkered dress..." Begin to tell just what I was seeing, looking in front of me. I said, "She goes up on the porch. I see a lady a take her in, run the..." She started screaming. She said, "That was me when I was going to school. Said, "I never thought of it before in my life." I said, "Something's happened here, friends. I don't know what's the matter." And I started. I said, "Let me have your hand, sister." I took her by the hand and started to... I said, "Well, I--I don't feel any vibration from it."
And I was looking down at her hand, and I looked up again, and I seen a lady coming from a white house--or from a barn, red looking barn, coming in towards a white house. She had a--a apron, holding something like this. And she was walking slow. And I seen her come. I said, "I see a lady coming." I said, "Sister, it's you." That was the normal time then. I could recognize it being the same woman. And I said, "Now, I see the lady. You--You started up the steps." And I said, "There's a flower bed over to your right, and the steps goes up like this." I said, "There's something wrong with your back. I see you can't get up the steps." And I said, "You lean over sideways, and you're crying." And I heard her say, "If I can ever get to Brother Branham's meeting, it'll be over."
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Then when I said that, somebody caught the woman. She started fainting. Then when she come to, her blind eye was normal. Her back, she could just move any... She... Her arthritis was fine. She could move her back any way, just perfectly normal like that. And I said, "Well, something has happened."
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And then Brother Baxter grabbed the microphone, he said, "Brother Branham, that's just what you spoke of a while ago would come to pass." And everybody begin to screaming all over the building everywhere. And I heard crutches rattling. And I looked, and here come a young fellow. He said, "Brother Branham." Trying to hobble on his crutches. He said, "Tell me what to do." And I said, "Well, brother dear..." I said, "I..." And the ushers come and pulled him off the platform, 'cause he's coming without a prayer card. And I said, "Just a minute." He said, "Well, Brother..." I said, "You go back and get you a prayer card, sonny boy." And just as he... He said, "Well, tell me what to do. Only thing I..." Just a crying, you know. And he said, "That's all I want you to tell me, just what to do." I said, "Well, I don't know what to tell you." I said, "Just a minute. Don't take him, ushers." I said, "You left Regina Beach this morning." I seen him standing by the side of a--a ca... I said, "You caught a bus. I seen up over the door, said, Regina Beach." I said, "I see a man and a woman refusing you to go. That's your father and mother." He said, "That's right." And I said, "And I see another man loaned you some money, which is... looks like your father." Said, "It was my uncle." And I said, "I see you... You're... Now, I see you in a room, and it's got a bay window. And you're looking out to the side." Said, "That's my aunt setting right over there. I'm living in her room like that." Said, "What must I do, Brother Branham?" I said, "Do you believe with all your heart?" He said, "With all my heart." I said, "Stand on your feet, Jesus Christ has healed you." And down went his crutches, and both legs come straight, and down through the building he went, just a glorifying God.
And from that, it started one after the other, and it never has ceased yet. That's right. That's true, friends. It will come to pass, if they won't hear the first, they will hear the second. Then a few nights after that, I was over at Windsor, Ontario. Had fourteen thousand at that meeting there.
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There was a man in the meeting who thought that that was just a bunch of make-up. He went and got a prayer card in one of the lines, pretending that he was sick and in need. And he went and wrote on the prayer card he had all kinds of diseases and so forth like that. And he come around and give it into the--the man, the prayer line manager. I never see the cards. They take the cards down there. He thought, "I'll just see what this is all about." Then when he come in and put that on a prayer card down, he come walking up. I said, "Good evening, sir." He said, "Howdy do." And I took a hold of his hand. There was no vibrations. I looked at him; I seen him and two men, standing in a room across a table making that up. I said, "Why would you purpose in your heart to try to deceive somebody?" I said, "God is apt to strike you dead right now."
And he fell down on the floor and begin to screaming to the top of his voice. He said, "God, have mercy on me." I said, "Why would you do that, friend?" He said, "Brother Branham, I--I thought it was just make-up. I--I--I honestly, is there forgiveness for me?" ...?...
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Here a few nights ago saw a woman. People, when they come to the platform, ugly, vulgar things that they've done down in their life. Now, remember friends, those things are told publicly right here before this audience; what you've done in your life, is told right here. So if there's anything upon your heart, and you do not wish to be known, stay out of the prayer line if you don't want it to be known. Unless that you come with a perfect faith, or ask--ask God to forgive you and put it under Blood, in the sea of forgetfulness, and whatever it is. Because I will not be responsible for what is said... what been brought out. Because if it's in your life, it's coming out.
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Now, just remember that, because God has promised it. It hasn't failed yet, and it will not fail here at Houston. That's right. God is still here, and He will answer. Now, what is that? You say, "Brother Branham, what does that mean?" And one time I was a little afraid to make statements. But here's what it is, friends. And I can give it to you. Those things, the diseases are told. That's perfect. Secrets of their heart. If they won't believe the first, I can't get them on that first one, then they will on the second one. It goes right back and begins to dig up their life and tell them.
Now, what's that got to do? Now, give me your undivided attention a few minutes. Friend, that doesn't heal nobody. That only brings the person up in faith. And when that person's here, he might come tell me he's got faith, and I take his word for it. But when you're under the anointing, as it is right now, you can't come and deceive that, where I know when you've got faith or not. He might think he has faith. There's a thing that people thinks they got faith when they haven't got faith. Isn't that right? But when they're way down here, and saying they got faith, it isn't up here. It's like tuning in a string on an instrument. When it comes up and coincides with this up here, then the thing's ready. Any demon that's got that person bound has got to turn loose when that type of faith comes. And you don't have to be up here; it'll act right out there, wherever you are.
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Now, the only thing that is for you is to stimulate faith of the people, that they might see God's willingness to heal the people. Now, as far as it comes to healing, it's your faith in God. Your pastor can anoint you with oil at your own church. And you have faith in God; it'll bring the same results. That's right. God's the Healer. No man's a healer; God's the Healer. These gifts are only to show what God's attitude towards the people, to get you people back to believe in God. 'Cause if you haven't got faith enough to believe for your sick body, how you going to have faith enough for the rapture? See? The people's got...
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Jesus asked this question. "When I return to the earth, will I find faith?" There's got to be a great Church full of faith. And God sent these things down to stimulate faith, to bring out faith, to prove what faith is. See what I mean? And those things... That's the way it can operate. Now... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... very highly elated when they give you their prayer card, and you know, the first night here. You're real happy, wasn't you. How'd I know that? That--That's right, sister. That's...?... is happening...?... coming up to this time...?... Now, but yet being my neighbor; you know those things are godly the truth. Is that right? That's right. Now, if--if you'll do this, if you'll solemnly believe now that...?... Which you know I'm telling you the truth. All right. Now, if you'll believe what I tell you to be the truth, and act upon the same, it's going to leave you and never return again. You believe that? I want you to be the happiest person in Texas while you're here. So when you get into Indiana, be the next to the happiest person there, 'cause I'm going back there, and--and I'll be with you...?... Yes ma'am. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Now, for that same thing, the Mayo Brothers told me once there wasn't a earthly chance for me to ever be well. You see where I oh, my... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Amazing grace, how sweet the sound it is. Now, just talking right now, It's beginning to let up after...?... See, it's right here, standing right... You stand there just a few just a few moments, you'll be healed anyhow. See? It's your faith that does the healing. It's coming on up. See? Now, you want to be happy, go away singing. Tomorrow, my, just-just be happy as they be. Now, you're going to feel the difference, and know it right here. And if you can feel that here in the presence of the gift, you can have it out there too, 'cause He's the Giver. Isn't that right? Amen.
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Now, folks, you that hear me. I was talking to the lady, because she's a neighbor there and so forth. And I was just asking in my heart that the Lord would show me something to her that just taken place. And I seen her when she got, when the brother handed her a prayer card, she just... Oh, my, she done like that, and I know then, and I told her that. And she was standing there in the room awhile ago, and looked over sideways, and she had a real weary feeling come over her. And she shut her eyes because the lights were looking gloomy to her. That's just what I told her. Is--is that the truth, sister? See, that builds her faith now, like some things that was done here a few weeks ago, down around home there. Well, they--they might think, "Well, somebody told him that." You see? But it's just so they would know right here. You understand, don't you, friends. Now, isn't the Lord wonderful?
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Now, friends, it--it doesn't take excitement; it takes true settled faith. God doesn't work under excitement, or screaming, or-or stomping, or running. You can't stomp the devil to make him go out. You've got to know right where you're standing and order him out. Isn't that right? The power of God (See?), that's what it is.
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Baal's prophets cut themselves and jumped upon the altars, screamed, "O Baal, O Baal. Like..." And Elijah said, "The Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that I'm Your servant." And fire begin to fall. Isn't that right? It's the authority of knowing, not guessing, but knowing. Now, if you'll just be reverent and watch. It might not seem very much to you. But friends, to these people that's getting healed, it's
wonderful to them. That's right. And now, you just be reverent while I have prayer. For this little woman's come all the way down here, over a thousand miles down here for this healing.
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Now, be reverent, Sister Roberson. Is that right, Roberson? And now, right now, you're going to be released from all your troubles, right now. Tomorrow, you're going to feel wonderful. And tonight, it's going to be a new time for you. You're going to be full of smiles and laughing when you go home. I see that before. And you're going to feel good. And then if it... I want you to stay that way the rest of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Always tries to tempt, but Thou art here in power over him. And I know tonight that standing right here, the Spirit of the Lord standing here is already begin to move in upon the woman, because she has faith. But she wanted to hear me ask You, and then she'd have faith from hereafter. As far as being healed, I know she's already healed. But she wants me hear it... wants to hear me ask You, Father, and I thank You for that faith for a neighbor woman. And God, I pray that she'll always remain healed. And may the power of the enemy, never no more, bother her. May she be happy, she and her husband. May they live long happy lives full of service for You. Grant it, Lord. And now, I rebuke Satan, that he stays away from this woman, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen.
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God bless you, Sister Roberson. You may raise your head, audience. You feel different now? Feel dandy. Now, you're going to feel that way on and on. Now, if you can feel that way here, you feel that way out there, you can feel that way back in Jeffersonville. Amen. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." God bless you, Sister Roberson. Amen. God bless you. Let's give God a praise offering; say, "Amen." [Congregation says
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Thank you, Brother Bosworth. Good evening, audience. Good to be here. And be seated, if you will. Everybody feeling good? I trust that you are. I was very happy this
morning to tune in and hear the program from the temple. My, and hear the testimonies of the people that had been healed. Last evening, we had quite a spontaneous break, and the Spirit of the Lord come down upon us in a great outpouring. We're expecting that to grow greater all the time. I believe it will, don't you? And if I'm not mistaken, there's a man setting right in front of me now, if I'm--with a minister's badge. Wasn't you in a wheelchair last night or something? [The man says, "I was."--Ed.] I just made a statement awhile ago. I don't know what's happened between there and that; you're not in a wheelchair, whether you're just setting there. But the man has a great faith. And if he isn't already, if they packed him and put him there, whatever it is. I believe the man's going to be healed during the meeting. I thought it was him last night that was pulling. It was, partly. Just have a good courage, and believe with all your heart. Now, these things I have no way to control them. God does the healing, and I... Only thing that I do is just speak and show what He told me to do. But God has to do the healing. We all believe that, don't we?
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Now, this afternoon, I come, not under the anointing for healing, which we... This is a coming to just speak of the Word, and to try to exhort the faith, and to get you to believe on Jesus. It's been a very sweet week, the past week has. Crowds is been about the smallest I've ever had in all my life in--in the services, the audience of people. Believe it's the smallest audience to have... This being the fifth night, I believe it is, or coming up the sixth night of service, that I ever had in all the time since it's been to me, even when I was in small churches before I went out. But there's been a unity about it. And I realize that the city has been hit pretty heavy; there's been many services in. The other day, I got a check that was put in the offering that belonged to some other man. He was supposed to have gotten last August. Somebody mixed up and got it over in--in our offering, some other man that came through the city.
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Brother Roberts has been here for awhile. And then it seems like that the way it... Everybody is in campaigns and going around. And we're all trying to do some good for suffering humanity. I'm sure that that's the purpose of every man's heart, is to try to help, or do something for the Church. Many big services has been attended through the past year here in Houston. And the--it seems to be all about on the same line; it's preaching the Gospel, and praying for the sick, and so forth. And whatever it is, we--we thank God for what He's done, and for the results that's been brought forth by every...
But people, meeting after meeting, meeting after meeting, meeting after meeting, become worn out. I know that to be so; for in my own sphere of praying for the sick, and being in meeting after so many nights... Really, last night would've been our last night. See? Five nights is about our limit, three to five nights, and then we go somewhere else. The other ministers who preach healing by the Word, it takes a long time to build in faith like that sometimes. It's... Sometimes they stay six, eight, ten weeks, maybe, three months, because it's necessary for them to do that. But up here on usual just to demonstrate, to show that--what God has done in this way of this phenomenon, why, it doesn't take long till the people... First fifteen or twenty minutes, if they're spiritual minded, they'll catch it right away, and then things begin to happen. And usually within five days, we're--we're gone from the city to somewhere else.
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It usually falls my lot during a time to speak a little bit to the audience on a Gospel message. And they asked me Sunday afternoon to--if I would preach, or try to at least. And I'm not a preacher. As I heard your pastor, one of the pastors here, Brother Richey, on the broadcast this morning, I thought, "My, if he's setting on the platform this afternoon, my, what would I feel like." But I... Only thing I can do, is do the best that I can for God's glory. I'm uneducated, have many defects that way that keeps me from being a preacher. I'm not a preacher. I often made this little statement before starting in the message...
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One time when I was a little boy, my father was quite a rider. He could just ride, break horses, and so forth. Frankly, that--it was in a riding match when he met my mother. And he was about nineteen years old, eighteen or nineteen, and she was fourteen. They got married. And I was born when my mother wasn't quite sixteen years old yet. But I always liked to be like my daddy, for I thought someday, when I was a little boy, when I got to be a man, that I was going to be a real cowboy. That's a big word to say in Texas, ain't it. But... They say that's the home of the cowboys, so... A little fellow like, you know, and reading Western Story magazines, going to picture shows, and so forth. Well, I thought the height of my ambition was to be a cowboy. Just wait till I get to wear those chaps, you know, and boots, and the great big hat, and... Oh, I was--had great enthusiasm.
So when I was about eighteen years old, why, I went out West, out in Arizona to be a cowboy. I run off from home. And I had a little practice 'fore I left home, of riding. I used to take the old plow horse, old. And I'd plow him all day, and the poor old fellow couldn't hardly get back up to the watering trough to get a drink. I'd get the harness off of him, and get me a handful of cockleburs, and lay it up under the saddle, and pull it down, and then jump up on him. And poor old horse was old and stiff, he couldn't get up. Tired, you know, he just stand there and bawl and jump up and down. I'd take my old straw hat and hit him. I'd say, "My, if I'm not a cowboy."...?...
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My little brother and them would set on the fence and laugh at me, you know, and give me a great big hand, 'cause I was real cowboy. I thought, "Wait till I get out West. My, I'll show them what a cowboy is from Indiana." I went out West. I remember the... I had enough money. I was going to buy a pair of chaps. I thought I had enough. I went out. A great big pretty pair that had A-R-I-Z-O-N-A, and the bottom had steer heads like that, two big brass buttons for his eyes. I thought, "My, them looks pretty. Try them on." I put them on. Can you see one of these little banty chickens with the feathers down his leg, that's about the way I looked. There's about three foot of leather laying out on the floor. Them boys are long legged over there, too much for Indiana. I seen all that; I thought, "My, I'd be a beautiful sight pulling all this leather down the street like that." And I thought, "What a... Um." So I thought, "Well..."
They's going to have a rodeo, so I... Fellow said... I said, "How much are these?" I found they run around twenty-five, thirty dollars. Oh, my, and I had about three dollars or four. He said, "You better compromise for a pair of Levis." So I did. And I went out. The first time I'd ever seen a rodeo. And I seen all those cowhands lined up on the fence, and I thought, "Well, I will get out there and set down too." And I got me a big hat that's kind of a pasteboard affair, you know, looked like a real western hat. I climbed up there with those big fellows, looking around, you know, like I just as big as they were. They brought a fellow down there was going to ride a certain horse. When he came out of the stalls, why he jumped in the saddle, and that horse made about two jumps. I knowed that didn't look like my old plug up home. So looked like you could put all four feet in a wash pan and throw the saddle off of him. Made about two jumps, and that
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fellow was laying out in the middle of the road there, and the pickups come got him, and the blood was running out of his nose, and his ears, and what a horrible shape he was. The ambulance had to pack him away.
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The fellow came down through there; said he'd give any man fifty dollars that would stay on that horse a minute. Kept looking all around. Nobody'd take him up. He looked right about me, said, "Are you a rider?" I said, "No sir." I changed my mind right quick. When I... I knowed that wasn't my old plug that I'd been riding. So when I first was ordained in the Baptist church, my, I was the happiest preacher you ever seen. Somebody'd say, "Are you a minister?" I'd say, "Yes, sir."
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One day when I had my first meeting with holiness people. I was over in St. Louis, and I met Reverend Robert Daugherty. And he was in a tent meeting. And I went up there that night, and his little girl had just been healed. Her testimony appeared there. And he went taking me down to the meeting where they was having it. He got up there, and he started preaching, and first time I'd about ever heard a Pentecostal preacher preach. That boy preached till his knees buckled together. He went plumb to the floor, and he'd catch his breath. You could hear him two squares away. Come up preaching. Someone said, "Are you a preacher?" I said, "No, sir." No, no. My old slow Baptist ways don't think of it that fast. That's all. I just... I wasn't no preacher then after I'd heard that. So I kept still from then on around Full Gospel people about being a preacher. I just let it go. I said, "No, I'll pray for the sick." Let it go like that.
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But I do enjoy coming on this day like this, to try to read some of the Word and explain it the best that I know how; because all... I believe that It's the truth. Every Word of God is the truth. And then, coming in a service like this, you don't have to come under that anointing for healing. You don't have to be under prayer or fasting. I just come right in and go to reading the Word and whatmore. You see? It's a different feeling when you're preaching the Gospel, than when it is when you're under that anointing for that Angel of God. 'Cause you're so sensitive to every spirit. Feels like it's built in the wall, and feel one dripping out here or there, like that.
And then this afternoon, I come to try to speak a little bit on the Word. And I was trying to decide just... I thought I was going to speak on a little subject I used to speak on, "Show Us The Father, It Sufficeth Us." John 14. Brother Lindsay said, "I wished you'd wait just a little longer, and get it--get it on a recording." So I thought I would speak then of the resurrection of Lazarus, how that he was raised from the dead. I don't know whether I ever spoke on it when I was here before of not. Did I? All right. Over the 11th chapter of Saint John, if you want to read with me for a few moments... I just love the Word, don't you? My, the Word is real. And begin about the--about the 20th verse of the 11th chapter of Saint John. And listen close, and give me your undivided attention just for a few moments.
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And I'll lay my watch out here and try to leave just quickly, so you'll have chance to--to go early, and get home and have your dinner, supper it is up in Indiana yet. But I don't know what it is down here. But I'm just a old fashion sassafras boy that still believes it's dinner, breakfast, and supper to me. Anyhow, my supper tastes just as good as your dinner does to you. That's right. 11th Chapter and the 20th verse, we read this: Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary set still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother would not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou will ask God, God will give it thee. Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. (I like that, don't you?) Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. (See, they believed in the general resurrection.) Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and... life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
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Let's bow our heads a moment for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we have gathered here in this auditorium this afternoon for one purpose: to glorify Jesus Christ Thy Son. And I pray Thee, Father, that Thou will just, as it was, pull down the curtain to anything else but to the Word of God this afternoon in the power of the Spirit, that It might have the right of way in every heart, and
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every believer in here may be blessed, all the sick that's in our midst this afternoon may be healed, and God receive glory, and all sinners come to Jesus. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant, Lord, and bless this part of the service now. Anoint the lips of Thy servant to speak, the ears of Thy people to hear. For we ask it in the Name of Jesus, our Saviour. Amen.
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During this time of the ministry of our Saviour, He become very popular. He lived with Martha, and Mary, and Lazarus, which was all brothers and sisters. (Can you hear me? All right.) They were brothers and sisters. And we're taught by--by some historians that Lazarus was a scribe, and that Mary and Martha made tapestries and so forth for the temple, which that, I guess, could not be proved, or it doesn't make too much difference what they did. But the main thing, they were friends to Jesus. And Jesus' ministry had grown so great, until He was called out of the country at this time to be away on missions elsewhere, to preach the Gospel, to heal the sick, and do His earthly mission as He was ordained of the Father to do so.
His birth, when Jesus was born on earth, He had a black mark to begin with. He was always received by the common people, and scorned mostly by the--the religious sect of the people in them days, and--and of the great ritzy and high minded people. And it's just about that way today too. It's the same. Not as I'm trying to say that rich or ritzy people cannot be saved; they can, if they'll humble themselves and come like the rest of us. But we must all come in one way: that's come, knowing that we are nothing and He's all; and being willing to surrender ourselves to Him in order to receive benefits from Him. If you ever get anything from God, you have to humble yourself and become nothing before Him, and know nothing, but one purpose; that is, you're trying to find Jesus. Then when you humble yourself down, God will exalt. But when you exalt yourself, God will see that you are brought to abase. That's right. He said so in His Word.
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Now, Jesus, when He was born, He was... I believe that all gifts are foreordained, the foreknowledge of God. You believe that? I believe it. I believe there's nothing that you work yourself up to, or anything that one person could give to another. I do not believe in that. I don't say it couldn't be so. My belief wouldn't change God's program. But I can't see it in the Scriptures. To base it in all that I preach, and believe, must have a... I must have a--something behind it, in other words, to make faith out of it. And it must come from the Word of God, which is the basic of all
faith. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word. And therefore, I believe that all great gifts were foreordained of God to come into the world.
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For instance, Jesus Himself. He was foreordained of God to come into the world. Do you believe that? He was the woman's Seed that was to bruise the serpent's head. And his head was to bruise the--the heel. I believe that Moses was foreordained of God. Do you believe that? When he was borned, he was a proper child. And he was raised up on Pharaoh's--in Pharaoh's palace with his foot on the throne to become the heir of, even Pharaoh's son, to fall heir to the throne. But he was ordained of God. If he'd been an--an ordinary man, he'd a went ahead and took those great honors. But he was ordained of God for another purpose. I believe that John the Baptist... I believe it was seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was seen by the prophet Isaiah, and said he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. He was ordained of God.
Jeremiah, before he was even brought from his mother's womb, God said He knew him, sanctified him, and ordained him a prophet over the nations, before he ever come from his mother's womb. Is that right?
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I believe that those things are ordained. I think where it is today, we, more or less, get worked up in a little ex--excitement, or a little enthusiasm, and sometimes brings more reproach than it does good. Don't you think so? Don't never say nothing. Like, I seen young man come in and say, "Oh, the Lord's called me to preach. Got converted last night. The Lord called me to preach." You'd better wait, young fellow. Find out whether God's really called it. There's a plant, you know, that's planted at one time. And when the hot sun come out, it withered down. Set down and 'fore you build the house, count the cost and see if you're able first 'fore you do it. And then... But sometimes we get enthused. And I--I'd rather have a little enthusiasm than no "asm" at all, just to have somebody get enthused about it.
But Jesus, when He was borned, He was borned with that mark of being illegitimate child, that his father was Joseph. And that he was a born, in other words, a bastard child, born by a father which... by a mother that was... He was conceived before that they
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were married. And I say that that's wrong, because God was His Father. And He was borned of a virgin birth. Then we find out, that His coming on the earth, before He got here, He was announced to be here. And God always... Now, if I get some doctrine in this, you don't believe it, that's all right. We won't fall out about it. But just like if you'd ask me to eat cherry pie at your house. And I love it. If I was eating cherry pie, I'd go ahead eating pie till I hit a seed; I wouldn't throw the pie away, I'd throw the seed away, just keep on eating pie. So that's what you do about this. What you believe, receive it. And what you don't believe, well lay it aside.
And God, when He sends a great something to the earth, He announces it by Angels. We realize that. The birth of Jesus and all down was announced by Angel. Now, minor Angels will come. Say for instance, the One that come visit me, a minor Angel. But when you see Gabriel come down, something major on the road. Gabriel announced the first coming of Jesus; He will announce the second coming of Jesus. He will sound the trumpet, the dead in Christ shall rise. Gabriel, the great Archangel of God...
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And now, during this time, before the birth of Jesus, why Mary, the mother, the little virgin lived in Nazareth, brought up there. And even before that, John had to come as a forerunner. We look at John the Baptist, what a great man he was. Jesus, at this time of our message, was going down to see John the Baptist. He drawn all the regions around Judaea and Jordan, down to Jordan to hear him. What a great man he was. He also was foreordained. And when he was borned, Zacharias... Before he was borned, his father was in the temple. His obligation was to offer incense while the people were praying, burn incense. And one day... Notice, he was a devout man (I like that, don't you?), a man who worshipped God. Now, there was a disgrace at his home. His wife was old. She'd always wanted to bring children, which all Jewish women did, but... They thought it was a great honor, and a dishonor to be barren. Like David's first wife, when she laughed at him by dancing before the ark, God put a curse upon her that she could bear no children.
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And now, Zacharias, a just man, a holy man, a devout man, he and his wife had prayed, and believed that someday God would give them children; held onto God. And then, at this particular time, while he was waving this incense in there, Gabriel, the Angel, appeared before him and told him: After the days of his ministration at the temple, he was to go home and be with his wife, and she was to conceive and bear a son, and they would call his name John.
Zacharias, yet a good man, holy man, righteous man, that had prayed for these things... Notice it. He failed to believe what he'd been praying for, when his prayer was answered. Isn't that about like most of us today? Praying, and if God answers your prayers, scare you to death. Notice. He had prayed all this time, and God was answering his prayer. And I say this here. God will answer every sincere prayer (I believe it.) in His own way.
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Then she's a past the age of bearing. Zacharias said, "Oh, this couldn't be so. My, my. She's old, and I'm old. And how could this be?" And because he disbelieved the Angel, the Angel said, "You'll be dumb until the day the baby's born." And he was stricken dumb. And you know how the people waited for him. And when he come out, why he beckoned to them. They seen that he'd been--seen an Angel. And he went on up, and his wife conceived, and this little John was on his road to be born.
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Six months later, the Angel came down again to a little virgin by the name of Mary, lived in the meanest town, worse than Houston, Texas. Come down into a city there named Nazareth, and... And no matter how mean the people are, God... This Houston, Texas is a fine city, one of the nicest cities I've ever been in. But you here, like in all other cities, you have good and bad everywhere. That's right. Depends on... Good and bad was put before the people in the garden of Eden. And it's still there, good or bad. You want to see something out of a bad city, a little city that's wicked, you ought to come around my little town up home. All right. It's called "Little Chicago." So don't feel bad when I said Houston, Texas. Because God has children everywhere. That's right. I believe when the rapture comes that people will come from everywhere going up in the rapture.
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And when this Angel came down in Nazareth... Let's kind of dramatize this a little, and think that it was on "Blue Monday," maybe wash day, when Mary had to go down and get the--the water, in the Oriental type, packing it on her head, maybe coming up a packing the water along... And all of a sudden, a great Light shown around her. And in this Light stood the great Archangel, Gabriel, standing there before her, and said, "Hail, Mary, blessed art thou among women." Why, that salutation frightened the little virgin. It would frighten you, that such a appearance of an Angel standing before you. It did me. And said, "Blessed art thou among women." And He begin to tell her
that she was going to bear a Son knowing no man, and they'd call His Name Jesus.
Now, I want you to look at the difference between Mary and Zacharias. Zacharias, that minister, Gospel minister, or a preacher, as it was in that day, priest in the temple, had knowed all kinds of things that had happened before of the miraculous power of God, but doubted the Angel in his case, where Mary said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord." She didn't question what could be or so forth. And look how much more she had to believe than what he had to believe. Hannah had had a baby before, when she was past the age. Sarah had a baby before after she was past the age. And that had already happened many times. But Mary had to believe something that had never happened before. No woman had ever brought a child like that into the world by knowing no man. But she had more to believe than what Zacharias did. So therefore, she didn't question God; she just took God at His Word. Amen. I like that. Take God at His Word. Believe It anyhow. No matter how impossible it looks to be, believe God, and He will bring it to pass.
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And notice. Just as soon... She didn't wait till she was positive she was going to have this child. She didn't wait till she felt life before she said anything about it. She started right away testifying, telling people that she was going to have this baby when there was no signs of it yet. God give us some more Marys. That's right. Don't wait for signs and wonders. Take God at His Word, and start rejoicing, saying it's going to happen. God said so. I believe if every patient in this building, right now, would accept it upon the grounds of God's Word, and believe it, and start testifying, and praising God for your healing, the meeting wouldn't close with one crippled person in here. That's right. God is under obligation to answer His Word. Can you hear me all right? Am I too loud? All right. Pray with me.
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Notice. Then as soon as she started up into the hilly countries of Judaea, 'cause the Angel told her about Elisabeth... And Elisabeth and Mary were first cousins. Jesus and John were second cousins. And when she started up into the hilly country to see her cousin who was going to be a mother also, when she met Mary--or Elisabeth seen Mary coming, no doubt they run out and begin to greet each other, hug each other, like women used to do, meet each other, smile, be friendly. I tell you, that's what's a whole lot the matter with the people today. They're not friendly like they used to be. The people has got too
selfish, got to a place where they--they think they live in a little world by themself. You know that's the truth. Why, you know it used to be out on the farm, when--when one of the neighbors would get sick, we'd go out and help do their work, and cut the wood and bring it in. And now, you don't know your neighbor's dead unless you're to read it in the paper. That's right. Selfish...
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And the people pass down the street, used to, why, we'd grab a hold of one another's hands and shake their hands like that, saying, "How are you, brother?" And today when they pass on the street, they give a little silly grin, throw their head up in the air. Oh, my. No wonder the love's gone. I despise that old somebody feel they're bigger than somebody else. After all, you're six foot of earth. That's all you are. That's right, everybody.
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Not long ago, I was standing by a museum. There's a picture of a man there, a hundred and fifty pounds. And it--it give the analysis of the chemicals of his body. He's worth eighty-four cents. That's all a hundred and fifty pound man's worth, is eighty-four cents. But he will be sure to put a ten dollar hat on that eighty-four cents and think he's something big. That's right. A woman will wrap that eighty-four cents up in a hundred dollar fur coat and won't speak to half her neighbors. What's the matter? The love of God takes you somewhere. That's right. What is it? It's still eighty-four cents. You will take care of that all right. But that soul's worth ten thousand worlds, you will let anything be poked down it. That's right. That's the truth.
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Not long ago, I was in a big meeting. And this some princess of some sort there. She set in the meeting, way back in the back. If I would've seen her setting back there, as almost as close to being naked as that woman was, I'd have took my coat off, and went, and put it around her, and told her to wear it, while I was preaching the Gospel. I did that one time to a woman. She got angry, and got up, and stomped out of the building. But I got the privilege of telling her anyhow. That's right. That's right.
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It's a shame the way that wom--Christian women dress and allow their young girls, and things to dress out on the streets. I tell you. They tell me that the way Adam and Eve realized they were naked, because they eat apples. If eating apples caused women to know that they were naked, it's time to pass the apples again. That's
right. That's exactly the truth. Oh, it's a shame. Dress themselves out here on these beaches somewhere to get a suntan, some married woman with a little kid, or something like that, or these young ladies, and call themselves full of the Holy Ghost? If you are... The tree's known by its fruit it bears. That's right.
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I got a little girl in here. I don't know what she will be. But I'm telling you, if I ever catch her stretched out on the beach, she will get a--a son-tanning, but it will be Mr. Charlie Branham's son will tan her with a board. That's one thing sure. That's one good thing. Yes, sir. That might be old fashioned sassafras preaching, but it will save you. That's one thing sure. It will straighten you up. It might not be just said in the right kind of words, but you will listen to it; it will do you good. That's one thing sure. Yes, sir. It's a disgrace how people... This woman want... come walking down after the meeting. She got one of the managers. She said, "I want to meet Doctor Branham." Doctor Branham. I'm your brother. Amen. She come walking down through there, a pair of glasses on, up on a stick like this, with her head up in the air, threw her hand up like this. She said, "Doctor Branham, I'm charmed." I said, "Well, get it down here so I will see you, or know you when I see you." That's right. All that put-on. I like the old fashioned type, a handshake, that's got a...?... to it; where the people really can shake hands with somebody and feel it, a good old warm handshake. God bless your hearts. Sometimes a best of heart's beating under an old blue shirt like that. That's right. Truly.
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Now, there Mary was in that way though. When she seen Martha, and they... Mary, I mean, and--and Elisabeth. They run to each other, threw their arms around one another, begin to hug one another. And I can hear Mary say, "Oh, I've been told that you're going to be a mother." She said, "Yes, but I'm just..." Let's dramatize just a moment, so you get the picture. "I--I'm going to be a mother, but I'm just a little afraid." See, John was six months older than Jesus, six months later when Angel Gabriel appeared. And he said, "I'm just a little bit afraid, because it's six months with me as a--a mother, and the baby has no life in it. It's never moved." See?
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And that's altogether subnormal, 'cause life is about two months, something like that. But here's six months, and no life yet. And she said, "I'm worried about the baby." In other words, we're just dramatizing this part. See? "And I'm just a little worried about it.
And Martha then, I see Mary say, "Why, the Angel Gabriel appeared to me, and told me I was going to have a baby, knowing no man, and I should call His Name Jesus." Just as soon as she said, "Jesus," the power of the Holy Ghost fell, and the little dead baby in the mother's womb begin to leap for joy. If the Name of Jesus first spoke by a human lips will bring life to a dead baby, what ought it to do to Christians who are borned again, that's supposed to be alive in Christ Jesus. That's right.
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Said, "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord? For as soon as your salutation come to my ears, my baby leaped in my womb for joy." Received the Holy Ghost in his mother's womb before he was born... Hallelujah. Sure, I believe in miracles and signs in the power of the Gospel of Christ. Yes, I love Him with all my heart. And I know He's real. If the whole world gossips, that don't make a doubt in my mind. I believe it with all my heart. Yes. His Name was spoke, and the little baby begin to leap. Dead in his mother's womb, received life when the Name of Jesus was first breathed through mortal lips by His mother... "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord. For as soon as your words was spoken in my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy."
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What kind of a baby oughtn't this to be that was born from his mother's womb, the Bible said, full of the Holy Ghost? He was a Holy Ghost preacher. That's right. And when he came out... When he was about nine years old, we're taught that he went into the wilderness. He was anointed with the spirit of Elijah, acted like him, looked like him, little old frail looking fellow, bald-headed, piece of goods wrapped around him like this, and a camel skin around him, and a leather girdle around his loins. But when he came out of the wilderness of Judaea, he preached a message that stirred all the regions. God, give us some more Baptists like that. Amen. Yes, sir. Come out with an old hairy trousers on, not with his collar turned around in the back, and fried chicken twice a day, and had to have a hundred dollar salary a week before he preached. He come out anointed with the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah.
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He didn't throw out any lines either. When Herod come up there with his brother Philip's wife, somebody said, "Don't you preach on marriage and divorce." Walked right up in his face and said, "It's not lawful for you to have her." God, give us men who will stand for the truth (Amen.), regardless of who's setting close or who it is. Let the chips fall where they want to, and lay the Gospel to the hewing line. That's right. Call black black, and white's white. Right's right and
wrong's wrong. If you're not right, then get right. It will straighten you up, make you look different, act different, live different, be different. The Holy Ghost is good for you. It will straighten you out.
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That's what's the matter with down in these countries now, and all around over the world. We got too many old cold formal churches, having a form of godliness and denying the power thereof. What we need today is get a little starch out of the Church. And that goes to Pentecost too. Amen. You know it is. 'Cause you're afraid. One side setting here, and the Church of God here, and the Assemblies are over here, and this one over here, afraid of this, that, or the other. When you forget that and get in Christ (Hallelujah.), the Holy Ghost can have the right of way. Amen. You're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so I just might as well let loose. That's right. That's true. God's Spirit will do it. Maybe I am a holy-roller. If I am, I'm the happiest holy-roller you ever seen. Amen. If it takes a marking to be a holy-roller, and believe the Word of God, then brand me there. That's right. That's right. I believe it's the truth, that your sons and daughters shall prophesy; upon my handmaids and maid servants will I pour out of My Spirit. And the day is here, now. That's right.
Then when I seen them standing there... Oh, my, the little baby leaped in his mother's womb for joy. Then when he was born, he preached. All the regions come around to hear him. We wonder what kind of a message he preached. He preached Christ. If the churches will quit preaching on theology and stuff like that, some kind of a human theology and some philosophy, or something like that, or who's going to be the next mayor, or--or something about the flowers, the roses or something, and preach Christ, the Son of God (Hallelujah.), it'll draw men. Hallelujah. "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me." That's right. It's true.
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Oh, my. How the old fashioned Holy Ghost, now, right now in existence, free for all... Very typed all through the Bible that the Holy Spirit would lead the Church today. Israel, when it was called out of the wilderness, it was a church; it was a people of God. I was talking to Brother Frodsham awhile ago on the street. The... Used to be the editor of the "Pentecostal Evangel." When Israel was in the wilderness, when they were in Egypt, they were the people of God. When they were called out, they were the Church of God. For "the church" means "called out." And now, God's calling out a people, out of Babylon, out of confusion. Hallelujah. Amen. You say, "What are you amening yourself for?" Well, I'm not... If you
won't say it, I will. I believe it. Amen. That's right. The word "amen" means "so be it." And I know it's the truth. Yes.
And there, when Israel was called out, a type of the Church... Israel always was a type of the Church. That was the church natural, this is the Church spiritual. They was called out. And as soon as they were called out, they passed through the Red Sea, baptized unto Moses. And as soon as they come on the other side, they were baptized then with the Spirit. Miriam picked up a tambourine, and down the banks she went, dancing. Hallelujah. Yes, sir. She had the victory. Did you ever get that much? All right. She was dancing in the Spirit, and all the daughters of Israel followed her, dancing. Moses stood with his hands up and sang in the Spirit. Why? There laid all those taskmasters laying behind them. All the old things they ever done, the meanest they... And things that you've done when you see the red Blood of Christ is cleansed you from all sins, you can sing too with a victorious song. Hallelujah.
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Amazing Grace, how sweet The sound, That saved a wretch like me, Once was lost, but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see.
(That's right.)
Then I look at them. And immediately after that, they needed food to live on. God rained food down out of heaven, manna, type of the Holy Ghost. Every morning they went out and picked it up. It was good. They eat it. It taste like honey. They would just lick their lips and eat it. I tell you, this Holy Ghost that rains now, which that was a type of and this is the Antitype, It tastes like honey. That's right. I seen the saints of God so drunk upon It till they licked their lips, say, "Um, um, so good." There's something about honey. That's right.
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David, the old, the--the Psalmist in the Bible. He talked about the honey. And he--he was a shepherd. The shepherd used to carry a little scrip bag. In there they had honey in it. And when their sheep would get sick, they would put that honey all on a--on a rock--rock, a limestone rock. And those sick sheep would go to licking on that rock. And when they did, licking off the honey... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... There He is, Hallelujah. Glory. Just lick on it. That's right. Listen brother, let me tell you. I'll put it on Christ, and not some church either. It'll go on Christ where it belongs on. Lick on Him. Hallelujah. They need healing, if there's any virtue, if there's any power, if there's any praise, it belongs to Him. Amen. That's right. On Christ, the solid Rock. The Rock, the rock played a big part in it too.
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A long time ago when they used to have the rock. Used to be that people'd get bit by a mad dog. They'd take and stick them to a mad stone. If they stuck, they got well. If they didn't stick, they died. The worst mad dog I know of is the devil. That's right. And the only cure I know is the Rock of Ages. Stick to it. Hold on, God will take care of it. Little boy here in the wheelchair, you blind sir, you laying on the cot, hold to God's unchanging hand. The devil might have bit you, but there's enough drawing power in the Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee. Hallelujah. The devil can't get you when you're hid in there. Stick with It. Hold on to It. Don't let It away from you. No matter how many symptoms appear, how many this, that, or the other, hold to It. Stay there until the healing power has drawn all the disease from you. That's right. He will do it.
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Notice this Manna again, 'fore we leave it, to be a perfect type, a very perfect type of the Holy Ghost. Remember, that Manna fell every night, every night. And they had to get a new supply every day. Is that right? If it is, say, "Amen." All right. If they kept some over, wiggletails got in it. That's what's the matter with a whole lot of Pentecostal experiences today. They're depending on testifying something that happened two or three years ago. Them experiences gets wiggletails. Why not now? Hallelujah. Get a new fresh one. That's right. Every day... Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before. There they are, eating Manna every night.
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Now, notice. A type of the Holy Ghost. It never come up; some priest never come give It to them; some preacher never baptized It into them; but It come from above, coming down from God. And notice. Moses said to Aaron, and then they went out, gathered several big omer's full, that It might be kept in the holiest of holy, that every priesthood coming in behind the holiest of holies after that, might ask about these things. They had a right to have a taste of the original manna. It didn't get old back in there. It stayed forever good back in the holiest of holies. Is that right? Worms couldn't get in it. But it was laid back, that every person that entered into that priesthood had a right to taste of some of the original manna.
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How beautiful it is. On the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Ghost fell down from heaven, our Manna, after we's come through the Blood, and have been saved, been cleansed from our sins, and
the Holy Ghost fell, brother... Peter said, on the day of Pentecost, "It's for you and for your children, and for them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." And every person that enters into the baptism of the Spirit can have the same kind of Holy Ghost that they got on the day of Pentecost. Hallelujah...?... I believe it. God's truth. Not something that looked like it, but the real thing. Same kind of Holy Ghost that fell back there falls now, the same kind. The real Holy Ghost brings forth the same kind of a evidence and proof that they had back there, comes with the same Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Amen. Oh, how good. You say, I like this... "Oh, I--I feel It right now." That's right. It's real. Just as real as It ever was to me. That's right. Just the same Holy Spirit that fell back there on the day of Pentecost.
What's the matter today, we got... Our churches has got away from It. It's exactly right. Reminds me of what we try to do is build a big fine church, put fine pews, get the very best of this, and somebody to sing like angelic choir. See them stand up on a platform, sing with painted-up faces and everything else, and sleeves up around their--their arms like this, and their naked knees almost showing; go out on the street and light up cigarettes. And call the angelic choir? What's the matter with you women and men? Call yourself Christian. Act like it then. By their fruits you shall know them. But we compromise. Remember, beauty from the eye is what Satan does. In the beginning, he... Way back in the beginning, he tried to make a better place than what Michael had. Down, he come down into Cain, tried to use the same thing, yet he offered God a sacrifice. He done the same thing that Abel did, but without the blood. True.
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Reminds me of one day, me and my brother was going along, and we seen a--an old turtle. And that was the funniest looking thing I ever seen, old terrapin. Don't know whether you have them here or not. He can throw their legs like that, you know, when they're walking. I said to my brother, I said, "Isn't that a funny looking thing?" He said, "It is." We went up to him. He went [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] Puts me in the mind of some of these people, when you really go to preaching the Gospel, they pull right back in their shell. "I belong to the Baptist. I belong to the Methodist." Go on, if your name's not in heaven, you'll go to hell too. That's right. Only those who are written in the Lambs Book of Life, by being redeemed, born again... Jesus said, "Except a man be born again, he will not enter the Kingdom." Truly. Then you're born again, you become a new creature, a new creation in Christ. Oh, hallelujah. In
other words... Don't get excited about it. "Hallelujah" means "Praise our God." And I praise Him. Amen.
Then that old turtle, I looked at him, how funny he looked. He drawed right back up. I said, "Well, I'll tell you what I'll do." I said, "I'll make him walk." I got me a big long willow, and I begin to pour it on him. He just laid there. You can't whip them into it. That's all there is to it. No, they'll just lay there and sulk. I took him down at the water. I said, "I'll fix him up." I put him down in the water, and just a few bubbles come up. You can baptize them this way, that way, head forwards, anyway you want to. He goes down a dry sinner, comes up a wet one. He's still a sinner. You're not saved by water. That's right. I thought, "How can I get that old fellow moving." You can't argue baptisms and ever get the church to move on. Don't you think that. You can't do it.
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I went down and got me a piece of paper, and build a little fire, and set the old boy on it. I tell you; he moved then. That's right. What we need today is a old time Holy Ghost, God sent fiery revival. Amen. That's right. That'll move them. That's right. Preach the fire where they can't sit still. True. After while, took the old turtle down there, and he caught one and cut its head off. Laying there, and my brother come by, said, "You got a turtle?" "Yeah." Looked down there, started to pick him up. And the old turtle's mouth laying there went, snapped at him. Been laying there about a hour. Said, "I thought you said you killed him." I said, "I separated his head from his body." Said, "He's just dead and don't know it." That's what's the matter with a whole lot of people. Dead and don't know it. That's right. Around them churchanities and so forth. Don't know what the power of the Holy Ghost means. Don't pay no attention to what science says, and this says, and that says, believe Christ. Amen. Oh, my. I feel good. Amen. I do, I feel good. Thank the Lord.
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Now, let me tell you something, friends. Then when Jesus came down to the Jordan to be baptized of John, John saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, went upon Him, He was filled with the Spirit of God, then into the wilderness He went to be tempted forty days, came out, and the miracles and signs begin to follow Him. The Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." It's always, signs and wonders follows God's Church, everywhere,
Always has, and always will. You can't never... You can take history wherever you want to. God has sent revivals and revivals; and come up, and then they'll make an organization out of it, and then they can't stand that, of course. Then the first thing you know... There has never been an organization that ever fell that rose again. God always moves His people on away from that thing. That's right. That's true. God's calling today a people together. I believe that with all my heart, not out of your church, but together in heart. Let the churches alone. They're fine, every one of them. But what we need is an old fashion, Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost preached in them churches with power; straighten up those members again. Amen.
Now, I see Him as He came out then. His ministry got so great until He had to be called away. Lazarus taken sick while He was gone. Listen. When Jesus leaves your house, watch for sickness to come, trouble, heartaches, disappointments. Don't you believe that? When Jesus leaves your house, trouble's coming in just as soon as He leaves. 'Course, in this case, He wasn't driven away. He went away because His Father's work was calling for it, and He went away to preach somewhere else. I believe that Jesus seen the vision of Lazarus. They sent for Him. He didn't come. They sent for Him again; He didn't come. If that'd been your pastor you sent for, and he didn't come, "Why, the old hypocrite. I'll go over and join the other church." That's the reason your pastor can't do nothing for you. You've got to believe him as a man of God. Do you believe that? You've got to have faith in him. If you don't, he will never be able to do you any good. If you get sick, send for him. Let him come anoint you with oil, and pray over you. God promised the prayer of faith shall save the sick. That's true. He's a man of God, God will honor him. That's true. Sometimes he can't come just when you call. But remember, all things work together for good to them that love God.
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Now. After a while, Lazarus got sicker and sicker. They said he died with hemorrhages, some of the historians say. I know not. But anyhow, he took sick and he died. And they took and buried him. One day passed. What a dark hour. My, my. Oh, the breadwinner was gone; them two young girls left. Second day passed. Oh, how dark. The Man they had so much confidence in, they... Their beloved Man that they'd left their church for, and everything, and here they'd--He'd disappointed them. And their brother was dead. Doesn't things look dark? You might be prayed for, come here and see the powers and miracles of God, and go back, and the first thing you know, well then, you feel bad the next day. You may be sick the next day. Something may
happen the next day. Well, don't you know, when Jesus prayed for an epileptic boy, when He come to him, He had the hardest fit he ever had? Your faith is not in symptoms; it's in God, believing God. See what I mean?
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When your pastor prays for you, say, "Well, he must not be a man of God, or God would've heard his prayer." What about your faith? It's your faith that touches God, not altogether his prayer. You're obeying God's Word. And when you obey God's Word, God's under obligation to answer you, if you believe Him. It lays in you. Don't blame the other man. All right. God shows signs and wonders and miracles and everything, but look like the people don't get a-what it is.
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A man come to me here not long ago. He said, "Brother Branham, I been to Freeman, I been to Roberts, I--I been to Ogilvie, I been to all of them. They can't do me no good. I come to you." I said, "You're just as bad off now as you ever was. You've gone to the wrong person. Go to Christ." Amen. What you fool around with man? Man can't do nothing for you. He can preach the Word; he can show His signs of what God give him. But he can't heal you; God has to heal you. That's right. You believe that's the truth? It is the truth, friends. That's right. Well, your pastor's just as well to do that, or any elder of the church, as any other man. That's right. He's got just as much right as any other man to do it. For the only thing you have to have, is faith in God. There you are.
Now, notice quickly. Then, fourth day come. First, Jesus said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." They said, "If he sleepeth, he doeth well." "I go wake him." He said, "If he sleepeth, he doeth well." Said, "He's dead, but I go wake him." All right. They went with Him then and went over. Now, here they was coming to the city. Just a few moments, I'll close. My time's just getting right away. I... Oh, my, I feel good this afternoon, just feel the responding faith. This builds me up, right there with your faith moving out.
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I see now, if I could get my version of showing you God's attitude towards healing you... If you've been preached Divine healing and practice Divine healing through the age as you have the Gospel of the Holy Ghost, then, brother, sister, the same results would come right here this afternoon by healing, as it was by the
Holy Ghost. You believe that? Sure. But when I go to preaching on the power of the Holy Ghost, and He begins to take the Word of God and place It out there, every Holy Ghost filled...?... will reach and grab It like that. My, they just grab it right now. They can't help it; they're hungering for it. Brother, if you'll turn right around and realize He was wounded for your transgressions, and with His stripes you are healed, you can receive the power of God right there to heal you right where you're setting. Amen. True.
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Here He comes to the city now. Four days... There's Martha and Mary setting there. Dark, my, all hopes is gone. Lazarus was rotten out in the grave. That's just words that you--all of you can understand. Just simply laying there, and you can say, "deteriorating" if you want to, but he's rotten. That's... One night, I said I've got so sick I puked. And all them commenced to laughing. I said, "I'm just as sick when I'm puking as you are when you're vomiting, so what's the difference." I said, "It's just the same." Don't try to put on a whole lot of stuff, be just who you are. That's what's the matter with people today. They're trying to get too starchy. It's the truth. Amen. I mean that, don't you? Amen. I believe it's the truth.
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People's got putting on so much of... The Gospel's got to a thing it's all padded up, educated up. They put them in the, out here in these seminaries, or cemeteries, or whatever it is... (all the same, both dead places.) And that just put me in mind of a... Seminary preacher reminds me of a incubator chicken. A little incubator chicken just chirps, and chirps, and chirps, and ain't got no mammy. He's mechanically turned out. Puts me in a mind of a incubator preacher too. That's right. Hold on. I love old fashion God saved Holy Ghost people and Holy Ghost action. True. It responds. That's true.
Notice, quickly. Now, as we see Him come into this city, Martha was setting there. She'd been very much dilatory through her days, seeming to be. But now, one time faith caught with her. Somebody come and said, "The Master's coming into the city." Oh, my, I can see her quickly. The darkest hour she'd ever seen, just the very darkest of hour that little home had ever seen. Oh, their loved one was dead. Four days had passed. Their faith in their Master that they thought when they could drawed him out of the church to follow Him.
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Ever who followed Jesus was renounced to come back into church. You know that's right. He was a fanatic, claimed to be. They claimed Him to be, rather. And ever who followed Him was put out of the church. They'd left the church and everything to follow Him. And now, He'd gone and left them when their brother died. I can hear some of them say, "Now, if there's anything to Him, why didn't He heal His friend." I can hear them say, "Aw, there you are. See, He slipped off to get out of that." See?
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And there the darkest of hour that they ever seen. And then Jesus come along. Oh, my. Darkest of hour, then Jesus comes along. He usually comes along at the darkest of hours. That's right. Oh, if I had time right here; I feel something boiling up in me. Wished I could get it out of there. But I haven't got it. I'll speak some other time. That dark hour... I remember when I think... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
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But it's for His glory, that I say it. God bless you. Now, in the 13th chapter of Hebrews, I wish to read some Scripture, 'cause no service is complete without the reading of God's Word. My word will fail, everybody else's word will fail, but God's Word will never fail. Hebrews 13:10-14. We have an altar, whereof they which have no right to eat which served the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burnt without the camp. Jesus... Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. (Now, here's my text.) For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. I imagine my voice has a little blast in there, and I'll get back to... Can you hear all right up in the balcony, up in the second balcony all right?
What I wish to speak on, is "Here We Have No Continuing City," to kinda back up and... And you pray with me. There's no one that...
I think of when the Abraham left the city of Ur... Era... Ur and the land of Chaldean, he was seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God. Now, there was something in Abraham that he could see that great city of Ur, and he knew that that very thing that made people colonize together, there was bound to be a city somewhere that was typed off of. And by instinct, or by the leading of the Holy Spirit, he hunted that city whose Builder and Maker was God. And he sojourned in strange land, professed to be pilgrims and strangers, a seeking a city, and dwelling in tents with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And so then, we see that city.
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There's no matter how many places you ever roamed, no matter how far you go, there's no place like home. Is that right? How many here today is away from home, let's see your hands, just away from home? Oh, my. I wished I could sing. I'd sing, "We're Pilgrims And Stranger Seeking A City To Come." Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. Let's take a little trip back home, would you like to do that? I believe everyone here would like to take a trip home, wouldn't you, just like to go back home? There's no place that you'll ever go that'll ever seem like that lovely little old city you lived in, or little old dwelling place out in the country. For myself, I--I want to walk back down the road just this afternoon with each one of you, taking a little evening stroll to review the things over.
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The first thing comes into my mind at this time, is a little humble home built out in the country by the broom sedge fields, and some old apple trees standing around, where my father and mother and their little family lived, a little humble place indeed. The... We were very, very poor. Daddy had a hard time. He was a--a very poor man. He worked for seventy-five cents a day in--in log wood. My father had a bad habit, drinking. I'm sorry to have to say that, but that's true. And he--he... My father died in my arms. I seen my daddy work so hard, till when he would come in, his--his back would be sun burned until his shirt would be sticking to his back, and mother would have to take and clip the shirt loose from his back. I don't care what he done. He's my daddy. I'm not ashamed of my father. I love my daddy. He's gone on today, but he's still daddy.
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And young people, remember. If you're fortunate enough today
to have a daddy and a mother living, love them, honor them. The hour will come when you'll think they're the greatest people in the world, if you don't now. And don't never, little fellows, don't never give this slandering word, "old man," and "old woman." That's not the old man and old woman. That's daddy and mother. And some of these days when they go out of the room, in the casket, of flowers, you hear them lowered down in the ground, the pastor say, "Ashes to ashes and dust..." It won't be the "old man" then. There won't be the "old woman," it'll be, "Mother." You'll be wringing your hands and crying. That's right. Now, while she's a living, give her her flowers now, and give dad his flowers. That's right. Now, and the best flower you could give them, is obey them. And that's the first promise in the Bible, the first commandment with promise, "Honor thy father and mother: which may lengthen the days upon the earth that the LORD giveth thee."
My daddy worked on a farm. I remember mother... The furniture we had in the house was the old hickory bottom chairs. How many remembers the old hickory bottom chairs, wrapped...? Well, I'm not the only country person in here, am I? And we had an old kerosene lamp with a big old hoot-owl on the chimney. Remember them old owls? It used to the one I had to clean it, because my hand was so little, I could clean the chimney. And we had an old cook stove in the kitchen. And pop would cut the wood, and we'd bring it in, and lay it behind the stove. And us little kiddies would help him saw it up. And we had a--a table. And behind the table was a bench. Daddy took a piece off of a barn, and--and made a--and made a--a bench that we all... We little boys would go set on that. We only had three chairs. And so we would get on...
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And I remember the cabin, the front part of it, it had a floor. It had a ro--room in front and a little half room in the back. And we had one of those little old... We called them monkey stoves, or laundry stoves set up on a stump. And mother cooked from there. And she'd holler, "Dinner's ready." And my, oh, there's--there's about five of we little Branhams. We'd run in there, and wash our face, and slick that hair down, and jump up behind the table. And one great big old pot dinner, cooked in an old three-legged kettle... How many remembers them? Say, I'd just love to have a dinner out of one right now. And--and we'd...
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She'd take and get beef and make mulligan stew. How many knows what mulligan stew is? I'm not the only Irishman here then, am I? So they'd put the mulligan stew in there. And we had...
My plate was a tin plate. Frankly, it was a big bucket lid that was turned over, so I'd get a good measure every time the cup went down and dipped out the mulligan stew. And we'd baked corn bread in a--in a--a pan (How many remembers old corn bread baked in a pan?), cut it in the middle, put it on. And I'd set next to daddy, 'cause every person broke his own bread. And so when it come by, I'd break the corner off, because it had more crust on it. It was just so good. And so I sure like that yet. Yes, sir, I sure do. I've eat in many good places, and some of the best places, I guess, in the nation that minister friends of mine has taken me to dinner, which I'm very, very thankful. But friends, I'd give everything I ever had, or ever will have, if I could set behind that old table one more time and look at my daddy setting there, and eat some mulligan stew with him. I'll never do it no more. That's right. It's done forever. Enjoy your childhood, young people. Love God.
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See all my brothers set around there, the little healthy looking things. Some of them's in eternity. I can never do that no more. For here, we have no continuing city, but we seeking one to come. I used to see my daddy when we'd come in. He's a little fellow about my size, but strong built. And he would wind up his sleeves like that. And we had it out to the old apple tree, they had a wash pan setting out there with an old piece of a glass with drove up in the tree, and a towel made out of a meal sack. And we'd go out there and wash at this old bench, and--and--and then we'd clean up on the outside. There's a little bench around the tree. I'd see daddy when he'd be combing his black wavy hair, and the muscles would just wallow under his arm. I thought, "Oooh, my. My daddy will live to be a thousand years old," I'd think. I admired my daddy. And I'd think, "How strong he is." I said, "My, he'll--he'll live and live and live and live, because he's so strong." He died at fiftytwo. For here, we have no continuing city.
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Now, I thought, "Oh, that house. How big." Beneath it was logs. And it been kinda slab board on the outside. I thought, "Oh, how... That house will stand for hundreds of years." Today, there's a housing project there. Here, we have no continuing city, but we're seeking one to come. That's right. I passed by just before coming here. I'm just so a great swelling in my heart. Oh God, how can just twenty years make such a difference in a place? But here, we have no continuing city. We're seeking one to come. And I thought of daddy. And also, we... I remember every Saturday night, we'd go to town and--and pay the grocery bill. And every time we'd pay a grocery bill, Mr. Grower would give us (the grocery man), give us a little sack of
candy. I think our grocery bill run to the extent of three dollars a week. And my, dad only made about four and a half.
So mom would get some goods at gi... My wife's setting here. I'm afraid to say what kind of goods that was, 'cause I make a mistake on it every time. Anyhow, it's some kind of that little stuff, you know, that they used to make shirts out of. And I remember one time at my church, I said to... One of the worst I ever was gotten at my church. I was going to have a humble night on Wednesday night, and I said... And my choir was all setting behind me. I said... And that... What... g-a-n-g-h--jan--j--gingham... That's what it is, name--gingham. And I said... And I was trying to think of that. And there's a little place down the road called Gingham--Gingham Colleges. And I'll try to think of that. And I said, "I'm sure to make a mistake when I say that." So I had a little girl by the name of Irene Wisehart singing in the choir. I said, "Now, Sister Wisehart, when I back back, if I forget about it, you tell me what that was." And so I didn't understand anything about goods like that.
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And I said, "Now, Wednesday night is--is humble night here at the Tabernacle." I said, "Now, all you brothers, wear your work clothes, your overalls. I'm going to preach in my overalls." I said, "You all come out with your overalls. And all you women wear your..." I said walking back. I backed back, and she said, "Gingham, gingham." I said, "Your greyhound dresses." And my... And oh, my. That was about the worst I ever was gotten it. And everybody started to laughing at me, and I thought, "Well, I--I guess I done said it." So I said, "Ever what that goods is like's on this little ca--cottage down here" Then one night, I was--run home. I was patrolling. And I used to carry those great big old red handkerchiefs. When you hunt, you know, you have to have a red handkerchief. And I'd carry one in my pocket. And--and one night, I run in and... We lived in a little two room cabin. And I--I run across the street real quick to church. I was late, and I run across the street real quick, you know, and I dressed in the room and changed clothes. And I was over there just a preaching away, you know, and I got to perspiring. And I reached back and got this handkerchief, you know, and I started shaking it like this. And I looked, and it was that big old red handkerchief. I seen, my little wife looking at me, and I said, "Oh, well." I said, "I'm afraid of them little ones. Afraid I'd swallow it." So I said... There's about two of the worst I ever knew... was gotten in--in--in church.
But I remember daddy would take us down on Saturday night and pay the grocery bill, and get those--those little old sack of candy. And we had a little old jersey wagon. You all call them out here, buckboards I believe, or whatever. And they put some straw in the back. And it'd be cold, and we'd wrap up in blankets, and--and go down. And it'd be spitting snow. And they'd pay the grocery bill. And all these little Irish, setting out there waiting, you know, for this candy to come. Then we'd come out, and--and that candy had to be equally broken among every one. If there's one stick over, it was broke into so many pieces. To be sure, every little blue eye was watching right at it, to be sure he never got cheated. So we'd set and eat that. And I'd play a little trick on them. I'd... Now, we wouldn't eat it, couldn't chew it, because it was too valuable, that old stick candy. I'd... We'd suck on it a little while, then hold it, you know, wait a little while, rest up, and suck on it again.
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Well, I remember I used to play a trick on them. I'd suck on my piece for awhile, and wrap it up in a piece of paper, and put it in my pocket. And I had some from Monday. And I'd suck on it again, and tell all the boys, "Don't you wish you had some?" And I'd just put that piece, and the dirt, and candy, and all of it roll...?... And--and they was good. And I guess I could go tomorrow and buy a whole box of--of chocolates, Hershey's, if I wanted to. But it would never taste like that. That's the real candy. And I remember those old days and how glorious they was. And how that going to school... When school days come along, we went to school. We didn't have any clothes to wear hardly to--just enough to-that we possible legally could go.
I remember going to school all winter long with one of mom's shoes on, and one of pop's. That's right. I had... We called it a bootn-gagger. And I had one of mom's shoe on this foot, and pop's. And this is awful to say, but it's the truth. It's the truth. I remember I didn't have any shirt to wear that winter. And Mrs. Wathan, a rich lady lived up the road from us, give me a little coat that had a little eagle emblem on it. And I'd pull that coat up like this, and go on to school. I remember setting up there. It got kinda warm, you know. And the teacher said, "William." I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "Aren't you warm? Better take off that coat." I couldn't take that coat off. I didn't have any shirt on. So I said,
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"Why, I--I... No--no ma'am." I said, "I'm just a little bit chilly." They had a great big old stove setting over there. She said, "You ain't taking a cold. You go over and set by that stove." My, my. I set there and the perspiration run down on my face. She said, "Aren't you warm yet?" I said, "No, ma'am." I was plenty warm, but I couldn't take that coat off. I didn't have any shirt on.
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And so I remember that spring when I got my first shirt. I had a cousin, a girl, Lucille Hare, my father's sister's child. They come over to visit. And when she left, she left one of her dresses. And--and--and I--I cut the skirt part off, and--and wore the top part as a shirt. I went to school. And it had this here little... What is that stuff that runs up-and-down, you know, like that, they put it around the edges of garments? Rickelty-rackelty? Or whatever the... I missed that. Rick what? Rick-rack. And--and so we--we... All over it everywhere, rick-rack all over it. So that's... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?...
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Down the hill we'd go, rivity, rivity, rivity, rivity. Well, we wasn't sliding like the rest the boys, but we were sliding anyhow. We-we were getting there anyhow in this old dish pan. Well, that was all right, but rat... Some of the boys had sleighs. You see? So after a while, the bottom come out of it. So we had no more sleigh. And we went down the river, and I got me a big old log, put a wire on it, and pulled it up top of the hill. And we'd get on this log and ride, ride down the hill. I never will forget a event--event taken place there, there's a boy named Lloyd Ford. Brother Graham, ever where you at, my associate pastor's here somewhere. Lloyd Ford, he got him a job. That was in time of the world's war. So he got him a job selling "Pathfinders," or something like that, magazines. And he got to wear one of them Boy Scout suits. And everything was a war then, you know, and army. And oh, how I wanted to dress like a soldier.
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I'd see those soldiers come up from the quartermaster, and go up the road there, just at attention, walking. And at the school, we had an old sassafras pole there, and raised the flag, and those soldiers come by would salute the flag. I thought, "How..." Oh, my heart just beat. "When I get big enough, I'm going to join the army. I'll get plenty of clothes to wear. And I'll... And if I can join the army." But when I got big enough, I was too scrawny at the--to get in the army. And they wouldn't even take me. But Somebody accepted me. That's right. I'm in a Army today. You might not be able to see my uniform, but I know it's on anyhow. It's
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And so in the war, I tried to volunteer and everything, but they wouldn't--didn't receive me. So they never even called me. Put me in the minister's class, and just never even called me. I guess my education was too poor to be classed as a Chaplain. And--and then being a minister, they wouldn't... I... They didn't draft me. And so there I was. I was left out. But somehow or another, and even with my scrawny, uneducated and all, God sent out a recruit one day, and I answered it, and I--I'm in His Army now. And I'm doing the best that I can, to fight the greatest battle that's ever fought, a wage against sin and evil, and for righteousness.
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And I remember I asked Lloyd. I said, "Lloyd, will you give me that suit when you wear it out?" He said, "Yes, I'll give it to you." And that was the longest lasting suit I ever seen. He wore that suit, looked like... When I seen him one time, he come up missing it, and I said, "Lloyd, what about that suit?" He said, "I'll see if I can find that, Billy." Looked all around. He said, "No, sir. You know, mother patched dad's clothes with it, and the dogs used it for a pallet, and they drug it away." And said, "The only thing I got left is one legging." I said, "Bring me that." And so it was a little old stave legging about like that, laced up on the side. So I took that legging, you know, and I wore it around home. Put it on. My, I looked, how good that looked, you know, one legging. Thought, "My, that felt good." I wanted to wear it to school, but I didn't know just how I was going to get to wear that legging to school. So I put it in inside my coat.
And I was riding on that log one day, and I went down the hill. And oh, I got up and I said, "My, I hurt my leg. Whew. Um." I said... My stockings, you know, and great big holes in them. And I said, "I--I just hurt my leg so bad." I said, "That just reminds me, I--I--I got one of my Boy Scout leggings here in my coat." I put that legging on. My, I walked into school, you know, kinda limping like, but getting everybody looking at that one legging. And so I--I had to go up to work the problems on the blackboard. And so that they wouldn't notice I just had on one legging, I stood sideways and put this legging on that side and stood like this, and worked the problems like this. Look out and see if everybody was looking at me, that one legging on. Everybody got to laughing at me.
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My, I got to crying, so she made me come down. But oh, my. Something there... I got a pair of leggings today that I'm not ashamed of. That's right: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And then, many great things happened in childhood back there, that I wouldn't have time to approach.
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One thing not long ago, I was having a revival in Texas. I come home, and... Wife, I, and the baby, we went up the road. And I just so tired, I--I just felt like I'd drop. I just couldn't stand it. And on the road home, I was driving, and--and I'd go to sleep. And I drive about a couple of miles, then I'd stop. I'd try to sleep, and I'd wake up. And I'd--I'd drive a little farther, and I'd get sleepy, and just almost go off the road. And I--I'd stop. I thought, "This is awful dangerous, but I must get home." And I would lay on the--lay down in my car and try to sleep. I woke up after while, and you know what had happened? I driving, I'd run off the road, and was way out in a cow pasture, holding my hand out and saying, "Sister, believe it. That's all you have to do. If you're ever get healed, then you believe it." Way out there in the pasture where I'd run off the road, and out through the field there, and--and asleep. And wife and I, there's a great crowd of people waiting there. So we got in the car and went up the road.
I passed by the old school house; it's gone too, for we have no continuing city. And right across from there, there used to be Mr. Wathan's chauffeur. And...?... they live there. There's a pump that I wanted a drink out of. And I thought, just like David one time, wanted a drink out of that well. And I went down there to the--and begin to pump the water, and wife and baby and them was picking violets. I was leaning across the old fence, and looking at the old hill there where the school used to be, and the old trees, the sugar maples where we used to tap them and suck the sap on them in the spring of the year, you know, when it was coming up. And I thought, "Oh..." I could just imagine seeing all those little boys standing lined up there with their hands on one another's shoulders, tramping like this, and the flag up, and we were going in, the teacher with a great big long willow, making us line up just right. And I looked up on the hill, and see the old home where it used to be, and housing project up there. Down here, the old school was gone. And my, my heart begin to swell up. I thought, "Here we have no continuing city, but we're seeking one to come."
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I remember the boys that I use... I said, "Let me think. Ralph
Fields, where's he at? He's gone. Where's Howard Higgins? Dead. Where's my brother? Gone. Here we have no contin... Where's dad? He's gone. Where's Charles? Gone. Where's Edward? Gone." I thought, "O God, and soon somebody look at this ground and say, 'Where's Bill?' Gone." Here we have no continuing city. I begin to think of it. My heart begin to pound. I remember a little dirty trick that I done my brother there. Don't do anything wrong that you'll ever regret. I remember one day that mama give us some popcorn to take to--to school with us. We couldn't eat with the rest of the kids. We'd always run over the hill there and eat, because we--the rest of the children could afford sandwiches. And we used to have a little jar. In there would be greens and a piece of corn bread laying on the side, and two spoons, and maybe a little jar full of stuff, you know. And--and we'd set and both of us eat out of this jar with this spoon, and eat our bread and pass it back and forth to one another. We was ashamed before the children. And we'd run over the hill and eat behind the trees over there.
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I remember mama getting us some popcorn around Christmas. We had a sack of it, and we took it to school, left it in the cloak room. And here the little dirty trick that I did. I held up my hand. Teacher said, "What do you want, William." I said, "May I be excused?" Said, "Yes, ma'am--yes, sir." And I went out the building, and went out through the cloak room, I put my hand down in that sack and got a great big handful of that popcorn. Went out and stood behind the school and eat this popcorn to be sure that I got my share of it. And I was eating that popcorn. I never will forget. When dinner time come, we went out and got our bucket and got our popcorn. My brother looked in that sack, and about half of it gone. He said, "Say," said, "something happened there, didn't it." I said, "Sure did." Uh uh-huh. I know what had happened. I'd eat his popcorn. So... But he shared the rest of it.
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And standing there leaning over that fence, I thought of all those things. He's the one that's gone on. He died in the hospital calling for me when I was in Arizona, many, many years ago. Friends, if I'd a had a hundred million dollars laying before me, I'd have give every thing that I had if I could've took him that handful of popcorn back again. Couldn't do it. He's gone on. And I thought, "How hard he had to live. He died when he was just a boy." And how that we tried to share our clothes with one another. And just before he died, he put his hand over his heart, said, "I will never live to see Bill again." But said, "Tell him he's my favorite brother." And when
down there, I was thinking about that then. I started crying. Wife said, "Why don't you come home to rest." And she seen what was going on, so she got me away, and we went on up the road. Life when one is a child; it was boyhood. I'll hurry.
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I was a young man; I--I seen the way women lived. I never did like girls, never did like women, 'cause I--I got enough to see the way they would live. If anything I respect in a woman, is being true. I don't care if she's any--colored, white, or whatever she is; if she's a real lady, she deserves the highest of respects. God knows that. And I purposed in my heart when I was a little boy, that I'd never have nothing to do with women. I'd be a hunter all my life. And that's what I did, friend. And I'd live in the woods, hunt all night. And that's why... That's where I learned God, was by nature. I remember when... Course, when I got to be about seventeen or eighteen then, as all boys, they... Some boy friend of mine, his daddy had a car, James Poole. And he had a little girl he wanted me to meet. And you know how you are. I seen that little girl, and I thought she was prettiest little thing I ever seen. You know, teeth like pearls, eyes like a dove, neck like a swan. Oh, my, just prettiest thing you ever seen. So said, "She wants to meet you, Bill." And I said, "Oh." I said, "I don't know how to talk to a woman." I said, "I--I can't do that." And He said, "Oh, come on." So I talked to her a few times. And after while, he said, "I'll get dad's old car." And said, "We--we'll take our girlfriends a riding." I thought, "Well, now that wouldn't be bad."
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So--so we went out. We stopped down there to get some sandwiches. And I went in, and got some Cokes, and some sandwiches, and come back out. And we ate the sandwiches, and I took the Cokes back--the Coke bottles back. When I went back, I come out, to my surprise, my little girlfriend was smoking a cigarette. Well, I always had my opinion of a cigarette smoking woman, and I haven't changed it yet. It's the most lowest, immoralest, degrading thing that a woman can do. I--I'm not here to preach the Gospel in that manner. Your preacher will do that. But women, if you do smoke, for mercy sake, get away from it. How cheap it looks in a woman that'll smoke a cigarette. My, it's the cheapest thing. I'd rather see her drunk any time.
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And listen. You talk about a sabotage. Don't you worry about Russia coming in and getting us. Russia ain't going to hurt us; we're hurting ourself. It's our own moral decay that's a hurting us. We're--
we're corrupting ourselves. Statistics shows by doctors, I believe, that eighty percent of the women that has children that smoke cigarettes, if they'd raise their baby like they should, to the breast, in eighteen months it dies. It kills the baby, the nicotine poison in the milk of the mother. Why, sabotage, fifth columnist...? I still say, what this world needs today is not a new president, it needs an old fashion Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back in the Church again. I believe that's right. Yes, sir. That's exactly what it needs.
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And--and the--the--and the women, how they could smoke. And--and I thought that was terrible to see a woman smoke. Well, that just broke my heart. I just couldn't stand that. I didn't want nothing to--to do with that. So I just--just left her. And so that was the time when the Angel of the Lord appeared to me when... She laughed at me, called me a sissy. She made me walk home (That's right.) from the place. She said, "Well, you big sissy. I wouldn't even ride with you." I said, "You don't have to." She said, "You don't smoke?" And I said, "No ma'am." Said, "You don't drink either?" And I said, "No ma'am." Said, "What do you like to do?" I said, "Go fishing, hunting." Course, that didn't interest her. So I--I was... That was way I--I thought about it anyhow. And I'm glad today that I did think that. That's right. Amen. Listen friends. It ain't the robin that pecks the apple that hurts it; it's the worm at the core that kills the apple. That's what. It's sin in our midst is what's a hurting us (That's right.), sin in our midst that's killing us.
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Now, now, I guess you wonder how I ever got married. Well, when I met my wife, she was a Christian girl, very lovely Christian girl. And I was then about twenty-three, twenty-four years old. She very sweet humble character. And I met her. And I--I'd take her to church, and she went to church. And she was a very fine lovely woman. All these people here, my friends from Jeffersonville setting here in front of me knows her, or knew her, and how a lovely woman she was. She's in her grave today. But that's her body. Her soul's in--with Christ. And she was a very lovely Christian character. And I went with her awhile. And she come from a good home. Her father, during the time of the depression that that was, he made about six hundred dollars a month. He was a brotherhood organizer
on the Pennsylvania Railroad. I made twenty cents a hour digging ditches. So I couldn't marry the girl, I didn't think.
And I thought, "Well, if I have went with her any longer, I was taking up her time. She was too good of a girl to let go. She'd make some man a good wife." So I had to either just let her go or ask her to marry me, and I didn't have nerve enough to do that. So I guess you wonder how I got... I wrote her a letter, and asked her if she'd marry me. And I said, "Well, I..." Now, it--it wasn't "Dear Miss, will you have me." It was a little bit, what you call, mushier than that. And I--I--I kinda talked to her... But here... I remember, I thought, "I got to do something, because it's not right to take the girl's time." So I wrote her a letter. And I went to work that morning; I was working Public Service Company. And I was very nervous about dropping it in the box; it was on Monday morning. I dropped it in the box. And all day, I thought about it. And I thought, "Tonight, oh, oh, I'll hear from that tonight. Her mother will call me up and rake me over the coals." And I went on. That night it was all right.
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And I was to meet her Wednesday to take her over to the church. So I remember, then come on towards Wednesday. And Wednesday night I was just as nervous, I didn't know what to do. I thought, "What am I going to do when I get up there?" So I asked my mother, "Has--has Hope called?" "No." "Did you get any mail?" "No." "Well, maybe it hung up, and didn't even get out of the box." So I thought, "Something's happening here." So I went up, and I--I blowed the horn outside. And so she come out. She said, "Come in." And I thought, "Oh, oh, going to get me in there where her mother is now, and then I'm really going to get it." So I said, "Are you about ready?" She said, "Let's walk to church." I thought, "Oh, my." So I said, "All--all right." And I went in. And Mrs. Brumbach looked at me, said, "Hello, Bill." I said, "How do you do." So I was just nervous as I could be. So I thought something's going to happen any time. You know how you feel when you're under them strains.
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So we went on out and went to church. Honest, I didn't even hear what Brother Davis said that night. He just preached away, and I--I--I didn't know what he said. I was scared something was going to
happen. And I'd look at her, and I thought, "Oh, my, ain't she pretty." And I... She's going to tell me this is all of it, sure as the world, 'cause I could just tell that I--I'd knowed she was going to tell me, "Stay home after tonight." So I had it all fixed up what she was going to tell me, and I... And after church was over, we started walking back, a pretty moonlight night. We was walking down the street, and I looked up to see the moon shining down through the bushes, went on, you know. And I look at her and I thought, "My, I'd hate for this to be the last night, but I guess this is it." I walked on, you know, and I said, "How are you tonight?" She said, "Just fine. How are you?" I thought, "Hurry up, lady. Tell me something, I--I--'fore I faint. Don't get too close to home." We walked on a little farther, and I said, "Humph, sure a pretty night." She said, "Yes, it is." I thought, "Well, why... Hurry up; say something." You know, women can just keep you like that anyhow, you know, under that suspense.
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And I walked on; I thought, "Well, she getting pretty close to home." I said, "Uh, uh... Did uh... Did you get any mail this week?" She said, "Uh-huh." That was all. And I said, "Uh, did you get my letter?" She said, "Uh-huh." My, oh, my. I was certainly burning energy then. And I said, "Well, uh..." I said, "Did--did you read it?" She said, "Uh-huh." My, I--I said, "What'd you think of it?" She said, "It was all right." Whew, my. And I said, "Did--did--did you--did you--did you read all of it?" She said, "Yes, I read it all." I said, "What'd you think of it?" She said, "It was all right." Well, we got married. There it was. I don't know how; we just got married. So...
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My, the next strain come when I had to ask her mother and daddy. Well, I knowed it was appropriate to do that. So I never will forget Charlie Brumbach. He may be setting right here this afternoon for all I know. And her mother was a very prissy sort of a woman. Fine woman, but she belonged up in the ranks, you know. And so Charlie was just a good old humble brother. And I--I thought I'd better ask him, and let him ask her. He's a... And so I thought I could get by with the man better than I could talk to
the women anyhow. So I said... One night I was leaving, Hope said, "Have you asked dad yet?" And I said, "No." She said, "Well, you--you ought to." I said, "I know I should, but I'm not..." Hope said, "I think it'll be all right." So when I went to leave that night, he said, "See you later, Billy." I said, "Humph, Charlie." He said... I said, "Could--could I talk to you just a little bit?" He would said... I said, "Come out here just a minute." Walked out on the porch, and I was just sweating and shaking. He said... I said, "Charlie," I said, "I--I want to ask you something." He said, "Oh, you can have her, Bill. Go on, just be good to her." Oh, my. I love him to this day. I said, "Charlie, I can't make her a living like you do. I can't give her clothes like you can buy her. But I promise you this: I'll love her with all my heart. I'll work till my hands bleed to make her a living. And I'll be as true to her as I know how to be." He put his... He was a German. He put his big hand over on me. He said, "Bill, I'd rather you would have her and be good to her, than somebody that had a lot of money would treat her mean." I said, "Thank you, Charlie."
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We got married. We didn't have nothing to start housekeeping on. Only thing we had... I tell you what we had: A little old place where I rented; my rent cost me four dollars a month. And I went into a little old place there, and somebody give us an old fashioned folding bed. You remember that old folding bed? Straw mattress, straw tick on it... And then... And we had a little old table we bought from Sears and Roebuck, and chairs; we had to--to paint it ourselves. And--and so I painted it. And we had two linoleum rugs, got from Johnny Jobbers. That was just a second hand place down into the, Jeffersonville. I said that John Jobbers so they could catch get the benefit of it. And so we got... I think they cost a dollar and a quarter apiece. And I went over to Mr. Webber's; he was a junk dealer and bought a-a cooking stove. And I give him a dollar and something for it, and I had to pay a dollar and seventy-five cents for grates to put in. I got an icebox from Public Service Company for fifty cents, one they took in on swap. We went to housekeeping.
But friends, it was just as paradise on earth. We had each other. I'd become converted in that time, become a minister, and was preaching, and I loved the Lord with all my heart, and we loved one another. And that's all we cared for. And listen. Happiness does not consist of how much the world's goods
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you own, but how contented you are with the portion that's allotted to you. That's right. Remember that. That's all we had. We were happy and lovely. I had a little church there they built for me; the little Tabernacle stands today yet as a memorial. And we all great crowds of people come from far and near, around the country to hear the simple Gospel. And we were just doing wonderful.
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And I remember a lovely little boy was born into our home. I call him Billy Paul. I want him to be with me in the next meetings at Carlsbad, as soon as I leave Arkansas here. And so, he's fourteen years old now. And a little later on, eleven months come along, another--another lovely little sweet thing by the name of Sharon Rose. Just before Billy was born, we had saved enough money, till I was, wanted to take a little time off. And we... I went up to Dowagiac, Michigan, to a--a meeting, and the--with an old man that had white beard and white hair, by the name of John Ryan. And so I went up there. And on the road back, coming back, I seen a sign, great crowds of people everywhere when I passed through Mishawaka. I thought, "What are those people." And I went over there, and there's some of them in T-Model Fords, and some in Cadillacs. And they told me that they were... I couldn't get nothing to, no place to stay. And they said you're--you're... There's a conference going on here. The Pentecostal people are having a conference. The--the P. A. of J. C., I believe it was, P--P. A. of J. C. denomination of Pentecost called that.
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Well, I seen all kinds of people. I thought, "Well, that's a religious meeting. Believe I'll go in." Well, I never heard so much noise in all my life. So... Oh, church manners, they didn't have it. They were screaming, shouting, and carrying on. I thought, "What in the world?" I looked around there, and they got a tabernacle... Some of you might know the man's name. His name's Rowe, Reverend Rowe. Anybody here happen to know Reverend Rowe? And a... Yes, someone here knows of him. Reverend Rowe, it was in his church. Well, they were just clapping their hands, and carrying on, and dancing. And why, I said, "My, isn't that horrible, people dancing in the church?" I said, "Well, that's a shame." And I was setting in a seat of the scornful, sure enough. So I thought... Something though kinda got a hold of me a little bit. And I thought, "Well, now."
I'm counting my money. I had--I had two dollars and fifteen cents left. And I went out and got... Thought, "Well now, I can't stay
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in a tourist court, 'cause I ain't got the money. But I'm going to stay over. Just got enough money to buy my gasoline to get home." So I went out that night and slept in a corn field. And I knowed I, but I didn't have very good clothes. And the next morning, why I went to the service. And that day, oh, my, ministers preaching... And how I noticed, that night they called, said, "Every preacher come to the platform." Hundred and fifty, more preachers come up to the platform. They was having a conference, international conference. They was all setting on the platform. He said, "We haven't got time for all of you testify." I went up. He said, "Just say who are and where you're from." And it come to me, I said, "Evangelist, William Branham, Jeffersonville," set down. Well, come to find out, I was youngest minister in the group of them. So then that night I thought... They had a... They was bringing all kinds of preachers. And they chose an old colored man to bring the message for that night: real old, just a little rim of hair around his head. He had an old preacher's coat on, had velvet collar, kinda a cut-away coat. Poor old fellow come out to the platform like this. And oh, I felt so sorry, I wanted to get up and help the old man. And he come out... And they had to have the conference up there on account of not having it in the South, 'cause they had both colored and white to-together.
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And the old fellow was standing there, you know. And all the ministers that day had been preaching on what Jesus done and so forth. But he never taken... He took his text from over in Job somewhere there where it said, "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the world, and when morning star sang together, and sons of God shouted for joy?" Well, where the ministers was bringing the activities of the Church on earth, he went up into the heavens back yonder and come plumb back down about ten million years before the world was ever formed, and come back down the horizontal rainbow with him. And about time he got down there, he let out a great big whoop, and jumped up, and clicked his heels together, said, "Glory to God. You ain't got room enough up here for me to preach." I looked at that. I said, "Well, if That'll make an old man like that act like that, what would It do to me if I got some of It?" I said, "I want some of That. That's what I want. If It'll make an old man like that, well, what would It do for me?" So I went out that night in the corn field, and I begin to pray. I said, "Lord, le--le--let me get some of that." So I--I said, "You give me favor with them people." And prayed a way in the night, out there in the corn field.
I took my... had some seersucker trousers. My others was... got all dirty there in the corn field. So I--I laid them on my seat, and took the two seats and put them together out of my car, and pressed my trousers that night. And I had my little seersucker shirt. Nobody knew me, so I just laid it down there. seersucker shirt and little old Tshirt, and seersucker trousers, rather. I laid them down there. Next morning I got up, shined them all up. Meeting begin at ten o'clock. They had breakfast after breakfast. And I wasn't going to eat with them, because I didn't have no money to put in. I just didn't--didn't eat with them. But they made me welcome and everything. I didn't know no one there, but a little fellow, I forget what his name was. He played a violin, a little curly headed fellow.
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And so next morning, I walked in, set down. And so after while, I looked over and another man come in and set down, a colored man sat down by me and big bunch of people setting there. So I was setting there and this... They said, "We're going to begin the services." And they was talking, making their... selling literature, and whatever they had. And he said, "There was a minister on the platform last night by the name of Branham from Jeffersonville." Said, "He was the youngest man on the platform. We want him to come up and bring the morning message." Mercy, why, I never even seen a microphone. They had a microphone there. I thought, "What? Well, I couldn't... seersucker trousers and Tshirt." I just hunkered down real low, like this. He announced again, said, "Anybody know where William Branham of Jeffersonville?" Said, "We want him to come up and bring the message." Fifteen hundred people nearly setting there. Not me, before that. I just set back there. No, sir. This... I was too countryfied to get up there. So I just set there real low. And so... And he announced it two or three times. Said, "Anybody on the outside, we're paging for William Branham." I thought. Something told me, said, "That's what you prayed for last night. If you want to get acquainted with them people, get up there." "Lord, I can't do that, seersucker trousers and T-shirt." I said, "Nuhuh." So I was setting there. And he... when he announced it again, this colored man looked over at me, said, "Do--do--do--do you know that man?" Oh, my. Talk about on the spot. I said I had... I knowed I had to lie or--or--or something, or be--tell him. I said, "Look, fellow, look. Now, keep this to yourself." I said, "I'm he. See? But..." He said, "Well, get up there, white man, get up there." I said, "No." I said, "I got on... Look at these pants here." He said, "Them people don't care what you got on. They want to hear you."
And I said, "Look, I can't get up there." I said, "I--I don't... You just keep still." And he said, "If anybody knows where..." He said, "Here he is. Here he is." Whew. Um. "Here he is." I thought, "Oh, my." I could just feel my heart go, and my knees real weak, and my arms looked like they was going to drop off. Well, it just looked like something picked me up, and here I went walking up, just as conscious, seersucker trousers and T-shirt. I got up there, and I said, "Folks, I don't know very much about..." Before them preachers who could really preach, oh, my. I said, "I just want to say that I--I love Jesus, and--and ah--and ah--and ah..." You know, sort of like that. And so he said... I started to walk off, and he said, "Well, speak a little for us, Brother Branham."
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I turned over and I said, "I--I--I just don't know what to say." And I happened to think of a text, "And Then He Cried," the rich man that... When he lifted up his eyes in hell. And I took that text, "And Then He Cried." And I got to speaking, and the first thing you know, Something hit me. My, I was lost out of this world for awhile. And everybody got to screaming. I went outside when the service was over, and a great big fellow from Texas with a... with cowboy boots on, and a big cowboy hat, said, "I'm a preacher." I thought, "Well, brother, my seersucker trousers aren't so bad after all. He had those cowboy boots and a big cowboy hat, and be a preacher?" And he said, "I heard you say you was an evangelist. I'd like to sign you up for couple week's revival down in Texas." I took his name. I said, "Oh, my, Lord. You just doing great things for me." I took that all down, you know.
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A little bitty fellow with these little golf playing trousers on, walked up and said, "I'm from Florida. Like to have you over there for a couple of weeks." My, I seen they was just common people after all. So first thing a--a indian... A woman come up from the indian reservation, wanted me to go there. Well, I had enough invitations to last me about a year. My, I jumped in that old Ford, and it half backslid, and down the road I went. I rushed in at home, wife met me, you know, and I said, "Oh, honey, I got something to tell you. I met the cream of the crop." I said, "My, people who just scream and shout and jump up-and-down. They're not ashamed of their religion." I said, "My, the best you ever seen." She said, "Where they at?" And I told her. I said, "Looky here. I got a whole string here." I said,
"My, I can just preach and preach and preach it. And you know what, they acc--accepted me." Said, "Is that right?" I said, "Look. I'm going to quit my job and start right out." She said, "Well, we haven't got any money." I said, "How much money we got?" Said, "We got that twelve dollars in there, payment on the Ford." I said, "Well, you know, the Bible said, 'Don't--don't take anything when you go.' See? Don't take any script, or if you got two coats, give one to your brother.' He said, 'I--I--I will be with you.'" I said, "That's the way." He said.. I said, "Will you go with me?" She, bless her heart. She said, "Yes, I'll just stick with you." So I--I went and told my mama. And mama said, "That's all right, honey. If you feel that."
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Well, I went and had to tell her mother. And that didn't work so good. She said, "William." She said, "She's your wife. You may take her if you want to." But said, "I don't want my daughter drug out among that bunch of trash." Um. Trash? Friends, I found out this, that what she thought was trash, is the cream of the crop. That's right. And I say that with respect. Said, "Out like that where all that carrying and screaming and carrying on like that." Said, "Why don't you go on up there and be a pastor. And then someday they'll build you a parsonage, and all that." That didn't... Oh, my. So Hope begin to cry. And so I said, "Well..." She said, "I'll go with you." But anyhow, I didn't want... She said her... how it would hurt her, so I just let it go, went on. Friend, the little girl that was too good to be with that trash, I buried her just a little after that. Sorrow set in right there.
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I'll hurry just a few minutes I got left, about fifteen minutes. There's where sorrow struck me. Now, you let my... what my mistakes be your gain. You--you prosper by what I had to suffer for. Sometimes you see me standing here on the platform, laughing, that's... you don't know what's beneath there. That's right. I tell you: There's been a price paid that nobody knows but God alone. Right away, my wife taken sick. First thing, I lost my daddy. I run over to the house to see him, picked him up in my arms like that, he looked up at me like that, he smiled. A doctor had give him a dose of medicine that killed him. One overdose of strychnine for his heart, and it killed him. 'Course, there's nothing said about that. The undertaker covers up the doctor's mistakes sometimes. Nothing I got against doctors, but I say there's nothing said about that.
But some woman here not long ago trusted God out in California for her baby that died, and every newspaper and magazine packed it across the country. And the same time where one didn't have faith enough for deliverance, everybody criticized that, all the magazines and papers, and God healed thousands, and you--you have to pay them to put it in the paper, or something like that. But look here. Let me tell you something. The Bible said, "Come, let us reason together." Is that right? Listen. The same time that picture was being packed across the country telling people that Divine healing can't be trusted, and everything like that, the doctor lost thousands times thousands of cases, and there wasn't nothing said about that. Isn't that right? Listen. Come reason together. Sauce for the goose is for the gander too. That's... And let me tell you, if one person being lost by Divine healing with not enough faith to recover, and is all branded as fanaticism, then if the doctor looses one case, brand it fanaticism. Sauce for the goose is for the gander. Is that right? That's right. But friends, what medical science and ministers ought to get together and cooperate together, knowing we're all working for the good of the people and for the glory of God, and work together. That's what we ought to do.
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But anyhow, my father, he was killed then by this doctor, give him an overdose of medicine, and it killed him. And right away, my brother was riding on the side of a car, got his neck broke, died in my other brother's arms. My sister-in-law died. My wife took sick, and was... Oh, the 1937 flood came up and there was sorrow. I never will forget it. Wife was laying just at the point of death. I went and I was praying for her, doing everything I knew. And every time I'd pray, looked like... I went and told my church. I said, "She's going to die." Said, "No, that's just..." I said, "She's going to die as certain as anything." My babies, both of them were sick, the flood come up and everything, houses breaking over, and rushing, and miles of water sweeping over the country. And they taken my wife out to the hospital, to the government hospital, temporary hospital. And I was on patrol duty. And I was riding up-and-down the streets, and trying to get the people out.
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And I never will forget, one horrible night. O God, when I think of it, there in that critical hour. I had a--a--a truck there, little patrol truck, and I was taking a boat. And I coming up the--the road. And somebody said, "Over on Chestnut Street, the dike's about ready to
break through." And said, "There's a woman screaming for mercy over there, and nobody can get to her." Well, I was raised on the river, and thought that I was--could do pretty good with the boat. And so I got the boat, and set it in the water, and started off. And I looked over there and I heard that mother. It was about eleven o'clock at night, just screaming, "Mercy. Help me. Help me." Standing out on a porch. And I got up there and tried to get the boat across. And went way down and come out the other side, the water sweeping down through the street. I went way back again and tried. And finally, I hit against the post. And the mother fainted. I picked her up, put her in the boat; four or five little children, I got them in, and went back and finally got to the shore. And just as we got to the shore, somebody said, "My baby, my baby." Well, I thought the woman left a little baby in there, and back I went. And just as I got over there, I run through the house. Come to find out, her... the baby... the little girl in there about two, three years old, and that's who she was talking about, and I didn't know it.
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And I was over there, and the dike broke through up there on Chestnut Street, poured down, and away went the building. And just as I jumped in my boat, and had to run my hand in the water to jerk the--the rope, or my boat... Then I got out into the stream and couldn't get it started. On down we floated. Got out over on--on Market Street there. Big waves a dashing against the side, I thought any minute I would go to the bottom. I knew; there in that boat I knelt down. I said, "O God. I know I have disobeyed You." And I believe friends, if I'd have went on back down there when those people called me in, the gift of healing would've been manifested right there. That was God's program. But I failed to walk in what He told me to do. I listened to what people told me instead of what God told me to do. Don't never do that. You follow what God tells you to do. And then sorrows was on.
And I prayed. I said, "O God, I know I've disobeyed You. If You'll just help me. I don't want to die. I don't want to drowned out here in this river. Please, God, let this motor start. Will You, please?" And I'd pull that string, and the ice freezing; and it'd chug a couple of times, and that boat ripping, and jumping, and dashing like that; done got out in the main current. I didn't know what was going to happen to me. And I'd try and try, and it wouldn't start. And I prayed again. I said, "God, my poor wife laying out there sick. My babies sick, and here me drowned in the river. What, O God, what
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can I do." And I said, "If You'll just help me, Lord." And I pulled the string again, and away it went. Oh, my. I started right into the river, out of the river and got on into the--come out way down towards Clarksville. And I come around, and got back up and got to my truck. And some of them said, "Did you know the government just washed out when that dike broke?" Out to the ho-hospital I went as hard as I could.
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I met a Brother George DeArk there. He said, "Oh, Brother Billy (put his arms around me.)," he said, "looks like things are close." He said, "Brother Bill, if I never meet you again, I'll meet you in the morning." That was the last time I seen him in life. That's right. He left a little afterward. And I said, "Where's Hope?" Said, "I don't know." And I run over there, and I met a--one of the officers of the government. I said, "Sir, what become of the hospital?" Said, "All washed through there." I said, "Did all--did all them... Did any of them get drowned?" Said, "No, they went out on a train to Charlestown." And I run and got in my car and started out the highway sixty-two leading to the little city, Charlestown. And when I got out there, there was about five miles of water done come down through Lancassange Creek and cut it off. And I went and got my boat, and I couldn't even pierce that water. I'd start through there, and it'd whirl the boat around like this. And I-I set the... at this angle, and just give it all the gas that I could, and hit them waves like that. But it was so rough, you'd come around side of them woods, and throw my boat back down this way, and I come back out down behind the government. And there I was, caught on a little island like. And I'd set there for days upon that island, thinking. Some of them said the trestles went out from under the bridge up there, and everybody that went on that train was drowned, wife, two children, and all. I thought, "Oh, God." How nervous I got. I--I walked the floors, I didn't know what to do. I thought, "Oh, what will I do if they're gone."
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And after while, as soon as I could get over--the water dropped enough that they could get me across. I got to Charlestown. I was looking. I met old--an old friend of mine. He said, "No, that train never washed off." Said, "They went through, but I don't know where they're at." I went down, the dispatcher told me, said, "A mother and two sick children? I put them off in Columbus, Indiana. But you can't get to
them." Said, "The water's cut off this side." I started walking back down the road, rubbing my hands crying, saying, "Oh, God. Take me. Don't let me suffer. Let... Take me, Lord. Don't let me have to go through this agony." Walking down the road, and a man drove up to me in a car. He said, "I know what you're looking for." Said, "You're looking for your wife, aren't you?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Don't you know me?" Said, "I--I go with Mary May over there." I said, "Yes, I remember you." Said, "Your wife is dying in the Baptist church at Columbus, Indiana." And I said, "Surely not." Said, "Yes," said, "She's got tuberculosis." And said, "You wouldn't even know her. And the doctor says she's going to die. She's laying right next to my girlfriend." He said, "I know how to get you there if you want to go." And I said, "Well, let's go, brother." And I remember that night when I run into the building up there, the Baptist; they made a hospital. They had army cots everywhere. And I run in there, boots on where we waded the water. And I begin to scream, "Hope, Hope, where are you honey? Where are you?" Just beside myself. Directly I looked over there, and I seen an old bony hand raise up. It was her. I run over real quick to her and grabbed her up in my arms. I said, "Is the children alive?" She said, "Yes." She said, "I look awful, don't I?" I said, "No, honey. You look good." I said, "My, you're going to be all right." I felt somebody tap me on the back. And I looked, and it was a-looked like a doctor. He said, "Come here." He said, "Are you her husband?" And I said, "Yes, sir." "You Reverend Branham?" I said, "I am." He said, "Well, sir. I hate to break this news to you, but," said, "your wife's dying." Said, "Don't get her excited or anything." I said, "Doctor, surely not." Said, "Yes." Said, "She's going." And I said, "Oh, what is it, doctor?" Said, "Galloping tuberculosis." Said, "She'll just die right away." He said, "Just--just ma... Just make her feel good as you can." He said, "And both of your babies are sick. I'm tending to them over here in another home." Well, I went back and told her. I said, "Honey, you look good."
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And a little doctor friend of mine, Doctor Sam Adair there in Jeffersonville. Soon as he'd let me, I brought them back down home.
And there, they laid there until the babies got well; the wife gradually went away. Finally we got her in the hospital. I had doctors to come look at her. There wasn't nothing could be done. She took pneumothorax treatments and everything. Nothing could be done. And I remember standing there, and they bore holes down through her side, and put that tube in there and get collapsed one lung. Listen. If I had it... She'd hold my hand and cry, and the tears roll down her cheeks. She'd look at me, just suffering. Never done a bit of good. If I had to go over it; I'd never go through with it again. That's right. As she's holding my hand...
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But just to show you, the way of a transgressor's hard. I never will forget. I was trying to work to get the bill paid off. And then all of... One day I was out, and I heard a call come say, "If you--you want to see your wife alive, come at once." I rushed out to the hospital. I never forget it. I jerked off my hat and throwed it in the truck; I run up through there real quick. And here come little Doctor Adair walking out. God bless his little old heart. He's a--he's a fine man. And he come walking out. We'd eat together, slept together, fished together, just bosom friend. And he come walking out. And he come walking down through the ho--the hospital. I seen him look at me, and I seen big tears drop off his cheeks, and he turned sideways. And I run into the room. I said, "What's the matter, Doc?" I said, "She ain't gone." He said, "I believe she is." I said, "Come, go in with me, Doc." He said, "Bill, don't ask me to do that." Said, "Hope's like my sister." Said, "I--I--I can't go in there. Don't--don't--don't ask me to." And the nurse come up, said, "Come, Brother Branham." Said, "Here, drink this little bit of medicine." I said, "No, I don't need it." He said, "Go ahead, Billy. That'll rest your nerves." I said, "I don't want it." I said, "No." He said, "Nurse, you go in with him." I said, "No, I don't want anyone. I'm going in myself. I'm going in." I said, "I love her, and I'm going in." I walked to the door, opened the door, and there she laid all covered up like this, and blanket sheet pulled up over her face. I'd jerked the sheet down, and my heart just a breaking... I put my hand on her, her perspiration on her forehead kinda felt sticky. I said, "Hope, Hope, honey." I said, "Speak to me once. Well, just speak one time, won't you." I was shaking her.
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Friends, if I'll live a hundred years, I'll never forget what happened. Those two big brown eyes looked up at me. She was so weak she couldn't say nothing. She was smiling. She took her finger and she motioned. And I got down, and she said, "Why did you call
me, honey?" And I said, "Well, they..." I said, "I don't know." She said, "Oh I--I was in another land." She said, "It was so peaceful. I wasn't suffering." She said, "Great big birds like a great Orion." And she said, "There was man dressed in white, one on each side, taking me to my home." Oh, friend. There--there's a land somewhere. I believe as she was dying, her eyes just opened up to see paradise beyond. She rallied for a little bit. The nurse come in. And she said, "Nurse, come over." She said, "I hope when you get married, you'll have a husband like mine." I said, "Oh, honey, I haven't done nothing." She said, "Oh, bless your heart." She patted me on the back. Nurse turned around, walked out, crying. She said, "Bill, I want to tell you a few things." Said, "I'm going." Said, "Don't cry." I said, "All right." She said, "Don't let my babies be pulled about from pillar to post." She said, "And some things I got to confess to you." I said, "What is it?" She said, "Do you remember one time," and said, "you were going fishing, and--and I called you. And that night we were going to Fort Wayne for a meeting?" I said, "Yes." She said, "You went got me some stockings." I said, "Yes, I remember them." She said, "Them was the wrong kind of stockings, honey. Them wasn't right."
Well, what it was, I'd--I'd been fishing. I went up home and we had to go to Fort Wayne. I was going to preach that night at Fort Wayne. Her father lived at Fort Wayne. So I was going up there to-to--to preach, and she... You--you... There's two different kinds of-of--of woman's socks that you buy. One's called a... Name them, somebody. Is it--is chiffo--chiffon? That's right. And what's the other kind? Rayon? Sa... Is it Raymond or Raymond? Rayon? Which is the best? Chiffon. Well, they cost sixty-something cents then. And she was taking a bath, and she said, "Billy, you run down at the--at Penney's and get me some--some socks." And I said, "All right." And I was going down the street. And she said... Now remember, I didn't know nothing about women's clothes. And she was saying, "Get chiffon." I was going down the street going, "Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon." Somebody said, "Hello, Brother Branham." I said, "Hello, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon." And I met Orville Spawn down there, and he--he said, "Billy, perch is biting over on the...?... about that long..."
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Well, I--I wasn't going to Penney's, 'cause I didn't know nobody there. But I used to have a little friend that come to my church by the name of Thelma Ford. She worked in a ten cent store, and I knowed they sold them over there. And went over, the Thelma come up, said, "What do you want, Billy?" I said, "I want some socks for Hope." Said, "Now, Hope don't wear socks." I said, "She sure does." She said, "She wears stockings." I said, "That's right. That's right." I thought, "Oh, I've showed my ignorance already." And I said... She said, "What kind do you want?" And I said, "What kind you got?" She said, "I got chiffon and--and ray..." What's the, rayon the cheap ones? She said, "I got rayon." I said, "That's what I want. That's what I want." She said, "Hope want rayon?" I... All sounded alike, rayon, chiffon. I didn't know the different. She said... "Yes." And--and so she gave me... got them, put them in the sack. I said, "I want the full style." You know that thing that got the thing behind them, you know, that... I don't know, you know. I said, "The full style" And--and so... Oh, fashion, full fashion, that's what it was. And I said, "That's the kind that I--I want." And she got them ready for me. She put them in the sack, and it was only about twenty-nine cents. And I said, "Well, give me two pair of them." And she said, "Are you sure of that?" I said, "That's what she wanted."
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And so I went back, and I... Of course, you know how you men like to pop off to your women. And I said, "Looky here." I said, "I'm Abraham's son. I'm a little Yiddish. You go over the river shopping, I'll buy two pair of stockings for what you can buy one, and have money left." I said, "Just... I'm Abraham's son. I'm know how to do it. You see?" You know, going on like that. And God bless her heart. She's in her grave tonight, and probably snow over it. But not altogether there. I still think of her. That's right. And she gone on. And there, when she said she wouldn't have... I thought it funny when she got to Fort Wayne she wanted another pair of stockings. But she was lady enough not to say it. And she told me. She said, "Billy, I give them to your mother. They was for an older woman than me." And I said, "Well, God bless you, honey. I didn't know that." I said,
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She said, "You remember that time you wanted to go hunting so bad, and we was at Louisville. You seen that little .22 rifle that you wanted? And it cost three dollars and something to pay down on it, and you didn't have the money to pay on it? It's been about two years ago?" I said, "Yeah, I remember that." She said, "Bill, I've always wanted to buy you that rifle." She said, "I won't be with you but just a few minutes longer now." But she said, "When you go home, look up on top of the old folding bed under that paper. I've been saving nickels to buy the rifle." She said, "Will you promise me you'll buy it?" Oh, my. When I went home and found that two dollars and something laying under there, like to killed me. I said, "Sure." But I said, "Honey, you're not going away." She said, "I--I hate to leave you." But said, "I must." She said, "I don't mind it." She said, "It's all right." Said, "Now, another thing I'm going to ask you. Don't stay single." I said, "Oh, oh, don't ask me that." Said, "Promise me. Promise me that you--that you won't stay single, my children will have a home to go to, not be drug around everywhere." I said, "Honey, I--I can't do that." And she said, "Promise me, won't you?" Said, "I--I--I can go a little easier." And she didn't mind it no more than you mind taking a drink. She said, "I--I just..." Said, "I hate to leave you and the babies, but," she said, "oh, Bill, it's so wonderful to go like this." And I said, "Well, I will do the best I can."
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And she said, "Another thing." She said, "You realize why I'm going, don't you?" Oh, that's what hurt. She said, "If I wouldn't have listened to mama, and...?... would listened to..." Said, "It would've been different, wouldn't it." I said, "That's right, honey." I said, "Oh, what will I ever do?" She said, "Do this. Don't be ashamed of this Holy Ghost religion." She said, "It's the greatest thing in the world to die by it." She said, "Stay and preach as long as..." Said, "Promise me you'll go right out into the fields where we was supposed to go." And said, "Promise me that you'll do everything you can." Said, "And tell everybody, that it's glorious when you get ready to leave here. It's wonderful." And I said, "Oh, honey. It's so good to see you go like that." And she said... I--I said, "Where do you want me to place you?" And she said, "You take me up on the hill." I said, "I will take you out to Walnut Ridge, and I'll--I'll bury you
there at the hill, your body." And I said, "Honey, I promise you, I'm going, if God won't... spare me, I'm going right out into the field, and I'll never stop until the last drop of blood or life is gone from my body, to do, or try to make an atonement." And I said, "I'll do everything that I can to live right; I'll do right." And I said, "Look." And she said, "Good bye." And I said, "Are you going?" I said, "Look, on that morning," I said, "so we'll be able to get together now," I said, "i--if... On that morning, I want you to go to the East side of the gate," and I said, "I want you to stand there. And when...?... It'll be terrible down here." I said, "If--if I die before He comes, I will be sleeping out there." I said, "We'll get together. But if I'm somewhere on the field and be taken up," I said, "you go there and wait for the children, and stand there by the side of the gate. And then when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob coming in, start screaming, 'Bill, Bill, just as loud as you can." I said, "I'll answer you there." She raised up her feeble hands. I kissed her good bye. That was my last date with her. I'm on my road. That's right. Someday, someday, I shall go.
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When we took her down to the funeral parlor, I went home. I couldn't be satisfied nowhere. I went over to mama's. I just... Oh, I was crying. I went home. And they said, mama said, "Stay over here." I said, "No, I'm going home." We didn't have no furniture, but what it was was ours. And so I went home to lay down. And just then, Brother Frank Broy come up, said, "Billy, I hate to tell you something, son." I said, "Well, I was just right there." Said, "That's not it. Your baby's dying too." I said, "Can't be." Said, "Yes, it is." And away they took me out to the hospital to see my little Sharon, my little girl. I couldn't call her... I wanted to call her a Bible name. I called my little boy Billy Paul after me and after Saint Paul. And then I wanted to call the baby a Bible name. And I couldn't call her the Rose of Sharon, so I just called her Sharon Rose.
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And I went out the hospital, and the doctor met me. He said, "Billy, she's dying. Don't go in there." And I stood there till after the nurse turned her back, and I run down there; and I went down to where she was at. I looked at her. And there the little thing, laying there... I never will forget. She's just eight months old. And I remember, I used to come home, I... She'd set out in the yard, and I'd blow my horn like that, coming around the corner, and she'd
go, "Goo, goo, goo," just reach... I just loved those little fellows. And she was suffering so hard, till one of them little fat legs was moving up and down in a spasm. And looked like her little hand was a waving. And I looked at her, and I said, Sherry, honey, you know daddy?" And I was trying to make myself strong. And I said, "You know daddy, honey?" And her little lips got to quivering. And when she looked at me, she was suffering so hard till her little eye went crossed. Oh, my. When I seen that tender little blue baby eye cross...
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I didn't know it then, but I understand now. There's never been a cross-eyed child come in line, but what I think of that. There's never been one pass over the platform but what's been healed too. I didn't know the crushing had to bring it forth. But I never think of it till I see that. That little eye crossing, and she was suffering so hard. And I knelt down. I said, "O Jesus, please, God. I'm sorry for what I do." I said, "Don't take her from me. I love her, Lord, with all my heart. Please God." Looked like a big black curtain come falling down. I knew she was gone. I raised up, put my hand over on her head. I said, "God bless you, my darling little sweet angel. I'm going to put you in the arms of mother. And the Angel is coming to pack you home in a few minutes. But someday, daddy will see you." I raised up my head, and I said, "God, You gave and You taken away. I don't know why You're slaying me." I said, "Yet You may slay me, I'm going to trust You as Job did. I'm going to believe You." And I said, "I... Somehow You're breaking my heart. I don't know how I'm going to hold up any longer." But I said, "God, I commit her little soul to You. Take it, Lord Jesus. Put it on the altar with the mother. And someday, let me come to see them." And as I did that, the Angels of God sweetly come down and taken away her little breath, and bore her away to be with her mother. I placed her in-- the mother, put them down beneath the ground.
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When I stood there, Brother Smith, a Methodist preacher friend of mine, he got some clods in his hand, walked over there, and I was standing there; he put his arm around me; said, "Billy, brace up, honey boy." I said, "Oh, Brother Smith, my soul is... Oh, I don't know what to do." And I heard him say, with them little clods dropping upon the little casket, said, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, earth to earth." I thought, "God, what can I do?" Sound like the wind blowed down through the pine trees, it sound like I heard a song saying:
There's a land beyond the river, That we call the sweet forever, And we only reach that shore by faith decree; One by one we gain the portal, There to dwell with the immortal, Someday they'll ring the golden bells for you and me.
I turned from the grave, broken hearted, went home; I couldn't rest. Days passed. I could give up my wife, but that... oh, that baby was the choice of my heart. I didn't know what to do, little sweet girl... And then I thought, "Oh, what will I do quickly now."
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One day I went... I was working for the Public Service. I climbed up a pole early one morning to--to take off a pole meter. I was standing there, and I was singing:
On the hill far away, stood an old rugged cross...
I was going... And I happened to look, and as the sun come up, me hanging there on that pole working on these cross-arms, looked out on the side, and there looked like my figure a wiggling on that... looked like a cross out there. And I thought, "O Christ of God. Yes, it was my sins nailed You there. I'm sorry for what I done." Oh, I said, "God, how could You ever put up with a person like me. You'd broke my heart, You ground me down. But what can I do?" And I got real nervous. And I had on a pair of rubber gloves. Many of you linemen knows...?... twenty-three hundred. Running right by me run the primary. And I thought, "Looky here. I can lay my hand on that primary. In one minute's time I'll be with Sharon." I jerked my glove off. I said, "God, I've lost my mind or something." I said, "Sherry, honey, I can't stand it no longer. Daddy's coming to be home with you." I said, "Look at them..." Twenty-three hundred running there, break every bone in your body, electric. I said, "Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name." And the first thing you know, I was setting down on the ground. I don't know.
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I believe that if that gift hadn't been foreordained, that'd been the end of your Brother Branham right there. But God had something else to do. He had to grind that heart out and let Him know, let me know that He's the One Who rules and reigns. I went home. I couldn't stand it, couldn't work. Went over to mama's, and mama said, "Honey, come in. Let me--let me make you quiet." I said, "I'm going home." And I went home. It was kinda cool weather. I took the mail out of the box and went around. I was trying to batch. We didn't have much in our house. I had an old cot setting back there. But she'd lived there with me. We'd been together; that'd been our-our home. And it... No matter how little it was, it belonged to her and
I. And it was us. The whole thing wouldn't have been three dollars worth of furniture. But it belonged to her and I. It was as worth as much as any of the good homes there is in the world, 'cause it was ours. And I went back there in the kitchen, cold frost coming up through the floor. And I never will forget, I opened up the mail. The first mail I opened up, it said on there, "Miss Sharon Rose Branham." It was her little Christmas saving. The banker knew that she'd never draw it, so... Dollar and eighty cents. He sent it to me. Oh, I just couldn't stand it. I broke down and started crying. It was getting towards night. I knelt down on the floor. And I started crying and praying. And I... Oh, what a hour.. I couldn't hardly stand it.
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I went to sleep laying there. I dreamed. I thought I was out West. And when I was out West, I was walking down through the prairie, and I was whistling that song:
The wheel on the wagon is broken, Sign on the ranch, "For Sale."
I was whistling like that, and I seen an old prairie schooner and a wheel broke down. And standing there by that schooner, stood the most beautiful blond-headed girl with her pretty blue eyes shining, dressed in white. And I had my hat on... my hat. And I passed by, and I said, "Howdy do, miss," and put my hat back like that. And she said, "Hello, dad." And I looked around, and I said, "Dad?" She said, "Sure." I said, "Well, young lady, I beg your pardon." I said, "I--I... You're as old as I am. How could I be your daddy?" She said, "Daddy, don't you know me?" And I said, "No, ma'am. I'm afraid I don't." She said, "You just don't know where you are, daddy." And I said, "Well, I... What do you mean?" She said, "Where's Billy Paul?" That's her little brother. And I said, "I--I... What is this?" She said, "Daddy, on earth, I was your little Sharon." I said, "Sharon? My baby?" She said, "Yes, daddy." Said, "Remember, we're immortal here. When we come here, we're not little babies no more. We're all one age." And I said, "Oh, honey. Are you Sharon?" She said... I said, "Where's mother?" Said, "She's up at your--the new home." I said, "A home?" Said, "Yeah." I said, "Well, honey, something wrong here." I said, "Branhams never had homes. We're more like the vagabond people." I said that, "We-we don't have no home."
She said, "But, daddy, you got one up here." I looked around over to my right, and there was a great big beautiful home. And there was lights shining up all around. She said, "Mother's waiting for you. I'm going to wait here for Billy." I said, "All right, honey." I took out running as hard as I could, my hat in my hand. I run right up to the step. When I got there, Hope would usually meet me coming out with her arms out. And I went up and run up the steps just hard as I could. And I got top of the steps, here she come dressed in white, that black hair hanging down. She come running up to me, she raised out her arms. I run to her, throwed my hat down, and just knelt down by the side of her. She put her hand on my head. She said, "Bill, what are you worried about, honey?" I said, "Hope, I can't stand it any longer." I said, "I seen... Is that Sharon Rose down there?" She said, "Yes, Bill." She said, "What's you worried about? You worrying about me and Sharon?" And I said, "Honey, I--I just can't stand it. I..." She said, "Stop worrying." Said, "Don't worry, we're lots better off than you are." And I said, "That may be so." But I said, "Hope, didn't she make a pretty woman? Aren't we proud of her?" She said, "Sure." She said, "Aren't you tired?" And I said, "Honey, I just been preaching and praying for the sick so long." And that's the way I know I'll go. It had to come--it hadn't come yet. I said, "I just been preaching and praying for the sick till I'm so tired I can't hardly stand up." She said, "Won't you sit down?" And I looked, and there was a great big Morris chair setting there. And I looked at her, and she looked back at me. Said, "I know what you're thinking." Down here one time, I... We had them three old chairs, or two old chairs at the house. And...
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If I can get favor with... which I feel that God has granted me favor with Him. If I can find your confidence, I'm sure there'll be something that'll happen during the meeting that you'll understand, that God is with us. Now, many has made great statements, and you see it in your newspapers and magazines and so forth, saying, "Brother Branham, the Divine healer." Well, there is no such a thing as that. There's no
man that is a Divine healer. There's only one Healer, that's Christ, the Son of God. He's the Healer, God. Men only represent healing. They represent Christ; they represent healing. Every person that represents Christ, should represent healing, for it's in Him that we're healed.
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And then many of them, of course, can't fathom the--the thought of a gift. The Bible said, "He ascended on high and give gifts to men." And everything that we do must purely be of the Scripture. If it isn't a Scripture background, then it isn't right. But anything that's based upon the Scripture is--you can listen to it. And if it's God, God will testify of it. If it isn't God, then God will not testify. Just the men will testify and God will not. But if it be God, God will testify for Himself. We're having services each afternoon, just to give you a little from the platform here, before the crowds gather in tonight. I thought it usually takes just the first night to kind of explain some of the things that the people might know, and each one of you, I want you to help me. For I realize that this meeting will--we'll have to every one answer at the day of Judgment, for this meeting, each one. I've got to answer for it. I've got to answer for what I say. I've got to answer for what I do.
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And then, as I bring Christ to you, He will be on your hand. And you'll have to answer for what attitude you took towards it: if you turned it down, or if you accepted it. You... God will have you to answer for your attitude of this meeting, so you must realize it's a very sacred thing. Brother Lindsay and Brother Moore is representing the... They are the managers of the meeting. They represent two denominations of the-the holiness people. Myself, I don't belong to any denomination. I once was a Baptist. And by their desire, I'm not any more, because that I teach Divine healing, and gifts of healing, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And I know it's the truth. So when they turned me out of there, the holiness people accepted me, and said they had been praying for that gift to come to their church for forty years or more, so I... God just put me where I belong.
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Not that I have anything against any denomination, because that I see that God's no respect of person. He heals the Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Pentecost and all. God don't respect your church affiliation; He expects your faith, respects your faith in Him. He doesn't even... and healing, you don't even have to be a Christian to be healed. But in order to stay healed, you have to become a
Christian. "Go ye and sin no more, or a worse thing than this will come upon you." So you... I see many times the calloused saints come through the prayer line, men and women who's lived godly, and fail to be healed, when prostitutes on the street would come through the buil--the line and be healed. It depends on your faith. In the days when the--the Master was here, the priests who were holy men, they had to be holy. They could not be a priest without being holy. They had to be a scholar of the Word. There was no man could point a finger of scorn towards them, because they were holy, righteous men. And they failed to receive the blessings that sometimes the Gentiles and unbelievers, who seen Jesus and seen His works, believed that He healed them, when priests and so forth couldn't be healed.
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Many of them understood Him. The common people heard Him gladly. And it's a great deal that way today. But I've noticed the peoples; all denominations almost attend the meetings. We even have the Orthodox, the Jews, Greek, Catholic, and all types. But God never respects any different denomination; He just respects the faith that's in the individual. "I can, if ye believe," He said. And then He said, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing come upon you." So therefore, in order to obtain your healing, you'll have to become a Christian after you're healed. And I believe, I would say this, talking of the dual atonement, when you are healed, your sins are forgiven you. I didn't hear very many amens on that, but it's the truth. "Confess your faults one to another, and pray ye one for another, that you may be healed."
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"Go ye and sin no more, or a worse thing come upon you." Jesus said, "Which is it easier do? Say thy sins be forgiven thee, or take up thy bed and walk"? It's all on the same. And so I believe in James 5:14, said, "If any among you are sick, let them call the elders of the church; let them anoint them in oil and pray over them. The prayer of faith shall save the sick, if they've done any sin, it shall be forgiven them. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed." That's the duty of every Christian minister. Every minister of the Gospel has a right to pray for his congregation, and they have a right to believe God and be healed. Divine healing doesn't belong to one man or one group. It belongs to all the people. The gift of healing was not given, to be sent out to have different healing campaigns across the country. It's all right for them to be, but that isn't the purpose. There ought to be a healing campaign in every church, all the time, going on everywhere.
Many people gets the wrong impression on these meetings. They think because the evangelist is there, or the someone praying for the sick when he's gone, all the healing virtue is gone. God covers the earth. Your pastor, these... Your pastor, like...?... "What's the matter with my pastor that he can't do that?" Well, friends, that's the wrong impression to have. Your pastor is, if he's a godly man, he--his prayers will be answered just the same as any evangelist, or anybody claiming any gift, or anything else. He's a man of God. And you should respect him that way and believe in him. And God will answer your--answer his prayer. He said, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another that ye might be healed." Not only every person, in a measure that's got the Holy Spirit has the gift of healing, in a measure. Every apple that's in the tree, is in the tree when it's a sprig no more than that. When it's a little bitty branch set in the ground, every bloom that'll ever be in the tree is in it right then.
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The blooms don't come down out of the air. The bloom don't come up through the ground. The bloom's already in the tree. The apple's already in it. The tree's planted in the ground, and the only thing it has to do is drink. And when it goes to drinking, and has to drink more than its portion, and it spreads out, pushes out. And that's the way we're planted in Christ Jesus, through the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, and we start drinking; and the more we drink, we just push out. That's right. It brings out these elements. And the gift that God has called you to, well, just... The trouble of it is, you don't drink. That's right. You don't drink. He's... Don't you believe He's the inexhaustible Fountain of Life? "Come to Me, all ye ends of the world and drink?" The devil don't care how much you come, as long as you don't drink. See? You come and drink. That's what this meeting is for now, for you to drink.
There's a fountain open, flowing freely everywhere. Just drink till you just can't drink no more. The tree, if it just drink to what it was allotment, why, it would just always, still in the drought. That's what's the matter with the Christians. They don't drink enough. You want to drink till you just spread out and let somebody else see it. See? Push out. Get a testimony. Commit it to God. Believe it. Step out on it. Claim God's promise. Just commit--commit it to God. Believe it. "Commit thy ways unto the Lord." He will bring it to pass whatever you want. But He can't do it until... as long as you're holding it. Say, "Now, I will see if I'm any better, and see if this will work." You commit it to Him; forget about the rest of it. Go testifying of things you don't even
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see. You believe it. It's not what you see; it's what you believe. It's not what you feel. He never did say, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" That's how you're saved is by faith. That's how you're healed is by faith. And faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you don't see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. You just believe it. Act upon it as though it was. Amen.
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I get started on that, we'd probably would have a prayer line up-and-down the aisle somewhere, wouldn't they? But that's what we must do in this meeting. Now, concerning the way the meeting is carried on. The meeting is... We conduct it to the best of our knowledge. They... I spend most of my time in prayer. I have to. And the last time I was here, when I was having services here with Brother Brown, down here at the Pentecostal church, just below the capitol, we would pray till way in the morning. By the way, there was something happened there in that church, one night, that I testified about it across the country, was the most pathetic sight I ever seen. I will refer to it later on. Probably the person will be here. It was a woman on her back, down on the floor, down in the basement. I will never forget the night. I just wonder, if that woman's in the building, would you just raise your hand? I just wonder if she's here anywhere. I hope she gets to come to the meeting.
I didn't see her hand just at--now. But she was on her back crawling. I've been in insane institutions when I'd see young women use a bed pan wash their face, and everything else, but I--I never seen anything so pathetic as that. And I've always thought since that time... 'Course, I--I... My ministry is just a few months old. And I've always thought since then that being's the people here and around Little Rock was so, responded to the meeting, that I've always wanted to come back to Little Rock again. Now, great things has happened to the gift since then. And I will explain it in a moment. It's way greater than it was. And now God is testifying everywhere of it.
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Now, we come down to the service in the afternoon in order to--to get... I would that every person that could, if you're not--if you're not s--so in work that you can't, well, you come down to the service in the--in the afternoon and attend the afternoon services for the men, Mr. Lindsay, and the managers; they speak of how to approach healing. And it's good for you, that you do that, and get
ready for the service. And then, another thing I want you to remember, that we used to be, we have what we called the fast lines. How many remember the old fast lines we used to have? Oh, my. I... not a stranger here by a long ways. So we used to have those fast lines that never did prove out right. And when I... When God added the other part to the gift, I promised Him that I would--wouldn't have no more fast lines. And we don't have nothing but just the line, the real prayer line of healing.
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And many times we try to show the people, we will, before It's left, if the Lord blesses us the way I trust that He will, that I want to get all your God-saved pastors together for one of the meetings, so that you people will see that your pastor is a man of God, and see that he has the same authority to lay hands upon the sick, if you believe it. Now, here's the way we do. We come down... My brother, brother in flesh, he's just back out of the Navy, spent four years in the World War II and was laid up to be a perfect total disable the rest of his life, never to move from a chair. Setting out, and from New York there on one of the Long Island Hospital, one of the best doctors in the United States Navy had said, "You're finished for life. You'll lay there. You can't never get away from there."
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Three valves of his heart was closed with rheumatic fever. He was shell shocked from: went into Casablanca and two-thirds of the convoy was tore up. And he was laying there screaming at the top of his voice, when he couldn't scream, and crying for mother and me. And mother had to sign a release to get him--get them to send him home. And she would be responsible if he died on the road home. And when he got home, he said, "All I want to see is my brother to pass by me." Here he is: perfect health. Instead of returning to the Lord like he should've done, he become an acrobat, went out doing acrobatical work. Then the Lord dealt with him for that and sent him back. So now he's helping me here in the services.
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Here's the way we try to do it. We used to, we tried sending cards in to ministers, let them give them to their congregations. Well, the... That caused an argument among the ministers. One's congregation... The first minister got his congregation started, that finished the service, while we were there, 'cause we'd take time to be sure that every person was healed before we leave them on the platform. No matter what's wrong with them, we stay at the platform till that person's healed. No matter how bad they're crippled, twisted, deaf, dumb, blind or whatever they are, we stay right there till God heals that person. And we seen that didn't work.
We had a fast line. They would... It wasn't right there. And we found this to be the best that we've ever had, 'cause it was revealed to me by the Holy Spirit. We go down to the congregation; I send my brother, and he has fifty prayer cards every day. And he gives out those prayer cards. Then they got to finding, if you give me number 1, number 2, number 3, if it could ever would past 15 or 20, well, they didn't want the prayer cards any more. And they would rally for that prayer cards, and almost would run him wild, if they didn't get that prayer card, especially in big meetings where many, many thousands are attending.
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So then, the Holy Spirit spoke to me, and--and had me to do it this way. We just give out fifty prayer cards, and no one knows just where the line will start. I come in and have some little kid or count so many in a row or something like that, divide it by so many and start at a certain number. And he doesn't know; I don't know; no one knows. And it's for... whether it's local people... Used to, we'd just give the local people. Why, the people coming from a distance didn't have a chance. Maybe they sold their cow, or--or their canned goods to get to the meeting. Didn't do no good then, just the local people. So we make it fair to all. Just give out the cards and ever who gets them, that's all right.
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One man might have number one and think he'd be the first in line; it might start at forty. We don't know till we come to the platform, and let God decide it. Then we choose so many out of there, and the ones that the Lord has ordained to call, comes into the line for that night. The next night, next evening they give out more cards. In doing so, that way, then we keep it equal, everybody coming in. They say, "Well, this person come in, if they don't get a card today, they are going to die tomorrow." Well, that gives every fellow a chance. Just wherever the Lord would call. And now, since the new thing has been added to the gift, then It speaks it out in the audiences, and everywhere and calls the people.
Now, I want to read just a text of Scripture here. So you come every afternoon now to receive your prayer card. Be prayerful. How many will pray about the meeting now? Let's see your hands. Now, this is your meeting, friends, and we're here to try to help you all we can. And I realize that this anointing, I have nothing to do with It. It comes Itself. If It doesn't come, I will walk off the platform. I
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wouldn't stay here at all, because the statements and the claims that I make, there has to be a supernatural Being there to perform that. Man cannot do that. And many of you, in the other meeting, when I was here, It would pick up diseases by holding the people's hand. How many remembers that? And how many remembers that I said that the Angel that met me told me that it would come to pass if I'd be reverent, that way, that He would give me another sign like He did Moses, the true signs to prove to the people that It would tell the secrets of their hearts.
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How many remembers that I said that would come to pass? See? In the meeting. That's right. Well now, that has come to pass. This is about the fifth meeting since it happened. It come all at once. And then, in the third meeting where it was being manifested, the great Angel of God, Who's been seen by thousands that come to the platform. He permitted me, the other night, to stand by His side and have His picture taken with me. It was the first time in all human history that anything like that ever happened. I'm very happy tonight to know that He did that. And I'm going to work for Him and do all I can, just while I'm here, to serve Him and to serve His people. Now, before I read the Scriptures, your attitude... You help me to tell others. I won't speak after tonight, but your attitude towards the gift will determine your healing.
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Now, it's scientifically proven that God is with us people. His picture is here to prove. How many has seen the picture? I guess this was showed here tonight. You can have one. I guess they're here. Now, that's... It used to be that they'd say, "God can't be proved scientifically." The old skeptic that said that, can't get by with it no more now, 'cause it's scientifically proved that there is a supernatural Being. And that supernatural Being is Jesus Christ the Son of God: His Spirit. And now, those things... If someone might wonder why those things were said, the Spirit of Jesus Christ is in our midst. That's right. You remember, He told Nathanael, when Philip brought him to the prayer line, He said, "Thou art an Israelite in who there is no guile." He said, "Whence knowest thou me, Rabbi?" He said, "When you was under the tree, before Philip called you." He said, "O Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." He told him the secret of his heart. Is that right? When the woman at the well at Samaria, the Samaritan woman, He was holding a conversation with her, said, "Go, get your husband." She said, "I have none." He said, "You say, well, for you have had five. And the one you have now is not your husband."
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Quickly the disciples came, and she went into the city, saying, "Come see a Man that told me all the things I ever done. Isn't this the Christ?" Now, if I told you I was John Dillinger, or the spirit of John Dillinger was on me, you'd look for me to have guns, act like John Dillinger. If I told you I was an artist, the spirit of a great artist was on me, you'd expect me to paint the pictures of an artist. Is that right? If I told you I was a expert mechanic, and the mechanic's spirit was on me, you'd expect me to know what was wrong with your car. If I tell you that I was borned of the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Jesus Christ was on me, you'd expect me to do what He did, act like He did. That's His Spirit working through a human being. Do you believe that? His Spirit worked on a brass serpent one time. Do you believe that? And on the pool of Bethesda, a water chopped up, troubled water, ever who stepped in there believing, they received their healing. Is that right? Could the water say, "Look what a great water I am?" No, it was the Angel on the water that done the healing, not the water, the Angel. When the wa--Angel went away, it was just water. Men are just men, but it's God's agency.
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God doesn't fall upon denominations. God doesn't fall upon mechanical devices. God, the Holy Spirit, fell upon men. Man is God's agent, and the hardest thing that God has ever had to do was to get one mortal to believe another. Do you believe that? They couldn't believe Moses, and God give him two signs to prove to the people that he was sent from God for their deliverance. You believe that? Well, isn't He the same yesterday, today and forever? Do you believe the Angel that talked to him in the burning bush is the Angel of the Covenant? Was that right? All right. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. He's here now. And He does the same things today that He did then. And He still performs wonders and signs. He's a miraculous God. And He always works in a miraculous way with signs and wonders. And He promised them in these last days. And we're living in the last days. We got a right to expect them now (That's right.) to bring His people together.
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Then when Jesus came, no mortal can say that--that He's a healer. Jesus Christ never said He was a healer, did He? He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me. He doeth the works." Is that right? Then God, in Christ, was the One that was reconciling the world to Himself by signs and wonders. He had the signs, the--the credentials
of a Messiah--of the Messiah, and that proved His Messiahship. And if I speak to you tonight upon this, if I tell you that God has did a certain thing through a gift, I will not speak of the gift; it'll speak for itself. And if I speak to you of Christ, you believe what I say, if it's according to the Bible. And if Christ speaks back for me, then you believe Christ.
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If I tell you anything, and Christ doesn't say that's so, then don't you believe it. But if I tell you something that He's done and He testifies behind, that He has done that, then you believe Him. Is that fair enough? That's... Now, the gift doesn't heal no one. The gift is not for healing, no more than a Gospel preacher is sent for saving. He can't save anyone. He can preach under power to bring people to a knowledge of the Word of God, and come do their confessing, and God does the saving. Is that right? That's the same thing it is. He's--He's got a sign. He's preaching under power that brings conviction to the human heart, and they come to the altar, and by faith, they accept Jesus Christ and then find the results. Is that right? When they make a committal to God, committed to Him and believe Him, and then it brings forth the results... Now, a heal--healing is the same way. Ministers has preached it through the years, but this the day when God is doing something different.
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Now, the gift declares all diseases. Now, this is the claims. The gift declares all diseases, rebukes sins, calls the secrets of the people's hearts. And remember, that any persons come into the prayer line, if you come with unconfessed sin, remember, it'll be told from this platform. No matter how vulgar and bad it is, it'll be told from the platform. Now, that's a great statement to make. And remember, I stand before thousands of people, but It's never failed one time. It's always been perfect, even telling here a few nights ago... 'Course I, when I'd go under the anointing I hardly know what I'm speaking of. They tell me a young lady come to the platform at Beaumont, I believe it was, and was told, when I see the person standing there, it looked like they just started getting little. They go down to a certain little age, and I just begin to tell what I see happening. And it comes right on. And it's always perfect.
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This girl was told here a few nights ago, they tell me, at the age of about fourteen years old, or fifteen of giving birth to a baby without being married. And also, that she was enticed by some religious people, I believe, to marry a man that was--that was not...
And she wasn't in love with, and caused a lot of trouble and so forth like that. And about... And--and a whole lot of things that she had done and about, 'fore she come to the platform at a very certain place. And the way it was, she was praying, standing praying, asking God if He would heal her and... Was anybody there? Is that true? Is that the... Oh it, well there, yes, that's fine. Here's people that... And not only that, but just... you people that's been in other meetings, it's--it's exactly, every time, is that...? If it is, raise your hand, if that's true. You all know when it--when it said... That's right. Now, to witness to the other people...
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I have nothing to do with that. I--I don't even know what I'm going to say. And God knows that I don't know one of these people that'll be in the prayer line tonight. I don't know a one, but I have never seen It fail, but what God healed every person, regardless of how bad they were sick, afflicted, or whatever it was; He healed them. And not only that, but It calls out into the audiences, the different things of the people, out in the balconies and things. That's right. That's the truth. Now, that's the claims that I say. That does not have one thing to do with your healing. Only when the person comes to the platform... You notice the people coming tonight and every night, that is if the Holy Spirit comes. You'll see them come to the platform, and when they get eight or ten feet away, you'll see a change come over their face. Watch the patients.
Many of them even stagger, faint. I seen them become so unconscious they'd have to rub their face, like that and start crying. Practically every case, real strange feeling... How many knows that's the truth, in the other meetings? Now, they realize there's a Presence of an Angel of God there. Then when I try to tell it to them, you see the picture of It here, that was taken, scientific proven that it's right. Now, when they're standing there, they know they're in the Presence of a supernatural Being. No, it's not me. I'm just a no more than any--the least of any of you, but it's just a channel who He--that It's working through. Somebody has to declare it. And He just... It just happened to be that it was... He called me from my birth. I don't believe gifts are just handed out to you.
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The Bible said, "Gifts and callings are without repentance." You're born with these things. You believe in foreordination? For everybody? But things are foreordained of God. Jesus Christ was foreordained to be the Son of God at the garden of Eden. You believe that? "Thy seed shall bruise the serpent's head."
Moses was ordained of God, foreordained. When he was born, he was found a proper child. Is that right? True. And notice, I believe John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Is that right? Jeremiah, I believe it was, God said, "Before you was even born, or 'fore you was formed in your mother's wombs, I knew you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations, before you were ever born." Is that right?
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Gifts and callings are without repentance. The Angel appeared to Mary and told her, Zechariah and so forth. Those things are real. Now, for instance, to straighten up one thing, just for a moment, going to start the prayer line within the next five or six minutes. Some people say after the Holy Ghost is come, He leads the Church. There is no such a things as Angels appearing after the church, so I know that I'm talking to a bunch of holiness people. Someone told me here a few months ago, said, "Brother Branham, I admire you as a man, but your teaching concerning an Angel coming to you, that's an error." Said, "For we do not need angels now." Said, "The Holy Ghost is here." Said, "The Holy Ghost, after He come, the Angels went away." That's wrong. How many believes that--that Philip had the Holy Ghost? Let's see your hands. Well, who was it when he was having a revival at Samaria, that touched him and told him to go to the desert Gaza? The Angel of the Lord. Is that right?
How many believes Peter had the Holy Ghost? Preached the sermon at Pentecost. Well, while he was in prison, not the Holy Ghost, but the Angel of the Lord came in and touched him and led him outside the... Is that right? The Angel of the Lord. How many believes that Paul had the Holy Ghost? When he was out on the ship, just about to go down, fourteen days and nights without stars, moon, or anything, or light. He went down in the gallery somewhere, and prayed, and come back out, and said, "Be of a good courage, for the Angel of the Lord, Whose servant I am, has appeared to me." Is that right--that right? You believe he had the Holy Ghost? How many believes John the Revelator had the Holy Ghost? The entire Book of the Revelations was revealed to him by an Angel. "I have sent My Angel to testify." And John fell down and tried to worship the Angel. Is that right? He said, "See that you do it not; I'm of thy fellow servants and of the prophet." Worship God. Is that right?
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The Holy Ghost dispensation come in, and continued on, and
will continue on, by the administration of Angels to the Church. Truly. But they're ordained Spirits of God, sent from God, to--to carry the-the things out. Every man was a special calling, back all through the ages, Angels has visit men. Not a worship of Angels (That's wrong.), like Brigham Young and so forth. But an Angel of God will testify to the truth of God. That's right. And it'll declare God. It won't have some kind of mythical something and no one understands. It'll speak of Jesus Christ, and testify of Jesus Christ, and produce Jesus Christ to the people. Amen. I like that amen. That means, "so be it." And I--I like that.
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All right. Now this is the Angel of God sent from Jesus Christ to testify to the Church that the last days are here. It doesn't heal anybody, but it will help bring your faith up to a place... And when you see a person standing here on the platform... Now, to all you there, it might... How many here is to be prayed for, 'fore the meeting closes, let's see your hands. Well, I know that's a lot over fifty. I see prayer cards all around holding their cards up. Notice, when God is doing something here on the platform, that's His attitoward--attitude towards you out there also, do you believe that? And while it's being done here on the platform, remember, if you'll believe with all your heart, and not doubt in your heart, I will assure you that God will pull right out, and call who you are, and raise you up out of the building (That's right.), out of your cot, stretcher, or wherever you are. Here, the other night, a little girl sitting there after a minister seen Him coming down, I--I seen a man coming, a minister preaching, God told him to do something. He failed to do it. And after that, started troubled. His troubles was told him, laying there with a bone graft, happened to look to the side, I seen a man all twisted up. I seen him climbing up on... he is a rigger, seen him tying a double sheepshank knot. And I just begin to tell just what I was seeing, and of certain things. And then, first thing you know, there it was, and he was healed.
A little woman sitting over like this with her arms all stretched out. I seen a mother carrying a blanket, and a child, which was a spastic child. I seen the child a little later, fall from the table. Just begin to tell... I seen this girl standing there; she had never walked; she was sitting there in a wheelchair. And then I looked, and I seen the girl going down the street just waving to everybody, praising the Lord. I was telling this, saying just exactly what I was seeing. The girl was standing there, "Stand on your feet; Jesus Christ heals you." Up she got and down through the building she went. It never fails. It's got to be. Oh, hallelujah.
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He was crying like a man. That's true. He stood there. My, the Bible said there's no beauty we should desire Him. See Him standing there, His little frail little body standing there, tears streaking down His cheeks. But all of a sudden God came upon Him. He pulled His little body erect. There's a man, laying there dead, rotten in the grave four days: skin worms crawling in and out of his body. He stood there and screamed with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." What was it? God looking through them tears, God speaking through them mortal lips. That's right. "Lazarus, come forth." Lazarus had been dead; his soul was out in eternity for four days. Where I...?... so we won't argue about that. But that man laying there rotten in the grave and his soul four days journey, corruption knew it's Creator. His soul through the life was a...?... and that man had been dead four days, now he's a living. Hallelujah. God in His Son, reconciling the world to Himself. Do you believe He was in His Son? That's right. God lived in Him. When He died... Christ had to die as a man, for He was a man, to redeem us back to the Father. Exactly right.
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Oh, if we just had time to lean on that just a little bit now, but our time's getting away. God in His Son, God in His Universe. God is in His--in His Word. God in His Son, now God in His people for a few moments. Notice, friend...?... God in His people. Do you believe that God is in His people? He certainly is. Oh, my. Notice, there was a hundred and twenty, those cowardly people, that dared to go up to Jerusalem to take God at His Word, to stay there a little while. And all of a sudden, while they were up there, God came down to dwell among His people. And when He did, they went through windows, doors, and everything else, and out into the streets; they wasn't scared any more. Our God came down, that third person yonder into the flesh again and lives tonight in His people. Hallelujah. God Himself, God the Holy Ghost, living in His people.
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Here a few nights ago, standing yonder, when a m--a minister challenged me when he said, "Divine healing..." said, "Brother Branham is a faker. There's nothing to him. He's a religious racketeer. There's nothing to him. Divine healing is a fake and Brother's Branham's the chief of all of them: a faker." I never said a word. I walked to the platform; I said, "No, I'm not a faker." God, Who is my Witness, and about that time coming from the heavens come a whirl of Fire. Hallelujah. God come down and permitted the
mechanical lens to take a picture of the Holy Ghost standing over me. God is in His people. Hallelujah. The people can be secure right there when we all believe that God's in His people. Yes, sir. He stirred the hearts of the poets. Oh, it's more than a imaginary thing. It's men who trusted God, who believed God.
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One time there was a man...?... He was writing one day, and he was write--trying to write a song; he couldn't do it. And he didn't know what to do. And all at once there was a song came to another man by the name of Eddie Perronet, and he...?... setting in a room. And suddenly there came a Spirit of God upon him. He grabbed his pen and he wrote:
All hail the power of Jesus' name! Let angels prostrate fall; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown Him Lord of all.
Old blind Fanny Crosby who'd never seen daylight, sitting in a room one day God came upon His blind poet. And when He did she wrote,
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. Thou the stream of all my comfort, More than life to me, Whom have I on earth beside Thee? Whom in heaven but Thee?
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What is it? God in His people, God in His Word, God in His servants, God in His prophets, God in His Healing. Oh, God's here in this building tonight? Do you believe it right now? That's right. Is God in His creation? You believe it. Is that right? Is God in His Word? Do you believe it? Was God in His Son? Do you believe it? Was God in His people? Do you believe it? I can just prove that He's here now. I believe that it's God, the Holy Ghost flowing over this building right now, that it's the same, and heal every person in here. God is in His people. I believe that at nighttime when He calls, I... When He calls I take it. Hallelujah. I know you think I'm crazy. Maybe you do, but I don't think so. I couldn't lose my...?... mind of world I have the mind of Christ. I am He's more than life to me...?... You may call it whatever you want to. You can call the Holy Ghost tonight if...?... if you want to. But one day I was a sinner; now I'm a Christian. One
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day I was blind; now I see. One day I was...?... all kind...?... One day yonder another one said, "Mr. Branham, I'm sorry to leave this burden to you, but you are finished." Two years ago they told me, "You are finished." And tonight I'm in the best health I ever was. God is still in His people. Hallelujah...?... believe it...?... How can I prove to you? Is It the Truth? Say Amen. Our Father God, we pray now, that You'll pour out Your self tonight upon this people. And may they every one be healed. Hear my prayer, Lord, they're sick. O God, may Your Spirit come upon Your poor humble servant, and may sins be called; may people be healed of all manner of diseases here tonight. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Good evening, audience. This is a great privilege for me to be here tonight. I've always wanted to come to New Mexico. I'm so glad that God permitted me to come before I had to go overseas. We're here for five nights now to do all that we can for you, and minister to you in the Name of the Lord Jesus. (I'll pull this just a little closer.) 'Cause I've been speaking, traveling over much of the country, and I kinda gotten just a little bit hoarse in my throat. Maybe one week, I'm where it's real real warm, and next week where it's real cold, and constantly speaking day and night. I trust that this will be a great time for the people of God here. And I'll do all that I know how to pray that God will grant a great meeting here, while we're here. May His Spirit be present to heal all that are sick and afflicted...?... And may those who are, haven't as yet come into the covenant with God through His Son, Christ Jesus, may receive this great blessing of being saved while the services here are going on.
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I trust that after the service, there'll be an old fashion revival just sweep plumb through the country here...?... 'causing every person to be with new fire. I believe we're living in a--a terrible day, yet a wonderful... a day just before the coming of Jesus. Just before they came after me a few moments ago, I was speaking to my little son; he said, "Daddy, just what will it be like when Jesus comes?" Said, "We just don't know." It'll be glorious, I know, when we, whatever we do. One said of them, "Eye has not seen; ear has not heard; or entered the heart of man what God has for them in store
that love Him." And the only thing we can do is love Him and believe, and by and by He will manifest Hisself to us. Don't you believe that?
And now, many people on account of the--the newspapers and so forth, I've noticed that here, call me a Divine healer. Why, Christian friends, you know that's wrong. I'm no Divine healer; I'm your brother. Now, there's only One Healer, and that's God. He's the only One that heals. A gift of healing doesn't make you a Divine Healer, no more than the gift of preaching would make me Divine Saviour. It's a gift. Now, the gift itself will speak for itself. Anything that God does, you do not have to be ashamed of it, or think it's way off somewhere, because God shall declare Himself, His gift. Hebrews, I believe, the 11th chapter and the 2nd verse, said God testified of His gift. A man can say anything, a person. For a man to say anything is one thing; then for God to say something, it's something different. And if I should testify of something, and God would not back that up, then you and me are... I told you something falsely. But if I tell you something, and God has declared that to be so, then you believe it's so, for the very works say so. You believe that it is God.
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Now, the way this works, is not to heal anybody. There's no mortal ever lived on earth that was a Divine healer. If anybody could have taken credit for being a Healer, would've been our Lord Jesus Christ. But He said He wasn't no Healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." And if He would not take credit for being a Healer, but give all praise to the Father; then how much more ought we mortals to do so. Only God can heal. This is just as strange to me as it will be with you. To my belief, the gifts and callings are without repentance, that they're gifts of God, that they're born here on the earth through foreknowledge of God. It isn't what I could desire; it isn't what that I can work myself to or you. It's what God in His foreknowledge has done.
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I couldn't help because that I was born with--with blue eyes, or small in figure, but it's the way that God brought me here. If I had wanted to be... I tell you; I want to be a great big man. But God didn't intend for me be a--a large man. He knew me just the way I am, so I could... I'm satisfied with the way God made me, and I move the best that I know how to glorify Him with this body while I'm here on earth. If He had made me a large man, I'd been a large man and...?... And when He sends something for us to do, well, let us do it with all of our heart, giving Him glory for whatever He done for you.
The gift itself doesn't do anything. There's no way for anybody to ever have anything from God except by faith. God has made that His way; that was from the beginning for people to believe God by faith. That was given to Adam and Eve to believe God's Word. And when Eve disbelieved God's Word, then it brought death, and sorrow, and sickness to disbelieve God.
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Jesus said, "I can, if you believe." Now, in order to believe God, most people have to have something to look at, some visible, something to look at to represent God. I believe one of the hardest things that God has ever had to do, was to get one mortal to believe another mortal. We won't believe one another. And we are God's agency. We know that. Now, when God made His first statue of healing, it was piece of brass on a pole out in the wilderness. Is that true? In the wilderness... Now, there was no virtue in the brass or in a pole, but it was a ordinance of God. Again He... No one knew just how it worked; it was just look by faith. It represented something; it was a foreshadow of Jesus Christ Who would come to the earth to be our sin and sickness Bearer.
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Later on after the days of the serpent, God sent a Angel down from heaven and troubled the water on a pool called Bethesda, and ever who stepped in that water first, having faith, was healed of whatsoever disease they had. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Into the waters... Now, the brass serpent done no healing. It was their faith in what God had done by the brass serpent. Is that right? The water done no healing. It was the Angel of God on the water that done the healing. The water couldn't say, "See, I'm healing water." No, it was the Angel doing the healing. When the Angel left, the water was water.
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And a man is just a man until he's fully submitted to God, and then Deity dwells in that man, the Holy Spirit. Not the man, but God in the man does the work. So Jesus then, when He came, He was a Man born of a virgin birth. His mother was Mary; His Father was Jehovah God. You believe that? And then in that body God dwelled. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; It's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the work." And that was God speaking through mortal lips, that could raise the dead, still the waters, and so forth. Then when He ascended on high, He gave gifts to men. One man received a great gift of healing, so the people that laid in his shadow and were healed. Not the man, but their faith in God that was in the man. Do you understand?
Another one, they taken handkerchiefs from his body and aprons, and laid upon the sick people, and evil spirits went out of people. Not because it was Saint Paul; he was a man who lived in flesh like you and I. And he died. He had to be redeemed by the Blood of Christ just like we do. It wasn't the man that done the healing; it was the Spirit of God in the man that done the healing, through the faith of the people. Is that right? Well, the same Holy Spirit is with us today. Jesus said, "I'll be with you, even in you, to the end of the world."
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If I come confessing tonight that I had the spirit of a--an artist, you would expect me to do the--the work of the artist. You'd expect me to be able to catch the vision of a roaring sea, and things of home, the sunset, if I had the spirit of an artist. Listen closely. If the spirit of some great artist come upon me, like the Spirit of Elijah--Elijah came upon Elisha... If the Spirit of Elijah was on the Elisha, he done what Elijah done. And John the Baptist came in the Spirit of Elijah, and he was, wild man, so forth like the other two had. But when... Now, he come...?... something like Elijah did, he run into the wilderness; and John then asked if this is the Messiah, should he look for another one. He come in--in that spirit.
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If I came in the--the spirit of--of John Dillinger, you would expect me to have guns and--and act like Mr. Dillinger did. And if I told you I came here, and I'm a Christian, and the Spirit of Christ is upon me, you would expect me to act and do like Jesus did, for His Spirit would be upon me. Is that right? Then what He done, "These things that I do, greater shall you do; for I go to My Father." Is that the Scripture? Now, the Spirit of Christ is in the Church. It has never left the Church; It's been in the Church. And the days are growing evil, because that knowledge, man's knowledge, that he received in the garden of Eden... When he left the Tree of Life to eat from the tree of knowledge, that knowledge is increasing constantly. And as knowledge increases, they get away from the Bible and get into a theory. But Jesus said, and the Bible's full, that when they came... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... And now, the power has come, for the world has become very skeptic.
And I believe that we're living in the hours just before the coming of Jesus the second time. Now, upon that, in speaking that the Spirit of Christ still is in the Church and in the people... I'll explain to you how the gift came and how it works. I was born of a humble parents, borned being a Catholic. I was born
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in Kentucky. And I believe that gifts and callings, as I said, are without repentance, that you're born here in the world with these gifts. Just the same as you're born to be a musician. You might give your child, give it all kinds of lessons. But if that musical talent isn't in it, it'll never do no more good. Is that right? But we're born the same way in the spiritual realms, for gifts and callings of God are without repentance. That you might know, Jesus Christ was foreordained of God. He was the One was seen from the garden of Eden. Do you believe that?
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John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness said Isaiah. Is that true? Jeremiah, God told Jeremiah, "Before you were born from your mother's womb, I knew of you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations," before he was ever born from his mother's womb. Moses and many others, foreordained of God. Not everybody, but different gifts and callings to minister to the people are the foreknowledge of God. That's the only way I can expect any understanding to the people who come and see it.
I was a little boy, first recognition. I have it in my book, it'll be out pretty soon. My mother's own words concerning what taken place, a little cabin the morning when I first came. I never come here by my own power. You never come by your own power. I never knew when I was coming. I don't know when I'm leaving, none of us do. We may yet some of us may leave the world before the night is over. I do not know. But I was seven years old; I was packing water from a well, and a voice spoke to me out of a bush, as a whirlwind in a bush, said, "Don't never smoke, or drink, or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work to do when you get older." I said, "That's sacred."
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Down through life's journey, it's been time after time. I could hear the Voice... It's not Something that you imagine, not something that you dream, but brother, it was just as--just as real as you hear my voice. And then as I got older, He give me some more...?... I would see Him standing. It was going to a vision. And I would see things going to happen. And I'd just act it out like drama. It wasn't fully manifested. I did not belong to a church. I lived a clean moral life, but not the church. I finally became affiliated with this certain faith of the Baptist church. It's in the ministry.
After while, I met up with the Full Gospel people. And I... Just before then, I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And then look like it just kept coming more and more. And then it, He appeared on the river, one time when I was baptizing before probably ten thousand people, like a great morning star came down where I was standing. Thousands seen It. He went back right into the heavens. I was preaching once, and while I was preaching, It came in to the room, like physical. He does many times. Here a few weeks ago in Houston, Texas, He came down, and a photographer which was present at that time caught the picture of It. Went through all kinds of examinations by some of the best men in the United States to prove scientifically that the supernatural Being was God.
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Here's what's happened, when the time I met Him, when He appeared as a Man, I was setting in my study. He came... I seen the Light spread out on the floor. He came walking to me. He looked like a Man that weighed two hundred pounds. And this Light was just above me. And He had His arms folded. He had a look as you don't see on the face of mortals. He looked very calm and quiet, very loving. His voice when He spoke... I knew it was the same voice that had spoke all down through life's journey. But I'd never seen His face. He was dark complexioned, more like the Spanish, the Jewish people. He had His arms folded, and He looked to weigh two hundred pounds in statue and height, had hair to His shoulders, and a smooth face. And yet, when He walked, it seemed like that there was a power and He'd do anything. And I was setting there. And I was so scared that I--I was biting my fingers. Just imagine, standing face to face with something like that. I was biting my fingers, then I went...
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He said, "Do not fear." When that voice spoke, I knew it was the same One. He looked at me; His eyes looked upon me kindly. Not to look sympathizing with this Angel, but that... Said, "Do not fear." Said, "I'm sent from the Presence of God to tell you that you were born a peculiar birth, and your peculiar life has been to indicate, that you're to take the gift of Divine healing to the people of the world." I said, "Sir, I'm uneducated. I couldn't go." He said, "If you'll get them to believe you, and if you're sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer, if you'll get them to believe you." And I said, "I bet they wouldn't believe me, Sir." He said, "You'll be given two signs as the prophet Moses was given two signs, to get the people to believe you is the really the issue." He said, "One of them was detecting diseases just by holding the
person's right hand in your left." He said, "Then if you'll be sincere, it shall come to pass that you'll tell the very secrets of their hearts, and the things that they are doing wrong, to build the faith in the people to be in faith and to vindicate you that I--God will send it to you."
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I said, "I--I'm uneducated, Sir. And I--I couldn't go." He said, "I'll be with you." The Light begin to catch up; the Angel went with the Light. I started off, healed a lot of sick. I come in one night, setting right in my little church, and my piano player was playing... I never heard it before, a little song "Only Believe," as I walked in my church. Something struck me. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] My words...
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It's not that I am with a grammar school education. You know when local game warden in the city working for a living, been preaching fifteen years...?... Never even took an offering for myself in my life, never did do anything, I didn't believe in it. But I--I worked for a living, and...?... Not if--if I took money that had been give to me, I would still was going have to ask God whether I could have it or not for an offering since it was took. Now, here not long ago somebody wanted to... I had a Chevrolet truck. My phone ring; someone wanted buy me a Cadillac car. I searched it out, come down through Arkansas, from...?... men out there audience. Those poor people knew out there with them long cotton sacks on their back, picking cotton, and come into the prayer line with a little...?... maybe eat a little corn bread and...?... at supper time, me come down the road...?... Do you understand it?...?... I didn't come for that, friends. I come to help you. That's what I'm here for, is to help you.
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He told me if I get the people to believe me. That seems strange for me to have to say this, "You believe in me?" Said, "Aren't you supposed believe God?" You must believe that. You must believe God and believe Christ, and believe the Holy Ghost. Then after believing all of them, God wants you to believe me. But then there's something for you to do. Now, you can believe a man and still the gift won't work for you. Reason today people believe in God. It's still Jesus. Isn't that right? He said, "As you believe in God, believe also in Me." Did He say it? "As you have belief in God, you believe in Me." That's the only way He could help them, 'cause they believe. Now, I want you to believe me as one of them. But I want you to believe the day is coming and will to you... And I'll do all I can to help you.
Now, of course, a word for my people. Please, no matter what sin you done, it'll be knowed here at the platform. The first gift... That's the first manifestation of the gift, it made... Many people know that for about two or three years; it's worked right along. Just that I could detect diseases...?... as a doctor, whatever it is to you, it'd be the same thing. But that don't heal you. That'll encourage your faith to know that there's a supernatural Being is standing here. Then after about three years, in Canada about five months ago the other gift came down and was manifested. Now, I tell the secrets of the hearts, the things that you do, the things that you've-unconfessed sin, and so forth. See, it's perfect, because it's of God. Now, that doesn't heal you. But what it does, is let you know that the Jesus that we've all talked about, and your pastor has preached about, is only in this as something more to make you believe in Him, and have faith in Him...?... How could we discern...?... down and die for you.
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He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; with His stripes we are healed. It's Him. I'm merely a channel. I'm a man, just like any of these other men. Not half as much in the Kingdom of God probably as some of these brothers setting before me. Maybe not loved like they're loved, because I'm one borned out of season. I have no religious background. And I run from God many...?... 'fore this one. But it just so happens that God, once I see the works of His body. And I'm only glad here for this my life... And all the things that I had planned in life to do over to Him, that He might bless His people through the gift to help men. Do you see what I mean?
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Now, someone might wonder when people come into the line, of knowing their diseases and their thoughts... I do not know them? And you might come right now, I wouldn't know it but a few moments. If the Angel of the Lord comes to me, it's God's gift. Maybe the same Angel that was on the water back there was doing the same thing; I do not know. But when Jesus came... That you might know that He is here, just before we close and start the prayer line... Jesus, when He first was manifested here on the earth to the people, there was a man by the name of Nathanael, or Philip, rather, went and found the man by the name of Nathanael. He was praying. And Philip said to Nathanael, "Come, see Who we found," said, "Jesus of Nazareth, the One Moses spoke of." He said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?" "Oh," he said, "You come and see."
And when they coming back to the place... In other words, if the truth would come, it'd come through the great orthodox churches somewhere. But many times God's workman came just in a different way to get...?... But I...?... perceiving their thoughts, and He will reveal it to babes such as will learn. You believe that? God will do it...?... And so when he came to where Jesus was, Jesus looked at him, and He said, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there's no guile." In other words, simplifying, He said, "You are a Christian, a devout person." And Nathanael said to Him there at the prayer line; he said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before you came here, Nathanael, you were under a tree, praying." And that little Jew, he run up to Him and said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." Was that right? ...?...[Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... Knowing hisself, knowing he was a Christian, knowing hisself. That proves that there's nobody knowed it except Jesus, God, and Nathanael; he knew that no one...?... knew that.
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Now, this... We claim that that Spirit that was on Jesus Christ, will do the same thing tonight. Is that right? Would It? The woman at the well, can you imagine He spoke to her, she had a conversations with that Being, like Nathanael. And finally said, "Go get your husband?" She said, "I have none." Said, "You've said well, when you said you have none. You've had five, and the one you have now is not your husband." She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet." She said, "Messiah cometh and tell us all things." He said, "I'm He." Now, if Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God that was upon Him, and if you... If I confess to be a Christian, and profess that His Spirit is upon me to do as He did, would It produce the same thing?
Now, the Spirit that would know you, can stand or no cripple, or no blind, or no afflicted, will be able to pass by without being healed, and when it gets to a...?... different to be here and out in the audience, then you'll... Well, I wouldn't know exactly, but if I could contact Him, and He will speak back himself, will just let us see for ourselves, and may God grant it...?... I'm not a preacher or a great public speaker. But from my heart I'm trying to introduce to you Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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For a reading of the Word found in Exodus the 23rd chapter, 20th verse, beginning, God sending His prophet Moses: Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him... obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou will indeed obey his voice... do all that I speak; then will I be an enemy to thy enemies, an adversary to thy adversaries. For my Angel shall go before thee... Moses did nothing. It was the Angel of God. Is that right? What did It look like that led Israel? A Pillar of Fire by night, and a Cloud by day. I believe He's still leading on. We know that was the Angel of the covenant. Is that right? It was the Logos or the Christ. He's still the same, leading the people today as He was then.
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Let us believe Him with all of our hearts while we bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, we just love You with all of our hearts. We're so thankful that Thou has redeemed us. To think that one time we were aliens, without God, without mercy. And Thy Son Jesus, came to the earth, and born a virgin birth, and He lived a spotless life, and was offered up as a sacrifice for us at Calvary. He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we are healed. Oh, the Blood that makes atonement. And tonight, by that Blood and His eternal Spirit, by the washing of the Word, we're brought in now to become the sons and the daughters of God. O Father, when we think of being a son and daughter of God even in this day when men of perverse mind, as Moses and Aaron was withstood by the...?... Oh, to think that we can be the sons and daughters of God, led by the Holy Spirit with power to save our lives, to cleanse us from sin, and to give us relationship with God. And it does not yet appear what we shall be, but oh, we know we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is, the glorious, the magnificent Son of God, the Redeemer, and we shall crown Him King of king and Lord of lords. Oh, that You would breathe upon us... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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God, stretch forth His mighty wings across this building for these nights and bathe it with His full dew drops of glory and mercy, and power of healing through Jesus Christ flow through our mortal bodies here, and may there not be one afflicted person left in our midst at the end of the services. Grant it, Lord. We love You. Thou knowest our hearts, more than people know our voices. You Who understand all things and know whether we love You... And, Lord, help us tonight now. And in this building that's been used for different things, Father, we pray now that as we dedicate the building and
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ourselves to You for service, that You'll drive back every foul spirit. May men and women that's come under this roof, come under conviction, may they come... May the Angels of God stand by every post, every seat, around the place, and take their seats. O God, may every person here that's in Your Divine Presence, may there be such a meeting that's never been known before in this country, may every minister be inspired, every member, every Christian, may sinners fall under conviction, and may there be a grace flowing on the people, and may they come to the knowledge of Christ being the same great Christ Jesus down through the ages that heals now, and will be forever. Father, we commit it all to You. As I go to call on you, send Your Angel, Lord, anoint Thy servant, and may the things that I have testified of, Lord, may You testify back tonight, and every night, with great signs and wonders. For we ask it in Jesus' Name, and Thy people will believe on You. Amen.
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I'll turn the service for a little prayer line now, to my brother. He...?... and he will get your cards right here...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
First night, we have kind of a little cruise. You know how it is, the... All of our party's not here, and everybody's...?... just exactly. I want everybody to be real reverent, just as reverent as you can be. And listen with all your--your hearts and believe on Him...?... of all your...?... Grant it. Now, if God heals at the platform, He allows me...?... And He will... He will heal right out there. Just taking the very thing that--that... And if you believe He will do it...?... Don't you believe it? It your faith; that's all it is (See?), faith to believe.
And now shall we bow our heads for a moment of prayer. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for Thy mercy and kindness...?... And now, may Your people come more near the One Who knows the heart of everyone here, knows all the redeemed. And I believe, Father, if You'll just let Him speak the things to the people, then their faith will look up to Thee and believe it. Grant it, dear Father, for I ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen. Now, let's...?... That goes...?... by piano. If you all will chord real slowly, "Only Believe," for this first...?... Will you do that now, sister? Real slowly. And now, I want to ask everyone to bow their head. Now, I want you to bow your head and be real reverent...?... a little while, because no matter how much you're trying to believe now, there's a little expectancy there...?... And now, I know you all...?... Be reverent don't try to be kinda upset with...?... By the Spirit of God, at least...?... and they're not believers...?... more expectations, and it
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makes it very hard to deal with it...?... I can't make anyone believe; I can only make...?... God has to...?... You have to believe yourself then God will accept you. That's right.
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Now, remember, that all people, that they might know that I do not claim to heal anyone. It only becomes when looking for...?... with our hearts and so forth. But there...?... It's coming to a place where...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape. Words are not clear--Ed.] I come to release. You don't have to tell me those things...?... after get understanding, we have to go forward. And when you...?... Now...?... Now, just...?... Only Believe mortal change to immortal..?... And Lord, let this man find You. Do you have a prayer card...?... Jesus caused all the Jews to...?... The great veil...?... God promises to heal. All things are possible to them that believe...?... Good evening, sister...?... back you look very healthy very strong, that...?... there's something wrong with you. Do you believe? That there's real strange feeling that you have now in His Presence. But there's no one ever comes near that anointing of the Holy Spirit but what they feel it...?... That's just the Presence of the Angel of God. Did you see that picture tonight? That's what--that's what's making you feel the way you are now. If you happen to lay your hand there just for a contact...?... tuberculosis. How old are you? You been saved? Father can...?... for you...?... But you have more faith just now than you've ever had in your...?... That is true. I--I'd never know those things 'less God would tell me...?... The Angel of the Lord is here to make you well. I ask God if He...?... The thing very strange to me causes a man...?... Isn't that right, sir? And now, if you notice...?... If you could only see...?... all things. Now, everyone be reverent and pray...?...
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Our heavenly Father, our brethren has come in faith to believe that Thou art here to make him well. And...?... tried so hard, but tonight he's just letting down everything, coming now to...?... simple childlike faith to believe You tomorrow, to go forward testifying to everyone how You gave healing to glorify Jesus Christ. Help me now to have faith for him, that our faith together might drive this...?... shadowy spirit. Amen. Thou demon called tuberculosis, you've bound this man for a long time, but your powers are broken tonight. You're facing Jesus Christ. We ask you to leave the man. Come out from him. God bless you. Amen. You may raise your head, audience. The man is healed...?... God bless you, friend...?... Go out in the audience...?...
The Spirit of God that would make...?... the things you desire you know that you have receive them...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Through the Presence has--has made this. The demons are gone. You'll be all right. Now, everyone be reverent. I have to stay here...?... [Someone else speaks--Ed.] Such a little girl...?... If our Saviour was here, He would put His sacred hands upon the woman...?... Now...?... You have a asthma. You also have a heart condition, something wrong with your heart. Very sweet little girl. Do you love Jesus with all your... All right...?... Without being prayed for, it's left you now. You're healed, you're...?... God bless you...?... God bless you. God bless you...?...
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Would you bring the next patient...?... The little girl...?...Have...?... heart trouble...?... Now, if everyone would do that...?... And sister dear, you got female disorder, you got a swollen spleen, and also crippled with arthritis. And the arthritis has went...?... Would you bow your heads...?... O God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send down mercy, and Thy blessings upon our sister, who suffers now with that spirit...?... that she might be blessings to walk before people...?... But O Lord, Thou...?... You can heal it. You know the secret of every heart. You know all things. And I pray that You be merciful to our sister, heal her, Lord, and make her well, and help me to have the power of faith over the demon that's bound her. Thou demon, I come to challenge thee in this duel of faith in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God. I adjure thee, thou demon, come out of the woman...?... stand...?... Jesus, Son of God, but this upon the life of Thy servant's faith, and I pray for grace...?... upon something that You have done from the...?... May You heal...
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Thank you...?... Good evening audience. So happy to be here this closing evening of our services here in the--this lovely country that I love with all my heart--America. I think of our forefathers when they sing:
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I'm so thankful to go to other nations to represent a nation like this, America, where we have freedom of religion, and we can speak as--as we feel led the Spirit of God to speak. And I'm happy that... to feel the call of the Gospel that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has called me to go to other countries to--to minister to them. I shall always in my journey remember this last night, remember New York, remember all you people. You've been so kind to us, this short stay we've had. I trust that someday you'll permit me to come back to--to be with you again, and... Thank you. I've all my life, I've cherished friends. There's nothing I love like people, and I wanted people to love me.
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In the younger days, I did not have very many friends. I was more or less... Well, I... As a boy not smoking, and dancing, and so forth, why, people thought I was a sissy, my friends. Then later on in my church when I was converted a few years ago, I seen the Gospel as the power of God, and I was a fanatic unto them. And then later when I found there was a group who believed me and accepted me as their brother, my, certainly thankful to--that God has placed me with you. And now, I thank each one of you a few moments ago when you were singing, "For You I Am Praying." That's what I want you to do. It's-it's prayer that I depend on. That's the secret of all the mysteries of God. That's the key that opens the door to everything of God, is prayer. If you pray and believe, when you pray, then believe that you receive what you ask for, and God will make it known.
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A minister called me awhile ago from down in Louisiana. They got all mixed up, and has left his church because of someone calling him out. He said, "Brother Branham, I just like to know." Said, "They told me I was a something another in the church." And said, "I've left my church, and I'm... Don't know what to do now." I said, "I would advise you, go right back to your church again." God isn't calling people out of their churches, He's calling them to Him, to Himself, to unite us together.
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Know at one time the Full Gospel people were considered a bunch of fanatics. We lived in--in the alley, anywhere that we could get a place to preach. And... But now, the Samson's hair's growed out, and it's become united together. When they were broken up in different denominations and had a religious prejudice, well, God could not deal with the people. But now when that middle wall is broken down, and we've come together as one unit, it's the most mighty church on the face the earth. And you know, most all famous pictures, before they're hung in a hall
of fame, they have to go through the hall of critics first, and have to pass the critics. Then when it passes the critics, then it can be hung in a hall of fame. Now, I think that's our little church. It's passed through every criticism, been called every black and ugly name. But I think God's going to hang it in the hall of fame one of these mornings and going to take it up, and I--I want to be with them when they go.
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Don't forget to pray for me. And when you're... when you're praying, and whenever you think of me, sing, "Only Believe," will you. That's my favorite song. It's a... Paul Rader wrote that song. Paul Rader was a friend of mine. And I just come into the church one night it was being played. I didn't even know that he wrote the song. And right immediately after the Angel of the Lord had visit me. And something just struck me. And ever since then, it's been the campaign theme song, "Only Believe." If I shall go and have to be buried before Jesus comes, it's arranged that when I go down beneath the dirt, why, that they're going to sing "Only Believe, all things are possible." If you hear of me going that hour, will you just stop somewhere and remember me? Hum to yourself, "Only Believe." For I believe that someday that I shall come out again.
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We're going towards a dark chamber, a chamber of death. Everyone enters that chamber. And every time our heart beats, we go one step closer. Someday, I shall enter that chamber. And when I get down to the last heart beat, I do not want to go in there as a coward; I want to wrap myself in His righteousness; pull it up around me and enter that chamber, to know Him in the power of His resurrection. And when they... The Angel screams forth, the Voice, the trumpet sounds, I want to come out from among the dead. I hope to see you all there. How I would like to take each one tonight, set down and talk to you for hours. That's almost impossible for me to do that. But I will make an appointment with you, and by grace of God, I'll keep it. If you'll make it with me, someday when it's over let's set down by the rivers of Life over there, where we'll just talk a thousand years with each one of us, just talk over the old things.
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I believe it's going to be there. I believe it's going to be real, just as the Bible says it is. And I... We won't have no less time. Then when I get through talking to you all, we'll just have the same amount of time, and it'll be a glorious time. And we're trying hard, struggling to get to that place. I've... Not to take up much of your time, but I... Just before leaving
here, I would just like to say a few words. I was just thinking a few moments ago when I come up, some of my friends here from Arkansas, and different parts of the country, has come in to say good-bye to us tomorrow. And I'm certainly thankful for that. I see a young lady over here at... piano. And was just in a meeting, and... where I was preaching, or trying to preach. I'm not a preacher, but I... She received the baptism of the Spirit in the--in the service. And so I was glad to see her. And Brother Moore just told me there was several here from different parts of the country. And we're thankful for that. Hope to be back someday with you all again.
Now, over in the Book of Saint Luke, the 2nd chapter, I--I wish just to read a few words. I was aiming to come a little early and speak just a little more, but I--I believe that we must read the Word of God each service. See, my words will fail, as all mortals, but God's Word cannot fail. It's forever lasting true. And just for a short time to speak to you before forming the prayer line, Saint Luke the 2nd chapter, beginning with the 25th verse... When I look down upon the Bible, I have a small print here, a Scofield Bible. While you all are turning to the chapter; it makes me feel so happy to see the Bible and to be able to read. One time, I was practically blind. They had to lead me around. My eyesight was gone. I wore great thick glasses. And one moment's time, my eyes changed from blindness to sight, and I can... My eyes test 20/20. And I can read newspaper print five feet from me. That's grace of God that did that.
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If the whole world doubted It, I would still believe It with all my heart. If I would pray for ten thousand people overseas, or here, and all ten thousand would die a moment after I prayed for them, I'd still say Divine healing was right. It's the Word of God. And if I preach to ten thousand, and they all died, and they were dead for twenty years and returned back and said there is no Jesus, there--there is no such a thing as God, there is no eternity, and Jesus wasn't the Son of God, and I was dying, I'd say, "Let me go in Him, I take my bark." No matter what anyone else would say, I believe Him with all my heart. That's right. I believe Him. In the 25th verse, we read the adoration of prophecy of Simeon. And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parent brought the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom
of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For my eyes have seen thy salvation.
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Shall we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our heavenly Father, as we come into Thy Presence now, dedicating ourselves and this building, and all that's in here for Your service tonight, realizing that this may be the last time that some here will ever hear the Gospel, or be privileged to be in church any more; and this may prove the eternal destination of their being. So help us, Father, tonight, to be very reverent, and to be very loyal to the Gospel, and to the call that Thou has called us into this world. And I thank Thee, Father, tonight for the privilege that I have, to stand before this audience of people. I've often thought how I would cherish in my hands, a charger that held one drop of the Blood of Thy Son. But I realize tonight I hold greater, in His estimation. Before me is a purchase of His Blood, that He gave His Blood that these might become His.
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And Father, it's my lot tonight to speak to these people. So may Thy Spirit direct every word. And how we thank Thee for the grace of God, to know that one time we were aliens cut off from God without mercy, without hope. Christ died for us in our stead, bearing our reproach and sins in His own body, and knowing someday that He shall come. We do not know now what we shall be like, but we know we'll have a body like His; for we shall see Him as He is. And Father, that'll be a glorified body, free from sickness, and sorrow, and heartaches, and death. Oh, our spirits groan for that deliverance. And help us tonight, Father, as we're journeying on now, knowing that Thou has provided a way, that the sick could be healed, and the lost could be saved. And as we're gathered here, as eternity bound mortals, help us to set our affections on things above, where Christ sets at the right hand of God. Grant it, Father. And may the Angel of God, Who's guided me through my life, fed me since I was born, be here tonight to heal the sick and afflicted. For we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Child, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Just for a little text, if I should call it that, I want to speak for a moment or two on the word of "Expectation." We always get what we expect. When people expect anything, well then they usually get what you look for. It's the mental attitude that you have. Remember this, and never forget it. The right mental attitude
towards any promise of God will bring it to pass, the right mental attitude towards any promise of God. It doesn't take gifts of healing to heal sick people, any person in here has a right to meet Satan anywhere, if you're a Christian, and defeat him on any grounds that he could stand on. When Jesus Christ was here on earth, and in Him dwelled the fullness of the Godhead bodily, all the great powers of God was in His Son, Christ Jesus. For the Scripture tells us that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. All things was delivered unto Him, though He spoke nothing but what the Father told Him. He healed no one but what He first saw being healed. For He said, "Verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." That was Saint John 5:19.
Saint John 5:1, He passed by the pool of Bethesda, and there was great multitudes of lame, halt, blind, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. And when the waters would be troubled, then the first person stepping into the water, by faith, received healing. They had to believe it. And then, the virtue of the Angel went into the person, they were healed. And then the people waited for another season, maybe a week or two, month or two. And they laid there, great multitudes of people. Jesus passing by here seen a man, not crippled, but with an infirmity for thirty and eight years. And He said, "Would thou be made whole?" And he said, "I have no one to put me in the water." He said, "Take up thy bed and go into the house." And the same was a Sabbath day, but the man picked up his bed and obeyed. And when he was questioned, in the 19th verse of the same chapter, by the Jewish people, the priests of that day, He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing."
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It's always foreseen, what is going to take place by gifts in Spirit. It's the revelation of God that's revealed. And therefore, you only act and dramatize what you've already seen happen. Many people gets it mixed up sometimes about gifts and callings. Gifts and callings are without repentance. God foreordains those things and sends them on the earth. And then a vindicates them that they are. Here not long ago, a person walked to me. Now... And many times they do, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, The Lord said, 'Do this.' If you didn't go to a certain place, or a certain thing, and do a certain thing, the Lord's going to strike you and take this gift away from you."
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Now, that isn't true. That isn't true. Gifts and callings are
without repentance. There is spirits that's in the Church. That's true, such as gifts of prophecy, healing, and so forth. But they're in the entire body. They may fall upon one person tonight, a prophecy, and It might not never fall on that person again; It might be somewhere else in the body. And those spirits are supposed to be judged. "Let one speak and two or three judge," said Paul. Now, those are the spirits of the gifts that's in the Church. But the only person that has a right to say, THUS SAITH THE LORD, is an a vindicated prophet. You never seen anybody judging Isaiah, or Jeremiah, or those people. They were prophets, foreordained and borned in the world to be prophets. And they foresaw the thing by a vision, and then said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD," for the Lord had already said it. So what the Church needs today, is a good old fashion teaching of the Gospel. That's right. To know where they... I don't mean just educated teaching; I mean spiritual teaching. Some people speaks about God, and--and knows nothing of Him. You don't... See, you must get down and deal with the actual spirit itself, you see, to know what you're speaking of.
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And now, Simeon was a man, a great man, led by the Holy Spirit. Do you believe in being led by the Holy Spirit? Certainly. We all do, that's Christians, believe that the Holy Spirit leads us. And Simeon was a great man. He was an honorable man, a priest; and late years of eighty, as we're told. And he stayed in the temple. And remember, he had a lot of prestige on his name, of being a priest, or teacher there in--in Israel. But it was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, that he was not going to see death until first he seen Christ. And he was not afraid to make that statement to all the people. No matter what his name was, or his prestige was, or his title, the Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he was not going to see death until first he seen Christ.
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Now, look. No one had ever seen Christ. He had been spoke of it from the very dawn of time, from the beginning in the garden of Eden. And four thousand years had passed, and every great man had looked for Him to come on the earth. The Jewish stream of blood, I guess, is the most purest there is on earth tonight, looking for the Messiah to come. And they--they watched for that Child to be born. They were looking for It. And so therefore, all of them had looked. But Simeon had a revelation of the Holy Spirit, that he was not going to see death until first he saw Christ. He was not going to die until he saw Christ. And he told everyone that that's what was going to happen. Not afraid that it wouldn't happen, he knowed if the Holy Spirit said so, it had to happen.
When God tells you anything, it's positive the truth. You cannot get away from it, and it's got to happen.
Someone said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid you'll make a mistake when you're... someone comes to the platform, that you'll tell them the wrong disease?" No sir. "Aren't you afraid..." Here the other day, there's a man arrested down in the south for telling a man he lived untrue to his wife, and so forth, and was arrested, 'cause it was a story. Why sure, if it's a story, anything can happen. You're working in yourself. But when you stand under the Divine promise of God, there's no fear in God. That's right. It's bound to be. It's perfect. It's never failed, and it will never fail, because God cannot lie. You can only believe God when He speaks and tells you, then you act upon what He says do.
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Now, this priest wasn't ashamed to tell the people that he believed that Jesus was, or Christ was going to be born, and he would see It before he died. Now, notice. When God makes a promise to you, He will fulfill it. You don't have to be afraid that He will not keep His Word, for God will keep His Word. I... That's true. You just must trust Him.
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And then I notice this: My, when Jesus was born then, why there... They didn't have the radio and press, as we have today. They just mouth to ear, the way they had to bring message. And eight days later, Mary brought the little child Jesus to the temple to do as the custom of the law, to offer turtledoves, or--or pigeons if they were poor, and so forth that they was to make the sacrifice, the purification of her. And notice, all this just gets right next to me when I think of it. Now, Simeon, probably out somewhere in a prayer room, or outside the temple. And maybe that morning, there would probably be fifty children, we'd say, standing in the line for circumcision. But notice, just when Mary brought Jesus in, the Holy Spirit spoke to Simeon somewhere else outside. And he was led by the Holy Spirit right straight to the Christ Child. Come in at that very instant, picked Him up in his arms, and said, "Lord, let Your servant depart in peace, for I've seen Your salvation." Think of it.
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Now, he had the promise. And isn't it strange, if the Holy Spirit give him that promise, and when the promise came, the Holy Spirit led Simeon, the one that had the promise, right straight to It. See
how He does it? Now, I do not believe there's anyone here... How many people in here is sick tonight, wants to be prayed for, let's see your hands, over the building? I don't believe you come to be seen. I don't believe you come to criticize. I believe you come, because you're expecting to be healed. And you believe in healing, don't you? You believe in Divine healing. And the very reason that you believe in Divine healing, there's something in you that makes you believe in Divine healing. And isn't it just the same Holy Spirit tonight, if He promised He would send in the last days these things? Did He promise He would send this in the last days, "and it shall come to pass in the last days," saith God? How He promised in Mark 16, "Go ye into all the world..." That's New York. See? "Preach the Gospel to every creature. These signs shall follow them that believe." He promised it. And then He promised the former rain and the latter rain. And we're living now, have been for years, under the latter rain.
And just before God cut off relationship with the Jews, He put nine spiritual gifts into the Church. And just before the Gentile's age is over, He's restoring back in the Church those nine spiritual gifts, giving the Gentile church its last call before turning again to Israel. And now tonight, while these gifts are promised, and you're sick, don't you think that the Holy Spirit led you here tonight just the same as It did Simeon to Jesus when He came? The same Holy Spirit leading... The very means of you believing in healing, it shows that there's something back there making you believe in healing. Here, before there is a desire created in your heart, there has to be a Creator to create that creation. Isn't that right? In other words like this. Before there was a fin on a fish's back, there had to be a water first for him to swim in, or he would not have had any fin. See what I mean? Before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first for it to grow in, or there would not been no tree. And if you have a desire in your heart to be healed by Divine healing, there's bound to be a Fountain of healing somewhere, or that desire wouldn't be in your heart.
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If there's a desire to worship God... Even the Hottentots and Indians in years gone by, they worshipped objects, because the very creation of worship was in their heart, and they worship something. They worshipped something as their Creator. And that showed that there was a Creator somewhere to worship, a God. If there's a hunger in your heart for more of God, there's bound to be more of God somewhere for you to find.
My mother used to have a superstition. The little children that I... had ten of us. And when the little fellows would be... They'd get a habit of licking their lips. And she's say they were tasting for something. And she'd put, maybe preserves on. That didn't work. Maybe put a little honey, that didn't work. Maybe some watermelon, that didn't work. But after a while, when she found something that they were tasting for, why, they were... It would stop licking its lips. Well, that might have been a superstition. But this, when there's a hunger in the heart of the human being for something, there's bound to be Something creating that hunger in there. In other words, David said, "When the deep calls to the deep..." And when there's a deep calling, there's bound to be a deep to respond somewhere. And if there's a deep calling for more of God for healing, there's bound to be a fountain of healing and the power of God somewhere to respond. Do you believe that? With all my heart, I know it's the truth. And as we call, and there's something in us tells us there's a land beyond the river.
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I buried a wife and baby some fifteen years ago, and standing by the grave when looked like everything was around me, my whole family gone. And they was sprinkling flowers upon the little baby's casket, died a few hours after its mother. And my heart was broken; I could not stand seemed like, any longer. I heard the minister say, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and earth to earth." And it seemed like coming down through the trees, there was a breeze come saying,
There's a land beyond the river. That we call the sweet forever, We only reach that shore by faith's decree; One by one we gain the portal, There to dwell with the immortal, Someday they'll ring the golden bells for you and me. EXPECTATION_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_ 50-0405 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... something calling out, a deep.
There's a greater place, a better land. See what I mean? I'm expecting that to be there. I'm expecting God when I was praying in the room a--a few moments ago before entering the building, seemed like Something come over me that said something was going to happen here tonight, a great spontaneous healing. I'm expecting that. God has... I will venturely say this to you pastors. You'll find out that at least sixty to eighty percent of every sick person in this building will be healed in the next hour. I... See if that isn't right, you can brand me a false prophet. I know what I am speaking of. That's right.
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Now, I--I believe it. I prayed, and I asked God if He would just move over the people in this service, and somehow... 'cause I only get to so many. But I asked the Father if He would just... And when I was praying, Something soothed down over me. I knew then that God was going to answer my prayer. I do not know what will happen, but there'll be something that'll happen that will--will do it. I want you to constantly be in prayer. Now, notice. When you're expecting something, Simeon was expecting Jesus to come while he was alive. He was expecting it, and God rewarded him for his faith. I'm expecting God to heal at least sixty or eighty percent of the people in here tonight, perfectly well before this service is over. I believe it with all my soul. See? I'm expecting it.
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Daniel was expecting God to deliver him from the lion's den. The Hebrew children, when they went in the fiery furnace, they said, "Our God is able..." They was expecting God to deliver them. And they made the last step of the way before He came, but He's always there at the last end. Jesus comes in the darkest of hours, then Jesus comes along. They was expecting it. The woman with the blood issue was expecting. If she could touch the hem of His garment, it was over. When she touched the hem of His garment, her expectations were fulfilled. If you come tonight expecting to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you come tonight expecting to find something to criticize the meeting, you'll certainly find it. You get what you come for. That's right.
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Notice. Blind Bartimaeus, he was expecting. If he could get to Jesus, he, or attract His attention, that he would be healed. So they tried to get him to set down, but he cried out the more, "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me," for he knew if he could ever bring the attention of Jesus to him, that he expected Jesus would heal him. If you're expecting to be healed tonight, you will be healed. Whatever your expectations are... Just the thought of my inside life... I'm leaving now after a bit to cross over to the other country. And I'm going to tell you just a little thing. There's things that goes along in this, friends, that no one knows about. That's right. I do not tell the--the people all the things that God would say. Everyone has that in their life. That's your private affair between you and God.
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But this has been a glorious thing if I never come back. I feel that God has vindicated and proven that I have told the truth to the nation if I never return again. That's right. He's scientifically proven
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it. And He's proved it over and over that I have told the truth. That Spirit leads. He does things that... Many times in the room, I--I'll be in there praying and see things in the meeting that's just going to take place, and call my managers and things together, and tell them of things that's going to happen right in the meeting hours before it ever happens, sometimes weeks before it happens. And certain things... Not as I know it, but God shows it to me, and I know it's got to be so. I believe it. Here not long ago in Fort Wayne, we were having a meeting, a glorious meeting there where Paul Rader used to preach, B. E. Rediger, many of you knows those national, international known ministers. And I was setting in the room when they was singing, "Only Believe" in the very room that Paul Rader wrote the song, a few months ago. And we were staying at the Indiana Hotel. Many times, they don't let the people know where I am. Now, that's what's hard to me, to have to pass through people that I know that love me. And I--I just... My heart cries for them. But you-you... There's so many. It just takes the very life. It's... When them vibrations hit the hand here sometime, you watch my brother and them. They watch me. They know when I have enough; they'll grab me and run from the platform. Sometimes, friends, I pass completely out, and they ride me around over the city maybe for two or three hours trying to get me to myself. It just depletes my strength so bad.
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You might think that that's strange. You might think that it's-that it's odd for something like that, a gift, but it pulls from you. It takes away from you. It's not like preaching the Gospel, or just laying hands on the sick, it's a Divine Being working through a mortal body. I've had my hand to swell till I'd hold it under a hot water for practically a hour to bring feelings back in my hand from the vibration of those hideous cancers and things, how they work. And hardly no one knows those things. My managers and so forth do. But I remember in this meeting, they had found out where I was staying. And the next day, why, it was pathetic to see the people.
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I remember in one meeting in--over in another meeting I was at, I had one night's service, over in Missouri at a--quite a large city. And while I left the auditorium, it was small, just about--audience just about like this tonight. And I went up into a--the third floor. Walked from the--from the tabernacle, or auditorium, up into the third floor of the hotel, and just was lying down asleep just a little bit with my clothes on across the bed. And I was to meet my wife the next day at Poplar Bluff, and was have a radio broadcast, and going
on down into Arkansas. And I remember while lying there about ten minutes, I heard someone knock on the door. And when I went to the door, it was the manager of the hotel. He said, "Are you Reverend Branham?" I said, "Yes sir." He said, "Well, Mister Branham, you'll have to leave the hotel." Well, I said, "What have I done, sir?" He said, "Well, we can't have this around the hotel." And he opened up the door, and friends, there was about a four lane prayer line come from the door down through, out into the lobby, and down into the street of people followed over there. And I looked out there. He said... I said, "Well, I don't know what to do, sir." He said, "You go down the fire escape, and I'll go down and call you a cab. He will come down through the alley and pick you up." And I went down there, and it was snowing. I looked outside, I seen those little old mothers out there holding things over their babies to keep that snow out of their face, and people on canes, and them with palsy shaking. I just couldn't pass by there.
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I went on out there on the street and started a prayer line. Turned around with street begin to be crowded. And the Lord healing, throwing down their crutches and things, running away. And the cops was all out there directing the traffic. We had a glorious time out there, because that the people believed that they would be healed.
Now, at Fort Wayne, they found out where the hotel we were in, the Indiana Hotel. And then in that one night, we started down. We just couldn't get out. You just--just people just so congested. It was terrible. And then we had about three more days to stay. And so the bellhop... My brother hired the bellhop. And he told him which way we go down, and go over the... through the furnace room and come out up in the alley. And so it was hard to do. But they taken me down, go on to the meetings, and go up through the alley; wife, and one of Mayo's nurses that was healed with cancer. And she was with us. And so they--they was taking me over for breakfast, and I'd been eating at the little place called Toddle House, I believe it was. And... No, Hobb's House. And one morning, we were going down, the second morning, I had my overcoat pulled up, and--and was walking down the street packing my little girl. And all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit came down. Do you believe in being led of the Spirit? And I hand the baby over to the wife, and she said, "What's the matter, honey?" I said, "The Holy Spirit's leading me."
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And I felt the Angel of the Lord... You've seen the picture. That just came down. And you just do what It says do. And I thought we was going right straight to the Hobb's House, we was about a city block from it. And the Spirit of the Lord said, "Turn to your left." And I went down, and just kept on walking. They were following me. And I stopped to a place said Miller's Cafeteria. And I went down in the basement, like, where the cafeteria was. And just as... I got some prunes, I believe, and some toast, and was setting down to eat. And I heard somebody say, "Praise the Lord." I looked over, and a lady just raised up, and the tears running down her cheeks. And Mrs. Morgan, the nurse, said, "See? You're caught now." See? And I said, "Just a moment." The lady walked over, she said, "Brother Branham." She said, "I've followed you meeting after meeting." She said, "I have a brother here. His heart's broke through the diaphragm." Said, "There's nothing that can be done for him." Said, "He can't live but a little while longer." Said, "We've sold our goods to follow. And we've done everything that we know how to do to get in the line. We've got cards, but never was called." And said, "Our money's gone and everything." Said, "We just--just couldn't do nothing." And said, "I prayed all night." And said, "This morning, I was kneeling on my knees by the side of the bed at the hotel, and I went to sleep." And said, "I dreamed that I should come over here to Miller's Cafeteria at nine o'clock." I looked at my watch, it was just exactly... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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Do you believe in being led? That's the Holy Spirit that led Simeon. This is inside life, now. And I said, "Bring your brother here." Why, in a moment, the Lord had healed him. He was crying and weeping. Said, "I never felt like this since I was a young boy." Went out of the building, I set down again to eat, and Something just lifted me up. I went out, wife and them followed me. Just as I stepped out the door, I heard someone saying, "Oh, thank God." And a little woman dressed in black. She knelt down on the street. She begin to crying. And I said, "Stand up, sister." And she stood up. She said, "Brother Branham." She was from Chicago. She said, "I've got cancer in the breast." She said, "I've tried hard to get to you, everywhere." Said, "I couldn't do it." And she said, "This morning, I started to eat. And I was crying, 'cause I have to go back home." And said, "The Spirit of the Lord said, 'Go stand in front of Miller's Cafeteria at ten minutes after nine.'"
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There it was. I met her over here in Arkansas the other day, just shouting. It's been weeks ago. Said, "The all... Everything had
disappeared. It had gone." And I started on down the street. I started... The wife said, "Aren't you going to eat?" I said, "No. The Spirit of the Lord is leading." And I went on across the street. And I started to go across to the drug store to get some little coloring books. We had to keep the baby locked up, a little three year old girl, in the room all day with us. And so I spend my time in prayer. That's how I know those things, is pray and pray. And as I started across the street, Something said, "Stop." I said, "Oh, my." I turned around. Wife said, "Where you going?" I said, "You all go right on to hotel. He's got something else for me to do." And I backed up in the corner to look at some fishing reels. I love to fish and so forth. I backed up there, see no one's looking at me, and I turned my head, and I said, "Father, what would You have me do?" And stood there. Not just imagine now. I heard a Voice said, "Go to the corner."
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I went down to the corner, across the street. And I stood there, and they begin to blow the whistle, and the traffic would come across the street, and--and they walked there with the lights. And-and I stood there for about ten minutes. And just kept standing there. After while, the whistle blowed again, the group of people crossed the street, just as busy as they could be. And I noticed coming behind was a lady with a little checkered dress on. She had on a little Canadian...?... And she's carrying a pocket book over her arm. She walked across the street, and the Spirit of the Lord said, "Go near to her." And I walked right up to her like that, and she passed by looking down, passed on by me. Now, I thought, "That's strange. Maybe God just did something there that I didn't know."
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She walked about fifteen feet. She turned back and looked like that. She said, "Oh, Brother Branham." And she said--she said, "Oh..." She just begin to beat herself. Said... Oh, she didn't knowed what's happened. I said, "What's the matter, sister?" She said, "I'm from Canada." She said, "I've spent every penny that I've had. I'm only allowed a hundred and fifty dollars." She said, "I've got a withered hand." And she said, "I slept in a lobby last night, and had five cents for coffee this morning." And she said, "I was going out here on the road to hitch-hike to get back home." A young woman, about thirty years old. She said, "And I was going down here about two squares, and Something said to me, 'Turn this a way.'"
Oh, my. There it was. I said, "Stretch me your hand, sister." And there it come her hand. And that big Irish cop standing out there looked. He said, "I know you, Brother Branham." And here he come running in. My, group of people there. They had to get a gang to get away. Everybody around, a healing service. The Lord working.
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God leads. Don't you believe that? That's right. Here not long ago, coming down out of a meeting, I was going out. This happened in--in this, at the Camden, Arkansas. I was going out of the meeting. And just see how the Lord deals. First, just before I took off my uniform, I was a Indiana State game warden three years ago. And at... Just before I took off my uniform, the Lord had called me, and has appeared to me, and the Angel of the Lord, as I've told you how it happened.
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And I went down, my little girl was just born. I went down to get her some of them bottle caps for her catnip tea, or whatever it was. And I had my twenty-eight dollar check I was going to cash. And I went into... And the bus stopped on Spring Street there, at the little city I lived. I noticed the strange acting man got off, and he looked at me. I went into the drug store and cashed my check, and--and got the bottle caps, and come back. And as I started out the street, someone laid their hand on me. And I turned around. He said, "Sir, you an officer I see?" And I said, "Yes sir. I work for the Indiana Conservation." He said, "Seeing that you was an officer, I want to ask you a question." I said, "Yes sir." And he said, "I'd better tell you first." He said, "I--I been failing in health for about two years."
And the Angel had just appeared to me about four or five days before that and told me about this. And he said... or about the gift. And he said, "I was... I live at Paducah, Kentucky." He said, "Last night, I had a strange dream." He said, "I seen an Angel coming down out of heaven. And he came down and told me to come to this city of Jeffersonville, and to inquire for somebody by the name of Branham to pray for me." Said, "Would you know where there was any such person here, anybody by the name of Branham?" Oh, my, my heart just felt like it was that big. And I said, "My mother runs a boarding house right around the corner." He said, "You're..." I said, "My mother." He said, "Is your name Branham?"
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I had to give him my arms. I said, "Brother, come here to the corner." And I begin to tell him what happened. And he started weeping. And we knelt there on the street, right there on the street, and I prayed for him. And when I got up, the people holding their children back and taking off their hats in respect there on the street. And God moved down from the heavens and healed him there.
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And a few weeks later, I was coming out of a building, and I heard somebody hollering, "Mercy, mercy!" Four cops was bringing me out, getting me through the crowd. There was thousands pressing in. And the night before that, the Angel of the Lord came right into the building where I was, come down. And there was people there was lame, halt, blind, and everything. I was trying to explain, getting the people to believe it. I said, "Can't you believe?" I said, "I've told you the truth." And I said, "It's the truth." My brother walking by calling time on me. I know I talk too much. That's right. But I--I love you people, and I--I want to... I want to tell you this anyhow. And there was a... As I came there to the--the place, I was talking, telling them about the Spirit of the Lord. And just about that time, coming in the front door, here It came. I said, "I won't have to speak any more. Here It is Itself."
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And It came right up through the building like that. Circled around where I was, like that. And people blind, and deaf, and dumb, and everything, just being--raising up and walking through the building glorifying God. The next day, I was being taken from a--a church where I was speaking by four officers. I started out of the building, and I heard somebody hollering, "Mercy, mercy, mercy!" And I looked over, standing over out of the crowd was an old blind colored man, little white rim of hair around his head with a cap, crying, "Mercy, mercy!" He couldn't stand with the white people, of course. And he was crying like that. And I started, and Something moved, said, "Go over there." And I said, "Let's go over to where that man is." And he said... the officer said, "Oh, Brother Branham, you couldn't put your hand on that man." Said, "They'd arrest you." Said, "You can't do that; you're in Arkansas." I said, "Well, look. But the Holy Spirit tells me to go over there..." Said, "You'd start a race riot." Said, "You can't do that. This is the South." And I said, "I can't help where it's at. The Lord tells me go over here, and I..."
They went with me. And they drawed a ring around. And I never will forget. I heard his wife say, "Honey, the parson is coming towards you--the parson." And so I left, and I come up to where he was. And he said, "Is--is--is-is--is this you, Parson Branham?" Said, "Can I feeled your face?" And he put his old quivering hands over my face. I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Parson Branham, can you listen just a moment to my story?" I said, "Yes, sir. Go right ahead." And the people just trying to break through, but they were holding their arms, holding the people back. And he said, "Parson Branham," Said, "my old mammy had 'ligion like you got." "'Ligion like you got." Said, "Her never told me lie all her life." Said, "She's been dead now for ten years." Said, "I's been blind for about eight years." And said, "Last night," said, "I never heard of you in my life." And said, "Last night, about eight o'clock." Said, "I live about a hundred and fifty miles from here." Said, "My old mammy stood right by the side of my bed. And she said, 'Honey child, you go down to Camden, Arkansas and ask for someone by the name of Parson Branham, and you'll get your sight.'" Oh, my. I just put my hand upon his poor old dark wrinkled face. I said, "Lord Jesus, I do not understand this. But I ask for his sight in Thy Name." And as I moved my hand down, friends, God will judge me at the judgment bar. And when I moved my hands down, tears begin to run down his cheeks. He said, "Honey, I can see." She said, "Honey." She begin to scream, said, "Can you see?" Said, "Sho, that's a red car setting right there." Said, "There stands Parson Branham." And him screaming like that. And there he was, perfectly well.
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A few months ago, coming from Dallas, I was grounded by plane. I'll tell you this before leaving. I was co--grounded by a plane at Memphis, Tennessee. I stayed all night, and the next morning they called us and said that the plane will leave at nine o'clock. And I went down. I was writing some letters back, and I went to the Post Office, had my grip. And I was going down to the Post Office to mail the letters, and I was going down the street singing that little song that you Pentecost people sing, "I'm So Glad I Can Say I'm One Of Them." Isn't that it? Something about people telling everywhere. I was trying to sing that, you know. And I started across the street, and Something said, "Stop."
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I started again, and I seen It was the Spirit of the Lord. I moved back into the corner of a bank. I said, "Father, what would
You have me do?" He said, "Turn back." I went right down by the hotel, and kept walking, singing to myself, "Only believe, All things are possible..." Led of the Spirit, I went way down by the river, and to some little colored shacks down there in the river... And I was going walking down. He said, "Turn now to your right." I was going down a little hill, like this, a beautiful morning, the sun was coming up, flowers just blooming around Memphis. And I was... The sun had just peeping up over the hill, and it'd been a rain the night before, and so it was all beautiful there in the South. And I looked, hanging out over the gate and there hung a typical Aunt Jemima. She had a... Instead of... She had a man's shirt tied around her head. She was looking over the gate. I come walking by, going [Brother Branham hums--Ed.] going down the street looking, wondering where the Lord was leading me. She looking, tears over her big fat cheeks. She said, "Good morning, parson." I said, "Howdy do, Auntie." It caught me, "Parson?" I looked around, I said, "Do you know me?" She said, "Yes sir." And I said, "Do you know my name?" She said, "No, sir." I said, "How'd you know I was a parson?" She said, "Parson." Said, "Did you ever hear about the Shunammite woman that had a baby by... The Lord promised her the baby, and the baby died?" And I said, "Yes." She said, "I was a woman that way. And I promised the Lord that I'd raise my baby for Him." And said, "The Lord give husband and I a lovely boy." And said, "Parson, he took the road that's wrong when he's about--a few years ago." And said, "He got a--a dangerous disease, venereal disease." And said, "It went so long on him, we didn't suspect it." And said, "And now he's laying in the room dying." Said, "The doctor has give him all kinds of shots." And said, "He can't get well." And said, "He's been unconscious since yesterday. The doctor was back here and said, 'Look for the worst at any time.' There was no hopes for him. His blood was four-plus, and nothing could help him at all." And said, "He's dying." And said, "I got down on my knees." And said, "I prayed." And said, "I prayed, 'O Lawd.'" Said, "'I's a woman like the Shunammite. Where is You Elijah?' And just begin to praying." Said, "I prayed and prayed." And said, "This morning, just before daylight." Said, "The Lord told, 'Stand at this gate.'"
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And there was her back was wet where she'd been standing. She wasn't telling me anything wrong. She said, "And look."
Oh, my. Begin to... I walked into the house. There was a great big husky looking boy. And she patted him. He was laying there with a-with a blanket in his hand, going, "Um, Um, Um," like that. And he was saying, "Mammy, it's so dark. Um. I don't know where I's a going, mammy," like that. She said, "Honey child, do you know mammy?" Honey child. He was... 'Course, no matter how old you are, you're mother's child just the same. No matter what you've done, you're still mother's boy. And there she was, patting him and loving him. She said, "Do you know mammy?" saying, "You know your mammy?" He didn't seem like he recognized her. He's hollering, "Mammy," going on; he was unconscious like condition. And so she said, "Can we pray, Parson?" I said, "Yes ma'am."
And that old saint got down there and prayed. Oh, my. Just wring the heart. And I got up, and I felt his feet. They's cold and sticky; death was on him. And then we knelt again and begin to pray. And I said, "Dear God, I don't know why You sent me down here. But You turned me on the road like that, and brought me here. And I know it's past time for the plane." However, the plane was delayed two hours. So I said, "I--I don't know why You brought me here. But now, in obedience to the leading of the Spirit, I lay my hands upon this boy in the Name of Your Son, Christ Jesus." He said, "Mammy, it's getting light." In a few moments he was up and on his feet. I passed through there a few months ago. He met me at the Abbey's Station. He said, "Brother Branham, I'm perfectly normal now. And it's all gone from me."
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Oh, brother, sister, the very God that led Simeon is here tonight. That's right. He can lead those same... Hours after hours could I testify. But look. At that same time, there was an old blind prophetess by the name of Anna. Look at her. When Simeon picked up the baby Jesus, led by the Holy Spirit, right to Him... Don't you believe It's the same Holy Spirit tonight? And look, winding through the crowd came an old blind woman, Ann, making her way through the crowd. No one told her. But she came right straight to where He was, lifted up her hands and blessed God. The Holy Spirit was guiding her through the people.
He guides the fish through the trackless waters, the birds through the trackless air. Oh my. He can guide His people, if you'll
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just let Him. We are led of the Spirit of God. We are here expecting God to do something tonight. And I believe that He's here now to do something at this time, to heal the sick. Father, we thank Thee for Thy Spirit and Thy love. And I'm expecting You tonight, Father, to move upon the hearts of the people and let them see Thy Divine program, to lead the people Thou hast called in this day. And I believe, Father, that You're going to bring to pass tonight, the thing that You revealed to me, that many of the sick is going to be made well tonight. Grant it, Father. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant. For I ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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While I go to pray, you pray with me, if you will, and pray for me. The brothers will call the prayer line. And you pray with me. How many will do this for me, 'cause when I go out, I... If He anoints me when I come back. I might not be able to say much. But see, friends, I can't depend on myself. I have to depend on It. I don't say nothing; It does the talking. Now, look. When God does something on the platform, all of you believe it. This is nothing but just to show God's attitude. If one time it could be done, ought to prove to you all that Jesus is here to do it. Is that right? Moses was a prophet sent of God. He had two signs to show to the people that he was--he had God's Message. And when he performed those two signs, the people believed him. He never had to perform it any more, the people believed him. And if I come to you like that, and ask those things, should not you believe with all your heart? If I could perform the signs that God promised me to do, then you all ought to believe with all your heart. Isn't that right? That is true.
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Now, even before I go to the platform, or away to pray for the people, I want you to believe. Then when you see these things come to pass, I want every one of you to promise me this, that you'll do just what God says do. I've asked Him to let this anointed Angel, which comes to me, to move out over this audience, and touch one and then the other, like that. And heal them tonight while the service is going on. I'm going to ask. I've asked Him to do that. And I believe that He will do it. I believe it with all my heart. You believe also, and God bless you.
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Let's bow our heads just a moment. O Father, help us now to receive Thy beloved Son and His promise, knowing that His Spirit is in our midst tonight. And I ask You that You'll heal every sick person in the building. Through Jesus Christ's Name I ask it. Amen. Now, you
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Every one be real reverent. And now, there might be some strangers that has not heard as yet the operation of the Spirit of God that was delivered this ministry to me. It was given by an Angel when I was borned. It manifested Itself three years ago. It always followed me, made me know that It was near. Then It came to me, It was a man. He's been seen in the meetings many times. Big, large man, weigh about two hundred pounds, has dark hair to His shoulder. Testifying when He come, He said, "I'm sent from the Presence of God to tell you your...?... birth and life is to indicate that you're take a gift of healing to the peoples of the world." And begin to tell me different things would happen. I told Him that I was uneducated and wasn't able to go. He told me I'd be given two signs. I said, "The people will not believe me, because I'm not educated sufficient to speak to people." He said, "You'll be given two signs, as was the prophet Moses." He said, "One sign will be that you're to--you'll detect diseases through your hand. When the people contact you, well you'll be able to tell them what diseases they have through a supernatural discernment." And then said, "If you'll be sincere, then it will come to pass that you'll tell the people the secrets of their hearts, and the things that they've done in life that might've hindered their healing, and so forth."
And I said, "I'll... I--I'm... They will not believe me." He said, "I'll be with you." And I said, "I will go." And the Light begin to gather across the floor, went up... The Angel went up with the Light, formed a real sacred Light, as you see in the picture, and went away. It returns night after night, and It comes into the meetings. I do not claim... So everyone will be sure to know, I do not claim to be a Divine healer. Papers and things call It that, but that's an error. There's no man can heal, not even Jesus. Jesus didn't claim to be a Divine Healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; It's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." No mortal could claim Divine healing then. And then, if He could not claim Divine healing, then certainly I would not. No flesh can glory; it comes by the Spirit of God. He's the Healer.
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But I--I... It does detect diseases and different things that happens, takes place in people's lives, sometime if they're... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... why it calls out and lets them know
they're sinners. If they've got secret sin in their life, unconfessed, remember, It'll call it out, and--and It'll tell you about that. And that's the reason then when people comes, sometime when they, say, come to me without the anointing, they say, "Oh, I--I--I'm a believer, Brother Branham." I take their word. But under the anointing, you--you feel clear they're down here; you've got to come up here to this level, say, if I'm illustrating. Here's the gift up here, and you come believing you're up there; that doesn't make you up there. You've got to raise your faith up to here. Then when that faith perfectly believes, the power that's a holding you has to leave.
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I've never seen it fail. No matter how blind, crippled, lame, or any... Has anybody here been in my meetings before, let's see your hands, that's been in my meetings? Am I telling the truth? Does that happen? If it does, hold your hands up. Everybody that comes to platform, regardless of what's wrong with them... That's right. May their secrets are told; their--now, their... I cannot heal. But I do know whether they have enough faith to be healed or not. See? That--that's the thing of it here. But while God is moving up here, He will move down there also. See? And just remember, when He does something here...
Now, Moses could only perform these miracles, but the people had to believe him. That was the vindication that he was sent of God. You understand? It a vindicated his word to be true. If any man says anything and God testifies not that, then the man is wrong. But if the man says something, and God testifies behind that, then that man is right. See? Not only once, but over and over and over; it has to be the... a--a time. Now, Moses did that and proved to the people. Now, if you... if these... If God answers tonight and proves that what I've said the truth, then you hear my word. God will heal every person in the building. That's if--if you will promise to serve Him and believe Him.
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Now, remember, then when you leave the building, go testifying that you are healed. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." If these people come here is not exactly of faith, which it is a faith in one way, but their faith has to be built. You go forth testifying that you believe it, and you are healed, and you'll get well. Well, do you believe that? Just as you testified that you was saved, it works righteousness. Testify you're healed, it works healing, and God will grant it. All right. Now, let's see where we starting in the--in the line. All right, from right here. All right. Everybody be real reverent.
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city. Now, if you'll notice the patient... Just the--the Spirit of the Lord is here, and the--the patient, I--I do not know her. She's from New York. But a--a real strange feeling... Watch them, and when they get about eight or ten feet, you'll see the expression come upon their face. Now, the lady, I do not know her. But you have an odd feeling, don't you, lady, a strange, very odd. Now, that the audience might know, would you step just a little closer to the mike. Isn't that the truth? [Sister answers, "It's the truth."--Ed.] A very odd strange feeling. It's a sacred. What it is, the Light that you see in the picture is now here at the platform. You might not be... It might come clear. You might see It. But He's here. I know It's here. Everything seems to be like getting milky around over the building. And that's... I know It's here. You see? The anointing is coming on now.
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Where you from, sister? New York. You're from here in the
Now, let's see. I want you to be in prayer. That's...?... suffering them things...?... nervous...?... That's right. And you're been suffering this for some time...?... walk. You haven't served God in the way you should have. I could see that. You've had a desire to, but you haven't done it. Would you serve Him from now on? You promise that? No way I'd know that, only through God. Is that right? I see you trying. You even prayed before you come here, trying to find favor, didn't you. You were kneeling by a side of a chair recently, where there's a little table setting on the right hand side, praying (Is that right?) trying to find favor. No one knows that, but God, I, and you. Is that true? Then if I, by the Spirit of God, telling you now the same thing, like was told to the woman at the well... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] When the Master was there, He told her the secreted thing that was keeping her from her liberty. And she said she accepted Him. Said, "Come, see a Man Who told me all things." And His Spirit is here now, working through His servant telling you... You believe that? And I've told you the thing that's hindering you. You will accept Him now, will you do that?
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Shall we bow our heads? Heavenly Father, You're here to make our sister well. Grant, dear God, that You will heal her now, soul and body. May she leave the building now rejoicing. Forgive her, Lord, of every transgression. Grant it, Father, that she'll be Your child from now on, seeing her persuading to You, seeing that mistake that she made yonder, Father, and Your Spirit able to call it out right here at the platform. But, thou demon, upon the confession of this woman's faith, in the
Son of God, I come in the Name of Jesus Christ, professing the gift of Divine healing. You're made known. You can't hide any longer. Come out of the woman through Jesus Christ. Something's left you. You accept Him? You're healed. There you are. You feel different now, don't you. All right. You may raise your head. Sister, your sins are forgiven, and you're healed now. Straighten yourself up and go off the platform. You're well. Walk real fast.
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Every one be real reverent, just as reverent as you can be. All right, you bring your patient then. And everybody be reverent and--and just--just be faith. Now, I want you to do this. I--I just know already that God's going to answer what I ask Him tonight. I want you to look this way. I can't hardly tell just who it is, but I want you to look this way and believe with all your heart, everything that's been said.
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Yes, the Spirit of the Lord is here, now. The lady has her back turned. I have my back turned to her. I want you to walk a little closer, lady, up here to the platform, you. You're a stranger to me. But I can tell you what's wrong with you. Will you accept it as being sent from God? You've had arthritis, haven't you. Raise up your hands; you're healed. Jesus Christ makes you whole now. Stomp your feet up-and-down, like this. Like this, up, down; with your feet, up-and-down like this. Now, walk off the platform just as... like in you--you and I, real fast.
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Everyone believe with all your heart. Now, just have faith, believe. Now, that's the way. The Spirit of the Lord is here. This can detect, discern. Sir, you standing there. You believe with all your heart now. Do you believe me? Do you accept me as God's servant? Do you believe I'm His prophet that was sent here for your purpose, that you might be healed? Then will you obey what I tell you to do? Will you do that, if I'll be able to tell you what you're want to be prayed for? You have arthritis also. Is that right? Raise up your hands like this. Jump up like this, for Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen. Now, you can walk across the platform. You're healed, my brother. Straighten yourself up. God bless you, my dear brother. You're healed. Now, everybody be real reverent. Just keep praying now.
Way up in the audience, it just kinda recognized that. When they're coming close, sometimes they become into a subconscious condition when they're--when they're coming; and therefore, they don't--they don't realize just exactly till it's... He's going along shaking hands with his friends. Could we say, "Thank the Lord," everybody...?...
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Everyone maybe will understand how the cards are giving out. You see, those people are... You've been in the meeting for three nights. What do you think a week or two would happen, when people's faith begin to build around. Why, they'd walk into the balconies, they come in with wheelchairs, and just raise up, and jump out of the chairs, and run, for they--they believe. And when they will believe with all their heart, it just draws the strength of the Spirit of God right out to the people, just right--right to the people. Now, if the... if... You have to believe; you have to have faith, have... You... How many believes in God, let's see your hands. You believe in Christ? Believe in the Holy Spirit? Now, I want to ask you something. Do you believe that I've told you the truth? That's--that's... See, if you do that, that's what brings the blessing. He said, "If you get the people to believe you--believe you, and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before the prayer."
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Now, remember, I cannot heal. It only tells what happens when the people are standing, they--they begin to look, and they're wondering, and... And then when the Spirit begins to speak to them and tell them what their disease and afflictions are, why, their faith just moves right up and the thing leaves them. Now, if I'm able to tell that the... what's on you, and what's done it by the Spirit of God, then I know when it's leaving. Like if Moses could foretell what was going to happen, and it come to pass, we believe that the creation was according to His Word. Don't--do we not? Because it's God speaking both ways. All right. Now, I want all to pray and be real reverent, everywhere over the building. Wherever you are, everyone be reverent. But now you pray. You don't bow your head till I ask you, you... All right, you can bring your patient, brother. Now, every one be just as reverent.
And I'm still feel tonight that something glor... Now, sometime when the Spirit of the Lord gets real near, why, It's... I lose track of what I'm saying. You see? But now, just to notice right now I... If I can try to tell you... It's beginning to move down, now, for this patient. You see? I do not know the lady, know nothing about her.
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Now, just a moment. When It--It contacts, It's on me now. Now, when I get a hold of... Come close by me...?... Oh, she's deaf. All right. Everyone bow your head, everywhere now. Our heavenly Father, Who brought again Jesus from the dead, Thou art here to heal our sister, and to declare Your Divine power. And we've made boldly the statement, that nothing could stand before the gift of God, that what it would be told, and the woman, seemingly, has faith. And I ask Thee to deliver her tonight from this affliction that Satan has placed upon her, that she might be a testimony in her community of the healing power of God. That her testimony might start an old fashion revival. Grant it, Lord. Thou deaf spirit, who's come upon the woman, I adjure thee by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, leave the woman. Come out of her. You've been feeling real bad lately, haven't you. Is a tubercular diet. Yes. That's all gone. All right. You may raise your head, audience. I'll put my fingers in her ears.
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feeling weak lately, haven't you, real weak; and of the evening, especially in the afternoon. I waited till you got your hearing so that you would know. In the afternoons late, you get real weak. And at night, not... you're... you have un... restless nights and things. Now, what that has been, you have been afflicted with tubercular, sister. I picked it up on the vibrations. But it's all gone now. You're healed; your hearing is true; you're perfectly normal; you can remove your glasses, and go on off the platform...?... you are healed. All right, bring your...?... Everybody say, "Thanks, Jesus." Amen, That's right. All right.
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I want you to look this a way just a moment. You've been extremely nervous all your life. And another thing that's wrong with you now, 'course your eyes has caused you trouble... astigmatism, what's wrong in your eyes. Had trouble with stomach. Isn't that right? Yes. I see you setting at a desk, squinting, trying to read when you was a little girl. This certain day when a certain thing happened; you were wearing--wearing a pink checkered dress...?... Now, when you... When you now also are suffering with a peptic ulcer of your stomach, causing you to have stomach trouble. Isn't that right? Now, a real strange feeling is upon you. Isn't that right? Sister, dear, Jesus Christ makes you whole. You remove your glasses; go home eat what you want to; for you're healed now. God bless you. Everyone be real reverent and pray. All right. You can bring your
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Believe with all your heart, that you... You're trying to believe. You're a woman weary, aren't you? You've been deeply depressed, haven't you? You've been having troubles. And you know what I'm speaking of. I won't say it. All right. May I have your hand. There's something else; oh, it's cancer, sister. That's too bad. But do you believe that Jesus Christ will heal you and will make you well? I'll... So that... See, you have had troubles and trials. 'Course now that strange feeling upon you; that's the Spirit of the Lord. I want you to looky here so that you'll have more faith to believe. Here's now what I call a vibrations. Come closer. I want you to notice my hand there. Want you to look how it looks. See how speckled and how black looking it turns? And how it keeps little white things, running over it there? I'm going to take your hand off, and I'm going to put my hand upon it. Now, it's not there now, is it. Looks like anyone else's hand. I'll put this hand here upon it. Looks just as normal, does it? But Reverend Lindsay, would you come forward. I'll put Reverend Lindsay's upon it. Just normal like. I'll put my own hand; it's normal. Now, watch. I'll pick up this hand right here and lay it upon there. Now look at it. See how it swells, turns real red looking, blood-shotty, them little white things. That's your cancer, sister. That's the life of a demon that's trying to take your life. And it's moving through here now. That feels perfectly all over my wrists and arms. See? It moves right on up to my heart. And that's what does that.
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Now I want you to watch my hand. And now, if that remains that way, your life is very short. If it moves... You're having faith. I've been--been expecting it to leave at any time. But so far it hasn't. But you're--you suffer with--with a dizzy spells also, which is caused from a high blood pressure. And--and another thing is the time, you're nervousness is what causes menopause, change of life, working on you. Is that right? Do you have children too, haven't you? I--I want... I want you to... Yes. I want you to believe me with all your heart. Now, in order to vindicate what I'm telling you to be true, I want you to watch my hand. And if it stops like... I want you to take this other hand and feel those little things as they're moving over my hand, that they can see. That's--that's the life of that cancer. It moves through, kind of... kind of feels like it's going, thrrrrr, thrrrrr, thrrr. [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] Now, if that stops, I want you to see it.
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let every word be established." Is that true? You're Christian, and I... And you believe, and you come now, and you're a stranger. I've told you what's the matter with you, and what's happened in your life. Is that true? That's a witness, isn't it? You're looking here at something supernatural happening on my hand, is that right? That's two witnesses. If it remains, it's three; if it leaves, it's three. But this determines whether you'll be well or not. Now, there--there's nothing else that God could do to cause you to believe. Isn't that right? Now, I want all the audience to bow their head while the patient watches my hand.
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Our heavenly Father, we're thinking of the time that Nathanael came to You. Philip went and got him, and when he came up to Nathanael, he found him praying. And he said to Nathanael, "Come, see Who I've found, Jesus of Nazareth, Who was spoke of by Moses, the prophet." He said, "Could anything good come out of Nazareth?" He said, "Come and see." And when he came to the prayer line, O God, we can see the Spirit of God moved Jesus. He said, "There's a Christian. There's a believer, an Israelite indeed," otherwise. And Nathanael said, "When did You know me?" He said, "Before you come, you were praying under a tree." And he said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." Oh, You promised that Your Spirit would be with us always, even to the end of the world. And You're here tonight to detect, to tell, and to heal through faith. And Father, we're so thankful that You said, "A little while and the world will see Me more--no more. Yet you'll see Me, for I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the world." How thankful we are that You're here in New York with us tonight in this auditorium. And this, our sister, who's prayed, and a Christian... And we're taught that all things work together for good to them that love You. And Father, I've spoke to her everything that You've put in my mouth, and I'm expecting You to heal her. Won't You grant it, Lord, before she... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... taken away. I ask You to grant it. Give me faith, Father, in this challenge as she's watching my hand.
Thou demon, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Of course, you see, it didn't do it. It started...?... hands.
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[A sister speaks with tongues.--Ed.]
Lord Jesus, Son of God. Grant Thy blessings, O God, upon this mortal. Grant it, Father.
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You see what has happened, don't you, sister? Gone. The lady's healed. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, the lady, where you from? My hand is as normal as any man's. Is that right?
Now, the lady is standing here, looking herself. She's a New York woman. I've never moved my hand. Just as normal as any man's hand, isn't it? It just went away, just vanished away. Now that's... There's three witnesses. And the Holy Spirit speaking through the church, witnessed that It was sent. Now, there's...?... There's... Your healing's over, sister. God bless you. You may go home and... Let's just bow our head and offer thanks.
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Bring your patient, if you will. Father, I pray Thee to be merciful. Let Thy people see, dear Father, Thy works and know Thee. Through Jesus Christ I pray this blessing. Amen.
[A brother says, "On the lady's card was the word, 'cancer for three years.'"--Ed.] EXPECTATION_ NEW.YORK.NY WEDNESDAY_ 50-0405
Almighty God, Thou hast promised through Thy Son Jesus that You will move this choking spirits from the woman. Come out of her, Satan. I adjure thee by Jesus, the Son of God. All right. You may--you can see what's happened to her. The goiter went right from her throat. Well, God bless you...?... Friends, He's here to heal everybody. Do you believe that? Now, look. I want to ask you something. The Spirit of the Lord is speaking. The people don't have to come up here at the platform to be healed, they can be healed anywhere in the building. Now, just because those people have prayer cards and come up... See, we give out fifty cards or a hundred cards. And then we come to the meeting, they just mi--mix those cards together, from one to fifty, or wherever...
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Then we had a time that the people just rallied if they couldn't get number one card, they didn't want to come. And if they didn't get somewhere within fifteen or twenty, where we'd reach in a night, they didn't want no card. So we had to mix the cards up. And then they would ask what number were we going to start with. So instead of that, we just let them get together, give the cards out, and select a number somewhere in that group. And then call and pray for as many as we can through the night. Now, that's--that's the way that we have found more successful in operating. And the people come to the platform. The only good it does to come to the platform, is just to have theirself--just to be stand here, that it might... You don't have to come for that. For God can reveal right here now the secret of every heart in this building.
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And I know this one thing: There's a great, great group of people here that's believes. There seems to be a pressure coming from everywhere. God can do all things. All things are possible to
them that believe. Is that right? Yes, sir. Now, He can--He can speak out there. But now look, if He has verified this to be the truth, do you believe it is the truth? It's the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember, if I never see you again, I've told you the truth. And now, God will heal, and will heal everybody here, if you'll just believe it. That... Now, I've asked Him to do that tonight. And I--I believe God. I believe that He's going to do what I've asked Him to do. For I--I think what if that was my mother, father, brother, or my child, or whatever it was setting out there, or sick...
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There was a little girl just looked this way, just then, a sweet little thing, and she's... Her little vibration's moved up. There's a... I... She's setting here a little black headed girl. Sweetheart, stand on your feet. I want to look at you just a minute. Look here. Yes, stand up. Look up this a way, honey. You've been wanting that child to get in the prayer line, haven't you, sister? If I, by the Spirit of God, can tell you what's wrong with that child, will you accept me as God's servant? The child's got a growth in its throat. Is that right? It's been bothering it. It's something in its throat's been bo... Is that right, honey? Swallow, and put your hand on your throat. Jesus Christ heals you, now. God bless you, sweetheart. Is that true, mother? God knows all about all things.
Here sits a man setting before me here with a cane in his hand. Brother dear, do you believe me? Look this a way. You've been suffering with a heart trouble, haven't you. Lay that cane down and go on out of the building. You're healed, sir. You don't need it any more. Do you all believe Jesus Christ? I want you to look this way and... It's... God knows all your hearts. Here sets a lady, setting here with a red waist on. Look this a way, sister. Seem like you're in trouble. Your husband's setting there holding you, your loved one. Looky here. You're suffering. You've had some trouble recently, haven't you. You've been to a clinic or a hospital. Yes, you've had an operation, haven't you? It was at Mayo Brothers. Is that right? I can see the institution. It's happening between you and I. It's a gallbladder operation, if I'm not mistaken. Is that right? You're worrying about it, because you're weak. Stand on your feet. Jesus Christ makes you whole now. You're healed. Don't have no fear.
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Everybody believe. That's right. Have faith in God. Believe with all your heart. Be sure He knows all things. Do you believe it? Here is a poor old colored lady setting there with a black hat on.
Stand on your feet. You was deaf, woman. You can hear now. Jesus Christ makes you whole. You was deaf. Is that right? Do you hear all right now? Can you hear me? Sure. You're healed. Jesus Christ makes you... Why, He will heal everybody in the building right now. Do you believe it? Stand up a minute. Raise up your hands. Let's pray. Up in the balcony. You there that has the cancer. You're well. Jesus Christ healed you. You that's standing there that's been crippled. Stand up out of that chair. Jesus Christ makes you whole. You, right here, that man there, there's a... Yes, sir, brother. Jesus Christ healed you right now. That's right. You come from that place. Right there, setting right there in balcony. That girl standing right there. It's a cross-eyed. It's over. Look and see. Your eyes are straight. Oh, He's here, friends. He's making whole this minute. Everyone, let's lift up our hands and our voices to give praise to the Lord Jesus.
Now, I rebuke every power of doubt, every demon spirit, that he will turn this audience loose at this moment In the Name of Jesus Christ. You in the chairs, raise up. You that's sick, you're well. Almighty God, I commit this to You and praise...?... Lord God of heaven and earth, send Thy power upon this waiting audience, making this what You promised. I now ask for a complete deliverance of every sick person in the building in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Accept it. Believe it. Right now, I feel the pressure that there's hundreds of people right now that's been healed. If I've told you the truth, I'm telling you the truth. Now, God has verified this...
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...?... Lived in the hearts of the apostles and opened the eyes of the blind, shall be saved. And he that believeth not shall be damned. These signs shall follow them that believe: in My Name shall they cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. If they take up serpents or deadly things it shall not harm them. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] ...?... And after He had said this, He was taken up into heaven, and set at
the right hand of the Father to watch over His church. Whatever you confess that He is to you, that's what He confesses before the Father, from whence He shall come in His power, and His glory... And His disciples went forth everywhere, preaching, the Lord working with them confirming the Word with signs following: Saint Mark 16.
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How Wonderful He is, how Glorious He is. There's no greater time in the world than this for baptism. Just remain right there on the... The boys will be out in few moments...?... candidates has heard the Voice of the Resurrected Christ. There was a woman stood in her head for... Seen Grant come in to take Richmond. She was a foreigner. She said, "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." Someday He shall come. All of our sorrows will be over then. This is a marvelous day, a day for the resurrection. If there's any of you...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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While He was... The Spirit of the Lord said, "Go near to the chariot," and here was the eunuch reading the Scripture, Isaiah 40: "All we like sheep have gone astray and God has laid upon us the iniquity--upon Him, the iniquity of us all, but He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. With His stripes we were healed." And Philip said, "Understandest thou what thou readest?" He said, "How can I 'less someone teach me?" So Philip got up on the chariot and o--taken the same Scripture begin to speak to him of the resurrection of Christ and His power. I believe Christ is with us, don't you? And the eunuch said, "Here's water. What does hinder me from being baptized?" as soon as he heard the message. He said, "Thou mayest, if thou believest with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." He said, "I believe with all of my heart, soul, and mind, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." He stopped the chariot. It was done. When you truly, in your heart, believe that He is the Son of God, He that believeth shall not be condemned. He stopped the chariot. Philip and the eunuch went down into the water. Philip obeyed his commission by baptizing him. And when he did, the Spirit of the Lord caught him away. They didn't see him any more; he was two hundred miles away. Stand him...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Here...
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To the dying one.... Now saved and filled with the Spirit. They were all shouting and screaming and carrying on. The Holy Spirit was falling. Next thing was baptism after conversion. Acts the 2nd chapter, the 37th verse: And when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men
and brethren, what shall we do?" Then Peter said unto them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost; for the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Heavenly Father, nineteen hundred years since the Scripture has been written, and Your promise is still moving on. And now, Lord, here these young people, these two young ladies standing here to my right, they've accepted You as their Saviour; they believe the Gospel story. To my left, Lord, is my little nephew Melvin, and my own boy. O God, if it's possible this morning that two mothers could be called to look over the banister, to look down and see their boys now... Oh, how happy I am, Lord. Oh, to know that You, You answer prayer. That poor little mother Ruth, she's gone on years ago, but her prayer is answered now. She prayed that he would love You and serve You. He's making his stand this morning. To these others, their mothers maybe has gone on, Lord, we don't know; Thou does, but whatever, answer prayer. And now, dear Father, as Your humble servant, a minister of the Gospel, I bring forward to perform my duty, as a priest. God, have mercy. And as I baptize them with the water, may the Holy Spirit seal Christ into their hearts. And may as they come up out of the water as You come up on the Easter morning, and may they raise from the watery grave of this chilly cold water; may someday, if they go to rest in the grave, may the clay clods break, the tombstone roll back. They'll be reunited again, Lord, with their loved ones in the kingdom with our Lord Jesus Christ Who made all this possible. May each one go with a full memory, the full assurance of what they're doing, moving--that they're moving forward now, believing this story to be true. He said, "He that believeth shall not be condemned. I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." Here's their faith, their testimony. Lord, as I baptize them into the fellowship of this church, Lord, baptize them into the fellowship of Thy beloved Son by the Holy Spirit, for we ask it in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. God bless you each as you go to your room. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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... confessing your faith, going down in the Name of the Lord Jesus, believing that Jesus died and rose again this morning, going...?... and may God bless him and make a preacher out of him is my prayer, to carry the Word of Life to a dying nation. Let us bow their heads. O heavenly Father, have mercy, dear Father. Look at this poor little boy standing here. If it was possible, we don't know the...?... Lord. If it's possible, Lord, may his mother, in the lands there, re--realize this morning that her dear boy now is turning
to the Lord Jesus; going into an old chilly grave, knowing that someday the clods will move off his face and she'll come forward, the resurrection. God bless him and make a great man out of him, Lord, let him glorify Your Name. Now...?... Lord, I seen that he would-You'd call him someday. And I pray that You'll give him, oh, Eternal Life, Lord. And if it be Thy will, make a minister out of him to preach the Word. Hear my prayer, Lord, as Thou has commissioned us to go into all the world, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Upon the confession of your faith and your faith in the Son of God, I baptize thee, my beloved brother, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Brother...?... I know how...?... his family back yonder, here's the answer to your prayer. Here's one of God's... Here's a man that's been to me like a daddy. Many times I've coldly turned him down. That's right. No matter how much I turned him down or what I did, he was my buddy just the same. That's a real friend. That's not a dry weather friend; that's a friend who sticks by you in right or wrong. I'm happy this morning for Brother Nelson. I'm happy that he's chosen this day. I... Little did I know that he would do it, but he has chose this day, the resurrection, accepting Jesus as His Saviour, believing in His resurrection, and testifying before the people this morning, that he believes in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, accepts Him as his Saviour, and now to be baptized. I didn't know standing out there, that he would be baptized. Brother Mack, God bless you, my dear brother. I pray that God will fill him with the Holy Spirit. ...?... one ...?... His place down there is just one constant place for ministers. Anything... Ministers just come by and just help themselves to what he has. Good hearted, good natured, him and his wife and his children. And I pray God will just bless abundantly more now. While we pray now, you bow your head. You turn right around this way...?... Almighty God, there's never been a charitable deed this man has done but what You knowed about it. You've got it all recorded up there in full. But the greatest deed that he's ever done in his life, the greatest thing, is accepting Thy beloved Son as His personal Saviour, hear the prayer of his loving wife and his children and everyone praying for him that they walk here to the pool to make a confession before this audience and testifying of being baptized with water, believing this Easter story is true. Almighty God, fill him with the Holy Spirit. Give him a long, happy life, and in the world to come, Eternal Life through Jesus Christ. O Jesus, Son of God, Who taught us to be... Go into all the world, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit...
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Now, we're all praying that God would fill Brother Billy, here, full of the Holy Spirit. I call him Brother Billy, because we're personal buddies, friends. Just put your arms around now, your body. Heavenly Father, look down upon this scene just now. And as our Brother Jason is standing here with confessed faith in Jesus Christ, believing in the death, burial, and resurrection, standing here in the chilly cool waters represents death that took our Saviour away from here Who died in our place, we go down into a commemoration of His death, burial, and resurrection, to rise to new life to serve Him. Almighty God, bless my brother; bless his talents, make him a great man, Lord, for You. Hear the prayer of Your servant. As Thou has commissioned us, Lord Jesus, that we should go into all the world, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and upon the confession of sin and your faith in the Son of God, I baptize thee, my beloved brother, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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One of the greatest moments of my life. Looking across somebody's shoulder, my mother. I led her out here in the Ohio River and baptized her in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Now, my own boy. O God, if possible, let Hope look down over the banister this morning, look across the veil, hangs between earth and glory. I pray, God, will make a preacher out of my boy. I pray that God will anoint him and give him a double portion of the Spirit. May God bless his life. Thank you all for your prayer. Prayer changes things. I'll pray for your children too. Billy, boy, some of these days, honey, we, if Jesus tarries, we got to go down in one of these, they'll throw dirt on us. But, sonny, God will bring us up. "I know my Redeemer liveth, the last days He'll stand on this earth." I pray that God will bless him, keep the enemy from him. Give him a free access, way down this long road, son. There's many souls dying down there, but throw out the lifeline to them, bring them. I trust, Billy, that you'll stand and baptize literally thousands times thousands for a testimony for the remission of their sins. God, bless my boy, I pray...?... O Master, Oh, how I...?... My boy, Lord, that I've raised for thee. Here's my boy, Lord; he's all I got. I bring him to You this morning. I'm so thankful, Lord, that he believes this...?... So thankful that he's repented, God. O Lord Jesus, O Christ, anoint him with the Holy Ghost. Grant it, Lord, that the power of the Spirit of the resurrected Christ; hold my boy. Grant it, Lord. May he be filled with God's Spirit
to preach the Word, unadulterated Gospel of Christ, to all the ends of the world. Grant it, Lord. Bless him and use him. Here he stands by the grave before him, Lord. I think of that morning out yonder, we're going there like mother laying there and sister. O Christ, this will be recorded in Heaven. Have mercy, God, grant my boy faith during his life and on his journey home, bless him in that life, bless him Lord. May he have a great ministry, saving souls. Here he is, Lord. As Thou hast commissioned Thy servant to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; therefore, Lord, upon this commission, why, my the heart bleeds to You. My son, upon the confession of your sins and your faith in God's Son, Jesus Christ, I baptize thee, my beloved son, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Thank you, Brother Lindsay. And good evening, audience. It's a great privilege tonight, to be here in this lovely location of our nation to start my first meeting since we've come back from Europe. Little tired tonight, of... We had to drive hard. We just come from New York, and came down home, and took right off here right away. And I'm very happy to be here and to meet, already some of the friends that we've met in other meetings, especially Brother Richey and Brother Hall. We had Brother Hall in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and I learned to love him, and Brother Richey in the Houston meeting. And it kinda feels like getting home. And then feel this wonderful feeling of fellowship already, why, well, it just seems like it's... I believe the prophet said once, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain." I trust that it'll be that way through these coming days of the revival.
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I've always wanted a chance, an opportunity, rather, to come to Minneapolis. I've been postponing this around for the last three or four years, to come here. It always be somewhere we'd be bypassed to somewhere else and have to miss Minneapolis. And when I learned that we were coming, why, I certainly was elated over that. And being a little tired and just coming back off of my vacation, it may take a night or so before we'll, the meeting will be in its right category. One thing it's new to most of us, I guess, here, most of you, rather. And another thing that I had to hurry so on this... Usually before I start in the prayer lines, I take three days of fasting and praying, as many people know that how I--I try to be, have the...
How many's here that's been in one of the services before? Let's see your hand. Well, that's just wonderful.
Now, and this time after just arriving home in time to get started up here, well, I did not do that. And I may be just a little... We kinda take our time for first night or so. I'm sure you'll bear with me and pray with me while I'm... And I'll do all that I can, by the help of God, to minister to the needy in this meeting, and do all I can to pray for every one. And I trust that it'll be as... The Lord has been awfully good to me in praying for the sick and the needy.
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And since returning from Europe, this is my first meeting. And am I just a little too... not very loud, Brother Hall... I'm--I'm kinda small, and I don't speak very loud to begin with. And then makes it kind of hard in a tent. But I... This will be my second time that I ever had a healing service in a tent. My first revival was in a tent, something about like this, right after my conversion. And I always like to hear that canvas blowing. And it seems like it's something about it, I--I think of when Abraham dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob there. They're heirs to the Kingdom, so we're his sons. If we're dead in Christ, we take on Abraham's seed and are heirs according to the promise.
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And now, each night, as I understand, the meeting is to be twelve nights long, if the Lord permits us. And we want to try to make every night count. And now for the first few nights, first night or two, while I'm going on my fast and prayer... Many of you understands that the ministry that our Lord Jesus Christ has permitted to me, has (as I humbly say that), is a little odd, a little different maybe from, maybe what you'd be used to your healing campaigns. But I can only do as He bids me do. Like anyone else, we just have to do as He says do it. It operates a little strange because it's under a... the direction of a supernatural Being. And it-it's quite a phenomenon--phenomena, rather, that--that--that they have told you. Of course it speaks out to the diseases, and the sins of your life, and tells you why, and what caused you to be sick. You just make that right, why, I've never seen it fail yet to what the people was healed. And that... Many times the weakness of it is the part of the lack of faith after the people are healed. On the platform, here before the Divine gift, it will deliver anything. Any... No matter how bad they're crippled, blind, twisted; they'll be healed here at the platform.
But now, it's been throwed to me many times that... how long does it last? They say, "Well, in a few days, most of them cases go right back in their conditions." Then they try to say it's hypnotism, and so forth, which we Christians are--are not slothful concerning those things to understand that the enemy has always got something to say against God. And we look for that. And we do not expect to go through life without persecution, for the Bible says "All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." And I can only be honest. And if a person is honest, and be truthful and honest, God will be with you. And if a man says anything, well, we're free moral agents, and we can say anything that we wish to. But if I would say something, and it would not be right, then God would not testify of that. But if I say something about God, and something God has done, and then God in return comes around and testifies that that is right, then you ought to believe it, because God has said so, and not a man. And that's only fair to any audience. And that's what the claims has been made.
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And it's nothing that I have in myself to do, I'm just a--just a man that as the rest of you brothers are, a sinner saved by grace. And it... I was born in a very poor family, raised up irreligious. My people before me, and my grandparents were Catholic, my father and mother. Never went to any church at all. We're Irish by descent, and by nationality, rather. And we didn't not go to church. Till when I was a little boy about seven years old, or when I was first borned, very peculiar thing happened the morning when I was born. And a Light came into the room. All of them started crying. Up in the mountains where I was... Kentucky where I was borned. Went on for seven years. And at the age of seven years old, It appeared to me the first time as a Voice speaking to me, and told me never to smoke, or to drink, or to defile myself in any way; because there'd be a work for me to do when I got older.
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Later on in life It kept appearing. It would show me things; I'd say just what It told me. It never has failed to come to pass yet. 1947, '46 Rather, on April the se--or May the seventh in the room, an Angel of the Lord came into the room. When I seen the Man, It... When He spoke, I didn't know Him. When He... seen him, was the first time I'd ever seen Him, human form. It appeared many times. Down on the river after my first revival, It came down in the form of a--like a star when it's in a distance, but when It comes close, It looked like a Light. And It's a... It appeared and many people fainted where it was some ten thousand people, I guess, was present to see it. And then It just... I never knowed what It meant.
Later on, why, when He met me, He told me what it was to do, was to go pray for the sick people. I told Him that they would not believe me. He said, "There'll be giving you signs, like was given to the prophet Moses. As Moses was given two signs to prove to the people that he-God had sent him to deliver them," said, "so would I be deliver... given two signs. One of them would come immediately, and the other one would follow along if I'd be sincere. That, which I guess, there's many of you here tonight, know that how it come to pass. First was to discern the diseases... kind of diseases. Then I did that till it got to a perfect way where It never failed. Then It started in to telling the people the secrets of their hearts, the things that they had done in life, all the way down through life's journey; which many of you might stagger at that now, and get it wrong.
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But remember, when Nathanael came to Jesus, and Philip, his brother had went and found him, and said nothing good could come out of Nazareth. And when he came to Him, Jesus said to him when he was in the prayer line, said, "Behold, a Israelite in whom there is no guile." He said, "When did You know me, Rabbi? Whence knowest Thou me?" Said, "When you were under the tree before Philip called you, I knew you." And he said, "Thou art the Son of God, the King of Israel." His heart was prepared to receive Him.
At the woman at the well, when Jesus was speaking with her, He said, "Go, get your husband." She said, "I have none." Said, "You've said right, for you had five, and the one you have now is not your husband." She said, "I perceive that You're a prophet. And we know Messiah cometh, and so forth." And she went into the city and told the men of the city, "Come, see a man Who told me the--the everything that I did. Is not this the very Christ?"
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Now, Christian friends, we're all an Eternity bound people. Every one of us here has got to meet God and face God someday. And we're going to give an account for the deeds that's done in our lives. Now, if I told you I was a gangster, and had the spirit of--of John Dillinger was upon me, well, you'd expect me to have guns and be that kind of a character, because his spirit was on me. If I told you I
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had the spirit of an artist, some great famous artist, you'd expect me to be able to catch the scene of the waves when it was tipping of the sunset, and almost bring it out in life's color. If I had the spirit of an artist in me, I would do the work of an artist. And if we had the Spirit of Christ, then we do the works of Christ. And the Spirit that was upon Him, He said, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more; yet, you'll see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you to the end of the age."
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They class me a fanatic, not if I would think I'd be too good to be a fanatic, but for the sake of the Gospel that I represent, I want you to know me as your brother, and not as a Divine healer. That's just a name that newspapers and magazines tacked on. There's no one that's a Divine healer. No man can heal you. There's o... Even Christ, the Son of God, did not claim to be a Divine healer. He said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works." So if Jesus, our lovely Saviour, Who would not take credit for being a healer, how much more ought we to disown that credit to, of being a healer. We only pray for the sick. And it's faith that you're healed. By faith are you healed. Now, before you can have faith... I find that many people come to faith in a kind of a haphazard way, if you'll excuse that expression, kinda like they're making a guess at it. And ninety percent of the people that comes into the line have hope instead of faith.
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Now, hope is one thing and faith is another. Faith is a positive sense. It's not a guess work; you don't just imagine it. It's just as real as any other sense of your body, just the same as sight is. Sight is real. Hearing is real. See, taste, feel, smell, and hear, the five senses of the body that control the body, they're real faculties to you if none of them is injured. And then, faith is just as real as any of the other five senses, and more real, because it'll go in and above those five senses. Now, the first and fundamental cause of Divine healing is because God said so in His Bible. That's the only... That's the sure foundation, is the Word of God.
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And now, I think while I'm speaking tonight, I want to try to first start this meeting in a new way, not just run in like I usually do and take three or four nights to... 'fore the people realize what's happening. If you build their faith, I believe, firm first, upon what is the foundation, God's Word, I believe there'll be a better results right here in Minneapolis in this revival than we've had yet.
I tried it in Europe, and it worked wonderfully. When many times... When my last night was speaking, many many hundreds of the people, while speaking through an interpreter, received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I forget how many hundred at one time, of young people, just when they seen. Faith comes by hearing, hearing the Word. Now, the Word of God will defeat Satan on any grounds, any place, anywhere, at any time. God's Word...
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When Jesus... We all believe He was the Son of God. Is that right? We accept Him as the Son of God. And He was more than a man; God was in Jesus. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was a God-man, God working through Him. Now, but when He met Satan, or Satan met Him, He did not use any of His fine gifts, which I believe that in Him dwelt all the powers of heavens was in Him. But He never used any of them to defeat the enemy. When He met Satan, Satan tempted Him. He said, "It is written: Man shall not live by bread alone." Then upon the pinnacle of the Temple, He met him again with the Word of God. When he taken Him up in the mountain, He met him again with the Word of God, so showing to us, as our example, that the Word of God will defeat the enemy any place, anywhere, any time. It is written.
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That's when you are prayed for, do not come into a prayer line except first that you understand what you're doing, and how you are to accept God. Not long ago, right here at the greatest clinic in the world, Mayo Brothers turned me down as a hopeless case. Said I was finished for life, and could never, no more, be useful. I was wrecked for life when that, I guess, the best in the world. When they turned me out, I was a hopeless, helpless, creature. Oh, I'll love Him, the longest day I live. Then He met me. And by faith, I believe Him. And tonight, I weigh more than I ever weighed in my life, and better health than I ever was in my life. Why? Is because faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. Jesus said in Luke, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them." There you are.
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Watch the order of the Word, and you shall re--shall receive it, shall have it. First, you believe you've got it, then it'll be given to you. And when you come, make your confession, believe God, believe that He will do it, and He's under obligation to do it. God is worth no more than His Word is. No man is worth any more than his word is. And God is infallible. He cannot lie. His Word is true. And we just accept Him by His Word and believe it. It's got to happen.
I've seen cases where the best of doctors had turned them down with cancer. Some of them blind from birth, spastic children, twisted in all kinds of shapes. I've never seen one time that He's ever failed to deliver them at the platform. Now, that's right. Why? He's God. And when He's took at His Word, all things are possible. And it will happen if we believe it, and will act upon our conviction.
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First, we must be sure that it is--that it's the will of God to heal. We ought to take some time on that in the meetings, which the managers probably will, upon the will of God to heal, how Jesus died to heal, how the commission was given first to heal. The first thing He said when He sent out disciples, "Heal the sick; cleanse the lepers; raise the dead. Fr--freely as you receive, freely give." That was His first commission, Matthew 10. And Mark 16, the last commission, He said, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; and these signs shall follow them that believe." Why? All the world. "In My Name they shall cast out devils; they'll speak with new tongues; take up serpents or drink deadly things shall not harm them; and if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." What's the matter is, we Christians get too weak when it comes to the showdown. If it's real, it's real. If it's not, it's not. And if I didn't believe Him with all my heart and know it was real, I would not be here tonight. But I believe it. And not only that, I know it's real. See? And I seen it over thousands of places.
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When He--He met me that night and told me, I--I with a common grammar school education, how could I go to face the peoples of the world to take that gift? He said, "I will be with you." I said, "They will not believe me." He said, "You'll be given two signs." Now, remember, the signs does not heal; the signs raise faith to heal. But only through faith is it healed. Do you understand? See, see? Signs only works faith. And now, Moses, when he went and told the children of Israel that God had sent him down to deliver them, he performed two signs. He put his hand in his bosom and taken it out, leprosy, put it back in his bosom and turned it again normal. He threw down his staff, and it turned to a serpent, picked it up, and it turned back to a staff. And Israel believed Moses. Now, these signs that has been given to know the thoughts, the heart of the people and the things that they had done, is not by man; it's by the Spirit of God that comes down and reveals it. It comes into the meeting many times, great Light circling through the meeting.
Not long ago I believe, down at Houston, they caught It in a picture, a photographer. Many of you I guess... How many's ever seen the picture? Let's see your... Oh, many of you... There, that's the part... That's the One that does the healing. Not I myself; I'm just a channel. Like the pool of Bethesda, it--it wasn't the water that healed; it was the Angel on the water that done the healing. It's not man that heals; it's the Spirit of God on the man that does the healing. See? You get what I mean? Now, I know none of you. I--I do not see a person in the audience that I would know. And God knows I know not what's wrong with you, not a one. But under the anointing, there's no one could come to this platform but what would be told just what was wrong with them, and what they were, done in their life (See?), maybe the cause of the sickness.
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Now, what that is for is to build the faith of the patient. I try, and have been, and said when I was in Europe, I try just to hold back as long as I could, 'cause I can't... It makes me so weak till I can't stand up. Sometimes they pack me from the platform, as many of the people know that, just takes the very life out of you. And while we're here tonight, I was hope... Before I start in to praying, that I would explain it to the people, so you would understand. I don't think there's anything wrong with me; it doesn't hurt me; I come out of it in a little bit. But it begins to draw down. When it does, it changes features, everything. I don't know who's around me, nothing about it. The patient comes to the platform, and if...
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You might come right now and tell me you had faith, I'd believe you. I'd take your word, 'cause I believe you're a Christian, and you mean that you got faith. But sometimes you say you have faith when you just think you have faith. But now, I would believe you had faith now. But under that anointing, it--you know whether they got faith or not. And when they haven't got faith, it seems like your patient's down here, and here you are up here. And they're down here saying they have faith, but they're supposed to be up here. See what I mean? But when that faith of the patient rises up to here, then I've never seen it in my life, God being my judge, but what was delivered right there at the platform (That's right.), no matter what it was. I've seen newspaper reporters jump to the platform and scream when they see little legs about that big around come normal, and measure them and so forth. And little twisted, drawed children just normally come out and walk off the platform; people would faint and
everything looking at it, and so forth; crippled, and even to the dead, raised right up after being dead and laying on the roadsides and so forth...
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Now, that wasn't nothing I had anything to do with it. I guess tonight, if Jesus would walk into the tent, and would call for us all to answer in the judgment, the weakest of saints would have a greater reward than I would. Now, that's--that's from the bottom of my heart. I'm not saying that to be humble; I'm saying that from my heart, because that I was... I haven't suffered like you people have, many of you in the way that's been coming along for a long time. I was reared up in the Baptist church when my ministry... And when this gift was ministered to me, why, they told me that they thought I'd lost my mind; and they asked me what I'd eat, did I have a nightmare? And I didn't appreciate that, and they didn't believe it, and said, "You, grammar school education, preach to people around the world?" Said, "You better run on back over home," like that.
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Well, they did not want me, and the full gospel people said, "We've been praying for that gift to come to our church." They received me. I've always been a black sheep till that time. And I finally found people where I belonged. All my life, I seemed like that I--I couldn't find the class that I belonged in. When I was a boy, I didn't smoke and drink, and the-the young folks had nothing to do with me, so... And the girls all, when I got going with girls, they went to dances, and I didn't go to dances. So I was a wallflower. And when I got saved, I believe in an old fashion heartfelt religion. And so the church didn't. They thought I was a fanatic, and... Well, I... Birds of a feather... I guess I finally got into the right place. And I'm so thankful. So I'm very happy to be with the groups that I believe that we'll be in glory together.
Now, this into the discernment of it, the person comes; I know nothing of them, and It begins to tell them. If they come with the right faith, there's nothing to be done. It's just right up there then. But now, I'll take a meeting: For instance, one night... I'll just kinda of a way of meeting... I'll--I'll take the meeting at Beaumont. You was there, Brother Richey, was you at Beaumont and Houston? All right, I'll take the last meeting of the Beaumont meeting, so you kinda have an idea how the meeting we're at. Just before we went overseas, by the way...
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know of him. We'd had a glorious meeting in Houston. And we come to Beaumont to finish up, because we could get no room no more. The stampede, or something, was going to take up the coliseum, and we had no room for the people at Houston. And they sponsored a train to bring train loads, many coaches from Houston over to--to Beaumont. In the meeting, we walked in; there was a prayer line formed the way we do it in the regular meetings. We give out so many cards each day. The hard part of it is, just after a few cases, the life is gone from me, and they have to take me from the line. And then my brothers and those who around, the managers, take care of that. And we give out cards. And then we just choose a certain number from them--those cards and start calling to the platform. And two or three people had come from the platform. And you don't necessarily have to have a card. And they were coming up to the platform being--to be prayed for. And I just happened to look, and they were bringing a--an ambulance stretcher down like this. And the man was covered over, and I seen just his face.
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And now, it's all seen by vision. Everything is by vision. When I see what you've done in life, I just see--just see it. But it's like I'm looking at you now. And it's been that way in a measure since I was a little boy. Therefore, I believe that gifts and callings are without repentance, that you're borned in this world with gifts. I believe you have to be born to be a musician. You take children sometimes and give them all kinds of an education in music, they never make a musician. And some of them that can't even read their ABC's through, or say their ABC's, can play music of any type. You're born that way. You can't help it.
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So therefore, it wasn't my righteousness, my family's goodness; it was the grace of God that brought the gift down to the people. See? And it just happened to be that God chose it for that purpose. Then as it goes on, it gradually grows greater and greater all the time, getting more and more. And then in this night, two or three people had come, had been prayed for and was healed at the platform. And I looked out, and I seen that man. And I noticed as I looked at him, I seen he was covered over. And coming there, his face looked very red. And just above him, I seen a pulpit like this, and a man preaching. And I looked down again, and it was the same man. And I said, "Sir, you're a minister." Said, "Yes sir." Then I begin to see something unfold just in front of me, and I seen him. I said, "Yes, you're a minister. And about four years ago, God
told you to do something that you did not do. And you failed to do it. And since then, it's been nothing but trouble, and you're just from the hospital now with a bone graft in your leg." He begin to screaming and crying. And there God healed him there.
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And as I started to turn back to see my patient coming, they were bringing a young lady to the platform. I looked down and there was a man on a stretcher laying here. And I looked just above him here, standing in the midst of the air, and I seen a fellow working, a rigger. You know what a rigger is? Many of you does. See? And he was tying a double sheepshank on a something, a knot to--to raise... I looked, and I seen the man. I kept watching. And I looked to see where--and there laid the same man on the cot. I looked back again; that come before me again. I seen the man fall. And I said, "Sir, you're a rigger, aren't you." He said, "Yes sir." And begin to... I said, "About so long ago (I forget how long it was now.) you fell. They taken you to a hospital, and a tall dark headed man with glasses on was your doctor." Said, "That's right." I said, "Your wife is a blond-headed woman. You got two little children." "That is exactly right." I said, "You been paralyzed in your back now for three, or four, five years or more." Said, "That's exactly right." And--and he said--he said, "Well, I don't understand how you know that." He said, "What must I do?" I said, "Sir, I do not know." And I started to turn. And I looked again, and I seen the man, just like same size, wearing a brown suit, walking right up just above the people's head, going down through the building, saying, "Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord." And I said, "Sir, Jesus Christ has healed you. Stand on your feet." Paralyzed from his waist down, up he got and down through the building he went, praising the Lord.
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And--and then, turning this a way, I looked, and I seen a lady setting in a wheelchair, and I seen a woman standing near her and a little spastic baby in her arms with a blue blanket and a little white fringe hanging around it. Why, I turned to look to the patient again, coming this a way to me. And I looked back and I seen again, seeing if the vision was still there. And I looked, and I seen the lady holding a little baby. And then it vanished away. And the la--lady was setting with her hands like this, and she was crying. I said, "Young lady, wasn't you born a spastic?" She said, "Yes, sir."
And I said, "I seen a vision of your mother holding you in a little blue blanket with a white fringe around it." I just looked around like this; I said... It was just standing just a... And I said, "Right over here sets your mother. Been about twenty-five years ago, but I still see the features on her. Isn't this your daughter?" She said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Come stand by her." I said, "There it is, just right." She said, "What must I do, sir? Am I healed?" I said, "Sister, only thing I know that that was all I seen. It's gone from me. I can't say nothing but what He tells me to say. No one... No true prophet can ever speak without first God puts it in. If he does, it'll be a failure, and it won't be right. So you just only bring disgrace. See, only speak what God says speak. No matter if it be my own mother, I can only say what He said say."
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And looking at the lady again, I started to pray for this other lady. And just then she walked up, the lady did, a fine looking young lady, and she had dark hair way down low on her shoulder. And I said, "Good evening." And she said, "Good evening." And I took a hold of her hand, well, it seemed strange. There was a-a--a vibration coming of a deafness. I said, "You hear me?" She said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Why, you... It's--it's a deaf..." She said, "I'm deaf in one ear." I said, "I knew it was a deaf spirit. I couldn't tell just how much." And she said... She said, "Yes, sir. I've been deaf in my ear for many years." And I said, "You believe that Jesus will heal you if I ask Him?" She said, "With all my heart, I believe it." And very saintly looking little girl. And I... Young lady about in her twenties, I suppose... I bowed my head to pray for the girl. And when I did, I raised up and took a hold of her hand, the vibration would not stop. Just kinda worked up over what was going on, 'cause it--it feels just like something pulling on you like that. Just... When you're under the anointing, you can just tell it. It just feels everywhere. It just coming like something pulling like that.
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And now, tonight I'm just opening up my heart to you, because I'm tired and on a travel, and wanted kinda give you the backgrounds of--of the meetings, so that you will see. And then if these things are not true, then--through this meeting, well, you tell... You walk right and say Brother Branham's a false prophet. See? And if it is true, then you glorify Jesus Christ for His greatness and His goodness. And then when the... I started to pray for the girl again, and it did
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The patient puts their right hand on it, takes... What... It's a discernment of some type. Christian friends, I do not know. I--I can't say. All I know; I can tell it what it is. You can see it on my hand. My hand will swell up real big, and you can just notice it, them little white things will run right over my hand, just paralyzes right at my heart, right through like that till I can't hardly move my hands. And that's the effect of a germ disease in a person. It never fails to get them. And I know when it's there. I know when it leaves, but I can't make it go. Your faith in God has to make it go. I can't make it go myself. It's your faith.
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And then I looked at the girl, and I said, "Well, it's strange." And I gave... I asked Jesus again to heal her, and it just held right on. Well, I said, "There's something wrong. It will not go." And I said... I looked at her like that. And just as I looked at the girl, she was, oh, probably five foot two or three inches tall, and she... I seen that girl go right back across the stage. That's the way it went, went right across the stage. And I seen the little girl, fourteen years old standing there. She had long plaits hanging down her back, with little checkered ribbons. I said, "You, when you was about fourteen years old, you wore long plaits, didn't you." She said, "Yes, sir."
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And I seen that girl take the road that's wrong, and here it started. And I just started telling just what I seen. I said, "When you was fourteen years old, you took a road that's wrong. And you had a baby by a man before you were married to him." Now, remember friends, if you've got open sin, you confess it before you come up here if--if you don't want the public to know about it, because it certainly tells everything right out. So the girl said... started crying. Said, "That's right." I said, "You married a man that you didn't love." She said, "That's right." I said, "You left him." "That's right." I said, "Then you got with some religious cult, and they had you to marry another man." "That's right." I said, "You didn't love him and you left him." "That's right." I said, "You're married to another man."
"That's it." And that time I said," You was a Christian once, and you've gone back and backslidden on God." "That's right." And she staggered like she was going to faint to fall to the floor. And when she did, she screamed, and God forgave her; her hearing come back, and she received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, standing on the platform like that, standing there just at--just all at once.
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And I turned around. And as I did, I seen that crippled girl setting in that chair just as plain as I'm looking at this gentleman setting here, rise up out of the chair, only she was dressed different than what she was setting there, and she went walking down the-through the aisle it looked like, just a waving her hands like that, and saying, "Thank God. Thank God." And I watched her till it faded out. I turned back around. I said, "Sister dear..." Oh, it... Friends, you don't... You'll never know how it feels to know... When you know where you're standing, there's no... There's nothing... All demons out of torment can't stop it then. No, sir. I've seen when doctors would stand at the bed and say, "He can't come in. That fanaticism. Well, we can't let in here." I said, "Will you just step aside and watch the patient a few minutes?" My, when they're... Watch them perfectly normal just in a few moments. It's never failed. God is my judge.
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And looked at the little girl; I said, "Sister, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has heard your prayers and healed you. Stand on your feet." And that girl hadn't walked since she was eight years old. And up she got out of that wheelchair, and there she stood. Brother Richey, you was standing there. There she went through the building, glorifying God. They moved the wheelchair back. The glory of God swept over the building everywhere, and people begin to rise and throw their crutches and canes, and walking. What is it? That doesn't heal the people, to tell you what's wrong with you. But here's what it does, friends. It brings the realization of the supernatural God working in our midst. Just exactly.
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And what I believe... Now, I'm... I--I know it's God. But what I think, friends, it's a repeat of the apostolic days. Because if... Do not try to class it now, as many people, as fanaticism, hypnotism, spiritualism, or whatever. They want to bring it out. But did not the Saint Paul stand preaching one time, and said, "I perceive you have faith to be healed; stand on your feet, that Jesus Christ..." But of course, Satan is going to tack some kind of a name on it. Now, we
know that. But I believe that the coming of Jesus Christ is drawing nigh. I--I believe it with... You--you... If you want to call that fanaticism, just go ahead and mark me a fanatic then. Because I believe in the literal, physical coming of Jesus the second time, and I believe it's drawing nigh and now. I believe we have just a short time to work.
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And I believe that this universal revival that's sweeping the lands today is a indication of the Message like it was in the days of Noah, while men and women are rioting in sin. And Noah had a fanatic Gospel that he preached. But he called people to an ark of safety. And I believe that the glorious Gospel of the Son of God, manifested by the Holy Ghost, is sweeping the country today, and bringing people into the Ark which is Christ Jesus, safely secured from all the judgments that's going to come. And when the judgment strikes the earth, and the atomic powers rock the nations, we'll ride above the waves into glory. I believe it. And I believe that there's been a little Church that's been called fanatics for a long time.
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Now, I do realize there is fanatics. Certainly there is. There's plenty of them. But a little Church that's tried to struggle, not be any certain denomination or any certain name, but I mean peoples who love God, and has held out for the supernatural, and for God being living in our midst today as He promised He would by the Holy Spirit... And they've been called holy roller, fanatics, and Divine healers, and they've been pushed back in the alleys and been called everything. But every great picture, before it can be hung in a hall of fame, it has to go through the hall of critics. And I believe the little Church has went through the hall of critics. And now soon, there'll come a scream from the heavens, and God is going to hang It in the hall of fame, to take It out by the rapture, to take It up into glory. And we're seeing signs and wonders, like we are today, to stimulate the faith, to believe that when He comes, that we'll be raptured and caught up together to meet Him in the air with those who've went on before.
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Now, and I believe that many of them has fell away, and backslid, and got away... I use that word, "Backslid." That's kinda hard for a Baptist, isn't it. But I--I believe you can backslide all right. That--that's true. So I--I know that you can. And I believe It's calling those who was once way-faring men, and has got away from God. I believe It's calling them back, calling the Church together just before the great and terrible day of the Lord
comes, when God shall send Jesus the second time to the earth to gather the ransomed, that's been redeemed by His death at Calvary, to take them home to glory.
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And now, friends, now for tonight. I won't take much time longer. I think we want to pray for some sick people tonight, and to get the--the people to where we can have our--ourselves settled. But for a night or so, to more or less be--get acquainted with each other while I'm in prayer. And will you promise me now... Just to be called out like this once right into the meeting, it's kind of a little shock to me. Would you pray with me that God will grant it? Now, I cannot do a thing about it until He comes to me. You see? I'm just as helpless as any creature in the world until He comes. He may come in tonight right while we're in the prayer. I trust that He will. It never did so quickly. Usually I fast and pray two or three days, then I begin to feel it off from me, and then It comes near me. After while It's on me, and then that... I... It just changes everything then. In the services, I--I don't talk, I just come in, and they start the prayer line, then I pray for the sick. And so, you pray with me.
Now, the... While we're praying tonight, and the people here, some of them probably are emergency cases, maybe very sick that cannot come back maybe for tomorrow night, or some other night... But if you'll bind yourselves together, and start a prayer meeting at home... Now, all you Methodists, Baptist, Lutheran, whatever you are, let's all put ourselves together. And now we represent no denomination; we represent Jesus Christ (See?), not any denomination. Frankly, right now, I do not belong to any denomination of church at all. I--I don't belong to anything. I was ordained in the Baptist church. And by their desire, I--I'm not a Baptist no more. I...
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Someone said not long ago... I was at Little Rock, Arkansas. And a man had been badly crippled, almost lifetime. He's walking on crutches. And he got a prayer card, and was called, and got into the number on the platform and was healed. And when he went out, he met me in a few days on the street. And he walked up-and-down the streets with his crutches in his hands, screaming, and going on. And he said, "Brother Branham." He said, "You know," said, "when..." He was a Nazarene, and he said, "You know, when--when you first started preaching," said, "I thought sure you was a Nazarene." He said, "And then I seen so many Pentecostal people along," said, "somebody told me you went Pentecost." And said, "Now," said, "I heard you say that--that you was a Baptist. So, I--I don't understand this."
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I said, "That's easy." I said, "I'm a Pentecostal, Nazarene, Baptist." So that's the way we are. We just represent the Lord Jesus Christ in His mercy. That's right. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one Body and become one people." And that...
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Jesus is not going to ask me if I was Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, or Pentecost; He's going to judge me to what I was in my heart. That's right. And that's what He will judge us all by. So now, don't think it's just one church. We represent all the churches. And many of the people that come into the line are Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, they, all kinds, every kind of... And I've never seen one yet that come, but what was healed when they come upon the basis of faith. That's right. For by faith are ye healed, not how good you are. I've seen people come that were renowned Christians, and stand there and be told the reason that they couldn't be healed. And see streetwalkers, prostitutes, people of ill-fame come off the streets and be healed, of cripples, and blindness, and everything, sinners. Now, you don't have to be a Christian to be healed. But you have to be a Christian to stay healed. For the Bible said, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing than this will come upon you." Is that right?
What is sin? What is sin? Not drinking, not smoking, not gambling, not rejecting church. Sin is unbelief. Is that right? He that believeth not is condemned already. See? You're not... You do not... You're not destroyed or separated from God because you're a sinner. You're separated to God--from God because you refuse to walk with Him, to walk in His provided way. You've got death and life before you. Just like Adam and Eve, every man's a free moral agent. And the Tree of Life and tree of death is before us all. You can take either one you wish to. It depends on what tree you eat off of is what you are. That's right. And God is... God created you a free moral agent to do whatever you want to do about it. He can't make you love Him, and He don't force you to love Him.
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If I forced my wife to love me, I'd be afraid to marry her. But she come upon--accepted me for what I was and married me. That's right. And she loved me and she accepted me that way. And that's the way we got to come to God. He wants us to love Him, and come, and believe His Word. And God's Word teaches Divine healing. How many believes that? Let's see your hands. That's fine. That's fine. The Word teaches it; that settles it. How many believes in gifts and callings? Let's see your... That's fine. Now, gifts and callings does not heal you. Gifts and callings
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Now, the person at the platform, if they do not have faith, they'll be told immediately they do not have faith. And then, maybe here now here it illustrates: Here's Mr. Jones comes up, and he walks up here. He says, "Good evening, brother." "You have faith, Brother Jones?" "Yes, I have faith," and here he is down here. Here's a... I will use it, my own expressions, vibration running up here. And Brother Jones is down here. All right. He says, "I got faith." He'd--he'll never be healed down here. He would in a--in amount of time, 'cause just the least little speck of faith, if you'll hold on to it, it'll bring you out.
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But I mean for a spontaneous healing like you expect on the platform, when you make a statement that everything's healed on the platform. There's critics, hundreds setting watching, the newspapers and everything else to criticize that. So... Now, I'm not responsible after they get off of here and get away from the gift. I'm not responsible. But any power that'll open blinded eyes on the platform till they can read a Bible, they can read it all the time if they keep believing. It's faith. When you lose faith... You get out with a bunch of unbelievers, and they say, "There's nothing in it," and Satan begins to lie to you, then you'll fall right back down in the category where you was the first place. It's... You're...
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Somebody says, "How does Divine healing... Is it... Does it last all the time?" It lasts just as long as faith lasts. And salvation lasts the same way, just as long as faith lasts. When you feel that you're not saved any more, you're not saved. For it's by faith are you saved through grace. Is that right? When you come to the altar, what do you do? You confess your sins and ask God to forgive you. And then, in your heart... Now get it! In your heart, you have to believe that He has forgiven you. Is that right? You have to believe that. Then you walk away from the platform. And then you have to confess it first, that you are saved. You can't just keep it under a bushel; you'll lose it right now. You've got to confess it and tell everyone that you're glad. Now, what if you walk outside and somebody says, "There's nothing to it; you just got excited at the altar."
How many Christians is in here? Let's see your hands. All right. Oh, my. A hundred percent I believe. All right.
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Each one of you, God saved in the same way, by faith. You could come here, and cry, and pray, and pray, and cry all this week, and next week, and a month, and you'd still be a sinner until you accept Him by faith. Is that right? It's not your crying that saves you. It's your faith that saves you. All right. Then when you accept it, you believe it and somebody say, "Let's see if you look any different. Why, you still got brown eyes, you--you're just the same as you was." You can't show nothing that you are saved, only you're testifying of the unseen. Your faith says you're saved. Then you...?... what you do. You believe you're saved; then you say you're saved; then you act like you're saved; then you associate with those that are saved; and it works righteousness. Isn't that right? And after while everybody knows that you're saved. Isn't that right?
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Well, He was wounded for our transgressions, and by His stripes we're healed. Jesus, Hebrews 3:1, is a High Priest of our confession. Now, any of you scholars know that word "profession" is translated the same as pro--as "confession." He's the High Priest. Now, here it is, get it now, and you won't even have to come here to be healed! You'll be healed right where you're setting. I believe it's possible right now, for people in this building to be healed right, here right now. I've seen it. I've seen the time when there wasn't a wheelchair left in the building, and not a crutch, or a blind, or a deaf person of where thousands were setting.
One night while speaking, and they seen a miracle performed by God, just they accept it right there, and there wasn't a cot, wheelchair, nor nothing but what was emptied, and they walked out: Vandalia, Illinois (That's right.), in a big tent meeting. Now, here's what it is, friends. It's... See, if you get It, you're a Christian because you believe that you're a Christian. And it's all settled because He's a High Priest. Now, notice. He's the High Priest of your confession. You get what I mean? What you confess you are, that's what you are. Any man will never live any farther, or any higher, than what he believes he's a living. You take a man that's talking about drinking all the time. He talks about drinking; he thinks about drinking; he drops right down into that category, becomes a drunkard. A man that's always thinking about vulgar things; he looks at vulgar things; he thinks of vulgar things; he reads vulgarity...
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Good evening, audience. A privilege to be here tonight, to begin our first night in the prayer line, to pray for the needy, those who are suffering and afflicted. I trust to God that it'll prove to be a great blessing through this week. There's many of you that's in need. I'm here to try to do all that I can for you in the way of praying for you. There's no one that can heal you except God. He's the only One that can help you. And all that we can do is pray. And through the ministry that He has given me, He has blessed it. I've tried to be humble and tried to minister, just the best of my knowledge to the people.
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And I'm very happy tonight to start the prayer line here in--in Minneapolis. And I desire all of you to pray for me while I'm praying for others, and have faith and believe that what I tell you is the truth. Most all of you, oh, I guess, in here, and the manager has been explained the way, they... it came to me and was ministered by an Angel, Who one night walked into the room. When I was a little boy, it started. It would talk to me down through life. One time when I was about seven years old, it came out of a bush. A whirlwind was whirling in the bush, and it said for me never to drink, or to smoke, or defile my body; there was something for me to do. Now, my people were formerly Catholic and there was not very much that--that they knew about it, and they just kept those things down. And about four days after that, it appeared to me and a strange feeling came upon me, as it always does, and I seen the municipal bridge, at Jeffersonville, cross, come up out of the wilderness on the hill where I was standing, and crossed the river. I seen sixteen men fall off of it. They put that down and twenty-two years from that day, the municipal bridge spanned the river at the same place and sixteen men lost their life on it. And just things like that. It's nothing I can do in myself. It's just what He shows me, is all I can speak. Only thing that any true man of God could ever say, but what God would put in his mouth to say. Outside of that, it would totally be a failure. And when It met me, many times, and told many things which I probably get a chance after while, to tell you in one of the meetings.
But the last time it appeared just before going out... I always worked. I become the pastor of the little Baptist church at Jeffersonville, which still stands today. I never would take up an offering. I never took an offering, in my life. And I didn't believe... And I was able to work, and why couldn't I work. And I was the
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Indiana state game warden. And one day I just come from patrol, and I walked into the... my place, and I was praying that night about one o'clock, between one and three. And I noticed in my room, a Light begin to spread across the floor. And I wondered where It come from. I looked up, and that same Light that appears in the meeting, It... I've perhaps they've already showed you the picture of It. Now they've took It with cameras, and so forth, while It was in the meeting. [Brother Branham coughs--Ed.] Pardon me.
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It was spreading out across the floor, and come walking to my right... It always comes from my right side. That's the reason I start the prayer line from that side. And It always comes from the right. Frankly, It's here right now. And then when a... Just when I was saying that, I--I knew it come near. Then--then It come to me, I seen a Man come, walking. He was barefooted. He had on a white garment like a robe, and He had dark hair, to His shoulders. He had dark eyes. He was smooth faced, and kind of a dark complected. He walked up to me, had His arms folded in this manner. He looked down at me. And I was biting my fingers, and I was real nervous. And He said, "Do not fear." And just as He said, "Do not fear," I knew it was the same voice that had always spoke to me, but that was the first time I'd ever seen Him. I knew that had been what had talked to me since I was a little boy. And He said, "I'm sent from the Presence of God, to tell you that you're to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the nations." I said, "Sir, people won't believe me. I'm uneducated. I can't go." He said, "I will be with you." And I said, "They won't believe me." He said, "There'll be two signs given to you, to have the people to believe you, as it was to the prophet, Moses." Said, "First, you'll be able to detect diseases by contacting the--the person by their hand." Said, "If you be reverent and sincere, it'll come to pass that you'll tell them the things that they've done in their heart, and the secret sins that they had, the diseases, and everything." Said, "By this they will know then that your work is true," what has been said.
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But for about a year, that went on that way; and then about two years, it was. And then the other part of the gift was manifested, some ten, twelve, about ten months ago, I guess. And I said to Him; I said, "Well, I will go." And He said, "I will be with you." And He disappeared out of the room. And I started out. Those things have been happening. And, 'course, many times, newspapers say, "Divine healer." That isn't so, friends. I
can't help because papers and people say that. No one can help what anyone says about you, unless you're guilty. But I've never been guilty of calling myself a Divine healer. I only pray for the sick. And Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the Healer. He's the One that heals. Now, I only pray, and these signs and wonders are done. It's not me that does them. It's your Saviour that does it. And what I want every man and woman, boy and girl, to believe during this meeting, that these signs and wonders are not done by man. They are done by Jesus Christ to vindicates His Presence here with you people. And He's here to help every one of you. As people have lost their faith, kind of, in God; and he comes down to do these things to--to manifest Hisself to the people.
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I wish you'd be reverent while I'm praying. It's not a excitable matter. It's reverent, and we must approach God with a true sincere heart, and just as reverent as you can be. And obey--when I ask you to bow your head, I want you to do it, now that is while I'm praying. I respect that anywhere. And then when I... when... if the Lord performs some miracle, you'll be able to see it, for I will ask you then to raise your head. And if you'll obey and--and do as I ask you to do, I will assure you that God will bless you. And then I don't... I'm a stranger to you people, and you don't know me. I don't know you. I don't know one person in here, as I know of, except my manager, those that's here, that I know here on the platform is with me. I know no one. But I cannot be responsible for other men's testimony. I can only be responsible for what I know is truth. Then when the services is finished, this next week, Sunday week, if the Lord permits us to stay... If these things that I have said come to pass, then you believe God. If they do not come to pass, then I--I am a false prophet then. And now, that's fair to any congregation, isn't it? And you just let God... You judge according... Don't be prejudice or try to... just be reverent, and just come sit down and look at it in the way that you should as Christian men and woman, and then you can pass your opinion. And I will pray that God will bless us and give us of His Presence.
I think that no service is complete without reading the Scripture. And then if this is tonight, I want to read just a--a portion of God's Word. My word will fail, it will pass away as all mortal's words do, but God's Word will never pass away. It--It's true. And I want you to turn with me to Exodus in the 23rd--23rd chapter, and begin with the 20th verse, to read some of God's Word. I'm so glad to see you turning in your Bible, for that is God's Word. And then if we read out of the Word, God will bless His Word. It will not return
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void, but It'll accomplish that which It was purposed for. Now, I shall read as you read with me. Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou will indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then will I be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For, mine Angel shall go before thee...
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Shall we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. Our heavenly Father, we're grateful to Thee tonight to have the privilege of living, being among those who are left here on the earth. Oh, we want every moment to count for Thee, for Thy Son. And now, help us tonight, Lord, as we gather here as Christian believers, coming not in the way of curiosity, but just merely humbly approaching the Throne of God to find mercy for the needy. And, Father, as You speak tonight, I pray that many unbelievers, and sinners, backsliders, will look and behold Your glory, then come humbly and sweetly up to the altar, say, "Now it's finished in my heart, for I accept Him now as my Saviour. I know He still lives and reigns in His Church and among His people." For we ask it in the Name of Thy Holy Son, Jesus. Amen.
This Word that we have just read, was God sending Moses. Moses was born an odd, peculiar birth. It was just time for the prophetic wheel of God, to cause then it to move up and to have something to come to pass that He'd promised Abraham to take His people out, and He did. God always moves just in time. You believe that? Now, we're at the day; we're in the last days. Just how close to the end, I do not know: no one knows, not even the Angels or the Son of God; the Father, only, knows. But we're in the last days, and He promised that these signs and wonders would be done in the last day. So if God raised up a man by the name of Moses, bor--had him born into this world for that specific purpose, to deliver the people that were in bondage, that couldn't help themselves... And He brought them out, through His... Not Moses, Moses never performed one miracle. It was the Angel of God that went before Moses. It was a Pillar of Fire at night and a cloud by day. And when you see the picture that we're going to show you, shortly, if we haven't. I believe you'll feel that it's the same Pillar of Fire that's leading the people today, the Angel of God. Which we know the Angel that led Moses was the Angel of the covenant, which was Christ, the Son of God. And now... Or, the Logos that came out of God, was the Son of God. Then when...
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God delivered the children of Israel when they were in bondage and couldn't help themself. Today, God's people are not in bondage, spiritually, for they're--they're delivered by the power of the Holy Spirit. No man has to stay in bondage of sin any longer, because the Holy Spirit brings him from the bondage of sin. But the people, His children, are sick and needy and some of them are cancer-ridden, and tubercular, heart trouble, that our beloved doctors of this earth can find no remedy for. And it's multiplying, getting greater and greater all the time. Sickness is heaping greater and greater. And some of the things that--that the doctors know not how to control and the people have cried, sincerely for years and years, for God to restore to the Church again, His gifts, signs and wonders. I just guess there's hundreds in here, tonight, that's prayed that prayer. Well, when the children of God begin to cry down in Egypt, God sent them down a deliverer and vindicated this deliverer by signs and wonders. Don't you think God could do that tonight, just the same? Isn't He the same Father tonight? And if you're sick and can't get well, the doctor can't help you, then don't you think your Father is here for you? And can't He send His gifts? Now, He--He did then, and I believe He's just the same today. He always makes a way provided.
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Now, many people has said, because that I testify of this gift... Now remember, I am not the gift. The one that you'll see in performance here tonight, which is here visibly--invisibly now, He's the gift. He's the One that God sent down. I just speak when He speaks through me. I can say nothing unless He says it to me first. But He promised me that I would be able to do this, to--for the faith of the people, to get them to believe that He sent me to pray for the sick; not to heal the sick, to pray for the sick. "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick." Now, He's the Gift. Someone said, not long ago, to me, said, "Brother Branham, Angels was ministering spirits in the Old Testament, but since the Holy Spirit has come, we don't have ministering Angels any more." Now, dear friends, this is not a worship of Angels, understand; we do not believe in worshipping Angels. There's only One to be worshipped; that's God, and His Son, our Holy Spirit. No Angel, no, not no man or no Angel to be worshipped. And now, the Angel of God... A true Angel of God would not stand still to be worshipped. But that you might know that Angels still minister to the church, after the Holy Spirit has come, how about...
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Well, think of Mary, when the a... Gabriel came down and spoke to her about the virgin birth of the Saviour, or Zechariah in the temple. Or, well, after the Holy Ghost come. How many believes that Philip had the Holy Ghost? We all believe that, don't we? Well, when
he was down at Samaria, preaching, having a revival, was it the Holy Ghost that came to him, or did the Angel of the Lord touch him and say, "Go to the desert Gaza."? The Angel of the Lord came to him. Is that true? It was the Angel of the Lord that came to him. Well, everyone would believe that the great Saint Peter, the apostle, had the Holy Spirit. He had the keys to the Kingdom. And he had the Holy Spirit, didn't he? But when he was in jail one night at--and in prison; and down at John Mark's house they were having a prayer meeting. It was the Angel of the Lord Who came in and touched him, and led... Not the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Lord came in.
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We know that Paul had the Holy Spirit. Do you believe that? Well, when he was fourteen days and nights upon the sea, without any moon or stars, and it was all dark. And he went down in the gallery to pray. He came back and told the men, "Be of a good courage; for the Angel of God, Whose servant I am, came to me last night and said, 'Fear not, Paul.'" Is that right? Not the Holy Spirit; the Angel of God (See?), an Angel of God, sent from God. And then John the revelator. The whole Book of Revelation, when It was wrote, he said, "I have sent My angel," Jesus did. And John fell down to worship the angel, but the Angel said, "Stand up. Worship God." See, a true--true angel of God won't stand to be worshipped. And he said that he was of the prophets, and was his fellow men that had been sent to signify these things. Therefore, angelic beings is ordained ministers of God, to come to the earth to bear record of God. And they work through mortal beings, just as they did through Daniel and back through the ages there. And I believe it with all my heart.
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And so therefore, friends, as a--as your brother, that's all I am. But God's gift is the Spirit of God that came down in the form of an Angel. Now, he didn't have wings. He looked like a man. I heard him when he walked [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.], just as that, and walked on the floor. Walked right over, just as normal as any man, and talks just like any man. He comes, time after time, through the room and different places when I'm fasting and praying. Now, tomorrow night about this time, or a little before, I will probably break my fast. And now, I'm praying. And now, I have nothing... When I... If it gets away from me, I go out. I like fishing, hunting, talking, like anyone else. But when He comes, I... It's different then. And now, He's here tonight to minister to you people, and I'm only His mouthpiece. And everyone be assure of that, and worship God and give Him praise, and be humble. Now, being the first night in the service, it may be just a little bit before we can get the Presence of Him but--to come close, to go to ministering to the people.
And I want all you dear people, setting out in the audience there, I want you to believe me with all your heart. Now remember, that's the only way I can help you. How many believes God? Let's see your hands. How many believes the Son of God? Believes the Holy Spirit? That's fine. That's good. But now, friends, you can believe that, which you have to, to be a Christian. You have to believe in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost in order to be a Christian. But believing that still won't help you in this gift. You've got to believe that I've told you the truth, not believe me as Them, but believe that They have sent me for this purpose. Now, you could be a renowned Christian, and fail to believe what I've told you to be the truth, and you'd never be able to reap a bit of benefit from it. Now, I'm sorry to have to say that, but it's the truth.
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When Jesus was on earth, the people that killed him, believed in God the Father, and were great worshippers of God. Is that right? But He could not help them, because they did not believe in Him. Is that right? And He said with His Own mouth, "As you have believed in God, believe also in Me." Is that right? Now, if you have believed in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, I want you to believe that He sent me here to pray for you, and He will testify whether He has or not. And if He testifies, then you believe it. And that's what makes the meeting in the category that it's in. For the people believe, if they believe with one heart and accord, you'll see the glory of God be manifested among His people. I have testified to you the truth. Now, it's time for our Father to talk and to speak. And let us talk to Him again just before we form the prayer line, if you will.
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Now, Dear heavenly Father, Your Word lays here on the pulpit, and I know that It is the Divine Word of Truth, every Word is the Truth. I believe It, and I realize that every prophet that went forth in the days of old, had a time to try to bring the people to a recognition of Jehovah. The apostles who've paved the way with blood, gone on before us. They was disbelieved in cities, and cast out. And Your own beloved Son, when He was here on earth, and He went to the city, and many places they did not believe Him. "And many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief." Now, we know that He's here with us tonight. He's sent His Spirit to vindicate that His Presence is with His Church. And help us tonight, Father, and Your poor, humble, unworthy servant who's standing here making these statements. I ask that You'll let the Angel of God, Who has guided me down through life, has kept me, fed me, brought
me this far. I pray that He will be here, and there will not be one disease or one thing that can be able to pass by His Presence without being perfectly delivered. May many of them in the audience, Lord, just now set down and say, "I'm going to study... Lord, I'm going to think of You, and Your Spirit being here. I want to know Your nature, that I might know how to love You and serve You." Bless all, Father, who is here tonight. May all the sick and afflicted be healed, and all the unsaved be saved. For we ask it in the Name of Thy holy Son, Jesus. Amen. My brother, I'm looking for him. What? How many cards you give out? Where'd you start from? A-1. Our custom of giving cards, we-we tried everything in the world, nearly.
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We used to send the cards to the ministers. We give the card, let the ministers give the cards out. The first minister got his group; that's about all that ever got prayed for, was his group. Then the other ministers felt hard about that. Then we come to the meeting; I'd give them to some of my managers. They were ministers, and their minister friends would say, "Won't you give me a card for so-and-so?" That made it bad. We had to stop that. Then, the only way that we've ever found successfully to do, I brought my brother, let him pass out the cards. He's not a minister, knows no one, so he just passes out the cards. When he gets pretty well known, I will get someone else to pass them out. Then to get someone to pass them out, so you... There's no respect of persons: If anybody comes, can have a card.
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We could give you a thousand cards, but we can't minister that many in a night, so we just give out about fifty. And then they got so, that when the fifty was give out, who was going to be first? So the way that we did then, they come and shuffle up the cards together, putting them all together, pass them out, and then you choose a number after we get to the platform to begin with. Somebody might have 1 and we might start at 15. We might start at 50 and come back. So just where usually we have some little boys, or something, let... or someone to count a number, and, or... someone to start from or usually they just tell me and I just take a number. Maybe sometimes I count how many is in this row, and how many is in this row, and divide them and get a number to start from, or do something like that. Or count how many people is on a cot and then divide that by how many is on wheelchairs or something like that, and start some numbers: something another, so it'll be fair to everyone. That I know, myself, that it's fair to everyone. That gives everyone a chance to be... Now, that's the prayer card, doesn't heal you. If you dear people,
setting here, will just look this a way and believe with all your heart, the Holy Spirit will turn right around and call you and tell you what's the matter with you, and heal you right where you're at. Now, that is the truth, friend. You'll notice it. And God bless you.
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Now, did you say A-1, we start at, A-1? They got 1 to 50. Well, being's this is our first night, let's just begin with the--with 1, tonight, and start. Those holding prayer cards from A-1 to... Don't have too many stand at once. Let's start, A-1 to A- about 8 or 10, or A-1 to A15. Take A-1 to A-15, and let them line here while the rest of us will sing "Only Believe." And I'm going to pray just for a few moments. And you be praying with me, will you, audience, if you will. May God bless you.
[Brother Branham steps aside to privately pray.--Ed.] [A brother says, "Those with prayer cards from A-1 to A-15 stand in line, according to your number, at my right, and your left of the platform. Everyone else remain seated, please."--Ed.] [A brother leads the congregation in singing "Only Believe" several times.--Ed.] [A brother exhorts the people to believe. Congregation sings "Only Believe" a few more times.--Ed.] [A brother leads the service while Brother Branham prays--Ed.]
Again, slowly with the organ, if you will. That's fine...?... Could we just pray once more, friends. I... Just if you'll bow your heads.
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Father, will You just draw near just now, so that we'll feel Your great Presence...?... all over the audience. And I have made a great statement that makes in the meeting. And I know, without You I'd be a total failure. I can't do this in myself, Lord. And I must have You. Will You just send Him now? He will be able to help these poor people. Look upon them tonight, Lord. Have mercy upon them. Give them great faith to believe, know Your Divine will and...?... Help us now. May every demon power be subject to Thy Spirit tonight. Give us faith, predominating faith to challenge this enemy in this duel. Now, I know not what's the matter with these people, Lord, but Thou dost know. You just help me to know, Lord, then it'll build their faith to love You, to know more about You. As I go forward now to--to challenge the enemy, will You go with me, Lord, and help me? In the Name of Thy Son Jesus, I ask it. Amen. Everyone be just as reverent as you can. Pray, everyone. All right now, Howard, I want you to bring them to me just one at a time. Yes, bring them to me. I want you to notice the expression on the face of people, just a few moments when the anointing gets just a little more, when they start coming. Usually they start crying or something change the expression when they get near here. Now, His Presence is here now at the platform right now. That's right.
How do you do, sir? Are you from here in the city? [The brother says, "No, I'm from Zion."--Ed.] You're from Zion, a great city. You're a stranger to me. I don't know you. Just maybe I've never seen you. You're from Zion. I've probably seen you, but didn't know you. Now, you're suffering with some cause somewhere. And I will be able to tell you, maybe, if I can hold your hand here...?... Yes, my brother, you're a sick man. You have many troubles wrong with you. One of them is a heart trouble, that's been bothering you for some time. You have a stomach trouble also. Isn't that right? You've consulted a doctor about this too, and they don't give you much hope. But that...?... You believe with all your heart? Look, I want you to look at me when I'm talking to you. Your whole trouble has been, is your make-up. You're more of a--kind of a deep thinker. You're nervous to begin with, an inward nervous, a type of nervousness that...?... causes you trouble. Really, your heart trouble is a nervous heart, is what it is. I believe you were told that. And your stomach is caused... it's a peptic ulcer in your stomach that causes you this trouble, stress. And sometimes, when laying down, your heart hurts you worse than your peptic ulcer did. Now usually, in that case, it causes fluttering itself, makes the heart flutter and jump.
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But now do you believe with all your heart? You may be healed. Is that the truth what I've told you? Then there's some way that I have of knowing that, isn't it, sir? Do you believe It's the Spirit of God that's doing that? You have a strange feeling, knowing that you are standing near. There's a supernatural Being. Now, believe. Feeling kind of like a awe, it's because of His Presence...?... God's presence. Now, you've come to Jesus Christ. Your faith is has met them here. You bow your head. The audience bow their heads too. Our heavenly Father, You're here in... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... to come to You for the very mercy. And now here he is at the platform. Help me, dear God, to have faith for him. Thou demon that's bound this man, and caused this trouble, I adjure thee by the Son of God, leave the man, come out of him. Now, just a moment. Everyone just remain with your head bowed. It's still hitting my hand. See that color there, sir, that turns my hand?...?...
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Now, look this a way, sir. You're the sick man. You're a Christian. But you've been prayed for before, been in a prayer line somewhere before, been prayed for. And it's a--it's kind of... you're just kind of taking a guess at it like, you know. Now, you have to have a real genuine faith. See? I don't--I don't want you to...?... I can't tell you that. Now, I wouldn't tell you that 'less I knew what I was speaking of. I want to be able to pronounce you well. And I can only do it, when God brings it down and heals you.
Now, you just, right now, settle the question now, for all time? You're going to believe it right now? You believe that I have told you the truth as God gives it? You... Father, be merciful to my brother. He wants to eat again, feel good, and wants to be able to walk and not have those feelings. And, Lord, You're the only One Who can help him. So I pray, God, if it's my faith, that we--forgive me. And if it's his faith, Lord, bring him up now to the place to believe. Seemingly, that his faith isn't--that's holding back, that he believes and help me to have faith then over this enemy that's bound the man. Thou demon, in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, come out of the man.
All right, you may raise your head, friend. The man is healed...?... You felt that, of course, when it left. Oh, my! Go home, and eat what you want to.
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OBEY.THE.VOICE.OF.THE.ANGEL_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN THURSDAY_ 50-0713 E-25 [A brother says, "Now, you understand, Brother Branham discerned this disease, affliction, entirely by the Spirit of God. He never seen the card. Now, on the card, are the words, 'Heart and stomach trouble.'"--Ed.]
Our brother, he felt that. He just... It--it left him. Now, the man can go right out now and eat anything he wants to, without any misery. He--He will be testifying of it. He's well. He will be well.
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All right, sir, come forward. Everyone be real reverent, just reverent as you can be. Just since that one man was healed, just feels like a throb coming in now, as people begin to believe. I can tell it from the outside there, just--just a moving. Good evening, sir. Now, I want you to look right at me. And this is not reading your mind...?... It just that... Now, you're a human, and you have a spirit. And this anointing is by another Spirit that contacts you. And I would like to have your hand just a moment, please. Now there's a... There's not too much wrong. Now, just a moment. It's some way, without a germ disease. I will have to see. Now, you just look to me, and you just answer me as I talk to you. See, I got to see it by vision, sir, to see their... The--the trouble that's wrong with you, isn't a germ. You have a little symptoms of--of a prostate trouble, which causes you to be nervous, but not enough to cause you to get a prayer card or something. Now, you just look right this a way. Just be sincere. Believe with all your heart. And now, how long have you been a Christian? About five years. You love the Lord, do you? Serve Him with all your heart? He's wonderful, isn't He? You're just a little nervous. I'm trying to get quietened so that you... Just don't be nervous. Just look right this way and believe now. 'Course, you have a very strange feeling
because of standing in that Presence. Yes, sir, I see what's wrong with you. You have epilepsy. Isn't that right? See, I see you having those spells there. Something's here to say that, isn't it? You believe the Son of God? Believe, if I'd ask Him, that it'd leave you and wouldn't come back no more? Shall we bow our heads. Someone take the little boy there, ever who owns the little boy. Sometimes this goes from one to another. And I don't... Someone with the little boy, keep him close to the mother somewhere. Get him there. Come close, sir.
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Our heavenly Father, our brother stands here, afflicted. I just ask You with all my heart, to be merciful, knowing there's nothing can help him except You. And the great, strong, fine-looking man like this to be afflicted with such a power that doctors can do nothing with. But, Lord, one morning a man brought a boy to You. They took him to Your disciples and they could do nothing for him. He was having epileptic fits. And when the demon saw You, the boy fell on the ground and frothed at the mouth. But You said, 'Take him up. It'd be all right.'" And that's probably the last spell he ever had, for You cast it out of him. The father said, "Can You help my boy?" You said, "I can if you believe, for all things are possible to them that believe."
O dear God, if You were standing on this platform tonight, physically in body, You'd stretch forth Your hands; this man would look upon You, and he would know You were here. He would believe You. But now You're here in another form, working in Your church. You said, "A little while the world seeth me no more, yet I will be with you, even in you, to the end of the age." Now, it's the representative of Your Blood. I come in a challenge of faith. So help me, dear God, to drive from the man the evil power. Thou demon, called epilepsy, hold your peace. But in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, Who died at Calvary and gave His Blood freely, I charge thee, through Him, come out of the man, and leave him. It went from you. Some cool feeling sweep over you. All right, you may raise your head. The brother standing here, he said a cool feeling swept over him just then. Everything left him. It's gone from him. Now, go in peace...?...
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[A brother says, "On the brothers card is the word 'Epilepsy.'" --Ed.]
All right, bring your next patient.

Now, everybody be just as reverent as you can, and God will bless and will heal you. How many loves Him, say amen. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He's wonderful. All right, everybody...?... Let's see your hand just a minute. Oh, it's the...?... I could feel that hitting of that...?... what's happened. In your... You believe now with all your heart? If I will ask Him, and He will... If you believe that I will ask Him, you'll be able to hear? Will you serve Him all your life, give Him praise? You believe that He sent me to do this? You have other troubles too, don't you? You have other troubles, physical troubles. Seem to get weak, your back, between your shoulders. All right, have faith in God, as I ask Him to heal you? Shall we bow our heads, everyone.
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Our heavenly Father, this dear woman has come up here. A deaf spirit has got on her, and she is deaf, only hearing by the aid of this trumpet. But Thou art her aid, Lord, You Who created her, can make her well. I pray Thee to be merciful to her. Grant her healing now, also of this trouble in her back, this rheumatic pains. Dear heavenly Father, heal her also there. See her eyes are getting weak also, and nerves. Grant that she'll be a--a different person, she'll go out to serve You all the days of her life, giving a testimony, causing others to be brought to this glorious Gospel of Christ. May her testimony be used in a great way for the glory of God. What days she's got left, may they be spent glorifying You. And we're taught that all things work together for good to them that love You. Maybe this come upon her to give her a testimony. You could heal her and let her go out and testify, to win others to You. Help her just now. Thou demon of deafness, spirit of infirmity that's binding her body, I adjure thee by the Son of God, Jesus Christ, you turn her loose. Come out of her.
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Now, everyone just remain with your head bowed just a moment. It did not let loose. Now, please do not raise your head till you hear my voice. Sometimes many people, sometimes you think you believe, you know, you just raise your head, throw it right back on her. See? Now, don't do that. And then you really...?... Now, you be real nice children of God. Believe with all your heart. Father, be merciful now and heal our sister so that she may be Thy disciple and testimony of Divine healing. Thou spirit of deafness, leave the woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of her. Now, just remain here with your head bowed. It's left her. Just a moment now, for the...?...
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You hear me? Can you hear me? Amen. Say "amen." Amen.
[The sister says, "Amen."--Ed.] It's--it's... That's right. Hear me now? [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] All right, you may raise your head. It's left you. All right. [Brother Branham snaps his finger once.--Ed.] Hear that? [Brother Branham snaps his finger again.] Hear me? [Brother Branham snaps his fingers and claps several times.] Hear me? Now, you haven't got
your ear trumpet in now. Now, the shrinkage of that, about a hour, maybe two hours, you'll be hearing right real well. And about day after tomorrow, you'll go all the way deaf again. Then about two days after that, you'll begin to get a running out of your ear. Then, come back, you'll be hearing normal and well then. There's a growth on the eardrum (You see?) is what was doing it. God bless you, sister. And your other troubles are gone too. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Let's just have faith and believe with all of our hearts, and God will grant it. All right, bring the next man, if you will.
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Now, there's things that happened... You see? Now, she had a growth on her eardrum. How many knows that when you, when anything dies, immediately after it dies, it shrinks. How many knows that? How many deer hunters is in here? Let's see your hands. All right. You kill the deer tonight, and tell the boys how much it weighs. Be careful in the morning; it'll weigh a lot different. Isn't that right? Let a little animal get run over on the street here, it'll shrink. An undertaker knows that. They take the false teeth out of the patient, because, after it shrinks, that they would push out. But then after it swells... After it shrinks for awhile, then it'll start swelling. And then it starts... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... like a body of a little dog. That's the reason I told her she'll go all the way deaf now, in about... After about seventy-two hours, it'll start shrunk, she'll be hearing good. She can hear now. Couldn't hear a thing, at first. She can hear now, normal, practically normally. 'Cause as--as soon as the life went out, it went down. Now, if--if she gets among believers, and then if... After the corruption sets into it, I told her it would be running from the ears. Listen at her testimony in about four or five nights from now. Look what's happened. Just have faith now, and believe. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] OBEY.THE.VOICE.OF.THE.ANGEL_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN THURSDAY_ 50-0713
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You been trying to get a hold here to... You been asking God to speak to me. Isn't that right? Now, look this a way. I seen a vision move above you awhile ago. You're from--you're from away from here. Isn't that right? You're a stranger here in the city, and you've come from a place where there's a more of a level country. Lots of wind blows, something like Texas, Kansas, the Dakotas, or
somewhere through there. It's a level country where you're at. And you're suffering. Let me see. Look. Watch this. Oh, your trouble is in your mouth. You have cancer in the mouth, I believe. Isn't that right? That is right. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, makes you whole, sir. Go, and the Lord God...?... Let us give Him praise. Oh, He is here. Don't you believe Him? How many believes Him right now while He's here? Let us stand and give Him praise. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Holy Spirit, move upon them and bless them, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I pray.
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If I can do my part in the Master's service tonight, trying to help His people along the way... I'm sure that everybody's here for that purpose, to try to pray and to help someone to get close to God, or to be healed if they're sick, afflicted, and weary. And we're very happy when we heard that so--so many of them last evening was healed. Right at the end of the service, it seemed to be rather a great clasp of faith. I trust it'll be that way tonight, if anything greater, and more will be healed. There's many that gets healed, that maybe we can't call them right out from the platform here, but a few days you'll be noticing that slight stomach trouble, it's gone; heart trouble, it is no more. It just go as far as our faith is what heals them. They have faith believing God.
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And now tonight, just to put as much time... Just a little late. Just as much time as I can on--on praying for the sick. The ministers through the daytime here, they speak and teach concerning faith, and how to receive faith. As myself, I'm not a preacher. I'm just... I was sent to pray for the sick. I spend my time in prayer all through the day. I must do it in order to meet the obligation of the night. And sickly takes the life from you, fasting and praying. Someone said not long ago, says to me, said, "Brother Branham, when do you ever rest?" I don't get any. But I will have rest someday if I live true and faithful. When I cross the river on the other side, I hope that God will have a place there that I can rest.
A person who lives their life for theirself, lives a selfish life. We must live for others: "Bear ye one another's burdens and so fill full the law of Christ." And we got to have a feeling for one another. And therefore, when you do all you know how to do, then when you do lay down at night, well, you have the consolation knowing that you--you tried your best. I can't make everyone believe. That's impossible. Jesus couldn't do that when He was on earth. And I know there'll just be a few that believes. But if anything I can add to help the Gospel, that's my duty of being here, is to try to help somebody along the way.
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Tonight, just speak to you for a few moments, just in order to kinda get this settling down of the spirit. I'm sure you all appreciate the feeling here amongst people. It's some, I guess they said the tent seated four thousand. There's a good thirty-five hundred people laying in the tent tonight. Then, there's thirty-five hundred souls, thirty-five hundred spirits. And as you're looking this way, and it's... And the condition that I'm in at this time, it... I... It feels. You can tell it. It's a great pull. Many people have faith. Sometimes I try to catch those who are back in the audience, way back from me. But there comes such a... I guess I would call it, "cross fire." This side believing, that side believing; this one pulling, that one pulling, you can't hardly discern.
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And I've asked my manager if they'll get all the sick and afflicted like this, right up around me here, so that I won't have any interference. Many of you might wonder why the people leave the platform at night. That's coming both ways then (You see?); it's hard. You can't detect where it's coming from. And you must single that person out. You can watch it just a few moments, or get close in contact with it; it usually brings forth a vision that tells the people what's wrong with them. I don't know what's wrong with anyone. I only have to...
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Many times when the people come, I just don't try to use my own mind. It just always speaks out and tells what's wrong. If I usually, in setting looking, I see something that's... Somebody before me, maybe keep standing before me, that person; I go looking around and see where it's at. And I--I find. Then when I find the person, I--I know where it's at. I'm looking right now for someone that was... I seen this afternoon. But I don't know where they're at. I haven't found them yet. I'll see them in the audience, where about after while. Never fails on that, for I--it'll be here somewhere. It's a lady packing a little baby with heart
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It shows just where it's at, and what they look like, and all about it. And I come in sometime and look for that person. And when--when I see the person, then I know them. Sometimes in the meeting, while it's going on, I see someone raise up, and it's... I see the vision standing before me. I look to see where the person is, then I watch the way they act, and then just tell just exactly what I see doing. Then when the person's standing before me... It's just like as if this gentleman setting here with his... with the brown...?... with his coat on--or jacket on. If I would tell him... If he'd come to the platform, and I never seen him before in my life, and would tell him just like I was talking to him. And I seen him setting somewhere, and I see a lady setting near him with a yellow dress on, and so forth. I just talk just the way I'm seeing it, just about like that. And then when someone with a disbelief, or a haughty spirit, that interferes with that. Now, you might not want to believe that, Christian friends. But that's the truth. And it--it's not something new; it's the Gospel through the age. Jesus, when He went in to raise Jairus' daughter, He put them all out of the house. Many times that way. He took a man one time by the hand and led him outside the city, away from the crowds, took them to one side and talked with him. He talked with a woman at the--the Samaritan woman at the well. Sent the disciples away. He knew she was coming, and begin to speak to her. And then went right direct. After He come in contact, after talking to her...
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If you notice many times at night, I'll draw the attention of somebody and start talking to them, especially on the platform. They'll be speaking to them. First, I have to get the contact of their soul. And then when it begins to vibrate against you, then the power of the Holy Spirit just discerns right out down through their life, and you see the picture of it before you. And now, you might think, "Well, that's psychology." Well, if it is, Paul used it when he looked upon a man, said, "I perceive you have faith to be healed. Stand upon your feet." And it is psychology in one way; it's the mind of Christ in the Christian, moving. See, it's not our mind, not our psychology, but the power of Christ, His mind. Let the mind of Christ be in you. See? And then that moves out and knows, not the man, but Christ knows.
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Now, I want to read just a few words. I want to get started
praying by before nine o'clock, if possible. And as I say, all... No meeting is complete without first reading the Word. And now all that I don't get to in the daytime and the nighttime praying for... I've got a brother here; he watches me. And when he... I can't tell it myself, but when he sees the first weakness come, he will come take me from the platform. But don't hold it against my brother. You see? He's only trying to protect me. And so I just can stand so much. And then it's my whole strength leaves me. I hate to say that, but what's truth is truth. And it's--it's just the life goes right away from you, 'cause you... It's anointing of a different person, something besides man, and He's the One that does the work, not me.
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Have they showed the picture of Him yet? I want... Have you, Brother Lindsay? Well, I beg your pardon. Brother Lindsay, hasn't the picture. Brother Lindsay's going to try to bring it to show it, maybe tomorrow night. How many'd like to see it?...?... He will tell you the story of it. It was in a debate. Now, to say today, I do not debate. I don't argue with no one. It's... If God doesn't settle my points, then they're untrue. But if God says they're right, all right. I don't believe in arguing, debating, fussing about things. Let everybody have their own opinion. God will judge us all.
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And a minister in Houston, Texas, challenged me on the Scripturalness of Divine healing being in the Bible, taught for this day. I would not... I have nothing to say into it at all. And there... They... Of course, they keep me away in the room, 'cause I must be by myself and pray through the day. If I don't, I don't see visions. I don't see what's going to happen. And then, that day, I'd been in prayer. And the reporters, newspaper reporters... I do not talk to reporters; my managers talk to the reporters, newspaper reporters, and magazines, and so forth. And so... Not as I have anything against them, it's just that I must spend my time with Him if I must meet His people.
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And I know, if I was coming to you to pray for me, I'd want you be sincere and at your best to pray for me if I was sick. And do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. And so a Mister Bosworth, Doctor Bosworth... Now, practically everybody here knows him. How many knows Brother Bosworth? Yes. Well, he's a dear old Christian man; I'll tell you. He was one of the managers of the meeting. Just as sweet, and Gospel right and as he could be... And I just love him with all my heart. And he was the manager in the meeting at--at Houston at that time. And we were at the--the big coliseum there, where they was going to
have the... hold their Texas Centennial, and so forth. And we just had a few nights to be in there.
And this Baptist minister, Doctor Best of the Baptist Tabernacle at Texas, he made the challenge and put it in the paper, and said if I didn't come and debate it with him, that I was afraid to take up for what I believed. And he knew then that I didn't believe it if... Well, that was just Satan trying to work on me. So I--I wasn't going to argue with him. And he kept on. He put it in the paper the next day, said, "Well, that shows that they're... They can't back up what they talk about, these Pentecost people and holy-rollers, and so forth." Said, "They can't back up what they're talking about." And Mister Bosworth, he's about seventy-three, but that was just too much for him. He couldn't stand that. He said, "Brother Branham, let me go over there." Mister Best is a young man, about thirty. And I said, "Brother Bosworth, you may go if you don't argue." Said, "I'll not argue." So they called the debate. And the papers all carried headlines and everything. And that's what I think about what Holiness people, or the Full Gospel people. Then you may different a little in your churches on... Different ones believes this, and on baptisms, and different things you might different on. But when it comes really to the showdown, they're one in heart. They'll... Someday, this old petition's going to be taken away, and then we'll be one, right. May God grant the day quickly. And all of them that's borned again in the Kingdom of God, they're brothers and sisters. They may argue out with a little family, like boys and brothers, and spat with one another. But we're all God's children when we're borned again.
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And there they come flying hundreds and hundreds of miles by plane, trains and everything, come special when they see it in the paper that I was in a debate. And that--that night, at... Mister Best hired a--a photographer to come over, a member of the-the American Photographers' Association. And they came over to... Said, "I want you to take six pictures of me while I'm just beating that old man to pieces with the Gospel." So the photographer came over to take it. And I knew he'd have an awful time on that, because Mister Bosworth is quiet as he could be. He come to the platform. And Mister Best was a roaring and a going on. Said, "Just ask a question. Was that the attitude of the Baptist church, the Baptist Conference, or was that the attitude of Mister
Best alone?" I was rocked in a Baptist cradle myself. I know the Baptist believe in Divine healing. So I knew that wasn't the attitude of the church, but I--I knew that it must have been his personal. So he had to admit that it was his personal attitude.
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So there was many many thousands of people gathered that night, just packed the big place in. And then the... I got up in the third balcony. I wasn't going, but I thought then I would go. And I stood up in the third balcony. And Mister Bosworth said, "I will just ask Mister Best one question. Was the redemptive Names of Jehovah applied to Christ? If you'll answer that, that's all..." He was Jehovah-rapha: He was Jehovah-manasseh. And if He wasn't, then we look for another Saviour. So that settled it.
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So there wasn't nothing. Everybody begin to razz the man and clap his--their hands, and he got up there, and tried to preach a little bit on something. And he...?... that he--he couldn't even do it. He just so tied up and mixed up. And poor old Brother Bosworth really done a wonderful job that night, just as cool as he could be, just standing there looking at him. And then they was to have a little puddle at the last, and this Mister Best kept saying, "Let me see this miracle worker." Mister Bosworth said, "Brother Branham doesn't claim to be no miracle worker." Said, "I'd like to see him come forth and perform." He said, "He doesn't clown for people," and just like that. Said, "He spends his time praying." And he said, "Well, I'd like to see him." Just kept on like that.
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Mister Bosworth said, "Well, he's in the building. If he wants to come to the platform, all right." And setting there, up there with my brother, and with the four guards that taken me in, with the wife and baby. Just then, I felt Something just come down over me. I raised up and started down...?... When I walked to the platform, I said, "I have preached to many millions of people, direct or indirect. Literature has traveled over the world. I've preached before thousands by radio and by person. Never one time did I call myself a Divine healer." I said, "I'm not a Divine healer. Preaching Divine healing doesn't make you a Divine healer no more than preaching salvation makes you a Divine Saviour. If you preach salvation, that makes you a Divine Saviour, if preaching Divine healing makes you a Divine healer." I said, "No, I--I do not claim that." I said, "I only make my statements. And if I make
my statements, and if they're true, then God will say they're true, and God will back them up. And if I tell false... something false, then God will not honor anything false. He will always honor the truth." I said, "I tell the truth, and God knows the truth." And about that time, why, the glory of the Holy Spirit came down.
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And it happened to be, the photographer standing there shot a picture. And he almost had a heart attack when he found out. It's come in the meetings many times like a big whirl of fire, moving. Here not long ago I was baptizing, several thousand people standing watching, in the month of August, down at the foot of Spring Street in Jeffersonville. And here It come down out of the skies, visible before around ten thousand people. Moved down where I was standing, the Voice screaming from It. Hundreds fainted on the banks; the papers carried great articles, "Mystic star appears over minister while baptizing." One night while speaking in a building, I was--had about three thousand people setting out like this, about two thousand up. And I started to praying for the--a little boy, the first one, which was a crippled case. His little feet was drawed up like this with polio. I was holding the little fellow in my arms, and was praying. And while I was praying, the Light got real bright in my face. And I said to myself, "The custodian must've turned the light on." Up... They have... run a show there, this place. And I thought, "Well, that's legitimate. It's strange that a man would do that. That's not even being a gentleman, let alone a Christian would turn a Light in someone's face while praying." I just kept on praying. Got brighter and brighter. And everyone very reverent, with their heads down. I raised my head. Come floating down through the room, came the Morning Star, coming right up to where I was. I was holding the little baby. It settled right down to where I was.
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I don't know whether I dropped it or what happened. But when it hit the floor, it's little feet that was crooked like this, come down straight. The mother setting on the front, she raised her head and begin screaming, and fainted, and fell over in the floor. The little boy started running off the platform hollering to his mother. And there was a Nazarene girl playing the baby grand piano, setting right down. Nazarene people are a little emotion. Is any Nazarenes in here, let's see your hands. Surely there's some Nazarenes somewhere. That's fine. Well, they got enough religion to shout once in a while, you know. So they were setting... This girl was a very attractive young blondheaded girl, setting playing the piano. And when she looked and seen that, she just threw up her hands and turned real white, and begin
screaming to the top of her voice, for she was an intimate friends of the people. And run away from playing the piano. She was playing that hymn, "The Great Physician Now Is Near." You've heard it. And right there, as soon as she run away, before around five thousand people, them ivory keys kept moving.
The great physician now is near, The sympathizing Jesus, He speaks to drooping hearts to cheer, No other name but Jesus.
Played not with a word or two, but the whole thing through like that. Hundreds begin pouring to the altar, screaming, with their handkerchiefs, crying, "God have mercy on me, a sinner."
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And so It's come many times. And so... And that night when they taken the picture of It... Lot of times they said it was psychology. But the man who taken it was an Orthodox Jew, name is Ted Kipperman. Mister Ayers was a Roman Catholic. Been standing there making fun. Put a piece in the paper the day before that, just before, and said I was a hypnotizer, and made all kinds of remarks, insulting about it. He almost had a heart attack. And he try--tried to get into the Rice Hotel. And of course, they wouldn't let him in where I was at. The next morning, they flew the picture away to Washington, DC for a copyright. Before it could be released, it had to go before the FBI examinations. And when they did, they went and got the best, George J. Lacy, the best there is in the United States. He kept it for two or three days, and to see if there was any touch-up, or anything was wrong, that picture would...
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When he brought it out, he said, "Well, it was perfectly right, that the Light was there that struck it," and gave a great write-up, each one that had to go with each picture like that. And there it is, visible. And they asked me if I wanted to sell it. I said, "No, sir. If Jesus Christ, the Son of God, thought enough of me to stand by my side to have His picture taken, I think enough of Him not to sell it." See? And so I said... I never... And so I turned it over to the studios, and let them do what they wished with them. And they said they'd have to get something out of it. I had them to say that they would sell it so that every poor person could--could get a hold of it if they wanted it. And I...
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The first time Mr. Lacy said it was the first time in all human history that a--a supernatural Being was ever photographed. They said it just a... that it's been said, a lot of times that those lights
around the saints, and the unbelievers say that's some artist painted that picture. But said, "It surely must have been there, for that optical lens--mechanical lens of a camera won't take psychology. It was... It was there." And I'm very thankful tonight, to know that that same Pillar of Fire and--and Cloud, and whatever It is... They'll show you the picture pretty soon. And maybe, if... They may get some here for the service. And if they do, you'd be more than welcome to them. And I'm so thankful to know that I have a part, to be numbered with you people, the great Church of God that's standing today for the full Gospel, and for righteousness, and for the power of the Holy Spirit in this last days. I'm thankful for you, and thankful that God has give me the opportunity to be numbered with you, to be called your brother and sister. And it's... You and I are brother and sister.
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Now, along the journey, there's been so many things happened till I... It's been remarkable. Many things is beyond what I would know to say here in the building, great miracles and things. And each night, I'll try to read a little Scripture, and tell you something from now on till the services is out. And now, it's time for me to go to praying for the sick. I have some forty-five minutes now to have the service. And now, all that I do not get to tonight with prayer cards... I guess there's around a hundred in here now with prayer cards. And if I don't get to too many tonight, then tomorrow night, why, or tomorrow afternoon, Brother Lindsay and Brother Hall will be praying for the rest of them that hasn't--that's got the cards left. We'll begin tomorrow afternoon. Come out to the afternoon service and hear these men. If you give instructions to know how to receive Christ... Here, only releases it right here. The gift of God will drive it from you. See? But in order to obtain and remain with it, you must have faith to believe and just keep it.
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I've seen people come to the platform that was totally blind, couldn't even see their hands before them. And in less than five minutes, take this same Bible and read a chapter out of it. And so three or four days more, come right back just as blind as they was in the first place. They get out amongst unbelievers, and get out, and let Satan stand right... If you can read it here before the gift, you can read it out there anywhere, for God covers the whole earth. Just keep faith in Him. You say, "Well, that's strange." No, it isn't, Gospel preacher. I felt that resented just a little bit. So I... Remember, spiritual things are spiritually discerned. A man can be here tonight and receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and be a real Christian right here tonight, and tomorrow be a real
Christian, and a week from now, be in a barroom drunk. Isn't that right? It's when he loses faith in God and goes back. Same thing is by healing.
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Only thing you can ever get from God is by faith. And the reason that I say that they'll be delivered here, or either told what's wrong with them, and told the reasons why that they can't be, is because I believe what He told me is the truth. And for these years, He's stood by. And I know He will now. It's because I believe it. Just believe it, just with all my heart, and soul, and body, and mind. And you believe that. And then if your number is called tonight in the prayer line, and if God reveals your heart and speaks to you, and gives you deliverance here; don't you never have no kind of a testimony, only that He healed you. 'Cause if you do, if you one time testify to the o--to the other side, the negative side, it'll come back to you worse than it ever was. Just remember, if you can't accept it on those basis, don't come at all. See? Don't come at all. 'Cause it would be embarrassing here before the audience anyhow to be told that. And so don't come at all. Because the Bible said, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing will come upon you." See? Go and sin...
Now, sin is unbelief. Is that right? The first sin was committed by Eve, because she disbelieved God's Word. Is that right? There's where the whole thing lays tonight--disbelieving God's Word. You believe God's Word as It's written here, you don't need nothing else. But to stimulate people's faith, God sends gifts down. That magnifies His Word, that speaks of His Word. And if any gift, or any Angel, or anything doesn't speak directly by the Word of God, it is not the right kind of Angel. That's right. It is not the right Angel. But if it speaks and testifies of Jesus Christ, and speaks according to the Scripture, then it is of God. That's what I John 4 said.
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Now, I wish to read just some of the Word in Saint Mark the 5th chapter, or Saint Luke, rather, the 5th chapter. Then we'll have prayer, and then start on the prayer line. And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God... (Oh, wouldn't you loved to have been there?), he stood by the lake... And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little into... from the land. And sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch
out into the deep, and let down for the draught. And Simon answered and said unto him, Master, we've toiled all... night, and... taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I'll let down the net. May God add His blessings to this Scripture.
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I just... Just a comment, just a moment. He'd been healing and preaching. I would love to have seen Him, wouldn't you. When He walked, the lovely Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief, was no beauty we should desire Him, probably small in statue, delicate looking Man... A beautiful man, the Bible times, was one big wide shoulders and strong built. But there was no beauty that we should desire Him, a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. But He didn't look like much, but, oh, what was in Him. And He went down to the lakeside to preach. And when He did, all the peoples come down to hear Him. I can imagine seeing Peter setting on a stump after pulling their nets all night, discouraged, and set down there, and said, "Let's see what that Fellow's got to say." But when He begin to speak, there was something different. He spoke different from any other man.
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I can just see him moving up, just a little closer all the time. And the crowds got great. I can hear Him get into the boat, thrust out a little from the bank. And He borrowed a ship from Simon. After He got through speaking, He said to Simon, "Now, you launch out into the deep and let down for the draught." Jesus never borrows nothing from you, but what He will pay you back a hundredfold. Is that right? Whatever He... Let Him have your faith tonight. The little boy come by one time with some fishes in his hand. There's five thousand people standing there, or more. Now, the little boy had five fishes. It wasn't very much in his hands. But oh, my, when it was put into the Master's hands, what it could do. It fed five thousand in the Master's hands. And what little you have tonight, just give it into the hands of the Master. Then launch out into the deep and let down.
Peter said, "Lord, we've toiled all night, and have taken nothing." That's discouraging. They were fishermen. They just wasn't guessing. They knowed where the sea, and how the moon should be, and where the fish was. They was la--ra--raised on that sea, Galilean. And they'd toiled all night through that same water, and hadn't taken a thing. But he said, "Lord, at Thy Word, I'll let down the nets." There's the secret. You've been maybe seined through every doctor's office there is in the country. You might've been through prayer lines. You might've had your pastor praying. You might have consecrated
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Christians to pray. You might've tried everything that you know how to do. But tonight say, "At Thy Word, Lord, I'm going to let down the net right now. I'm going to stop trying anything; I'm just going to believe You right now, and take at Your Words. I'm going to let down the nets." And it won't be long when you're pulling till you feel the tug, and the net will be full of fishes: joy, salvation, healing, blessings from God.
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There's the lady I'm looking for, setting right here, got on a checkered dress. Has your baby got heart trouble, lady, you that's weeping there? If it is, raise up your hand, if that isn't right, raise up your hand. Certainly. Yes ma'am. All right. Don't fear no more, your baby will be all right now. That's... Looky there. I just happened to turn. I felt something pulling to me. Wasn't you praying just then, sister, for some... Aren't you the father of the child setting there by her? Yes, sir. Now, you're from a distance away from here, aren't you, didn't you come somewhere away from here? And you have to return back, do you? And then you take your baby now and don't worry. That was it that screamed out just then. So the little baby will be all right now. Have no fear, for God has answered your prayer; Jesus has. God bless you.
Oh, isn't He wonderful? I know the lady had on kind of a checkered dress. And I kept looking at this lady setting here, and I couldn't see no baby. But the lady was supposed to have a little baby in her arms with its little--like that, a little--little bald-headed like baby. And I was looking for it to see if someone... I looked for babies. And the baby cried back there while ago, and a mother picked it up and started out. I looked close, and it wasn't that baby. But I knowed it was here somewhere. All right. God will... Just pray, He will speak to me, and He will tell me what to tell you.
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Let us pray now. O Father, You're so sweet and full of love and compassion. And I know that You're here, and You love us all. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but would have Everlasting Life. Oh, how true that Thou art the Rock that was in the wilderness. Moses smote the Rock, and It gave forth Its waters to a dying, perishing people. And as the Rock was in the wilderness, so is It with us today, already smitten, waters of salvation gushing out to a perishing, dying sin-loving people. "Come unto Me all ye that labor, heavy laden. Come to Me all ye ends of the world, and drink, be satisfied."
We thank Thee for Thy love, that You loved us while we were aliens, alienated from God, cut off without mercy, sinners by nature, going to a Christless grave and a Godless eternity. And Christ died for our sins in our stead, and has went before God now with our sins as a sin Offering, to be made an offering for us, taking our place, and His soul was put in hell. But it was not possible that His holy One should see corruption, so He raised Him again after three days. Oh, and He's a High Priest tonight, setting there making intercessions; with His own Blood He's entered before the Master. And tonight, it does not appear what we shall be, but we know we'll have a body like His, for we shall see Him as He is. We believe that's soon, Lord. Come, Lord Jesus. Move tonight in sweet love and compassion upon Your people. Heal every one that's sick and needy; break up the hearts of the haughty. "He that goeth forth, sowing in tears, will doubtless return again rejoicing, bringing with him precious sheaves." Mold us and make us after Thy own will. Bless all the unsaved, and may they, somehow tonight, by the Word, or by the Spirit of God, be convinced that they're wrong, and come humbly, and give their hearts to Thee. May all the sick be healed, for we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Son, Jesus. Amen.
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What's the prayer card number? All right, sir. From 100 to... from... From 50... From 1 to 100 in A. Start about... How many'd we run last night? Fifteen? 1 To 15? That was one place. Let's take from 85 back to 100 maybe.
AT.THY.WORD_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN FRIDAY_ 50-0714 E-36 [Brother Lindsay announces the prayer cards to be called and then explains the picture, the text of which follows: While the prayer line is forming, I want to show you this picture that we happened to get a hold of just now, one that Brother Branham was talking about, which shows the supernatural Light over his head. As soon as that picture was taken, I made arrangements to have the negative taken to the Examiner of Questioned Documents, Mr. George Lacy, of Houston, Texas. And I asked him; I said, "You have all means of science at your command, can you tell me if there's any fake about that particular negative? Can you tell if there's a superimposure? Can you tell if there's been a double exposure? Can you tell if the film has been "doctored with," in any way?" He says, "Absolutely, I can." So he took it--cost us a considerable sum because he was a scientist engaged in that work-- and examined it many hours in his laboratory. And then, with his own name signed underneath it, he declared that the negative was absolutely, absolutely, positively genuine. May I just add this word: The picture was taken by a hostile photographer, one that had spoken against the meeting. Fact he... The statement even got in the newspaper, and he was as surprised as anyone. They were Jews, Orthodox Jews, and so, I regard this merely as a verification and confirmation. And Brother Branham regards it--not that he is supernatural in any way--but a verification of his ministry and message of bringing Divine healing to the people of the world. Friends, I believe the Bible is true. And so tonight, as Brother
Branham ministers, may we all be in the Spirit of God, and realize that the supernatural is here tonight to deliver people, not only heal them, but to heal their souls, bring men and women to Jesus Christ. Now, let us sing that chorus, "Only Believe." Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe; Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe. You may be seated.--Ed.] AT.THY.WORD_ MINNEAPOLIS.MN FRIDAY_ 50-0714
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That's right. It's the background on that, sister. If you'll do that, I'll appreciate it. Now, everyone be reverent. And I... May I say this now, as I make this statement: I am not responsible around these meetings. I'm... I trust the people on the outside will hear this also. I'm not a fanatic, friends. If I die tonight, what I have said is testified the truth. That picture seals the thing, for one. God is vindicating that I told it... See, it isn't me, it's Him. Did you see it... Could all of you see it here? We'll have it back on the book table if you will, Brother Lindsay, so they can look at it. And we'll see about getting you some copies of it. A lady in the hospital recently had one setting on her desk. She was looking at it, not at me, but the Angel of the Lord, in this form of a halo like. And she said, the picture begin to mill, the... come right out and hung over her. She got up and went home, well. So it was a... It was... It's not... It--It's Him. Now, I'm only stating facts and truth.
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Now, I will not be responsible for skeptics and unbelievers who are at the meeting, or those who will not keep their head bowed when they're asked. How many knows I said that? Let's see your hands. So if anything is said, I can have you as a witness. For it's a dangerous thing to trifle with God. God is here to move, to heal the people, to make them well, to save those that are lost and in need. And we want you to do that. I don't believe there's any here to be skeptical. Let's be real reverent and prayerful. Some of them says, "Well, Divine healing, I don't believe in it." Well, if I didn't believe in it, I wouldn't stand in somebody's way that did believe in it.
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I wished I had faith like some of the patriarchs. We may not all be able to be translated like Elijah. We may not be able to stop the sun like Joshua. We may not be able to take a afternoon stroll like Enoch did, and just walk home with God without even... without even tasting death. We may not be able to do that, but let's not... Let's not stand in somebody else's way that can. All right. Everyone be reverent. I guess you wonder why I take that watch off. Have you noticed that?
Vibrations stop that watch dead still. I've got one in the shop now, a Longines someone give me. Don't know what force it has to it, but it stops the watch there.
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Now, everyone be in prayer, and bring your patient if you will. Now, you down here without prayer cards, just keep looking this way and believing with all your hearts now. All right. Howdy do, sister. Is this a double microphone? If you want one of them, I'll... Or maybe it's better... Now, it's...?... Now, the prayer cards is merely to keep the line lined up. That's all, so everyone won't rush in, and give just a fair chance to everyone. See? We can keep them lined. But now, it isn't necessary to have the card, if you just believe. Let's just pray once more, if you will. I...
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Father, I--I ask Thee to be near now, as we realize that Your guidance will have to be what will take care for the night. Now, we realize that we're an eternity bound people; we're bowing our heads to the dust from whence we were taken, and someday shall return if Jesus doesn't come soon. And we realize that somewhere, thousands of years from this night, our souls will be in eternity somewhere. And we're here with the deepest of sincerity to try to bring the Gospel in the way that we know It, the Gospel, the power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit unto the people. Although misunderstood many times, but Father, I pray that You will grant tonight that many may believe. And help Your humble servant to be able to discern the diseases and the causes of the people.
Thank You for the healing of that darling little baby that we knew... Thou knowest all things, and what You've said. It wouldn't live but a little while longer, but now it has life. We're so thankful that You answered a prayer of that dear mother and made it manifest. Years to come, she'll remember the blessings. Now, help me, Father, as I challenge the enemy, realizing that I'm allergic to those things, as we all are. But I pray that the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will enclose around every one of us, and may he not be able to enter anywhere, but be cast out into outer darkness waiting for utter destructions in the last day. Help me, Father, for I go forward now to challenge, as a representative of Jesus Christ. In His Name I ask it. Amen.
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Good evening. You come forward just... May I have your hand
just a moment. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Yes, ma'am. Now, look this way. You're trying hard to believe, aren't you? You're wanting to believe. Do you love Him with all your heart? Now, what it is now, trying to get your faith into the spot. I know what's wrong with you now. But I want to get you to a place where you can really be able to be healed, be well. That's what you desire. You realize that the only hope you have is in Christ, isn't it? 'Cause as long as you've fooled with this, and doctor with this, there's no hope less you do find Christ and find mercy with Him.
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Now you--what do you think He would do if He was standing here with my suit on? He'd tell you what was wrong with you, lay His hands over on you, perhaps, and say, "Mother, dear, does it hurt?" But He's went up on high, ascended on high and give gifts back to man. You believe that? Now, what you're thinking... Now, I'm not reading your mind. But what you're thinking is, what am I going to tell you. Why, your trouble is stomach trouble that's bothering you. Isn't that right? I see you refusing foods and things, and sometimes you get so hungry you want to eat. Certain things you can have, and certain... Burns. A nerve condition has been told, and also causes an ulcerated condition. And you have a gallbladder seepage with that. You have another trouble that's bothered you; you been getting weak lately too, (haven't you?), in the afternoons, getting real weak. I see you lying down.
You was praying just before coming to this meeting that something would happen here, kneeling by the side. Yes ma'am. I seen you where you were standing, looking towards the windows in the evening. Isn't that right? I'm--I'm just seeing it as I tell you, it's shut off. Isn't that true, mother? Now, when I said that last word, something swept over you, didn't it, went over you. Had a strange feeling to strike you. That's when your faith healed you. You haven't got stomach trouble now. Jesus Christ has healed you. Now, looky here.
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With one prayer in this audience, I'm going to ask God to remove every affliction and every sickness in the audience. I believe He will do it, don't you? All right. I want you to throw your canes down, get up out of the wheelchairs, whatever it is, and walk. O Father, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus Christ, move in this audience now. I rebuke every demon power that's holding Your people. May they turn loose now, and give Jesus Christ the glorious praise for the
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Thank you, Brother Lindsay. Good evening, audience. Sorry of the difficult of the speaking. Can you hear me? All right, that's fine. God will surely take care of it for us. We try to do what is right. Tomorrow af--afternoon at 2 o'clock Brother Lindsay told me it, to be in for services tomorrow afternoon at two. That will not interfere with any one's service then. Every one will... your church service... be able to be out and have a service. So remember that. And then some... Again tomorrow night is regular preaching service, or regular healing service, rather. Tomorrow afternoon's preaching service. And try to come out if you possibly can. We sure be glad to have you.
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How many here's Christians, let's see your hands. Oh, isn't that wonderful. About ninety-nine percent of the people are Christians. I'm glad of that, to know that the biggest part of the audience is already saved and found Jesus dear to their heart.
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Now, I want to read just a little bit of the Word first. My word will fail, but God's Word will never fail. Over in the book of Matthew, the 9th chapter, beginning with the 27th verse, you who mark them... And if the Lord willing, tomorrow afternoon I wanted to speak on the subject... I never know, but if He's willing, "Come And See A Man Who Told Me All Things." All right. In the 27th verse of the 9th chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew, we read this: And when Jesus had departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus said unto them, Believe ye that I'm able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See that no man knoweth it. But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. And they went out, and behold, they brought unto him a dumb man possessed with a devil.
And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake... (You notice what it was that had the dumb man bound? A devil. I'm quite sure that, modern science wouldn't agree with that, but as Christians we believe what the Bible says.)... And the dumb... (Let's see just a moment.) And... (Pardon me, the 33rd verse again;) And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitude marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. But the Pharisees said, He cast out devils through the prince of the devils. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease... every sickness and every disease among the people. Hebrews says that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He never changes; He's God.
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And now, one of the most wonderful things of God and the Christian, the connection of the fellowship between God and Christians, is that they that are sons of God are led by the Spirit of God. (Can you hear me all right now in the back? Is it all right? If you can, raise your hands, if you can hear back there all right. That's fine. And I'm trying to stand just as close as possible to this microphone. It may, give a roar, I do not know.) But the greatest thing I've found in Christian life is letting the Holy Spirit lead you and guide you. And His work is marvelous. How many in here's ever been led by the Spirit, let's see your hands. Oh, my, that's wonderful. Led by the Spirit of God... There's no one would lead you to the altar but the Spirit of God. There's no one would bring you here tonight 'less it was the Spirit of God. Is that right? He moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
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Since I was a
little boy... Sunday a week, if we get to stay that long, I wish to tell my life story, Sunday a week, the afternoon service, to let you know just what tears and blood has been along the road. Someone might think it's all roses, but that isn't so, friend. Now, many times, the only--the only time that I can ever be able to say anything to people about their diseases and so forth, is when being definitely led by the Spirit. I have to let Him do it. If I would say something within myself, it would certainly be a mistake. Many times it confuses me when there's so many. The best way when I have the patient to myself, individually talking to them, to contact
them personally... But when it's... Sometimes when it's in a mixed audience like this, it's kind of hard to--to feel just what it is, and to know what it is. But you have to be very sensitive to spirits.
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Now, we realize, and everyone knows there is spirits. Then if there's spirits, there's bound to be a Master of that spirit, because It changes the nature of sinners into Christians. And there's bound to be a Master or Head there somewhere, and that's God. And He sent His Son on earth, made in likeness of sinful flesh, and He died that we might be redeemed and brought back to God to be sons and daughters of God, to walk with Him again. That missing link from the garden of Eden, what Adam lost, Christ restored again.
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Many times... Wished we had time to bank up there for a little while to speak, but just have about eight minutes, or ten. I would just like to give you a few experiences just to open my heart to you, talk to you. There's many times, Christian friends... I guess it won't be much longer we'll probably be able to have a few more healing services. Now, I'm afraid that services are going to be closed, services like this. We got trouble ahead and you know it. So we want to put in everything that we can. And probably when we leave here, I may never see many of you again the rest of my life. We may never meet no more. So let's be sincere with each other and sincere with God, and He will deal with us while we have this golden opportunity. I'd like to set down, talk with each of you a day. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't spend my time in prayer seeking for God. But I will make an appointment with you. After we cross the river, I--I will spend all the time you want to. We'll just sit down and--by the evergreen tree, by the Sea of Life, and there talk with each other a thousand years. Won't it be wonderful? At that time, like to shake your hand, say, "You remember down in Minneapolis, those times when we tried to be together? Just look how it is now." You want to know when I get home, why, I'm going to try to sing "Amazing Grace" when I cross the stream. I can't sing, but I've always wanted to sing that song. I believe God will let me do it, when I get over there. You happen to go over before I do and you hear somebody come out on the porch some morning, hear somebody singing "Amazing Grace," you say, "Brother Branham got home." That's me. I love the old song, for it's amazing grace that saved me, brought me thus far.
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Many times things happen along in the leading of the Spirit that I don't even mention, don't say nothing about it. Visions are constantly seen. And I tried to explain to you how that's done. It's
these individuals... these... th--the way they're moving, what they've done in their life. And it just comes just as real as I'm looking at you. I don't believe any of you could doubt that after seeing it work in the meeting; which has never got to it's place yet, for the meeting has been--had lots of trouble speaking in a tent. We're new to each other, and it's new here. But I'm very thankful that you're receiving it wonderfully. I can always feel each night... look like there's more of the momentum of faith arising all the time. I believe that before the meeting closes, if God permits, there's going to be a great sweep like you've never seen before. See how close that is to being right now.
Notice, sometimes He shows me things and I never speak it. Now, right now, since I've been standing here, I seen four or five things that's already gone on since I've been speaking here at this microphone. But I do not speak it till I see that something has happened. My manager and them, many times... Now, I know this seems a little strange, and kind of hard maybe, for ministers and so forth, to just grasp it right now, unless they're very spiritual minded. But I can only be honest, and...
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Here not long ago, when we met in England (just for a couple experiences), I was in my room one day and I went in told my manager; I said... I was setting in the room and I seen a vision of Satan coming to us... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Told them just about how long it would be, somewhere within about twenty-four hours, and there it happened.
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One morning, I remember getting up, going down into the city about five o'clock. He woke me up; He said, "Get on your clothes." And I went down into the city, I walked about three miles. I believe that was in Ornskoldsvik, Orebro it was, Norway, or Sweden. And I went under a tree by a river, and I prayed till nine o'clock, from five until nine. Then about nine o'clock, He wouldn't let me go. I knowed they'd be wondering where I was at when they got to the room and I wasn't there. So I was praying; I heard His voice say, "Rise up now." I rose up.
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Now, it's just not just imagination friends. My--His voice is just as audible as mine is to you. Just--not--when He stands there, it's not just what you just imagine. I hear Him when He's walking, look at Him, talk to Him like you talk to me or I talk to you. It's a Being, not just a imagination. And I can hear Him when He sets His feet down,
walks. When He talks, He just talks like I do. Oh, He's got a--a voice that's very humble in one way, and then very stern in another. His characters, no man could paint that. Just like if He'd speak, it'd turn the world upside down. Yet He's so meek when you look at Him, you'd almost cry.
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And He said, "Get up." And I got up, and started walking. And I walked about a mile and... I'm--was going by a store that I seen the day before. I didn't know what to do, only walk; He said, "Walk." I thought, I will just go around this corner. And I got to the corner; He said, "Turn to your right." I went to the right two squares, and then said, "Turn to your left."
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And just in a split second, I seen my interpreter from the night before. And I knew something's going to happen, 'cause He just kept getting, closer and closer. I knew what was going to happen; it's going to be right away. He come up to me and shook my hand. And there he said, "Brother Branham, it's something strange." I said, "Just a moment," and I begin to tell him. And he looked at me. And when he did, I seen us in a vision standing there when he was translating the night before. I said, "You just come from the hospital, haven't you?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "You had one of your kidneys removed." He said, "That's right." I just met him the day before. Only thing from the platform that night. I said, "About three or four years ago you were supposed to do something, and you did not do it. Isn't that true?" He said, "That's right." I said, "Then you had an operation. And since your operation it's went over into the other kidney. That right?" He said, "That's right." I said, "Last night when I was praying in a congregational prayer, didn't you take your hand and take hold of my coat like that, real easy?" He just started crying. His tear--hands up in the air, said, "That's right, Brother Branham. And I asked God last night, if that was so that He would confirm it. And about a half-hour ago He told me get up and go down on the street." And in just one second's time and I would've missed him. There it was confirmed of his healing. How God works in mysterious ways.
I went up and met Brother Moore, Brother Lindsay, and them. We went downtown. He's going to walk me around just a little, for
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the Spirit was still anointing. I just keep walking lots of times that way, 'cause I can't be still then. Went downtown. We was standing, looking in the window, and I said, "Brother Moore." Said, "Yeah." I said, "Now, on the road back, there'll be a man with a dark suit on and a light hat, step out of a building ask me to go pray for his wife, only I can't do it." He said, "When will that happen?" I said, "On a--sometime this morning," I said, "because when the vision came it's the same morning." And we'd been gone about a half-hour after that, we turned around a corner, stepping out of a store came a man with a black suit on a--a gray hat. Took his hat on, said, "Brother Branham, I'm so glad to meet you." Said, "I've got my wife upstairs here." Jack... Brother Moore said, "What about that?" We went on in.
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Brother Baxter, the next manager. That afternoon we were walking, went downtown, standing there on the street. I said, "I see two women dressed in dark that's coming out of a store, will stop us pretty shortly, Brother Baxter." And we'd gone just about two squares, and I was looking in a man's store at some ties. And just then coming out of this same store, came two ladies dressed in black and run up to us and begin to holding their hands. They couldn't talk English, but wanted a--a discernment of spirit of what was wrong with them on their hand. Brother Baxter said... I--well now, those things happen all the time. But I--I don't mention them, friends, unless it's something that will profit or benefit-something like that.
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Now, many times that Christians praying... There was a lady set here last night, had a little baby. Now, many of you here probably was here last night when the lady I was hunting for with the little baby, you remember that? Now, she'd been in prayer about that, and in the room I saw her. I couldn't make out just what kind of a dress that was, but I seen she had her hair braided, and blond-headed and had a little baby. And the Lord had showed that the baby was to be healed. And the baby was healed before he left the building last evening. Now, it's wonderful.
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Recently in Fort Wayne, we were having a meeting. How many's ever been... Why, was anybody here was at the Fort Wayne meetings? Somebody perhaps... Yes, here's two or three hands is here, at the Fort Wayne meetings. Marvelous crowds gathered. B. E.
Rediger, how many ever heard of B. E. Rediger, years ago? Paul Rader, wrote this song, "Only Believe" in his meeting there. Well, Mr. Rediger had some daughters... He's gone on to glory, quite awhile ago, one the nation's most outstanding men on Divine healing.
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I just returned from Pensacola, Florida, where I had the largest altar call I ever had: two-thousand at one time gave their hearts to Christ, one altar call. And I'd just come home and I'd entered in the little church that morning. There was packed, several hundred around the church. They's trying to get me out, and someone told me, said, "A daugh--a girl--a psychopathic case laying back in the coal shed of the church..." Said, "Mrs. Rediger." I said, "Mrs. Rediger? What relation are they to B. E. Rediger?" Said, "That's his daughter."
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And B. E. Rediger, a warrior of God resting in glory, and his daughter a mental case, his other daughter died in the same condition. She'd been a mental case in the institution for about two years. There she was, her mother trying to hold her, a beautiful young lady, her hair down, setting back there and just hold her, her eyes staring. I walked in to where she was; and she begin to move back, kind of mumbling her mouth like that, saying something about "penny" or something another, and moving back like that. So Mrs. Rediger looked up. And I said, "Oh, my, is that Brother Rediger's daughter?" Said, "It is." I said, "Dear Lord Jesus, have mercy on the girl." And asked for that power of the enemy to leave the girl. In a moment she was to herself. And today I got a letter, she's going to be married in August, how glorious, out of the mental institution. And how glorious it is to find His leading.
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There in Fort Wayne they'd found out what hotel I was staying in, the Indiana Hotel. And the people had crowded in their lobby till we had to hire one of the bellboys to get us to a way to go out. And down through the alley over an ash pile to get something to eat--so many people in there, crowding in. Then all of a sudden one day we was going down the street, my wife was with me, had the baby. I had my coat collar up. It was... Going down the street packing my little girl. We were going down to the place called, I believe the Toddle House, or Hobble House or something, where we were eating.
There's where Mr. Eaton, of Canada, had met there in a room that morning, been to the meetings to be healed of a stomach trouble. And God healed him down at the tabernacle few days later. He wouldn't come to where I was eating that morning; he just paid for my breakfast.
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The next morning going down, walking down the street, Something said, "Turn to your left." Mrs. Morgan, twenty-one year graduate nurse, my first case of cancer, I felt the vibrations. Weighed thirty-seven pounds, brought into the meeting just nothing but skin and bones. She weighs a hundred and fifty-five now in perfect health. And the doctors, the best there was in the nation, told her she had just a few days to live. It went all through her; they just opened her up and sewed her back. Cancer just stuffed through her. Malignant, nothing could be done, couldn't even put a knife on her, no one to--to operate. Now, she weighs a hundred and fifty-seven pounds in perfect health.
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She was going along, kind of helping me sometimes with the sick along, like that, because she's a very brilliant woman. And we were going down, and It--Something said, "Turn to your left." I heard it just the same as you hear me. I turned to the left. Margie said to my wife, said, "What's the matter?" Said, "Now, just let him go." I went on down. We went walking. Down to the left I stopped in front of a place called Miller's Cafeteria. I wondered why. Something said, "Go in here." I went in the cafeteria, got some little breakfast and prunes and so forth, and set down. My wife said, "You're sure in a big place like this to get trapped." People gathered around. And I started to eat. And as I asked the blessing, I heard somebody say, "Praise the Lord." I looked over and a poor old mother was raising up, wiping her eyes. Margie said, "You better go," said, "if you don't the whole group..." I said, "Just a moment, it's the Holy Spirit leading." She come over there and said, "Brother Branham," said, "I followed meeting after meeting trying to get my brother in the line. I couldn't do it." Said, "His heart's got so bad now it's pushed through the diaphragm." Said, "We was examined a few days ago before coming, doctor said he just has a little while to live. We sold our cow to get the money to come up here from Texas." Said, "I've been to several meetings; we sold all we got." Said, "I seen I couldn't get it, there's too many there. I've had a card several times, but the number's never been called." She said, "But I was praying last night all night and fasting," (she said), "and about daylight this morning I woke up, and I had a dream. And I dreamed that I should come down here to
the cafeteria and wait at nine o'clock." I looked at my watch, and it just exactly nine. Said, "Bring him here." You know what happened, don't you? The Lord marvelously healed him. Leading of the Spirit. He works on both ends.
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Then, going out the door, was just leaving. Went out the door about two minutes after. Didn't eat. And a young lady standing there fell down on the street and begin screaming just as I went out the door--dressed in black. She lived in Chicago Heights: malignant cancer. Said, "Brother Branham, I prayed all--been praying for weeks that I could get here." And said, "I just got a little while." She'd been to the clinic here and nothing could be done for her. Her husband was a great businessman there of some sort. And she said, "This morning early," said, "Something told me to come to Miller's Cafeteria and stand here at ten minutes after nine." There it was. I met her in Little Rock here a few weeks ago, just shouting the praises of God, perfectly normal and well.
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Went walking on down the street, the Holy Spirit said, "Stop here." I told the wife, I said, "You all go on the--they'll get you in the hotel." She said, "Well, I will cross the drug store over there to get some books--coloring books." Had to keep the baby in the room all the time. And I stopped, and I went back up and looked at some fishing tackle, and I waited just a moment. I said, "Father, what is it You would have me do?" And I waited a few moments. I heard that voice say, "Go down to the corner." I went down to the corner, standing at the corner, said, "Cross the street." I went across the street and was standing there. You people from Fort Wayne know how they direct the traffic there. And it... on a Saturday morning. And I stood there for quite awhile. And after awhile I seen a lady cross the street, the whistle blowed many times. A lady crossing the street, holding a pocket book on her arm. And she was dressed in a checked suit and a little checked tam on. She walked. The Holy Spirit said, "Go close to her." I went and stood there. (The woman may be in this meeting tonight for all I know.) And I stood right there on the corner. And she passed right on by, and went by. I thought, "That's strange; He never did tell me anything wrong." She walked about the distance of that pole. She was looking down, looking sideways. And she turned around and looked back; she said, "Oh, Brother Branham." She come back and she started crying. And she said, "I'm
from Canada." She said, "I followed all through Canada." Said, "I come over here, was only allowed so much money. Last night," said, "I slept setting in a hotel lobby. And this morning I had one five-cents for a cup of coffee." Said, "I was going out here to hitch-hike home." Said, "I was just two squares below and the Holy Spirit said, 'Turn to your right.' Well, I went to the right. And He said, 'Turn to your left.' But I was being led by Him, said 'Turn around and see.'" Said, "Brother Branham, my hand's been crippled." I said, "In the Name of the Lord Jesus, give me the hand." And here come the hand straight. A big Irish cop blowing a whistle, said, "I know who you are, Brother Branham." My, we had a prayer line held on the street in a few moments. It was just everywhere. What is it? Led of the Spirit of God, that's what it is, friend.
Recently on my road to Dallas (I will hurry quickly), on my road going to Dallas, the plane was grounded. And I thought, oh my. I stayed all night, and the next morning I was going down to put my mail in the box. They told us they'd come pick us up. I was going down the street, trying to sing that little old Christian song the Pentecost folk sing, "Glad That I Can Say I'm One of Them." Did you ever hear it? It's a...
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People almost everywhere, Hearts all burning with flames, As the fire that fell on... The Holy Ghost,
(or something like that). And I was trying to sing it going down the street, my letters in my hand, going walking along down the street. I started to cross the street, the Holy Spirit said, "Stop. You're right in front of a bank," (Memphis, Tennessee). I thought, "Oh, my, what's this?" I walked over in a corner; I said, "Father, what would You have me do?" I stood still for a few moments, 'cause I wasn't thinking about it. I felt that real strange feeling move on me, said, "Turn and go right back." And I went right back down passed the hotel again, just kept on going down the street, humming to myself, "Oh I'm so glad that I can say I'm one of them." Going on... I went way on down to the other side of Memphis, on down to the colored district. I thought, "What am I doing down here?" Just led by the Spirit. And I looked. Said, "Cross this way." And I crossed over the street and went down the other side. I was going over there. Turned to my right, went up the street this a way. All the little whitewashed places there, little colored places where the colored live.
That makes us all the same,
And I passed by. And I seen a typical old aunt Jemima, with a shirt, man's shirt tied around her head, leaning over the gate. The sun was coming up, roses around the gate, the sun kissing away the fragrance away from the rose; and the air was full, the birds a singing: how glorious. And I had my hand, going along like that, singing, led of the Spirit. I looked at her as I passed by. She was leaning over the gate. She said, "Good morning, parson." Down in the South, it's parson, you know, instead of... I said, "Good morning, auntie." She wiped the tears from her eyes, begin to laughing. I said, "How'd you know I was a parson? Do you know me?" She said, "No, sir." I said, "How'd you know I was parson?" Said, "Parson, did you ever hear about that--a woman in the Bible, the Shunammite woman?" And I said, "Yes." Said, "The Lord give her a child?" I said, "Yes." Said, "I's was a woman that was barren too. And the Lord give me a son." And said, "I promised to raise him for the Lord." Said, "I've done my best." But said, "Parson, he took the road that's wrong." Said, "He's a fine young man and he backslid." And said, "He went out with the wrong company." And said, "He's laying in here now." Said, "The doctors had done give him all the shots they can. He's been unconscious now for two days. The doctor says that he is going to die; it's venereal disease." Said, "Done give him everything that could be given, but it was too late before they caught it, and he's going to die." And said, "Parson, I knowed him laying there dying a backslider," said, "I couldn't stand it." Said, "I prayed and prayed, and I said, 'Lord, You gave me the boy, but where is Elijah at?'" So said, "I prayed and I prayed." And said, "This morning, a little 'fore day," said, "the Lord told me to come out here and stand at this gate." And her back was wet with dew. Said, "I just stood here 'cause," said, "I believe in the leading of the Spirit."
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Oh, my, there is where God and believer meets together on common grounds of faith. She said, "He told me to stand here." And said, "The sun came up." Said, "I just kept waiting. When you come down the street," said, "I knowed you was the parson." I said, "My name is Branham." She told me what her name was. I said, "Did you ever hear of my services?" "No, sir, parson." I told her about it, and the tears begin to run down her cheeks. Said,
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We went into the room. There laid a fine big boy laying there, about a hundred and sixty or seventy pounds, a picture of health, the blankets gathered in his hands like this going, "Ummm, ummm." And she walked over and patted him on the cheek. She said, "Mammy's baby." Might be, old as he was. But you know, there's a mother's love. You're always mama's baby. You know, that mother's love. No matter what you do, it's never forgotten, mother's love. So she patted him on the cheek, said, "Mama's baby." And I took a hold of his feet, and his feet was cold, thought, "Oh, my, he's dying." I said, "Auntie, he's in awful bad shape." Said, "Yes, sir, parson. The doctor said he'd never gain consciousness no more." I held his feet, and I said, "Shall we pray?" She said, "Yes, parson." She knelt down on the floor and she begin praying. I tell you; that old saint prayed a prayer that you'd know she was talking to God too. And when she got through praying, she said, "Thank You, dear Lord."
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I walked over to where he was at. Looked at him a little bit, and I laid my hands over on him. I said, "Dear God, I don't know why You led me down here. My plane's ready to leave now." But I said, "I don't know why You led me here, but I just come by the leading. And now, in the Name of Your Son Jesus, I lay hands upon this dying boy for his life, for his soul to be saved." Said, "Mammy. Oh, mammy." She said, "He's talking, parson." Hadn't talked for two days. Said, "Mammy, it's getting light." Said, "It's getting light in here, mammy. I can see where my boat's a going now." A few minutes he was on the floor rejoicing, happy. About a week later I got a letter from him that the doctors pronounced him negative. He's living tonight in Memphis, Tennessee, healthy and strong, because that his dear old mother followed the leading of the Holy Spirit. Those that are sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God. Isn't that right?
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Let us bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, oh, You've been so good to us. Time gets away so easy when we're talking about Jesus, talking about His wonderful works...?... today He said, "A little while, the world will see Me no more." The world doesn't understand; they're blinded by the god of this world, walking in darkness, in their own way, in their own sinful lust. But we thank Thee that Thou hast said, "I will be with you, even in you unto the end of the world."
Tonight wherever You can find a sincere heart, You'll lead them by Your Spirit. O God, this Saturday night when many people are shopping, many are out, roadhouses, places of ill-fame, young boys laying on the barroom floor, young girls, the road that's wrong, dancing their way to a Christless grave, and the old mother's prayers, right over the top of them... O Master, somehow, lead those people. Tonight speak to them, and may they find a place tomorrow at a good old fashion altar, become Your servant. Lord may the results of this meeting be an old fashion revival break out that'll sweep plumb through the cities and the nation, for we believe that soon You shall send Jesus. Gather us together. There's many here tonight, Father, that's sick and needy, that feels Your Spirit now. We all know that You're here. You said, "Wherever two or three are gathered, I'll be in their midst." And we feeled You, literally with spiritual feeling. We know that You're here. And now, Father, as I have testified to these people concerning a Divine gift. They only have my word unless You speak, Lord. But I know that You'll speak, vindicate it, testify of it. And all praise and glories to Thee, Thou marvelous Son of God. You're so wonderful to redeem us, us poor lost sinners worthy of death and separation, worthy of hell. But Thou has redeemed us. Oh, how my heart jumps when I think that I'm redeemed. And just as sure as You raised from the grave, someday we shall come forth with a new body that'll never be sick no more, or suffer. Now, dear God, bless tonight those who are here. May the Holy Spirit just move right out over this audience now. Speak to every one of them, and say, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." The Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth, His Spirit moving with us tonight, may they hu--sweetly accept It in the form of the Holy Spirit, and be saved and healed tonight. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
Yes, I do. It just... I'm not a very emotional type person, but my heart's been strangely warmed since I come in here tonight for some cause. I don't know why. I trust that God will pour out His Spirit yet tonight over the whole audience. And tomorrow, I pray that it'll be one gleaming Light of God around this little place. Oh, people, fast and pray, get ready, Jesus is coming soon. I believe it. Be ready. What's it going to profit you if we should gain all the world then lose our soul. What good would it do us? No good at all. Let's serve Him with all of our heart.
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While they're lining up the audience, let's pray again just a moment. Father, come near now. Abide with us, Jesus. Bless us tonight. There's those that are here so--looking so anxiously. And it's
seemingly that just a little extra blessing is on us tonight somehow, or just around near. Maybe You're just fixing to pour out the Spirit upon us. We pray that it will be, Father. Heal all, now. The Angel of God that You sent to me at my birth, guiding me down through life by Your hand, He Who meets and talks, and shows the visions that I speak of. O Jesus, send Him now in Thy Name, that He might be able to discern, the gift of discernment, to know the heart. Said, "The things that I do, these shall you do also, and greater." You knew the heart of all people. You knew all diseases. You told Philip where he was at before he come to the prayer line. You told them where to find the horses tied. You told them where a empty room was to make ready the last supper. Oh, You told the woman of her sins. And then one day they tied a rag around Your eyes, pulled beard out of Your face and spit on You. Said, "Now, prophesy and say who smote me." Lord, You never opened Your mouth. We're thankful for Your wonderful life, for the Spirit that You have given us to live by. Help us now. And may every disease that passes this a way, may great visions and wonders be done tonight. Grant it, Lord. And as the people sees these things done, may they accept Thee right then in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen.
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Somehow I just, somehow, I believe that there's great things going to happen, don't you? Look, Moses performed his signs one time before the children of Israel and everyone of them believed him. Is that right? He didn't have to put his hand in the second time to make his sign. He didn't have to turn his stick into a serpent...?... They believed. Therefore, one sign that I speak of, that He gave for a sign, one sign can be proven, then you ought to accept it. And remember, as He's healing here on the platform, He can be healing out there the same time. You believe Him, don't worry about getting up here. Just accept Him right where you are, and God will heal you right where you're sitting now. You believe it? All right, all right. Now, everyone be real reverent, and pray, and now... Oh, I wish you all felt like I do just now; such a feeling. Peace, just feels like you're just real light. Holy Spirit's in the building, the presence and the help [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Now I know none of you, don't know one person in here as far as I know. And I don't know what's wrong with you, God knows that. I don't know one thing's wrong with you. But I have to depend on Him, so you pray with me, Christian.
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Good evening, just... maybe just for a moment, till I kind of
get myself settled down to talk with you just a moment. You're a stranger to me, I'm a stranger to you, never seen you in my life. And I guess you never seen me before. As you look healthy and strong, but there's something wrong with you, or you wouldn't be here. Let's have your hand just a minute. Can't find it sir, so I want talk to you just a moment. You believe in God? Yes, you believe in God. You believe that--that God was in Chirst reconciling the world to Himself? And that the Spirit that was in Christ returned back to the earth in the form of the Holy Spirit to live in the church today; nine spiritual gifts to be given to the church? And now you being a stranger to me, knowing nothing of you, then if I ever know what's wrong with you, it would have to be revealed by a spiritual being, at that time. You're worried aren't you, you've been fainting a whole lot, sister. Now, I'm not reading your mind, I--you're just now some... Now so the audience will know, a real strange feeling just begin coming on you, if that's right raise your hand, see. Now that's when your spirit would contact, and would get... Now this feels to me, I'm getting weak, you see. Just before a vision probably, is fixing to take place, I do not know. Yes, you're worried, you've been told you have a cancer, is that right? Just be reverent. Don't fear sister, believe. Let's see, now be reverent. Now, of course you feel real numb, that's kind of a...?... I just meant it broke, you keep looking at me, see. All right, a doctor never told you that, a man told you, you had a cancer. You was in a prayer line. After that you visited a doctor's office, and he told you, you didn't have a cancer. Did he tell you... I see him saying something, kind of a normal dressed man, wearing a dark-looking suit. Now, your trouble's in your throat, isn't it? That's right, in your throat. It's nervousness, sister, is what's wrong with you. Just nerves in your throat, you're going to be all right, Jesus Christ...?... You have faith now, don't you? Father, your daughter stands here, worried and worked up. She feels that she did something wrong, but what...?... just now. God console your child. I lay hands upon her in the Name of Jesus Thy Son, and asked for this nervous, chafing sensation in her throat to leave her. She can return to her loved ones healthy and well, just now. Satan, leave the girl in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now look sister, all right, you may raise your head up. Now sister, is that the truth? Every word...?... [The sister speaks with Brother Branham--Ed.] You haven't? You go home now and believe, do as I tell you to do. Just forget all about all of it. Go on home, eat, drink, rejoice, and praise the Lord, tell everybody about your healing and glorify God. God bless you...?... [The sister testifies--Ed.] Amen. God bless you, sister. All right, let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Just be real reverent. All right, bring your next patient. Everybody be reverent. Thank you, brother.
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God bless you, sister. Stop crying, mother. Look this way,
mother. You, you're kind of worried, yourself, aren't you? Un huh, stand up just a moment, while the lady with the dark coat on...?... She looked at me, I seen something happen before. Haven't you got some trouble too? It's a female trouble, isn't it? Isn't that right? I see you--you refusing food, now you got a stomach trouble too, don't you? Well, Jesus Christ has healed you, you go on home and eat what you want to. He's answered your prayer, God bless you, mother. Just caught that. Be of a good courage. Aren't you a minister? You're a reverend, aren't you? I thought I seen a pulpit near you. That's your wife, isn't it. She's a nervous condition, isn't that right? Be of a good courage, just keep praying. I seen it branch out, but I don't know what happened. Now you keep praying, Reverend. Be of a good courage. How do you do? Are you the patient? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... "Praise the Lord." It's a--it's a...?... emotional, you think why you're just a little emotional. Now, the lady's faith healed her, that's what done the work, was her faith. If you only had faith to believe, you can be healed of anything. Amen.
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God bless you, sister. I see you're troubled, but I can't...?... now you--you--you're trying. Howdy do, sister. Let's see your hand, just a moment. Look this way, sister. There's many things that you feel is wrong with you. But there's one main thing that's causing it all, nervousness. You're extremely nervous, aren't you? You've been that way for a long time, too. Astigmatism in your eyes, they can't weep, isn't that right? When you was a child it was that way, yes, when you was just a little girl; school, so forth, you had them. I see that. You believe now? Yes, got such cause from your nerves, that your glands...?... [Brother Branham speaks inaudibly to the sister--Ed.] You believe now, with of all your heart? Let's see your hand. Now, look lady, see I realize that you're nervous and you're trying to believe. Now, I want you to keep loo... don't turn your head, see. Keep looking this a-way. Cuts off the vision from me. You believe now? You believe, I'll ask Him that nervousness will leave you? That's right. All now, you bow your head and be faithful. Our Heavenly Father, we pray Thee to be merciful to our sister making her well, Lord. She's nervous and rundown, many, many worries of this life. Dear God, I pray that You'll heal her tonight, as I bless her in Thy Name, trusting that You'll make her completely well through Jesus Christ, Thy Son. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, don't doubt Him nothing, believe with all your heart...?... All right, on with your next patient.
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How do you do, sir? Our brother here, the man was just healed, just a momentary... you sir. While I was praying for you, you felt a real cool feeling go through
you, isn't that right? And everything that you had been doing or so forth did the Holy Spirit reveal it right here? If it is, raise your hand so the audience will know. You're a perfect stranger, aren't you? Now, how many believes that the gift of God has come down from heaven, in our midst. That's right. It's infallible, it never... Now, your healing is your faith, but the gift of God is perfect, perfect, never fails, can't fail, because It's God. Then if He can be here so close to you and know those things, reveal them to you as He promised He would do. "These things that I do, greater shall you do, for I go to My Father." Is that right? Now, someone might think that it--it... It seems like that many times people says mental telepathy, and you know how that the Devil can rage. You know, they told Jesus that He cast out devils through Beelzebub. Is that right? The prince of devils, they have to find something. And looking at the people, you always make them... That's what caused the people to... Looking at their eyes, and it was reading their minds. That isn't it, friend. It's attracting the spirit that's in the person. See, they got a...?... and they're human beings and their faith got to be built up on this level to believe it, or he won't let loose. See, the...
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Listen at the order of it; ministers, especially. Now, here it is, now listen close. "If you get the people to believe you," He said, "Be sincere when you pray, nothing will stand before your prayer." I said, "They won't believe me. I'm uneducated, I can't speak right, and I have a poor family and so forth." He said, "I'll be with you, and you'll be given two signs to cause the people to believe." Now, those signs merely cause the people to believe. It doesn't heal them. Their faith is what heals. How many understands this,raise your hands. Oh, that's wonderful. Now, the person's...?... Now here stands a man, standing here now. I--I haven't looked at him. I don't know him, but I say to that man, with my back turned to the man, if he will believe with all of his heart, and believe the story that I told about this, is the truth, God will make known to you what's wrong. You believe it? Say you believe with your all your heart, do you standing there? The patient, you believe with all your heart? All right, I've never touched you. If I be able to tell you what's wrong with you, will you... You'll know whether it's the truth or not, won't it? That right? You accept it coming from God? All right, will you do as I tell you? All right, you can go home now, you're going to get over that heart trouble you had. For the Lord has healed you...?... God bless...?... The Lord Jesus Christ make you whole.
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Let's bow our heads and pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
Thee from the depths of our heart for the Spirit of our Friend, Jesus Christ; Who saves, heals, and makes well. God bless everyone in here tonight. May all this audience around everywhere believe on You just now, and be healed everyone, Lord. May the Holy Spirit just move right down into this audience and heal all the sick and the afflicted. Save the unsaved, bring them to a knowledge of Thee, and let them know that soon You're coming, dear Jesus, to catch away a people who's Spirit-filled, Blood-washed, ready to go and meet you. Hear the cry of Thy humble sevant, in Jesus Name. Amen. All right, everybody be reverent. Somebody right in here is praying. All right, be reverent, everyone...?... friend. I think it's someone standing there in the line that hasn't... prayed the other night to get in the line, somebody and I keep contacting. Good evening, sister...?... Do you love Him with all your heart?...?... Could you trust Him with all your heart? You believe that, that what you feel is Him now? All right, then go home and that female trouble you had has left you now. You can go home and be well. Jesus Christ make you well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." That's the way you're supposed to believe. Amen.
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Sister, you're trying awfully hard, aren't you? Well, looky here, I want you to look this way. I seen you move twice, and I want to ask you something, laying down in that cot. You're a stranger to me. You're laying there disappointed because you couldn't get a prayer card, isn't that right? You wanted a card so bad. I don't know you sister, but I do know now what's wrong with you. And I know that you're not going to live but a very few days if something isn't done for you, because you're suffering with cancer, isn't that right? That's right. You can't live unless something's done for you, now I'm going to ask you to do it, as your brother. Why do you lay there till you die? Nothing can be done for you in medical aid. Only faith, is only thing can help you tonight, isn't that right? Then why not believe God's Word? Why not? Do you believe this, the discernment the Spirit moving the very... That's the very God of creation, do you believe that? Do you accept me as His servant? Do you believe on me as His prophet? You do? Will you obey me the same way? Then, in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, rise up from there and go home and be well. That's it. Just raise up. Lady, you with the red coat on, sitting there also, you're suffer of cancer, aren't you? All right, raise your hands up if that ain't the...?... there ought to be two stand up on their feet, Jesus Christ has made you whole. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Do you believe He's with you? He's here, let's stand and give Him praise, everybody. Let's just praise Him right now. Will you believe Him? Will you accept Him...?... Accept Him now. You sister, do you believe Him now with your heart? Accept Him just now, say...?... Let's raise our hands to the Lord Jesus.
Father, move into this hearts of this people, just now. Now may the Holy Spirit confirm the Word just now, with signs and wonders, in the Name of Jesus the Son of God Now audience, listen closely. Notice...
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Thank you, Brother Lindsay. Good evening audience. Very happy to be here this afternoon to speak about the greatest person that ever lived on the earth, or ever will be on the earth, our Lord Jesus Christ. That's why I've... One day I was talking, and wife... One of the first meetings we was ever in, she says, "All those people come?" I said, "The Gospel is the greatest drawing card the world has ever had." I say... "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me."
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And now, it falls my lot this afternoon to speak. A little warm under the tent. And I--not a preacher to begin with, but I--I like to talk on the Word. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. That's what gives us faith. Before we can have faith, we must have a basis for faith. Isn't that right? The... If you was going to get married, you'd have... Your wife would have to tell you she loved you and how she'd be true to you. And you have a--you have her word then. And then, your faith, it just depends on how you feel about, if her word is all right or not. And that's the way we have to do by any way. By faith we have to have the--a background, a foundation.
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And now, we're going to just not keep you no longer than possible in speaking. As I said, I wasn't a preacher; I just love to talk on the Word. I once... When I was first ordained as a--a Baptist preacher, my, that was the--one of the greatest hours of my life. I... When I was a little boy, I thought it took a sissy to pack a Bible. But when I was saved and got ordained, I'd go down the street with my Bible under my arm. And my, when they would call me "brother" or something, I just all swelled out. I thought I was a real preacher. And they just had a local exhorter license, just for the state of Indiana that I could preach, and marry, or bury, or baptize. So I thought I was a real preacher until one day I heard a real preacher. And then I realized I wasn't any preacher.
It reminds me of when I was at home. My father used to break bronco horses. He was borned in the state of Kentucky. My mother's from Oklahoma, and moved down into Texas, just above Paris. And my dad went west to breaking horses. And he was a quite a rider, and a very fine shot, and, with a gun. And he went west breaking horses, and that's how he met my mother. So I always thought that I wanted to be a rider. I'd hear my dad talk about how he would break the horses, and skin the... you know, and the team and so forth. And we lived on a farm, and I thought, "Oh, my, when I get just a little bigger, I'm going to be a real rider." I'd been to the picture show a few times and seen some of the movies, you know, of some of that, on them dude ranches. And I thought, "Oh, I will just be a real hero."
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So when I used to get the old horse after we'd plow with him all day, you know, and get him out behind the barn to the watering trough... How many country boys is there in here? Let's see your hands. Now, don't be backwards. I thought so. All right. And we'd get out there by the old watering trough, and I'd get me a handful of cockleburs, and put it under the saddle, and pull down the cinches on it. I'd climb up in the middle of the old horse, you know. And my, the poor old thing so tired, he--he's just worked to death. And here I would set there, and he couldn't get his feet off the ground. He'd just bawl and turn around. I'd take my old straw hat, and have my little brothers lined up down there. And I'd say, "Look at me as a cowboy," just a beating that old horse with my hat. And the poor old thing, why he--he couldn't have throwed an egg off his back hardly. So I was up there in this saddle, you know, just a bucking away. I thought I was.
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And one day I thought I was a real rider. So I left home and went out west to be a cowboy; I landed in Arizona. And so I was at Phoenix. Now they was having a rodeo. And I thought, "Well, now, here I'm broke, so I'll just get some money." It happened to be a little later, we's checking the time, Brother Lindsay was just a little away from there the same time, preaching the Gospel. And we didn't know that till recently when we checked our times when we were there. And they had a rodeo up there, after the round-up. And they was talking about, oh, how you could go out and ride, and there'd be prizes for riders. Well, I thought, "I will have to get me a pair of chaps, you know, before I go out there." I went down to one of the outfitting departments, and I got a pretty pair, you know, had a great big A-R-
I-Z-O-N-A on it, and steer heads, you know. And I put them around me, and there's about that much leather laying out on the floor. I looked like one of these little banty roosters with that--all that feathers hanging down. Well, people wasn't going to... I knowed that wasn't nothing. So I finally come to find out the price of them; I didn't have the money. So I got me a pair of Levis, and went on out to the pen.
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They were... I climbed up on there with the rest of those old disfigured cowboys, you know, and the bow-legs, and setting up there. And they call--went through, and called that they was going to have a certain rider to ride a certain horse. I thought, "Oh, my, I will watch him." And I said, "If he can't ride it, I will." So I--I never seen a rodeo before. And after a while when they come out, I seen this fellow climb up in the chute, stand like this, and he will catch-as-catch-can when he come out. And my, when he dropped on that horse, he made about two bawls and looked like he'd... Was one of those outlaws, you know. And he could put both feet in a wash pan and throw a saddle over the corral fence. So just as soon as that fellow hit on him like that, he made about three lunges like this, and sunfished. And when he did, that fellow went up in the air twisting around, fell down. The pick-ups got the horse. The fellow come back through calling, said, "I will give any man fifty dollars who will stay on him one minute--fifty dollars." And he been look all down along that fence. "Fifty dollars, who will take it?" He come right straight to me; he said, "Are you a rider?" I said, "No sir." Well, that... I wasn't a ride... I thought I was then till that time.
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Well, then when I thought I was a preacher one time. I packed a Bible around, had a little paper in my pocket. And I thought I was preacher. And one day I was in St. Louis, Missouri, and I run into a Pentecostal camp meeting. And there was a Pentecostal preacher there by the name of Daugherty. And my goodness, that man started preaching. He would just turn blue in the face, and buckling his knees and go plumb to the floor. When he come up, he'd catch his breath, you could hear him two squares and still preaching. Fellow walked up and said, "You a preacher?" I said, "No, sir, no, no." My old slow Baptist ways don't think of it that fast. That's all. So I just have to come take my time. So around where there's real preachers, I never say I'm a preacher. So I kinda keep covered up for that. So...
But I do like to get out when you're not under that anointing for the sick, you know. And you can just be at liberty, you feel free to preach, or to speak of the Word, or anything. And that's what it is. They give me a little time once in a while so I can kinda rejoice. Now, when the anointing for healing is on, I just keep praying, fasting. And it gets to a place you feel a real sacred calm feeling, not like rejoicing; you just feel a real sacred feeling. But when you're speaking of the Holy Spirit, then it comes with joy, and happiness, and gladness, and the refreshening from the Presence of the Lord. And I'm very happy to--to have that this afternoon. Just before we go into service, I read a text as, if we should call it a text. I thought I'd make myself clear first that I wasn't a preacher. 'cause, you people are hearing these good preachers around here, well then, you'll know different in a few minutes.
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But what I wanted to tell you was a little bit upon Divine healing, just before we read the Word. So many people think that Divine healing is just a hocus-pocus affair. That isn't it. It's plain simple and the Gospel of Christ. Now, what would you think if I told you this afternoon that every sick person in this building was healed? That's right though. That's true. As far as God's concerned, you're healed. See, many times people want to debate. Here not long ago, this minister where the picture was taken, wanted to debate the subject of whether Christ... Said, "Christ didn't atone for our sickness when He atoned for our sins." Now, here's what it is, friends. And sometimes it's just so simple, if you'll just try to understand it. How many sick people's here this afternoon? Let's see your hands. I know there's a group of you. All right.
Now, I want you to do this. I want you to get just what I'm saying now, and then hold to it while I'm speaking. Will you do it? You'd never live any higher than you confess that you are. It's your confession that saves you. He that confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father and the holy Angels. When you say you're sick, you're sick. Now, that... I'm not preaching Christian Science now. I'm preaching the power of God, and the Holy Spirit bears record of it. See? But here's what it is. You accept Him because that you feel that He saved you. And you go telling people, testifying of it, and believing your testimony, and it works righteousness. It'll do the same thing for healing.
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Now, here's what happens. Sin is what brought sickness in the world. Sickness is a result of sin. Now, before we had any sickness, we had no sin. And when sin came, sickness was a results of sin. So Jesus came to rid us of sin, and to rid... There's not a Gospel preacher in the world but what would believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins. Well, they... That's where it's at here, up this place here. Now, watch close. Here's where He paid the price. And when He died for our sin, as a result of His death, sickness fell right in with it. See? In other words, if my foot was what was you wanted to kill, kill the head and you got the foot. See? The foot goes in with it now. That's when He atoned for sins, He atoned for the sins' results. Sickness is an attribute of sin. And Jesus died for our sins. And sickness, iniquity, and all was included in His death for our sins. You see it? Then when He died for the sins of the world, there at Calvary He healed you, you, you, you, every one of you. And you're already healed. You're already forgiven of your sins if you'll just accept it.
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Now, you don't go to hell because you're a sinner; you go to hell because you refused to accept the way away from hell. There's a bypass; that's Christ. There's a bypass from your sickness, quick death, premature grave; that's through Christ. But now, you're-you're--you sinned in the beginning, and Christ died for your sins. Therefore, He saved you when He died. He saved you, and He healed you when He died, for He took your place. But now, all you have to do is to accept it by faith, and you'll receive it. See what I mean? Now, there's nothing more to be done, because your healing's already paid for. You can have it right this afternoon. You can have it right now, this very minute when you believe it. When your faith meets God's requirement, to believe that Christ died for your sickness, when He died for your sins (and He died for your sins at Calvary), and accept it upon that basis; at that moment, you are healed in the sight of God. See? Then you go on testifying of it, believing it. You don't... We... You testify of the things you do not see. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things you do not see. And we look at the unseen.
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Abraham, twenty-five years before Isaac was born, testified, and believed God when he's a hundred years old. Paul, before the storm ever ceased, knew what was going to happen, because he had God's Word for it. Now, you've got God's Word for it this afternoon. And I wished you would do this. If you'll do this... Here's a challenge that I will make as a minister of the Gospel. If you'll believe this afternoon, and the Holy
Spirit will come down into our midst, and you can actually, while you're praying, feel the Holy Spirit in your heart, that He's accepted your prayer, if you'll stand on that right there, and believe it... Don't fool with any more prayer line; you don't need it. If you'll believe it right there where you are, then that settles the sickness for the rest of the way out. That'll do it. Then rise with a stern faith, walk boldly. Say, "How do you know you're well?" "Because God said I was, and I believe His Word. That's why."
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Now, you're not saved because you feel like that you're saved. If I... If somebody'd say, "I know I'm saved, because I had a chill run through me, and so forth." That's not why I'm saved. Satan could whip me around a stump anywhere, and he can you too upon your feelings. That's right. But when I walk back and say, THUS SAITH THE LORD, my faith is built on the Word of God. And he can't whip that away. Remember. Jesus had all the qualities of the Father in Him. Do you believe that? Sure He did. All the fine gifts of God was in Christ, His Son; for He was the offspring of God. But notice, when He met Satan, for your example, He never used one gift on him. When Satan came to Him, He said, "It is written (Deuteronomy 7:14, I believe, or it's 8:14, and also in the Psalms): Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Satan caught Him again up on the pinnacle of the temple: Jesus said, "It is written." And he took Him up to the top of the mountain. Jesus said, "It is written." See? "It is written."
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Now, notice. Here it is! I want you to see it and get it now. The Word of God, written Word of God will defeat Satan anywhere, any place, any time. It's written. There it is. Everybody wouldn't have gifts. Jesus brought it down to a place where those who do not have gifts, that do not have very much faith, could just say, "It is written." There it is; and then stand right on that. Corn will bring forth corn. Is that right? Barley will bring forth barley. Wheat will bring forth wheat. Jesus said that the Word of God is a Seed that a sower sowed. And every Word will... Every Word of God, every promise of God will bring forth of its kind. Do you believe that? See?
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Now, what does the farmer do? He sows the wheat. Well, look for the harvest. The next morning, what if he goes out there and uncovers it, say, "Why, it ain't it sprouted. There's nothing to it. So I-I ain't going to have no wheat." Well, if he isn't going to have any wheat... If he keeps digging it up, looking at it, he will never have
wheat. You just sow it and let it alone. Amen. There it is. It's up to God to bring it forth. It's up to God to send the rain. And it's you to accept God on His Word. Hallelujah. And it's up to God to bring His Word to pass. No man's worth any more than his word, and God's not worth a bit more than what His Word is. And I say this with a challenge in faith, that every promise of God will be brought to pass if you take the right mental attitude towards it. That's right. Look at it. Believe it.
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John Sproule, many of you has heard of John, the Glory Barn, years ago. In Alsace Lorraine, France, said him and his wife walking out one afternoon looking at a statue of Christ. And he stand out criticizing; he said, "Why, I don't see no suffering. Don't see nothing that look like anything would be so great about that monument there." The guide said, "Well, you're looking at it wrong, sir." Said, "You get down here at the altar." Said, "There's a altar built here." And said, "Now, look up." He looked up and said, "Oh, my." His heart like to broke. See, it's just the way you look at it. If you look at the Word was way back there, and Christ lived years ago, and He's not today, and He's not the same yesterday, today, and forever, that's just what you'll get out of it. But it's not to be looked off as history, it's to be get down and look up to It and believe It. The way you look at the Word of God...
Now, accept it right now, and say to God right now in prayer, "Lord, this afternoon I'm setting here sick. I've seen all these ministers preach the Word; I've seen Christians; I've seen prostitutes made ladies and saints; I've seen drunkards on the street come in and become gentlemen and upright men, saints of God become Gospel preachers by preaching the Word. I believe You sent those men." Say, "Now, Father, I--I seen someone come in claiming the gift of Divine healing, to know the hearts of the people. I see that. And I know that You're dwelling in Your people. All over the world, You're moving...?... through Your people. And this afternoon, I'm going to accept You as my Divine Healer and my Divine Saviour. And I'm going to believe it, and confess it, and stay with it; if You'll just bless me this afternoon, and make it so in my heart that I can believe it." Will you make God that promise? Will you do it? To you that's sick, say, "I promise that, Lord. If You'll just touch me with a little faith this afternoon, then I'm going to believe it, and walk out of here and be a healed person the rest of my life. I will refuse to see anything else but the promise of God." Now, you do that. That's the only way you can be healed, is by faith. So accept it, believe it, and God shall bring it to pass.
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Our heavenly Father, we've gathered here now for a few moments of the Word, speaking the Word. And faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word. And now, as we're just about to open up the Bible and read It, we realize that no man can open the Book. John said, "No man in heaven or on earth could open the Book, or beneath the earth. But the Lamb, which had been slain from the foundation of the world, was worthy to come take the Book out of the hand of Him that sat upon the throne, and to open the Book, and to loose the seals thereof. And now, may the Lamb of God, by the Holy Spirit, come right into this meeting this afternoon, take the Word of God, and just open it up into every heart. And may, as they receive the Word, may Thy servant's lips be circumcised to speak, and may their hearts be circumcised to receive; and may the fruits be a hundred fold. For we ask it in the lovely Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen.
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In the Book of Saint Matthew--or Saint John, rather, the 11th chapter. I wish to read just a few verses. You that wants to mark it down, just of an old familiar text that many times your pastor's talked on it, and, the resurrection of Lazarus, beginning at the 20th verse and down to the 27th inclusive. Listen closely to the Word. I know it's awfully hot in here this afternoon. But oh, friends, we're here trying to bypass the place that'll be much hotter than this. There'll be no fans down there. And--and we want to bypass that great place, don't we, called hell. All right. Now, 11th chapter of Saint John, and the 20th verse beginning.
I tell you, I like you people here, bringing your Bibles and reading the Word. I like that. You're very nice. Crowds hasn't been what we--what I thought they would be here, because it's way out of town, and we've had difficults. But what's been coming has been a lovely, lovely group of people, seemingly, with a great faith, very obedient, just as nice a groups as you could speak to anywhere in the world, as I have. Now, listen closely to the Word. Then Martha, as soon as she heard Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary set still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou will ask... God, God will give it thee. (I like that, don't you?) Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. (See what that kind of faith brings?)
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Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and... life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She said unto him... (Listen to this closely.)... Yea, Lord... (Oh, I love that.)... I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
Can we pray now? Father, bless Thy Word as It's been read. May It go forth now, and sink into the hearts as I speak on It. And may the Holy Spirit bring a hundredfold for healing of the body and for the soul also. And may there be an old fashion revival start here, Father. We're longing, praying, knowing it's the only hope that's left in the world now, for all kingdoms and powers will be shook and moved. But we receive a Kingdom which cannot be moved. Help us today, God, to introduce this Kingdom. And may men press their way into It. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, this was in the early part of the ministry of our Lord. He was borned in the world, had a bad start, just to began. You know, I like to think of Him as how... If you would ever know Who Jesus really is, then you can appreciate His great sacrifice so much more. You have to know Who He is, first. He wasn't just a righteous man, or a good man. He was the Son of God. No one, no Angel, no nothing else could have ever took the place but He. And He was willing to come down for us. And when He was born, He borned on the earth here, and come by the way of a stable, and went out the way of capital punishment. And yet, we complain sometimes because we have a few trials and troubles. Well, look what He--what happened to Him.
You know why He was borned in a stable? Because He was a Lamb. Lambs are not born in houses; they're born in barns. And He was... Did you notice to the Calvary, they led Him away to the slaughter. That's the way they do Lambs. They lead them away. He was God's Lamb... provided Lamb, provided for us, that we sinners might have access to God through Him. Now, when He was born, His reputation... He was supposed to have been an illegitimate child. They said that Joseph was His father, and Mary was His mother. But Joseph actually wasn't His father.
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Not long ago up in the mountains, I met a man, an old trapper. And he told me, he said... He was supposed to have a real education. He was a scientist, had been. And he come up there in the winter and went to trapping, and just liked it much better; so he stayed because it was peaceful. And he said to me; he said, "You believe that story about the virgin birth?" I said, "Every Word of it." Said, "You don't really believe that, Billy." And I said, "Yes, I do, every Word of it." He said, "Why, it's impossible." Said, "He couldn't have been born like that." Said, "That's against all scientific research." I said, "I don't know what scientific research it's against, but it's not against God's Word." And I said, "God said that He was His Son, and I believe it." He said, "Well, depends on who you think God was. If you want to say Joseph was God, it's all right." I said, "Joseph was a man like you and I. But God is Jehovah, the Spirit of God, the Spirit that brood over the earth." He said, "Oh, that's impossible." He said, "Billy," he said, "corn can't even make... or nothing." Said, "No baby could be born without actual contact between male and female." I said, "Grampy, I hate to dispute your word as an old man, but," I said, "you're wrong there." He said, "You don't really believe that that baby was born." I said, "I believe that Jehovah God overshadowed a little virgin called Mary, and created in her womb a blood cell without knowing any man at all, and from there came the son of God."
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And we're not born into that by His righteous, Holy Blood, without sexual desire. He died at Calvary, giving His blood that we could be free from sin. Brother, you believe that? If you don't, you're lost. That's all. Because it's in the Blood. We're saved by the Blood of God. The... We're the blood of our father. Jesus was the Blood of His Father, which was holy, unadulterated Blood, not by sexual desire, but by Holy Ghost was He born, conceived in the womb of Mary, and was born. I believe it with all my heart. He said, "I just can't see that that could be so." Said, "Because it could not produce without actual contact." And he said, "And no, they had to be..." I said, "Look, Grampy. Will you admit to me then..." After a few days of argument. He met down there in a--in a little old cabin where there's a bunch of men. He started again. I said, "Will you admit to me that He had an earthly mother, but it's impossible for anything to be borned on this earth without having a literal father and mother." He said, "That's exactly right."
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I said, "Well, I want to ask you something then. If you say it's impossible for Him to be here by Jehovah God, the Creator, without a hea--earthly father, yet you give Him credit for having a earthly mother, then how did the first man get here without father or mother?" He had to have a pappy and mammy somewhere, let him be a tadpole, monkey, whatever you want to call it; he had to have a papa and a mama according to him. He's never answered me yet today. He... That's right. And he can't. God the Creator made man in His own image. That's the way I believe it. He said, "Well, Darwin said so-and-so." I haven't got faith enough to believe that. I just believe what God said about it. My faith is what the Lord said.
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And He came into this world under a critics, and went out the way of capital punishment at Calvary, a sin Offering. But His birth was glorious. The Angels of God came down and sing about it. Back from the beginning of time, I believe that He was the woman's Seed that was to bruise the serpent's head. I believe that. And He was to come through the woman, a Saviour. And notice. Then when He was... Before He was born, great things were taking place. There was a remnant of people who were believing, having faith that God was going to send the Messiah. It had got down to just a very few. But God always has had a remnant of people. (Am I hollering too loud?) Always a remnant of people who believe His Word. You believe it? And He's got today, somebody somewhere, who will believe Him. I trust that we're all in that group this afternoon.
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Notice. Then when He spoke to the prophets, and told them all about Him coming... Every one down through the age told about His birth. John the Baptist told about it. When John was a very peculiar child... When his father, Zacharias, his mother, Elisabeth, when they were old and past the age of bearing... Zacharias was a righteous man, God fearing man. God, give us some more Zacharias today, God fearing men and women. Offered prayer in their home, supplications before God. Zacharias was at the temple one day making his offering, burning incense as it was his lot. And God sent an Angel by the name of Gabriel, came down from heaven and stood by the altar.
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Notice what kind of a man He came to now: a man that was a righteous. A righteous man's not a sinless man, but a man that depends on His righteousness by confessing his wrongs to God. Notice. Then the Angel said to--to the priest, Zacharias; He said when the days of his ministration was over, he was to go home, and his
wife was going to conceive and bring forth a child. And they call his name John. Now, Zacharias, yet a priest, a minister of the Word, failed to believe the Angel. Notice. Then the Angel said... When God has spoke anything, He will perform it. Amen. You believe that? He's going to have a Church. I don't know who's in It, but He's going to have a Church without spot or wrinkle. It's somebody. I don't know who it is, but It'll be there. You say, "Where will they get it?" I don't know. But It's going to be there, for God has said so, and God can't lie.
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Notice. Now, when anything's going to happen on the earth, first, God sends a messenger. And that messenger is anointed by an Angel. Now, sometimes minor Angels comes. There's minor Angels and major Angels. Now, this Angel that came was Gabriel, Who stands in the Presence of God. That was something major. And He came down. And when Gabriel comes from heaven, remember, something's going to happen. Gabriel announced the first coming of Jesus, Gabriel will announce the second coming of Jesus. The trump of God shall sound first--an Angel. Notice. Then He came and He announced that John was to be borned. And Zacharias, priest, righteous man, yet without the appropriated faith... You get what I mean? Many people come in the line, say, "I been a Christian for thirty years." That's good. But what about your faith now? God don't heal you on them merits of your salvation; He heals you on the merits of your faith. If ye believe... Hallelujah. Notice. If ye believe... He never said to the Gentile woman anything, but said, "If ye believe..." All right. That's the question. Can you believe God and take Him at His Word? Oh, my, if we'd do that, there'd be a hallelujah sweep the country. Healings would come from everywhere. You'd see men out on the street holding with one hand...?... the other, claiming God healed him. Stay with it. God will bring it to pass. That's right. 'Cause He's under obligation. He swore that He would do it.
Them days, when they made a covenant, they would take a lamb or a beast. They'd write a covenant out, two men between them. They would write it out what it was. And then they would kill a beast. And over this beast, they would tear this thing in two. One man would take one part and one the other. And then, in order to confirm this covenant, that man had to take this same piece of paper and bring it back, and it had to perfectly... Now, here it is. It had to perfectly dovetail with the piece that was tore off from. Now, God made a Covenant with the Church. And He wrote It out-the Bible. And on the day of the atonement, God killed His Son. You believe it? Tore Him apart, and He took His body up to the right hand
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of His Majesty, and sent His Spirit back as a Covenant to us. And at that day, unless we have that same Holy Spirit in us, we can't go in the Body. That's just old sassafras preaching, but it'll save you. That's right. We have to have the Spirit of Christ in us, the same Spirit that come out of that Body, to make up His Body, to go back again with Him. Oh, my. That's right. God made a Covenant with us.
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And then, our priest, he didn't believe God, didn't believe the Angel. And the Angel said, "Because you haven't believed my Word, I'm Gabriel that stands before God, you'll be dumb till the day your baby's born." Zacharias come out and beckoned to the people. They perceived that he'd seen an Angel. Went up into Judaea in the hilly country where they lived. And then, his wife, past the age of bearing, conceived, and hid herself months away, for she was going to be a mother. Then six months later, God sent Gabriel again. Oh, my. I just love Him. I--I get pretty happy once in a while. You may think I'm a little noisy for a Baptist. But I'm one Baptist that's got the Holy Ghost. So I...?... It gets one, gets noisy. So don't think I'm a fanatic, 'cause I'm not. If you felt the same way I do, you'd probably be doing the same thing.
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Notice. He sent Gabriel again to the meanest city on the earth (Minneapolis has a chance then, don't they? All right.) meanest place on the earth, Nazareth, to a little virgin who lived right before God. Poor. Not the rich and haughty. God don't look at your money, or the way you dress. He looks at your heart. Hallelujah! I'm glad that this old time salvation will make a pair of overalls, a tuxedo suit hug one another, and call them brother. Will make a calico dress and silk set together, and call each other sister. Takes away pride... That's what's the matter with the Church today: got too starchy, too much pride. Let down, you're in six foot of dirt anyhow. That's right. Got a soul's got to meet God someday. That's what's the matter with our Pentecost church, and other Holiness churches. They get up too pride. They get a good church and a nice place, and think we want to pattern after the world. That's where God's people always got in trouble, when they patterned after the rest of them. He's our pattern. Hallelujah. The matching time.
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You paint your steps red, and see if the neighbor don't paint his steps red. That's right. Buy a Mercury and see if the neighbor don't want a Mercury. They want to match. I don't care whether my pants match my coat, or my shirt matches my suit; I want my
experience to match God's Bible. That's the kind of a match that Christians ought to have. Not whether Jones has got a big church and I got a little one. I want Christ. Hallelujah! That's right. Yes. There's where it comes, friends.
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Mary, a little innocent virgin, down in Nazareth. And maybe we will call it, wash day. I don't know. Mondays usually at my house when my wife washes. It's always a hard day. We used to have to pack the water and boil it in an old tub behind the house, and... You know what I mean, and wash. And I'd help wash too. Old cedar tub, how... Good times, though. As long as you love the Lord, what difference does it make? Happiness does not consist of how much of this world's goods you own, it's how contented you are with the portion's allotted to you. That's what happiness means. Find Christ and you got happiness. You have. That's true.
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Then here... Look at Gabriel. Comes down from the heaven by the command of God. All those many girls around through there, probably with manicured hair, what you call it, and all that kind of stuff, around like they have. I said the wrong word, but... I don't know about how they do it. But you know... But He came to a simple, plain, humble believer. Hallelujah! That's the way He does today, too. You don't entice God by the way you dress. You entice God by the way you live, and think, and act. God help us to get back to the old fashioned Holy Ghost Gospel. I believe in it, don't you? Old time, backwoods, sky blue, sin killing religion. That's right. It'll help you. It'll save you.
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All right. Here she was going down, probably, to get some water. Let's dramatize it just a minute so the little fellows can pick it up. Maybe she's going down to get some water. In the Oriental type, they packed it on their head, big old pitcher with the wings out on the side here, handles. And I can see little Mary, about seventeen years old, engaged to a man about forty-five, some children. Here she come up along. But she was righteous in her heart, because Joseph was a just man before God. Feel a lot better if women--young ladies today picked something like that today, instead of some little boy with a pack of cigarettes in his pocket.
And not long ago, there was a little girl back there at the Tabernacle, my church. She's a sweet little old girl, a little Christian
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girl. She was running around with some little old boy who packed a flask in his pocket and smoked cigarettes. I couldn't see nothing in the boy myself. Tried for two or three years to get him to be a Christian, but he wouldn't do it. And I asked her, I said, "Sis, what do you see in that boy?" You know what kind of answer she give me, like some of these bobby sock kids today? She said, "Brother Branham," said, "he's just got such cute little feet, and he smells so good." I thought, "What a way to pick a husband." I said, "I'd rather marry a man that was a Christian, that had feet like a box car, and smelled like a pole cat, if he was a Christian." That's right. If he's a Christian. That's right. By the Blood of Christ, we're saved. Hallelujah! He will make a living for you and be a gentleman, if he's saved. All right. Not by the outwardly appearance, but by the heart God judges. It's true.
Years ago, we had a good old fashion church, they tell me. I didn't--wasn't in them in them days. Where the people got together, they sang praises to God, they shouted and praised Him, glorified Him. And today? My! All that's faded away. It's time to get back (That's right.) to the days when God will bless us. Notice, then Mary, on her road up, as we go with our drama. She was walking along, probably singing some hymn, and chanting some Psalm. All of a sudden, a big Light, let's say, swarmed before her. And standing in this Light stood a great Angel. Oh, my, it frightened the little virgin. It would frighten you. I know how I felt myself when one appeared. And the Angel said, "Hail Mary..." In other words, "Stop. Blessed art thou among women, for you have found favor with God." And He said... Now, He begin to tell her about Elisabeth, her cousin. John and Jesus were second cousins. And Mary and--and Elisabeth were first cousins. And said that she'd found favor before God, and she was going to conceive and bring forth a Child without knowing any man.
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Now, I want you to notice something closely. Look when the Angel came to the priest, Zacharias, and told him that Sarah... or Elisabeth was going to have a child by him, he had plenty of examples before that. Hannah had had a child past age of bearing. Sarah, near a hundred years old or better, had brought a child after the age of bearing: plenty examples. But that calloused priest failed to believe God. But Mary never; she never questioned. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." Notice. She didn't wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till she felt something, felt life. She started right then praising God for it, for
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she had His promise. Brother, sister, give us some more Marys here in Minneapolis, who will take God at His Word, not wait till you feel something, or something happens, take His Word and start rejoicing about it. Hallelujah! God said He's the Healer; I believe it. He said He created me. I believe it. Take His Word and start rejoicing about it. Hallelujah! That's the kind of people we need.
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She went right around telling everybody she was going to have the baby, and wasn't no sign or nothing of it. She didn't have to have any signs. Only thing she had to have was God's Word. That's all we have to have. God said so; that settles it with me. What about you? Believe it. Take Him at His Word and say it's so, and just go ahead. That's all you have to have, is His Word. Bound to bring it forth. You believe it, brother? Stay with it. Hallelujah. That's right. Stay with it. It'll bring the results every time. I've never seen it fail. When a true heart come before God and meant business, and took God at His Word, and started testifying of it, and looking to the unseen; then God's promises always produces what is asked for. That's right.
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All right. Mary went around telling the folks that she was going to have a child, knowing no man. Right quick, she... The Angel had told her about her cousin, and up into Judaea she went to see her. Oh, my. There's something about the Gospel, when we hear the good news, we like to tell others, don't we. Everybody gets saved wants to tell somebody else. Everybody gets healed wants to tell somebody else. Away she went to bring her cousin the good news, that she was going to have the child, and how that her cousin was going to have a child. All right. I can see her going up to the house.
And let's do a little drama here again. I can see Elisabeth setting on the porch, maybe doing her--her work, knitting, or ever what she might be doing, and Mary comes up. Real quick, as soon as Mary comes, she sees Elisabeth. My, both Christian women, as we would call it today, ran out, threw their arms around one another, hugged one another, kissed one another, saluting each other. Oh, I like that. I like a good, warm feeling, don't you? I hate that old, cold, formal way we got. People today, they're so far away from one another, you don't care for one another. That's what's the matter. Even church members get the same way. They don't care for one another. Why, if anybody does anything wrong, trying to shove him down. Don't shove him down; pick him up; help him. That's right. Don't try to criticize him and tell somebody else; go to him with your
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arms around him. And today, they got so afraid, they don't even want to shake hands any more. I like a good, old Methodist, pump handle handshake. You know, one of them kind. Get right down and shake.
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Here not long ago, I was in a meeting. There was some kind of a princess, or something or other, I don't know, from... She come to the meeting. She had on about enough clothes to wad a musket shotgun. And if I'd of seen her before the meeting, I'd have went and put my coat on her while I was preaching. I'd have done that. And she come up after the meeting, holding a pair of glasses on a stick, you know, out like this. I don't know... A funny looking thing. No clothes hardly on at all. Come walking up like this. And she said, "I want to meet Doctor Branham." Doctor Branham. The very idea. No doctor, I'm your brother.
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And she come up. And one of the managers brought her over to me, you know, like that, to s--introduce, said, "this is So-and-so," some kind of a big long name. Said, "Well, Doctor Branham," she said, "I'm charmed." She had her hand up like this, going... I grabbed at the hand going down. I said, "Bring it down here so I will know you when I see you again...?..." Oh, I don't like that old put on, starchy. What are you anyhow? You got to stand in the Presence of God someday to give an account for that sinful soul, and answer before God. There she was, standing there all like that.
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Used to be, a long time ago, when the neighbor got sick or something, we went over and cut his corn, cut him some wood if it was wintertime. And today the neighbor can die, and you don't know it till you read it in the paper. That's right. No friendship among one another any more. That's awful. Love... "Because the iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold," said Jesus in Matthew's the 24th chapter. That's true.
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Now, and she begin to talk to Elisabeth, and Elisabeth begin to talk to her. And I can hear Elis... Mary say to Elisabeth... Let's listen to their conversation. I can hear Elisabeth say--or Mary say to Elisabeth, "Oh, I am so happy, because that I've been told that you were going to be a mother in your old age." And of course, she could see that and know that. And I can hear Elisabeth say, "Yes, I'm--I--I am. Oh, I'm so happy about it. But Mary, I--I'm just a little afraid. See, it--it's six months with me as mother. And as far as we know, the baby had no life." She was a little weary yet about it, you know. Little John was there.
And that's altogether subnatural. You see, it's--it's not right. And so about two or three months, life. And here she was all this time and no life yet.
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And Mary said, "The Angel Gabriel met me and told me that I was going to bring forth a Son also. And I was to call His Name Jesus." Well, just the time that she spoke Jesus, little John begin to leap and jump in his mother's womb. Brother, the first time the Name of Jesus Christ was ever spoke, it brought life to a dead baby. What ought it to bring to a Holy Ghost Church when the Name of Jesus...?... power of sickness and sin. Hallelujah! Yes, it's... That Name, Jesus Christ, when it was spoke first by a mortals lips, it brought life to a baby that was dead in his mother's womb. The Bible said, he received the Holy Ghost, and was borned from his mother's womb full of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah! Oh, my. What's the matter with Christians? Wishy-washy, half jellyfish. Get a backbone in you and stand up for God and what's right. And today, stand for what the Bible says, and believe it with all your heart.
Little John begin to leap in his mother's womb for joy, and the Holy Spirit came upon Elisabeth. She said, "Whence cometh the mother of my Lord? For as soon as your salutation came into my ears, my baby leaped in the womb for joy." Oh, my. Think what it done. When Jesus' Name was spoke, brought life to that dead baby. What ought It to bring to your limbs, sir? What ought It to bring to your sickness, to you men setting here, and you over there. Take the name of Jesus with you, everywhere you go; breathe it everywhere in prayer. Be loyal; be holy. Live for God, and God will confirm His Word. Yes, sir. He swore that He would do it. There you are. The Word come into her ears and her baby begin to leap for joy. They was hugging one another.
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After while, after they left, after a few days up there, then they wondered whether this little John, what kind of a boy he would be. When John was borned... We're kindly believe that he was about eight years old or nine; he was taken into the wilderness, not to the theological cemeteries, or seminary. It's all about the same thing. That's about right. Even if I did see one. That's true. You know what a seminary preacher always reminds me of? I'm not hurting your feelings, brother, I hope. But look, it does get some men once in a while. But a seminary preacher reminds me of a incubator chicken, just chirp, chirp, chirp. It ain't got no mammy. That's right. Got a great big...?...
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I'd rather have a man that didn't know split beans from coffee, and knowed God in His heart to deal with my people, than I would some man with enough education to choke a mule, and know nothing about God. That's right. God bless your heart, brother. An old fashion sassafras experience, what we need today. We don't want to know "genealogy," you need a little "kneeanology." That's what man needs today. Back to God; back to the prayer life where...?... speaking out. Pray, hold on to God till it comes to pass. God will do it. Hallelujah! Now, don't get scared with that "Hallelujah," means "praise our God," and He's worthy of all of it. Amen. I believe it. "Amen" means "so be it." You won't scare me when you say it.
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All right. Notice. Here we are now. And little John, when he was born, taking out into the wilderness and stayed with God. When he was... Then Jesus was born, we know all about His birth six months later. When little... When Jesus... John came out of the wilderness, look at him how he come. My, oh, my. He came... And I've often wondered what John was preaching. What a man. People didn't go out to see how he was dressed. He had an old pair of hairy trousers on, a piece of... strip around him out of a camel skin to tie on this old piece of goods he had around him, or an old hairy animal skin around him. And he came out, stood on the banks of Jordan; was no seats to set in. Them may be hard, but they didn't have any at all. But he stirred all the regions around about Jordan. Think of it: no seminary experience, not how to stand up and say, "aaaaamen," like a dying calf. But he--he had a Message from God. That's right. He didn't preach vain human philosophy; he preached Christ, and it stirred the nation.
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God bless your heart, give us some more Baptists like that, and I will believe them. Amen. That's right. I said to a bishop not long ago, "Produce me some more Johns. He preached the Holy Ghost, and he had the Holy Ghost." Yes, sir. He didn't draw any punches either. He put it right out the way they belong. And he preached, and he stirred all the regions. Why? He preached Christ. That's right. Christ preached the way of simplicity will stir the people. It's the power of God. "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto Me." That's true. Notice closely. After Jesus... Then we have to hurry, 'cause I get caught; my time's already gone, about ten minutes left. Oh, my. We just never get through talking
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And how Jesus, when He was baptized, I can see... Let's take a little drama again and... I can see Jesus and Lazarus were friends and played together. They knew not each other. And Lazarus, we're taught, was, kind of was a scribe at the temple, and maybe the--his daugh--his sisters made tapestries and so forth, and done some needle work. Just in a--a drama picture now, I can see Jesus and Lazarus playing together. And after while, Lazarus comes back and tells Jesus, "My, there's a mighty prophet standing down on Jordan. He speaks of One greater than he's a coming, Who will baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire. You ought to go down and see him." And little did he know he was talking right then to the Man.
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You don't know who's setting right next to you today. And in church, and that fellow's made a mistake. That's one of God's sons or daugh--or God's daughters. Don't turn him down, help him. That's right. Put a arm around him. You don't know what God could do with him if you just help him a little. That's right. And then, after while, I can see Jesus go with John--or go with Lazarus down, and was baptized of him in the Jordan. And Jesus went into the wilderness. And when the Father had spoken, had--had testified of His Son, vindicated Him to be His beloved Son in Who He was well pleased... And out into the wilderness He went to be tempted of the Spirit.
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That's just the way it happens. When you get the Holy Ghost, the first thing the devil comes right along for temptations. When you claim your healing, watch the devil come right along to back her up and say it's wrong. That's the time to stand, because you don't testify of what you see or feel. You testify of what you believe. That's right. Stay with it. Out into the wilderness and was tempted of the devil, returned back, His ministry at time of our text (Now, we will get just as quick as we can.) had got to a place where crowds was coming from everywhere and being healed, and listening to His precious Words as they fell from His lips. His ministry got so great until it was pushing out. Oh, my, the people were coming, just tasting of that honey that fell out of His mouth.
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Last night when I was reading that text of Saint Luke the 5th chapter, how that they come to hear His Word, pressed upon Him to hear the Word of God, how glorious... The Church today ought to be
pressing everywhere to hear the Word of God, staying with the Word. We're the church natural--or the Church spiritual, just like Israel was the church natural. We were brought out of bondage, human bondage, just like Israel was brought out of Egyptian bondage. You believe that? We come across... We had a sacrifice to come out by. The blood on the lintel, the door, and on the post, just a cross, perfectly. No one was to go under the blood after once coming in until the call come to go out. They crossed Jordan--or crossed the Red Sea, type of the Blood, sanctifying power of God killing all sin nature, sin behind you, the taskmasters, the cigarettes, the whiskey, the roadhouses and the picture shows. Everything that bothered you back there and hindered your Christian experience died in the Blood of Christ. Yes, sir, brother.
If you've ever once been purged by the Blood of Christ, them things are dead. If it isn't... If you love the world, the things of the world, the love of the Father's not in you. That may be a little hard to be taught here, but it's the truth; let me tell you. I don't have measuring sticks in church. No, not a bit. No, sir. Old, old oak tree you have around here holds its leaves all winter long. Spring of the year comes, you don't have to go pick the old leaves off, just let the new life comes in, the old leaf drops off. That's the way it is. Let Christ come into the heart; the rest of it will take care of itself. That's right. Just get Christ in the heart; it'll take care of the rest.
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And as they marched over, how beautiful; that types our churches today, how that they crossed through the Red Sea. And then, Moses began to sing in the Spirit. Miriam picked up a tambourine, begin to dance just like an old fashioned Holy Ghost meeting: dancing and singing, and praising the Lord. Why? They had the victory. They got the victory. All the tas... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the next morning. And when they went out, Manna laid all over the ground. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... From God out of heaven. They tasted it, and it taste like honey. Oh, my. There's something about honey that's sweet.
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David, a shepherd, used to... The old shepherds of the days gone by used to carry a scrip bag on them. And they put honey in that scrip bag. And when their sheep would get sick, they'd take that honey and pour it on a rock and let the sick sheep go to licking on that rock. When they licked off the honey, they got some of the limestone out of the rock and it healed the sheep. Now, look brothers. I got a whole scrip bag full of honey. Now, I'm going to put it on a Rock called Jesus; you sick sheep get to licking
right quick and see if you don't get well. Yes, sir. Lick with all you can. Hallelujah! And brother, I will put it on Christ Jesus, not on the Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian church, or whatever it may be. It belongs on Christ. Don't lick on your church, lick on God. Hallelujah! That's where the promise is. Not what Doctor So-and-so said about it, but what God said about it. That's the One to believe. Yes, sir.
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Something about that stone, hold to it. In the old days when they used to... A person get mad dog bit, they'd take the--the person that was mad dog bit, and take them to the mad stone. If they stuck to the stone, they got well. If they didn't stick, they died. Oh, the worst devil--or worse mad dog I know is the devil. He's bit all of us in the--in the way. That's right. And I tell you there's a Rock, Christ Jesus. Get to It. Stick to It. Hold on to It. Hallelujah! It'll bring you through. Just stick right to the Rock of Ages, cleft for me; let me hide myself in Thee. Hold on for dear life if you're sick. Watch and see if you don't get well. Just stick to the Rock; It'll bring you through. That's right. Yes, sir.
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Friends, let's look at the honey just a little bit longer. "The wafer, it tastes like honey," He said, "in the rock." Now, that was a type of the Holy Spirit. God told Moses, had Aaron, go get a omer full of it and take it in the place where it would be kept, in the holiest of holies. Let every generation passing down through from then on, when their sons' sons would ask them, "What was it for?," and every priest that was in lineage of the priesthood, knowed as soon as he stepped in behind, into the priesthood, he had a right to taste a bite of the original manna that fell in the beginning. Yes, sir. He could have a bite. As soon as he was ordained in the priesthood, he could taste of the original manna.
How beautiful that is of the Holy Spirit, our sustaining strength to carry the Church on. If they failed to eat manna, they died. And if we fail to eat on the Holy Ghost, we die. If we fail to pray through daily, all the time, keep under the Blood, you'll wither up and die in your Christian experience. And now, friends, as it was on the day of Pentecost when our Manna was poured out... While they were all gathered in one place in one accord, and they wasn't arguing whether they was Methodist, Baptist, or Lutheran. They were in one place in one accord, expecting God to keep His Word. For in Luke 24:49, He said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high." Acts 1 says, "When the Holy Ghost is come upon you, then you'll be witnesses of Me in Jerusalem, Judaea, Samaria, and to uttermost parts of the
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And a hundred and twenty people had gathered together in the upper room, waiting for their sustaining strength to take down among the people. And all of a sudden, there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and It filled all the house where they were setting, cloven tongues appeared upon...?... Out into the streets... And let me tell you something right now. Virgin Mary and them was right among them. That's right. And if God wouldn't respect the holy virgin Mary to get to heaven any other way besides receive the Holy Ghost, woman, what about you? That's right. You'll have to pay the same price, get the same experience, have the same thing that they had back there at the beginning.
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For I tell you, when the power of God begin to fall, they lost all dignity and everything else. Out into the streets, staggering like drunk men, filled with the Holy Ghost...?... Peter said, "The promise is unto you, and to your children, and to them that's far off," even Minneapolis, Minnesota, or "as many as the Lord our God shall call." Brother, I'm telling you, every man that'll pay the price, will step out for Christ has the right to receive the baptism, not something you make-up, but original, like fell in the beginning, like they had on the day of Pentecost. Hallelujah! Going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, so you might as well get used to it. That's right. Amen.
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Let me tell you something more. The Holy Ghost is a real product. You don't have to receive some duplicate or something, wait till you get a taste of the original Manna that fell on the day of Pentecost. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. There they was, received the Holy Ghost. That's... You know what's the matter with the church today? It needs a good, old time, Saint Paul revival and the Bible Holy Ghost taught in It again. That's right. Takes fire coming down from heaven...
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Remember when I was a little boy, I was just walking along the creek one time; I seen an old turtle. That was the funniest looking thing I ever seen, an old terrapin. He throwed his legs like that. My little brother and I looked how he was walking. We got up to him, and he got up in his shell. Just some of these cold formal Christians, like when you go to talk to them about Divine healing, "Oh, Doctor So-and-so said that's wrong." Oh, my. Draw up in your shell. That's all right. All right. I said, "Let's make him walk again." I got me a switch and like to
beat him to death. He wouldn't walk. You can't beat it out of him. That's all. He will just draw up and puff and blow. So I said, "I will tell you what I will do. I will make him go. I will take him down here at the water and I will fix him up." I took him down to the creek and I put him down. Just a few bubbles come up and that was all. Brother, you can baptize them this way, that way, sprinkle them, pour them face forward, backwards. He's goes down a--a dry sinner and comes up wet one. He's still a sinner. It ain't your baptism in water that saves you.
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I will tell you what I did. I went and got me a piece of paper and made a little fire, and set the old boy on it. He walked then, I--I mean say. That's right. And what the Church needs today is an old fashion Gospel of fire--fire of the Holy Ghost fall along the altar, and in every heart. It'll make a church, sure as the world. That's right. Yes, sir. Get the power of God back. Get the Holy Spirit back in the people's hearts again where you can have a living faith in God, when you say Divine healing, "Yes, I accept It." Hallelujah. That's right. Back to the Bible and back to the Holy Spirit. Sure, how wonderful...
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Now, Jesus, in His ministry, going forth hearing His precious Word. It come to a place where He had to leave the home. And when He went out, sorrow and troubles came in. And when He goes out of your home, sorrow and troubles come in. When He goes out of your church, confusion and backslidings is coming in. When you...?... trouble's on its road, keep Him with you all the time. Now, in this case, of course, He wasn't drove away, but His work pulled Him away. And as soon as He went away, Lazarus, a bosom friend, took sick to die. They sent for Jesus to come pray for him. And instead of Jesus coming, He just went on. And they sent again. And He just went on, seemingly to ignore it. Jesus knowed all things that the Father had showed Him.
That's the reason... (Friends, I'm out of time.) And now, if you'd send to your pastor, and he didn't come and pray for you when you were sick, well, you'd say, "The old hypocrite, I will go over and join Jones' church, or somebody." That's the reason your pastor can't do nothing for you. You've got to have faith in him, and confidence in him as a man of God, and know that all things work together for good to them that love God. That's right. Now, your pastor didn't tell me to say that either. But I know this: you've got to have confidence in the man you're dealing with, or it won't do you any good to do any dealing. That's true. You've got to believe your pastor. He's a good God saved man,
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preaching the Gospel, stand behind him with everything you got. If He isn't, go somewhere where they do do it. That's right. Now, that clears it up for both sides. Now, remember this. If he preaches the Gospel, stay with him, help him, 'cause he's man sent from God, ordained of God to feed your soul.
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And now, when they sent for Jesus, He went on. I believe that Jesus then knew what was going to happen, Why, if you'll take... When He passed by the pool of Bethesda... Looky there. There laid a great multitude of people. When the Bible speaks a great multitude, probably mean ten thousand at the least, of lame, halt, blind, withered--withered, blind, halt, dumb, waiting for the moving of the waters, for God sent an Angel down certain seasons. Is that right? Then healing came with the Angel, didn't it? Wasn't the water, but the Angel. What if the water said, "Look what a great water I am." No, it wasn't the water; it was the Angel. 'Cause when the Angel was gone, it was just water (Is that right?) just the water.
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And Jesus passed by this pool and seen all that great multitude, and He healed one man. He wasn't crippled; he had an infirmity for thirty-eight years. And He healed him, and walked away, and left every one of those cripples laying there. Is that true? Saint John, the 5th chapter. Left them every one... Looked like that His compassionate heart would've went out and healed them all. He probably would. But watch the 19th chapter--the 19th verse of the same chapter when the Jews was questioning. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son." Is that right? God had to show Him first. So He didn't say He was a Divine healer. He waited for God to show Him a vision of what was going to happen, then he went and done it.
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Isn't that just the same way He's working today? What God says, then it's going to be that way. But you can't say nothing till God says it first. So if somebody thinks... Somebody said the other day... I heard someone say, "Oh, it's hocuspocus." If you think it's hocus-pocus, then what do you think about Jesus Christ? That's right. He said, "The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise." He had to wait for God to show Him, and then He went and done it. Well, He done nothing unless God showed Him first.
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I believe He seen the resurrection of Lazarus. That's right. And
when He went...?... then He went out. After while, said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." Disciples said, "He doeth well." Then He told them in plain words, the way they'd understand it. "He's dead." He said, "But..." Listen, I love this. He said, "And I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." He knew what the Father had told Him to do, for He said, "I go wake him." And away He went, started back. Now, when Lazarus got sicker and sicker, and then sent Him. Oh, how discouraging. Sent for the pastor to come pray for him. They'd left their church. They'd left everything to follow this Man, this Divine Healer, and no--no hopes of Him coming. He just went on, ignored their message. What a dark hour. Then the first thing you know, death struck, killed Lazarus. Took him out and buried him.
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The first day passed, oh, my, how dark. Second day passed, dark. Third day, fourth day, all hopes was gone. He's already a rottening in the grave, and the skinworms was going through him. All hopes was gone everywhere. Discouraged, their Pastor had let them down, their loved One. The miracle Worker had let them down, didn't come to the rescue. And there was Mary and Martha left alone-mother and father gone, now just them two girls left alone in the world. Someone come along to--to encourage them. They set in sackcloth, black veils, and weeping and mourning over their brother. And now, in the very darkest of hours, then Jesus came along. That's just the way He does it. Amen. Brother, it may be your darkest of hour right now. But Jesus comes along just at the darkest of hour. When I think of it, it's the darkest hour the woman with the blood issue had ever seen; she spent all of her money. Then Jesus come along. It was the darkest of hour that Jairus had ever seen; his little daughter laid dead. Then Jesus came along. It was the darkest of hour that Peter and the apostles had ever seen on the sea; looked like they was going to drown. Then Jesus came along.
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Oh brother, it was the darkest hour I ever seen two years ago at Mayo's clinic, when the best of the doctors walked in, said, "Reverend Branham, you're a hopeless. You'll never never get over it. You're finished for life." The darkest hour I ever seen, then Jesus came along. Oh, my. Oh, how I love Him. Yes, sir. How I think of Him, how He's done for me. I think of:
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see.
So blind they had to lead me around by my arms, I knowed not where I was going. Now, my eyesight's 20/20. Laying there a miserable wretched thing, dying, then Jesus came along. What a wonderful... How He comes just in the darkest of hours.
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Then somebody said... I can hear them say, "Say, that there Divine Healer that wouldn't come when Lazarus was alive, He's sneaking back in town now. He's out there." Now, look. Mary--or Martha, excuse me, read the story of how the Shunammite woman had a baby. And she, by... And when she--the baby died, she didn't know why it died. But she knowed if she could get to Elijah, the prophet, that God was in the prophet. And whatever... She could find out what God meant by it, when she could get to the prophet... So she told them to saddle a horse and go forward, and stop not. So she commanded it. And she went to the prophet, and the prophet said, "Here, I'm going to send you an anointed cloth, in other words. I'm going to give you my staff. Go lay it on the baby." She said, "As the Lord lives and your soul lives, I will not leave you." She knowed God was in the prophet. She stayed right with the prophet till she found out.
Elijah went with her to the death chamber, and there walked up-and-down the room, not praying for the baby. Walked up-anddown the room, then took and stretched his body out over the baby. Lord God worked in Elijah. Hallelujah! Oh, Christians. You don't realize what I'm talking about I don't believe. See, looky here. God was in Elijah. And...?... And Elijah knew it. The woman knew it. And he laid... He knowed. That's the reason he sent that staff. He knowed that everything he touched was blessed, for God was in him. Oh, my. You see what I mean? God was in him. And if he touched anything, it was blessed. He didn't pray for the baby; he stretched his body over the baby. And the God that was in Elijah... The breath come into the baby, and he sneezed seven times, and rose up well.
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And Mary knew surely--or Martha, rather, if God was in Elijah, surely He was in His Son. Oh, my. She knowed if she could get to Him, she could find why her brother died. Right out of the city. I can hear some of them saying, "Now, look, where you going now." She pushed on by them old critics, went right on out. Jesus hadn't got in town yet, and she got to where He was. Now, watch. Looked like she had a right to upbraid Him. Looked like she had a right to scold Him, and say, "Why didn't You come? Oh, I thought You could heal." If she would, the miracle would have never
taken place. It's your approach to a Divine gift what brings the results. It's the way you come to it. Isn't that right? The way you approach anything...
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She come in the right approach. She came out; she fell down on her knees, and she said, "Lord..." Didn't disregard His title. "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother had not died." Oh, my. That touched Him. She knew if she could get right into His heart, she'd get what she wanted. Said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." I like that. "Even now, Lord. He's dead, been buried four days. Undertakers taken him out there and embalmed his body, and put him away. He's been dead four days, and he--he's just mortifying in the earth there. "But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." Oh, brother, sister, you might've tried everything there is in the world. You might've tried to get well. You men setting here with cancer, you might've done everything; no doubt you have. "But even now, Lord, right now." When? "I will wait until tonight's service." No. "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, He will do it." When? Now. He's setting at the right hand of the Father, looking down right now, ready to make intercessions. "But, Brother Branham, I've--I've been sick." "But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." He's waiting for you to say, "Lord, I believe You. Lord, I believe You. Even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." "But Brother Branham, I--I'm deaf in one ear." "But even now, Lord." "Well, I've been prayed for before." "But even now, Lord. Oh, my. Whatever You ask God." "Brother Branham, I've been trying to get the Holy Ghost for a long time." "But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." There you are. That's what it takes. That's what faith is.
Notice. He said, "Thy brother shall rise again." Now, let's straighten Him up. "My, thy brother shall rise again." Watch the old prophetic powers now coming right together, the right place, the right person, the right time. "My brother's dead and in the grave. But You, if You'd have been here, he wouldn't have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will do it." That struck Him. That touched Him. Faith... Never been done before, faith. "Thy brother shall rise again." She said, "Yea, Lord. He will rise in the last days." Them Jews
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believed in the general resurrection. "Oh, he will rise again. He's a good boy. He will raise in the last days; I know." Look at Him. Oh, my. There wasn't... There's no beauty you should desire Him. Oh, He was probably a little frail looking Fellow. He said... Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. But He straightened His little body up, said, "I am the Resurrection and Life."
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Oh, my. That's it. "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?" She said, "Yea, Lord. I believe..." Look here. "I believe that You are the Son of God, that You've been said to be that was to come into the world. I believe what You said You was. What God has done for You, that's the truth. I believe every Word of it." "Where have you buried Him?" Oh, my. Here's where a woman told me not long ago, when I was... She said, "Jesus wasn't the... divine." Said, "He was a good man, a good teacher, so forth, be good for people to live by that. Just like with Santa Claus, stories for the children. But," said, "he wasn't divine." I said, "Oh, yes He was Divine." Said, "No, he wasn't." I said, "He was." She said, "Look, I can prove it. When He went down to the grave of Lazarus, He cried like a man." I said, "Yes. I believe He was more than a man. I believe He was a God-man. I believe that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. I believe God lived in His son, dwelled in His Son, and reconciled the world to Himself by His Son." Do you believe that? I do with all my heart. And He was more than a man. He was God the... God the Son here on earth. Everything the Father had was in Him then. And I believe that He was more than a man, He was a Godman. And when He went down to the--to the grave, He cried like a man. That's true. But when He stood there, held Himself and said, told them to take away the stone, said, 'Lazarus, come forth.' When He raised the dead, He was more than a man. He was God. He was a man when He was crying, but He was God when He raised the dead. That's right. Yes, sir, He was Divine.
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And I tell you, when He come down off the mount that night, He was hungry like a man, when He was looking on the fig tree for something to eat, when He was hungry like a man. But when He took five biscuits and fed five thousand, He was God that was in His Son. He was a God-man. I know that He was. He was a man that night when He was laying in that boat out there, all the waves dancing around. Ten thousand devils of the sea swore they would drown Him. He was a man when He was laying there on
the back of that boat, tired and weary. But when He raised and put His foot on the brail, and looked up, said, "Peace, be still." It was God speaking through His Son. Hallelujah! I believe He was a God-man. He was more than a man. He was the Divine One that God sent from out of heaven. Yes, sir. I know He cried like a man when He was dying at the cross, mid rendering rocks and darkening skies, my Saviour bowed His head and died. That's right. He was a man when He was dying. But when He rose on the third day, He proved He was God. That's right. God was in His Son. He raised Him up. He was Divine. I believe every word of It.
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I can see Him walking down through that place there then, to the grave. Said, "Take ye away the stone." Look like if He'd have been a gentleman, He'd have took it away Himself. But He asked them women to. Why? You've got your part to do. Yes, sir. You've got to do your part. Said, "Take ye away the stone." And they took away the stone and the stink was so bad. And they was about to have suffocated there on account of that, a dead human body. Then I can see Him straighten His little self up again; said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hearest Me always. But for these that stand by is why I said..." He'd already seen the vision. He knew what was going to happen. Then He cried with a loud voice and screamed, said, "Lazarus, come forth." I believe, brother, if He hadn't have called him specifically by the name of Lazarus, I believe the general resurrection would've took place then. That's what I think about Him. That's right. I believe the resurrection of every dead thing that had ever died would've come out of the grave if He had just said, "Come forth." Yes, sir. But He called, "Lazarus, come forth." I'm glad today that my name's on His Book. "One day He will call too, and I will answer," said Job.
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But there, He called on Lazarus, a man that had been dead four days, his body rotten, his soul four day's journey somewhere out in... I don't know where it was, neither do you, so we won't argue about that. But that man's soul had been gone four days, returned back. And a dead man stood on his feet and lived again. Believest thou this? Yes, sir. I believe it. I believe He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Believest thou this? I believe He was the One that spoke to the seas, and they stopped. Believest thou this? I believe that He said in His Word, "These things that I do, greater shall you do." Believest thou this? I believe that He said, "If you abide in Me, My Word abides in you,
you can ask what you may, and it will be given to you." Believest thou this? I believe that in the last days there'd come a falling away; men would be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. I believe we're living in that day. Believest thou this? He said, "In that day the branch of the Lord would be beautiful." He prophesied He'd have a Church that these signs would follow them that believe. In Mark 16, He said, "In My Name, they shall cast out devils; they'll speak with new tongues; take up serpents or drink deadly things; lay hands on the sick, they shall recover. I believe that we're living in that day right now. Believest thou this?
I believe His Spirit's right here this afternoon. I believe He said that whosoever will call upon the Name of the Lord will be saved. Believest thou this?" I believe that every man or woman standing here right now under the unction of the Holy Ghost could accept Jesus right now and receive the Holy Ghost. Believest thou this? I believe He'd heal every person in this building right now if you'd just only touch Him. You... Believest thou this?
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Three years ago an Angel met me in the realms that are... in the room and said, "If you get the people to believe you and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer." Believest thou this? I believe He's here now. Believest thou this? I believe He wants to heal right now. Believest thou this? I believe He wants to heal these men of cancer. Believest thou this? I believe He wants to heal that little crippled boy. Believest thou this? I believe He wants to so fill this place with the Holy Ghost right now. Believest thou this?
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Let us stand and give Him praise then. My, here He is...?... You want the Holy Ghost? You want Christ in your life? You want to be healed? Now, while He's here, accept Him right now upon the basis of the Word. Say, "Lord, at Thy Word. Here I am, Lord. I believe now that You're going to heal me. I believe that You're going to save me. Believe You're going to give me the Holy Ghost." Let every hand go up now. Let every heart look to God while we pray. Do you love Him? I'm going to ask Him... I asked Him this afternoon 'fore I come down here, to fill you with the Holy Ghost and heal you. I believe He's going to do it. Do you believe it? Believest thou this? Just ask Him now. Do you love Him?
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Our Father, we've gathered here this afternoon for no other
purpose but to glorify Your Son Jesus, and now, while He's moving through this building, O God, out there, we will never see this day again. It'll become in the days after while that we will have to meet You in judgment with what we've did with it. O God, I pray now, as the Holy Spirit has spoke to us through this afternoon that You, God, will fill their hearts just now, Lord. Send down the Holy Ghost. Heal every sick person in this building right now. May they receive the Word with gladness, and be filled with the Holy Ghost just now in the Name of Jesus Christ. How many believes? How many believes they're...?... Say, "Praise the Lord." How many accept it, say, "Praise the Lord." Hallelujah!
Let every person that's standing in here, every person in here, lay your hands on somebody standing by you. Put your hand over on somebody standing by you. Lay hands on one another. Now, God's going to do this. I know He is. Oh, my. Look at there now, friends. Hands on one another. Old mother, laying her hand on a little baby. Old dad's laying hands on mother. Oh, there it is. That's what I'm talking about. Now, receive it, friends. There it is. O God, precious Angel of the Lord, fill just now with the Holy Spirit, go with each and every one of them. I pray...?... Grant it, Lord. Believe Him...
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...?... Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening, audience...?... Very happy to be here again this afternoon to speak to...?... we pray for the sick...?... all around on time...?... make life's burden's a little lighter, by making it here a little more pleasant... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
I wish to read some out of the Bible... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Brother Baxter has just been reading the first service. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Reading out of Joshua...?... the 6th verse. Be strong and of... good courage: for unto this people shall thou divide... the inheritance, the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong... very courageous... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] May the Lord add...?... to the Word...?... pray...?...
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Our heavenly Father, we thank You tonight for the privilege that we have of gathering together. We thank Thee for our nation,
that we still have freedom of speech and the right to worship God according to the dictates of our conscience...?... Long may our land be blessed with freedom's holy light...?... Father, tonight as we've gathered together to pray for sick people, we pray that You'll meet with us, and will help us to encourage the people to give them faith in Thy Word and Thy Spirit a-present tense now to deliver us from the afflictions that has been put upon the people. Bless all the ministers, Father, everywhere, especially these tonight who are needy, all the people. If there be any unbelievers with us, may they too become believers on Thy Son, Jesus.
We think of one time we were aliens, cut off from God without mercy. And Christ died in our stead, the Innocent for guilty. And now, we are the sons and daughters of God. And it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know we'll have a body like His own glorious body, for we shall see Him as He is, free from sickness, free from pain. God, that glorious day of redemption is coming; for all nature is groaning for that day. Now, we're on the very threshold of the door to break forth into that great golden age that all the prophets has spoke of. Signs and wonders has been wrought by Thy servants throughout the land to turn the people back to a knowledge of the Presence of Jehovah God in our midst. Bless us tonight. Bless all the sufferers. And anoint Thy servant, Lord, to pray for the sick, and anoint the sick to believe You. For we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Child, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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I would just take a few more moments of your time. A little later on in the services... The reason we're not trying to make the first so long like this...?... There's no one who ever will know, I guess, this side of... after we get to glory, what a life, what that takes out of you, and you're...?... wrestling with supernatural powers...?... The very life itself leaves me. Sometimes in the meeting I lose anywhere from eight, ten, fifteen pounds. And that's in a service. And that's how I come to detect and know where those spirit...?... are. That's... It's something like a strength of both sides.
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And so long as we're getting acquainted, then down towards the last of meeting, I just throw my whole soul right into it. And it's trying to get every one prayed for that we possibly can. While these services are going on...?... for many wants to come up to be prayed for. It's your faith in God that heals you. And you must have faith. And at one thing, is the way of approach to faith, and a way of approach to God. There's always an approach, a provided approach
to... God has in two ways of all things, that's a right way and a wrong way. And your way and my way is the wrong way. God's way is always the right way. No matter how unright it seems to us, yet God's ways are true and right. They're past understanding. But God works in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
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Now, you can only come through faith, faith, not in my faith, but in your faith, the individual faith. I might have faith in Jesus to be saved. There's been a many does not have faith to be saved. You cannot be saved until we have faith. I have faith in healing. Maybe you do not have faith in healing. Well, then it isn't for you. Someone asked me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham..." He's a minister of a church who does not believe in Divine healing. I would not criticize any churches. Many people believe...?... Everybody has a right, just like you have the right. Just believe anything that we want... And so he taught...?... If you do not believe in Divine healing, then... If I was to have that... If I didn't believe in It, I wouldn't be here. I'd be doing something else.
But the minister said to me, said, "Brother Branham, if you... If God has met you and give you that to pray for the sick," said, "you could go out here to the hospital, and say, 'All you sick people, rise up, follow me out.' And if you're truly a man sent from God," said, "every one of them would have to follow you out there." Said... I said, "Well, brother, were you called of God to preach the Gospel of the saving grace of Christ?" He said, "I was." I said then, "Now, you go down here to the saloon, tell all those drunk people and all, 'Come on, follow me out. You're all saved." He said, "I could if they'd believe me." I said, "So could I, if they would believe me." So there it is, if you believe. It's only by faith we believe. Now, signs and wonders are done. Truly, they are prophetic gifts and so forth. Many people might not want to believe that.
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He said... That man said, "I do not believe it." I said, "It wasn't for you. It was for believers. That's who it is meant for, not for unbelievers, but to those who believe." These signs shall follow them that believe. And that's what Divine healing is based upon. Sometimes God does permit special things to happen...?... the faith of believer... We all believe in a measure. But maybe some have a little more faith than others. A few nights, while I'm in the preliminary part of the services while we're waiting for the crowds to gather, I take the privilege of doing
just a little speaking, so in--in order to let the people kinda understand what is the operation of the Divine gift.
Now, the ministers and so forth, they comb over and over and over things. But yet, I feel like it's not...?... to the people. And now, some of them, that makes them have to hold over a little while. I-I'm sorry to have to do that. But I would rather you hold over just a little while, and stay a longer in the meeting and really get healed, than to run through something and not know what you're doing. Go on out and then you be criticizing the meetings and so forth. That's... If you were down here at Mayo's clinic there, or a psychiatrist or some of them, they told you to stay there a month, you'd stay...?... But that's all right. But this is where we're trying to get to the people... And anyone...
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Divine healing's in reach of every person, and every person that is a Christian has a right to pray for the sick. That's right. If there's any among you sick, call the elders. That's the deacons in your church. See? And then if they confess their faults one to another, and pray one for the other... Right there you are. And ask any man, any person... You don't have to wait till some Divine healing service comes into the city. That's not God's program. If you're sick, get some good Christian to help you pray, till you have faith in that prayer. That's it. And that's all. Call your pastor. That's what he's for, to come and pray with you. And if he's a godly man... 'Course I believe that all true ministers are godly men. That's right. They're all born again Christians. They're godly people. That's true. And every one of them has a perfect right...
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Now, there may be things that God has added to the church, which stimulate faith. But now, when I'm gone, healing isn't gone. Healing ought to be more than it was 'fore we come here. See, see? That's the purpose, is to get the people in their mind in the spirit of the latter days... We're in the latter day. You believe that? We are. The world is in the spirit of the latter days. But the church is not in the latter day Spirit yet. See? In other words, we may be in a portion, but God wants His church so in the Spirit, till they'll just fit in just anywhere God were to lead them to. The latter days or rending of the world... My, my. Look at the places: eating, drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, and all the immorals there is in the world. The devil sent down his troops in the latter day spirit. But we ministers haven't got the church yet in that Spirit. And we must be in that condition in order to be caught away in the rapture
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That's why... I remember one time down in a museum. I'm a great lover of art and nature. I saw a picture, and I was wondering how much that picture cost. And it had a value on it, the original picture... Today I seen a picture in the city here. "Christ, The Unseen Guest at the House." I went in and they was pricing it. And it was just a photograph off of the original masterpiece... And the masterpiece was valued way in the thousands and thousands of dollars. The artist said, "Why, the man who..." So I said, "It taken a man his lifetime to paint that picture." And before any picture can be painted, before it's painted, any masterpiece, first it has to go through the hall of critics, pass all these critics. And then if it passes those critics, then it's hung in a hall of fame.
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everywhere. That's in the Pentecostal church in the world...?... over a millions conversions...?... worrying about...?... the baptism of... the little not long... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The people begin to laugh at them. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] [There is a double recording which makes it difficult to understand--Ed.]...?... out of that, I never come out. They put me out...?... I had brothers and sisters, birds of a feather. He said, anyhow, you know, doves scattered and don't have no fellowship one with the other. And the old scavenger will eat anything, but the dove watches his diet. See?
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Now, notice closely. The little church is kicked off in an alley, called holy-roller, fanatics. But all down through there, God was painting a picture to gaze at it. One of these mornings, He's going to hang It in the hall of fame too. That's right. And all of those who laughed and made fun, will see her when she goes out...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Aren't you glad you're numbered with them tonight? I'm happy to be here and to have people who believe in God, and believe in--in His miraculous works, and His second coming again... Now, I hope to speak to you upon a--a little something here to help you along, and that is concerning Divine healing. If you do not approach Divine healing right, you will fail to receive your healing. And many many times, people want to be so tranquilized, they want this, that, or the other. And they burst through kinda like...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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Ask the person...?... to set down. The person who won't settle
down...?... We're in no hurry. Ask them if they're...?... That's what's the matter with world today...?... We're too much of a rush...?... Business Men, take a inventory of yourself before God. Sometime when the meeting goes over a hour or a hour and thirty minutes, "Oh, my. What kind of a meeting." Yes, sir...?... Remember how long you...?... be here. You remember you're the cancer...?... for that. If we haven't got faith enough for healing of our bodies, how you going to go in the rapture? 'Cause this mortal must take on immortality... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And signs and wonders are being done and all of the people that's getting faith to believe...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] tribulation of souls.
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nobody knows. As soon as these was gone the tribulation was on. And that was for...?... The...?... will never... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... a rapture...?... also. Now, you approach Divine healing... The first thing, what is Satan?...?... you all about. You need to go on listening...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And I said, "Oh, my." If he'd have had me walk if I was a little old stubby handed boy out playing marbles, 'cause here I am coming into...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... I have his boys setting there if you're in the back almost as large as I am. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... just seemed like it's been yesterday. I hope...?... God... I'd think, "Well, maybe the boys won't...?... first thing they're gone. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And yet we're taught when we're...?...
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us to die like this?" God made us to live forever. Sin brought on death. So remember, sickness is a--is the substance of death, 'cause sin... Sin is the first. Sin brought sickness. Without sin, there is no more sickness. Because sickness... But first I want you to know, is of the devil. Now, it's an old fashion thought that I'm going to speak of here in a moment. But now, some of you modern people with modern ideas might different with this. But I'm not taking my thoughts in teaching upon modern theory; I'm teaching it upon the Word of God. And the Word calls these things spirits. "When the deaf and dumb spirit went out of the man, he could speak and hear." Is that right? The doctor says that his nerves died in his ears. Well, he's deaf. Like this man over there on the other side of the platform is deaf. What does that? Why, the nerves never died all over him. Why, the nerves just died in his ears, or made him deaf. Well, what makes that deafness like that? Why did the nerve die? Now, a doctor can only work upon what he can see or feel. That's the only thing that a doctor... He can look through a glass, or he could through a fluoroscope, X-ray pictures, or he could feel it with his
hands, feel a growth, or whatever it is. Now, that's what he has to work on. But when it comes to the nerves, or if there's any...?... there, he knows the nerve is dead. But what killed it? There's the mix-up. See?
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Now, I figure it upon the authority of the Word of God, it was a spirit which cannot be seen. Now, here it is. Listen closely now. And if you people, for a night or two, will bear with me, and then the other people come in, you encouraged them. See? And...?... the vision. Now, watch closely. Now, here's my hand. I'm going to put a transparent band around it, say like that. Why, my hand would begin to come dead; circulation's cut off. All right, I can't use that hand after while. I go to the doctor. The doctor looks, and he'd say, "Now, Mr. Branham, the only thing that I know that the nerves in your hand is dead." Well, I'd say, "Doctor, what killed it?" Well, he'd said, "I don't see no reason at all. Why, I looked, and it--it just goes up so far and it's dead. I don't know, something had happened there." Well, he--if he couldn't see it or feel it, and he'd cut in there, "I don't see no reason."
Well, the--the nerves just don't operate beyond this line; they just died from there. Now, but the hand's dead. Now, what's happened? Now, I'm going to take that like the ear of a person, or the eye, or wherever it may be, any part of the body. To my thought of this and to, I believe, the Bible doctrine, Satan's bound that thing there. And there it has no circulation. Now, if I take this band off of here, I do not amputate the fingers and so forth. But here's the main. You have... 'Fore you can find the cure, you have to find the cause. See? But here's the cause. And then Satan... And we know that--that to remove that... Now, that hand wouldn't be well right now, but it would be different. And the circulation will begin to circulate. It'll begin to hurt, and burn, and feel a little different. And after while, a few days, the hand will be all right. If you give nature a chance, it'll function correctly.
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Now, disease germs... That's just the power of Satan when it's bound a person. And when that spirit is cast off of there, nature will take care for itself. That person will go to hearing. They'll go... Or whatever is wrong with them, they'll get well. Now, in my work for my Master, I deal with spirits altogether, nothing natural. It's altogether spirits. And dear friends, I'll have to face this at the judgment bar of God. I want to go to heaven. I got a wife in heaven; I got a baby in heaven. I got loved ones there. Above all,
I've got One Who died for me: Jesus. He means just as much to me as He does to any of you out there. I can't help what critics say. I can only state what I know is the truth. And if you'll be truthful and sincere, God will bless it. God wants you to be truthful and sincere.
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Now, let's just find out what diseases are. I guess the number one enemy today, of course, is heart trouble. But that's not a germ disease altogether. But the number one enemy in the germs are cancers, second is tuberculosis. Cancer's one of the major things. Let's speak of that just a moment. But in here in this way, I don't get a chance to turn around. And I'm not turning my back to you, but I--I... It's just natural to talk in the face of this microphone.
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But notice. A germ... What is a germ? Now, we take a cancer, what is it first? Why, it's a growth, tumor, cataract, goiter? They're growths. Is that right? And they become malignant and cancers. Well, a growth is a multiplication of cells. And let's dig down below that now. Below that growth is a--is a growth, a group of cells. Then it goes down to the germ. Well, what is a germ? A germ is a teeny little cell, teeny little thing that can only be seen, not with the natural eye, but through microscopes, glasses. But below that then; it's got life. It moves. It's got the life in it. What's below that in that germ? It becomes spirit. And there's only two resources that spirits can come from: that's either from God or the devil. There's no halfway between them. There's no halfway Christian. Did you ever see a drunk sober man? Did you ever see a black white bird? You never seen a sinner saint. You're either a Christian or you're a sinner. That's what I like about you full Gospel people: you put the line down, and you're--you're on one side or the other. If you're borned again... If I'm borned a human, I'm a human. When you're born a Christian, you're a Christian.
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Now, that germ, let me just take this a little farther. Do you realize that you came from one little germ? Is that right? Now, it's...?... You came from one germ. There was a time when you wasn't nothing. Sir, you setting here, you there, any of you, myself, was one little germ. Well, the--the germ of life comes from the male sex. We know that. Here, for instance, we can have a... Well, just like spring. Birds make their nests, and they lay their eggs. An old mother bird could make her nest and lay it full of eggs. And she could lay that nest full of eggs without being with the male bird too. And she could get on
them, and warm those eggs, and hover them, and stay there till she got so poor, till she couldn't get off the nest. And not one of those eggs would hatch. They would lay right there and rot in the nest (Is that right?), because they haven't been with the mate. She hasn't been with the male bird; and therefore, they're not fertile. That reminds me a whole lot of these old cold formal churches. You just hug them around, and twist them around, and try to pat them into the church, a nest full of rotten eggs, 'cause they haven't been with the Male, Christ Jesus. They're not believers in the first place. That's right.
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What we need today is a good old fashion cleaning out, and getting right with God. That's exactly right. To bring--to bring it back-people back to a living faith in God, there to say it's right or it's wrong. God grant the day when men and women will be what they claim to be. That's right. It's... Now, notice. But when the--the male... See, God foreordained that. That's the way with... We reason we believe that Jesus was of a virgin birth. You hear a lot in the full Gospel churches argue concerning that. Look, I believe that Mary was a virgin. She knew nothing about any man. But Jehovah God overshadowed her, and created in her womb a Blood Cell, which was by Himself a created power. And from that Blood Cell came the Man Christ Jesus. And He was the Blood of His Father by a virgin birth. And it's... That's the Blood that I'm preaching about tonight, that both saves and heals, that unadulterated Blood of the Son of God. And friends, if you don't believe that, then you can't be saved. No other way, but through the Blood of Jesus Christ which is the Blood of His Father God, unadulterated, no--no sex mixed into it at all. It was a created birth. You believe that? That's the true Gospel, friends. Now, let's...
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Thank you very much. Good evening. Happy to be out again tonight. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I think that that's just their regular routine, for me singing that when I come to the platform each night. But it is a great privilege for me to be out here. Anyone who stands and ministers the Word of Life to people, it's a privilege that God has given them. And I'm very happy for this--for this part of it. And I trust that it'll be a great meeting.
Many peoples are being healed that doesn't know about it right now. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... meeting, that many times come here, just praying for the sick. And under the anointing of the Spirit, you feel something that's whirling, things like that. And there it is. It--it's surety I feel...
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It would... The person's faith is a pulling. Then when it lets up, it's over. And that's how sometimes, I can tell out into the audiences of how the people are--are healed. It's because that they... I feel It tugging and pulling, and just it's like someone pulling my...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... and--and lets up... Sometimes I just want to turn around, because I've got my mind on something else. I'm watching--watching every move. And I just let it go, because I know the person will notice in a few days that something's happened to them. See? And a man was just testifying of some...?...
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See, when I speak of this One Who has come down from heaven, a gift sent from God, and I just declare Him here. I'm just His mouthpiece. I do nothing but what He says. And when I can get you to believe Him, He'll go anywhere wherever you are and confirm His--the Word of God. Now, that is true. And it is true. Many people, now, that... Seems like when I speak anything else besides the Holy Spirit, I feel like something just kind of tightens down, that it just a little bit, that it might be a little bit misunderstood. So if you'll just let me, for a moment or two, tell you...
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You see, when I speak of an Angel, I--I do not mean the worship of an Angel. Does everyone understand? I do not mean a wor... No, no, no. No, you don't worship an Angel; you worship God (See?), not an Angel, but the ministry of Angels... I believe that every one, that the Angels of God watch over us. And I believe that-that Jesus said, "Their Angels always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven." I... Now, my people formerly were, behind me, were Catholic. And that might be just a... You might think it was a little bit of a Catholic idea, but it--it--it isn't. No. I believe...
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Someone told me here not long ago, said, "Brother Branham," said, "now, why don't you give all the praise to the Holy Spirit and say that's the Holy Spirit?" I said, "My brother, I must be truthful. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Whether it's the Holy Spirit..." I said, "It--it--it's a gift sent from God. He never said He was the Holy Spirit, never told me Who He was. He said, 'I'm sent from the Presence of God.' And It does not feel like the Holy Spirit when It comes. The Holy Spirit makes me feel happy. But when That comes around, it--it isn't that feeling; it's a very sacred, august feeling like. And it's different, but It's sent from God." He said, "Brother Branham, the ministry of Angels, that was back in the Old Testament, like Daniel, and so forth." But that's an error, friends. That--that--that--that is wrong. Now, he said, "Since the Holy Ghost come, the Holy Ghost leads the church." That's the truth. The Holy Ghost leads the church. That is true. But there's ministering Spirits sent from God, special gifts, friends.
Now, let me just ask you this, and then you... We all know that--that John the Baptist was--was a Christian, or a holiness man (Don't you believe so?), a Holy Ghost man? He was born from his mother's womb full of the Holy Ghost. But it was an Angel that came down and announced his birth: Gabriel (Is that right?) before
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Now, notice this. Then you say, "Well, they were before the Holy Ghost came." Well, after the day of Pentecost and they received the Holy Ghost... How many here believes Philip had the Holy Ghost? Let's see. Well now, who was it? The Holy Ghost told him to go to the desert Gaza, or was it the Angel of Lord that appeared to him? Not the Holy Ghost, the Angel of the Lord (Is that right?) appeared to him. How many believes that Peter, Saint Peter had the Holy Ghost? Let's see your hands. Sure. You all believe. But when he was in prison, and they had a prayer meeting at John Mark's house, it was the Angel of the Lord that came into the prison. Is that right? He had the Holy Ghost.
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How many believes Paul had the Holy Ghost? Well, after fourteen days where there's no moon, stars, or lights, he was down in the gallery, praying. And he came out and said, "Be of a good courage, for the Angel of the Lord, Whose servant I am, stood by me last night, and told me." Is that right? "The Angel of the Lord Whose servant..." How many believes John the Revelator had the Holy Ghost? Sure he did. Well, the whole Book of Revelations was revealed to him by an Angel. And John fell down to worship the Angel. Is that right? He said, "See that you do it not." No true Angel would stand to be worshipped. That's right. Said, "...?... be worship, worship God; for I am of thy fellow servants, and the prophets, and those who's had the testimony of Jesus Christ." He was an Angel sent from God. John, or those apostles, or any of them, the Holy Spirit is in the church.
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And the teachers here of the Scriptures will teach you these things. There's nine spiritual gifts in the church. They operate anywhere in the church. For instance, if this tent here tonight concealed the entire body of Christ. The Holy Spirit leads the body of Christ. And in this body there's nine spiritual gifts. They are here in the body. Gifts of healing, gifts of prophecy, it might fall upon someone here tonight, this lady setting here, this man, or this man; and he may give a prophecy and it would be true. But it would never work on him maybe again. It might come back at the... See, that doesn't make him a prophet. That makes... We're in the body. By one Spirit we're baptized in the body and subject to these
gifts. And when the body's setting here... Remember what Paul said, "If something be revealed to one setting by, let him hold his peace and so forth," like that? That's the apostolic church. That's where it should be now. And in that...
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And he might--and here might be one tonight with the prayer of faith, that would pray a prayer of faith that would heal someone. That gift of healing might be on them tonight. It might be upon this lady here tomorrow night, and upon this man over here the next night. It might come back to her. It's in the church--the body. Now, those are the nine spiritual gifts that's in the body now. They work through the body. But then there is gifts and callings without repentance. That's an a vindicated prophet sent from God, from... You don't receive that. That's a gift sent from God, that's born in your birth, come down through, and been set you down through. And that... A prophet, not a gift of prophecy... Who ever stood to judge Isaiah, to see whether his prophecy was right or not? They knowed from his time through that he was a prophet. Who stood to say to Jeremiah, when God told him He made him a prophet before he was born from his mother's womb. And all those who lived right, they knowed he was a prophet. But this Spirit of prophecy that's in the church now. He said, "If one prophesies, let two or three judge. See? See if it's a wrong spirit got into the church. See, this is the--the day, the order. So the teachers will get those things, later on. But what I mean, if they haven't already got into that...
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So with the church. It's time that the church needed some good old fashion apostolic teaching of God to--to get the thing lined up. The gifts and callings are in the church, but the people don't know how to control themselves (See?); they don't know to--to take ahold of God. And now, I've asked the managers today in talking to them, I said, "Give me an opportunity in the--the advertisement in the "Voice of Healing," for ministers who would like... I'm not a teacher, but I do love God. And the times between my healing campaigns, let me come to individual churches and so forth, and teach and preach the Word, just like that, in the individual churches."
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So I believe we're living in the last days, just in shadows of the coming the Lord. And I--I want to... I know I'll have to give an account for a lot. And I want to be able to say that day, "Lord, I've done the best I could." He said... I want Him to say, "Well done." And I want to do all that I can to help the people.
Now, this is the beginning service. When I come to pray for the sick, I stay in my room, and I fast much; I pray much, and I seek the Lord, and It come down, then minister to the people. And He does the ministering...?...
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Then start the... Just let the prayer line run on and on and on. See? And...?... of a night, we start the prayer line right away. We'll start that right away so I can meet them face...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] to pray for them. See? Just be reverent.
Now, tonight, if I can have a few of minutes of the time just to read some of the Word, which I do not believe that any service is complete without first reading the Word, for It's the Word. That's what stands. That's the Foundation, the Word, the revelation, and visions. Now, the first is the Word. And if we read the Word of God, if nothing else happens...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God will bless His Word. But my words will fail, like any other man's word will fail. But God's Word can't fail. It's impossible. Now, listen closely while I read from the Scripture, and then speak to you just a few moments, then we'll form the prayer line, start praying for the sick. I see many of you along through the front here, especially, holding prayer cards. And I just trust that God will heal all of you tonight, every one.
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Now, while the Lord... Up here on the platform, if He heals those on the platform, you out there in the audience, accept it just upon my... Accept it. Believe it with all your heart, and I'll just...?... He--He will make you well. Probably in the prayer line, you won't even think of having prayer cards, won't even get to come in the prayer line to be prayed for; you'll be healed there. Now, in Luke the 2nd chapter and beginning with the 25th verse... And I'll try to start the prayer line just exactly at nine-thirty, if the Lord willing. And now, on... At least we give a hour to the service...?... Now, everyone that has their Bibles... How many Bibles we have? Let's see your hands. Oh, that's just wonderful.
Now, I just love to carry my Bible. When I was a little boy... Maybe Sunday, or Sunday week, I want tell my life story, how that... They'd tell me I looked like a preacher. And I'd...?... on my face till I wanted to...?... I didn't want to look like no preacher, Bible under my arm. I thought that was a sissy. But I find out, friends, it's takes a real man. I wanted to be a man that was six foot tall and weighed a
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hundred and ninety pounds. I wanted to be a real man. But see, I couldn't...?... little. But look, you can't judge men by the size of his statue. I've seen men that weighed two hundred pounds, didn't have a ounce of man...?... Man is judged by character...?... man...?... And then be a man after the heart, a man after God's heart, and God will bless you. Now, the 25th verse. And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him... (That's what type of a man he was.) And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and behold the parents brought the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest... thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For my eyes have seen thy salvation.
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Shall we bow our heads just for a moment of prayer, if you will. All right, everybody be real reverent and pray. Our heavenly Father, we're approaching Your throne just now. The cares of the day is past. Sun has set behind the western horizon. Someday our mortal life will be set the last time. What we did today spiritually is before You now. Forgive us of all of our wrong. We've gathered here at this place, God, tonight in this tent to speak of Thy son, Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit, and the Angel of God, and the heavenly host. God, meet with us, will You? Standing here in this city with unbelievers, and--and is black work. I expect it to rise and doubt, criticize. But we're so thankful for the Word. Down through the hours of...?...
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Now, tonight it's been faithful little group that's gathered in here that come for no other purpose, but to know more about You. Some of them are very sick, Father. And I've tried with all my heart, with all that I know how, to speak to them concerning the gift of what You told Your poor unworthy servant to do. And I'm so thankful that in these past few nights, You have confirmed and testified that I have told that which is true. And I'm very thankful, Father. I trust that it's believed among all, Lord, giving Thee all praise and all the glory, for we know it comes only through You. We believe You, Father, tonight with all we can. Oh, Satan would take my very life, but I'm depending on You. And I
realize that I shall face demons after while, supernatural beings, who will come out in that poor old form of a dark cloud going against my very soul. Then, Father, if You don't cover me with Your Blood and protection, it quickly would come upon me, and I could have no more services, for I would be laying helpless. Oh, help Thou me, Lord. Help me to be sincere, for I realize that we're not wrestling against flesh and blood now, but spiritual powers. Which men who...?... the five senses could not understand how these things could be. But with You, all things are possible. And especially when it's in Thy Word which has come to pass. Protect us. May the Angels of God...?... their post...?... May they stand in the aisles, and may the great, the Angel of God spread forth His great wings throughout this tent tonight. May He distill dew drops of Divine...?... and drop them on every soul. May there not be a feeble one in our midst when the service is over. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant, my Father. As Thou hast sent me to do this, confirm Thy Word again tonight, Lord. May many believers be added here, for we ask it for Your glory, in the Name of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Just a few words upon "Expectations." Now, I want you to give me just very close attention, if you will. This is a little difficult. Standing here, already there's an anointing. And then trying to come over to speak on the Word, it's--it's a hard thing...?... now. Expectations, usually, every one... Can you hear all the way around, everywhere, all right? Can you hear back, way back in the tent?...?... Well, that's fine. Down this way, all right? Can you hear down in there? Fine. Now, you usually get what you're expecting. And if you come to the meeting tonight to criticize, or to make fun, or just to stir up...?... the devil will give you something to criticize, and he'll give you something to arouse your curiosity. You get just what you're expecting. And if you come tonight expecting to see the Lord in His work, God will show you Himself, and will give you such peace. If you'll just come tonight expecting to be healed, you'll be healed. You get just what you expect.
Now, notice, this man that we're going to speak of, his name was Simeon. He was commonly believed among theologians, He was around eighty years old. He was an aged old man of faith, a noble teacher of Israel, with a wonderful reputation. And he lived in the days just before the coming of Jesus. And he was a devout man. God has never left Hisself without a testimony. There's always been somebody somewhere that God could put His hand and say, "Here's My servant." He's always... It's gotten down to, sometimes, just about one left. But God has always had a witness. You believe that,
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Last meeting our manager Brother Lindsay, he was reading me a letter of the Baptist preacher that ordained me in the Baptist church. And he... I told him about the vision the Lord had give me, and he made fun of that. He criticized it. When I told him about the Angel coming, he said, "What did you eat for supper today, Billy? Better run back over..." I said, "Brother, I do not appreciate this. All right. If you don't want me, there'll be somebody who will receive it, for God has sent me, and I shall go." He said, "Take it around the world then, Billy, you said you would." But I have. Amen. I never took it, but the Lord has sent it, and it's just...?... And he had a great letter that Brother Lindsay in his office, of this Baptist minister now apologizing greatly, writing to Brother Lindsay to put it in the paper that he apologizes. He said, "If I'd..." he'd have been more spiritual, he'd have understand more about the powers of God, and how visions and things is done.
It followed me since the days of my birth. I had nothing to do with It coming, none of my righteousness. My family was none of them Christians nor nothing. Yet I was just born at that time, and God ordained it. That's why I'm here tonight. Nothing in--in myself that I could say, even as Christians...?... to know. For when my people become a...?... I remember the first one in my family was my mother...?... I baptized her myself, wade out in the river; and then my old grandfather, ninety-some-odd years old, and his arms hanging around my neck. And on down it went.
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Now, Simeon was an old man, that'd believed in God's Word. Now, remember, he had a great reputation. Now, I know that I'm speaking tonight to ministers who has great reputations, peoples with Christian characters here. But the best reputation you ever had was being a Christian. Now, Simeon was a great man. But now, the Holy Ghost came down and revealed to him, though he was old, that he was not going to die until first he'd seen the Lord's Christ. Now, it was a spiritual revelation by the Holy Spirit that he was not going to see death until he seen Christ. Now, remember, he was old. But he was... That's... I imagine some of them said, "Well, that fellow's just a little off in his
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Great men from Adam on down had looked for the woman's Seed to come and bruise the serpent's head. They'd looked for the Christ for four thousand years. That's right, people; you know that. But here, an old man, old in age, said, "I'm not going to die until I see the Christ, for the Holy Spirit told me so." Pretty good reason, isn't it? He believed what was told him. Do you? The Holy Spirit give him the revelation, "You're not going to die, Simeon, until you see the Lord's Christ." And he said, "Amen. I believe it." Stayed right with it. All right. Now, we haven't got two Holy Spirits; there's only one. And that same Holy Spirit that revealed that to Simeon is in the building tonight. I love the Word. The Holy Spirit feeds on the Word of God. Christians should always read the Bible, for the Holy Spirit feeds... Its food is the Word of God. "Man shall not live by bread alone (Amen. There it is.), but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." That's what the Christian lives on, the Word. And the Holy Spirit loves the Word, and He's here tonight to receive the Word. And It's in you. And as the Word comes forth, then the Holy Spirit takes the Word of God and reveals It. Simeon, he's an old man now. He believed. It was revealed by the Holy Spirit that he wasn't going to die until he'd seen the Lord's Christ.
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over the coals not long ago. And he said, "I believe Brother Branham called it out on the platform that had a cancer, that he'd be well." Said, "He had the man to go ahead and testify, and tell the people to testify of their healing before they were healed. Those out in the audience as long as they go ahead and testify, to believe God and testify..." Said, "Then he goes around and says those people were healed." I said, "The only thing I could do, take...?... His Word and what God said." He said, "That's the reason Divine healings isn't... There's no Divine healing." Friends, that person just did not understand. There's no other way in the world to be healed, only through Divine healing [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... faith.
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Look, Abraham believed God, and he testified concerning the things that was not, for he had God's Word. That was enough for Abraham. Twenty-five years later, the promise came to--come to
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Look, talk about your symptoms, what if Jonah in the belly of the whale would've looked at symptoms? First thing, he was backslid. And he was bound hands and feet. And he was throwed out of a ship in a stormy sea. A whale swallowed him. Always when a fish...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] the water was...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... he goes down to the bottom... Watch your goldfish lay his fins down on the bottom and rest after he... The seas approximately, many miles deep right off the peninsula there, very deep place for...?... All right. Let's say it was five miles deep. And there was Jonah, backslid, running from God, hands down behind him, on a stormy sea, five miles deep in the sea, in a whale's belly. If he looked this a way, it was whale's belly; that way it was whale's belly, right up it was whale's belly. Everywhere he looked, it was a whale's belly. Talk about symptoms, he had a lot of symptoms around him. But he said, "They're lying vanities." He said, "Once more will I look towards Your holy temple, Lord." He knew that when the temple was dedicated, that Solomon said a prayer, and said, "If Thy people be in trouble anywhere like that, and will look towards this holy temple and pray, then hear from heaven." And he believed that God heard Solomon's prayer.
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If Jonah, backslid, the belly of a whale, five miles deep, whale's belly all around him, could look towards a natural earthly temple, through a prayer of an earthly man that had been prayed, and believed that God heard it, how much more ought you and I, as Christians, bound with diseases, look towards the heavens, where Christ sets at the right hand of God with His own Blood making...?... intercessions now for anything. Symptoms, they're lying vanities. Don't receive them. Don't have nothing to do with them. If you look to them, you're looking away from God. We look at the unseen, not at what we see. No one could look at what they see and be a Christian. You've got to believe the things that's unseen, for it's by faith are you healed, not by sight or by feeling.
What if someone came up in the morning to your door, express agent, and throwed a whole basketful of rattlesnakes, and had your name on them. Said, "Here they are; they're yours." You know they're there, just like you know your symptoms is there. If you receive them, they're yours. But you don't have to take them. You can say, "I don't want them." Say, "Your name's on them." Say, "I don't want them. I won't have them." He can stand there and argue as much as he wants to. But until you take them and sign for them, they belong to the express company until you sign for them. Don't sign for nothing the devil brings. You say, "There it is, though I refuse to have it." That's right. "Take it back." Have nothing to do with it." If you won't testify that you've got it... When you testify you still have your sickness, the devil keeps it with you. But refuse to testify of it. Say, "I won't have it. No, sir."
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Oh, my. That's when you're getting faith. Give your faith a chance. Turn it loose; unbridle it; let it work. You've got it all bound down with traditions. Turn it loose; cut it loose. Let God have His way with you. Somebody's word's right, either what you're looking at or what God says. God's Word is true. Believe It. All right. But the first time you testify of your sickness, it brings you right down to that realm again. You signed for it. Refuse to sign for it. Testify of what you believe.
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When I had stomach trouble, so bad till even the doctors said there's not...?... you. That was Mayo's too. I accepted Him upon this Scripture. He's the High Priest of my confession. I said, "I refuse to testify any more, nothing but what God says. I believe His Word." Jesus died to heal us. Every one of you is healed. Every one of you is healed right now. Jesus has already healed you; you just have to confess it and believe it. That's right. By His stripes you were (past tense) healed. That's when He did it at Calvary. That's when He overcome all sickness and sin and all, at Calvary, for you. Just like a table set, it's there. Only thing you have to do is go eat. You have to accept it, believe it in your heart, and confess it. And He's the High Priest of your confession.
When I started to eat and swallowed the first mouthful... The doctor said, "One mouthful, if he eats, will be indigestion. Boy you'd die right now." And I eat beans, and corn bread, and onions. Yes, sir. I took and I asked the blessing over it, and got it in my mouth, and chewed it up,
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and swallowed it. Devil said, "You'll die." And here it come right back up. I held my hand over my mouth, swallowed it back again. I said, "No, sir. Huh-uh. I refuse. No, sir." Somebody's right; either what my system said, or what God said. I'm looking to what He said.
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I went out on the street, and the hot water running down my mouth soon as I... I was singing. I--I can, I will, I do believe that Jesus heals me now. Someone said, "How you feeling?" I said, "Wonderful." "You healed?" "Sure." "How you feeling?" "Fine." "Anything wrong?" "Nothing." And go... [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]... go back it again. "How you feeling?" "Fine." "Are you healed?" "Sure." I stayed right with it day after day and week after week, and I was healed one morning. I believed Him. I took Him at His Word. Nobody ever cast it away from me, but the Word said so. And the Word of God will defeat Satan any place, any time, anywhere, and on any condition. That's right. That's what it is; it's God's Word. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall never fail." Believe It.
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Gifts are added to stimulate faith. But faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word. That's where faith comes, by hearing the Word of salvation. It's just like this. Jesus... But God said, "Come unto Me, all--all the ends of the earth, and drink." A little tree, when it's planted in the earth, a little apple tree about that big, it's stuck right out in the ground. Every apple that'll ever be on that tree, every blossom, every leaf, every limb that'll ever be on that tree is in it right then. If it isn't, where does it come from? Now, the tree is put in the ground, and the only thing the tree does, is drink. It just drinks and drinks until it swells out, and swells out, until it pushes out limbs, blossoms, apples. And Christ is the inexhaustible Fountain of Life. We are planted in Him by the Holy Spirit, and then just drink from Him. Every person that's a Christian... The devil don't care how much you come to Christ, as long as you don't drink. You can stand at the table and your mouth watering and say, "Well, I'm here. I'm here." You're afraid to turn your faith loose. See?
I love guns. A man in the last meeting at Minneapolis... The brother knowed my weakness: I love to hunt. And he gave me a rifle. And oh, how I love it, of hunting, and rifles and fishing. So he said... "I've got the rifle setting at home just to go hunting. If I never use it, it'll never do me no good." And when you receive the Holy Spirit, everything that you have need of for earth's journey's in you then. Turn it loose and let it go to work. See? Let your faith loose and believe God.
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Now, Simeon had a promise of the Holy Spirit that he wasn't going to die until he seen the Lord's Christ. And he wasn't afraid to testify of it either. Some of them said, "Show him to me." "But He will be here. The Holy Spirit told me so." How marvelous. Don't you love that? He went around telling people, "Yes, I'm not going to die until I've seen Him." "Why, Simeon, I'd quit saying that, because you're a great man among the people. 'Cause the seminary teaching...?..." But I will tell you, brother, the seminary, or cemetery, or whatever you call it, it's all about the same. So nothing against it all right. But a seminary minister always reminds me of a incubator chicken: just chirp, chirp, and ain't got no mammy to go to. So that's--that's... When you're borned again, brother. It don't make no difference about a seminary experience; you got a Father Who will watch over you and not scared to take God. No matter what the people says; it's what God says to be the truth. Somebody's right and wrong. Not what you was brought out from the hatchery, but what God said about it; that's right.
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Now, notice, Simeon didn't care. He said, "Oh, the Holy Spirit told me so." I want you to notice. Now, they didn't have a press in those days, and they didn't have the radio and televisions that we have today. So the only way they could send messages was write a letter, or from mouth to ear. Back over on the hills of Judaea one night, the Angels came down and sang to some shepherds, said, "Go down in Judaea to Bethlehem, for down there is born Christ the Lord." Some wise men, astrologers, came from over in another part of the country, came over to visit. Magis came to visit the Christ, for they seen the sign from heaven that He was coming, the morning Star. Well, one morning it came to pass within the temple... (Closely now, we'll start the prayer line.) Notice, one morning in the temple... Let's imagine it's on Monday morning; they're all busy around the temple,
and Simeon's out in the prayer room, praying. Mothers all came up to the temple.
There was many believing people in Jerusalem in them days, and they come to the offer purifications, and circumcision of the child after eight days. And oh, let's say there were fifty mothers standing lined up that morning, ready for circumcision and offering up their... Some mothers standing out there, two lambs, or lamb, whatever it was. That was a rich child that brought the lambs. But a poor child had to offer turtledoves or pigeons. Look all down through there, and way down the line, notice, I can see a little bashful mother standing with a baby wrapped in swaddling's cloth, holding two little turtledoves, was a...?... And He--He was poor. I'm glad God loves the poor people. I see her turn, looking at her Baby and smile. He don't even look towards this lady...
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And all of a sudden, through all of that mass of people, the Holy Spirit spoke out there to Simeon. He--here He come, just...?... Faith moved him into the temple, coming right down through the people, walked right down that line, and stopped just where that mother was, picked up that baby in his arms, and said, "Lord, let Thy servant depart in peace according to Your Word, for my eyes have seen Your Salvation." Why? He had the promise of the Holy Spirit. That's why the Holy Spirit led him. For the Holy Spirit had promised it, and here was the promise here. See? So if the Holy Spirit promised he would see Him... Now, the baby's going right down the line. He knew he'd come right out, led by the Holy Spirit.
And the same time, there was an old woman there, claimed to be blind, Ann, a prophetess. Maybe she's way over in a corner, setting in a chair. All at once the Holy Spirit moved on her. And here she come weaving through the people, moving around through them people, blind; came to where He was at, and then prophesied. What was it? The Holy Spirit leading on those people who had the promise. How many of you tonight believes in Divine healing? Listen, friends, isn't it strange? You believe Divine healing, and God can heal you, don't you? Isn't it strange the Holy Spirit's moving, just at the right time, right before the... Don't you believe it's sincere? It's the Holy Spirit that's... It takes--brings you right up to the right place now. You can be healed right now. You're at the right place, the right time. The same Holy Spirit that led Simeon has led you here tonight. Are... You believing you have the promise of the Holy Spirit, you're going to
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be healed? You believe that? Isn't it strange you're right here tonight. The same Holy Ghost that led Simeon has led you just at the right place, a healing meeting...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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And now, if you believe...?... As sure as... How many believes in Divine healing? You know the very reason you... Before you can believe... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... [Double recording, not intelligible-Ed.]...?... the rubber off of a bicycle...?... The doctor found a...?... got a little rubber erasers...?... There's something calling for sulfur. Brother...?... See what I mean? Or it wouldn't any call in here. See? So when it calls for something... If there was a desire in your heart to be healed by Divine healing, there's a fountain somewhere. Hallelujah. I know you think I'm a holy-roller, so go ahead and think it. I don't care. Hallelujah. If there's a desire in your heart calling for God, there's bound to be somewhere; The deep calls to the deep. But it'll respond somewhere. There has to be a...?... that creates in you heart, for He'd...?... a Creator to create it. And if there's a... If there's a creation in here calling for sulfur, there's got to be sulfur somewhere, 'cause I'm in need. And it's the hunger and thirst of more of God...?... shackles...?... denominations and so forth...?... begin to cry out for the Holy Spirit." God alone...?... God is calling. The deep calling to the deep... There had to be something happen. The stones will immediately cry out. And now you...?... in healing, God will...?... and send it out. The deep calling to the deep... And if you come tonight expecting, God will heal you. You're bound to receive it. Oh, my. It's got to. You have to receive it.
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Not long ago at Fort Wayne meeting...?... We had a great service there. Thousands were attending. There a man with multiple sclerosis, lay ten years bound on the bed, his spine damaged. They moved...?... the meeting. The last night, I just passing by in...?... trying to get him in to where I was. He laid on the platform. People walked over him. Finally they got him there. I said... tell the story and I looked over, I said, "Sir, can you see it?" My, the deep calling for the deep... I moved down; I said, "You believe me?" Said, "Sir, lay your hands upon me; that's all I desire." I laid my hands upon him. There...?... this man...?... Immediately life came into his body, his crutches...?... Down through the building he went...?... It even caused the king of England to send for me to come pray for him. I got the letters of it now. King George of England, where we just came from... There...?... went and told him what had taken place, and what it done. "Brother Branham he sent and he prayed a prayer..."
Now, many great things is going on. Just a little inside life. Many times, I don't tell people this. But down on the inside, where things goes on... Brought the man to speak... Here not long ago, I was in...?... many places over there in Sweden. We set down at the table. Many things the Lord shows. I said to my Brother Baxter, which is standing present now; he was with me...?... And I said, "Brother Baxter, when we raise up from here and start out," I said...?... He said, "Where?" And I said, "It'll...?... me and remember what I said." We'd been gone about a half hour from there...?... two women up there...?... Brother, standing there, and the brothers stand down on the street. And I said, "You know, as we pass a corner here, there'll be a man with a white hat on, step out. He will want me to come and pray for wife...?... just right." And we'd gone about two or three squares and turned, and here come the man walking down the steps. Those things have showed. That's just inside, the world knows nothing of.
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In Fort Wayne, they found out what hotel we was in. And oh, my, you couldn't even get... Well, they just lined the lobbies full, and everything. I couldn't get out of the building. And the bellboy taken us down through to get breakfast, and was taking us over a big ash heap, and down the alley, down in the basement. And I was going down to a little place called, I believe it's called "Toddle House," or something like that. And I was eating. One morning we was going down, a couple mornings after that, I had my coat up like this. Not as if I didn't want to meet the dear people, but it's such a pull. I was just about gone. And I was going down the street, Mrs. Margie Morgan, nurse I was speaking of, she usually goes to many a meeting to help--help keep the patients lined up.
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And then I was going along through there, and I was walking down towards Toddle House. And the Holy Spirit said to me, "Turn to your left."...?... the Lord. I said, "Let's go this a way." Said, "Here's the place." I said, "Let's go this way though. The Angel of the Lord tells me to go here." We walked on down the street a little piece. There was a--a place up there, said, "Miller's Cafeteria." Something said, "Go in here." They that are led by the Spirit of God... You know what I'm speaking of, a leading. And I went in. My wife was with me; we had our little girl. And I set down at the table. I had some prunes, and a--a cup of--of orange juice, or something. I set down and just asked the blessing. When I raised up, I heard somebody say, "Praise God." I looked over the side. Mrs. Morgan said, "Now, I told you if you went
there." Said, "They didn't know where you was going to be at...?..." I said, "Sister Margie, this is the Spirit of the Lord. He never sends me falsely." And my wife said to her, said, "...?... Spirit...?..."
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She walked over there, she said, "Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes." She started crying. I took her by the hand, and I said, "I know that you want me for something." She said, "Here's my brother." Said, "Brother Branham, we've sold our possessions. We had cows. We had a little place, and we sold it. And we followed for about six or seven meetings." Said, "My brother's in such a place, his heart's... diaphragm," said, "come out." Said, "It's getting worse, and worse, and worse." Said she spent everything...?... much money...?... Said, "We chase from meeting to meeting, trying to get in. We got prayer cards, and got almost to the line, then to be turned down. And...?... missed his spot, and we couldn't understand it." Said, "He just fought right on, held on." Said, "All our money's gone." Said, "We have just about three dollars left." Said, "Last night, I prayed all night long." Said, "We've been fasting so our money would hold us out to the end of the meeting." And said, "We just paid our hotel room." And said, "This morning about four o'clock," said, "the Lord woke me up in a dream and said, 'Go down to Miller's Cafeteria at nine o'clock and be standing there.'" Oh, God. I looked at my watch; it was just exactly nine. Oh, my, the Spirit of the Lord upon me. I laid my hands upon the brother; his heart straightened out like that. The people begin screaming. I slipped out, and went on out like that. And went outside the building while they were rejoicing.
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Just as I went out the door, there was a lady from Chicago, dressed, real fine young lady, fell on the street. "Oh, Jesus, thank You." And I said, "Stand up, sister." She crumbled and got me by the side of the coat, and I took her up by the hand; I said, "What's the matter?" She said, "Oh, Brother Branham, I've been dying," said, "with cancer," she said, "in such a horrible fix." And said, "I just couldn't go on. I know I can't live but a few days." Said, "Mayo's has turned me down and everything." Great big malignant, like that said, "Can't be done." Said, "When my clothes are so tight." Said, "I just couldn't go any farther." And said, "I prayed, and the Lord told me this morning in a dream, to be here at Miller's Cafeteria on the outside at ten minutes after nine." There they was. Oh, my. We went on down the street. We started walking on down. Why, in a moment, her clothes was loose on her where the Holy Spirit healed her.
We went right on down the street. I was going to start across the street, and Something said, "Don't cross the street." We was going over to a drug store to get a little coloring book for the baby, had to keep it in the room all day. I said to the wife; I said, "You all go ahead, and go right through the alley. And have a brothers stand out there. I'll be down in a few minutes." And so I--I said, "He tells me to wait here." And I stood there for about twenty minutes. I seen my wife get the book and things and go on. So I waited there just a little bit. And there's a...?... standing there looking. I went back to where some fishing tackle, you know, and I got back in the corner, I said, "O heavenly Father, what would You have Your servant do?" Stood there, I waited just a little bit. You can't just imagine it; you got to actually... It's a Voice just the same as yours and mine. It said, "Go down to the corner." I went down to the corner...
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I went down to the corner and stood there, just crossed over, went over to the other side, stood there about ten minutes. The cop kept blowing his whistle, and the traffic--pedestrians had passed by, and so forth. I stood there. And after while, there was a... I seen a woman coming behind all the rest of the traffic. She had on a little checkered dress, and one of them little Canadian tams like. And she had her pocket book on her arms, and was looking sideways. And the Spirit said, "Go near to her." I went over there and stood by her, like that. Stood where she'd pass, and she passed right by, looking the other way, went on by. I thought, "O God, I never seen it in my life. I know that something... I--I know that was Your voice." And just then, she turned and looked backwards. She got twenty, thirty feet away from me, said, "Hello, Brother Branham." And she run right back. She went, "Oh..." begin to crying. I said, "What's the matter, sister?" She said, "Brother Branham, I'm from Canada." Said, "I followed you all through Canada." She said, "Two nights, I've slept in the hotel lobby." She said, "Someone gave me a nickel yesterday to do something for them." And said, "I got a cup of coffee. And I was on my road out, about two squares below here, to hitchhike back to Canada." Said, "I couldn't..." They can't have, just so much money when they come over here. And said, "If I go back to Canada, I'll have one five cents for coffee." And said, "Alone there was crying, going along." Said, "Lord, I'll always be like this." Said, "Yes, and the Holy Spirit said, 'Turn to your right.'...?..." Said, "Now, cross the street. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... didn't know where I was going."
And I said, "That's your trouble?" She said, "My hand, Brother Branham." I said, "In the Name of the Lord Jesus, stretch forth your hand." And there it come out like that.
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Big cop standing in the street, said, "I know you, Brother Branham." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... little old prayer line was right...?... old fashion blessing...?... there. God alone let her see it...?... [Double recording, and not intelligible--Ed.]... I just [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] it...?... the glory to...?... And then I'll start the prayer line. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] It's time right now. Excuse me for just a moment or two longer if you will.
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The plane was forced down. This is the inside life that I don't tell everyone all the time. So it... I was forced down. I was supposed to be home. The wife said...?... I was supposed to be back, we was going over to Texas, been to Texas, coming back. And I stayed there. A storm forced us down. So I stayed all night, and the next morning they told me to be at the--down at the hanger, told me to be there at nine o'clock, down at the ramp. So I had to... So I got out. And I had some mail I had to send back. And I thought, "Well, how far am I from the post office...?... town."...?... just about two squares, right...?... "I'll go mail it." It was a beautiful morning; the sun was out, springtime, and I was going down the street, singing. Had a little song the Pentecostal would sing. What is it?
... people almost everywhere, Whose hearts is all aflame With the fire that fell on Pentecost, And we're telling now far and wide, His power is just the same...
Something like that, you know.

I was going down the street, singing that just to, oh, my, to myself, you know, having a glorious time. I'd been...?... Jehovah God how great You are, how marvelous, how marvelous. And--and the birds was singing in the trees...?... Hallelujah. It's wonderful, isn't it wonderful? Going along like that. And I started to cross the street, and I heard the Angel of God speak just clearly as you hear me; He said, "Stop here." I waited a little bit. I waited a few moments, and I started to cross the street. Looked like I just couldn't do it. I moved back up in a corner, and I said, "O Father, what is it You would have me to do?" I was nervous and in a hurry (See?), 'cause I thought had to make
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the plane. I said... I was nervous and in a hurry. And I said, "Oh, what--what would have me do?" He lets me stay there...?... I got quiet a few moments. I heard His voice say, "Turn and go back."
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Where I don't know. I never question. I just turned and started going back. Went down the street, passed by the hotel, went on down, on down, on down. I was going along humming,
Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe;
Went right on down in the city, went down there towards north Memphis, where that little colored huts are down there, a little old clapboard places. I was going; I thought, "What am I doing down here? He said, 'Go back,' and here's where I'm going." I just went on. Went on there, I walked up along side of the hill, and went down to the little place, and went down towards to the river...?... And I happened to pass by... There was a very typical old aunt Jemima, hanging right over the fence, like this. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... man's shirt tied around her head. And she was looking.
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Just a beautiful morning, the sun up high upon...?... fragrance of roses. Oh, my, the flowers blooming like spring. She was hanging out over the fence, like this. She just looked at me; tears was streaking down her cheeks. She said, "Good morning, parson." Parson, that's what they call ministers...?... Said, "Good morning, parson." I looked up, and I said, "Good morning, auntie." And I said, "How'd you know I was a parson?" And she said, "I prayed my prayers for you." I said, "Yes, ma'am." She said, "Parson, did you ever hear about that woman, that Shunammite in the Bible?" Said, "The Lord give her a child when she was past the age of bearing?" I said, "Yes, ma'am. I've read that many times." She said, "I's is one of them kind of women too." Said, "The Lord give me a child, and I promised the Lord I'd raise him a Christian...?..." Said, "Parson, he took the road that's wrong...?..." And said, "Here he lays in here now, dying with venereal disease, syphilitic. The doctors had give him up. They'd give him...?... everything that could be done. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And said, "The doctor was here last night, and said--said, 'He won't live till morning.'" [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "... been like that?" She said, "I got up at day and I said, "But Lord where is Your Elijah." She said, "And I begin to pray." And said, "I prayed and prayed." And said, "This morning while I was praying, I fell asleep." Said, "I
dreamed that I'd be standing here the next morning." Said, "Then I heard you coming, singing that song, I said, 'Lord I thank you.'" See, see? They that are sons and daughters of God are led by the... She was expecting.
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She said, "I was expecting you along. When I seen you coming the Holy Spirit said, 'There he is.'" I said, 'Oh, I...?...'" I said, "Auntie, my name is Branham. Did you ever hear of me?" She said, "No, sir. I never heard of you, Parson Branham." I said, "Well, auntie," I said, "the Lord has sent me forth to pray for the sick. I got down and...?... campaigns. And I said, "Auntie, this morning I was going to the post office, and the Holy Spirit told come this way...?..." And she said, "Come in, parson." Opened up the gate. I walked in and looked in there, there was a great big fine looking colored boy laying there, had that blanket...?... him, going, "Umm, umm."...?... told me to do...?... Said, "Oh, my." And she said, "Parson Branham, praise the Lord...?..." ...?... pray with all my heart for him. I said, "I believe the Lord...?... now." So we knelt down, started praying. I said, "You pray." And wanted to see how she prayed. And oh, you talk about a prayer; you ought to have heard that old saint call out to God. Said, "I cried like a baby." I said, "Mother..." And I stood crying as she said, "Lord, surely, You haven't...?... Hear me, Lord." Said, "Here is Parson Branham standing here this morning...?... Holy Spirit, He told me to go stand at the gate. Lord, here he is...?... my Father." She'd been crying like that. When she raised up, and he was going, "Umm." And she took her apron and wrapped--wiped the tears out of her eyes. She said, "Honey child, don't you know mammy...?..." I said... No matter how old he was, he was still mama's baby. A mother will never forget, a real mother. She patted him like that on the cheek. Said, "Umm. Is that your voice, mammy? Umm, said, "...?... it gets dark. See, I'm cold, mammy, so cold. I don't know where I'm going, mammy. Umm, mammy, mammy. Pray for me. Pray for me. (Like that.) Umm." He started going out again like that. She said, "Won't you pray, Parson Branham?"
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I knelt down, put my hands on his cold feet. I said, "O God, it's all...?... I don't understand, but You sent me down here." About that time, no more than said that. He said, "Oh, mammy." He said, "It's getting light in here." In a few minutes he was setting on the side of the bed. About a month from there I heard from him. The doctors pronounced
him well. He got--got back to God, and he was living perfectly well. Why? That old mammy was expecting God to come on the scene. She prayed, and she believed. The same Holy Spirit that led her out there, the same Holy Spirit that led me down there, the same Holy Spirit that led Simeon in the temple has led you here tonight. Be expecting to be healed. Now's the time to receive it and to let God heal you now, or to give you whatever you have need of. Don't you believe that? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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God bless you while we pray. Our heavenly Father, our hearts yearn tonight when we think of the great experiences that Thou has given to us. Someday when life is over, and we meet those dear beloved people who have been such great faith warriors, trusted and believed You, O God, may You set us down around the throne of God where all the evergreen trees, where the sea of life is flowing, there, set down and talk together, year after years while eternity rolls on... See all those who've been fried in furnaces of fire, throwed into lion's dens, Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail; those who led by the Spirit down through the ages, even this last closing age, when the great robe of the church has been throwed around us... O Father, how we thank Thee. Speak to every heart here tonight. And may there be no feeble among us. May there be gallant patriotic faith to stand forth upon God's promise, which is infallible. It has to come to pass. You promised Abraham; he believed it. You are leading us today by Your Spirit.
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Going into the service now, ask You, Father, to be with us and bless every one. Help as I pray for the sick. May ever who's out there check the vision. Look up, get the promise just now. Say, "Father, I now believe You. I have the promise. I'm here under Your anointing." The Holy Spirit's falling down like tongues of fire, setting upon each heart burning with Christian faith, who believes it. Bless us now, Father. May the Angel that has sent forth through Thy servant stand by me tonight meet these diseases, till every demon spirit will scream, Lord. May the power be predominate for driving out of every sick person that's in this building, out of these afflicted people who's setting here in these chairs, bound, shaking, stroke, paralyzed, palsy, whatever it is, cancer ridden... And O Christ, hear Your servant's prayer. Grant it, Father. Bless us tonight as Your gathered children, gather us with great faith just before the great tribulation and the coming of the Son of God, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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... lead me on, to the light; Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me home. When this way growing drear, Precious Lord linger near, When my life is almost gone; At the river I'll stand, Guide my feet, hold my hand; Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me home.
While they're lining up, you who are on cots, just hold your card. The ushers will get you.
Look, I'm thinking of Israel standing over in the wilderness, looking over the stormy Jordan to the promised land, weary. Look here, saints; God had give them a promise that they should inherit the land. Is that right? They've come a long ways down through the wilderness. But to a...
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bank. There was a stormy rough Jordan in the month of April, coming down out of the hills of Judaea to a flood. But just beyond there laid the promised land. That's where you sick people are standing tonight. Faith... Joshua looked all around and seen the Israelites numbered in the millions. There was no architect, bridge builders in them days among them, no material to build with. Joshua looked around. But in the midst of them there was a go-between, something that would make the way, the ark of the covenant. Joshua put the ark first with the priests and started towards Jordan, to give away when they touched Jordan, and they passed over to the promised land. Why? They had the promise.
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Tonight, friends, we have wearies and trials, and the last river we come to is going to be Jordan. Is that right? I think someday our little home there, don't get to stay in it much. My wife's almost a stranger to me. My baby one time when I was coming in, didn't even know me, was scared of me. I'd changed. I lost my hair and everything else, and my shoulders was stooped. Wasn't her daddy. I thought, "O God, but I'm on the battlefield." Some of these days, I'm--these mornings, I'm coming down to where she's a floating muddy. That's right. I'm going to raise both hands and scream to the top of my voice, "Give away, Jordan. I'm going to cross over." Amen. And we're going over, for we have the promise: "In My Father's house is many mansions. If it wasn't so, I would've told you. I'm going to prepare a place for you, and come again to receive you unto Myself." Some of these mornings, we're going to cross over, aren't we?
Now, while you're here tonight, and in need, let's cross over now into the promises of God's promise of your healing. Is there a promise? "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them, and ye shall have them." Is that right? Saint Mark 11:24. Jesus Christ speaking then. His Words cannot fail. Someone said, "Brother Branham, aren't you afraid that you'll make a mistake sometime?" No, no. He promised me. I believe Him. I can make a mistake, but He can't. His Words can't fail. Let's pray again. Now, you softly play this, "Abide With Me," will you, sister? Just chord us a little note.
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Now, friends, just look this way. God is not dead. The Spirit of the Lord that I've been speaking of...?... tomorrow night we speak on what it is. Right here on my right side, not on the... That is true. I can feel It coming near to me. I'm not a hypocrite. God's Spirit's always near. But you can just... I'll... Someday, God will maybe let you know what I mean...?... begins to settle down. This flesh begins to feel strange. With His Spirit around, it's just milky like, just kind of a strange feeling, like a real reverence, awe. Let's just be reverent, every one. Let your spirit loose. Now, believe with all your hearts; you'll feel the effect. Friends, God knows that I'm telling the truth. He's here. Now, Father, will You just bless us tonight. They're forming this prayer line here, Lord. Many of those who's coming that's needy, will You bless them tonight with Your Presence, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Are you the patient? Howard?...?... May you come right up close...?... Are you the one? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] [A brother comments--Ed.] She wants to come...?... vibrate over my hand. Maybe just to--just to wait just a moment... And everybody, just be reverent and in prayer. Just think of the Lord and His goodness. Do you believe that, all of you, with all of your heart? Now, this doesn't heal the people, but it does find out. It--it doesn't move on my hand at all. [A brother commentates--Ed.] [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Just a moment...?... Now, you believe, sister, with all of your heart? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... you mother with this little baby now. I want you to be well tonight. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... just speaks through you like that. But when He heals you like that...
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Thy humble servant, Lord. Help us, Thou Jesus. Lord, many You come
tonight, heal...?... Hear the prayer of Your humble servant, Father...?... them in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?...
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Look this way. Are you...?... back trouble...?... is discerned. That's why it wasn't...?... We want to thank Thee, heavenly Father, for Thy mercy and Thy goodness. And now, dear God, while we are praying and asking, I ask You to heal our beloved...?... Grant it, Lord. May this demon power that's bound her back, leave her immediately, Lord...?... You laid Your holy hands upon her. Doctors has said this...?... arthritis, but the devil has bound her...?... upon the Sabbath? And Father, we ask You now in Jesus' Name, through the power of the Holy Spirit, through the merits of Christ at the cross. Come out from the woman, thou spirit of the...?... All right. Is it all right? [Blank.spot.on.tape, and words are not intelligible--Ed.] Everybody be reverent. Pray. Have faith in God. God will grant it. All right...?... in you will, brother. [A brother makes a comment--Ed.]
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Howdy do, sister. You believe with all your heart? [A brother now. [There is much static making it
Now, these things...?... All right. I want you to watch. Now, look here. The Bible says in the mouth of two or three witnesses...?... Now, you have...?... Some of them are...?... now...?... Now, that's a Presence of some supernatural Being...?... your life...?... Yes, ma'am. Now, I put my hand on it...?... Now, here's...?... I don't know...?... Something supernatural happened as you can see here. Is that right? You received the physical results of the supernatural action. Is that right?...?... Now, the sickness leaves the person, and it's gone now. I want you to look...?... now...?... Now, I'll hold my hand just as still as I can. You believe...?... in this, audience. Now, the things that I've said would be...?... have be the truth. Is that right? If it is, just raise up your hand...?... Everything...?... all you people?...?... There they are. See?
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Now, I want you to watch. If that doesn't leave, well, sister dear, you'll go off the platform the same way you come on. If it does leave...?... show visibly here. If you noticed, may...?... that I don't know just what all she's done around...?... come in crippled and blind, and so forth, being healed. You can see what happens to them. But you have to accept it, just what I'm telling you to do. And here's what the Angel told me. "If you get the people to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer." Now, I said, "They will not believe." He said, "You'll be given two signs...?... by this will believe you." Is
that right? Now, you know that this...?... First thing, it's caused from a fever. Is that right? No one knows but you and God. And them things telling...?... Is that right? Now, if that leaves, then there...?... I see something...?... my hand now. See that little old...?... there? While I was talking to you, something's happened to you...?... That is just a nerves...?... [The words are not intelligible--Ed.]...?...
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Here's a woman who's had a hard time down through life, troubles with...?... [The words are not intelligible--Ed]...?... And now, Father, I put my hands...?... I pray, God, that You'll heal...?... make this demon come out that's bound our sister...?... Come out of the woman. Now, before I raise my head...?... [The words are not intelligible--Ed.] Satan, leave the woman...?... Now, just a moment. [The words are not intelligible--Ed.] Have mercy upon our sister. She's crying, Lord...?... She wants to lay her affliction aside...?... Father, God...?... heart...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, before I raise my head or look to my hand, holding it in the same position, that hand has turned normal, hasn't it? Now, you can raise your head, audience. Now, 'fore I raise my head or look, sister... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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You have a stomach trouble too. Is that right? You believe that Jesus Christ...?... Have I told you the...?... You're ready to serve Him now with all your heart? Shall we bow our heads. Our heavenly Father... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] May he push back...?... Knowing this stomach trouble bothers him and this demon is now vibrating against my hand, for he knows that his hour has come to depart from...?... Thou demon, come out him. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the man. All right, you can raise your head, audience. All right, brother, you believe with all your heart now? All right, go home and you eat what you want to. That getting up and things is over now. You just go on home...?...
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Lord? You do...?... How hard...?... Here's what you're worried about...?... and you think much is wrong about...?... Your main thing is your nerves. That's what's bothering you; you're nervous...?... Sometimes you think...?... You've had a lot of ups-and-downs in life, haven't you? That is right. You've had operations and things, and so forth. Is that right? Now, Jesus is here to heal. Do you believe in the Lord? All right, will you bow your head. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Truth...?... Thou choking spirit, leave her in the Name of Jesus, the
Son of God. Come out from...?... All right, you may look, friends. The goiter has left her throat. She's give her life to Christ, and she's going to be His servant the rest of her days...?... God bless you, lady.
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what's caused most of your troubles: nervous...?... comes on you...?... in the evening, don't it? Will you promise God, with all of your heart, that you'll serve Him, you'll turn from your sins and serve Him? You promise that? Will you quit smoking? You will? Give your life to Christ. He'll let you get well. Almighty God, have mercy upon our brother standing here, knowing that...?... holding him...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Nothing is hid before You, Lord. You know all things. God, be merciful to the...?... Forgive him of every trespass, and take this desire of smoking away from him, and heal him tonight. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant. May his nerves quieten. May he go away tonight with a great faith in God, feeling strong, meeting the oppositions tomorrow, saying, "Oh, how I thank You, Lord, for Your healing me." May he walk all the days of his life packing this Bible, preaching the Word, talking to others, telling them how You heal; may he lead others to Christ. Hear the prayer of Your servant. Satan, upon the confession of this man, your powers is weak when Calvary's brought near, for you know all your time, lost your victory when Jesus died at the cross. And I stand tonight as His representative. I say in His Name, Jesus Christ, come out of the boy and leave him alone. Look here, sir, on me. All right. Your cigarette habit is gone; your sins are under the Blood; and your nervousness is over. Straighten yourself up and say, "Praise the Lord." Walk away from the platform, and go on home.
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All right, come ahead now. Stand near me. Howdy do, sister? My, such a faith bank in here pulling, I can hardly catch what's wrong with this...?... pulling me around, it's a... That's it; just keep believing. Just keep believing with all your heart. [A bother comments--Ed.] Yes, ma'am. You're main trouble is...?... surgery. Have a lot of troubles, don't you? You're a deep thinker, always take other people's troubles too...?... just skip that. Yes, I believe it's...?... I'm not reading her mind now, I'm just telling you what's the truth. And she knows it's the true. Now, the thing you've got to do now, is look to Jesus Christ, and believe Him with all your heart. Do you believe that while you're standing here, if I ask God, that nervousness will leave you? You believe it? Do you believe the story that I told about that Angel, is the truth? You shall have what you asked for, sister.
Heavenly Father, a poor little nervous mother standing here, trembling, and Satan binding her, Lord, trying to shorten her days and send her to a premature grave. Lord, You're here in mercy and...?... in full compassion. And hear Thy servant's faith, Lord. If it could be drove away from her here on this platform tonight, she'll go home believing and glorifying You. Help me, dear Father, to have faith to make this power to leave her. You said, "In My Name they shall cast out devils," and she will believe it the rest of her life, Lord. Have mercy as You challenge this demon. Thou demon of oppression that's binding our sister, in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Come out of her. There it is. (All right, friends, you raise your heads.) Now, I'm not ho-yelling at you, but sometimes you can't baby devils, you know, and you... All right, sister, it's over. Feel good? Say, "Amen." That's fine. Go off the platform, just rejoicing and having a...?... All right. Let's say, "Praise be to the Lord."
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Up here tonight to be prayed for...?... praying for him. Look this way, sonny boy. That isn't your child. Isn't that right? When did you...?... all the time...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God lets...?... You heard Jesus say...?... cross on Calvary...?... getting worse all the time...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God, grant it. And this blind spirit, I adjure thee by Jesus Christ, leave the boy. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] [The words are not intelligible--Ed.]...?... I--I believe he's going right...?... Isn't that right...?... brother? And before the hand's got arthritis, setting there dying with...?... arthritis...?... Is that right? Is this true? Have faith, believe.
He's nervous. That might have corrected some of it. You believe me, brother, with all your heart? You're a stranger to me, aren't you? Yes, brother...?... trouble. Isn't that right? And do you believe with all your heart? Say, brother, I believe, by faith, you're Catholic, aren't you...?... Aren't you Catholic by faith? Is that right? Please raise up your hand. I thought I seen you...?... You believe me with all your heart? Go home and serve God with all your heart, and Jesus Christ will make you whole. God bless you. (Now, everyone be just as reverent.) God bless you, my dear. God bless you. You shall have just what you believe now. Have faith. Yes, sir.
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I'm trying to catch the lady there in the... And there sets a man... And there sets a man in...?... There set a poor old crippled brother setting there. Look this a way, sir. Do you believe with all
your heart? Look this a way. I see a man... That man's had a stroke, hasn't he? He's had a stroke. I see the man crippled...?... All right. No only that but you got a heart trouble too, haven't you? Yes, you've had a lot of heart trouble...?... Yeah, you got clot of blood too, haven't you on the brain? Is that right? Stand up on your feet. You don't have to be crippled. Jesus Christ will heal you right there. That's right. Everybody believe? Now, believe with all your heart now. Come forward, you that's...?... be healed. Let's all together, and let's have prayer while the Holy Spirit's moving. You there, lady. Yes, you raised up there with cancer, Jesus Christ healed you just now also. That lady over there with the female trouble, God's healed you just then, sister. For... Let's bow our heads everywhere. Be reverent, everywhere. Have faith in God. Every one reverent just a moment. I'm trying to speak...?... Oh, my, glorious. Let's pray, everybody. Now, you bow your head. Father... knows... Keep...?... before You. You can make lame walk, the blind to see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak. Thou art here. You can make those who are bound by the powers of Satan be loosed. Almighty God, send Your blessings upon the people, just now, for the Holy Spirit's coming in power, breathing upon every one...?... Have faith. You can be healed right now. Rise up from there in the Name of the Lord Jesus. You...?...
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Thank you, Brother Baxter. Good evening. I wish to read quickly a Scripture and go right straight to the prayer line. In St. John the 5th chapter I wish to read these words: After this there was a feast at... of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at certain season into the pool and troubled the water: whosever then first after the--the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
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When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered and said to him, Sir, I have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me. Jesus said unto him, Arise, take up thy bed and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, took up his bed and walked: and on the same was the Sabbath day. The nineteenth verse, when He was questioned: Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. Let us pray. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] We have no record of it after that. But it was a provided way made by an Angel Who came upon the pool of water to make a way for the sick and the needy. And how appropriate it is tonight to see the same Angel return in another manner upon man, troubling the waters. And now, Father, we pray that these sick, and lame, and halt people are here tonight, that they will each be healed as they step into the waters of the Holy Spirit. Grant it, Father, that each one will be healed of whatsoever disease they have. We're so thankful tonight that it's not limited to just one, but to whosoever will, let him come and drink the waters of Life freely. We thank Thee for this, our Father. Help us tonight as we are ministering to the sick.
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Be Thou near us, and bless us, and protect us against the wiles of the enemy. And in this great day that were living, a great civilization fixing to be blasted from the earth. You said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be," only this time instead of water it'll be fire. The world will be rocked by atomic power to be...?... O God, may men and women everywhere realize the seriousness of this visitation of God--a Gospel being preached like it was in the days of Noah: fanaticism to the world, but glorious and welcome to those who're willing to come in... Now, we come into the Ark of safety, Christ. By one Spirit we're all baptized into one body, become members of that body which God raised up from the dead. And we... As He was raised up, being dead in His body, shall the judgments of God pass over to His Blood, and we shall come forth someday, made like unto His own glorious body. Father, we're struggling, while we're trying to get the people to have faith in God, grant tonight that signs and wonders might be done before the people, that all here might glorify the Son of God. For we ask it in His Name and for His glory. Amen.
Tonight, I'd promised that we could go right straight to the prayer line. We've got a...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] the reason that I read this just now. I was questioned just a little bit before coming here tonight by someone. Said, "Brother Branham, why don't you heal all those people?" And I believe this person came immediately over here. Well, I--I wished I could. But I--I can't heal no one. And the reason that I do not call everyone the way, sometimes... I thought I would read this Scripture that you would understand that the Holy Spirit that was upon Jesus is on this church today, and moving in the same manner. As the robe of Elijah fell down on Elisha... "So these things that I do, greater shall you, for I go unto My Father." And the robe fell on the day of Pentecost that brought the glory back to the--to His people. But God lives in His church, and His Spirit moves upon His people.
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We must first realize that we're living in a day of skeptic, generation of people who will not believe. Jesus said, "Though the dead be raised, they wouldn't believe." Them Words has to be fulfilled. Somebody... Now, ninety percent that Satan promised he would have, has to be on the other side. We know that it has. No matter what would take place, they still would not believe it. They'll try to find some way to believe different. Even our Master was called Beelzebub, a spiritualist. And how much more will they call them that's of His household. We have to contend with that. But, brother, that doesn't shake my faith one bit. It only increases my faith in Him. For all that lived godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. And the mystery to me was as plain as the Word was being taught, that men and women can't understand. Truly did Isaiah say, "You have ears but can't hear it, eyes but can't even see it."
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When Jesus Christ came to the pool of Bethesda, in Him was feelings of compassion, for He was a Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. And He loved the people. But when He came to that pool where approximately, I'd say, when the Bible said, "Great multitudes..." where there'd be none less than ten thousand. Saw one place referred that as fifty thousand. Now, let's say approximately a low number, ten thousand people laying there that was halt, blind, lame, withered, and all kinds of conditions like that. And here came Jesus the Son of God. Well, He was--He was God on earth. He was God in the flesh: I Timothy 3:16, "Without controversy, great is the mystery of God, for God was manifested in flesh." The Bible said that God was in Christ
reconciling Himself to the world. The only way that God could make Himself known, was to live in His Son, Christ Jesus, suffer death and temptation for all human race. And He had all the qualities of the Father was in Him.
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And He walked by that pool and saw that great multitude of people bound by the devil: blind, halt, withered, twisted, laying there waiting maybe year after year, waiting for that Angel to come out of heaven and trouble the water. A troubled water is a water that's chopped. You people living near by this lake know about it: troubled water. Some people would not believe that. They said it's just a wind that happens to hit a certain current, and blow it, and make it like that. If that's what they thought, that's what it was to them. But those who believed It was an Angel of God, It was an Angel of God for them, healing for those. So is it tonight.
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But notice. When Jesus passed by there, He saw that great multitude. Doesn't it seem like for Him, with all the powers of God in Him... I believe that He could've healed every person there. Don't you believe that tonight? I believe He could've done it. But do you believe He was a true prophet sent from God? Was He the prophet that Moses said, "The Lord your God will rise up a prophet like unto me?" Was that the prophet? Then watch what He done. Instead of speaking or saying anything to them, He healed one man, not a cripple, a man that had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. He healed him, and walked away, and left that great multitude of people lying there, of lame, blind, halt, and withered. Is that true? When He was questioned on the subject, He said, "Verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Is that right? Well, if the Son could do no more than what the Father showed Him, how much less could the servant do except the Father had showed him?
God knows, my dear brother and sister, that it would be my heart tonight... If I could, I'd stand right here, and I'd like to see this whole group for the glory of God, to see them go out of this building just rejoicing, not a afflicted person in the building. I would. Now, I'd do that if I--if I knowed that I had to lay in the dirt on my back afterwards from six months without moving to see this audience tonight healed, every one of you, I would gladly do it for the glory of God's sake, and for your sake, that's been sick so long, and knows you shall die, many of you, unless God...?... But how could I do it? And as by man, without first God tell me what to do. If I would do anything outside of that, I'd be a hypocrite, and it
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If you notice at the platform, how close I have to examine. One word within myself would be wrong. It must be perfect, for it's God; and I have to let Him do it. And then you watch It, watch the expressions. I ask sometimes if He would show me certain things to do, I'll do it. "But the Son can do nothing," said Jesus, "except those things that He sees the Father doing." Did you notice the resurrection of Lazarus? Look at the people died during the time of His reign. And only three of them we have record of was ever raised: Jairus' daughter, the widow's son, and Lazarus. His reign was three years and a half in Jerusalem, the anointed One of God. But what did... When Lazarus His friend died, He said, "Lazarus sleepeth, and for your sake I'm glad I wasn't there. But I go wake him." He knew what was going to take place; the Father had already showed Him. Look at Him at the grave when He prayed. He said, "Not for Thee, not... You couldn't hear Me always, but for these that stand by, I ask it." Is that right? The Father already showed Him what He was going to do, because His own Word said that He could not do nothing except the Father showed Him first. Is that right? Then, friends, isn't... Brother that said that to me tonight, brother dear, I... Unless God shows me. I'll speak what He says. But when He doesn't speak, I'll keep silent there, 'cause I'm a minister, and I believe in God. And the things that I speak of is the truth, and God testifies of it. And I'm not here to clown before people; I'm here to serve God and to do what God says.
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Jesus one time had a rag put around His eyes. And some of the same type of people smote Him on the face. "Now, if you're a prophet, tell us who smote you." He never opened His mouth or said a word. Wisdom is justified by her children. And that's right. Be in prayer, be sincere, have faith and believe, and God will perform these things. But you must come reverent with spiritual faith in your heart, or God can't do nothing for you. The more humbler you get, and the less you know about the things of the world, the better off you are in the sight of God. The greatest success I ever had was amongst people who hardly could read or write. But now, I'm not trying to support my ignorance or prejudices. But I'll say: The biggest hindrance that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has ever had, has been this modern day education. That's exactly right. Even in the ministry, they've explained everything out of the Bible; the Blood, the days of the miracles, the powers, it's all explained out. And dear friends, don't you know that worldly wisdom is the thing that destroys the world? In the garden of Eden, there were two trees.
One of them was the Tree of Life. When man eat from that tree, he'd lived forever. And the other was the tree of knowledge, which was the tree of death, which was the tree of sickness. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?...
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He's destroyed himself with his gunpowder... If it's electric lights, pull gasses out of the earth... wisdom, run to and fro, knowledge shall increase. And they've brought theirself a hydrogen bomb now. I don't know what they're going to do. Automobiles... Every time a man... God destroys nothing. Man destroys himself by worldly wisdom. The first conflict that ever come into the world was because that somebody was seeking after worldly wisdom in the stead of simple faith in God. Listen to this. You say, "Doctor So-and-so doesn't believe it." That doesn't change God's Word a bit. Remember, you are not saved by wisdom; you are not saved by your education; you are saved by faith in Jesus Christ. Forget about your education. Be simple in your own doctrine.
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Shall we bow our heads. Heavenly Father, our hearts are made happy to know that we have lived and seen the day when the enemy comes in like a flood. But You said, "I'll raise up a standard against it." And tonight, setting in this tent, the anointing of the Holy Spirit here, men and women, their hearts filled with Thy goodness, ready to sacrifice their life for faith in God... Now, Lord, I pray that You will come in power and will make Yourself known tonight among Your children. And I ask You, Father, You... If that is as I have testified to the people tonight, that even Your beloved Son could do nothing, and say no words, or do anything except first the Father showed Him. He testified that to be true. And tonight, His Spirit, living on in the church, after nineteen hundred years, testifies the same things, all the way from the beginning of time. We think about Balaam, the prophet who sold out, yet, standing up there on the mountain, said, "How can any prophet say any words unless God first put them in his mouth?" Truly, Father, all praise and glory for all the works goes to You, our Father.
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And we come for You tonight in the omnipotent Name of Thy Son, Jesus, Who suffered at Calvary, and there shed His Blood freely, won the victory over all death, sin, sorrow, sicknesses, committing into the hands of the church forty days later--or fifty days later the power of the Holy Spirit that promised, "These things that I do, greater shall you do, for I go unto the Father." And I'm thinking tonight of Elijah. Elisha could pick up Elijah's robe and walk down to the river Jordan, double it, and smite the Jordan,
and screamed, "Where is the God of Elijah?" after that robe had fell upon him. Father, tonight I wonder how it is that the church is afraid after the robe of the Holy Spirit is fell upon It, and scream out, "Where is the God that was on Jesus." Oh, God, grant tonight, that men will wrap theirself in His righteousness and walk forward, challenging, standing as soldiers of the cross, men and women who love God, and willing to make the sacrifice for the Kingdom of God's sake. And may Your gift come down, Lord, tonight upon Your humble servant, and may it be a night of all nights. May signs and wonders be done that'll shut the mouth of the adversary. May it bring glory to the people of God. May the Holy Spirit catch ahold in every heart. May their lives be filled, and may their bodies be healed; for we go forward now to challenge against the enemy in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God. Amen.
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Every one be just reverent as possible now. We're going right straight into the service. And I want everybody... I'll be just as reverent before God as I know how to be. And we're starting early now so we can get a good long out tonight. And maybe after that group, we can pray for more. And if He keeps on, your faith keeps building... We're coming into the building in a night or so, and not even call a card, bring everybody so that you'll be a... First thing that your faith could be built, to be brought up to a place where you can receive... The more faith you have, the quicker that we can get through the line...?...
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But even now, what takes place here. He comes always when we ask for Him. Now, you people... That's all right, mother. Your number's called, they'll come and get her back there, dear poor thing there...?... invisible things, here now...?... out here, wherever you are. But be very reverent and pray. That's all I want you to do. And if you'll just not stir around for a...?... give me a chance to--to minister to the sick, I will appreciate. And I know these who are sick and afflicted will appreciate it. What if that was your sister, wife, or mother, dad there? What if they were setting here tonight behind this cancer, and knows there's nothing could be done to them except for God would heal. Oh, my. Think of it. What if your mother was still in the...?... the doctors said, "There's no more I can do." If you thought there's a least bit of hope for them... What if someone was disturbing the meeting...?... Wouldn't you feel awful bad about it? I believe, friends; I'm not a superstitious person. But I know there's a
great Person...?... meeting. God will sure honor faith, honor your respect. There's much faith coming from the building now...?...
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Some of the ministers say I'm waiting till the prayer line is...?... wherever they're going to start at. And then...?... Now, I...?... I think this. Let me illustrate just a moment. What if I was setting out there? What if it was me? I'd stand for...?... sick or afflicted. This is...?... If that was my mother, and...?... if I was blind. Oh, my. What would I do? I'd want...?... Who wants to be...?... Now, I can have mercy as God permits me to have mercy. But friends, it isn't in myself as...?... it's all given to me to do whatever I wish to. That would be. It's not given to me I would ask...?... For already now, your...?... wonderful...?... It's already...?...
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Person's sick...?... Doctor examined him. Now, that's the truth. There's already been a person healed...?... Now, that's the truth...?... There's two people healed now...?... You like to see that? The lady setting right here on...?... The man setting right there, holding a young...?... sister on your lap. And you sister...?... too...?... They went down there together...?... I believe this...?... It's all over...?... Just have faith; don't doubt. Now, just have faith and believe God with all your heart. And if every one of you now...?... Let's bow our heads now for a word of prayer. Our heavenly Father, we now, and from...?... where the right and wrong...?... we're a dying men...?... praising God. And we bow our heads to the dust from where we were taken. Someday, we shall return. And we're now engaging in the conflict against spiritual powers, and Satan's taken people...?... find the home on the other side. But the battle is on, right against wrong, skepticism against the Word of God, faith against unbelief. O Father, may the Angels of God wave their white flag, the banners of the cross, and may the Holy Spirit rise tonight. May signs and wonders be done. We give You all things, believing them. Now, knowing that Your power is here to heal, even now, I'm thanking You for it, Father. Today praying in the room, and You already promised that this would be here, and we see You already moving now. Grant it, Lord, that many things will be done in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus.
All right. May everybody be reverent. Have faith in God. Come forward...?... While I was in prayer this is just a number of things. I know this, friends. Now, be reverent. Mostly it's to contact the patients face to face; that's to contact the human soul. That's all. Sometimes out in there, you could stand on it. And I've said enough tonight. I'm going to pray. It's up to you...?... That's all I know.
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All right, come forward, sister. Let's have your hand, just...
You have several small things wrong with you. You're not sick; you're--you're tired. You asked for something that doesn't... You have arthritis crippling. I couldn't pick that up here 'cause that's acid in your blood. But I see it here coming...?... Do you believe me now, sister? There's not a medicine in the world for arthritis. And the way yours is going, it's a hopeless case...?... And now, you have not a chance, but you have the assurance. See? God will raise your...?... a sign to be wondered...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, you're the patient. I'm not able to take that off of you, except you believe me. But I can tell you what's your trouble, and you'll know. I have not a way in the world I have knowing that outside of God. Isn't that right? Well, do you accept it as God, revealing Himself to you? If I pray for you, you believe Jesus is going to make you well? If... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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You're here, beyond any shadow of doubt. And You're here to make well these people. Lord, I've testified, done all that I know how to do. You spoke back, night after night, the truth. Christ is the Truth. We believe You, believe God, that He sent His Son made in the form of sinful flesh that's redeemed us. And we believe now we have the earnest of our salvation, a foretaste of what heaven will be by the Holy Spirit. And we believe that through Divine healings, we have the earnest of our redeemed bodies. Father, a crippled up woman, nervous, sick... But Thou art here to remove this curse. Have mercy, dear God, upon her. Satan, in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God, leave the woman. Now, look this way, sister. Will you obey me as God's prophet, as His servant? All right. I want you to raise your hands up in the air, just as hard as you can. That's right. Want you to raise your feet up-anddown, like this. You don't have any arthritis now. You're free from it, sister. You can go home just as normal as you ever was. Go off the platform walking swiftly. Let's say, "Praise be to God."
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All right. Howdy do, sister. It's your eyes. Yes, you've had an operation. Is that right? Been there for some time...?... your eyes patch turning green. Mother, you have some other things here what's wrong with you. God bless our lovely... You realize there's no way in the world for me to tell you what I told you, except by God, isn't that right? No way in the world... Now, that's the gift that He has given me. That's as...?... things. But to heal you, lays in God's power. I have no way of healing it, only just to pray for you. But here's what He told me: "If you'll be sincere and get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayers."
Have you heard me explain how that the--the life dies and then, it goes away? You believe that? That's Divine healing. America's...?... But you realize now that you're standing near somewhere around here is some Supernatural Being? That's right. And you accept it to be a gift sent from God? All right, bow your head. (The audience will bow their heads, also in prayer.)
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Our heavenly Father, standing here, a blind spirit was in spirit of infirmity setting upon our sister, trying to darken the path, see her with a white cane after while, somebody's mother setting in a chair, blind. I don't believe it's Your will, Lord, that any should be that way. I believe that You died to redeem us from sickness and sin. Lord, I pray with all my heart, as sincere as I know how to do, that You'll now restore the sight in this woman's eyes for Your glory. I ask You to help me, God. If my faith be weak, strengthen my faith and help my unbelief, Lord. If hers be, do likewise, Father, that sight may be brought back for her eyes. Satan, thou blinding spirit, in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Now, sister, it left you. Give me your glasses. She sees. Don't doubt. See all right? How many fingers do I have up? How many now? Now? One? Your glasses in your hand; your cataract's dead; and you're healed, sister. Now, go rejoicing. Now, in a few days, you're going... Now, by--by morning, in a day or so, you'll be seeing fine, just real good. That'll be strengthening up. Then remember, after about seventy-two hours, you're going to almost go blind. When you do that, that's the swelling of that cataract. Then when you... After a few days, when that body begins to break, the life's gone from it, just keep on praising God. Keep on believing. See? If you doubt, it'll come right back then. But you go right on praising God and believing. Then in a few days, you'll notice it clearing up. It'll be over then, sister. God bless you. It's dead now.
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All right, come right ahead, sister. Oh, I feel like... I'm not very emotional maybe, but I just feel real good. I feel like just saying, "Praise be to God." All right, sister. Let's have your hand just a minute. Sister, are you going to believe with all your heart now? You must, 'cause it's cancer in your right...?... But you can't last much longer in the condition, that'll kill you. You've been told that too, haven't you? All right now, believe with all your heart. Our heavenly Father, knowing that now Thou art here, the waters are troubled, the spirit is chopping through the...?... the body of Christ...?... Now, a dying woman standing here. We're so thankful that the Holy Spirit has brought her into the light...?... You are here tonight. With all my heart, Lord, I ask You to be merciful.
Thou demon of cancer, leave the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. There it went. Amen. All right, you can go on your road rejoicing, for Christ Jesus, the Son of God, makes you well. Let us say, "Praise be to God." All right, lady, go rejoicing now, and be happy. Praise His holy Name. All right now.
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(You're in the...?...) How do you do, little girl? A sweet little thing. Come here, let's see. My, what a darling little girl. Now, my, how sweet. I have a little girl. I don't think that she's here just now, about your size. Can I set you up here to talk to me just a moment? Now, you look here, sweetheart. Now, mother, I want you first to look this way...?... this child. There's something wrong with your baby, of course, or you wouldn't have it here. I don't know at this time. But... Yes, will you believe with all your heart if I'll be able to tell you the condition of the baby? A longing in your heart too, sister. You know what I'm speaking of? Now, your baby's got something wrong with it. I can't find out exactly what it is too: runningness, nose, in its ears. Isn't that right? Look this way, honey. This baby's been doctored by a doctor, a tall doctor like, thin like fellow. I believe he put--he give you something for the baby. And you brought it... You took the baby to a--a... No, you... He gave you something to give to the baby, and you put it in its nose and it started to its ears. Is that right? Yes, ma'am. Is that true? If I shall bless the baby in the Name of the Lord Jesus for it be well, and you will pay your vows to God... Our heavenly Father, I hold this darling baby tonight to bless it in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God, that it'll live, be a normal baby; and this will go away. And may the mother receive her blessing, Lord, the desire of her heart tonight, through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen...?... know you have, sister. Now, you take your baby. It's all right, going to be well and be a fine little lady. God bless you, my sister. You love Jesus? Let's say, "Praise God." [Congregation say, "Praise
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How do you do, sister. Let's see your hand. Well, you have a greater faith than I expected. You had a goiter when you walked up here, but it's gone now. I believe that God healed you up here. God bless you. It's gone from you now. Go rejoicing, singing praises. Let us say, "Praise be to God." Now, that's when faith ought to be. Now, friends, to you in here that might not understand, these people are not excited, perhaps, because Something to cause the excitement... It's their souls being blessed, to see the Presence of the Almighty.
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All right, lady. You come forward to me. Well, there's two
things that's wrong with you. One of the first is female trouble, and the other one she's extremely nervous. You've been nervous for some time. Your other trouble is glands. You didn't know that. Been that for some time. Yes, I see something else too. You have a trouble in your back also, don't you? Isn't that right?...?... in your spine. You believe the...?... now, with all your heart? If I shall ask Jesus to heal you, you...?... (Isn't that right?) your feelings and all about you. You didn't even know yourself about telling you...?... things and what it was. And you see exactly what it was. Now, that is your faith and the measure that it's in now, sister. Only believe, and God will make you perfectly whole. Do you believe if I will ask God to bless you, He will hear my prayer? Remember what Mary said, or Martha said to the Master when her brother was dead? "My brother is dead." But said, "Even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." See? You believe it that way? Bow your head and just keep your blessing. Our heavenly Father, You said, "Whatever you bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven, what you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Lord, that's Your Word. "Whosoever sins you remit, to them they're remitted; whosoever sins you retain, to them they're retained." That's what You promised. And now, in obedience to Your Word, I lay my hands upon sister and bless her, and to loose her from this trouble. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman. All right, sister. You're healed. Now, you move your back up-and-down this way too. That's fine. You're all right. Now, you're well. You may go on your... You feel good now? Fine, wonderful. Go, praising God.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. God is a Spirit, an object of worship. The Bible said, "They that worship Him..." Now, sister, look this a way just a moment, the lady that was healed just now. How do you feel? Wonderful. That's fine. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
Whole group...?... Christ is the Truth...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... have mercy on me and help Thou my unbelief, right now, that you might be healed. All right, lady, you can pass on too. The heart trouble that you had left you while you were standing there. God bless you, sister. God blessed you standing there. Let's say, "Praises be to God." Her faith saved her. God's just taken somebody right in here at the same time, had heart trouble, setting right along in here somewhere, that I felt it lift... There, God bless you, my brother. I knew it left from somewhere there. All right. Everybody have faith.
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All right. Come on, sister. All right. Do you believe for your
eyes with all your heart? In the Name of Jesus Christ, then remove your glasses and go off the platform believing with all your heart. Let's say, "Praise be to God." Let's bow our heads and give God praise. Our heavenly Father, thanking Thee in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, for Thy mercy, Who can restore the sight, to make the lame to walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, can remove the cancers...?... growth. Oh, Thou art God Who made the heavens and earth out of the things that the--was not, and they now are like things that appear. Thank You, Father, for Your blessings and Your kindness. Keep us humble, worshipping Thee with all our hearts. In the Name of Jesus, the Son of God, we ask it. Amen. All right. Everybody with faith, everybody believing now with all your heart.
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Mother with the little boy laying there, I feel a vision of him is soon. Have you got a card? You have? Well, maybe you'll be called when you get in the line. I'm going to ask you something to act on faith. Won't you believe me, and throw your card down? You would? Where do you live at? All right. Tell you what you do. I'm going to stand here and ask God to heal that baby of that water. Now, look. Now, I'll tell you what I want you to do. I want you to lay your hand on the baby's head. Our heavenly Father, by faith Thou has done these miracles, and I'm asking now that You heal the baby. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, may it leave it now. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, the baby... Now, you live close here, you say? Now, when you leave the service tonight, you take a string, tie it around that baby's head, like this, and cut it off. And you wait three nights, and then you tie that string around the head again, and cut off how much that head had shrink in that much time, and bring it and lay it on the platform here. Will you do it for a testimony? How many will be looking for the string? All right. Now, that's just for you people out there. Now, watch what happens, and you shall know the glory of God.
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All right. Where's the next patient? Just come, sister, down there. Oh, here. All right, bring her on. Good evening, sister. There's two or three things wrong with you, sister. Now, listen close...?... Do you believe the doctors...?... And if you asked God...?... to give you a deliverance...?... arms, right hand...?... Isn't that right? Sometimes you feel like crying. I saw you've been crying. And I have a feeling you had something wrong in your back...?... your back pains...?... and also the fever...?... And then those things, and right where you're at, the room when you was praying... Are all those things...?... Now, isn't that the truth? Right
where you were at? Just the time, and what you were praying for, and what you were doing, and what you were thinking, is that true? If that's true, raise up your hand so the audience can see it was the truth. Weeks ago, what you've done, what you was thinking of, and where you were at... What's wrong with you now, four different things are...?... Is that right? For it's by the Spirit of God, which is on you now, can reveal the secrets of your heart. Do you accept it as being the same Spirit that Jesus said to Nathanael, "Before you... Philip called you, when you was under the tree, I seen you." And I seen you by the side of your bed, and what you were asking God. And no one in the world would know what you asked God except God alone and you. Is that right? And here I come, by that same Spirit, and reveal to you the prayer that you prayed weeks ago. Is that true? You believe the Spirit of God is here that knows all things? Well, sister, I'll ask the prayer as form, but you're already healed. God has made you well already. You know that. You feel that right there while I was talking to you. Is that right? Now, so that the audience will know, when I begin to speak to you about your prayer, and the things that you said in that prayer, a real funny feeling come over, like a cold feeling. If that's right, raise your hand. That's when you were healed. Your spinal trouble is gone, all the rest of the troubles are gone. You're healed, sister. Your faith... Move yourself up-and-down like...?... All right. Now, raise up your hands, like this; say, "Thank You, Lord." Amen. Go off the platform rejoicing. Go on.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Now, dear beloved friends, the woman knows that nothing in the world could have helped her, no one would've knowed the prayer that she prayed before God about three weeks ago, where she was at, the way she, the position, the things that was in the room, and how that was seen right there, and the word by word what she said to the Lord. God hears prayers and He can reveal. Now, not I, friends, but in this building tonight is the same Spirit of God that was upon Jesus Christ, that could tell Philip before he come here, "You were under the fig tree, praying." And here it is tonight, making more plainer than what He did to Philip, to fulfill the things. And said, "Greater than this will you do, for I go unto My Father." Is that right? Christian friends, how could you doubt? How could you? Surely there couldn't be a doubt in the building. Just think, brother and sister, not... Don't look at me; it's... I--I could not do that. How would I know? I'm a poor mortal, with not even a grammar school education. And--and I--I... Oh, I--I don't know how to tell you. But He's here: God. Now, look; many of them in the days when He was here in Christ, many of them said... "Well, now," you say, "if I was back in that day, I'd believe." If you can't believe now, how could you believe
then? Jesus never did call a prayer line and tell everybody-everybody the secrets of their hearts. He just spoke the Word once in a while to people like that. About three or four times in the Bible was all He ever done it. And He said, "Greater things than this will you do." Is that right? Sure. He's God.
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All right, sister, look this a way. That somebody might think that I...?... Some of you say, "Well, I don't know," believing he's reading the people's mind. Do you believe that? Well, look here. I'm standing with my back to the lady. Now, sister, to you who's standing there, there's a baby. If you hear me, say, "Amen." I mean the lady here, the lady here, the patient. You hear me, say, "Amen." You hear me. I know nothing about you; you just come up here and set down. Is that right? If I can tell you what's the matter with you and what you want to be prayed for, will you believe me? And remember when the Master stood there, and the Pharisees even around Him, He said, "Knowing their thoughts..." That's the reason I'm talking the way I am tonight. There's people here. I know your thoughts and know what you're thinking about. All right, lady. That nervous trouble you had, has left you, and you're healed. Do you believe it? God bless you. You may go on your road rejoicing. Won't bother you no more.
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Let's say, "Praise to God." There's not a thing in the building but what God knows just exactly what it is, and the thoughts of your mind is made known to Him, and He will make His secrets known to His servants. Is that right? Surely. All right. Everybody have faith, believe. Anything could happen where the Lord's people are gathered. How much more time have we got? I... Fine. All right, we got a little bit of time left. The brother, God bless you, my brother. I see that you're standing there suffering with many things, illnesses. Isn't that right? One thing, you have a bad heart. And another thing... Is that right? Say, brother, I see something now. You know that you're experiencing... Well now, looky here. What you have... You have a deep desire in your heart for something. Is that right? And that desire is something concerning a family affair. Is that right? Is that true? Well, God bless you, my brother. Go home, and may God give you one of the finest little boys that you can hardly to have in this world. God bless you, my brother, and give you...?... Let us say, "Praises be to Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God," Who is here tonight and knows all things. There's nothing...?... [A
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All right. God knows... All right, sister. Your back trouble's
over too. Go ahead. God cured you of that kidney trouble...?... female disorder...?... the power to serve God. And you wanted... All right. You're going to give Him your life now? You're... All right, it's all gone. God bless...?... She had also other troubles. Sisters told her in here... And she wanted--she wanted to serve God. Ministers ought to talk to people of that type, and--and--and let them get right with God. Believe it. That's the main thing, it's to be right with God. Don't you believe that? All right, everybody be reverent now.
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Just a moment. What do you think, sister, when I asked the blessing for your little boy's water head? You believe it'll be down at least an inch or two by that time? All right. And I want you to bring the little string up here and give it to...?... Say, "Here's how much it shrinks in that much time." We'll make it a little quicker than that. You bring it back tomorrow night. All right. You bring it back tomorrow night, so that these men here who want to see it... It's going to shrink...?... now, tomorrow. Put it around its little head, and cut it off. Then while you do that, and you see that shrinking, that'll build your faith, and say, "Oh, my. It'll go on now. It'll be all right." God bless you, sister. All right. All right, mother. Come walking this way now, and believe with all your heart. Do you believe? Will you accept me as God's prophet? Your heart trouble's left you then. You can move off the platform and be well. God bless you now. Go, believing the Lord...?... [Brother Branham speaks to the sister privately--Ed.] All right. Just a few things that she thought 'cause I didn't call that, maybe it might hinder. She had a... She was extremely nervous and had arthritis also. And I thought I was telling her that it's all over with, so she can just go on rejoicing...?... Oh, my. Isn't He wonderful? Hallelujah. Glory to...?... Jesus, the Son of the living God. Oh, my, how it's looking over this tent now. How in the world... Looked like that everybody ought to be able to receive it. Have faith and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Sister? I just see it's still light around you where you accepted your healing. God bless you. You're just all right now, it's all over. All right, sister. Your nervousness is gone also. So you can go on across the platform rejoicing...?... Your healed also. God bless you, sir. Let us say, "Praise be to God." Believe Him out there, brother...?... Don't have no fear, but believe with all your heart, it'll leave. Jesus Christ knows your condition. You setting there also that are trying your best, don't fear. God knows what you're trying...?... You'll be over that now in a few minutes. You believe it? You believe it with all your heart? God bless
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you. That's fine. Have faith; just believe with all your heart. It'll leave you sure as...
All right, come with...?... Oh, mother dear, don't fear; Jesus is here to heal you...?... Do you accept...?... Our Father, bless just now. In the Name of Thy Son Jesus rebuke this demon away from our sister in the Name of Jesus Christ. God bless you, sister. Go on your road rejoicing and happy...?... Why can't everybody here be healed? Listen. How many of you that's in a dying serious condition, that don't think you could get back to another meeting, come stand right along side, just a real serious condition, come stand right here at the altar, can't come back for a line. We're going to get somebody... Come here, brother preacher, just a minute. Come right along here by the side of me. Oh, my. Why can't God will heal the whole...?... All right, sister. Don't worry about that cancer you got. You just-just...?... Isn't that right? You got your cancer bothering you? But if you'll have faith, God will heal you. Is that right? Have faith, God will make you well.
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I want all the ministers to gather up around here. My brothers, reach out there and hold your hands over this audience. Let all the audience be just as reverent as possible for a few minutes. God bless you, brother. You believe with all your heart? You believe that I'll be able to tell you what's your troubles? Your sinus trouble has left you, brother. Believe God with all your heart. God bless you. Everybody now, bow your head. All Christians...?... in prayer. Now, just a moment. I want to ask you something. How many in the building is sick? Let's see your hand. Now, listen real closely. While the anointing of the Holy... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I want you to...?... everyone, while your hands up...?... one another and God heal you...?...
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Good evening, audience, and Brother...?... I'm very happy to be here this afternoon. I got just a little tired last night, but I feel fine today. And I had the same sort of a convention, religious convention and they said...?... I feel fine, 'cause the Lord has...?... prepared for today's services...?... very...?... And then, this type of service coming along this afternoon, speak of
His--speak from the Word and--and talk to you friends face to face...?... thoughts of salvation of your soul. I--I love to do that. I'm...?... preacher, but I am... I love the Word of God. And I like to talk about It. But my--my calling is--is to get into a--a gift that came from God for an inspiration for the people. And as Brother Ramsey had rightly said, "It is not just something another that..." Well, as God has just done to one individual person or something, I'm just for a--a little bitty part of it. But it was given to me in order that it be demonstrated before the church, that everybody might catch the vision of the supernatural part that God lives and reigns in His church today. And He's here to bless us all.
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And the blessings, I trust that... One of the finest groups of ministers I've met, I believe that these brothers here, that... I've just got to shake their hands about once. But they're certainly fine brothers. And I'm so glad to know that when we leave here, we leave these converts, and so forth, in hands of men like that, that love God. May God richly bless. And may there be an old fashion revival start from this, that'll just sweep out through the country, ready for the coming of the Lord, for I truly believe it's drawing close at hand. I do not wish you'd say that I was a fanatic, and said when Jesus was coming right now. I--I do not know that. No one knows when Jesus is coming, not even the Angels; just the Father is all Who knows. But He said when we see these signs begin to come to pass, then get ready, for the time was at hand. And we know we're right there at the time.
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Now, in the--a day like this... The brethren give it to me. And-and usually on Saturday nights, or something like that, I try to put in as much time as possible. The gift has such an effect, for it just pulls the life out of me. And sometimes I get till I don't even know where I'm standing at. It's just such a anointing. You just get to a place... And many times, there's other reasons why they take me. I--I... We're just all God's children (Aren't we?), just home folks. And I believe you'll love me. I love you with all my heart. And many times that way, I hold myself on the gift. Now, it's not around me now, 'cause I haven't been praying. I got up, had just a little bite of breakfast, and I won't eat any more, probably, till after the services, and so forth. I have to keep empty.
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If your--if you keep your stomach empty, the blood is at your brain, and you must be ready. And if you're all full when you're... That's the power of fasting. When you're--when you're full, the blood
goes into your stomach to digest your food. You see? And then when you're empty, it's in your--in your brain. So you can be just... 'Cause them two spirits is so close it could deceive the very elect, if possible. And many pe--many times you hear It cry. I've heard people shout. Now, as I told you, I hope I--God that has let me find favor with you that you believe me. I've heard people shout when it wasn't God. I've heard people cry when it wasn't God. See? And their sympathy sometimes, the devil wants to be petted. And it--it takes a real sheep raiser to know the difference between the bleat of a goat and a lamb; they're so close together. You see? And so therefore, on this platform, you must be very careful. Can be just one thing is all that Satan wants to--wants to throw out before the public. So therefore, I have to be fasting, prayerful, every minute on the guard, watching for something.
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And now, on a service like this it just feels like you just... We call it a street expression, just let down your collar, and come in and talk, just... And you don't have to be looking at that; you're just going to talk on the Word. And then sometimes when it gets in that subconscious position on the platform, goes to calling the people... Critics and things in the meeting, sets in the meeting, and that causes a disturbance. Sometimes they get angry and huff around about it. And I just try to hold it just exactly to one thing: that's on healing, is what I'm representing here on Divine healing, and so forth. Now, if the patient's up here, and something in the patient, why, it's called out. But sometimes out in the audience, it just pulls right out, the critics and so forth setting there, hurt feelings. A discerning Spirit's an awful... It sometimes you have to speak very sharply. And you don't speak yourself; It speaks. You see?
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And so it's a great day that we're coming into. Not long ago, I was talking to someone. Said, "Oh, the days of evangelism will be after this church is done gone, and there'll be another age raised up." Don't you believe that. Now is the day. You get ready now. You're probably living in one of the best days that you'll ever see. That's right. You must take heed today to the Word of God. The Holy Spirit's been in the world for evangelism for nineteen hundred years and better. This is the day of evangelism, to move out and get the church in order. God's showing these signs and wonders... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
Supernatural... Now, I'm... As I told you awhile ago, I'm just a long ways from being a preacher. I--I usually a little... I don't believe in joking at the platform. This is no place for jokes. This is sacred. This is the platform. See? And we mustn't do that. This is God's house, God's place. So we must be real sincere.
Now, as a minister, I remember when I first got my papers, ordination papers at the Missionary Baptist church, and I thought I was a--a preacher. Oh, my. I just loved to tell everybody I was a preacher.
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And it kind of reminds me, one time I was... My father was... My mother is from Oklahoma and Texas. And she was born in the state of Kentucky. And my grandfather went west. My mother's mother come off the Oklahoma reservation. She's full blooded Cherokee Indian. And my father's Irish. And my mother, on the other side, by her father, was Irish. And so there's forgiveness for that. I--I'll tell you that so. We--we know that God, no matter what we are, who we are, God will forgive us (That's right.) of our sins and trespasses. My father was a rider. And he went west breaking horses. And he met my mother; they were married. I was born when my mother was sixteen years old, and my father was eighteen: just children. And so I used to want to be like my dad.
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Next Sunday afternoon, the Lord willing, if we get to stay over for next Sunday, I wish to tell my life story next Sunday afternoon from the platform here. And how I loved my daddy, how I wanted to do things like dad did. And he used to like to ride, so I said, "I wanted to be a rider, also when I got to be a man." I used to take our old plow horse and of the afternoon when the work was over, and I'd put some cockleburs under the saddle and pull it down, you know, real good and tight, get down behind the barn where the watering trough was, and get on the old horse. And the poor old thing was so tired, he couldn't... He couldn't buck, so he just stand and bawl, you know, and just cut his feet up and down. And I'd take off my straw hat and hit him, like that. And I was--thought I was a real rider.
So one day I got to be about eighteen years old; I went out west. I landed in Arizona. And I thought I wanted to be a rider. I went out to their corrals to find out if I could get a job riding in the rodeo. And I climbed up with a pair of Levis on, on the corral fence where they brought the horse out. And they had to come out through the stalls and catching pens. And I seen a fellow jump on the horse there. And my, my, sure didn't act like my old plow horse. And he throwed that fellow. My, he had a handful of mane in his hand. And the fellow coming by, caller came by, said, "I will give any man fifty dollars who will stay on him a half a minute." He kept coming on
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by all those riders there setting, come right straight to me. He said, "Are you a rider?" I said, "No, sir." I was--I was very scared, because I wasn't a rider.
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That just reminded me when I was first got ordained as a Baptist preacher. I'd carry my Bible under my arm, you know, and go down the street. And I... Everybody would say, "Are you a preacher?" "Yes, sir." See? And one day, I was at St. Louis, Missouri... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I went into a tent meeting. There was a minister there by the name of Reverend Daugherty. He's a Pentecostal preacher. And he got to preaching. My, he would preach till his breath would leave him; he'd turn red in the face, and his knees would go together; and he'd go plumb down to the floor and come back, catch his breath; you could hear him for about two squares, still preaching. Some of them said, "Are you a preacher?" I said, "No, sir." I wasn't no preacher. I was a preacher all right, till I met him. So when I come around where these Pentecost preachers, I say, "I'm no preacher." And my old slow Baptist ways don't think of it that fast. And so--so I just have to do the best I can. But I do love the Word of God, for It is really good. And It's good to our hearts.
And this afternoon, my brother is fixing to go away to the Army. And they sent him... They called him last night. And he has to leave right away to return into the active service. And here not long ago, I preached a little subject on "The Resurrection Of Lazarus." I don't know whether anybody here heard anything preached on it or not in other places. If you have, raise your hand, of "the Resurrection of Lazarus"? Three or four. And I'm... He asked me... That was one of his favorite subjects, and he asked me if I'd hit on it some ways here this afternoon. And I promised him I would. You'll bear with me just a little bit, we'll have prayer.
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Our heavenly Father, now we've come together this afternoon for one purpose: to speak of Thee, and to love Thee. And we all love You. And we've come facing this, today knowing that today may be the--someone may seal their eternal destination from the service today, the attitude towards the Word. We realize that no one can come in a service, and return, and be the same person. We go out... If we reject, we go out worse than we were when we come in. And if we accept, we go out better than we was; for the Word shall not return void; It'll accomplish that which It was purposed for. And now, Father, realizing that maybe many unsaved are here today, and I'm to speak before them for this Word. And I pray, God, that
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You'll take the Word and by the Holy Spirit, and may It give out to each one. May every one be blessed, Father. Keep us humble. We realize that--that we're nothing in this earth, and we may not live to see the sun set this afternoon. We may go out to meet God before that time. And now, Father, bless Thy servant this afternoon. And help me as I minister of the Word of grace to the people, for I ask it in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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What could we do without Jesus? We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Jesus. Now, friends, I'm just a little funny about standing up and speaking before people, because I haven't got any education. So now, don't judge me by my--my education, but--but what I mean, what's on my heart, if you will. I wish to read this portion of Scripture found in Saint John the 11th chapter, if you would like to read just a little with me, and will pray with me, if you will, for just a short time. And I'll try to close and not keep you too long, so you can be here for the evening service. The 11th chapter of Saint John, let's begin about the 20th verse of the 11th chapter. Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary set still in the house. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou had been here, my brother had not died. I love that, don't you? Just listen at this reading of the Word. Let me read that 21st verse again. Listen. Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou will ask God, God will give it to you. Jesus said unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. (There's the attitude of approach.) Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. (See, those Jews believed in the general resurrection. Listen at the 25th verse. Notice.) Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. May God add His blessings to His Word.
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Now, let everyone just forget about the work you have to do
tomorrow, what you've done last week, and let's think of Jesus just now, and get this story kinda in our minds of--of Him, and scene at this time. This was during the time of His--beginning of His ministry. His ministry had gotten great. They called Him so much till He couldn't go to different... He had to go to different parts of the country, I mean, to minister to those who were in need. And it had a very hard time. Isn't it strange that God takes those things of low estate and brings them up. When He was borned, He was born with a black name to begin with, black mark on His Name. He was supposing to--to have been a legitimate Child, or--or illegitimate Child; borned by Joseph, being His father, before he and Mary was married.
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Someone not long ago told me; he said, "Brother Branham, don't you believe that that was just a little bit of a slip-up, like we have in all days now?" And I said, "No, sir. I believe that He was truly the Son of God. He was God's Son." And he said, "It's against all scientific research, Brother Branham." He was a scientist. He said, "It's against all scientific research for anything like that to happen." And he said, "First place, your thought of God is just psychology." He said, "There is no such a thing." Said, "It's...?... that people believed in that." I said, "No. I--I different with you, my friend. No." I said, "I know there is."
He said, "Now, don't you think that if Joseph was really the father... He was just a--a good man, a good teacher, and a smart man. And they just made a religion around Him?" I said, "No, sir. I believe that He was the virgin born Son of God." And I said, "I believe it with all my heart." He said, "Well, It could not have been born without He had a earthly father." Said, "Now, corn--it has to have a pollen. All things has to be polled between natural, between male and female. An it's utterly impossible for any child to be born without a direct sexual affair of a male and female." And he said, "He has to have a earthly father and mother." I said, "Brother, I... or, friend..." I couldn't call him my brother. But I said, "Friend, look, that's... I different with you." I said, "Now, you were just telling me awhile ago that according to some of the Darwin's ethics, or something, that the first man, when he came here, was a germ-- or come on the earth was moon and star, begin as just a tadpole, and so forth." I said, "I want to ask you something. If you will credit Him of having an earthly mother, but you can't believe He come here without having an earthly father..." He said, "That's exactly right. It's against all scientific research."
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I said, "Then if you will credit Him of having a earthly mother, and can't believe that God was His father, and you say they had to have a both earthly father and mother or He could not have been here..." Said, "That's right." I said, "How did the first man get here without father or mother then?" Let it be what he wants to be. See? Let him be... If he was a monkey or a tadpole, whatever he was, who was his father and mother? There you are.
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You have to bring it back till He... God's the Creator. And God the Creator, created a blood cell in the womb of Mary. Come from the Father, which is God, by virgin birth, and that is the Son of God Who we love and cherish today, Who died and gave His Blood at Calvary, that we might have remission of our sins and healing of our body. That's my faith in the Gospel of Christ. Now, I believe it with all my heart. Now, if today, if we should have an altar call, and--and--in this city today, and ten thousand people would come to Christ, and all ten thousand would die tomorrow; in fifty years from today I would return back, and they would come back, and I would be laying here dying; and they'd say, "Oh, that's fake, that's fake. Jesus isn't the Christ. No, sir. We done been there and come back. And we know that it isn't the Christ," and I was dying, I'd say, "Let me go in Jesus, for I believe Him." No matter what, that's... If I prayed for ten thousand people, and every one of them died in an hour after I prayed for them, I'd still, dying, I'd say, "I believe in Divine healing, for it's the Word of God, and I know it's the Truth." See? That's right.
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Them theories don't change God's Word. No, sir. God's Word is eternally true, and It's right, and It... our faith is based on there. And by... I'm not saved today because I got down at the altar and cried. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I'm saved because the Word of God tells me I'm saved. Satan can whip me around anywhere on how you feel. But I believe it, because God said so, and I accept Him upon the basis of His Word. That's how I was saved. I believed it, and confessed it, and then it works the results. But the first thing, I'm saved because God's Word teaches I'm saved. That's how you're saved, if you're saved. Satan can whip you on your ideas and things, but he can't go around the Word of God. Jesus said, "It is written," and that settled it with all. It is written in the Scriptures.
Now, when He was there, He was borned (and as I said) in the world, come in here with a black mark on His Name. How that God so
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marvelously brought Him here. Just before His coming, the age had got just about like it has come to recently: into a backslidden condition. Israel had been brought into captivity by the Romans, and there they had been taken away. And the priests had got to a place, and got away from the supernatural part of God, been teaching just upon a doctrine of their own theories of what they taught. As Jesus said, "You teach for commandments, the word of men, making the Word of God of non effect." And that's about the kind of a time that He was born. But God has always had a witness here on earth for Him. Now, notice, then during this time, just before His--His birth...
Before God does anything here on earth... I want you to catch this close. Before God does anything on earth, He always sends a witness from heaven to declare it. Now, before Jesus was born, why, God sent a witness of this. Signs and wonders begin to appear of His coming, just as it's appearing today by witnesses of His second coming again. See? Signs and wonders... This is a day that... There's never been an age through all the church ages that's ever produced what this age is producing right now, for it's the coming of the Lord's drawing near. Don't you believe it? Drawing nigh, rather... And we're nearing the time of the close of this world's history when Jesus shall come.
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Notice, signs begin to appear. There was a man by the name of Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth: righteous, holy people, keeping the commandments of God and walking in all the statutes and ordinances of God, blameless. That's the kind of a home we need today. Don't you believe it? In the stead of that in the church today, we have everything else but holiness and righteousness. But they were righteous people, godly people, walking in the commandments of the Lord, keeping all the ordinances, blameless. Zacharias was a priest at the temple. And his office was to burn incense while prayer was being made. And one day, while he was in the temple burning incense, Gabriel, an Angel from God, came down and stood by the altar of incense, and said, "Zacharias, fear not. Your prayers is heard." Oh, I love that. They... His wife was barren. She hadn't had any children. She was past the age of bearing. But he lived right before God and believed on God. And all of his great, dark, long hours of worry finally the Angel come and said, "God has heard your prayer." Now, if you want God to hear your prayer, send an Angel to your home, live right, do right, treat everybody right, be right before God, and God will grant that to you.
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Now, he said... Now, notice, sometimes in that day, like it is now when our prayers are a little bit lingered, we become dull, sensebound. So Zacharias doubted that that could be so. He didn't believe it. And notice, after he had plenty of examples... Now, Sarah and Abraham, how old they were when Isaac was born... Hannah came to the temple past the age of bearing, went to the temple that day to serve God. Probably the women all went up to Shiloh, maybe to see what kind of hats one another wore, but not Hannah. She went up with something in her heart. She wanted to talk to God. And she prayed in such deep sincerity, till the priest misunderstood her. Like today, sometimes we're called fanatics because we pray and cry out to God. We're just... We're not fanatics: misunderstood; that's all.
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But then when... He thought she was drunk. (They did the same thing on Pentecost. They do the same thing today.) She said she was not drunk, but she was praying God take away her reproach. He blessed her. And as soon as she received the blessing from the priest... Notice, didn't wait now. God could've put the baby in her arms right then. But she went home happy, knowing that in due season God would bring it to pass. That's the kind of people we need today, taking God at His Word. You see? Then he had that example, and many others. But being a priest, studied the Word, and still doubted how his wife, as old as she was, could have a baby after that age by him.
Notice that the Angel of God will perform His Word. He'll bring His Word to pass regardless. When the season comes, harvesters are ripe, God is going to send His Word and perform His things. Today... Listen. I believe that God is going to call a people out of the Gentiles for His Name in this great latter movement here of a revival sweeping the nation. And if the holiness people don't want it, He will raise it up out of something else. That's right. It's got to be. It's got to come. He's able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham. What's the matter? We've let down the bars, compromising. An old minister used to sing:
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We let down the bars, We compromised with sin; We let down the bars, The sheep got out; How did the goats get in?
You let down the bars (That's what it is.), let down on the Word. We're getting stiff and starchy, afraid to come back to the old fashion Gospel (That's right), to the old salvation that makes you clean up,
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That's what's the matter with the church today. We need a revival. We don't need a new seminary. We don't need new preachers. We don't need new church buildings. We need a revival in what we got. That's what it is. Stirring up... Amen. All right. I'm not amening myself, but "Amen" means "so be it." And I believe it with all my heart. That's what the world needs today is an old fashion, God sent, sky blue, sin killing religion, old Saint Paul's revival, and the Bible Holy Ghost back into the church again. That might be pretty strong for a Baptist, but that's right. True. I'm a Pentecostal Baptist. I got the Holy Ghost since I've been a Baptist. That's right. Notice, Cleans up, sets aside. Makes a different person, new creature in Christ Jesus. All right. Here's what we need.
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Then he doubted it to be so. But God's going to confirm His Word. Don't you worry. "God's able of these stones to rise children to Abraham," said John. Watch. Then in all of that, what taken place? God was sure to bring it to pass, 'cause it was at the season, at the time. His Words, every cog must fit the same place; when them prophetic wheels begin to roll together, it's got to happen. And there's coming a time when there's... Right now, in the near future, that when great judgment's going to be upon these nations that forget God. When you put up with what I've seen the last few days, and see around in this country under the name of religion, and living the way people's living, no wonder communistic things break out, and things the way they are. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... that the Bible teaches. That's right. We're letting down, compromising. But God's going to have a remnant of people, a Blood washed church without spot or wrinkle. Amen. I believe it with all my heart.
Notice, then God was going to bring it to pass. And He said, "Because that..." Gabriel the Angel said, "Because you have doubted My Word... I'm Gabriel..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... stands in the Presence of God... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "...?... you doubted the Word, You'll be dumb till the day the baby's born." Hallelujah. I believe God. God send the line. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] See, God's determined. When He speaks, He's sovereign. He can't lie. God, the hour is come for something to... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Many times, I go into a place, and the people say, "Oh, I don't believe in that. I believe it's hypnotism. I..." Don't make no difference what... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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God can show forth His power, His hand, by stretching forth the hand of His Son Christ Jesus to heal the sick, and to bring the nine spiritual gifts back to the church, get a church ready to be raptured at some of these hours... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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"'Cause there's doubt in me now. You'll be dumb, but the thing's going to... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... or something." He went home to his wife, and she conceived. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] There's anything... No matter how impossible it looks, it's going to happen. That's right. And she conceived and hid herself for six months. Six months later... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Things are happening around Bethlehem and Judaea, and around in Palestine now.
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conscience back out here. Get your soul out here with God. Get away from that sense-bound existence, thinking what you just look like...?... that for another day. Lift up your heads; redemption is drawing nigh. Get ready. Signs and wonders appearing... Critics, infidels wax worse and worse. We've got to put up with them. But we're not looking to them; we're looking to God. This Gabriel come down from heaven. Let's give just a little drama here. I imagine it'd be like on Monday, a wash day or something in the city of Nazareth. A little woman by the name of Mary, she starts out to the pump, you know, the old fashion. They had great big jars had handles on them. Packed the water on her shoulder and on her head. I can see her coming from the spring, or the pump out there by the well now, packing water on her shoulder, her head, and walking along, a little virgin.
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With all of the aristocrats, all the fine dressed people through the country, the educated, God came down to Nazareth, the meanest city in the world to pick out of the woman that He found who was virtuous to bring His Son to the earth. My, a little virgin, she's walking home, packing the water. Persecuted and made fun of, probably the way they lived. Then it'd be something like it is now. She didn't get out and rowdy around with the rest of the crowd. She was a fanatic. But she knowed where she was standing with God. Walking along with her head down, all of a sudden I can just notice a big Light like, swing around her. She looked, standing in that Light stood the great Angel, Gabriel. It excited the little virgin. It would excite you. It'll excite me; It did when He was here, the Angel, whatever He was. I can hear her say--hear Him say, "Hail, Mary, blessed art thou
among women." And the little virgin stopped and was startled at the salutation of the Angel. And she looked at Him. And He said, "I'm..." told He was sent from the Presence of God, told her about her--her cousin, her... Elisabeth was Mary's first cousin. And then told about that, and said that she was going to bring a child knowing no man.
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Look. Oh, my. I--I just feel good. Notice, right when those calloused clergymen... Zacharias failed to believe the Angel's message. Many times there's many clergymen today, brethren, that don't believe it either. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... resurrection power, trying to resurrect a church now, bringing it back to God again. But the social Gospel, denying the Blood, denying the power, denying the Holy Ghost and all... But thank God, there is some who does believe It.
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Notice, but this little woman... Zacharias back there, he had much Scriptures behind him to believe where miracles had happened on the same order. But Mary, there had never been a baby born like that. But notice, instead of fussing at the Angel like Zacharias did, she said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Your Word." Oh, I love that. There it is. Take Him at His Word. Don't try to figure it out, how it's going to be, just take Him at His Word. And notice, as soon as she got His Word, and heard His Word that she was going to have the baby, she didn't wait till she was positive. She didn't wait till she felt life. She started right out testifying about it. God, give us some more Marys down here in Cleveland, that'll take God at His Word and testify about It before anything happens, just so the Word of God says so. Amen. Now, maybe I'm deafening you out there. That thing's got an awful voice. Look, I don't aim to yell at you. But sometimes I get to speaking when you feel the response of the Holy Spirit coming back, knowing that It's anchoring somewhere. It's hard to hold quiet. That's right.
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Notice, she took Him at His Word. God said she's going to have the baby, told it by an Angel. That was good enough for her. Away she went, testifying, telling the people she was going to have the baby before there was any sign of anything. She had the Word of God; that's good enough. That's good enough for me this afternoon. If He's Jehovah-rapha, the Healer, if He promised to heal me, I'll take Him at His Word. If He promised me the Holy Ghost was to me, I'll stay there till It comes; that's all. That's right. He promised It; stay with it. Just take Him at
His Word and stay right there. That's the only way to do it. All right. I can see her. She was so happy she wanted to tell somebody else about it. Trouble of it is, the people get saved today, they think, "Well, maybe I'd better keep still. My neighbor don't believe in this." Huh-uh. You never really got saved; I don't believe. No, sir. You can't hold it. That's right. Say, "So well, I--I--I'm afraid to testify of healing, afraid the--the--the doctor won't like it." Brother, if you got healed, you'll testify about it. Don't hold it. Tell it. That's right. Tell it out to somebody else... You overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and your testimony. That's how you overcome.
Notice closely. Now, let's follow a little farther. Let's watch Mary. The Angel told her that. She said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." Went around, begin happy and rejoicing, she said she's going to have a baby; she knowed no man. Impossible with men, but not impossible with God; for all things are possible to them that believe. She believed God took Him at His Word. When the Angel met me in the room that night, and said to me "Go do this," some said, "Aren't you afraid that you'll make a mistake?" No, sir. I can't make a mistake. Certainly not. I could, but as long as He's here, I can't make a mistake. That's right.
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I remember here not long ago, standing up in the mountains... I love to hunt. I was way in the mountains hunting elk, late. Now, all my life, that's how I learned of God was by hunting, being out. I never went to shows, dances, never smoked, drank. I was a black sheep, sure enough. And all of them laughed at me. But I'd go hunting. And out there in the woods, I'd see a sunset, and I'd cry. I'd hear the winds blowing through the leaves of the trees, and I'd wonder, "Oh, my. What brought them trees here?" Flowers would die in the wintertime, come back to life in the summer; how the little flowers would go away and come up again; how the winds would...?... that little seed up and bury it in the ground, and tears from the fall would bury the seed. Is that all of it? No. The ground would freeze, and the seed would burst; the pulp would run out. Is that all? No. In there there's a germ of life. Just as sure as that warm spring sun begin to shine, yet all soft petals fall off, seed, pulp, everything else gone from the flower. But God's made a way for that flower to live again. Just as soon as that sun goes to shining, there's a germ of life in there somewhere that's stayed through the freeze. And I'll tell you, it'll live again.
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And if God made a way for a flower to live again, what about a
man that's made in His image? The freeze might come, but when a man's borned again of the Spirit of God, there's Life in there, Eternal Life that'll stand the freeze. And when the Son of Righteousness rises with healing in His wings, there'll be a church to go up to meet Him in the air. Amen. You're going to call me a holy-roller anyhow, and I might as well have a good time anyhow. So there you are. Notice. Yes, sir. There's a Life comes from God that only God alone can give. The freeze might come. It might break me this way or that way. But when that germ of Life in there, it'll stay. That's right. And God will bring it forth again in a resurrection. Oh, my.
Standing up there in the mountains I was telling you, one fall, I remember, about four years ago, I was way up in Colorado. I'd go seventy miles back by horseback to a little ranch out there where nobody goes, way up in the top of the Corral Peaks, just to be alone. An old rancher and I, and he sleeps by my side at night, only soul there. That old camp bag in--in night time. We live there and look at the stars. First time with him... I was talking to him about the Lord; he was unconverted. I felt a hand reach over under my...?... bag, about one o'clock in the morning, said, "Preacher." I said, "Yes." He said, "Looks like Him up there, don't it?" I said, "Oh, God bless you, brother. Let's settle it right here." That's right. The deep calling to the Deep. There's got to be a Deep to respond to it.
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There one day I was up in the mountain, going along. It was early in October, and the freezes was coming, the storms a blowing. The wind would blow against the evergreens in storm. I got behind a tree, and I was standing like this, the wind blowing. I was waiting. The storm passed over, and the sun came out. I walked out from behind the tree. There was an old blow-down near, and I looked. And oh, the... It'd been cold while the rain was blowing, froze all over the--the evergreens, and the sun was setting. Down through the crevices of the rocks over there, flickering against there made a rainbow come down through the valley. Oh, my. I looked at it, and I laid my gun down; I said, "O Jehovah God." Seventy miles from civilization, I stood down there.
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And a old gray wolf got to hollering up on the rim; the mate answered down at the bottom. The elk herd had been lost; I heard them bugling one to another. Then the deep begin to call to the deep. And here's where there's something in nature that pulls out. I love
that. God's in His nature. Look at the sunset. Get saved once and watch how different things look when you get saved and look at God in His nature out there. That's right. Standing and looking at that, I thought, "Oh, my. How wonderful, how that I have to go down here." And I'd run around and around and around the tree, and shake my hands. If somebody would've come by, they'd have thought I was out of the insane institution. And I scream to the top of my voice. I said, "O God, O God, how great You are. Why would it be that I'd ever have to go down into the valley." I remember Peter and them said, "It's good to be here; let's build three tabernacles."
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May be your darkest hour. Don't worry, Jesus will be along. It may be your darkest hour, sister; may be yours, sister; may be yours, brother, but don't worry, Jesus will come along. He's always there just in the darkest of hours. There they was setting there... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Them people. And he said, "There they goes out, and she's going out to the meet Him now." She just pressed right on by them. She knowed in her heart if she could ever get to Jesus, she'd get the desire of her heart. That's right. There you are. She probably read in the Bible where the Shunammite woman... When her baby was dead, and she knowed if she could ever get to Elijah, that she would know why that baby died, or get the will of God.
Now, he--she knew, Shunammite woman knew, that God was in Elisha. There's where the Spirit was in the prophet, and there's where she must get to, that earthly vessel that had the Spirit of God in it. If she'd ever get to Elisha, she'll--she'd get her heart's desire. So she just stayed there. She said, "I'll not leave you." Oh, my. I like that, don't you? "I'll stay with it." Yes, sir. And went right... She said... He said, "Well, I'll send my handkerchief," in other words. "I'll send this stick to lay on him." She said, "As the Lord God lives and your soul never dies, I'm not going to leave you." And he stayed right there until Elisha went to the house and laid his body on that dead baby: never prayed. Laid his
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Why, she knowed if God was in Elijah, surely He was in His Son. Hallelujah. That's right. There, she said, "If I can only get to Him, I'll find out the reason my brother died. So she pressed right on through that crowd of unbelievers. When she got down there to where He was... Now, look, seem like... (Closely now. I'm going to close just in a minute.) Seem like that she had a right to upbraid Him, doesn't it? Say, "Why didn't You come to my brother?" Scold Him. "Why didn't You come to my brother?" If she would've approached in that attitude, she'd have... That miracle would've never happened. It's your attitude of approach, how you approach anything. If you come... Like on the gift here, you've got to approach the gift in the right way. You've got to approach God in the right... You can't come, say, "Now, Lord, looky here. I've been a pretty good fellow. I've... Get some hand-me-downs. But I'll tell You; I want You to take me tonight and say..." No, no. God don't take it like that. You come God's provided way, or you don't come at all. That's right. That's true.
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That's the way she come to Jesus. She came to Him, and she run and fell down at His feet. Look at her now; let's look at the scene. I can hear her say, "Lord (Giving Him His right title. That's what He was.), Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died." Oh, her heart was broke. She knowed her brother was gone. She was turned out of her church now. What did she have left, just her and Mary, to struggle together. She said, "Lord, if Thou would've been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, Lord (Oh, my.), whatever You ask God, God will give it to Thee." Oh, isn't that wonderful? "My brother's dead. He stinketh. He's in the grave four days. The skin worms are crawling through him. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."
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Oh, look, sister, it may be a dark hour to you. "But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God." He's setting at the right hand of the Father to intercede for you. "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." Say, "Well, I got a cancer, Brother Branham. The doctor says I'm going to die. I can't make it. But even now, Lord, whatever You ask..."
"Oh, Brother Branham, I've had prayer cards, but I just couldn't..." But even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it. Oh, right now, even now, this minute, God can take every cancer away from the people here. He can heal every crippled person. He can make the lame walk. What... "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will do it." God can make the eyes of this blind man break forth. He can heal the cross-eyes of that--cross-eyed girl setting there. He can make this woman here bound, raised to health and strength. Why? "Even now, Lord." Friends, "Even now, Lord, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
That went through the heart of Christ. I can hear Him raise-or, see Him raise and say, "Thy brother shall rise again." She said, "Yea, Lord. He'll raise again at the last day, for he was a good boy." See, they believed in a general resurrection at the last day. He said... She said, "Yea, Lord. He--he'll raise at the last day." Look at Him. The Bible said there's no beauty we should desire Him, little old spindly looking Fellow, probably was skinny and bony. But I can see Him pull His little Self together, said, "I am the Resurrection and Life." Oh, my. I still believe He's the Resurrection and Life. "I am the Resurrection and Life. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?" She said, "Yea, Lord."
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Look. Oh, there's the gift of God before her. There's everything that she had need of. She's approaching it right. The wheels are coming together. She regarded Him as Lord in title. That's what He was, called Him the Son of God. "Even now, Lord, I believe whatever You ask God, God will do it. (See?) And I believe that Thou art the Son of God which is come into the world." Oh, my. Something has to happen. When faith like that is met at the right spot, something has to happen. I know that by experience. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, brother, sister...?... If you approach with faith, that has met at the right time, it has to happen. It's got to. She said, "I believe what You said is the truth. I believe that You're the Son of God that was to come into the world." "Where have you buried him?" Oh, my. "Where have you buried him?" Here they go.
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A woman said to me here not long ago, said, "Brother Branham," said, "He was a good man, but He wasn't Divine. He was just like an ordinary man."
I said, "Oh, yes He was Divine. He was Divine." Said, "He was a good man, but he wasn't Divine." I said, "Yes He was." "I'll tell you what." She said, "Here's the reason He wasn't." Said, "When he went down to the grave of Lazarus, it proved that he wasn't Divine because he went to crying. And that showed that he was a man. The Bible said, 'Jesus wept.'" I said, "Look, lady. He might've been a man when He was weeping, but when He said, 'Lazarus, come forth,' and a man that had... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... returned back that had been dead four days... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] and Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was more than a man; He was a God-man. He was God in that man. He was personifying Himself here in His Son: God was, Himself, in Him. It's God, dwelling. Look at Him. He was a man truly when he was crying, He was a man. But when He raised the dead, He was God.
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But when He took five biscuits and fed five thousand, He was God speaking out of His Son. God was in His Son. Don't you believe that? Yes, sir.
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Oh, He was a Man when He was in that prayer meeting, and all the virtue had gone out of Him. He was laying on the back of that little ship that night, when it was floating around like a bottle stopper on a mighty sea, ten thousand devils of the world... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?...
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Said, "Peace, be still," and the waves stopped. That wasn't a man; that was God speaking. Oh, my. That was God speaking out of His...?...
He was a God--He cried for mercy like a man at the cross. He did that. But when He rose up on Easter morning, He proved (Hallelujah.) what He was. Yes, indeed. He proved what He was.
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When He stood at the grave as a mere man and He called a man that had been dead four days, stinking in the grave... Look at Him. He said, "Take ye away the stone."
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I believe if He'd have spoke to the stone, it would've vanished. Don't you believe so? Looked like if He'd have been a man talking to them two little old women, that He'd took the stone Hisself away, but you've got something to do yourself. That's right. "Take ye away the stone." He was a man.
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They went over there and pulled the stone away. Then I can see Him, not much to look at with your eyes. The Bible said, "No beauty you should desire Him." I see Him stand there, raised back His head, said, "Father, I thank Thee Thou hearest Me always; but for these that stand by, I said it. Lazarus, come forth."
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My. And a man that had been dead and in the grave, his body mortified, "rotten" in plain words, laying in the grave, and his soul was four day's journey somewhere out in space... I don't know where it was, neither do you. But he returned back, that soul of that man rushed into its master. The soul returned back into a man that had been dead for four days, and he stood on his feet and lived again. Believest thou this?
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I believe the Bible said He's the same yesterday, today, and for ever. Believest thou this? I believe He's the One that stopped the mouth of lions with Daniel. Believest thou this? I believe He's the One that's coming some of these days in great power. Believest thou this? I believe His power is here this afternoon to heal every sick person in this building. Believest thou this? I believe He'll give every person the Holy Ghost that wants It, right now. Hallelujah. Believest thou this? I believe He's here wanting to heal this woman, that baby, this woman, all of you. Believest thou this? I believe if we stand to our...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] thou this? Let's stand and accept Him then, all in this audience.
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Lord, people believe that You're here. Lord, send the Holy Ghost in power upon these people. Heal every sick person in the building just now, Father. Grant, Lord, that Your goodness and blessings be manifested unto this people, in Jesus Christ's...
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Good evening. Very happy to be back again tonight to pray for the sick and the needy, those who have need of--of healing. This afternoon we had a glorious time talking about the Word, and about how our God will care for us. And I love to read His Word and-and speak about Him. And now, we've gathered tonight to pray for the needy, the sick and the afflicted, those who are in need of prayer. And I trust that God will heal many tonight. Now, He's here, and the only thing we, you have to do is to believe Him and to accept Him. And now, as I pray for the sick, I told the brethren that I'd start the prayer line right away.
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And I want to read some Scripture first before we have prayer. In the 3rd chapter of--of Exodus... Exodus is the calling out of the--of the church. Israel was the people of God until they came out of Egypt, and then they were the church of God. The word "church" means "called out," the exodus, bringing out. And this is God dealing with His servant, bringing--to bring the children out of Egypt. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mount of God, even to Horeb. And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire.
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Let's bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, we believe tonight that You're still the same great Jehovah God that You seen the need of the people in the days of Moses. And how that in that day, to fulfill Your promise to the people that You made to Abraham, their father, You had Moses to come on the scene. A little boy borned in a home, that was a very odd birth, something peculiar taken place. They seen he was a proper child, and he was hid in the bulrushes. You guided him, nourished him, brought him up to the age of the time that's about forty years old. Then he... The people misunderstood that he was to be their leader. They did not recognize the leader. And today it--it's likewise, Father. We can't seem to realize that It's the Holy Spirit is our Leader, come to us to lead us... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... appeared to him in a flame of fire, an Angel that went before him. That was the One that was upon the rod that smote the land, that opened the Red Sea, that hung over them like a Pillar of Fire, that guided them. And where the Fire went, they went. The Cloud by day and the Fire by night...
Father, today we believe that You're with us. We know Thou art. You have Your... revealed Yourself in a way... in a mysterious way, telling us that You was with us, showing signs and wonders, and
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then have come down and permitted to the unbeliever a sign that cannot be lightly spoke of among their own people of scientists has proven that truly it's the same Jehovah. And we love You, Father, tonight, and we know that You're with us. And we pray that Your Spirit will reveal tonight the great things of God, that all the audience might, with one accord... Now, we know that it's not impossible to have a repeat of Pentecost tonight. We're all here in one place. May we become in one accord, under one expectation: that is, that God will move into our midst and heal all the sick and the needy. Grant it, Lord. Bless us now in the farther part of these services, in the Name of Thy beloved Child, Jesus, we ask it. Amen.
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All right. Now, we wish to speak to you just for a few moments, just a very few moments about "God Revealing Himself To His People." Now, God cannot make anyone believe. God can only reveal Himself in different forms. He has revealed Hisself in wind, and in--and mysterious--mysterious movements and so forth. And in the form of Angels has He revealed Hisself. And He's revealed Hisself in man, by preaching the Gospel. He's revealed Hisself in--in times of trouble to people, like... And sometimes He has to take a loved one, sometimes, to bring the heart of the person to the acknowledgment of God. You believe that? He does. He reveals Hisself in the sunset, in the sunrise. He reveals Hisself in meetings with great blessings, to stretch out His hand before the people and bless them. You believe that? And now, He is trying to reveal Himself today to the sick and the needy in a form of an Angelic Being, coming down, like He did on the pool of Bethesda, but upon mankind, to reveal Himself by showing signs and wonders. Also by...
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Now, as they told you a few moments ago, as Brother Baxter was speaking concerning the picture that was taken. To some people, that might just be a picture. But to me, that's a sacred sign. As soon as the picture was taken in that debate that night, when I was setting... Three or four times... We have many, many, many times. This little group here wouldn't fill a corner of that big stadium there. The place was walled in with people. And I was setting way up high. I said, "I will not say a thing tonight. I'll listen to Doctor Bosworth and them holding the Scripture discussion." And the Baptist minister had hired, as they told you (you've heard it read), hired some photographers, said, "Come over; take a half a dozen pictures of me while I skin the old man."
But don't never argue with people. You just stand still and let God do the arguing. I wouldn't argue, wouldn't debate with no one. I don't believe in it in the first place. I can only state what's truth. If you want to believe it, all right. If you do not, there'll be others who will believe it. Isn't that right? See? And don't ever argue. Don't debate. God's Word is not to be fussed over like that. Every person has a right idea. And those who believe, all right; those who do not believe, why, just the same then. That's right. So I refused to have anything to say into it, because when you get to arguing with people, you get all steamed up... Presence of the Lord then. So I know God's not in it. So I just... Those who want to debate, that's their business.
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But setting up there, listening to the discussion going on. And all of a sudden, I felt when he said... the man said, "Let this miracle worker come forth and perform." Miracle worker... And he said, "Let him come forth. I'd like to see him." And Brother Bosworth said, "Brother Branham is in the building." Said, "I won't say where. But if he wants to come down here and speak to the people before they're dismissed, all right." And just then, Something just picked me up like that. And when he picked me up, I knew I was to go forward. And I come down out of the balcony, walked to the platform. Just as I walked to the platform, I said, "It's too bad that people have to argue over the Word of God." I said, "Don't no one feel sorry, or--or feel bad at Mister Best, because that's all right. But," I said, "that's not the Baptist belief, because I was rocked in a Baptist cradle myself. And I know the Baptist believe in Divine healing and praying for the sick." And I said, "that's not a Baptist belief. That's Mister Best's belief alone." And I see they're sending letters all the way across the country. But that won't stop God's work. It'll just keep moving on. That's right. It's people... Religious, Holy Ghost filled people don't pay no attention to stuff like that. So then they... All the devil moves, that just makes a-a stepping stone for Christ, always.
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So...?... I said, "Well, I... The only thing that I can do," I said, "I've spoke, I guess, three or four million people, direct or indirect. I have never, at any time, ever claimed to be a Divine healer." I said, "Never. I can heal no one. But," I said, "the things that I say, if they are of God, then God will speak back to vindicate His Word. (See?) And if it isn't of God, then God will not, have nothing to do with it, for God will not put His hands on things that's wrong." You know that. I said, "My word is just a man's. But when God speaks, then that's God." See? And I said, "If I testify of something, and God comes around and says that's the truth, then that's God's Word. You believe
Him." And I said, "If I'm truthful, God will testify." And about that time, here He come, coming down from heaven like a whirl, and just enshrouded me. And--and the man run up and shot the picture.
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Many people seen it. Even some people that belong to different churches, like Roman Catholic, and so forth, was converted and believed with all their heart. And they shot the picture. And when the man that taken the picture... Very critical, said I was a hypnotizer... Made an awful writeup in the paper, just scandaled it every way. And said, "Why, he's a hypnotizer. He gets those people hypnotized, and they just go away like that." And when he begin to develop those pictures, he pulled out the six of Mister Best. And every one of them was blank, perfectly blank. And when he taken this one out, that halo appeared on there. He almost went into a heart attack. He didn't know what had happened. He tried to get me out of the Rice Hotel. 'Course, you realize why, they had to... They couldn't do that.
And the next morning, he become a believer. He was a... He was an Orthodox Jew, but become a firm believer in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And they got the picture. They asked me what to do about it first, before the... I said... Now, as soon as I looked at it, I said, "That's It." See? 'Fore I seen It... My mother was the first one to see It come in the room when I was a baby, about a half hour after I was born, maybe not so long. The next time I seen It, It's a whirlwind in a bush, going... [Brother Branham blows--Ed.] And It spoke to me. I was seven years old. Said, "Never smoke, chew, drink, or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work for you to do when you get older."
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And immediately after that, I was packing water, coming home from a little old barn back behind the place, crying. I wanted to go fishing. And all the boys had went fishing. I had... My hair was hanging down in my face, and I was packing water, two little syrup buckets. And as I went along down the lane, It was just a S--quiet September, late. And I stopped under a big old silver poplar tree. The leaves begin to turn brown. We had a slight frost. And I was setting there crying. I thought, "Oh, my. Isn't it horrible. All those boys out there fishing. Here I have to stay home pack water." And I was setting there, and I's crying. The dirty streaks down my face where the tears was rolling... And I was sitting under the tree. Just as still as it this, in this tent this...?...
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said, "Well, where's that wind coming from?" Now, I cried a few more tears, and picked up my buckets, and started away till it kept getting louder and louder. Well, I stopped. And just about as high as about those lights are, in the tree, there was a place like a whirlwind (we call them in Indiana. And I guess you call them a little cyclone like, you know.) blowing, was right in the bush, going, whew, whew [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] And I looked at It. And not another leaf moving but right there, and from there came an audible Voice, just like you hear mine. Said, "Don't never smoke, chew, drink, or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work for you to do when you get older."
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Here's mother setting here tonight. I ran as hard as I could. She thought a snake had bit me or something. But I wouldn't tell her. And my little brother and I, a few days later from that was setting out under the tree. We'd been playing marbles. And I felt a peculiar feeling, like a... Something was standing near me. And all at once, something happened. I set down. And I looked, and I seen coming up out of the river a big bridge, spanned across the river, and sixteen people fell off of it. I went and told them. They said, "Why, you dreamed." I Said, "No, I looked at it. I seen it." Twenty-two years from that time, the big Municipal bridge spanned across the Ohio River, and sixteen men lost their life on it. And it just started like that, and begin... That was before I was ever even a Christian. My people wasn't Christian. Gifts and callings are without repentance. It's a foreordination of God. Then It kept telling things on down.
I remember the next time, when my father offered me a drink of whiskey, and told me I was a sissy, because that he didn't take it. I took the bottle and started to take it. And while I was standing there, I started to drink it. I heard Something going, whew [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] If it would've been me, I would've drink it. But It was God protecting His gift that had been born. None of my righteousness, His. Then, you know how all boys are; they get a little sweetheart when they get about sixteen, seventeen years old. I, like all little boys, I--I had a little girlfriend. I thought she was prettiest thing I ever seen, teeth like pearl, you know and eyes like a dove. And we went riding, she and I and some more--another boy and his girlfriend. And we stopped at a little place to get some sandwiches and some Cokes. And when I stopped, I went in and got the
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sandwiches and Coke and came back out, I was... I drank my Coke, ate the sandwich. And I taken the bottles back. And to my surprise, coming out, my little sweetheart was smoking a cigarette.
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I've always had my opinion of a woman who'd smoke a cigarette, and I haven't changed it yet: The lowest immoralest thing that any woman ever done. That's right. That's exactly right. That's right. [Audience applauds--Ed.] Thank you. Thank you, friends. Thank you. I'm glad to hear that you believe that. Now, ladies, don't be angry with me. Just correct yourself. That's right. Listen. You talk about a fifth columnist, a cigarette smoking mother is the greatest fifth columnist America's got. Doctors claim that they can't even raise their babies like normal. It's nicotine poisoning will kill the baby 'fore it's eighteen months old. Eighty percent of them die. That's government statistics. Now, listen. Don't be afraid of some other nation coming in and whipping us. It is no other nation. We're whipping ourself. It ain't the robin that pecks the apple that hurts it, it's the worm at the core that kills the apple. That's--that's all our own rottenness among us is what it is, what's killing us, the--the moral de--degrade--decline that we have.
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Notice. Then I seen that woman--that girl smoking a cigarette. That got me. And to beat it all, she said, "Have a smoke, Billy." I said, "No, ma'am. I don't smoke." She said, "Now, you said you didn't go to dances, and you didn't... Now, you don't smoke." Said, "You didn't drink. What do you do?" I said, "I like to go fishing, hunting." 'Course, that didn't interest her. She said--she said, "Why you big sissy." Oh, my. The woman called me a sissy. I--I said, "Hand me that cigarette." And she gave me one. She said, "That's like a man." I wanted to be a man, so I took a cigarette and struck the match like that, and I started up to my mouth. Heard something go, whew [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] And I seen... I was determined. I believe if I had got that cigarette in my mouth, I'd have fainted.
Out of the car. And they turned the lights on me. And I went up the road and they... crying. And them behind me, teasing me... And I went up in the field and laid down there in a bunch of hay, and set there and cried and cried, and asked to die and everything else. I didn't want to be a big sissy. But It was God protecting His gift. See? That's right. Then on down through life, the things, friend, would take hours to go into it. I'll try to get to it next Sunday, the Lord willing.
But It appeared down there on the Ohio River before nearly ten thousand people while I was baptizing in August. I was baptizing some fi--five hundred, I guess, that afternoon. Hundreds of them was standing, and the choir singing, On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand. Was about two o'clock. We hadn't had rain for about two weeks. I had my seventeenth candidate I was taking out in the water. And I raised up, and I asked him if he believed. He had. He would been repented at the meeting? Yes. I raised up my hand, I said, "Father, as I baptize this boy with water, may You baptize him with the Holy Spirit." And as I started, Something went, whew [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] I looked up. I heard a Voice. Said, "Look up." Thousands standing all over the bank on the Ohio River facing Louisville. Paper carried a big article of it.
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And I looked, coming right down out of the heavens, out of a place about as big as this platform, where the blue skies churning like waters... Coming right down out of there came a big thing, like a star, whirling around, going, whew [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.], coming right down visibly before the eyes. Moved right down, looked like a star at a distance. When it got close, It looked like a milling fire of Light, moving right down and stood over where I was. Then went right back up into the heavens again. The waters let up. I've often wondered if that wasn't the Angel that was on the waters (See?)...?... Bethesda, you know. Went away... And papers carried a big article, "Mysterious Star Appears Over Minister While Baptizing." And on down, It kept coming.
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One night in Camden, Arkansas, I was trying to explain, the people setting very skeptic. I'd just been called into this ministry. I was telling them; I said, "Now, dear friends, I'm just a man. I'm trying to explain something, that God sent His Angel that's been with me." All along. A few weeks before that, when It come to make Itself known, I--I'll explain that first. And while I was standing there explaining it to the people, It's right down through an auditorium like this. I looked. Coming in the front door, and here It comes, moving around, around. People begin screaming, fainting. There was a Baptist preacher setting there, setting in a chair, been bound for years, like this as a deacon in the Baptist church. Why, in a moment's time, he was out of there pushing the chair down the street, screaming top of his voice. And It moved right up where I was, and come right over where I was, and whirled around, and around, and around.
There was a newspaper man standing there, shot the picture, a photographer, rather, shot the picture of it. There it come out in the picture that time. And he was converted, next day gave his heart to Christ. Come into my room, crying and was converted.
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The hotel where I was staying, the keeper there of the Washaw Hotel, come in and said, "Brother Branham, I've belonged to the Baptist church for years. But I want that Holy Spirit that you're talking about." See? And there... Then It--It appeared many times, and in different forms. I've seen It many times. I've seen It come into my room and speak to me. And the last time It appeared to me, just before I was called on this, I was in my room. I was praying. It gets me up sometime at night. I'm up all night at a time, many times, praying. I can feel It near me. It'll come real near, then It'll go away. I can feel It now. It's near. Then when I go to praying for the sick, It'll come down like this, and go like go, whew [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] Then It'll leave. Then when It--when It's down, that's what I see; that's what detects.
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Then if I use my own voice, my own opinion, It--It won't say. But when I just let myself alone, It does the talking Itself. That's what tells the diseases. Then and when It come down... And that night, I was setting there, and I was reading. And I'd pray, and I'd read, and I'd pray. And it was getting along towards, around three o'clock in the morning. That's usually a wonderful time to come. It come to me, oh, dozens and dozens of times in life. And I was setting there reading. And when He comes, It'll show me things. My brother in here is witness of that. There maybe be weeks before It comes. It'll show me, like, you're going down the street, say, this way. I'll just give you a little drama. Going down the street this a way. And I'd see a white fence, a gate. I open the gate, there lays an old hoe laying in the yard. And I'd go up, see a doctor leaving. He's packing a satchel. I knock at the door. A lady comes to the door crying, her baby's dying. All right. I go in. I'll take my hat, lay it down here on the radio. And I...?... house. And then I'll feel a real strange feeling. I'll go and... Now, before I do that, I will see somebody pick up my hat and lay it on the corner of the bed. Well, I'll go and--and--and pray for the baby. I will see it healed, come on out. Well, maybe it'll be... I'll tell the people that's what's going to happen. And I--I say, "Now, there's..."
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It's just like awhile ago in my room; I seen a vision. I can tell you something's going to happen tonight, right here now. It just come into my room awhile ago while I was alone. And so It tell... Just
like that... And then when... I'll be going down. Maybe I'll have a sick call, or going somewhere, be walking. I'll say, "Oh, here's that gate. This is it right here." I'll walk up right to that place. Somebody with me, I say, "Watch and see what happens." Go into the room, I lay my hat down there. Now, everything's in the room but the a... there is no woman there with a red sweater on. I can't say a word. That woman has to be setting there with a red sweater. Well, maybe when she comes in, the other lady goes out. Isn't time yet. I just keep on talking. Then I wait. Then here they all are in the room, but my hat hasn't been moved from the radio to the bed. Everything has to be perfectly the way He showed me. Then when the way He shows me that, and everything comes in perfect, I stand by the baby and say, THUS SAITH THE LORD. It can't fail. I've never seen it to. It's perfect. That's the first way It works. The second way is here on the platform. And--and so they... That--that's the way, or--or that--that takes place, the way it--it works and happens.
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Now, the night when it taken place, when He called me to this ministry, I was setting in the room, been in prayer. My, I'd been praying all night, burdened looked like. And I got up, walk around the room, and I'd pray again. And I was pretty successful Baptist preacher. I had audiences, sometimes three thousand, and had revivals; thousands were saved at that time. And I was setting there, and I seen a Light flicker in the room. And I looked to see where It was at. I thought, "Well, here." Where I was going to pray, and way in them hills, I knowed that nobody was coming in there with a car. I thought, "Well, where was that." And I looked, and here It was, right up here above me. Was that same thing that you see in the picture. It was spread out on the floor, getting larger and larger, spreading out across the floor. Well, I thought, "Oh, God."
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Just imagine now how you would feel. Now, friends, these things are just not something that you just imagine in your mind. I speak just as direct, and He speaks to me just as I'm talking to you now, not just imagination. See? And I heard Something going, walking. I heard Something walking. And I looked. And when I--I seen the feet of a Man, barefooted, coming walking in through that Light, coming to my right. Always comes from my right. That's the reason I have the prayer line coming this a way. It always comes to my right. And--and I looked, and I seen His feet. And when He got to me, He
was a tall man. He was heavy set, weighed about two hundred pounds, looked like, just as natural as I'm standing here. He had His arms folded like this. First time I'd ever seen Him in that form. He walked right up to where I was. He looked down. He had a smooth face, dark hair. Hair was down to--around kinda--kinda like His shoulder. He didn't have beard on His face. He had a smooth face.
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And He walked, and He looked up to me with kind... He looked pathetic to look at Him. And He looked like He was a man of... Well, I just could not picture His characteristics of His--of His character in His face. He looked like a Man that was sympathetic, kind-hearted. But yet He looked like a Man, if He'd speak, it would be that way. So I looked at Him, and He looked at me. I was so scared that I--I was biting my thumbnail till it was almost bleeding. Listen, friend. You'd be too. Don't think you wouldn't. And I was right and...?... like that. He said, "Fear not."
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I knew that was the same Voice that spoke to me all along. That was the first time I'd ever seen It like that, but I knowed that Voice. He said, "Fear not. I am sent from the Presence of the Almighty God to tell you that your peculiar birth and peculiar life, been always misunderstood with men." Said, "Your peculiar life and peculiar birth has been to indicate that you're take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world." And I said, "Sir, I am uneducated. I could not go." He said, "I'll be with you." And I said, "Sir, I--I'm--I--I'm uneducated." I said, "I--I could not go. The people wouldn't believe me." He said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs, so will you be given two signs." Said, "First will be that you'll be able to detect diseases by your hand, taking the patient by the right hand to--in--in your left. And if you'll be sincere when you pray, get them to believe you and be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even cancer." See, He spoke cancer. That's the only disease He said. And He said, "Then if you'll be sincere with that, it will come to pass that you will tell them the secrets of their heart." Said, "Them will be the two signs." And He said, "I'll..." And I said, "I will go." He said, "I will be with you."
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And just then, the Light begin to gather up. And It gathered up to the Angel, and It got into the Angel. The Angel went up into that little Light, Pillar of Fire that you seen tonight. And It went out of the room. I didn't know what to do.
The first patient come to me, and I touched them with a cancer. I didn't know what was the matter with them. That's... I just let myself alone, and then begin to pray, and away went the cancer. And the woman weighed a hundred fifty-five pounds now, in perfect health too, the one that was twenty-one years graduate nurse with cancer just through and through her.
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Now, that's the way it goes. When I seen the picture, I knew that It was the same thing that I'd seen since a child. I knew It was the same One. Now, what I think It is... I would not wish to take any remuneration off of it, because it's too sacred for that. And I put up a--made them put a price, so that all poor people could get it. If it was mine, it would do, whatever it costs to print it, that's what it would be. But it isn't mine. It belongs to them. But dear friends, what I think it is, is God, to the skeptic and unbeliever that wouldn't believe the signs that you believe, he has to believe also. And God has given us signs to the world today.
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He always sends signs. Don't you believe it? "This will be a sign unto you. You will find the child wrapped in swaddling cloth." Is that right? The wise men followed a Star that brought them. Always, God gives signs and wonders. And I think it's a sign to let us know that we're in the last day. And even the unbeliever is without excuse now. And when they told me, and brought me, it was before the picture, and so forth, It said, "You will die like all mortals, Reverend Branham. But your picture will live as long as there's a Christian civilization." Now, upon it, the picture doesn't look like me. Everybody says, "That's not you." Well you can imagine that that close to you, It'd kinda change your features too. It does. I like to fish, hunt, like anyone else. And I work. But when it comes time for these things, then God takes a hold.
Now, believe, friends. That it's nothing that I can do in myself. It's God that does it. May the Lord Jesus bless you. I want to pray. Heavenly Father, bless tonight. Maybe we... The meeting's a little late, but we're going to believe You for everything tonight. Grant, Father. You know what I'm looking for now. And I believe that You'll grant it to Your servant, Father. You've never showed nothing but what it should come to pass. God bless... Give great strength and power, and may the Angel that I've been speaking about, Father, move down upon Your humble servant at this hour, that signs and wonders might be wrought by the hands of Thy holy Son, Jesus; by stretching forth His hands to heal the sick, give sight to the blind, to
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make the cripples to walk, the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, and all manners of diseases cured; that people might know before this great world is shook out of its orbit by these great powers of the world, hydrogen and oxygen bombs--hydrogen bombs, and atomic powers, that we believe that soon is to rock the earth from its orbit. God have mercy upon us. O Father, may men and women here in this building tonight, boys and girls realize the seriousness of this...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And may unbelievers and unconverted people believe and be saved. For we ask this in...?...
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There's a little boy somewhere in the audience, I seen awhile ago that was healed. I haven't been able to spot him somewhere. He's a little lad, and he isn't but about ten years old, eight or ten, wearing a yellow shirt, got... I watched a little baby with a waterhead there, but it isn't that baby. The baby--or boy has got something wrong in his knees, is crippled in his knees, got bad eyes, he's blind. He's going to be here in the building somewhere tonight, I believe, or maybe tomorrow night towards...?... But it's a little boy. He will be wearing a yellow shirt. Now, look for him.
Is that your affliction? Is that what's wrong with you? Jesus Christ makes you whole, my boy. You have no more to worry about. That's right. God bless you. Here, I didn't notice you, honey, setting down among those women. Do you believe that, mother, with all your heart? Why, yes. You're suffering yourself, aren't you? You have a tumor, isn't it, lady? Isn't that right? Hold up your hand if that... And you, lady, setting next to him there, you are extremely nervous, aren't you, sister? All right. You--you go on, believe Jesus. Is that right? You're healed. God bless you. All right. Let us... Now, everybody be just as reverent. Now, Father, You know all things. This lays within Your strength and Your power alone. Bless these people, dear God, and heal them for Jesus' sake. Amen. Everybody be real reverent. Don't have no fear or doubt. Just believe. I just caught something in this vicinity. I can't tell. It's somebody setting right along there is bothered with... It's--it's... I believe... Yeah, I believe it's you, sister. You have a--a nervous condition, isn't it kind of like, or--or demon oppression, isn't that right? Is that... All right. It's left you now. You just got healed of that just a few minutes ago. It's all over. You have pains and things that bothers you and hurts you (Isn't that true?), pains in your body, Satan a tempting you, attacking you. All right, be of a good courage; Jesus knows all about that and made it well for you. God bless you. What are you looking like that for, sir? That back trouble you had's
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left you also, right there. Yes, sir, it's--it's over now. God bless you. Now, everybody be real reverent, if you will. Where was your prayer line being called? The anointing? Those with prayer... You get it, brother, while I... [The prayer line is called by a brother using prayer card
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Little boy, how is... Your eyes feel all right now? Can you see all right? Your leg all right? Now, you're going to be well, honey. You come from a distance, and Jesus Christ knows all about you; and He showed me you were coming; so you're going to be all right. Let's see, I can't hardly... Raise up; let's see you stand up. There he is. My, he's quite a little boy. Well, that's fine. All right. He's--he's... God has been merciful to the little lad, and I... Now, everybody be just as reverent as you can, while we pray for the sick...?... I appreciate your kindness, being reverent too...?... lady. Now, they ought to have a place for the mothers of those little babies. It'll draw... See, it attracts the attention of the people, and that interferes with the healing. Now, if the ushers will find the mothers a place... Have they got a place in the prayer line? If they got their cards, you call them. When their little time comes, bring them right on on the platform. That's right. But if they just... 'Cause the people that watches... Now, sister at the piano, I want you to play "Abide With Me" constantly all the time to kinda... [Portion of tape is inaudible--Ed.]
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I want to...?... bound to know... God knows all about it, you know, somehow...?... has to know, has some way of knowing, or I couldn't tell you what was wrong with you just now and what you been doing. Only God knows what you been doing; then when He reveals it to me and I speak it to you, then that confirms the faith (Is that right?) confirms what I have said to be the truth. Do you believe with all your heart? All right. Shall we...?... Would you go down there, brother, and sort of keep our microphone is kinda...?... operated...?... All right can we pray. Our heavenly Father, we're here tonight, gathered under this tent. You can make all things right that is wrong. Sister here, knowing that somehow that Your Spirit has moved down and revealed to her the things of her life, speaking to her, knowing that no man would know except God. And, Father, we thank Thee that Thou art here, and we ask You to bless this our sister and heal her. May the power of the enemy that's bound her, come out of her. In the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, leave the woman. All right, sister, now look here. If I sh--could know what has been, I know what will be. You believe that...?...? All right...?... go on off the platform...?... God bless you. Be well. All right.
Come, sister. Let's have your hand, sister. You have troubles, inward troubles...?... seems like it, or something distant. You--you just look this way and just...?... and I want to believe with all your heart. You do? 'Course now, you realize that the feeling... You have a very odd feeling at this time. But that's... You're the patient coming before of that anointed gift of God. That's what gives that statement, feeling like something standing near. Now, that's...?... Yes, I see what's wrong with you. It's a nervous condition...?... mental nervousness. To tell you how you feel, you feel like you're going lose your mind. You're upset...?... aren't you? Everything goes wrong...?... It works on you; the worst time is in the evening. I see sometimes you go...?... set in a--in a chair. You are doing something when you were praying too. I believe you were washing the dishes when you were praying. You said and prayed and when you heard about the meeting, you prayed then that you'd get a card and your card would be a new number. You come tonight and your card was called; then you set down there and just wondered what He was going to...?... And here's what it is. I been talking to you, thinking maybe it would lead me, but it hasn't... holding me. The discernment is...?... stay there.
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Now, do you believe that God will hear my prayer? I shall do all that I know how to do for you. Ask God, then God will make you happy. And would you believe what I tell you, if I told you every word the truth, isn't that right? If it is, raise up your hand. But it is... Every word's the truth. Now, do you believe if I would tell you then, that it would left you, you would know that I told you the truth, because I told you the truth on this side. If it'd be on this side, it's the same, wouldn't it. But I wouldn't tell you unless it left you. And if I... If I told you, you would know that it left you, because right now you're standing, and it's bothering you. Weary, and the sun looks gloomy, and everything like that. And everything seems like a phobia; you get scared at things. And it isn't normal. See? Isn't that right? Now, standing longer and longer, we just make it, just keep thinking...?... You're wanting to get well. And I'm going to ask Jesus now to heal you. I believe He will do it, don't you, sister? All right, you come just a little closer now. You've had quite a struggle in life anyhow. Isn't that... You know what I'm speaking of there? I don't have to say it, 'cause this is alive here. You see? But you know what I'm speaking of.
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Our heavenly Father, by Your Spirit, look down through the stream of time. Oh, You're here, dear Jesus. You're so lovely and kind, and we love You with all of our heart. And our sister standing
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here, has been bound by an oppression of Satan. Foul spirits have tried to put pride upon her. But Thou art here to remove this curse of the enemy. For You said, the last words from Your sacred lips as You were leaving the world, You said, "These signs shall follow them. In My Name they shall cast out devils." Help me, dear God, this duel of faith against the enemy. Now, thou foul spirit that's bound this woman... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]... Calvary, shedding His blood freely that you and all your kind, in the representative Name of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... gift of Divine healing, ministered... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I adjure thee, by the Son...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] to be, that you come out of the woman. There it went...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... That's just exactly what you asked for.
Now, many times... Now, these may seem strange. Everybody be real reverent. If you can get the person... Just what I was trying to do to the woman, was get her in the right mental attitude; she wouldn't have to be prayed for. The right mental attitude towards any promise of God will bring it to pass. Do you believe that? The Word is a Seed (Is that right?) that a Sower sowed in the ground. And every Seed will bring forth of its kind. If you need salvation, the Seed's here. If you need healing, here's the Seed in the Word. The Word of God is a Seed. Put it in your heart. Don't dig it up every morning to see if it's sprouted, put it in there and leave it there. It's God's business to bring forth the harvest. You just leave it there; water it by faith and praise every day thanking God for it. All right.
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All right. This first thing is a deaf spirit on our brother. He's got a gland trouble also. So will you bow your heads just a moment till he receives his hearing? Heavenly Father, we read in the Word that where that You cast the deaf spirit out of the man and he could hear. We've seen You take those little mutes, born deaf and dumb, and restore to them what Satan has robbed them, see them stand, say words and repeat behind us everything that we would say, and scream, and hold their ears, scared, didn't know what was taking place. Now, Satan has bound this man, and trying to get him to walk before a moving vehicle somewhere and be killed, shorten his days. But Thou art here to remove this curse of Satan. And the man comes because faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. And he's come with respect now to be healed. Grant it to him tonight; make him well. Thou demon, leave the man in the Name of Jesus Christ. All right. You may raise your heads. Speak to the brother just now, because...?... hear if he doesn't... All right. He's... There he comes.
Howdy do. Little baby? Well, it's a skin eruption. Now, if I ask the Lord Jesus to heal the baby, you believe He will do it? Will you praise Him for it...?... Now, the little baby has a skin eruption on its body. Let's bow our heads while we pray. Heavenly Father, when You were here, You placed Your hands upon little children like this and blessed them. And You said, "Suffer little children to come to Me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom." And now, if You were here, You'd lay Your hands upon the little child and rebuke this skin disease. It would leave the child and be a normal little girl again without this skin trouble. When You was here on earth, and lived, and done these things, and taught us that "these things that I do, greater shall you," You ascended on high and give gifts to men. And tonight, Lord, by the merits of Christ, You've come to Your people in the form of an Angel of God Who's sent forth mankind in this work that You have completed at Calvary, that we should finish this work. Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I lay my hands upon this baby and rebuke this skin disease. May it leave the baby and never bother it again, through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. Vibration stopped on the baby. It's gone. You were healed also of...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Now, if you know the little baby, watch what's happened. The stuff on its arm begin to seem drying. Now, it'll--will just dry up and go away. It's all right.
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All right, sir. Let's see your hand. Just before I touch your hand, just a moment. You believe with all your heart? You're a real deep thinker, aren't you, brother? Take things sincere, take it to your heart. God bless you. That's a good way to be. Spinal trouble you have has gone away from you, 'cause you're healed...?... God bless you, sir...?... Let's say, "Praise be to God," everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise be to
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Yes, All right. Come on, mother. How do you feel now, brother? Different, isn't it? Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord" everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] I know you'll want to praise Him, and..
Howdy do, mother. Now, you look this way. Without taking a hold of the people, I--I want to see if God will show me what is wrong with you. Now, you look this--this a way. And now, this is not mental telepathy, neither is it psychology. Peter said at the gate of Beautiful to the man that set there, he said, "Look on us." Is that right? Jesus told the woman, said, "Bring Me a drink."
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He got in contact with her. Paul, while he was preaching, said to the man, said, "I perceive that you have faith to be healed." Is that right? Then it isn't psychology; it's the power of Almighty God. You believe, don't you? You believe it? All right. That arthritis you've had, been bothering you, has left you. You're free now. Raise up your hands. Move them up-and-down like this. Move your feet up-and-down like this. Go on off the platform healed and well. God bless you. Let's see you walk over that far. Let's say, "Amen," now, everybody. [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] We love the Lord Jesus.
Come ahead, sister. You believe with all your heart? Now, look this way, and do--do not doubt, but just have faith. I believe I find in you a good true spirit of faith. Now, you're wanting something of me, aren't you, an intercession from--to God, which now that you feel right now, that there's--there's something moving on you at this time. Isn't that right? That is right. That's the Angel of the Lord, sister. Your faith contact. Here's what you're wanting. You're wanting your eyes healed, aren't you? Isn't that right? Well, God grant it to you, my sister. Heavenly Father, bless this woman who I bless in Thy Name, that she might receive her sight. Heal her, Father, as I lay my hands upon her in the Name of Thy Son Jesus for her healing. All right, sister dear. You believe with all your heart? Take off your glasses. You are healed. Now, you can go off platform. Do you see all right? Amen. That's...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
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Friends, you might class this fanaticism, but the Holy Spirit just stops me at this time. And I see that little boy David. And he just looks to me like he's in a serious condition. How many's heard of little David? He's had an accident. He's been mashed on a back of a thing a riding like this on a--on a... And he's laying in a hospital. And the Holy Spirit just seems to tell me to pray for the boy. I don't know. Let's bow our heads. Heavenly Father, God bless that poor little boy. He's waved little children into the Kingdom of God by the waving of his hand. And I pray Thee, God, just at this moment, seemingly You're revealing to Thy servant to pray for him. Now, You Who could answer prayer, when at John Mark's house they were praying and a Angel went down into the prison cell and loosed the apostle Peter and brought him out the--the prison. You're still Jesus tonight. Every Angel is subject to You. I pray, God, that You'll bring that little boy to himself out of that unconscious condition just now; and may the power of the Holy Spirit release him, Lord. Satan
tried to kill him. But we now believe that You will grant this to your humble servant as we, in love with the little boy, ask for mercy for little David at this moment, through Jesus Christ's Name, he shall live. Grant it, Lord. Amen. Everybody believe with all your heart. Come on. The first time that struck me in a long time. How many of you ever heard of little David? Most all of you knew of his accident. We might come pray for him. Call him right away.
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All right, you're the patient, aren't you, sister? All right...?... First, before I take a hold of your hand I want to talk to you just a little bit. I... 'Course you're just a little nervous, kinda upset like. I want to get you in the right attitude of God, mentally speaking, towards God's promise before I pray for you. Now, you believe Jesus is here? You believe these things that I've said is the truth? They are? All right. Now, you know that you are a stranger to me. I do not know you. But you're suffering with something. And yeah, you're suffering with many things. One thing that you're real nervous. You're weak, and your strength becomes... No, here it is. I see it now. It's a stomach trouble that you have. Isn't that right? I--I thought first that it was a tuberculosis without taking a hold of you. I seen you're so weak. You get so weak. But I seen you refusing things at the table like that, things that you can't eat. Isn't that right? All right. There it is. All right. Then another thing, your eyes are bad too, you know. And you're near sighted and don't have too good a vision. There it is. See how it...?... up? There it is on my hand. Now, do you believe?
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Now, what caused this, sister, is a nervous condition. It's a peptic ulcer in your stomach, causes pains and souring of the stomach, and unrest. And sometimes you think you have heart trouble, of course that's just... That's not a heart trouble. Quit worrying about that. Usually when you lay down, you'll have that. That's a gas on your stomach's pressing against your heart. It isn't a heart trouble. Heart's all right. Now, I believe God is going to make you well, sister. Do you believe that with all your heart? You have...?... He has now made you well. There it is; it's gone. See, your faith, sister, is what does that. All right. The woman was healed standing right here, just standing. Let's just give God thanks. Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the healing of our sister. And now, Lord, may she be well and healthy, and go home rejoicing and happy through Jesus' Name we pray. Amen. Now, sister. Go on home and eat what you want to. It's all over. You won't have...?... trouble any more...?... God bless you, sister.
All right. Let's everybody say, "Praise be to God." [Congregation says, "Praise be to God."--Ed.] Amen. Now, everyone be just reverent.
Now, the people that's coming, there's different diseases. Now, how many out there would like to be healed tonight? Let's see your hands. Oh, my. Isn't that fine that you got that much faith to raise your hand to witness? Now, how many believes you're going to be healed tonight? Now, that's just wonderful. Fine. Now look, friend. We can bring line after line through here, or whatever it is, or people after people. That's all right. It will just they keep on coming, people will be healed; that's true. But everybody out there can be healed too at the same time, if you just have faith to believe. Have faith; don't doubt. Now, is that your next patient? Just wait a minute. Let her set right where she's at. Look this a way, sister. Now, you're suffering with something. Now, I do not know. But what I want you to do, I want to contact the human spirit of yours. Do you believe now? It's pretty hard, 'cause there's a whole group of people in there are trying to believe the same time. Now, isn't that right out there, you behind her? See? It just kinda... You just feel it pouring in from everywhere. And that's wonderful; I'm happy for you. But I'm trying to...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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When it's too low, can't you. Has to be just right. Now, you hit that just a wave. And you hit it, and you begin to get it just right. That's the way that it seems like in faith; you can feel it just a little bit to this side, a little bit to that side. But when you single that person out, that's when faith comes now. Now, the lady is sick, or she wouldn't be... Now, to look like, I would... The lady looks healthy enough. If anything that I would say, just naturally to look at the woman. Now, I'd venture to say if she had anything, it would be she's a little thin. Oh, she might be run down with complications, or something, I... That I do not know. But if I'd say anything outside of the revelation, or what God would reveal, it would be wrong. See? I have to know. And that might be what's wrong with her. I do not know. But do you believe, lady, that God will tell me what's wrong with you, setting there? All right. Now, You just look this way, and just believe, and just in your heart be thinking, "Lord Jesus, You did these things. And You granted them to Your servant that the secrets of my heart might be known."
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Yes, she's been a person of sorrow, haven't you? And you're suffering now... You do have complications. And besides that, you got arthritis. Isn't that right? That is right. Stand up on your feet. Walk
this a way with your hands up in the air stomping your feet up-anddown. Walk fast, like this. Don't have to worry about it no more. All right. You can go on off the platform now. Jesus Christ makes you well. God bless you...?... Fine. This is a Spanish woman. She says, "I knew the Spirit of God was in you." See? So that is very... God bless you, sister. Now, in Mexico, or down near the border among your people, I never seen a Spanish person come to the platform but what was perfectly healed. They're humble. They haven't got much of this world's goods, but they believe God.
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I went... They got to Mexico City... A little girl one day... And I made a challenge that I've never seen anything stand on the platform before, but what was perfectly healed. I said... I made two or three challenges of this type, while I was standing by this child, this Spanish woman. I said, "You go and get anybody you want to and bring them here. And rest of you sacrifice your place. Let me have that person. And if that person isn't healed, then you say it's falsely." And they went and got me a little girl that had never walked in her life, and she was all twisted up. And I stood there an hour and fortyfive minutes holding that girl in my arms. And when the Holy Spirit came upon her and healed her, she walked right down with me, me holding her hands around in a building like that. And Indians and Spanish people screaming, and some of them rolling around in the yard and everything, and how it taken place.
Just recently at Zion, Illinois... How many was at the Zion meetings, if there's anybody... Here, somebody here to witness these things, fine. One night... Seen it appear in the papers and so forth. Standing there when Ford Wilson, a reporter for "Chicago Tribune"... They brought a little fellow up there that was twisted so out of shape, that he didn't even look like a human, a spastic child. And I held the little fellow, and prayed for him, and stayed right there until after a while, it seemed like his... I looked down. I held his little head up. And what had happened, one leg was about that big around, and the other one just normal, about like that. And his little hands was twisted around. I had the little hands around my body and just held it there, praying. I just kept on praying and watching. I'd see the little hands move, then they'd let loose. And in a few moments, I raised its little head up, little eyes sparkled like a angel, and his little hands come up like that, went around me, walked off the platform, come back just as normal as any child.
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And when Ford Wilson seen that one leg that was that big
around, normal like the other one, he jumped across a bunch of flowers on the platform, and said, "Only God can create." That's right. And there it was. And the little boy was standing there normally whole, perfectly made whole. It appeared in the paper. You all remember it, in the Waukegan paper. There appeared, "A little boy come spastic, twisted all out of shape, walked off the platform normally without any human support." Oh, He's still God. He knows all thing. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord,"--Ed.] God bless you. Let's just bow our heads and give Him praise. Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Your mercies and kindness. Be near unto us now, and bless all who are in need. And those who come seeking Thee, may they go home rejoicing and happy through Jesus Christ. Amen. Everybody, look at her now. She isn't walking like she's stoved up with arthritis, is she? That's fine. God bless you, sister.
All right. Come right ahead. You with her? I'm sure that's all right. This... I like the little girl...?.... need, I do not know. But God shall reveal it to me. Do you believe it, my brother? Yes, sir. Little lady, you're wondering. You're weak. You know what's wrong with her, don't you? I don't want you to tell me. But if by the Holy Spirit... Now, honey, I couldn't heal you. It's impossible for me to heal you. But my gift of God is only to tell you what is wrong with you, and what you can do to be healed. Now, if I'll do that, will you believe with all your heart? You're suffering with TB. Isn't that right? Is that true? And you want me to tell you how to be healed? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart, and believe He hears my prayer, and the TB will be gone, and you'll be a normal well little lady. Do you believe that? God bless you. Don't cry now, just...
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Everybody bow your head. Our heavenly Father, our little lady stands here and needy. She comes trying to get well. She wants to live like other girls, and be a little servant of Yours. And we realize that it's got such a hold now, until it'll take Your power to break the clutches of Satan. But Thou can do it. Grant it to her tonight, Lord, that her faith may reach up and grab the faith that it takes to heal her. Satan, loose the girl in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Just a moment. Everybody reverent. It's a holding her. Now, there's no need... I wouldn't tell you wrong, honey. Looky here. See, it's still holding you. Now, look here. I want to see if anything will be revealed. I assume you're a Christian and believer. I see no reason why that she shouldn't be healed. She's made promises and everything else that could be, if you would be healed.
You felt like here, some time ago in praying, that if you ever got well, you wanted to be a missionary, do work for God, do His work. God will grant it to you. I believe that you... If--if you just have faith, the thing's over. That makes you feel better when you hear that, don't it? Yes, because that's what--what... Here, brother, come here. You're a relative to her. Here, sir, that's what vibrations are, you see that little... See how it hits my hand like that, all them little old things would run over my hand. This hand. Look here. Like little bumps running, now, that's the, it's from the tubercular. You can see it coming? Now, watch here now when I take her hand off there: not there now. Now, put my hand on there; it's not there. Let's see your hand here, sister. Now, put your hand, not there. See? See what I mean? See, it's moving. It isn't the way (See?) the--the position my hand's in. Now, let's see your hand. You're not too well yourself, brother. Got poor circulation in your blood. See that? Your hands get stiff, isn't that right? Isn't that right? Kidney trouble...?...
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Now, watch, touch--show here. Come here, Brother Baxter, I have to take somebody's hands. Now, now look at his hand (See?) on mine? See? See it there? Now, put my hand on it: same thing. Now, lay your hand on it, just like needles, it... Now, look at there. See? Now, lay her hand on and watch the difference between yours and hers. Now, look at there. Now, that's... just gets as numb as it can be, and like a thousands of needles sticking in me. See what I mean now, sir? Can you see it, honey, what I'm speaking about? See? Now, look at it. Now, it's got my hands in here, there's no feelings at all. Now, just lift your hand up, watch it come right back to normal. See what I mean? Now, see it here? No, I just wanted you to seen it for her sake, you see it going there. She knows she's sick, and awful sick like... Sister, be of a good courage. It left you then. Now, watch here. Put your hand right back to yourself. It isn't there. Isn't that right? Something's happened, hasn't it? All right, sister. The blessing of God is on you. You're going to be well now. It's over. Now, there you are. Your--your own... You looked at yourself, didn't you? You seen it. You feel good now? Say, "Praise the Lord." All right, sister.
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Let's have prayer. Father, we thank Thee for Thy power to heal, for faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word. Bless her, dear God. And make her Your little servant, and give her the desire of Your heart--of her heart, in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen. All right, sister, go off the platform, and I'll tell you what I want you to do. Go off the platform rejoicing, and I want you to eat just as
much as you can, and go on and forget you ever had TB. See? And then about... Now you mark my word. You weigh tomorrow, and--and then in about thirty days, you weigh again and send in your testimony to the "Voice of Healing" people. Will you do that? God bless you. All right.
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Stay right here, brother. Father, bless my dear brother and heal him. Satan, loose him now in the Name of the Lord Jesus, for I ask you to leave this man. All right, my brother. There you are. Now, you did not have a prayer card. That--that... But now that... The man did not want to come ahead of anybody, just walking her, she's so feeble. But when I come here and caught that on him... He said, "I'm going to try and get in the prayer line later." A man with that attitude deserves to be in the prayer line. That's right. God bless you. All right. It's all over now, brother. Go on your road rejoicing. God bless you. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] All right, believe now.
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Come here. Do you believe with all your heart? All right. Let's see now. You're a little excitable anyhow. So I--I dread to tell you this, sister. Now, look this a way. Believe with all your heart. You're suffering with a tumor. Did you know that? You have the right to know. That's right. You have the right diagnosis. You believe Jesus will heal you of that...?... you're suffering. God grant that her healing will be tonight, that You have the strength and the power, if she has faith. And faith without works is dead. And we pray, God, now, that if she used works to come here to the platform, may she go away praising Thee and being well. May this demon called tumor leave the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. God bless you, sister. All vibrations stopped. Start rejoicing, and go... Everything is...?... sister.
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people. If I told you first... Do you believe now you're healed, sister, with all your heart? You tend to...?... And the feeling too...?... real tired, real tired, wore out. Don't... And just--just at night when you lay down, and you just can't rest. Isn't that right? I just wanted to say that, so she said her daughter could verify that. I didn't want to tell the lady this until she was healed, 'cause she was nervous anyhow. But the woman had TB, and it's gone from her. Now, that's... If anybody in here... If there's a doctor in here, you
know that's a pure symptoms of TB. Everybody knows that. But you're healed now, sister. You can go on your road rejoicing and you'll be well. God bless you, sister.
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Sometimes that way you don't... It's... You have to... I'm holding too long, I guess; I see people's leaving. So I should close, and I don't want to do that. All right. Bring this lady just a moment. Come, sister. You believe now with all your heart? Now, let's have your hand just a moment. Now, everybody be real quiet, just for a few moments. If you'll just give us at least five more minutes, I'll be glad to dismiss it, if you... But don't move around. It interrupts. You see, when you do that, you... When you're dealing with, the Spirit of God is just so sensitive. I--I have no... Nobody has any choice in knowing what these prayer lines will be. We give out a--so many cards and just start praying for what we got there. And we don't know who's going to get in, and who isn't going to get in the line. That's known only by God. And only thing I can do is pray. That's... God... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... a group right here, and pray for everybody. Get everybody...?... supposed to be in the line and get it... Happens every night whether we got prayer cards or not. See? Them that's been waiting, because it's time for them to get... They set and watch, it's time for them to be prayed for, don't you think so? That's right.
And now, these things... There isn't a person in this building but what God knows just exactly what's wrong with you. Isn't that right? He knows all about it. But now, He has to reveal it first. And then when He reveals it to me, then I know that's what it is. But I cannot know until first, God reveals it. Now, and when you believe that... Now, just be reverent a few moments. Some nights we have people in the line who's... different things wrong with them. It looks like miracles and things happen. Next night, maybe we do not have... I don't know. That's just up to God alone, Himself. But you don't have to be up here to be healed. God knows all about you. You can be healed anywhere, accept--accepting God. This is to bring the knowledge of God to you. You understand, say, "Amen."
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[Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Now, all right, sister. Yes, ma'am. Sorry to tell you, sister, because, it's a cancer. You--you know that. It's in bad stage too. Now, think, friends. What if this was your mother? What if this was your wife, your sister? You'd want something done, wouldn't you? That's right. Now, what if that... Or what if it was you yourself
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standing here? Just think of it. One out of eight yearly. Now, the woman is absolutely hopeless without God. Now, that's true. And life means just as much to this dear soul as it does to anybody in this place. Now, who could condemn or find fault with anything was trying to help a woman wanting to live.
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Now, there's only one thing that I can say, a supernatural Being. What His Name is, sister, I do not know. Talking to me, God, Who knows, is standing here before me, and the Bible laying here, knows it's truth. That supernatural Being told me; He said if I get the people to believe me, then not even cancer could stand before the prayer. Now, He told me that. He will have to answer for that before God. I'll have to answer for truth for what I know. And I know that hundreds of cases that's infallible doctor's proof, that were at the last stage, dying when they... You look like a healthy person by the sight of you... are perfect normal people tonight... You can be that too.
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Now, look. There was some lepers set at the gate one time, of Samaria, when the Syrians had it besieged. Do you remember the story in the Bible? They said, "Why do we set here until we die? If we go in the city, we die; they're starving. If we--if we set here, we die. If we go down to the camp of the Syrians, if they kill us, we just die, 'cause we're go--going to die anyhow. Well, if they save us, we live." Isn't that right? And by that mere little shadow of faith, they moved towards the camp of the enemy, and God rewarded them. Now, when He saved them, that saved the whole, oh, all Israel. Isn't that right? Now, you're not asked tonight to go to the camp of the enemy. You're asked to come to the house of Father, where He's expecting you to come for your healing. Well, why do you set here till you die? Let's do something about it. Let's believe God. Let's go out, face it with God's Spirit upon us.
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Now, without a shadow of doubt, I can prove infallibly, if you'll believe me, that it'll leave you now. It'll--it will... Now, here. Look at my hand. See how that looks? Now, watch here when I take my hand off. See how it looks on my hand? Now, put your hand back. That's the reason you need it. See how it swells quickly? See them little old things, like hitting across there? That's what I call vibrations. Now, look at it. There it comes. It kinda goes in waves. See how it goes? That's that cancer moving. Now, watch it. Now, there. See it moving down? Now, watch. Here it comes again. See it coming there? Now, goes, "Thrrrr, thrrrr." [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] Now, it fades away. Here it comes again. There it is, see it? Now, sister, there you can see that, but only God can take it away
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You have other things besides that, you know?...?... goiter too... You knew that? Don't show on the outside, but you got a inward goiter. Oh, my. Weak eyes, inward goiter, very nervous, female disorder, just all...?... Now, look, sister. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is here to make you whole. Now, look here. Be reverent; believe with all your heart, and you shall have what you've asked for. Everybody bow your head. Our heavenly Father... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Poor woman, she wants to live. And I believe that she's coming now to the inexhaustible Fountain of Life, Jesus Christ. Help her, dear God. She's going away from here tonight with a courage, going to believe, going away to be healed, to stand in the face of the enemy and testify of the glory of God. And we're taught that all things work together for good to them that love You. Tonight is the time where faith's to come. Help me, dear God. Give me faith myself, as I go in this challenge to rebuke this demon that's bound the woman. Thou demon, you've hid from the doctor. That's true. But you can't hide from God. Come out of the woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave her. There it goes, sister. Looky here. All right. There she is, healed.
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Let's say, "Praise be to God," everybody. Why can't we all... There she is now...?... full of the strength and the power of the Almighty. Do you believe? With all your heart? Will you accept Christ now as your Healer? He knows what's wrong with you. Don't you believe that? Do you believe it, sister there. With all your heart? Stand up and be well then. God bless you, sister. All right. How many believes in here that God will heal you right now, right from here? Look this way...?... Say, "Praise the Lord." Amen. Just feeling wonderfully. Let's say, "Glory to God," everybody. All right. Let's stand up to our feet. Are you ready? Do you believe with all your heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? [Congregation answers, "Amen."--Ed.] Do you believe that He died and rose again? He's setting at the right hand of the Father, making intercessions for your confession. Do you believe that?
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I want every sick person in here now to lay your hands on somebody by you. Every person in here, lay your hands on one another. That's right, honey. That's right, mother. That's right. There, God bless you, dad. That's the way. Believe, sister. Believe, sister. Lay your hand right here on there. That's right. All right. Everywhere around, lay your hands one on another. Oh, my. (Oh, say? What
say?) Now, look, friends. Everybody be reverent. Listen. Do you believe He's here to heal you? Just a minute. There's a lady standing here. Sister, was you--was you the next in line? All right. Look this a way. Do you believe God with all your heart? Give the usher your prayer card there. All right. Stand where you are. Repeat this. "Lord, I now accept You as my Healer. I believe I'm standing in the presence of Your Divine gift. I believe what the man has said is true." Your tubercular has left you, sister. And you're healed. All right. Let's everyone believe with one accord. Now, everybody. Our heavenly Father, oh, be merciful. Grant tonight that every sick person in the building will be healed. May the Holy Spirit move now. Let the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] O kind Physician, You're here You could--proving Yourself over and over. Grant it, Lord God, at this moment, that the power of... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] that You're to heal. Satan, turn these people loose. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke every spirit of infirmity, cripples. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, leave the people and come out of them...?...
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I'm thankful...?... Baxter. Good evening, audience. I'm very happy to be here tonight to try to pray for the sick and needy, do all that I can while I'm here to help you. I wish to read some Scripture where it... I was enjoying very much, and just come up in the... was in the little trailer, hearing Brother Baxter's message tonight. I'm very happy that God anointed him to speak like that tonight, that God would move in our midst. And I'm very glad to see people tonight that's Christians. I know that--know that one of the great events of this country here is a--is a ball game down here. Someone said, "Just let the ball game start, and you'll be setting in the tent alone." Well, that's--that's different. God's people loves God. You see?
All right, I want to read from the Scripture right quickly and go into the prayer line. It's found in John the--the 4th chapter and beginning with the 46th verse. So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was
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sick at Capernaum. And when he had heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea to Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe. The nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. I want you to notice, he would... If it'd been a prayer line, he'd wanted a prayer card. And he wanted Jesus to come down to his house and heal his son. But Jesus did not go to his house. But first he talked real straight to him, said, "Except you see signs, you won't believe." Said, "Sir, come or my child will die." Jesus... (Now watch, 50th verse.) Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoke unto him, and he went his way. Watch the order of the Scripture. Jesus said something, that his child was going to get well. And the man himself believed what Jesus said. See? Now, all right. Now, 51st: And as he was now going down, his servant met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. (Something had happened.) Then inquired he of them the hour that he began to amend... (In other words, when He turned from his worse to his better)... And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was of--at that same hour, in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and... (And is a conjunction)... and himself believed, and his whole house.
He--he knew it was the time when Jesus said, "Thy son liveth. Go thy way, thy son liveth." And the man believed what Jesus said was the truth. Now, what if he would said, "Well, I'll go on back down, but I'm disappointed. I wish He'd have come laid His hands on him." The son probably would not have lived. But, the man believed what Jesus said was the truth. And that's why we're here tonight is because we believe what Jesus said is the truth. Now, what the people says is something else. But what Jesus said, we're ready to stand on what He said is the truth. All right. Remember that now. Now, just before we form the prayer line, I think it would be necessary just for--give a testimony. Now, we're going to try each night to kinda get in the Spirit of the Lord in closer.
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I've been praying all day, trying to get ready for this meeting. This is going into the second week. This is... Even in this, is the
smallest audience we've ever had, as I can remember, this much time, with this much meeting. But I worry over the audience, that... And it--had it any more reverent, and as--with as good a faith, any better faith than what you have right here. That's right. And I just believe that God is going to heal every person. I--I believe that with all my heart. And I... Now, friends, I have desired one thing in my life, to see one more time. I seen one time that every person in the building was healed at one time. I've seen that once. And there was twice, three times as many cot cases and stretcher cases as is here. And they would pile their cots together and throwed their crutches and so forth away. And people went out of that building walking, praising God, and... Now, I believe if it can happen one time, it can happen again.
Now, at the day of Pentecost, they were all in one place and with one accord, believing the promise of God was coming to them. Why can't we believe the promise of God that is coming to us tonight? Now, for myself I'm doing all... (And God knows with my hand here.) I'm doing all that I know how, everything. I prayed through the day, and I--and at nighttime I come in here and try my best to do everything that I know how to... Not to get it over into a place where people will just think too much on the prayer line, or where they think too much on one thing. But just try to keep it the best that I know how, that the Spirit of God could get in the hearts of the people to heal everybody. See? That's what I try to do, and God knows that.
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Today, Brother Lindsay and I were talking... Brother Lindsay's a good man. He is, Brother Hall, also. And I... We give out these cards here, and we intend to pray for every person that gets a prayer card. That's right. What I can't get at night, we get at morning at the tenthirty service. That's Brother Lindsay and Brother Hall has a prayer line here. Great things are being done. Now, you people, if you see the time getting near and you haven't got in, go down on a Monday, or each morning at ten-thirty. And I've dealt with those men. I've been with them in their life, and I know that they're good God saved men. And signs and wonders will--will... This--this will stimulate faith. And at morning, God will confirm it then. Come into the morning meetings if you don't get in the evening meetings. If you want to be prayed for, come in and God will answer their pray, and great things will be done.
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We were talking this afternoon. Brother Lindsay looked over to me. We've been together for four years, and I never heard that tone of voice. The Spirit of God must have said it, or I caught it in that
way. Said, "Brother Branham," he said, "with a measure of time," said, "I've said for a long time: fifty-three would probably be the-something great." Said, "I believe we've got about one more year to go." Now, remember friends, we're going to look at the thing right straight in the face. God never sends judgment until first He sends His mercy. But after His mercy, it's bound to be judgment. To reject the mercy is the bringing in of judgment, always. And now, at no... Through the ages, since the apostolic age in the beginning, there's never been such signs and wonders that God's put before the people. Surely, thousands way off, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God... See? For Jesus said they would be that way. Like they were in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man.
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Now remember, I am an American. Generation after generation, back to the third or fourth generation, been American. Many Branham has planted... And the other day when I was walking through France, many of them are laying there, fell in war. I had four brothers this last war. One of them helped me in the prayer line, where he was four years in the Navy, and give up as a hopeless case. Hundreds are sent disabled, never to get up out of a chair. Another one's burnt through with a piece of shrapnel. The other one hit something, and it put a pressure on his spine that they said they'd have to tap his spine every so many weeks during his whole life, went into a gully with a--with Patton in his tank. I wanted to go. If it was again, I'd try to go again. If this country ain't worth fighting for, it ain't worth living in. That's right. I'm an American. But just as sure as I'm the minister standing in this platform, we are heading for judgment. That's...
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God loved Israel. But when Israel sinned, she reaped what she sowed. And we're in for judgment. Mark that down, and remember I have said it from the platform. When it comes to pass, you remember what I said. All right. My Christian friends, and sinner friends, whatever you do, if you believe me to be sent from God, you seek the Kingdom of God just quick as you can and get in to it, for that's the only safety we have today. The world's at the end of the age. Only in Christ are you saved. I'm not saying that to scare you. I'm saying it just as sanely as I know how to stand here in this platform and say it. But my heart's been stirred for a time. And I know that we're ready for something. Now, come in. And you Christians, don't stay in that lukewarm condition any more. Lay aside everything. Just get as close to God as you can. Walk with Him, talk with Him. Let everything else be
secondary but your prayer life. Stay right with Him all the time. Now, I don't know why I stopped in my speech to say that, but I could prove that. I'd be willing to say that that's the Spirit of God there that's speaking right now, a warning to you. That's right. Remember, I'm saying that under the anointing of the Spirit of God. Of course... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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All right. We're going to pray for the sick right now. Be reverent. Let's pray now. Heavenly Father, strangely tonight, I see the world giving away in lust, and know that God's judgment follows. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, their sins had come up to the ears of God. And He sent an Angel down, two of them, to call out the righteous, separate them...?... the Holy Spirit calling to the people to separate themselves from the things of the world, to receive the mark of God, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, before the mark of apostasy is put upon them. Grant it, Lord. Help us tonight as we're here under this tent, not knowing what time that we shall leave. And let our testimonies ring everywhere, calling to the hedges and highways and byways, calling the unrighteous to repentance, healing the sick and the afflicted. Grant those signs to be here tonight, in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
Speaking... I haven't the time to go to...?... But while you're settling yourselves, and getting ready for... All right. I remember when this first came to me. If you'll give me just your undivided attention for a moment... It was strange how I was--hated to start forward. And I--I think if you'll learn a little more of this, it'll be easier for you to come and get it--to get into it. And I thought, "How will I do this?" But friends, God has always went out before me and made the way. I remember I was still in uniform. I was a Indiana State Game Warden. And I came down... My baby, little girl, she's four years old now. I promised God, He'd visited me about two to three weeks before this. I said, "If You just wait till the baby was born, Lord, I will go." He give me that privilege of grace.
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And I... The baby was just come home, and I went down to get some of them bottle caps, you know, to drink the catnip tea (I think is what they give it), the little fellows. And so, I went to get those bottle caps. And I just went in and cashed my check. I was making thirty dollars a week. And I--I went in to cash my check. And as I went in, someone had stepped off the bus from Louisville, down on the corner of the street. Jeffersonville's a very small city. And I seen him look at me strange. And I went in to Mason's Drug Store there to--to cash my check. When I come back out, I had the bottle
caps, and I had them in my pocket. And somebody laid their hand on my shoulder, said, "Sir?" I turned around. And it was the--this same fellow looks at me so strangely. He said, "I see that you're an officer." I said, "I work for the conservation of Indiana." He said, "I'm looking for some--a party. Maybe you could help me. Are you well acquainted?" I said, "Yes, sir. I'm pretty well acquainted here." And he... I said, "I've lived here practically all my life."
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And he said, "Well, I will give you my story." Said, "I've been failing in health for about two years." Said, "I'm from Paducah, Kentucky, about two hundred miles down the river." He said, "Last night I had a strange dream." He said, "I dreamed I seen a big bright Angel come down from heaven and told me to come to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and to ask for somebody by the name of Branham to pray for me." Said, "Now, do you know anyone here by the name of Branham?" I tell you; I thought my heart would break. It was... I said, "My mother runs a boarding house right around the corner. Her name is Branham." He said, "Oh, she's a Branham?" Said, "Would that be your name?" I put my arm around him. I said, "Brother, three weeks ago I was standing in my room. A great Light was shining in there, and an Angel told me to go pray for the...?..." He just broke down. There we knelt on the street. And I took off my hat, knelt down on the street on the corner. I said, "Father, I don't understand. But You sent this man here to declare what the Angel of the Lord had told me." When I got through praying, I looked and people had their hats off, standing along on the street holding their children back. They ain't no one on the street, just standing. I was just kneeling on the street, public square. God healed him right there, gloriously.
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A few days after that, or a few weeks, rather, another case just comes on my mind. You remember me telling the other night about that Angel coming into the room where I was at, at--at--at Camden, Arkansas? And next day after that, I'd went into a little church there, a little church to have a morning service, no prayer for the sick, just to preach. I was pretty well worn. I'd been days and days; I hadn't even laid down no more than just to cross the bed, or set in a chair. They had different places. They just take me from house to house, and place to place all the time. And they went down to a little church; I was going to speak. And when I started out, they had four police there that was taking me out, stand at the door. And as I started out, the people... Oh,
brother, sister, it would break the heart of an iron man. I--I'm human. And I stand here and look at little children, like here, laying along like this. I got children myself. I see sick people and I think, "Oh, God, what can I do?" But I--I can't. I have--can't do no more than what He tells me to do. I can't; it'd be a failure if I did.
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So I started out. They was trying to touch my clothes, and, you know, and going through the crowd, crying. And I heard somebody hollering, "Mercy, mercy, mercy." And I happened to turn and look, standing off to hisself... In Arkansas, they have what they call the Jim Crow Law: the colored and white can't be together. I'm from the South, but I don't think that's right. So then, I--I looked over there, and there stood a poor old colored man standing there, aged, a little rim of white hair, and his hair. He had his cap in his hand. His wife was standing by him. And he had his hands up, blind as he could be, saying, "Mercy, mercy." The tears streaming down his cheeks.
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I thought of old blind Bartimaeus standing at the gates of Jericho. Looked around, started moving on. The Holy Spirit said, "Go over there where he's at." I turned aside. They said, "Don't go over there, Brother Branham." I said, "But the Holy Spirit tells me go over there." And I went over there, and they drawed a ring. I never will forget what his wife said. She said, "The parson man's coming to you, honey." I walked on over to where he was at. His old feeble hands dropped; said, "I--i--i--is this you, Parson Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir." He felt my face, he said, "Oh, you's a young man." I said, "No, sir, not too young." Said, "I'm thirty-six years old." And he feeled around on my face like that... Said, "Parson Branham, do you got just a minute to listen to me?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "My old mammy had 'ligion like you got." ('Ligion.) Said, "She never told me a lie in all her life." Said, "Parson Branham, she's been dead now, many years." Said, "I've been blind, and drawing a blind pension for about ten years." Said, "I lives about two hundred miles from here. I never heard of you in my life. But," said, "This morning, about three o'clock," said, "I woke up in the room. And of course, I can't see," but said, "look like standing before me stood my old mammy. I said, 'Mammy, is that you?' She said, 'Yes, honey.' She said, 'You go down to Camden, Arkansas. Rise and put on your clothes, and ask for somebody by the name of Branham that's praying for the sick. You shall receive your sight.'" Said, "Parson Branham, I put on my clothes, and here I is." Said, "Can you help
me?" Oh, my. I thought, "God, You'll witnessed that these stones will cry out, something has to say it."
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I just put my hands over on his eyes, and I said, "Father, I do not understand." Said, "You sent the brother here; I ask for his sight." I took my hands down, seen him smiling, wiping his eyes. Looked around and kind of smiled, said, "I can see, honey." She said, "You see, honey?" Said, "Sure." Said, "See them people there, that red car setting behind?" She fell down on her knees and screamed to the top of her voice. About that time, the people made a break...?... Next thing I knew, I was in the car. I thought this, friends, "God knows all about it." He can speak to the people through visions, and dreams, and revelations; He can send them. He's the Lord Jesus tonight.
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Father, I--I--I ask You to just be in our midst tonight. Heal all the people here that's so needy, Father. Bless them now as I go forward to challenge the enemy, to do these signs and wonders that You told me to do. I know You'll be there, Lord. You won't never fail; neither will You ever forsake Your promise. And I pray now that people may have great faith, Father. This is starting the second week of this revival, long. Believing that before the great judgment shall sweep the city here, that You're calling mercy. Help tonight that something might be done to win souls to You, glorify Thee, for we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. All right, we will have the... A hundred? How far did you get last night? Up to 40 from 25? So let's start right at 40. [A brother calls for prayer card numbers M-40 to M-55 to form the prayer line--Ed.]... The piano player will come to the piano, please, and play "Abide With Me."
Now, how many did he call, twenty-five? How many did you call tonight? Fifteen. Maybe we can get more than that, or try to get-make another choice, if we can tonight, and fine if we can get more. Then I believe the Lord wants us to maybe to change the program a little tonight. I seen a pathetic sight a few moments ago, that just tore my heart to pieces, poor little girl setting, holding a blind man's hand up when they sang, "Now I Believe." Oh my. How in the world... Have faith, everybody believe. God knows that I wished I could do something. Oh, if I only could. If I could, I'd do it. I'm just as helpless as the rest. I can only say what He says. I can only do what He says do. I
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trust that the man knows who I'm speaking of, and the little girl, also. God will bless them. God bless you, brother.
Now, everyone be just reverent as--as... If the piano player, if you'll softly play, "Abide With Me." You know? I just love that song, don't you? That's all I want Him to do, "Abide With Me." I--I couldn't live without Him. I wouldn't want to live without Him. He's my life. He's all that I have. And I couldn't live without Him and I know you can't live without Him. And I want Him to abide with me. (When you're ready for your prayer line.) Now, let's just be real reverent. I know I take a lot of your time, but friends, I--I want to talk to you, and I just... I--I love you, and I--I guess I take--take up too much time then, and maybe not pray for enough sick people. But I'm trying to get you to a place where you'll all at one time... I want to see it before God calls me home again. I--I want to see it again before God calls me, to see it like that.
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Now, let's be real reverent for awhile, and just take our time with each case. And all of you to look on, believe. Now, on the platform... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... try to catch it, but when it doesn't, I just keep talking; He keep adding more things, more things, more things, until I feel like that there's faith there. But if--if you'd stand there for amount of time, It would reveal everything that you ever done in your life, every sickness and disease that you ever had. It'll do it. I know it. A lot of times at home, when I used to take the cases, I'd set them down in my room, lock the door, no one can come in. I'd set right there with them till it was over. Then when I'm out in these meetings, I can't do that, 'cause I will be nearly dead before I got to the meeting.
Now, everyone real reverent; we're just... Don't nobody be in a hurry. And please, don't move around while the--the Spirit of the Lord is at work. While It's moving, just be reverent. Then I will tell you what I will do: if you'll do that for--at each case, I will give you a chance then to show...?... if we just take our time. Now, will each person be reverent? Just look on, believe with all your heart. And when God's healing the sick here on the platform, He will be healing them out there the same time. All right, friend. Are you the--the... I see. All right. You look this way, sir, if you would, just a moment. I--I can't seem to pick it up from that one. It may be that... tired. I can feel the anointing of the Spirit. But it just want to say this...?... Now, you realize, my dear brother, that when you confess your faith in Christ, to believe now with all your heart, do you? You do, with all your heart? And you have no doubt but what this Spirit that is here now, that's even on you now,
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it's no doubt but what It is the Spirit of God. It could not be any psychological effect. It's just the Spirit of God. You see? Yes. You believe it with all your heart...?... Well, you live close, do you? In this city here, I would say. I want you just to look.
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Yes, sir, brother. You have trouble with arthritis, is what bothers you. Isn't that right? I see the way you get around. I want you just to look this way, and be just as sincere as you can...?... Life hasn't been a flower bed of ease for you, has it, brother? Had lots of sorrow, lots of trouble. You're in trouble right now, brother. Isn't that right? At one time, you wouldn't have come in this prayer line...?... you was an unbeliever once, very much critical of religion. Isn't that right? You done a great thing along that time, too, something that hurt you. I believe you--you rebuked God, or cursed with God, or something, or done something wrong, or didn't you do that? How would you think, brother, by the Spirit of God. Is that a tract concerning it? All right.
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Now, concerning that, it harmed you. Now, being that you had that on tracts, then look this a way. Believe with all your heart. You dearly paid for that, brother. You have lots of troubles now, nervous...?... You have a lot of home troubles, too, don't you? Domestic troubles with your own home, is that right? Will you believe me as God's servant? It's all right for me to speak what the Lord says? You've had other troubles, too, don't you, sexual troubles. Is that right, sexual troubles? You listen at what I mean. Nobody but God alone knows that better than you. Is that right? You believe with all your heart now, brother? Let me have your hand. Let's bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, there's nothing but what You know all about it. I'm so thankful that You're here tonight, blessing,...?... this poor old brother, having run and slip away to get to the service, but loves you in his heart. God, make a way for him. Grant it, Lord. He's in trouble. You said that You would be near those who are in need. God, bless my brother now as I bless him in Thy Name. May all these troubles clear up like a cloud leaving from before the sun; and may he be healed tonight of his arthritis, and all these other troubles, Lord, and be made new and whole again. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I ask it. Amen.
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Look here, brother. Let me see you...?... You feel that you're healed, don't you? You are healed, my brother. God bless you, and go on your way rejoicing, and all your troubles are going to clear up now and be all right. God bless you. (Can I have this? Thank you.) God, Who I stand before now, and got a tract here: "Is there a God? I cursed Him." If God in Heaven, Who I
stand before, knows I know nothing about that tract, or anything about it... And being it was, that I thought maybe when they seen the tract, I... The Lord permitted to go right down into the depth of his heart and get something that's really a secret to tell. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. There's nothing that can fail before God. The man is going to be all right now. All right.
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Come...?... Just be reverent, believe with all your heart. I see you removed your glasses before you come, didn't you? That's the way to have faith. Sure. Let's have your hand. I believe there's more than them glasses. Yes, ma'am, there is. You have several things wrong with you: One of it is you're nervous, extremely nervous. Which, you're--that has a whole lot to do with the astigmatism of your eyes. Then it's in the time of the change of menopause...?... (Isn't that right?), making you extremely nervous. And there's something... Don't you have something wrong with your limbs? When isn't there a milk leg, or something? Isn't that right? Amen. That's fine. All right. God bless you, sister. Now, your faith is right for healing. Will you accept me as His servant and Him as your Healer? Let's bow our heads then. Father, all things are possible to them that believe. We thank You for the healing of our sister. Pray, God, that she'll be happy all the days of her life, serving You with all of her heart. We bless her in Thy Name, the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right, sister. Your faith will... healed, and you're going to be all right now.
All right. Everybody reverent. Which is next then? All right. That man's not...?... Jumalan rauhaa. That old arthritis... Believe with all your heart. All right, let's bow our heads. It's finished, sister. Our heavenly Father, coming along down through that Baltic, up along through those hills and seeing those little bitty trains pulling along with those poor Finnish people a few weeks ago, laying burdened, coming walking, packing old bicycles, thousands gathering around... I'm thinking, coming down off of the mountain at Kuopio, seeing that little boy laying on the side of the road, dead, mashed to pieces, helpless, covered his little face over. Looked like life was finished for ever, no breath, no heart. Then remembered the vision of the Lord. Then laying hands upon him and calling in the Name of the Lord, and his life returned, there wasn't a bone broke in his body. How it spared the hearts of those dear people, how they come from the Lapland. Oh, merciful God, You, Who could take a boy that was mashed to pieces, dead, laying on the road... Now, vision couldn't heal him; It was the Spirit of God. You can heal our sister tonight. It's arthritis. Bless her...?... I now rebuke the arthritis from her body in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Tell her to have no fear...?... You're healed. It's gone from you. May
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Let's say, "Praise be to God." Amen. Oh, my, my, my. How do you do young fellow? Let's see your hand. You believe with all your heart? I can't seem to pick that up, brother. I want you to look at me. Now, you're sick or you wouldn't be up here. 'Course, knowing you're wearing glasses, somehow, it--it--it's not... You ain't what you're here to be prayed for no doubt, or you'd--you'd... It'd been something different from that. I want you to look at me and believe with all your heart. Don't doubt nothing. Now, I'm not saying, brother, that I have anything to do with your healing. I can only do what He told me to do. Now, you love Him? Like to serve Him, don't you? It's epilepsy. Isn't that right? Seen you falling. That's a powerful thing he put... Remember this, my brother, Jesus Christ heals all kinds of diseases. But it's like a demon power, you don't know when it's coming, strikes and away it goes, don't it? Look, remember one time when a father brought his boy to the Master? Said, "Lord, have mercy on me." He said, "I can, if you believe." Is that right? Said, "For all things are possible to them that believe." He said, "He has a devil, ofttime it throws him in the water and in the fire to destroy him. See, he'd just fall anywhere." That's a devil. And when Jesus rebuked the spirit, the boy had the hardest spell he ever had in his whole life. But when it was gone, it was over.
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Now, if He was standing here now, and tell you about what I have said now, and...?... the medical doctors, call it epilepsy. He called it a demon that bothers him. And He would say His blessing over you and separate you from that. Don't you believe it? You believe if I will ask to Jesus, that He will separate it anyhow from you? All right. Come here and believe...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Remember, I will not be responsible for people who hold their head up or irreverent during the time of epilepsy being prayed for. Cause, it goes from one to another. Now look this a-way, and now no matter what takes place, you be reverent. Just look this a way. Now, no matter what takes place... And be reverent. Keep your head bowed till you hear me say, "Raise your head." Now, young man, look this way and believe on the Lord Jesus.
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Our heavenly Father, realizing the seriousness of this demon power that's bound this young man, I ask the Blood of Thy Son Jesus to stand between all peoples here...?... Have mercy on Your humble servant standing here, trying to serve others, Lord. Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, look not upon us in judgment, but look upon us with Thy mercy. And now, as Your humble servant, unworthy
to be so, but asking for mercy, I now ask the spirit of Satan that's bound the boy, leave him, come out of him and go into outer darkness; trouble no one else in the Name of Jesus Christ. Leave the boy, Satan, thou foul serpent... Christ proves here at Calvary, taking the power away from you, and leave tonight by confession and faith in the finished work of Jesus, the Son of God, at Calvary. As Christian people, we say to you, leave this young man. Come out of him in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God. Amen.
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All right...?... Now look, raise your head now. First time in all my life, seeing for a certain, I seen him crawling, a yellow...?... And it's turned and went away from the boy. Now, brother, I believe with all my heart, Satan, you've had...?... God bless this boy...?... I just want to thank God. Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Thy mercy. And bless that young man, Lord, and make his life fruitful, and keep them powers away from him, Lord. May he go into outer darkness, bound in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Never in all my ministry I ever seen that before...?...
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You don't sleep too often though...?... for one thing. Another thing, you've got...?... cancer. Isn't that right?...?... now, and believe with all your heart. I have a little girl at home, and I know she is praying the way you are too. I'll do everything I can, ask to ask Him...?... I believe He...?... Our heavenly Father, You see the tear drops coming out of those little pale cheeks, rolling down. What can she do, Lord? She's helpless without You. She'll be a wreck after while. Satan's desired to sift her, but we're praying now. O Father, be merciful to the little lady. Strengthen her faith just now to rule out that demon power. Father, as sure as I'm here and Your servant, I believe You'll heal her now. You can't fail; You're the Lord Jesus. Satan, leave the girl. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, come out from her. You know what's happened...?... to you, don't you? You're healed sister.
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Now I'll tell you what I want you to do. Now, if I could tell you what you were doing in school, and in your life at that time; I was going on but it was breaking. You were crying because the Spirit of the Lord was upon you. And It's still on you now, isn't that right? You're a nice little lady. And you want to work for the Lord. You want to do His work. Now--now, you going to believe me? If you take my word now and do as I tell you, God will do just what I say He will do
here. I want you to go from the building when you leave tonight, just so happy. I want you to be smiling and go tell everybody, "The Lord healed me." And if you feel just... Satan say, "No, you're not." Say, "Now, Satan, you might as well go away, because a man that could tell me what has been in my life has told me that I will be well, and I'm well now. So you get away from me." See? And be just as happy as you can be; forget... And when you go out, you watch the difference in your reading. That's was healed immediately, you see. And--and the nervousness is gone from you. You feel quiet, don't you? No more gloomy feeling. And it's going to stay... If it could make you feel good right here, and bring the Presence of God to you here, just believe that what I told you, and it'll stay with you.
Now, the reason I'm doing that, honey, because you're mix up, and you're just at that time of life of a little girl. Is your mother near in the building? I thought so. I could feel her out there. I thought... All right. Mother, you know what I'm speaking about, don't you? It's just her little age right now is what's doing that. And don't you, you know, fly right. So just--just start right on, just be happy, and rejoicing, and everything's going to be all right for you. You believe that? Say, "Amen." Amen. God bless you, sister. All right. Everybody just be reverent, and praise the Lord now.
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All right. Good evening. Nervous, get real tired, it's a kidney... No, it's in your back, in your spine. Is that right? You believe? As sure, as much as you've prayed, you ask it. I bless thee, my sister, for thy healing now. In the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we desire that you may be healed. Do you believe me? Did you hear my prayer? Then you're healed, sister. There's nothing can keep you from this coming now. Go, rejoicing, be happy. He's...?... Feel all right now? Go rejoicing and happy, God will take...?... All right. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Do you love Him with all your heart? Let's...
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God bless you. Do you believe me with all your heart? It's got to leave you...?... weak now...?... old, female trouble is bothering you. You're nervous trouble causing you're... Isn't that right? Do you believe if I'd ask Him, you'll get well? With all your heart? Oh, my, dear old mother. Bow your heads, everyone. Our heavenly Father, as she stands here, I think of my own mother setting back in the meeting. No doubt that these hands sometime helped others. And I pray, God, that You will
help her. Many years ago, maybe some mother rocked her, patted her, and kissed away all the tears that... Now, she's gone. But there's still hands who can pat and kiss away all the tears and cares: Jesus, the Son of God. I bless this, my aged sister, and ask You, Father, to give her many days of health and strength yet, that she can glorify You in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, mother. Fear not. You go right on. All right, God bless you...?... keep your hand over it like this...?...
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That's why it come. Little nervous aren't you? Your eyes are bad. That's why you have your glasses on. All right. And also, you've had arthritis...?... It's worse...?... Isn't that right? 'Course, I don't... There's no way I can know unless He's telling me. Isn't that right? But it's the truth, isn't it? I just wanted to say that so it'd encourage you. Now, I want to ask you something. The diseases and things that I've told you about was in your body, which you know is the truth, but when I spoke of that other, that give you more faith that anything I said, that... Wasn't that right? Because He told me to tell you. Now, being that you have believed with all your heart, He's healed you, sister...?... Now, when I was talking to you, it had something to do with it. When I said that, that word, and you believed right, that's when it left. Now look, that you might know... You believe me? All right, put your hands up in the air, both of them way up. Move your feet up-and-down like this. See? See, that has no harm. Your arthritis and everything is just all gone. Just go on your road rejoicing with God's blessing on you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody.
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I see you're one of the workers in the meeting. You like your work, personal work? You do? Well now, you're sick, and you're here to be healed. Thank you for that...?... Now, one thing... Don't tell me what's wrong. But I want to ask you one thing: is it an organic trouble? Just say "yes" or "no." Organic trouble, inward trouble the...?... It's something that was near disease. All right. I want you to look at my hand before I touch anything. See here? See how my hand looks? You're a worker here, and you deserve some... that you might see so you can tell other people. I want you to look at my hand. I don't know what... God knows I know nothing about you. Now see, I put my hand on there. See there's my hand just--just as normal as any. Now, I want you to... Look, if you'll lay your handkerchief down here, put this hand here on there. All right, no difference, is there? It just looks like the same. But now, I want you to put this hand on there, just the way you did the other. Now look. See it swelling, turning red, dark
looking colors? Look setting in right here. Now, watch when I press on this index finger. Watch this. See that run across there? Now, you see that with your eyes, don't you? You know what's wrong with you? Here it is: it's female disorder. Isn't that right? Now, do you believe? Now, you see it with your eyes, don't you? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... this hand... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] this hand, just... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Now... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... your right hand. Now, there it is. See it coming in? Course, that don't mean anything to me. It's you looking at it (You see?), telling you what's wrong with you...?... Now, see the difference? It's still...?... Ever where you're at, just the same. Looks like little warts, doesn't it, little white things, like bubbles, or whatever it is going across it. Now see, that's when I... I'm going to hold my hand still so you'll notice. You can tell others. Now, watch. Now, that's kind of letting up a little. You're nervous, sister. Now, you have other little things, also: kidney trouble. That's right, nervousness. Now, watch; here it comes again. See? See them going again? There it is again. Now, you see what...?... Does anyone here know the lady? See? Well, you know how it is amongst the people. Now, sister, look this way. I want see you...?... Now, I believe you're a deep sincere woman. And now, you feel the anointing of the Spirit. Isn't that right? Well, that's just is beginning come on you now. Isn't that true? Now, if that's true, raise your hand so the people can see. That's right. Other Spanish brothers...?... Italian?
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I want you to watch. Now, I'm going to ask God to heal you. If that hand stays the same way, then there's nothing done. If it leaves, God has healed you. That'll be three witnesses, won't it? All right. Now, you watch yourself, and I will hold my hand just still as possible. Now, remember how the hand looked over here, I want you to watch that the same way. Now, everyone bow your head and pray except the lady. I want you to be in prayer, but I want you to be watching my hand. Our heavenly Father, I ask You to be merciful to our sister here, she's come for healing. She's standing at the platform, watching my hand closely. And now, Lord, knowing that the type and the--the nature of our sister, that Thou has said this. And therefore, Father, I pray that You will heal her. You said, "If you get the people to believe you and be sincere, then no disease shall stand." And I ask Thee now to heal our sister. Thou demon that's tormenting her body, in the Name of Jesus the Son of God, come out from the woman. Now, sister, there it goes. It's leaving right now. Now, that hand, me holding it perfectly normal. Before I raise my head or open my eyes, it's turning normal. Is that right? Now, it's all left. Is that right? All right, you're healed.
Now, audience, raise your head. Now, the lady standing right here, I never moved my hand. Is that right, sister? Right in that place, just as smooth as this hand or any. Is that right? All them warts, and bumps, and things has left it. Is that true? Just as normal as it could be. All right, you're healed now. Go on your road rejoicing and be happy. Look, don't...?... I see it now. Are you going to let it go? Just...?... Now, just something I talked to her about, a worrying she's going on about, which she oughtn't to be.
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All right. Come lady. Don't weary any. Did Jesus only said, "Fear not, fear not." Don't let nothing bother you. Howdy do, sister. Let's have your hand. Look this a way, sister, just a minute. You believe with all your heart? You have several things wrong with you. Blood pressure is a little high; you're a diabetic. Isn't that right? You're... Headaches all...?... Isn't that right? Nearly...?... Isn't that true? You believe He's going to heal...?... All right, let's pray. Heavenly Father, she's standing here. You know all about her. And I pray that You'll heal her, dear God. Have mercy upon her. Make her well, completely healed. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. God bless you, sister. Go on your road rejoicing, happy, rejoicing, praising God. All right. Everybody be reverent now.
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Did you throw your finger up at me, sir? All right. Only just-just be reverent. You're--you're one of the patients to be prayed for? A lot of these cot cases here, it's--it's too bad that the people... I guess they got in... And I see they only just got...?... Now, sir. You're here seeking to for mother. God bless you, sister. I-I know what... I can tell you what's wrong with you. Just have faith. I believe God's going to heal you, sister. I really do. Now, brother, just have faith. Now, I tell you what I want you two cot cases do before I go to the end of the row. I want you to be looking this a way, right to me, and praying that God will be merciful to you and heal you. Will you do it? All right then. Just so I want you to do that. You do that also, sir, for her.
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Oh, how--how I know, friends. Please believe me: How God wants to break in on this meeting right now. And He--He... How many wanted...?... to--to answer a prayer for us, everyone, for a great out-pouring. You won't believe I'd tell you anything wrong, do
you? It just seems like over this building, just like a gloomy like when I turn around. Now, that anointing is not on me just at now; It's just around near. How many's got one of the pictures to see It? Let's see, you got the pictures? All right. And look at that when you see that picture. That same Thing's right here now. I guess I could call It "Thing." They said, "That holy Thing which is in Mary" was called the Son of God. It was a holy Thing...?... Just believe, dear brother, sister. Have faith in God. You the patient? Believe with all your heart, usher? Well, God bless you, brother. Go on home and eat your supper. Your stomach trouble left you and you're all right...?... God bless you. All right, have... Is everybody praying? All right. Now, everybody reverent.
You, sister, come right ahead. God bless you. Will you obey me as God's servant? Walk down at the end of the platform there. Stomp your feet up-and-down, and your arthritis will be gone. All right, God bless you. Go ahead, sister. How do you feel now? Sister, feel all right now? God bless you. Amen. All right, who's the... The little laddie? All right, come here, laddie. Look this a way, sonny boy. Do you believe me? As a little lad, that's infant, childlike faith. Do you believe me? Will you obey me as God's prophet and servant, and believe that God sent me here for your healing? The stomach trouble you had has left you. Go on home and eat anything you want to, sonny boy. God bless you too, dad. Let's say, "Praise God forever." Bring me another patient on.
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Do you believe with all your heart? You'll do what I tell you to do? All right, sir. When you go down in the aisle, when you get home tonight, I want you to just raise up your hands and scream to the top of your voice, for your arthritis has done left you 'fore you got in...?... Hallelujah. That's right. Amen. God can speak...?... this building...?... You believe that? All right, everybody reverent. Oh, just a moment. This woman's for hearing. All right, everybody bow your head. Almighty God, Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon her. Thou demon that's tormenting her, in the Name of the Lord Jesus come out of her. Leave her. I adjure thee to go in Jesus' Name...?... Can you hear me now?...?... Now it's all over, can you hear me all right? Look here, friends. Can you hear me? say, "Amen." Your arthritis, female disorder, and all that's been wrong... Go on your road now, say, "Amen," real loud. Amen. That's right. Go on your road rejoicing, praise God with all your heart throughout your days.
Oh, my. Your sister? You want to be prayed for too. Is that right? All right, stand up on your feet, sister. All right, sir. You don't have to come here. Will you believe me what I tell you? You've been suffering with a mental nervousness. Is that right? Jesus Christ has healed you already. That's right. You, sir. You want to be healed? The heart trouble that you had left you. Just praise God and be happy. You, sister, you've been suffering with nervousness, too, haven't you? Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet and say, "Praise the Lord," and be healed. That's right. Don't have no doubt; believe God. That's right, brother. That's the way to receive your healing. Sister, you got a paralysis that's been creeping on you for a long time. Isn't that right? I believe God's going to give you a victory tonight. Do you believe that? If I ask Him from this platform, do you believe He will heal you? You do? With all your heart? Believe that you'll be able to go up and go on home. Will you do that?
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Look this way, sir. You believe me as God's servant? They just pushed you in out there, and I guess in the line out there, but here's what... Sir, I've got to be honest with you, as a minister that's professing. You been told many things. You been told you had stomach trouble. Isn't that right? But you... There's more than that wrong with you, brother. And I'm afraid to tell you right here what's wrong with you from the platform, 'cause it would scare you. But if you'll believe God with all your heart... It's in your bones, brother, that's where it's at. And you... And if you'll just believe God with all your heart, God will heal you. Do you believe that? I believe too, don't you, sister? That you'll be healed? What about...?... sister laying there today, do you believe that that cancer will leave you if God will... And the little baby here, what about it, sister? What are you as the...?... that arthritis and tell it... Don't you believe that God will do that for you?
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Now, everybody. Here, the blind brother setting here, standing here. Yes, sir. And the--the little lad setting back there with--with crossed-eyes. Now, don't you believe that God will do it? Huh? All right. Now that... I'm going to ask you something. I'm going to ask you to make a committal right now to God, that God will perform this. Dad, if you'll believe what I telling you, you could walk back tonight, and...?... his wife would take you back. Mister, you can rise and walk too. Almighty God, Who stands present into this world of all mortals, You're here tonight. God, grant that these people that's here, that's suffering and needy, a poor old mother laying here. Satan's paralyzed
her. O Jesus, in the Name of the Son of God, I rebuke that devil that would bind that poor old mother laying there paralyzed. Thou demon, come out from the woman. God bless that poor man, trying and praying; may he rise in the Name of the Lord Jesus. May the woman come out of the bed and be healed and well. Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, heal this woman here with cancer, dying. The blind man leaning on his cane, the little child. O God, have mercy. Bless these people in Jesus Christ's Name.
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Come forward, you who wants to stand near to be prayed for. Come up around the platform. That's right. God bless you. Here...?... brother raised up from his ambulance stretcher. Get around him some of you ushers and give him strength that he might walk. A lady, paralyzed, raising up from the platform. Hallelujah! Rise dear, and believe on the Lord Jesus... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God has healed you. You there, with the trumpet in your ear: take the thing out of your ear. Christ Jesus has made you well. And you, standing right there set back over there at the other side of the tent, for a long time you've been...?... had TB. In a sanatorium. You come here a few days ago because of it. Believe Jesus Christ right now and you can be healed. And you, my brother. Stand up; the Lord Jesus Christ is here to make the healing power flow to every one of you. You, lady. Rise and have faith. You brought your...?...
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Good evening. Very happy to be here again tonight to read a Scripture, and to pray for the sick and the needy. I was very happy to hear of the great victory last night that the Lord gave. Just at the end of the service, it seemed to be that the Spirit of the Lord broke forth, came down upon the people, and there was glorious things was done for His glory. I'm very thankful for that. And it can be each night. Some of those were on cots, and some in ambulance stretchers setting here me say... Course, they have to tell me that. I just become lost to the things myself. But God will respect the prayer of faith. He will respect people's faith who believe in Him. Don't you believe that? With all all of our heart, I believe it.
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Now, the meetings are going on, and we're feel ourselves that we're having a--a glorious time. I was talking to the minister brethren today. We were out this morning for just a--a--a breakfast. They taken me out. And I was very happy to get personally acquainted with many of your fine ministers from different churches. Some of them from the Pentecostal church, and some from the, I believe, Four Square, and some the Church of God, and the Missionary Fellowship church; and all those dear brothers all together as one. That's the way we--when God can work with us, when we get like that. When ministers get their hearts together, then they'll bring the church together.
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You know, I--I believe that when Jesus shall appear, that He will not ask us whether we belong to certain denomination of church. He's going to... We're going to be judged according to what we've done about Him in our heart. Christianity doesn't mean somebody that belongs to a certain church; it means that somebody's been borned in the Kingdom of God. See? Now, I know that we have denominations of churches today who deny that Blood. Why, brother, sister, if you take the Blood of Christ out of here, you--you haven't got no more than just some philosophy or something. It's the Blood that makes an atonement. It's the Blood that saves. And it's the Blood that heals. It's the Blood that cleanses. That is the real thing of God, is the Blood.
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And I'm--I'm happy tonight to know that people still believe in the Blood (See?), the Blood of Christ. And I do not believe in this social gospel they have today, and these cults that go around saying, "Well, there's no such a thing as the Blood, and--and the Holy Spirit." You just... You're not a Christian when you do that. You can't be. You--you can't be a Christian without being borned again. That's right. You can't be, no matter what you try to profess. But He said, "No man can say Jesus is the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." See? If you're just taking what somebody else said, you're going by what someone said. But you'll never know it until the Holy Ghost has filled you with His Presence, and witnessed to you that He is the Holy Spirit and is right. I know you that believe that Jesus Christ the Son of God, is born in the Spirit of God. But you are only taking what somebody else said until it's a witness to you. See?
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I remember a dear brother, belonged to the same church that I belonged to. He said, "Brother Branham, the Bible said that whosoever believeth that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, is borned of
the Spirit of God." And I said, "And it's also written: that no man can say that Jesus is the Christ, only by the Holy Ghost." See? It's all... See? He said, "Well, if you believe it..." I said, "You're taking what somebody else said. You've got to have a witness of that (See?), know yourself." You're saying what mother said, what father said, what the minister said. But when He asked Peter, "Who do you say I am." He said, "Thou art Christ, the Son of--of--of God." He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father which is in heaven. And upon this rock I'll build My church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Hold fast to the Rock. Do what's right. God will bless you.
Now, in Luke the 7th chapter, I wish to read tonight the first ten verses. Always try to read, because that I--I know that God will honor His Word. Now when he had ended all this--his saying in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. And a certain centurion's servant, who was very... was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant. And when he came to Jesus, and besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this: For he loves our nation, and he has built us a synagogue. Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house... sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou should enter under my roof: (Oh I love that.) Wherefore, neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee:... (He sent the Jews, you see?)... but say the word, and my servant shall be healed. (I like...) [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] For I am also a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard these sayings, he marveled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And they... were sent returned to the house, and found his servant whole that had been sick.
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Let's pray just a moment. Our heavenly Father, we have come again tonight, and...?... going into the second week now, quite a long series of services. We thankful that many cots that set here, are empty and gone tonight. Many who were setting bound, are up moving among those who are--are healthy today. Many who were sick, troubled, near death; are now healed. And we're thankful, Lord, for these things. Many that were sinners, bound down with shackles of sin, hundreds have been converted, brought into the recognition of God, fellowship of the Holy Spirit by the Blood of His Son, Christ Jesus. Now, we love You for that. And now, Lord, tonight begins the eighth night. And I ask Thee tonight, Lord, as--tonight may be a real time of fellowship around the Word, fellowship around the Spirit of God, that all that are hearing me, with one great coming forth tonight, might receive faith to be healed. May this be a glorious meeting that'll long be remembered because of Your Presence.
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Grant, Lord, that something will be said tonight, or done, that will cause the wayward to turn to Christ. For we believe, and feel pressed in the Spirit, that great judgments are upon these lands [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] last days. Plagues, disease germs already bred up to be scattered throughout the nations. No doctor know even how to take a hold of it. O God, we'll have to believe in Divine healing then. When nations are breeding germs together, to burst them in bombs, and millions die in hours over it. But oh, we're so thankful that when the destroying Angel went forth, You said, "Touch not none that has the Seal of the Father upon their forehead. They are Mine." Oh, we're so glad tonight, to be under the Blood, safely protected; as Israel in the days of old, putting the blood upon the lintel of the door, and upon the door post, sign of the cross. When the death angel was sweeping the land, the dark wings bowed down, but when he seen the blood, It rose again, and "I will pass over you."
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Waiting... Sacrificial Lamb's been killed. We take His body under the Blood, safe, and O God, waiting for the midnight hour to come when the "march out" is called. We're going out some of these nights to the promised land, girded, shod with the Gospel of peace, the full armor of--on the whole armor of the Gospel, going forward. Help us, dear God, to buckle up tight tonight, examine the post and the lintel to see if the Blood's there, then walk forward to challenge every enemy, knowing that our great Chief Captain, the One that met Joshua after crossing the river, said, "I'm the Captain of the Host of the Lord..." O God, Joshua trembled. He knew that You were leading. And we know tonight, the Morning Star is over us. Banners are gleaming, the colors streaming. And we're bound to win if we trust in
Him Who will not fail us. Grant it tonight, Lord, that many things may be done. Send Your Spirit. Give people faith to... Sometimes it startles them, Father. They can't realize the--the Presence, this great thing, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, Jesus of the New, the Holy Spirit of this day, standing here tonight to make good any promise that He made. Bless us, Lord. Then send Your gifts, which is secondarily to all this, that It might work to bring the people to edify the Church, to bring us to a realization of Your Presence. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
The nights grow on. Of course, I tire, and tire more. It is a truth that I believe, as a physical man tears down, the spiritual man has a chance. That's what fasting and things are for. He can have a chance to work upon these five senses of ours, to bring us to believe and have faith in Him. I like the attitude of this centurion tonight, that we've just read of. He--he was a man that felt unworthy. As long as you're feeling unworthy of the blessing you're asking, you're pretty apt to get it. But when you get to a place where you think that God just owes it to you, that's when you're--you're mistaken. We're in debt to God, not God in debt to us. We're indebted to God.
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And this Roman, Italian, whatever he was, he said, "Lord, I'm not worthy that You'd come under my roof, and neither thought I worthy to come face You." In other words, "I sent Your church to meet You and to ask this question. But I have faith. I know that You're a man under authority, for I'm under authority. And You don't have to come down to my house to put Your hands on my--my servant. You don't have to come here and say any prayer." Notice. Now, be sure to get this. He said, "I'm a man under authority also. And if I say to this man, 'You go do it,' he will do it. And if I say to this man, 'You come here,' he will come. I'm under authority. And them who are under me has to obey me." And he knew that that was the Son of God, and that every sickness and every demon was under Him. And all He had to do is just speak the Word, not pray, just speak the Word (That's all.), and it would be done, because every demon would have to obey Him. Do you believe that tonight? Every demon will obey God. It has to. Everything obeys God. And it'll obey you if you have faith.
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Joshua stopped the sun. Is that true? Somebody said, "All things are possible with God, nothing impossible." But all things are possible to you also. Nothing impossible to them that believe. All
things are possible. Brought right down and made you, if you just know Who God was. Well, I'm afraid that the Church doesn't know their authority. I'm afraid that Holy Ghost born men doesn't realize their authority where-or the authority that God has permitted to His Church. "I'll give unto thee the keys to the Kingdom. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, whatever you loose will be loosed. I give you power over serpents, and over all kinds of diseases, oh, everything, and nothing shall harm you." Exercise your faith. Let it loose. Let God have His way. God will grant it to you.
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Now, let's look Who God is, just a little bit. I'm feeling for something tonight. I've asked God something. And I--I believe He's going to grant it to me. I believe it with all my heart. Now, you be in prayer. I can't speak until He speaks. Let's just take back and find out just a minute Who God is. Let's look back at the beginning of time. This is a--a little picture I want to draw so you can get some conception of Who this Being is in our midst tonight, that's moving among us. If you could only realize Who that is, healing would be a secondarily or a minor thing to you. If you could just see Who He is.
Now, let's take back a--a hundred billion years ago, and then take back a hundred billion years before that. And just keep on going back. Here not long ago, I was in California. There's an observatory. They have a glass there. And they can see a hundred and twenty million years of light space when I...?... How fast light travels. And beyond that is still space. That's where we're hanging in that tonight. But let's think of before there ever was anything, there was God. He was in the beginning. And let's see Him, and picture Him out there in-in space. That's Jehovah we're speaking of. And watch how the trinity of God comes to man just for a moment.
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And there, that great space where no one can fathom in their mind beyond that, that space, eternity. That's Jehovah God out there. And we're taught in the beginning, that the Logos, or the Son of God went out of God. Now, I do not believe in eternal sonship. That's even radical to even mention such a thing, eternal sonship. How... He had a eternal sonship...?... way, it's even eternal sonship, how could He be a Son? He had to have a beginning. See?
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So He first was God, Jehovah. And out of Him... Let's just
picture now as a little drama so you can get it. Let's see coming out of space where there's nothing, let's make it a little white Light, like a mystic Light, like a Halo. And that was the Logos that went out of God in the beginning. That was the Son of God that came out of the bosom of the Father. That was what was in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. In the beginning was God. And then out of God came the Logos, a part of God that went out of God. Let's notice this. Now, I have to make this before going back into it, just like a little picture drama here for you a moment, in order to get one point to you, Who... What is in our midst tonight.
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And in there... Now, see, this is just like a child playing before the door. It was the Son of God, the Logos. And I can see Him out there, and He spake, and said, "Let there be light." And there was nothing. But there was something happened, and a atom turned there and begin to whirl around this a way. The sun begin to come into existence, because He said, "Let there be." There's the authority. Where did He make it from? I don't know. There was nothing to make it from. But He believed His own Word, and there was light. I can see a piece fly off of that; it's a meteor. After a few million years, or a hundred billions of years, if you want to call it, and it circled way out. I see Him standing there watching it. And it falls down in here. He stops it after it falls a few million years, and let it hang there in orbit. Here goes another one flying off the sun. It goes over here and hangs down, stops it there.
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What's He doing? Writing His first Bible. Notice, the human beings once looked towards the heavens. And He puts all the stars in the heavens, the zodiac, starting off with the Virgin, ending up with Leo the Lion. First coming of Christ, the second coming. Came by the Virgin, come again as the Lion of the tribe of Juda. There He puts the first Bible. Oh, back in those days of--ancient days, they looked at those things. Today, He's got His Bible wrote here. But He wrote It in the heavens, that man would look up and realize that Jehovah the Creator lived above. And then I can see Him, He looked at that... I can see Him speak to this world hanging there as an icicle, whatever it was, way away. And He moved it over here. I can see this little Light go out. Now, we got two now. The Father, and out of the Father came the Light, the Son. And I can see that Light moving over here and pulled the earth over near the sun to dry it off. And He begin to...?... raise the water up, separating the land, earth from the water, and so forth. Then He begin to create. And He made the fishes of the sea, the
vegetable life. Put the cattles on the hill. It all looked good to Him. Then He said, "Let us make man in Our own image, after Our likeness." Is that right? All right. So He made a man. God was Spirit; he had to be a spirit man made in His image. He put him here on the earth to lead the animal life and so forth, like the Holy Spirit should be leading the Church today. That was man.
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Then when He put him... There's no man to till the soil, and He put him in five senses. There's where scientists could...?... They're fearful, mixed up. He might've give him a hand like a monkey and a foot like a bear, put whatever He wanted to, but He put His Spirit in him, and made him a soul. There's the difference. We're not coming from any animal life. No, sir. We're not at any senses of animal life. God made us. That's right. Then however, notice. Then he was here on the earth, and He gave him a helpmate, and so forth. He had blessed fellowship with his Father, speaking.
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And then, we're going to make this second man... The first man, you can't see him. God... second man was a halo. And now He takes a third man and makes him like a little white cloud, coming over, we can see him; Holy Spirit coming down. And he's all man. That's the soul of man, eternal then. And after this man sinned, he marred that soul. Blackness, darkness come into it. And then God came down and lived in man, suffered with man, and redeemed man; and the Holy Spirit comes into man and drives that blackness and sin away for him, and brings it back into perfect fellowship, a part of God. And now, we, by the Blood of Christ, Who cleanses us from sin, we become sons and daughters of God. Who is God? The One that stood there and rolled stars off of His hands, and rolls worlds out of His hands, and made the things which do not appear: Deity. And Deity Himself lives in man. The Creator, that made heavens and earth, lives in mankind.
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Why, no wonder, cripples, when you realize that can straighten out; the Creator's here. No wonder blind and they can't see opens up, the Creator's here, the Creator. Realize Who we... The Bible said, "We are sons and daughters of God." His offspring. Now, then we're something like God was. Jesus said Hisself, "It is written, 'you're gods.' Written in your law." We become a part of God, a son of God by adoption through Jesus Christ. Therefore, if you realize that the very God that made the dirt and the earth, and whatever's here, is living among men, where is our faith at, friends?
And He said, "These things that I do," when He was on earth, "greater shall you do, for I go unto My Father. Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them; you shall have them. That's the Creator speaking. Is that right? Then it doesn't lay in Him; it lays in us. Then we, in fellowship, what Adam lost in the fall, Christ restored in His death. (Do you believe that?) to bring man back into fellowship with God. Now, the Church has moved up to that fellowship with God, communion, like Adam had in the beginning in the garden of Eden, taken all sin away, free from condemnation, Holy Spirit cleansing us from all sin. Now, you're free to exercise the next step in God. See?
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If you were dying, I've stood by their side. I've seen them that thought they were saved, and held them when they were dying. I've seen those who really knew they were saved, and went out screaming the victory. That's right. I've watched them in all the phases as it comes. Be sure that you're right with God before you leave here. Don't take what somebody else says; you be sure yourself that you're right about God. Now, Deity here with us, Deity in us. "Yet a little while and the world seeth Me no more." Is that Scripture? "Yet ye shall see Me, for I'll be with you, even in you, unto the end of the world." Then Christ is in His Church until there's no more world. Then if we can find where Christ is working in His Church, that's the Church I want to be in.
Now, the believer today. Most people, say he's a good man, he pays tithings to the church; he's a good member. That's very fine. That's a moral life. Now, no one could speak evil of that. But that's not what I'm talking about. Jesus judged a man a believer, a different type of a character. Jesus, the last Words that He said when He left the world, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." Is that right? "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned." Is that right? Now, every church will come that far, but what about the rest of it? He said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Do you believe it? "These signs shall follow them that believe: In My Name shall they cast out devils; speak with new tongues; take up serpents, or drink deadly things shall not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." And He was taken up from the midst of them, and the disciples returned with great joy, and preached the Word, everywhere, the Lord working with them, confirming the Word with signs and wonders. Is that right?
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Now, that was to be preached until Jesus returned. O God, give us men and women of courage. Somebody who will stand and call right right and wrong wrong. It's either right or wrong. If that isn't the... If that isn't... I read that Mark 16. If that isn't the truth, I don't believe the Bible. And if I don't believe the Bible... If I was--wasn't for Jesus, I'd be here against Him. God grant the day when men and women will be what they say they are. If you're Christian, live like it, be like it, act like it. If you're not, be against it, so people will know where you're standing. If I didn't believe it, I'd be against it. But I'm willing to put my soul on any phase of that Word, to say that It's the truth. I believe that's the inspired Word of God. And I believe that every Word of It is inspired. And I'm willing to trust my life any time on God's Word and His promises, for It is true.
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Now, just a little instance or two, then we'll start praying for the sick. Notice. Now, the only way that you'll ever get anywhere with God, is to believe that He's here, and He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. You've got to believe that. And God... If I should say to--to this man, young fellow, two of them setting here in wheelchairs. If I would say to them, "Rise up, you're healed. You can walk." And now, many of these people sitting along here in these wheelchairs, if I'd say to them, "Rise up and walk, for Christ has healed you." Now, if they'd say, "Now, look. I've been crippled a..." That would be all of it. That's all. You've got to have faith to believe that I have told you the truth. And I would not tell you, unless first I knowed it was the truth. And I'm sure, though me being a man, and subject to mistakes, that God is infallible, and can't make a mistake. See? And He said, "If you believe. According to your faith, be it unto you." Is that right? We believe it.
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Now, many times, I look on the sick. People criticizing and poke their finger at me, say, "Well, I brought somebody down there, and they wasn't nothing happened to them." That same old devil that said, "Come down off of the cross, we'll believe You." It still lives in man today...?... Friend, I couldn't say nothing, to be honest before God, until I knew about it. Would you expect me to stand up here upon the--the... Well, I call the "intoxication" of your rebuke, or something, and do something wrong to cause God's Church to have a reproach upon it? Never. I listen to one person, and that's God. Managers, or anything, I have, I think, the best managers in the world. They don't... They can set a
meeting anywhere they wish to, but I'm at liberty. Whatever the Spirit of God says do, do it. If He called me from this platform right now to go pray for somebody across the nation, I'd go right now. That's right. And no matter what happened here, I'd go right then. It's better to obey than to sacrifice. That's true.
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But if He tells me something... Sometimes I'll catch the person and look right at them. And many times, if you'll notice, I'm always turning. That's... I know that, the pull of the faith coming in to me. If I stop, It'll start calling people. See? And I try to keep from that just as much as I possibly can, looking right upon the audience, 'cause as soon as you contact a person, the visions start raising. Nine out of ten will start. And when they do, then that... But that doesn't heal the person. But if... If you can get the people to believe then, sometimes, speaking to them, telling them what's wrong, well then, it'll--it'll... they'll believe. That'll give them faith. But I couldn't tell you what's wrong with you until God first showed me. I'm...
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Jesus passed by the cripples and left them lay there. He said, "I can do nothing except the Father shows Me first." Is that right? Saint John 5:19. "Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself but what He sees the Father doing." See? It has to be showed first. Balaam, when he tried to curse Israel, he blessed Israel. And Balak asked him why. He said, "How can any prophet say anything 'less God put it in his mouth." See? You can't say it. There's no need. So, just keep praying, everybody in the attitude of prayer, and then believe. And if God tells me anything to say to you, I'll say it. And when I say it, believe it.
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Here not long ago, a lady come in the prayer line. She's having a fast line. She's walking across...?... I believe it Tulsa, Oklahoma. And she was walking through the line on her crutches. And I said, "Sister, will you believe me as God's servant?" She said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Go up to the place and throw your crutches down, and go on down walking." And she said, "But, sir, I--I've been on these crutches here for two years." I said, "You'll probably always be on them." And she went on. It was over.
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About a twenty minutes later, a lady come through that two
ushers had to help her. And I felt the Spirit drawing to her. She looked up, and she was crying. I said, "Mother, do you believe?" She said, "I believe with all my heart, that whatever you'd ask God, God would do it." I said, "Walk up there (as I told the lady awhile ago), and throw those crutches away and go on." Just stood and watched her. She walked up there. They had to help her, poor old thing, so feeble. She held one like that. Took her crutches, and throwed them down. And down through that building she went, around and around just a screaming. Now, what if she wouldn't have done that. See, see? I have to know first. And you obey and do what you're told to do.
When you get out of here and some critical doctor... All doctors won't be that narrow minded. But if some critical doctor tells you you're not healed, and so forth, and don't believe in that. You just go right on, and do what God told you to do. Don't you listen to none of it. Go to another doctor if you want to see a doctor, that'll serve God--serve God. Now, you... Now, remember. I am not against doctors, or medical treatments, hospitals, or any of them. Anything that can help anybody, relieve poor suffering humanity, God bless every effort that's put forth. I pray that God will send some kind of a--a serum somewhere to those scientists, that'll kill every cancer there is in the world. I hope that He will send something that'll kill TB, or anything can be done. I trust that He will do it. I pray that He will do it.
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But now, brother, there's no healing can take place unless God calls for it Himself. "I'm the Lord that healeth all of thy diseases." It can only be through God. The best of doctors take their own medicine and die. That's true. They'll go along here... Here not long ago, I seen where a Christian Science woman was trusting God for her child in California. It died. And from Maine to California, the papers throwed it out: "Divine Healing. All Fanaticism. Baby dies without medical treatment." And the same time that was passing over the nation, the doctors lost at least ten thousand cases. But they wouldn't want to brand medical science fanaticism.
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If I could go here at the graveyard here tonight, and say, "All you died under medical treatments, stand up. And all you died under trusting the Lord, and stand up." Weigh it in the balance. Sauce for the goose is for the gander. And if you have to measure all Divine healing because one case was lost; then if one case is lost under medical treatment, it's fanaticism. Come, let us reason together. That
is right. If one case was lost by Divine healing, 'cause someone had not enough faith to walk up to receive it, and it all had to be branded fanaticism, then one medical treatment that was lost, one patient, when there's hundreds dying in your city and around about, daily under medical treatment... That's right.
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Now, the thing that men ought to do, if you got any heart, if they're not wild about money, and afraid they're going to lose a few pennies, if you'll just come together and say, "Brother, ministers, and all together, let's work together with this thing, and try to help our fellow man," it'll be better off, the world will be. God would bless us then. That's true. I do not say anything against medical science, or against anything. I'm not here to make judgment. I'm here to preach the Gospel, and pray for the sick. And I can heal no one. No doctor can heal anyone. They never did claim to be healers. Mayo's is the best authorities, I guess, they have. They said, "We do not claim to be healers. We claim to assist nature. There's One Healer; that's God." That's right. That's the best authority. So if a doctor tells you he's a healer, he's a quack. That's all. That's true. As a minister, I've seen just as many quack ministers as I have doctors too. Anything that don't believe in God's Word, to me, is a quack. That's right. You're willing to stand out and take the Word the way it is, and say it's right or wrong. True. Now, believe God. Have faith in God.
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And when the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is here to inspire you, remember, God will make your body come into your confession. If you say you're a drunkard, and want a drink. Don't worry, you'll soon be one. If you say you're a sinner, and want to sin, you'll be right into it. If you say you're a Christian and believe it all along, God will bring... Your testimony will bring you right into it. If you believe in healing, and believe that God has healed you, confess it, and God will make your body obey your confession, for He's the High Priest of your confession; setting at the right-hand of the Father now with His own Blood to make intercessions for any confession upon anything that He died for. And He died to rid sin. And sickness is the result of sin. "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we are healed." Remember that. Have faith. Don't waiver. Stand on it.
Just thinking of a case one time, one of the worst I ever seen. Just before the prayer line. You'd like to... How many would like to
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use these things now, so you can send and get some of these testimonies. I shall tell you night after night. All right. If you want this testimony, write to... Let's see. Write to Reverend G. H. Brown, 505 Victor Street, Little Rock, Arkansas, for this. And as I was telling, they made fun of that handkerchief, about it being done. I couldn't expect unbelievers to believe that. It's for those who believe.
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Now, it was in this same meeting, and the same night. The little lady was there with her handkerchief that was not stained with the blood. And there her arm was laying wide open, and standing there before thousands of people as a witness. And the blood was stopped, and they couldn't understand why it was stopped. Because God stopped it. How do you ever get here on earth anyhow. How's the germ of life ever formed. Notice. It's by the Creator, God.
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Now, closely for a moment. About eleven o'clock. Brother Brown said to me in the auditorium. He said, "Brother Branham, when can you get to the psychopathics cases that they're..." They usually keep them to themself, because they disturb. And sometimes, when those spirits come out of the people, it's horrible the way they act. He said, "I got the awfullest scare I ever seen in my life before they brought you." We's having a glorious meeting. Said, "We've put him down on the basement, down in there." And I just come down the street, and was amazed. You know that little song, "Only Believe?" I was coming down that morning in the elevator, and I heard someone singing, "Only Believe, all things are possible, only believe." And it was the elevator boy, standing there switching his gear around...?... And I went on down, and started down along the street like that, way down through the back part of the city. And I heard a mother rocking a little baby in an old cane bottom chair--hickory bottom. How many knows an old hickory bottom chair, when we used to lace them with hickory. And raised and rocked on one myself.
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There was that little old mother had her baby up, and she would just lay back...?... "Only Believe, only believe, All things are possible." And I said, "O God, how I thank You. That lady visit the meeting. Went on down. And one of the cutest little things though, was a little boy. He was playing some marble there, and I was walking by and watching him. And little fellow had one of his trouser legs down and one up. And he started to shoot his marble like that, and he got down
to me, raised up, brushed his leg off, said, "Only Believe, only believe, All things are..." Singing "Only Believe" 'fore he was going to shoot his marble...?...
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That night in the service, Brother Brown said, "Come down here, Brother Branham, and I'll show you a sight that you've never seen." And I went down the steps, and there stood a very typical old Arkansas brother, standing there with a pair of washed out overalls on, standing on--on the steps as you went down to the auditorium. And I said, "Howdy do, sir." And he said, "Howdy do, Brother Branham." And I went on down. And I said, "Where's the case?" Said, "There she is." And laying over there was a lady. A strong looking, great strong arms and limbs. And the blood was just trenching down the leg like that. Was laying on her back, her feet sticking right up and her hands, right up like that, laying on her back, laying over in a corner. And I said, "Why's she bleeding?" Said, "Brother Branham." Said, "She lost her mind from a shot that the doctor give her in the menopause."...?... but the... In the menopause, and gave her a shot, and it went to her mind. And she lost her mind. And said, "She's been in the institution two years." And said, "I've got five little children at home." Said, "I've sold my farm and everything I have." Said, "to try to treat her." And said, "They finally had to take her away." He said, "And I've... Say, I've heard that there's been a lady before from over at Pineville, over there at the Mississippi, at the institution... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... institution had been insane ten years, and received her mind when I passed by." And she grabbed a hold of my pants legs, trouser legs. And her daughter said, "God have mercy." Said, "Brother Branham, ask God." I said, "You believe He will do it?" Said, "Yes." And then I asked God to bless her, and there bumping her head on the floor like that. And her a young lady...
And I about oh, two weeks after that, I was in San Antonio. I heard someone arguing outside the little place where I was at, a little tourist camp. Said, "I want see Brother Branham." And Brother Kidson said, "I just can't permit that." Said, "He's in there praying." He said, "Well, I just want to shake his hand." And I looked out the window. I seen he was a soldier boy. I opened
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the door and I said, "You want to see me, sir?" And he said, "Are you Brother Branham?" He said, "Is it... Oh, Brother Branham." He come threw his arms around me. Kissed me on the side of the neck. And I said, "What's the matter, soldier boy?" He said, "Brother Branham, you remember the other night over in San Antonio where a lady was bumping her head against the side?" I said, "Oh, are you related?" "Yeah." Said, "That was my mother." Said, "I went overseas; she didn't even know I was in the war." And said, "She was in there for ten years." And said, "Brother Branham, they dismissed her from the institution, sent her home." Said, "She's preparing dinner when I left." He said, "I just wanted to hug you, and say that I'm so happy that mother is home in her right mind." And I said, "Well, now, brother, are you a Christian?" He said, "Yes, brother, He brought me through the battles and everything. I trusted Him." Well, I said, "Well, God bless you. Just go give praise to God."
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And they had heard of this, and he told me the man on the steps that night said he heard about it. And I said, "Well--well, and your wife?" And he said, "Yeah." I said, "Well, I shall go out." At that time, there was no discerning. It hadn't come to me yet of knowing what was... I had to take hold of people's hands to contact their body. That never come till just right, just about a year ago this time, I guess, in Vancou--or, Regina, I believe it was, in Canada. Then He promised it would come, but it hadn't come yet. Now, as quick as I get through, we'll start the prayer line.
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Notice. And I said, "I'll go out and take a hold of her hand and see if..." He said, "Brother Branham, don't you go." Said, "She'll kill you." He said, "I couldn't even get an ambulance to bring her here." Said, "I hired a brother, five of them. And they got her in a car." And said, "She kicked all the glasses out of the car, and them five men gotten a hold of her. That's why she's bleeding like that." Said, "She can't get off her back, though she's been there for two years on her back." I said, "Well, I'll go over and see..." He said, "Don't do that." I said, "Oh, she won't..." And I walked over. Young in the way, not knowing exactly how to deal with demons. And you never know until you're inspired (See?)...?... Better be careful what you're doing then. Remember when some boys who didn't have the authority tried to do something like that? He come on them.
And I walked over to where she was. She just laid there. And she had her hands up, batting her eyes, looking right back like that. And I said, "Howdy do, sister." She never made a move. And I caught her by the hand, "Let me have your hand." I took her by the hand like that. And there was a great thing that God was with me, and merciful to my ignorance. With that strong arm, ten times her normal power. If anybody ever dealt with insanity, that's the devil that's on those people, demons. Well, if the power of the devil could make a man ten times his strength, what would the power of God on you do, if you're crippled or whatever it is. How much stronger God is than the devil, when it's on you. See?
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Then, she jerked me with that big arm. And I was way smaller then than I am now, weighed about a hundred and thirty pounds. And she pulled me so hard till she pulled me off the floor. And she would've threw me right against the wall with that arm, like that. And just by the grace of God, my foot here, hit right across her bosoms. And it jerked out of her hands. And now, listen. I turned and started to run, and jumped on the steps. And here come that woman across the floor on her back, doing just like this here, just like a serpent, moving, chasing me across the floor: demons, the devil. I believe in a personal devil. Yes, sir. That's what was on that woman. She was crawling like a serpent, moving her body, chasing me.
And I got up on the steps. I... Why, I been in the institutions, seen... I seen all kinds of sights. I've seen young ladies strip their clothes, and--and take the--the part of the bed pan and wash her face with it, and everything else in institutions. But never did I ever see anything like that. And here she was chasing me, and a hissing and a blowing like a serpent. He said, "I told you." I said, "Brother, I never seen anything like that." I said, "My, that's truly the devil in her." He said, "And Brother Branham, she's a good woman." He said, "Now, you say there's no vibrations, and what can I do?" Said, "I've sold my mule, the last thing I had to get the brothers, to hire them to bring her this two hundred and something miles down here." And just broke down to crying, throwed his head against the wall like that.
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I said, "Just a minute, brother." I said, "Those vibrations don't
mean nothing. That just tells of the disease. See? Do you believe if I'll ask God?" He said, "I believe with all my heart." And I turned around, and she was putting her big strong feet against the side of the wall, and kick like that. And there was a bench setting there where that somebody had been setting on. And she hit that with her head, and just a big piece of hair flew out of her head, and the blood came out, and broke off a piece. And she grabbed that, and threw it like that, and knocked the plastering from the wall, broke through...?... And she's going, "Hee-hee-hee, hee-hee-hee." a real funny laugh like that. Just carrying on. And I said, "Well, I never seen anything like that." And she turned herself around to look at me; she said, "William Branham, you have nothing to do with me. I brought her here." Well, the man looked at me, he said, "Why, that's the first words she's spoke in two years." Said, "She don't even know her own name. How'd she know you?" I said, "Brother, listen. That's not her. That's that devil recognizing the gift of God. That's what it is." I said, "He knows that. And he knows his time's come." She said, "I brought her here. You have nothing to do with me." I said, "Do you believe, sir?" He said, "With all my heart." I said, "Satan, I..." And she's about as far from me as that center post. I said, "Satan, this man has done all that he can do, and doctors and everything has done all they can do. And you're determined to hold the woman. But I adjure thee by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that you come out of the woman and leave her." She just laid there and blowed two or three times.
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I looked around at him, and I said, "Do you believe?" He said, "Brother Branham, I haven't got nothing else to do but believe." Said, "What shall I do with her?" I said, "Take her on back to the institution. Let them face the...?..." If you don't doubt. Now, you seen something that that woman there...
"...?... you can realize now that she called my name, and she don't know me." He said... I said, "And Satan knew that gift." And he said, "I'll do just what you tell me to do." I said, "Go, thanking God for her healing. Take her on back to the institution. She'll be coming home one of these days." He said, "All right."
About three weeks from...?... Jones, stopping in for a two day's service. And I looked setting out there, and I seen a man and his wife, and five little children, one little baby about three years old.
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I seen the woman kept waving at me. I wondered why she was waving. And she said... She was waving. Her husband kept way. I thought, "Well, who is that?" Her husband said, "Don't you know me, Brother Branham?" I said, "No, I don't." Said, "You remember the woman over there, that was in the insane institution?" I said, "Yes sir." "This is her." And I said, "Yes?" He said, "I taken her on back the next morning." And said, "And we had no trouble with her at all. We put her in the i--institution as you said do. And the following morning, she was setting up in her cell when the nurse went in. She ate her breakfast, and the third day she was dismissed from the institution, came home in her right mind, a normal woman." Brother, hallelujah. I say this: That Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And every demon knows the authority of God. And it don't really have to be anything else but to believe on the Jesus Christ with all your heart, and be healed. That's right. Do you believe this?
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Oh, men, women, brothers and sisters, why, why can't we now, with one accord, say, "Jesus, I believe You, and I'm accepting it." Oh, how glorious it would be. How wonderful. Listen, the apostolic way of holding a healing meeting is to be preaching, seeing what God is doing, and then speaking it out where you find faith, men and women to believe, to have faith in God to believe on God, and God will grant it to them. Do you believe it? Be in prayer. Let's ask God to help us, just a minute. O Jesus, surely, Lord, truth will take hold. Surely, truth will be. O God, You know all these people in here. You know their conditions. You know all about them. You know their faith. And Father, I pray that--that You'll give them faith. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word. Grant it tonight. Bless this audience with a great outpouring of Thy blessings. May men and women realize that it's Thee; that what the Word is being taught, believe on the Lord.
We're thinking of the Centurion now when he said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof, just speak the Word. For I'm under authority, and You have an authority. And whatever You say, it's going to be just that way." Lord, give men and women tonight, to know that You are still in authority. You have authority over cripples, over blindness, over cancer, over all diseases, over sin. You duly deserve it.
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You died for that purpose. You took our place at the cross. You bore in Your body the infirmities. And now, Lord, to free us... And You sent the Holy Spirit, and He testifies of it. You sent the Word; It testifies of it. You sent ministers; they testify of it. You sent Your gift, and it testifies of it. O God, grant that a great arm of faith will move through the building and heal those that are in need, for we ask it in His Name, and for His glory. Amen.
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Oh, my. I love Him with all my heart. And I want everybody to know that, that I love the Lord Jesus with all my soul, heart, and mind. Someone said not long ago, give me a threat in a certain city, said, "If you don't quit preaching Divine healing, we'll throw a bomb on the platform." I said, "The smoke won't dry till I'll be in glory." I said, "That's all right." Why do we fear? My, if God be for you, who can be against you? You know, it's written in the Bible it's better that a millstone was hanged at your neck and drowned in the depths of the sea, than to offend these that believe in Me? "These signs shall follow them that believe in Me. Touch not My anointed. Do My prophets no harm." If you fight, God can't fight. Stand still; let God fight, He will bring it to pass. Amen. He will put every critic, everything to shame. Do you believe Him, brethren? Let's settle down to faith.
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I feel strangely somehow tonight. I've asked God, tonight... I will tell you what I did. I asked Him, when I come over here to let this be the night, that when sickness leaves the people everywhere. It kinda broke in a little last night. And there was those who were in need, raised and went out of this building whole. It can be tonight a hundred percent. See? Dealing with one at a time, I--I with those prayer cards, I--I just have to take one at a time. And here It comes through the different diseases. That only tells what's wrong with the person. But it's the faith in God that heals us. Believe the authority. Believe God. Look and live. Oh, the brass serpent couldn't pray for nobody, could it? The brass serpent didn't... What did they do? The brass serpent, you believe that was God's gift to Israel? They looked and lived. The Angel on the pool of water at Bethesda didn't pray for nobody. They stepped in the water and was healed. Is that right? God is the only way that you can be healed. Now, look this a way to me. God has blessed to tell you the Word. I believe God...
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How many prayer... (Prayer cards?) All right. I guess there's
plenty of them. All the prayer cards are out. Maybe come...?... Oh, my. Look on your prayer card, what you've got wrote on the thing. You got diseases and things. That's all you can be told up here. Well, why don't you accept it without that? That's the idea. Be faithful. Believe. My, as I look over this audience of... Something's taking place with me right now. I don't know what... I can't call that prayer line, somehow. I believe God is wanting something else for this time. I believe He will answer my prayer. There's something... Now, friends, I'm not stalling. God knows my heart. I'm standing here, because I believe the Holy Spirit's wanting to do something for the people. Oh, my, how glorious. Every one, just be in prayer.
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Just a minute. I want to go down here and look the... into the audience. Just look around. Everybody look this way and have faith and believe, just make a circle and come through the building. Have faith down here. God bless you, brother. Believe right over top of your back there, step aside. I believe I see a lady there looking to me, trying to believe. Young lady setting there I believe. Do you believe me, sister, with all your heart? Do you believe God sent me here for your healing? You're a stranger to me...?... I don't know you. God knows I know nothing of you. Now, I know nothing of you now. But I want you to look this a way. I want you to believe. One thing, I know this: that you haven't lived the life that you want to live, have you? You haven't been the Christian that you wanted to be and desire to be. That is true. You haven't lived the victorious life, 'cause it's gathering dark around you. But I see also... Here, here is what's wrong with you. If I can tell you what's wrong with you, will you believe me? All right. You're suffering with a--a kidney... No, it isn't, it's a bladder trouble. Is that right? Inflammation in your bladder. If that's right, hold up your hand? I want you to go home. You believe my word will be authority to you, out of the Word of God? Go home and serve God with all your heart, you shall be over that. Amen. You accept it? Say "Amen." Amen. You do.
There sets a gentleman setting in front of you there, holding a prayer card in his hands. Something...?... setting out there...?... All right. Looky here, this way, sir. I see you setting there. You're suffering with arthritis, aren't you: arthritis. Say, you're the father of this girl, too, aren't you? Isn't that right? Stand on your feet. Jesus Christ healed you of that arthritis. You don't need it any more. Go on out of the building with her and glorify God. You're healed now. You don't need your prayer card. Throw it down on the floor and go on. You don't need the thing.
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Here's what God wants to do with the people. Go right on out rejoicing.
What about you, sister, setting there in the wheelchair? Or, you're not in... No, yes, it's for your child. Look this a way. Child's afflicted, spastic, like a child. I see you had something on your mind, and say... Oh, I see. You've been in my services before. Isn't that right? Isn't that true? You're sure... No, it's another service. You was in another service besides this. Say, you had a little girl that's been healed. Is that right? Cross-eyed, real hideous. It's healed. Is that right? If it is, raise your hand and say it's... That's the truth, sister. God bless you. Jesus Christ, the Son of God can't fail. What do you think about it, sister? Suffering here with arthritis? Get up on your feet. Jesus heals you now of your arthritis. Hallelujah. Have faith in God. Look sister. You here with the red hat on. Look this a way. Do you believe with all your heart? If you'll look this a way just a moment, if you can, just... You're suffering with cancer. Is that right? And you've been operated on for that cancer. Is that right? It failed. Jesus Christ has healed you of the cancer now. That's right. Have faith. Believe.
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What about you, lady, setting next to her. You want to be healed? Look on me and believe. You believe God sent me as His prophet? I see that you're suffering... Say, you belong to a different church too, don't you, from this... Let me say this: you're a--a Quaker, I believe, by faith. Isn't that right? If it is, raise your hand and say that's right. That's right...?... see the sign of a place you're worshipping. You're bothered with epilepsy. Is that right? Epilepsy? Have faith in God. He will make you well, and maybe He'll heal you completely whole. Do you believe it with all your heart? Go worship Him and believe Him. The little lady setting there. That female trouble you had, sister, is done left you about ten minutes ago when you was setting there. Raise up. Now, you, putting your arm around her. Uh-huh. You was real nervous too, wasn't you. You got healed also. And the lady with her eye trouble setting right there next, too was healed a few minutes ago also. You're healed, sister. God bless you.
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Now, let's... Why are you pointing your finger... The little girl pointing to me? Look on me. You believe that Jesus Christ sent me here? Will you accept my word as a prophet, the little girl was born deaf and dumb. Is that right? Jesus Christ makes her whole...?... that's right. Hallelujah! Jesus Christ, the same God. This lady setting here, clapping her hands, looking this way, setting
blind beside that little boy there. Have faith, sister. Jesus Christ will heal you and make you whole. You believe that? You believe it with all your heart? Have faith. Sis, touch her on the arm there. You believe it with all your heart? Rise up and come over this a way then. Have faith. God bless you. Don't doubt. You got your sight now. If you'll just come on move this a way. Come on this a way and move on. God will get--making you have your... Hallelujah. God bless you. God bless you, sister. He's healed you. Look this a way, every one. Have faith; don't... Keep your eyes this a way, everywhere.
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Lady, you setting bound in that wheelchair there, in that chair. Do you believe, setting there with the green looking dress on? Stand up on your feet. Jesus Christ healed you. That's right. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Come forward. Who wants to be healed by the Spirit of the Lord? Somebody help the lady get on her feet. Here she comes, been bound, walking. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Coming out of her chair... Come forward. Accept Jesus as your Healer now. Come believing. Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this people. Believe Him, friends. I now through His faith and in the Name of Jesus Christ... Every person in here that's a believer have faith... God healed you then, sister. Have faith, believe. You with that... Raise up your hands, accept Him at this minute. Say, "Lord..." You don't need them prayer cards. Everybody believe. Throw your prayer cards in the air. Say, "I believe Christ." Get rid of your prayer cards. That's the way to do it. Hallelujah!
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Good evening audience. Very happy to be here again tonight to speak to you concerning our Lord Jesus, and His grace to save and to heal the needy. I'm sure you do not need any more to be said but what has already been said of God--His greatness. I was just a few moments there to enjoy the talk that Brother Baxter was just giving.
And I wish to read just a little of the Word first, found in II Kings, the 6th chapter begin... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... the 13th verse... I may begin at the 12th verse, it's--it's concerning a--a great
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mighty man of God that was in--in one day, the days gone by, Elisha. And listen closely now. And one of his servants said... my lo--my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speaketh in thy bedchambers. The king of Israel, they had war. And the--the other king, he wondered how that they were getting ahold of all of this. And one of his servant stepped up; he said, "Well, there must be some kind of a spy among us." And the other servant said, "No, but Elisha knows more in his bedchamber from God. He's the one who knows these things and is telling the king of Israel." We need some more Elishas today. Then he said, Go and find where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. Therefore sent he thither horsemen, chariots... great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about. And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both of horsemen and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? And he answered, Fear not:... (Oh, I love that. No matter how dark it looks, don't be weary, fear not.)... for there--they that be with us are more then they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountains were full of horses and chariots of fire around about Elisha.
May God bless His Word. Now, we're thinking of a day that has gone, where God moved in a manner to reveal Himself to men, to make His ways known unto men through His servants, His prophets. And this is the time that when there were war--the state of war existing between two nations. And the other nation could not understand why that the Israelites knew all their plans and were ready to upset it any time. So they called in their men and found out-to find out if there wasn't a spy among them who was telling their secrets and their tasks. And one of them said, "It isn't a spy among us; it's Elisha--Elijah over in Israel. He can set in his bedroom and know all the future plans; we know. And he tells the King of Israel about this."
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You know, the best armor that America has in this present crisis is God fearing, praying people. That's the best. It's worth more then all the bombs and tanks that we could produce. God will always fight for His people. Let us...
If this whole nation with one accord would throw themselves to God in sackcloth and ashes of repentance, and come back to the old fashion pathways that our forefathers trod, there couldn't be a bit of harm come to us. I believe it'd be worth more then all the ammunition plants and things that we could make (That's right.), and all the bombs that we could have. There's nothing as great as prayer. God holds all the future in His hands. Someone asked me not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, what do you think about the future?" I said, "I do not know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future." So that's the thing, if I can keep acquainted with Him.
Then when he found out that this prophet was in Israel, he said, "Go, fetch him. Bring him to me." And they went down, and someone told them that Elisha was at Dothan. And when they got down there to Dothan, they went in by nighttime and encamped around about in darkness. You see how the enemy always works underhanded in dark? And encamped around about the city to catch Elisha. And so when the young man, his servant, raised up early in the morning and went out... In other words, he was a fellow that taken him in and out and around, was his servant like. When he went out, he come back, and he said, "Alas, my master, for the whole city is encamped about with horses and chariots of the enemy." He said, "Why, there's more with us than there is with them." Well, he could see no one but Elisha. And Elisha prayed, said, "Lord, open the young man's eyes that he may see." And the Lord moved the veil from before the young man. And he looked, and the whole hills and mountains were full of chariots of fire, standing around that old prophet. Well, he wasn't afraid then.
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Oh, what I would think tonight, "Lord, let us look a past the curtain of time, just look over just a little peek, see what it's all about." We're fighting here tonight a great warfare: right against wrong: Word of God against modern theology, and trying to make the--the Word of God, bring It to the people while the enemy would try to beset It in every way. But One is the majority in God. Now, notice, the point I want you to see is that Elijah, the man who was of God, called "the man of God," he did not look to the natural thing. He looked to the supernatural thing. He didn't look at what he seen; he looked at what he did not see. And tonight, dear Christian friends, we look at the unseen. That just come on my mind while Brother Baxter was giving that wonderful exhortation concerning the supernatural. The supernatural is what you do not see, but what you believe and act on as though it was. See?
Everything in the Christian armor is supernatural. We do not look at what we see; we look at what we do not see. You cannot be healed, only through looking at what you do not see.
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Someone wrote me a letter today, a woman that was healed with cancer. She said, "For the first two or three days, I was gloriously, I felt wonderful. Then on the third day," said, "I had an awful upset. Have I lost my healing?" Now, that should be explained in every m--every case each night. No, that's the--the most perfect sign of your healing. After seventy-two hours, the corruption's setting in the growth. It's dead. It'll... It may be... God sometimes will--can perform a miracle, and it won't even be any growth.
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Now, I--I can tell you this. God, Who is my Judge, Who I stand before, I... By newspaper clippings, front page headlines carrying this, it could be showed here at the platform. I seen the time when people come to the platform with hanging cancers, hanging on their bodies; and while prayer was being made, their cancer turning white, dropping off, and rolling down across the floor while I was praying for them. God, Who is in heaven, that looks down, knows that's true. When newspaper reporter standing there and shoot the picture of it, and declared in the newspapers on the front page. That's Christian newspaper (See?), where they got Christian editors, men who believe God, and got a feeling for sick people for the lost. Now, none of these things move us. God can reveal in my hotel room what you would never know. So that's all right. All those things there, just He lays, just... Always let the Lord have His way.
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Now, I remember of one case... If someone would want a copy of the paper, it may still be obtained of the "Arkansas Gazette," called the "Sun." It's on the Associated Press, a big paper, circulates many many thousands of subscribers. Well, there stood on the platform... her picture. If you wish to, you might write to her and get a copy, if you want to. And perhaps there might be a reporter standing around (which I know there is), so you can write yourself; be satisfied. All right. Notice, on the front page, you'll see a great big page, all the way across the front of the page, picture, a woman pronounced dead, laying in the line, bringing from the hospital with cancer of the heart, colon, and liver; and told the nurse and them that was bringing her, pushing her through the streets from Phoenix, Arizona; that the doctors told her husband who... Her name is Mrs. Hattie Waldorff, lives on...?... street in Phoenix, Arizona. Her husband owns a big plumbing establishment there. Doctor Bosworth is to be in the meeting I understand today and
next... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And it's just been a night. He and I had dinner with her not long ago.
And there, she had cancer of the heart, colon, and the liver. And she was given just a matter of few hours to live. When she come in the prayer line, she was two city blocks away, and she--her life was leaving her. And she said, "Take me on. If I die, it's my request to come before the brother." And they told me after she was at the door; they had the thing over her face, and said there's a corpse in the room. Well, they come by, her husband weeping. And I seen the woman, and I took ahold of her hand, and felt of her. She... Seemingly, she was cold. I do not know what her state was. And I begin to pray for her, and asked God to give her her life, because her faith was great. And here in a few moment's time she raised up on the cot, went home.
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That's about three years ago. And her doctor has the X-rays. He came to the meeting. He said, "Only one thing I want to do, is walk up and shake hands with Brother Branham, and make this statement." And there, a Christian man that had been waiting on her (You could get his testimony now.), said, "There isn't a trace of cancer about her nowhere at all." That'll be in one corner. And she come across there to this meeting to shake hands. And in the next corner you'll see a place in there where there was a man, a GI, ex GI swollen so bad when they brought him by plane, his legs were... His toes were that big around: cancer. And was setting there and while praying for him... This is in the paper. While praying for him, the reporter said, "I seen with my own eyes the swelling drop from his limbs." And he hadn't been able to eat for weeks on account of his growth. And he eat a half a fried chicken and topped off with a pint of ice cream. And he went back home: Everett Sumpter. Brother Lindsay may have a copy of it here with him. He's got it. I don't know whether it's with him or not.
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And in the next corner, you'll see across there of a minister who had a cancer (This is the reporter speaking himself.) hanging on his neck, caused from a shaving cut about two years before, and it went into a cancer. And he said, "The cancer, when the man came to the platform, I looked at it. It was raw and bloody looking. And in a few moments after the Reverend Mister Branham prayed for the man, the cancer dropped out and rolled over his foot, and we picked it up, and here it is. And there's a deep cavity in his neck where it fell out." There was the man's picture sticking up there with a cavity in his
neck where the cancer fell out. Jonesboro, Arkansas, the "Arkansas Sun" paper, write for it. If you want it, get it, your statement.
On down through there, about twenty-six thousand people had gathered in from... all the way from Canada to Mexico. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Storming and raining... people who were simple and loved God. See? Faith... Now, we look at the unseen and believe that those things which are unseen, but spoke of by God, become realities. That's it. Many times it works. In healing, there... Last evening, I was trying here at the platform (till I became in a subconscious condition) of speaking to the people, one by one.
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I've always wanted a time when I could get away from prayer cards, not have any prayer cards, so that the people, with one accord, would believe without anything else. He told me that I was to... "These signs are only done to get the people to believe." He said, "You were born in the world to take this gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Then He said... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "... People to believe." Said, "If you'll be sincere when you pray, and get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before the prayer, not even to cancer." Now, that is true. I want to get to a place where there'll be no rally for prayer cards, but where everybody with one accord will believe and be healed and walk away. One day in a city, go in another, one day in a city, go to another; and thousands everywhere being healed, and the glory of the Lord falling, that's what I want.
Moses, upon his signs... He went and performed them one time before Israel, and they went a forty year journey following him. Is that right? Yes, sir. Performed it one time... Healed his hand of leprosy, made stick--cane he had, walking stick become a serpent, and back to a stick. They believed. And when there was a lot of magic, impersonations done in that day... Jambres and Jannes withstood Moses. But God seen that His power always predominated and went over it. You see? Always. They have a lot of true and false in this day. That's true. And the false will always want to say theirs is true. But by these signs God pronounced it so. And we don't have to take no one's word but God's Word. His Word is infallible. The visions are marvelous. That's the initial way.
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Just for a little story of a healing that comes on my mind. I'll quickly have the prayer line in a minute. I was going down--night
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down at my mother's house. I was praying. Looked like I'd got into a vision, something. I wondered what was taking place. I looked... We are raised very poor people. Mama, when she washes her clothes, she'd just lay them on a chair. Didn't have too much room to put them away, and just on a chair. In my room, I was--thought it was a chair of clothes, about one o'clock in the morning. And usually the visions come between one and three. Then I was looking at that; I thought, "That's mama's clothes." I thought, "Surely, somebody's in need, or I wouldn't feel that way." I don't get much sleep. I'm so tired right now I can hardly stand here. That's right. Up at night...
You people that are praying, remember, that affects me. See? When--when you're praying and asking for those things, it comes right back to me, and--and will keep me up many hours a night. And I thought maybe that's what it was. And I begin to wonder. After a while, it begin coming closer to me. I noticed it was a white milling, like a cloud. And I went into the cloud. And when I did, I could hear a voice, like a little lamb crying, "Baa, baa." And I was way in darkness. And I was wandering through it. And I thought, "Now, just a moment. Let me see now. It's so plain." I said, "I'm not a dreaming now. I remember I was at my bed a praying. This is a vision." And I said--I said, "Oh, where is it at, Lord?" It's down through the darkness, and I was trying to get to it, pulling briar vines and things. I listened again. And I'd get a hold of briars, and they were sticking in my hand. And said, "Baa," just crying. I thought, "Poor little thing, lost in the darkness." And I was pulling through, like that. And I thought, "Lord, I don't know what this vision means, but I'll try to get to the lamb." And as I got closer to it, it was a human's voice. It was crying, "Milltown, Milltown," real weak and crying. I thought, "Oh, my. Where? Where? Milltown?" Said, "I never heard of it. Well, I'll try to go." And I kept pulling on.
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After while, I begin to hear somebody hollering, "Brother Branham? Oh, Brother Branham." And I--I woke up out of this vision, looked around. I thought, "Where am I at?" I was standing in a room, my hands up, and I heard somebody at the door, and it was calling me. Then when morning came, and I went to my church that evening, and I said, "I had a vision, and I heard the name of Milltown. Does anyone know where it's at?" No one knew. Following Sunday, I said, "There's someone in trouble at a little place called Milltown. I'll probably get a--a letter somewhere that'll call me to a city, Milltown. There's somebody in trouble. I don't know what it'll be. I'll just have to go there." I said, "It may be out in some other part of the nation."
And while I was speaking, there was a man setting there, said, "Brother Branham, I know where Milltown is." Said, "It's about... Just a little bitty place way out in the southern, thirty, forty miles below Jeffersonville or New Albany, down towards southern part of Indiana." Said, "I live near there." I said, "What... How's it spelled?" He said, "M-i double l-t-o-w-n, Milltown." I said, "That's it." And when he said that, I felt the Spirit of the Lord witness that was the place. So I said, "I will find it. You tell me how to go." And he told me the highways.
And I went to his house, and he led me some many miles across the country to a little village. Now, there, that was Milltown. It was on a Saturday. But what... All the people in the city moving around, doing their shopping, a little city of about a thousand population, or hardly so many. And I--I said, "Well, maybe the Lord wants me to preach right here on the street corner." And I went in and give a man a dime for an old soap box that I could stand on. I went out; I didn't know what to do but just go to Milltown. That was all I knew. And I said, "There's somebody in trouble here." And I said, "It might be a drunk person or something." And I started to get up on the soap box and look around. I couldn't do it. It just something said, "Don't do this." Well, I set the soap box up; and a bunch of people wanted to ask me, said, "What is it was you going to do with that?" And I said, "I'm a minister." I said, "But I--I feel that the Lord wants something else for me to do."
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Mr. Wright came out of the store, the man that's with me, said, "I've got to go up on the hill here to take a man some eggs. You want to go up with me." And I said, "Yes, sir." We went around the hill and came up. We passed by a big old church, big white church. And I said, "That's a lovely old church, overlooking the city." He said, "That's the old Baptist church, Brother Branham." I said, "What Baptist is it?" Said, "Missionary." I said, "Oh, well that's the Baptist that I..." I said, "What happened?"' He said, "Well, something went wrong here years ago. A minister got in some trouble, and there was a big shooting scrape." And said, "The church went down, and the--the church people turned it over to the city. They just have funeral services." I went up towards the door. And as I went towards the door, it
seemed better. I tried to open the door, and it wouldn't open. And I-I said, "You go ahead. I'll wait here at the steps till you come back."
When he went up on the hill, I knelt down. I said, "Lord, if this is the place You want me, You want me to hold a meeting here, open this door for me. Open the door." I was... While I was yet in prayer, I heard someone coming around and across the hill this way, and it was a man, whistling. He said, "Hello, preacher?" I said, "Hello." He said, "You looking at the church?" And I said, "Yeah. How'd you know I was a preacher?" Said, "Mr. Wright said you was a preacher. Thought you maybe wanted to look into it." I just brought the keys, opened the door. And I said, "Thank you." I walked in and looked around. I said, "Thank You, heavenly Father." Looked around, a nice church, it seat about three hundred people. I said, "Who owns it?" Said, "The city." And I went down there to see them. And they bought electricity from the company, the public service company where I was then employed. And he said, "Go ahead up there. Put a meter in it. It's yours as long as you want it." "Thank you." And I put a meter in. I announced a revival for the following Sunday.
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That night... The day I went out, and I said to a man around close to the hill, I said, "Sir," I said, "I'm Brother Branham. I'm going to have a meeting up here. Will you come up?" He said, "Look, preacher." Said, "We ain't got time for religion down here. We raise chickens." Said... I said, "Well, all right, partner. But one of these days, you're going to find time to die." Three weeks from then, they buried him. And so I went on around on the side of hill. I met many others who were very indifferent. I started the meeting, and the first night I had Mr. Wright, his daughter, his two daughters, and his son, his wife, five people. I preached just as hard as I could. And so we went on. The next night we had the same group, only about time I was setting in the platform reading some of the Scriptures... Had to drive quite a distance.
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And I heard something beating on the side of the house. There was a fellow knocking his old corn cob pipe against the house. Come in, a... Oh, a horrible looking fellow, the hairs hanging down in his face. He looked around, like that, one tooth out in front. Looked all
around the building, said, "Where is that little Billy Sunday they talk about?" Mr. Wright had told me, said, "There's a tough guy." Said, "He's a... He used to belong to Nazarene church, but he's backslid and cursed every preacher that comes in the country." I went back and said, "This is Mr. Hall, Mr. Branham." I said--I said, "Glad to know you." Said, "You're the preacher?" Said, "You don't look like it." And ripped out with one of them about that blankity-blank, like that. I said, "Will you set down?" Said, "Well, I might set a little while. I like singing." And I said, "Well, we'll do our best to entertain you. Set down." I said, "Will you come up forward?" He said, "No, I don't care to get up there." Said, "I'll set right here." Said, "All right. Have a song book. Make yourself at home, sir." Walked on back up.
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Mr. Wright come up to the platform. When he got ready to start singing, he said, "There's the worse fellow there is in this country." And so I got up there and took my text from the "Rich man lifted up his eyes in hell..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... is in the altar. He's the pastor of the Milltown Baptist church now down there, a very lovely brother. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, get this name now, so you can write to her. She... I'll wait a minute 'fore I call her name and address, so you get your pencil and piece of paper. And she lived below the hill. And her people belong to a certain denomination of church that absolutely doesn't believe in the Spirit or... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The Word is dead until It's quickened by the Spirit. But they don't believe in that. A church, I don't know whether you have them up here or not. But so they had made announcement that anybody that attended my church...?... give them their letter when they come back. So I said, "All right. Somebody will come." So we had a church full that winter.
And so Mr. Hall come to me, and he said, "Brother Branham, there's a little girl laying over the hill here; she's about twenty years old. She's been laying flat on her back for nine years and eight months, not to move from the bed, tubercular plumb through. The doctors hasn't even visited her for the last three or four year. There's nothing they done since last year. She has tubercular of the throat, tubercular of the lungs, tubercular in the intestinal tract, tubercular of the female organs." And said, "She got your little book a couple of months ago. And she's been crying and praying, and wants you to
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come. But her father is a deacon in this church, and her mother is an organist over there. So they will not permit you to come." And just as he said that, something said to me, "There's the lamb that's hooked in the wilderness." So I thought, "Oh, well, Lord, You'll make a way. I'll just wait for You." But I knew that was the witness of the Spirit. I waited.
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And so finally when the meeting ended, about eight days, I was going to go home. And on... And that day, the mother give consent to come over. Said, "We'll all leave the house if he wants you to come over just to satisfy her. So but we'll leave the house. We won't even stay while he's there." Hypocrites. And so I said, "Well, I'll go anyhow." So I went down and went in the room. When I walked in the room, I knew that was the woman. I looked at her. She weighed thirty-seven pounds. She was nothing but bone. She couldn't raise her hand. She couldn't raise her sputum cup. Her mother had taken the palsy, fairly young woman, turned gray as she could be, and set right there. And they hadn't even... woman had... The girl had never seen out the window for eight years. Nine years and eight months, she laid on the bed. They... This is plain, but this is... They couldn't even put her on the bedpan. They had a rubber sheet under her, and just changed the sheets in that manner. And then... And she... Her limbs, right up here, was just about that big around.
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And you write to her now. I'm going to give you her name. Miss Georgie Carter, C-a-r-t-e-r, G-e-o-r-g-i-e, Miss Georgie Carter, Milltown, Indiana. She'll get the mail. And she'll write you her testimony. Listen in case she tells you the same thing. And ask for her doctor's statements and things too, to come to you. And so when I went down across the hill, all the Christians said, "If that girl gets healed, it'll turn everything in this country to crying." But that's just the time you want to watch. God doesn't heal to make showing. See? And they won't do it. Usually, that's the hardest person in the world to be healed. When everybody's looking, then all the demons with there power focused right on them in their unbelief. Unbelief is the demon power, of course. He that believeth not is condemned already.
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Now, notice, I went in and had prayer for the little girl. And she was telling me about reading where--in the paper where a another girl, by vision (Had been crippled all of her life, crippled up, belonged to the Methodist church at Salem, Indiana. Her name was Nail.), and how the Lord moved by vision, sent me way in the wilderness, hunting across the hills, and found her. And the papers
carried the article of it, how she was healed. Her legs straightened out and everything, just stirred the country through there. She re... She went to school after that. The woman's married now. She was about sixteen years old, about twenty now, I guess, eighteen, twenty. And she was in an awful condition. She was telling me about that. Well, I seen her face was in the vision. I prayed for her and went out. All right. A few weeks after that, I told her... He said, "If the Lord speaks to you, Brother Branham, come to me." I said, "I would." I had to get real low. She couldn't raise her sputum cup. She go to cough, she'd go... [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.] And the mother would have to put the cup up, like that. She couldn't even raise her hands. Her hands... Her face here didn't have no flesh on it, just looked like the bones of her skull, and the--her eyes way in. Oh, it's the most... She couldn't turn her little head.
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And I looked back there, and I said... Here a few days ago, I was down there, and I looked at her little old bed. She took me in to show it to her. And there it was, were all the paint was rubbed off of the rounds, right there, where year after year laying there hollering and crying, begging, like that, holding on to that, rubbed the paint off of her bedpost, like that. But God heard her cry no matter what she was raised in. Then I--I went out, and I was out holding a meeting. And I went to Mr. Wright's house a few days after that to have dinner. Them people down there said... When we was having a baptismal service out on the banks of the river, and many of this same man's members was standing there. I walked out into the river. And I said, "It seems like the Angel's of God are standing near." I started baptizing. And there, great candidates, one after the other one out of that man's church, came right out into the water and was baptized with their good clothes on and all, came right out. God will move. You just set still and let God do it. See? That's right. Have faith in Him; He'll work it all out all right.
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And then I was going in--up that night. It was the last night of the service; I was going to have dinner with Mr. Wright. And we were up. And I said, "Brother Wright, it seems to me that I must go to the woods to pray. The Holy Spirit's leading me not to eat, but pray." And I went up in the woods and I knelt down. And there it was getting late in the afternoon. And I'd pray. And every time I'd reach my hands up, I'd grab those briar vines, scratching my hands. I'd... It looked like I couldn't kneel; it was hurting my knees. You know how it is. And I kept trying to pray. And I just fell down. Now, she said--told me before I left, "When the mother rings the bell,
you come on to the--to supper right now." And so I heard it ring, but I was in the Spirit, praying, and I just stayed there. And I kept praying, "O God, what is this burden on my heart? Have I done something, or--something You want." And I felt the Angel of the Lord near, and I raised up. Shining right down through a little dogwood bush was a yellowish green Light. I heard a voice say, "Go by the way of Carter's."
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I raised from there and screamed to the top of my voice. Down through the field I went. They'd been hunt--hunting parties out searching for me. And I jumped almost right in the arms of Brother Wright. He said, "Brother Branham." Said, "Mother's been waiting supper on you for hours." Said, "We're going to be late to the closing service." I said, "We're not going to supper. But this is the night, SAITH THE LORD, Georgie Carter will be made every whit whole, just in a few moments." He said, "Brother Branham, do you mean that? "He said, "Is that coming from God, so this whole country will turn to God?" I said, "THUS SAITH THE ANGEL OF GOD, Who's fed me since the days I was born on this earth, and has never lied to me, Georgie Carter will be a well woman in the next hour." Then the people begin to gather on the hills, said, "Let us go," two men.
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And the same time, her critical mother... Georgie was crying and praying because her mother had treated me the way she had. And so she went out in the kitchen and she knelt down to pray. She said, "O God," said, "that reprobate that's come through the country here, called Branham," said, "He's got my child all stirred up in there," and said, "poor little thing laying there dying. And today," said, "she just cried, and her little eyes are red." Said, "He's got her all stirred up about a lot of psychology." Said, "O God, put a curse on that man, or do something," like that, going on, said, "Oh..." praying. And when she begin to pray, she thought her daughter, which lived next door, was passing by. She seen the shadow on the wall. And she let... (Get her testimony concerning... when you write to her.) She said as clear as she ever seen in her life, come Jesus, walking right down across that wall. He come through it. "Touch not My anointed." Said, "Who's that a coming?" And he looked, and said she seen me coming. This same Bible, I had over my heart, like that. Said she seen my hair, thinning in the front. She said, "Well, that's that preacher." And she jumped up. She said, "O God, please. Was I in a trance, or what's happening? I'm losing my mind." And she run into the room, said, "Georgie, you know what?"
And about that time the door closed. And here I come, just according to the way she seen the vision. Here I come walked with a Bible over my heart, and two men followed me. Oh, my. When there... There isn't a demon out of hell could stop it then. God's done spoke it; prayer is done answered. That's right. Something has to happen. I started walking up; Brother Hall kept saying to me, said, "Brother Branham, you want me to go first?" I didn't say a thing. And friends, as your brother here tonight, I felt Something leave me, and I looked like I could see myself walking up them steps.
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I went up to the door and opened the door. And there she was laying there, poor little thing. And her lips a quivering. Her mother startled, couldn't finish telling her what had happen, like that. I walked right over to the bed and put my hands on her. I said, "Georgie, even Jesus Christ, Who gave me the vision of a lamb hung in the wilderness down here somewhere, has appeared to me today in the woods, and has sent me here that I might lay my hands upon you that you should be well." I took her by the hand, and I said, "As the--the Lord God has said to me, 'In The Name of The Lord Jesus Christ, rise up and be whole.'" And how was she to raise up, limbs that big around, hadn't moved for nine years and eight months, laying on a bed? But when God speaks, He gives strength. That's right. Taken her by the hand... She looked at me, like that, and her eyes looked like they set. And I took her by the hand and raised her from the bed. In less than a moment's time she was walking through the house. She was screaming. Her mother pitched over in the room, cold fainted. The girl opened the door and walked out, set out on the grass and begin to bless the grass, and bless the leaves. Bless her little heart. The first time she'd seen the leaves and the grass from nearly nin-over nine years then. If she was laying on that bed, and--and the people begin to run from the neighborhood everywhere.
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I come on out and started up towards the hills, towards the church. I couldn't stand around there the anointing was just blessing all around. Started up the hill... Here she run back in the house, set down at the piano. A few moments, her father came from across hill with a little bucket of milk from where their barn was. Coming across, he seen the crowd. He begin to hear the music. He said, "What, we got company? Listen to the people in there." When he walked in the door, there set his only beloved daughter setting there, playing,
Jesus keep me near the cross,
There's a precious fountain, Free to all, a healing stream, That flows from Calvary's fountain.
Then setting there, he dropped his bucket, and threw his arms around, and said, "Honey, what is it?" She said, "That one who you called the reprobate, Lord Jesus has sent him here. He laid his hands on me, and now I am well." And she is my piano player at the Milltown Baptist church today. Perfectly normal in good health, just as healthy as anybody that's setting in this building tonight. Write to her and find out.
Here come the doctor up that had waited on her... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Jesus Christ. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Just as great tonight as He was then. Look, people in here, this may seem strange to you. Maybe you're not... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... the prince of the power of the air. Satan is always near to try to get something fumbled up in your mind. But tonight, set your affections on things above, where Christ sets at the right hand of God. And remember, the Bible said, "He's the same, yesterday, today, and forever." And if His Spirit be here, He reveals things today as He did in the days gone by. Heavens and earth will pass, but His Words shall not pass. Have faith in God. Do not doubt.
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Write to Georgie. Ask her of that. Not only her, but I could stand here until daylight breaks in the morning, telling such cases that's happened in the past four years. Day after day it happens, infallible. God is here now. Your attitude... Tell them just to believe on the Lord with all their heart. Receive God. All right, let's pray. O Father, oh, if my lips could only form words, my tongue could only utter the praises that's due to You. Lord, You know about Georgie. You know all about it. Lord, You know Your servant has told that which is truth. And before these people at the great judgment, I'll stand to give an account. If I told wrong, then I'll be a castaway, turned away from my loved ones, turned away from Jesus, no hope, condemned. O God, I don't want to do that. I want to be truthful and honest. And I know there's much unbelief in the world. You said in the last days, there'd raise scoffers, be heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more then lovers of God, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, despisers of those that are good, even hated. And they would be a religious group, having a form of godliness, but would deny the power thereof. From such turn away. Said the Spirits spoke that expressingly, that in the last days these signs would be.
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Father, we're here, and we're a happy, as the disciples to carry the reproach of Your Name. Tonight we want a witness as Paul of old. "In the way that's called heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers." The way that's evil spoken of, called heresy, insanity, crazy, neurotic, God's truly... Satan's got his man on the job, but I'm thankful You've got Yours also. And we're glad to be on Your side tonight, believing all things. And we're glad that You're with us, confirming the Word with signs and wonders following. Let people see, Lord, and turn from their wickedness and turn to Christ tonight before it's everlasting too late, 'fore they're blasted from the face of the earth to go to a devil's hell, and a Christless grave to spend an endless eternity without God, without a hope, without mercy. This is the day of repentance. This is the day of man. The day of the Lord shall come. Now, help us, God. You've got many of Your children here tonight gathered, sick. You moved on them as You did Simeon in the days of old, and brought them here for the purpose of being healed. Help me to have faith with them, Father. May their faith blend together, and all of us as one now, one unit, and our prayers going constantly without ceasing... As he was praying at John Mark's house, without ceasing, You sent an Angel down, opened the prison doors and took the apostle out. Many of Your children's in prison by affliction, sicknesses, and diseases. May the Angel of God come upon Your servant tonight, and break every chain. Grant it, Lord. May we go out of the city gates rejoicing, happy, praising God for His goodness. In the Name of His holy Child Jesus, we ask this blessing. Amen.
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Have faith; don't doubt. I take a lot of the time. I'm sorry. And standing here and knowing that many may not get into the line... If they don't, then why? If you've got your faith upon God's Word, you'll be healed anywhere. You believe that, lady, with all your heart? The lady with the little baby, you're in trouble, aren't you, sis? God bless your heart. I see you have a weary spirit. Isn't that right? Look this way, sister. I feel sorry for you. Yes, you're--it's not you; you're worried about your baby. Isn't that true? Just awhile ago you were praying or doing something, wasn't you? You was asking God to let me speak to you about that baby. Isn't that right? Not reading your mind, I felt it awhile ago when... There's a whole group in that corner there praying. What's--what the matter with your baby? Do you realize that Jesus healed that baby when He died back yonder at Calvary? He paid that price. Now, your baby, what's wrong with it... Your baby's about three years old, I guess, something like that. Isn't that about right? And it stopped growing, has no use of itself. Is that true? Will you believe me? All right. If you'll believe, accept its healing right now. There it is setting alone in the mother's arms now, without even any
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The little girl setting right there next to you, sweetheart, do you believe Brother Branham telling you the truth, the little girl there with the bad eyes? You going to believe Jesus would make you well? You do? All right, I want you to put your little hand over your eyes, like this. Say, "Dear Jesus, heal me." God bless you, honey; you shall have your sight. Lady, what are you worrying about, setting next to her there, the handkerchief? Fine. Look this a way, sister. Something's wrong with you. Yeah. You also have bad eyes too, and you're a nervous case, aren't you, have a real...?... demon depression? Isn't that right? Oppression just bothers you all the time, nervousness. Isn't that right? God bless you. If I tell you that you're healed, will you believe me? All right. Go home; you're healed. God bless you.
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What do you think about it, sister? You do? I see you're having troubles also, aren't you? Now, be reverent, everyone. Now, it's crossing spirits. This little boy setting here is pulling me out. Now, everyone just as reverent as you can be. Look here, sister. You're wearied about something; it's something wrong, because it's real dark around you. You--you've been to a doctor recently, haven't you? And you've had an examination. Now, let's see. Have faith. Believe me with all your heart. Yes, you had a female trouble. He's not too sure about that; he's right. He said it was... might be cancer. Is that right? All right, it is, or, it was, rather. You're healed now. You have your healing...?... Now, look this a way, sister. You believe that? Please be reverent, everyone. Don't... Let--let--let it, be reverent, please. Quickly, there's some... There's something... a connection. You here, sir, setting here with the "Voice Of Healing" in your hand, setting on a front seat. There's some connection between you and this woman. You was so happy when she was... That may be your... it's your sister or your wife, one. It's your wife, isn't it? That's right. You're bothered too. You was. You and your wife go home and be happy, for you're healed.
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What about you, sister, setting there crying? You're a nervous trouble. Isn't that right? All right. God has healed you also. You're... What did you bow your head for, honey, right behind there a little girl. You're in a lot of trouble too, aren't you? Huh? Throat trouble, isn't it? Fixing to be operated on, is that right? You're up for an
operation. They're supposed to operate on your throat. Isn't that right? All right. Believe the Lord right now and be healed. Will you do that? Have--have faith in God. He's here to make it... Now, just a moment. There's somebody right in here, very weary and very suffering. Just a moment. There's so many I can hardly tell. Now, it's a very serious case, wherever it is. Just a moment. Yes, here it is. It's a lady setting right here with that flowerly--black flowerly dress on. Aren't you in trouble, sister, with suffering? Isn't that right? Isn't that true? A whole...?... look this a way. Yes, sister. Something must be done to you if... You're full of tumors (Isn't that right?), tumors or something in you? Raise up. Is that true? Have faith in God and your tumor shall leave, sister. You believe with all your heart? Now, watch right...?... You feel better now, don't you, sister, here on the side of the seat? Yes. Yes, ma'am. It's over now. You're going to be well.
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The lady, your friend setting there, keeps talking to you. You're just wondering why I didn't call you there, wasn't you? That's so. You was wondering. I'm not reading your mind, but you was wondering why I didn't catch you there. I can't tell just what's wrong with you yet, sister. Stand up on your feet, will you? Now, believe with all your heart. See, I get you above where those other vibrations are coming so fast I can't... Now, just a moment. Hold your hand out, like this. I'm not too sure of something. Double your fist, like this, put it around behind you, like this, way back, way back like mine. You touched it then. It's your liver. Is that right? That's right. I didn't know whether it was your kidneys or your liver. All right. Jesus Christ makes you whole, sister. Go on and be of a good courage...?... for God what...?...
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Have faith in God. How many more prayer cards is there in the building? God bless you, mother. Be it done unto you... All right. You going to believe with all your heart? I wonder how many believes right now? Now, don't be excited now, just reverently. Let's have just... I'm just a little undecided here the way the Spirit of the Lord is moving. Many of them are wanting to be-have a prayer line, and many of them are wanting to have prayer right now. I don't know just why too. All right. Be reverent just a few moments. The Spirit of the Lord is here. Going to believe with all your heart? I'm trying just now. You ought to just make a surrender to God, a sweet surrendered life to Him, would lead Him to...?...
Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Thou knowest all things, and knows what is and what is not, and what You're doing. God, bless this audience of people; grant it now. May Your Spirit be upon the audience, will You at this time, Father. With all my heart, please, dear God if we form a prayer line, it'll be those coming to the platform will just be for all those. But we should just now believe that You're here, Lord, and Your anointing is just paralyzing Thy servant, falling down like waves. O Jesus, may the people get just a touch of this at this time, they might be healed. Grant it, Lord, through Jesus Christ. Oh, all of you... Please, my dear brother and sister, believe me as His servant. There isn't a thing in this building but what could be healed. Will you believe it in a...
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How many here accept your healing right now. Say, "From this moment, by the grace of God, I'm healed," and go home and say, "I'm well through Christ." Raise to your feet, you that accept healing, right now. And that's right. Amen. That's the way to do it. Hallelujah. O God, how I thank You for Your kindness, Lord, knowing I can't...?... no longer. The hour is here that they've accepted their healing. O demons, you've lost your power. You've lost your control. Thou shall be in outer darkness now, and the glory of God shall be known throughout this city and the country, that the Lord Jesus is healing the people. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Lord. Everybody accepting your healing, raise your hands up and say, "Thank You, Jesus, for healing me. Thank You, Jesus, for healing me." Give Him praise.
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Good evening, friends. I'm happy to be here again tonight. And I want to thank Brother Baxter for his comments about--for myself and for my mother. I want my mother to set on the platform with me, if she will. She's as bashful as I used to be, and Sunday when I'm giving the last service...?... It used to be, she would turn me over her checkered apron. So now... She can still do it. I--I would... Well, everyone thinks about their mother, you know. I think mother, the good true mother is the fifth Gospel: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, mother. Mother gets them first. That's the one who brings them up first, is mother.
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And so we're happy to be in tonight. Sorry that it's raining the way it is, but I'm... We're just going... We're just the same. That won't hurt anything. And many who wish to, that's standing, I believe there's a few seats down at the other end. If they wish to set down, just make... Whatever way you feel the best, that's the way to be. That's--that's what we want everybody to do, is to feel the best that they can. And that's my--the reason I'm here, is to try to help those to feel their best. There's many times that I know that I make so many mistakes, and fail in so many things, that I'm ashamed of myself. But I... But in my heart, I'm trying all that I know how. I'm just doing all that I know how.
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And if... The day when it's over, I... And if--and if He turns me down at--at the day that it's over... Now, I know each night, some dwindle away. But if at the end of the road He turns me down, He's still Just. You see? He... Now, He's right, because where would I... If I had to live and there was no heaven to go to, if there was no such a thing as heaven, I--I would still want take my life a Christian. I--I--I want... Now, it's just so much better, so much peaceful and everything to know that--that this blessed hope that we have... And to live for Him, it's... And there was no heaven, I'd still take my choice being a Christian. I've tried both sides, and I know that it always is best to be a Christian.
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But, oh, how infallible--how many infallible proofs we have that there's a--heaven is, and we're going there someday. And just as sure as we're in Christ, God shall bring those with Him who are keeping Christ at that day. And we... So many people try to work themself into it. So many people try to do so many merits to get in. It's not by good works; it's not by your merits, nothing you could do or nothing that you could work yourself to; it's believing Him, accepting. By faith are you... There He hangs on the cross. You'll never have to stand the judgment. God judged your sins in Him. See? God judged Him, and He took your place. Is that right? We were guilty, alienated from God, without hope, without mercy, Gentiles, carried away with dumb idols, aliens from God. And Christ took our place.
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And you notice, Abraham slept; Isaac slept; Jacob slept; the patriarchs slept, but Christ died: separation. In His death God wasn't with Him. He had to suffer the absence of God in His death that we would have the Presence of God in our death. See? And there God
struck upon Him our judgment. And there's our judgment. Some men's sins go before them and some follow. Let's confess ours now, so it'll go on before us. And Christ met our judgment. And God, in the garden of Eden, when He pronounced death upon the human race, "The day you eat thereof, that day ye shall die," every human being. And "death" means "separation." That's the reason we call it death for one another. We just separate from one another. But there is no death for a Christian, "He that liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." That's it: never die. And "He that believeth My Words and he heareth My Words... (John 5:24.) He that heareth My Words and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath (Past tense) passed from death unto Life... shall not come into condemnation." You see?
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Now, then God, upon Christ, put my sins and your sins, and He bore them to Calvary. He put my sickness upon Him. He put my iniquity upon Him. And there He paid the supreme sacrifice for you and I, and every human in the world. Every person that ever has a ailment was healed at Calvary. Every sinner that ever was or ever will be, was forgiven at Calvary. But the thing we have to do, is accept it. See, see? By His strips we were healed: past tense. That's when He done it. Every... A certain religious group of people at Louisville, Kentucky, teaches that if a baby dies and his parents did not have the Holy Spirit, the baby will never be no more, that it's finished forever. And I was discussing this briefly with one of the people. I said, "Oh, that can't be. That poor little innocent baby has no control of its... Why, it had no way... How did it come here? It couldn't help being here. It couldn't help 'cause his father and mother was sinners."
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I'll say this by the authority of God's Word. Every baby that's under the age of accountability, dies, goes to glory. Yes, sir. Christ died to take away the sin of the world. And when you come to the age of accountability... We were all born in sin. But when He died, He taken away the sin. And when you come to the age of accountability, then you're responsible from then on. See? It isn't... You're not responsible for something you did not do, Christ done died to save you to take away the sin that Adam caused. But when you sin, you have to confess your sins. First, you have to confess it. But the baby's done no sin if... It's not accountable for what it does. And Christ died to free that baby. And I... If it's born of a parent, drunkard, or whatever they might be, that baby goes to heaven. I believe it. And I believe it'll come to recognition of the cross when it gets there, to know that Christ died for it. I believe that. Yes, sir. Oh, I--I'm the greatest believer in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, I-and for what He's done, and what He is to me tonight. He's more than life to me.
I just get to talking to you, and I get passed my place. I want to take just a little time and... Many of you might be wondering why I'm not attending the service a lot. I just...?... first place, just twenty-five and thirty a night that's been on the platform, and so forth. I'm just trying to conserve myself, to hold out till next week...?... time. This will is the--be the longest meeting that I've ever held--the longest time. And Brother Lindsay told me, said, "Brother Branham, just go up and preach a few nights, and hold yourself over." Say to me... 'Cause I just come right out of a big meeting there. And went right home and been just constantly on the run, and then right in here again. Going right out of here, right to Kansas City, and right on into California. And it's hard telling where from there. And it makes it pretty hard. You see? Well, if it was just this meeting, would be different.
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But I never want to let myself get to far out again, like I did the other time--setting at the platform for eight days and nights without leaving (See?), eating at the platform, sleeping on the side of the pulpit, and the prayer line still standing there. I'd just lay down and sleep a little bit, and wake up. And I'd hear that music, just "Only Believe, Only Believe." They'd put me in a car to sleeping. I couldn't sleep then. And they'd put me car just to... Used to then, there were interviews about five minutes. And I started to go home. I'd drive up the road. I had an old Ford. It was just about gone. And I--I would drive up the road a little piece, then stop. And I'd pulled all the hairs out of my hand (There ain't hardly any of them there now.), trying to keep awake praying for the sick people, wake myself up, like that. And I would hit the side of my knee on the old Ford till I beat the side of it out, like that, trying to keep awake, making sick calls.
I remember a little joke. It's not a joke. I don't mean to say it that way. But just something was kinda funny. I was going up the road. And I got so sleepy I'd hear cars blowing. I'd be on the other side of the road. And I... But one time, I woke up, and I was way out in a cow pasture with my hands out saying, "It'll happen, sister, if you'll just believe." I really was praying for the sick. I thought I was praying for the sick out in the cow pasture. My wife... Listen. I--I got home, and she tried to put me to bed. And I--I couldn't sleep. There they was, lined up all around the house. And I was...
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I woke up, and I had a pillow hugged up in my arm, like this, saying, "God bless you, honey. You're sure to get well." And she was standing there, crying and shaking me. She said, "Honey, what's the matter?" I said, "Oh, honey, I thought I was praying for the sick." And I laid the pillow back down. And I'd go over there. I remember I just barely got to sleep, just barely asleep. And she went out. We had this little old two room shack, cold as it could be. And we had an old quilt in the door stubbed together to keep the kiddies from taking pneumonia. And there was...
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I remember laying across the bed. And I was so tired. I just couldn't move. My little baby didn't know me; I'd lost so much weight, my little girl. And I went in and I laid down. And I heard an old car coming up and stop... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Outside there was an old, about '30 model Chevrolet, and the lights wired on. I heard a little baby out in the kitchen making a noise. I was in the next room. I heard my wife out there, saying, "Well, don't... Let's not wake him up." Said, "He's just barely got to sleep." Said, "You just stay around, and it's getting towards daylight anyhow." And I'd heard the little baby making a funny noise, going [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]. And I--and I heard the mother say, "It's been almost six weeks now as he keeps crying." Said, "No one know what's the matter. The doctor can't stop it. They don't know what's wrong." Said, "I constantly drove all the way from Ohio (By the way, they come from Ohio.), all the way down." And--and I heard her say, "Well, if you..." "He's just been sleeping about five minutes," Meda said.
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I was laying there. I thought, "Well, I'll try to go back to sleep." Could I go back to sleep, and poor little old mother setting out there and a baby in her arms in the kitchen? To think that maybe a little intercession would help the baby. I couldn't do it. I got up, put on my shirt and tried to go out into the cold. And got out to the kitchen. There sets a mother there with a little baby. And my wife was talking to her, kind of wanted to make her something cold--or, a cup of coffee, or something. Said, "No, we just got something to eat coming down." I said, "How long has it been crying, mother?" She said, "Almost six weeks. They don't know what's the matter with it." I said, "If--if I'll ask the Lord, will you believe He'll bless it, and then you can--you'll go back home believing, holding that?" She said, "Yes, Brother Branham." I knelt down, wife, we around the table. The mother laid her little
baby on the table. And I put my hands upon the little thing. And I said, "Father, it... You brought this little fellow into the world. It can't talk. They don't know what's the matter with it. Doctors can't find the trouble. But will You just help the little thing." And while we yet had our hand laying on the little baby, it quit crying. In a few moments, it was gooing and laughing. We set there and talked to each other a few moments. And the baby was normal and well. They just taken it and went on home.
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And oh, my, friends, God only knows. Someday I'd like to take each one of you out and set down and talk with you awhile. Today, I... My little girl, they taken her down to a little place down here, a little...?... a little zoo. And I thought she'd stayed a little long, so I was being a little troubled. My brother and them taken her down, mother. We set down, got the car to run down sign posts. They just got in there, was looking around. The car was gone. So they was headed... already come back. There was this sister walked up. My brother first. And he said, "Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes, sir." He turns around, shook his hands. Said, "I'm from Indiana." I said, "Yes, sir." Said, "I set in the meeting." Said, "What's your trouble?" And he said, "It's my wife." She walked up. While I was standing there, that poor little woman with such a--a case. I looked at her. I felt what it was. And I said, "I can tell you what's wrong with you, sister." Said, "You have a tumor in your heart." "That's right, Brother Branham." He said, "Oh, if I can just get a prayer card before the service is ended, to get in the prayer line." I trust that she will.
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Over in the 27th chapter of the Acts, let's read just a few verses, begin at the 20th verse. This is Paul on his missionary journey. I just love to read about... While you're turning... I see some of them getting in their Bible. I love to read about those things of those days. I was thinking of Peter up on the housetop, waiting for dinner. He's down at the Si--at the Simeon's house, the tanner, down at Joppa. And Cornelius, a righteous man, good man, was in prayer. And an Angel came to him and said, "Send down to Simon the tanner, and ask for one Peter who will come, tell you all things." While Peter was on the housetop, he seen a sheet let down, full of all kinds of creeping things. And...?... waiting, he had a vision.
And I thought of--of... Here come... When Paul was passing through by Philip's house, it was... He had four daughters, and they were prophets. And when they went in, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, this man will be bound when he gets to Jerusalem." I thought of Agabus, a vindicated prophet of God, came down from Jerusalem, seeing Paul, perhaps standing in the yard there, and walked over, and pulled the latch girdle string from around him, tied his hands, and said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD, the man that this has bound will be bound in chains when he gets to Jerusalem." Seeing the visions of the people, then to read of Paul: storms. He told them, said, "Don't loose from this place and go, 'cause it'll be to your harm." See, God's always had ministering Spirits. I believe in them. I believe in ministering Spirits sent from the Presence of God. The Holy Spirit, ministers, lead the church, guardian Angels that watch over us. "Their Angels always behold the face of My Father, which is in heaven." Is that right?
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Notice, 20th verse now when Paul was out there, and the storm was fearful. And when there was neither sun or stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, and all hopes that we should be saved was then taken away. All hopes, think of it. Maybe you're setting here tonight and all hope is gone. Maybe your little bark that you're in, sailing across earth, all hopes is gone: you got cancer, something else, tuberculosis, heart trouble, or something that'll kill you right away. Remember, a person that's got cancer, heart trouble, or TB, something like that, if something isn't done right away, they're not going to live long. Heart trouble's number one. Cancer's number two. Tubercular's number three.
Notice, all hopes was gone. But after a long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs... (Oh, my. I believe he'd been down in the gallery, praying. Don't you believe so?),... you should have hearkened unto me, and have not had loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. But now I exhort you to be in good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. Think of it. "Why would you say this, Paul? It's still just as dark as it ever was. And the storm's just as hard as it ever was. What makes you stand so boldly now?" Everybody... Fourteen days and nights, no sun, moon, stars, or nothing, ship blowing, winds blowing, didn't know where they was at
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out in the middle of that ocean. And if you was ever out there, when the biggest of ships now look like a peanut hull, almost, on those waves, and what would those little old ship then look like? All hopes was gone. Paul said, "Sirs (I love that.), you should have listened to me and not loosed. But there'll be no loss of life, but this ship." Watch, 23rd verse. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose servant I am, and whom I serve, Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and lo, God has given thee all them that sail with thee. (Listen at his--his faith in his vision.) Wherefore, sirs, be of a good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. Oh, don't you just love that? "It'll be as it was told me." If the Angel truly comes from God, and is sent from God, it's bound to be. It's direct message from glory.
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Now, I want to just bring an instance that I told you I would tell you, run a prayer line. Does it bore you for me to tell you those instance? See? If it does, I'll just start... I--I'm only doing it to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ with you, friends. And some of the ministers tell the other things through the day services, and so forth. I try to get something that they... A book, friends, that thick, three or four hundred pages wouldn't hold the testimonies that the Lord has done directly. No wonder He said, "These things shall--that I do, greater shall you, for I go to My Father."
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Now, notice this one thing. For your faith, that you might have perfect confidence... When you're told anything, stay right with that. Don't you leave a bit of it. No matter how she twists or blows, you stay right there. God promised it; God will do it. Is that right? Now, in this--in the gift working... The Word will do it Itself. But the gift working is a double confirmation of God. Now, you're setting here. All of you looking at--this a way, and listening to the Word. God in heaven knows I do not see a person that I know. Only there's One that does know you; that's God. God knows all about you. And God can heal you.
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Now, He's here. First, His Word tells you what He will--what He will do. God's Word says what He'll do, gives you a promise. We all believe that, don't we? It's wo--God's Word. Then He sends a gift down into the church. And now, a gift... People... Now, I--I love you all. God knows that. When this life is over, I want
to make an appointment with every one attended this meeting, just to spend a thousand years together, just one day to talk things over, down by the sea of Life. This is one of the smallest meetings I've ever had--smallest audiences. But it's been one of the most sweetest and glorious meetings that I've ever been in in my life. There hasn't been too many miracles. There hasn't been too many things happen. There's just a sweet heavenly atmosphere. Now, I know what it is. It's groups of people that never knew this glorious matchless way. They're coming in daily, giving their hearts to Christ. And that pleases the Father. That's what is happening. I wished I had a way to stay in Cleveland, a reason to come back again (See?), right... 'Cause here's where it needs it.
Looking around over the city and seeing the conditions, walking in the city and see... Many of the people go out... This gift is a pioneering. It must go into the places. It must bring forth. There will be people who will follow me in here, Gospel ministers, and so forth with revivals. But first, before you can get the people, there's got to be a godly demonstration of something to pull the people, to let them recognize that it is the truth. That's right. And now notice, the meetings are glorious and wonderful. And I love you all. Gifts must be confirmed. Anyone can say anything they wish to. And they can have impressions. But when God really sends something, He will vindicate that to be the truth. See? God will speak of it. The Bible said in Hebrews, "God testifying of His gifts..." Hebrews 11:10. Is that right? God testifying, then you got God's testimony. The Holy Spirit is the gift of God. You believe it? When He comes to you, He will testify that It's there. All God's gifts testify. It isn't nothing you try to make believe. That won't work. You got to be positive.
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Now, a confirmation of the Presence of God is that He's here through the Word, then He's here through gifts. Now, notice how they work and how they are confirmed. Quickly, I shall hurry quickly now. And your faith is getting real high; I believe just about as high as I can see faith rise. The thing you need now is to let your faith loose. See? But what you're wondering, is to get up here on the platform, seeing those people healed here... But if you'll just turn yourself--your faith loose out there where you are, it'll be just the same where you are. It's your faith anyhow. See? It's your faith. Only faith is the only way you can get it from God-anything. You get salvation, forgiveness, anything comes from God through faith. Believe it. Accept it.
No matter what it looks like here... We don't look at what we see; we look at what we do not see. Is that right? Anyhow, "to see" doesn't mean "to look at." The word "see" means "to understand." Jesus said, "Except a man be borned of water and Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." In other words, he can't understand the Kingdom of God until he's borned again. See? You have to accept it by faith. And then when He comes into you, you understand it. You accept healing the same way. Stay right with it. Not what you look at, what you believe, what you understand to be the truth, what you're looking at, the unseen, then stay with that. That's why all these visions. I just lay my life right on any, for it never fails. I have faith in it. I believe it. If I can get you to believe the same thing, it's over then. See?
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Now, quickly to a vision. (I told you I would tell you tonight. I'll just take about fifteen minutes longer, if possible.) It happened two years ago. I was in my room right after a big meeting. And I seen a rocky, hilly country, just as natural. It's not what you had at... Now, not a dream, friend. A dream is a dream. A vision is something you're looking at, like I'm looking right now to you, or you looking to me. Sometimes, I'd be standing right like this; I'd set in my room, been setting in my room talking to my family, and move completely away, be gone for a hour and a half or two hours. And I'd set perfectly still, without a speck of breath. That's what medical science can't understand. Where it done not even a speck of breath. You could put a... as fine a thing as any you want to around my nose, and not a bit of breath, they tell me. But my respirations, heart beats just the same. But they don't understand it. Fading out into another country, another world... And when you return, you have just exactly what God had said. And it's never failed. And it can't fail; it's God.
Now, I know it seems maybe pretty strange for somebody to think that a person without even a grammar school education, or something like that, to make these statements, and say, "Oh, where could it be? It would be something... If gifts come, it would come through some great church, perhaps say the--the..." Someone said the other day. Now, remember, my people were raised... Behind me I was Catholic. And I have nothing against Catholic people. They're just as good as anybody else. That's exactly right. We're all... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] But we're borned again. If the Protestants would be just as true to their belief as Catholics are to theirs, it'd be a lot different.
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That's the reason you notice, they'll bring a Catholic to this platform. Brother, he's... I know what I'm talk... They believe that what the priest says is right. That's right. What the priest says, that's law and gospel. And if they can see the signs and wonders performed, then they believe me. And that's all they have to do, is believe it (See?), and it happens. Now, these gifts and callings without repentance... Now, notice, God works these things out in His own way. Now, in the room when it happens, I become a semiconscious, leave the earth, somewhere, return back, see just what's happened, and tell the people, write it down. And maybe some has this vision I'm fixing to tell now wrote in your Bibles. I told it all over Florida, up through central America, through Canada, down through Windsor, back down into the eastern part of America before it happened. It's wrote in my book, which is coming out, already put in the book. The vision is... This is one vision that has never has been fulfilled, but I said, "THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD, it shall be fulfilled." And before the book come off the press, the vision's fulfilled. Go take it up to prove it.
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Now, I was in a vision. I saw a rocky country, all around. And I seen a child about the age of this little lad laying here now, that seems to have a terrible affliction. And he was--had dark hair, dark brown hair, a little flat looking face, flat nose, a cute looking little boy. He was about ten years old, but very poorly dressed, laying dead on the side of the road, killed in an accident. And I went by. The Angel of the Lord said, "Can the boy live?" And I said, "Sir, I do not know." And He showed me how to get down before the boy. And I laid my hands upon him. They was fixing to take him to the morgue or somewhere. And the boy came to life and lived again. And I begin... Has anybody here heard me repeat that before? Let's see your hands there. Yes, sir, there's people. All right. Fixing to tell you the story now, how that it happened. And here it's witnessed by an entire nation (That's right.), the chief governors.
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I went to Miami, Florida, in Dr. Bosworth's meeting when it began. I went down there. He had a little meeting there that... I beg your pardon. I went down there to assist a little boy in a couple night's meeting. And they turned the tent over to me. It's a little boy, little David we prayed for the other night when he was been unconscious for a while. And I went... he asked me if I'd come down to spend the night with him. And I went down to spend the night. And the night before that, I had the vision. I thought, "Well, the reason I went," I said, "it may
happen down there." But it looked like a rocky looking country. And so I said I couldn't take my mind too much off of it. I just watched so I would know the country. Just exactly when I seen it, and I--when I looked and seen what was taking place... I went into the--to the tent, a tent about this size, I suppose. And I told the people. I said, "Somewhere there's a little boy." described how he looked. "He's going to be raised from the dead. All of you write it down in your Bible." And I said, "If it doesn't come to pass, you people who take Brother Lindsay's paper there, the little 'Voice of Healing.'" I said, "Brother Lindsay will put that article in the paper." I said, "It..." And Brother Lindsay witnesses this himself.
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So we went ahead. And the next afternoon, there'd been a little boy drowned in the--in the irrigation ditch coming through, out the west side of Miami. And when I went to the tent that night, they had a group way back there, said, "There's a little boy drowned this morning. And he's laying back here now. They hadn't taken him to the morgue. And since you mentioned that last night, the people wondered if this is the little boy." I said, "I'll be glad to do it." And the ushers and many of the ministers taken me back. I said, "Now, you remember what the little boy looked like?" So I went up, the little boy was about five years old, coal black headed. I said, "No, no. That isn't the child at all." So I said, "The-this boy is eight or--about between eight and ten years old, got a funny cut hair--funny like a--a--chopped off here in the back, like that. His hair is very..." This little boy had a very neat hair cut, and a little bitty fellow. I said, "No, that's the wrong boy. It's too young." Said, "That boy isn't five--about five years old." And I said, "This boy's about eight or ten, huskier than that child." He--that little boy was dressed pretty neat, but this little boy was all... Oh, his clothes were all off of him, almost. And I said, "But I'm sure it was an accident by a car. I'm not... For it looked like he was all beat up and tore up." I said, "But anyhow..." And I offered prayer for consolation of the family.
And a minister from Indianapolis was there, by the name of Raymond Huckstra. Many of you might've knowed him. And he was with the little David. He buried the little boy. It was a couple days afterwards. I went on up through, telling the people in the meetings everywhere. I said, "Now, there's one vision that hasn't come to pass: A great master vision is going to stir everything." And we went on through Canada. And many of you, as you know, been in the meeting, I said, "Write it in your Bible, for THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT; it will be. It
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has to be." And in Kuopio, Finland, wh--we were up there which is way up near the laplands the land of the midnight sun. And I had been up in a tower, fasting. Many of the ministers had been up there. I had one interpreter, Mrs. Mae Isaacson, many of you might've knowed her, seen her... And so she was an American, Finnish-American. And we came down. And there was an Englishman there from England, was drunk and going on... They--the singing of the songs, "On Golgotha." And they all sing their songs in minor. I like that. I like something you feel in your soul (You see?), a feeling. I--I like jubilee songs. Brother, give me, "Nearer My God To Thee," "Jesus, Keep Me Near The Cross." That's right. Those are the things that gets down in my heart.
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And the man... We was lead--trying to lead him to Christ. Brother Lindsay, Brother Baxter, a group of them, we got in a car and started down the hill. Many of them went on. And the most of them over there, they... I realize I'm speaking to Finnish people. And they're very poor. If some of you American women, young women especially, had to dress like them poor Finnish girls, great big thick clothes, and... Oh, my. But they're lovely, just the--the very cream of Christianity. And so we... Coming down, they had their... They had a taxi up there, horses and buggies for taxis, going down the hill. Well, many of them went on, and I stayed back with some ministers. And Brother Lindsay, Brother Jack Moore and I, and Mrs. Isaacson, and two more ministers was coming down the hill. And cars are very, very scarce in Finland. We seen the time where we had ten thousand, or more, gathered, and thousands standing on the street. And maybe five cars setting there. That's... Gasoline about sixty-five, seventy cents a gallon, and cars cost about four or five thousand dollars. You can imagine it.
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Now, then coming down the mountain, we come way down and was going out. I was back there. They said, "Brother Branham, can't you break your fast and eat just a little?" I said, "No. The Holy Spirit doesn't want me to eat." And I went on down. I thought there was something odd. And all of a sudden, I looked. I seen crowds gathered on the road. And there's a little boy had been run over by a car and killed. It's two little boys was crossing the road, and the car hit them straight this way, and hit one little fellow by the chin and just rolled him over that way. A about a '35 Ford sedan, driving the speed of about sixty miles per hour, and drove the little fellow that way. And they'd got him in the car--in another car, and had taken him to the
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But this little fellow, he didn't swerve as it turned to try to dodge the children, knocked him across the road to the north. And the other little boy fell to the south, and knocked him to the north, run over him, smashed him under the car, and kicked him out from behind the car--the wheels did when it run over him. And he was laying on the side of the road, all bruised up, like... Over, way over in the grass flat, far as that post is. And they had something over him, very pathetic. And Brother Lindsay, crying like a baby... And then when we got out, there was a great group of people gathered there. And the mayor of the city (They called him the chief governor there, I think, or something, which means about the same as the mayor of the city.), was standing by. And when I got there, they said... Now, here's what they said. Mrs. Isaacson told me. They said, "Here's that miracle worker from America. Let's see what he'll do about this." See how that Satan... Oh, my. "We'll see what he'll do." Like I could do anything about it. But in all, God's wise providence, how He can...
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Now, I've looked at many children before. When they got the little child there, looked at it, I said, "Say, I've seen that baby somewhere." So excited. I have a little boy that's a little larger than that myself, and I was thinking about that poor mother, heart broken, her little boy laying dead, coming home from the school, the little fellow dressed real poorly... But being so worked up over that, and here's Brother Lindsay crying, and all of them. I was crying myself. I couldn't help it. Anybody who's got a feeling for a human being would be crying...?... And Mrs. Isaacson was crying, Brother Moore... And I said to Mrs. Isaacson; I said, "Ask that pastor if that little boy comes to his church." Said, "No." And I'd already talked back and forth through the interpreter. And I said, "Well, ask if he give it..."
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wondering, "Where have I seen that child?" And I said to Brother Lindsay and Brother Moore; I said, "I--I've seen that little boy somewhere." I looked at him again. I thought, "Well..." I took hold of his little coat, and I said, "How long has he been dead?"...?... Cold, still, his little mouth open, his eyes set way back, dirt, a little blood hanging on his face. There he was, all mashed up, his one little leg
setting up like this, little pants leg back, like that (Oh, my.), where it just rolled him under the car. And they were all crying. And I said, "O Father, be merciful, console the dear poor mother that's going to hear this news and the father." I said, "Have mercy upon them." And I looked back at the child. I said, "I just can't get it out of my mind. I've seen that child." And the Angel of the Lord spoke to me, said, "This is the boy that I showed you. It's been nearly two years." I said, "All right. I know him now. THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD: the boy's going to come back to life." Oh, my. I said, "Brother Moore, get your Bible." He had it wrote. I said, "That's the little lad. Look at the description. There he is just exactly. He's going to live again." Oh, my. I knelt down according to the way that I seen the vision and laid hands upon the little fellow. He let out a scream, and there he was, back to himself. The people didn't know what to do. Normal, not a broken bone in his body, nor nothing, just as normal as he could be, went on home.
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Two days, the mother of the other child, father laid on the steps. They had to drag me out. I tell you they stirred till thousands stood in the streets everywhere. A little crippled girl I remember going in that night. I never shall forget that testimony. I was going in that night. Two officers was taking me down, two men behind. We were going in. None of them could speak English. They had to meet me about two city blocks away to get into the lines, to get to the auditorium. I was starting in, and I happened to go through it. There was--there was a dormitory back there. And I noticed. Must've been the little girl visited one of the rest rooms. And coming through... I shall never forget this testimony. Have I got time to get it?
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Now, you bear with me a minute, will you? I just have to bring this in, this testimony. It's so sweet. I looked, and here was a poor little Finnish girl. And she was in braces around her waist, down around her legs. That leg was paralyzed, shorter, and big shoes. A something in her toe of her shoe come up, went over the shoulders, and hooked back here by a snap in the back. She had two crutches. And she looked at me like that. And she was trying to walk across to me, standing there. And her little baby blue eyes, and tears running down her little cheeks, she smiled. She looked at me. Her little heart, she looked like was just a jumping. She had her little crutches. And she looked at me. And she wanted to get close to me when I--when I passed. I've got a little girl at home too. I've got one in heaven, died about ten years ago. I shall tell you about it Sunday.
Then I looked at her, and I knowed she wanted to come over to where I was, the poor little thing. I stopped. She set her little crutches out. She'd take her little shoulder, point it back to make that strap pull her toe. That leg was helpless. And she'd set it out there, and these big braces on both sides, would support... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... to make her with her crutches so that she could make a step. If it didn't, that would just be limp, and she had no way to hold herself. Can you hear me? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... like that...
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And I just stood still. Two behind me stopped, tried to push me on. And I couldn't tell them "No." I just stood still.
And I wished... couldn't use it. And I'd get out on the streets when all of them get in the auditorium. I'd go down to where all of them little kids was, you know. And I'd give them money. Oh, my. I'd have a string of kids. Oh, they were... There was a little group meets me out here every night, the sweetest little fellows. And I just love little children. And--and the little Finnish girls, they'd pull their little skirts out, like this, and say, "Kiitos." That means "Thank you." See? I had given some money, you know, and they'd say, "Kiitos." And I'd seen her coming up to me. And she got close, and I wondered, "What does she want?" And she got right up close to me. She took her little braces, stood. And she... Them little baby blue eye looked up at me; her little lips was quivering. And she got ahold of my coat. She pulled it up close to her, kissed my coat, let it drop back. She got her little crutch, moved back, and looked up and her little lips trembling, pulled her little skirt out, and said, "Kiitos." Oh, my.
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I thought, "What a lovely child." I knowed that baby was healed. There to God in heaven, couldn't keep it back from healing that child... No, sir. That Angel said, "If you get the people to believe you..." That's right. That child believed in childlike simplicity. Yes, sir. I knowed that baby was healed. I was trying to tell it, "You're healed. You can remove your braces. You're healed. God has healed you." And they kept pushing me on. I went on out to the platform. That night after the service over, there was a lot of crippled people there in the line. If you'll get the "Voice Of Healing," I guess you'll notice the whole arm-loads of crutches and things there were people had been take Laplanders and all... I was just getting a little rest; they was fixing to take me. And I said, "Let's have about ten more prayer cards called." They said, "What number shall you call from?"
I said, "Call from a certain number." And I turned around like this to get a drink. And there... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] was the first one on the platform. Oh, my. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] How her little heart was just jumping, you know. Tried to get to me, pulling herself back, like that... She got real close to me. I said, "Sweetheart... Come here, Sister Isaacson. I want you to tell her something. Tell her that she was healed out there. See? Go down there on the side of the platform before this audience." One limb a little shorter than the other one. And I said, "Tell her to take the braces off of you. Let your hands go right down, like that, as it goes off. You're healed." I went... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] brace. She went over there, said, "Kiitos." And she got over there. She took her braces off. Here she comes back down the platform, running with her braces over her head, screaming and crying, run up-and-down the steps as hard as she could go. And it happened to be one of the officials around there that brought her. Then we had a service, sure enough, in the city. Couldn't even hold the people. The next day... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Somebody's keeping them away. Then trying to keep the people out...
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And so Sister Isaacson said, "Brother Branham," said, "that little boy, the other little boy was hit," said, "he's dying. This is the third day." And said, "He's dying." Said, "They want to speak to you. I said, "Well, bring them on up." And I went out there, and I... Through the interpreter, they said, "We come that..." I said, "What do you want of me?" "We want you to go heal our little boy, like you healed--like the other one." I said, "Look, sister, brother. I can't do that. That was a vision. God showed me two years ago." Said, "Will you go down to the hospital and raise our little boy? He's going to die. And we love him." And I said, "Sure you love him." But I said, "I can't do nothing until God shows me what to do first." And I said, "Then if He tells me something, well then..." She said, "Go..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Said, "No." I said, "Look, if I wanted to find favor with God... If I wanted a favor from Him, I'd try to find favor with Him first." I said, "Now, look, I don't say your little boy will die, or whether it will... I don't know." Said, "But if the other could be raised from the dead, surely our little boy could be saved from death." I said, "God can do it. But I'm just His servant. He has to tell me."
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So she said... I said, "You give your life to Christ. Your little
boy dies now, and you all not Christians, you'll never be with him no more. But if you die... If he dies, and you're a Christian and you die, you'll go up to heaven and be with him forever." Well, they seen that was a--a good proposition. So they just asked what to do. We knelt down there. And I had them to repeat prayer and to give their hearts to Christ, which they did. And then they raised up. And they said, "Go in and ask God what to do." Well, I said, "I shall go in and pray, then I'll let you know." Said, "We'll wait and find out what He says." I said, "That's very lovely. But He don't have to answer me. See? He might not answer me for a week. He might not answer me, might answer me in an hour. But you go on home, and I'll tell you what He says." Said, "No, you go down at the hospital." I said, "He can answer me in this room just the same as He could at the hospital." I said, "Go and believe now. And whatever He says... If He says your baby's going to die, I'll send you word. If He says your baby's going to live, I'll send you word. But I can't say until first He tells me."
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All right. I went in and prayed: nothing. So I went to the hospital. The little boy was getting worse, sinking all the time. That night passed. That was the night the little crippled girl was healed. Then the next night come along; nothing had happened. I went... And oh, those people were frantic. They were calling every fifteen minutes on the phone, nearly to Mrs. Isaacson, "What has the Lord said about our child?" Nothing had been said. I went in that night. My brother, Howard (set--standing over here, works in the prayer line), he went in with me. And their candy over there... The poor people don't have sugar to put in it. And he'd got ahold of two little pieces of candy that day, about that big. He said, "Brother, I'm going to give this to you," as we went up. Brother Baxter went to his room, Brother Lindsay in the other room.
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And I had a room to myself so I can always be alone to pray. And I took these two pieces of candy and went in. And as I went in, I laid them down, like that. And I walked over there to the window. It's still light. It don't get dark there that time of the year. And I raised up my hands, and I said, "O great Jehovah, how marvelous..." at the window, in the hotel. I said, "Oh, You're the root of all goodness. You're the Fountain of Life. You're the Beginning to the Ending. You're God." I begin to praise Him from the window. And I said, "Oh, how I love You, how Your Son died to redeem me and what You've done to that little girl tonight... How I appreciate working for You, Father." And I turned around to walk. And as I turned to look this a way, turned around, I looked... Bible in my hand... There He stood looking
at me. He set a vase down on the table. And in that vase was two American Easter flowers. We call them daffodils or whatever, you know, bright looking daffodils, Easter flowers. And I may give that the wrong name. I don't know nothing about flowers. But anyhow, I call them Easter flowers.
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And they were in a little vase about that high. And I looked at them, and one fell to the south, and one fell to the north. And I looked at that. He said, "That's the two boys." And the one to the north, raised up; and the one to the south raised part of the way up and went wilting down. The one went to the north was the little boy that had been--that come back from the dead. And one that was in the south was dying, going down. And I said, "O God, have mercy." He looked at me, and He said, "What's that your brother give you?" And I said, "Candy, Sir." He looked and He said, "Eat." I picked up one piece of it and eat it. It taste real good. Then that one from the north, it straightened right straight.
Now, I started to take it out. And that was... And this Easter flower in the north, or south was going down. Now, I think I was... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] "Oh, my." He said, "If you refuse to eat that, the baby will die." I put that in my mouth, and chewed it, and I swallowed it, real quick. And as I swallowed it, the one to the south raised up and stood with the one from the north. And He looked at me, vanished from my sight. I stood there. I ran outside. I said, "Brother Moore, come forward. Sister--Sister Isaacson, all of you, come here. Get ahold of the father and mother and say THUS SAITH THE LORD, your baby shall live." Because that he done... doctor done give it up. They hadn't washed him since he'd been there, they were so bad, concussion of the brain and everything. They hadn't washed him. That afternoon they washed him, for they said it was going to die anyhow. And so they called down at the house, and the woman that taken care of the other little child, said, "They're in the hospital. They had an emergency call. The baby was dying a few moments ago, and they rushed to the hospital." She called the hospital. And the mother come to the phone, weeping. She said... Mrs. Isaacson said, "Brother Branham said, 'THUS SAITH THE LORD, your child shall live and not die.'" She said, "Oh, Sister Isaacson, about five minutes ago, we were watching for the last breath. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Standing and weeping, and all of us... Here come the mayor of the city with a... All of them had wrote in their books and everything. All of us trying
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Never...?... could be proved... Do you believe that, do you? God, Who I stand before and Who will judge me at judgment bar, knows that's true. That's right. Those visions cannot fail. That's the major way and the first way the gift works. The second way is the same here. We know by discernment. There's three ways it works. First is by... That's the way it works. Second is to stand here. You see the diseases and the little things the people's done, and so forth; that's second. Third is to pass by and lay hands on the sick. For Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That true? God knows that these testimonies are the truth. Now, let us pray. Heavenly Father, seeing of the outside, the rain just makes so much noise now. Thou art here, Son of God. All I've seen...?... across the sea, thousands of those poor little children... Thinking daily we great a privileged Americans set down at the table as much as we want to eat. Oh, there's much leftover. I'm thinking tonight, way over there in Finland, those countries, of the little hungry children walking the streets, crying, wringing their little dirty hands and their eyes, crying for a piece of bread, have some...?... O God, we're unworthy.
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Someday, it'll be over, won't it, Father? Then we'll all go to gather at Your big welcome table. As of tonight, setting here in this audience, great men and women who's fought the battles of life... I see some of them stricken in sickness some in age. I think some night, when it's all over, we'll gather up at Your house, where it won't be raining, but the power of God reigns. We'll set at the table, the welcome table. May we all gather there as unbroken families, Lord. Grant it to everyone present here tonight be there when the roll calls. I'll look across the table and see some of them, these old veterans, these saints of God... We'll be setting there; we'll have to cry a little just to reach across the table and get one another by the hand, and say, "You remember Cleveland when we had the meetings?" Weep... Then the King will come out in His beauty, walk down along the table, and take His nail scarred hands, wipe all the tears from our eyes, and say, "Don't cry no more. It's all over now. There's no more sickness." You'll never have to have another healing campaign. There'll be no more weary nights. It's all over. No more hunger and you all eat here." To see every...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... out of this world of chaos, and into the marvelous light of the Gospel of the Son of God. Grant it, dear Father. May signs and wonders be done tonight to magnify Him, Who we love, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
IT.SHALL.BE.EVEN.AS.IT.WAS.TOLD.ME_ CLEVELAND.OH FRIDAY_ 50-0818 E-48 [A brother calls the prayer line--Ed.] [A sister prophesies--Ed.] Amen.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord. God bless the sister that give that. Have faith and believe. Trying to believe, aren't you, sister? Just have faith. For your boy, isn't it? The boy has heart trouble, doesn't it? That right? Haven't you just recently become a Christian too? I thought so. You'll believe me if I tell you something? You've already done the thing to cause the boy to be healed. Don't doubt nothing; just believe. Do you believe if I'll ask God from here, you'll be able to take the boy and go home, and he'll be all right, if I'll ask Him? Let's bow our head a minute. Father, a little lad...?... here is going to die if something isn't done for him. I know that You promised us that You'd bind on earth what we bound. And I pray that You'll bind the spirit of the enemy that's trying to take that child's life. May this newly converted mother and the child, be a happy and healthy the rest of her days, for I bless them in the Name of Thy Son now, Jesus Christ. Mother, take your boy and go home. It's going to be well.
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You, brother, setting right behind here, all worried and broke down with TB. Isn't that right? You can go home too. You're healed also. Just have faith. Don't doubt. Believe with all your heart. God will make whole any of those who have faith and believe Him. You believe that? All right. Yes, sister. It's all right now. That's--that's okay...?... sister. You're healed, sister. [The Tape is unintelligible--Ed.]... you were born. You were born. You're either parent's divorced...?... That's your trouble. It's in your...?... Now, if God can reveal back, to tell you those things that you know that it is the truth... Is it? Well now, the next thing is for you to recognize, that in the Presence of the Almighty God you now stand... Someday at the judgment when we stand there, He'll give witness that He was here. You worship Him.
Now, the things I've told you has been the truth, hasn't it? Now, the next thing, if I've seen what has been since you was a little girl, down your life's journey, and even your parents before you down this far, God will heal that crippled leg and make you...?... Believe that? With all your heart? All right. Every one bow. O Jesus, merciful Son of God, borned of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pilate, crucified at Calvary's cross, the Innocent for the guilty, died, buried, rose up the third day, setting at the right hand of God the Father, now making intercessions for us; I come to Thee, and to help a sister here. Down through the cycle of time You spoke to her since even before she came on the earth, concerning her parents; and from her, down to this age... Here she
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stands tonight, bound in her left limb, suffering a nervous condition. Many things has bound her. And Thou, Who knows what's been in the past, knows what the future will be. Speak it through Thy servant's lips, O God. Hear my prayer. Satan, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, leave the woman. All right, sister, look this way, believing...?... go to a hospital...?... I got eight...?... Thank the Lord for your left limb, sister.
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You could be healed of that back trouble, if you'd just believe. Do you believe? Stand on your feet then, for Christ has already healed you of it. Amen. Amen. Come. All right, you can come forward. Good evening, sir. Let's have your hand now, brother. Come here, brother, I'm going to ask you something right here, brother, before the audience. Now, when you came up there... After you was there just a few moments, you begin to get a strange feeling. It's on you right now. Isn't that right? Just raise your hand. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] All right. Just...?... to raise your hand so the people will see that that's right. Hear, my brother, you're already healed. Jesus makes you well. You believed it before I even told you what was wrong with you. But you had a nervous condition...?... Your sickness is over. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Now, his faith healed him. Now, be in prayer. Friends..?... now God is...?...
All right. Good evening sir. Come forward, let's see your hand. Yeah, before I take ahold of you, I feel it hitting me already, it's...?... That's the most...?... There's so many vibrations coming, I would have caught it before, probably. I just happened to feel it as he walked close. Now, that demon knows. Now, if that--if that man will only have faith, he has to leave. Now, I can't make him leave him, unless he believes me. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Oh, yes. Here's a... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Keep believing, then it'll have to leave you. Then that's what the worry is right now. He knows that God is here to make him go. Believe with all your heart. Bow your head. Mothers, keep your children. Father, bless this man who I bless in Thy Name. Satan has bound this fellow, take his life and throw him anywhere, or try to kill him, shorten his days. But You promised whatever we asked and believe, we receive it and you shall have it. That's written in the Word. Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask you to leave this man. Now, look here, sir. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right, everybody be reverent.
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All right, sister. Oh, yes. You're the lady that I met down there at the zoo place the other day. Isn't that right? Amen. Let's see your hand, sister. All right. This was the lady and you finally got your prayer card. She asked me if there's any way she'd get... I said, "Sister, I cannot give a prayer card." I said, "If I--if I... Now, you go ask my brother; he's giving out the cards. And if you'll stand in the section, he will give you a card. But now, whether you're called, that's in the providence of God." (Is that right?) But it seemed like that it must've worked. I do not know. The lady come up to me and was standing there; her and her husband was talking. As soon as she drew near, she was such a believing, until the Spirit of the Holy-the Holy Spirit hit, spoke right out and told her what was wrong with her. (Isn't that right, sister?) All right, let's pray now. Bow your heads. Our heavenly Father, You're near to make this poor little frail woman whole. God, I realize without Your help, it's totally impossible for her to exist. But Thou art here to help her. And I bless her now in the Name of Jesus Christ for her healing. May it leave her, never come again. May she go home singing, happy, praising God. And may it cause an old fashion revival up in that part of Indiana, for I ask this in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. All right, sister, look this way now with all your heart and believe. The vibration is leaving now. God bless you. Go on your road. Write me your testimony, and I'll...?... you believe, that "God's making me well." God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everywhere...?... weakened her. All right, everybody be reverent. (What's this? Oh, it's...?...)
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All right. The man is... And this man is in worse condition. Made you weak, didn't it, sister? Just don't fear. Any powers that can kill a cancer, or straighten a crippled limb, or could bring a man from death to life, it isn't just to be looked at lightly. Now, the man here, very hard of hearing. And he's got something in his wrist that's cutting off the circulation of his wrist, 'cause he can't do a fist or nothing. All right, bow your head everywhere. Our heavenly Father, Who brought again Jesus from the grave, I ask You to be merciful to this man. Satan has harmed him. A deaf spirit come upon him to cause him to walk before a vehicle somewhere and be killed, shorten his days, cutting off the circulation to his limbs, taking one of his hands. But he comes tonight, Father, as a believer. Make his testimony great in the community that he lives in. May his testimony cause a revival. He's getting aged. Just a little while, the works of Jesus. And may he be able by his testimony to win many, many souls to You. Grant him this opportunity, Father. We're taught that all things work together for good to them that love You. Help me
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now in this challenge of faith against Satan. Thou demon powers that has bound this, our brother, in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God, come out from him. Go on reverent. The vibration has left him. Just a moment now...?... Answer me. All right. You can raise your heads. Hear me now? Say, "Amen." I want you to say it. I want you to... You hear me? You can hear me all right? All right. Move your hand up-and-down, like this. Put your hand back and forth, like this. God bless you. It's over; you can go home and be well, brother. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," every...
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Come forward, sister. Now, dear brother, in about... You could hear a whisper or anything by morning or day after tomorrow. Then you're going to go almost completely deaf again. Just keep praising God. Keep that trumpet away from you. God bless you. You got it. How do you do, sister. What if I tell you what... You got healed up, setting there in the chair, would you believe me? Heart trouble, so you can move off the platform now, well, while you're praising. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. He's here to make known His secrets and do all things well. How do you do, sister dear. You believe with all your heart? I know what's wrong with you, but you haven't yet received your healing now. But you have two things wrong with you. I see another one coming in. Let me... so... You're trying to have faith, aren't you? You're just pressing yourself, aren't you? But that isn't it. Just's just settle yourself, sister, and say, "I believe." It's isn't what you can make yourself do; it's just what just simple faith... Just... What color is my shirt? White. Now, you have a sense of sight that says it's white, doesn't it? Now, if your faith says, "I'm going to be healed right now, the same as this." You know it just as well as your sight says that shirt's white, it's over. You believe it with all your heart? Let's see. It's there.
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Now, I'll have to be honest with you, sister...?... I--I'd--I would like to see you healed right there. But that... Want you look at my hand here a moment. See how it's turning red and little white things running over it? I'm going to take your hand off of mine, put my hand on there. Isn't there now, is it? I'm going to take your other hand. Don't hold nothing in this hand. Over here, put this hand here. It's not there now, is it? Now, there's just as much feeling in this hand as you are in that hand, aren't you? But then He told me to take the patient's right hand in my left hand, which is near my heart. See? And I do it with all my heart. See? Now, look, and I want you to watch. Now, see my hand? Now, watch here. See it now? Now, stick your hand right back the same way that
was. Looky there. See what I mean? Now, sister, that's the power of Satan. You have a female disorder, isn't it? It's almost to a cancer. I want to ask you a question. Thought I seen here... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, that was just a question. Now, ask her, was it true, sister, that I told you? If that's right? True. Just a--a secret I couldn't speak before the audience. Believe me with all your heart and be healed. Will you do that, sister?
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Let's bow our heads, everywhere. Father, we thank Thee for Thy mercy tonight. Bless our dear sister now. May this power of the enemy leave her. She's trying, Lord, trying to have faith. And she comes to Thy servant to help her in faith to intercede for her. And I'm blending my faith with hers. And I go in this channel now of faith to challenge this demon that's bound her. Satan, you who bound this poor little woman to take her life, I come in this challenge of faith in the Name of Jesus Christ, claiming the gift of Divine healing ministered to me by an Angel. Come out from the woman through Jesus Christ's Name. Now... Amen. There it left her. Now, before I raise my eyes and look... Sister, you look at my hand. Is it normal just like the other one is now? Now, look, sister dear, something happened, hasn't it? Now, you know that beyond a shadow of doubt. Standing here, telling you things of your life (Is that right?), what was wrong with you... Now, watch. Now, there's my hand, just the same. Now, take yours, just the same. Now, put this other one, just the way you had it awhile ago now. Something's happened, hasn't it? Well, you're healed, sister. That's what it is. Yes. See? You go on your road rejoicing. (Everybody be just as reverent as you can be.) Believe with all your heart. Different now. You notice it dropping down.
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All right, bring the lady on. Good evening, sister. (Come...?...) Look this way. Oh, your trouble's in your back. Isn't that right? You believe with all your heart? You believe if I'll ask God, He'll give you its freedom again? All right. Let us bow our heads, if you will. Our heavenly... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] To tell her, she's serving You in the capacity here at this camp, for Thou has so ordained that she should do this. We thank Thee for her healing. And pray, God, that she'll be a great testimony in her community, through Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, sister. You know when it happened, so that's... All right. It's gone. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Oh, my. What you think that it--the power of the Holy Spirit just numbed her too when He...
All right, bring the lady, and everybody be real reverent now. God bless you sister, have faith now. You're just a little...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... your trouble Oh, I see. I was going to tell you something. You had two or three things wrong with you, main thing is you--you got arthritis, haven't you? Just now I could see how you're moving. And when a vision comes before me, I seen what was happening, the way you handle yourself. All right. Now, you've had trouble in your life, haven't you, quite a bit of it? You've had an operation in your life. And you've been bothered with other troubles, which you know what I'm speaking of. You understand. Is that all true? All true. All right. Your faith is at the right place, sister, just at the right place to be healed if you'll just accept it now. Will you do it? Let's bow our heads. Heavenly Father, bless this, Thy handsmaid, Lord, that she may be free of this demon tonight that's binding her. Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the woman.
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Now's the time for you to act on what I tell you to do. Raise your hand up in the air. Put your feet up-and-down, like this. There you are; your arthritis has left you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," every one. You'll be well the rest of your days. God be with you and bless you.
Everybody believe. Good evening, young lady. You have a very...?... faith to be healed. What are you... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] You think it's wondrous. You believe that what I told you is the truth? All the things that you've heard are the truth? You do? I mean what you've heard me say here, what you were thinking tonight, and told you what was wrong with you. But I would be able to do that. For He promised me that I would, and then I--I know I would... it'll be all right. Something you have in your heart, don't you? And it's a female disorder. You're suffering with a female... That's right. Isn't that right? It's gone from you now. God bless you, sister. But how do you...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... Lord Jesus... Let no one...?... believe...?... Hate to have to say those things, but when the Holy Spirit says so, you've got to say them things. That's right. God bless you...?... All right. Come right ahead, sister. Go off the platform and be well of your tumor. And God bless you. And you can go home...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord." You believe with all your heart?
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Lady, your little boy's about fifty percent different now than what he was, 'cause there's light beginning to come around him to make... So you can take him home now if you want to. Be well. How many would like to receive their healing right now? Now,
remember, friends, if God is here to reveal things and to tell things, and if anything ever happens to make you doubt that, God have mercy. That's all that anything could be done. Isn't that right? God have mercy. Now, you must believe with all your heart in order to remain or retain your healing. There's some handkerchiefs here. He wants me to pray over them. Yes. This part in here, I just prayed over this. There's somebody in Holland, or Hot Hotel Hollander. Holland, H-o- double l-a-n-d-e-r, Hollander. All right. This is... Their handkerchief's laying right here. They may come and receive it. I just had it at the room. That's all of those...?... Here, what's this? It's a telegram. Just a minute. "Please pray for healing for my dying..." Oh, this is the reason, this prayer request. Now, just before... Let's bow or heads while we pray over these. Our heavenly Father, You know all things and can do all things. And we're committing these letters to You now, these requests, laying here on this platform on the pulpit, that You'll heal every one of the people that they represent. There's many that's deeply and sincerely in distress and in need. God, hear the prayer of Your children as we're binding ourselves together now. And with one accord, we pray that You'll heal every one of these people and make them well through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen.
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Now, how many wants--will believe, if we'd ask God just now, you'd be--you'd have your healing? Now, look, it would take... It would take about an hour to get through one... Oh, more than that. Now, God knows all of that. Now, see, when... Here's what it is, friends. When you go to believing like that, it--it begins to seem that--that it just... You have to single it out. And when everybody's looking... Just imagine, just about three thousand things buzzing against you at one time. You have to almost get the person right before you when it's coming like that, before you know just what is. But please, if I have found grace in your sight, if you believe me... And God, Who I stand before, knows that about the gift and the visions, is true, so help me, dear Lord Jesus... I want to go to heaven when I leave this earth. And I don't want to go there and try to get in as an impostor. I wouldn't get in. And I'm testifying of the truth. And nightly, I feel condemned to having... We bring people up and tell them what is wrong, and bring... And make the people kinda get in this place, yet they say... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... now, to get all the people into the prayer line. That isn't necessary, dear friends.
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Now, I know there's people goes through the country, and says they're the only one that has the right to pray for the sick, and so forth. Now, that is an error. Any Christian has the right to pray for
the sick. The Bible said, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other." Everybody. Your pastors here has just as much right to pray for the sick as I, or anyone else. You don't have to follow healing campaigns. Sometimes in the healing campaigns, you'll see the things going to pass. Someone may get a-a testimony of healing. It stirs your faith. You see signs...
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But do you remember, the Angel of the Lord said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs to prove to Israel that his testimony was true, so will you be given two signs." Have you heard it before? You've heard the story. And Moses performed those signs one time. That was enough. Is that right? Here went Israel following him to the promised land. I trust that God will give you grace for the next five minutes to believe that I'm telling you the truth. See? I say this upon the merits of Jesus Christ, and the Bible, and the testimony of the gift to confirm it, that Christ's attitude is exactly the same towards every one of you. He's here to heal you this night.
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Maybe you might not have the spontaneous faith to bring something, just a miracle right to you. You may not have that kind of faith. But Jesus said, "If you had the faith like a mustard seed, you could say to the mountain, 'Be moved,' and by and by, it would come to pass." It wouldn't vanish it away. But by and by it would come to pass. Now, the mustard seed, the reason He said that... You could mix kale; you could mix spinach, breed it together, but you can't mix mustard with nothing. It won't mix. It's just mustard to be mustard. And if you've got just the least little grain of faith, that's genuine mustard seed faith that won't move, stay with it; it'll bring you out. Now, some people have faith like this. Some has that much, some has that much, and some can go plumb over their heads in miracles. But because you haven't got that much, that doesn't mean that you can't be healed. If you had the least little bit of faith, just stay right with it. It'll take you out. Will you believe that? That's the truth. God will make me answer for it, if I haven't told you the truth. Can you accept it now upon the basis of God's...
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Little girl, you've been healed for the last twenty minutes, honey, setting there, the little Spanish girl setting there. See? And don't--don't worry about that. I seen you healed awhile ago. Now, notice. Look. Every person in here can receive their healing right now. When you will believe that you're healed, just the same as you believe that's white. Believe that you're healed, accept it, and say, "Thank You, Lord." Walk right away, and take it, accept it upon
those basis and be healed. How many will believe that now, say, "Amen." All right. I want you to stand up while we have prayer. Look. There's a man setting here that my heart bleeding for. Come here. Are you a real believer in Christ, brother? You usher, which I see you are. Come here just a moment. How you feeling, sister? Better? All right. That's the way to accept it though. Go home and be well now. You're out of your wheelchair. You can go home and be made perfect. Now, you didn't have to lay your hands on her now. God bless you, sister. Your faith has saved you, a little Mennonite woman.
Let's bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, Thou art here to heal the sick, to perform miracles, to cast out demons, to reveal the secrets of the people's hearts, to call demons by their names, to heal all manner of sickness and diseases among the people. Lord God, we thank You for everything that Thou hast done this night, and pray, God, that this will be a great night, that every person in the building may rise, as this woman out of a wheelchair just now, standing by faith, believing. God, may they go home healed, every one of them, and made completely whole. I now ask this blessing of their healing through Jesus Christ's Name. Satan, thou ungodly spirit, you that tries to bind people with unbelief, tries to make them doubt, you are a loser. You're defeated. I now plead the Blood of Christ around every believer, that you foul...?... spirit leave this audience. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out from the people. Liberate them through Christ's Name.
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Good evening. Very happy, and as usual, to be here. It always makes me feel happy to come and--and minister to the sick and the needy. God knows that the world is sure in need. Now, tonight as we minister, Brother Gordon told me the other day, said... Kinda refreshed myself and speak awhile tonight? Next... Tomorrow afternoon is the--the "Life's Story." And I wish, if you would, if you come out tomorrow and can, I make it the afternoon so it will not bother anyone's services, religious services. If you can come in the afternoon, it'll be very, very fine. And then tomorrow night, I trust that God will give us our outstanding healing service tomorrow night. That'll be...
Next week, they've asked me to continue on a little while, which I'm going to try my best. We very seldom ever stay over three to five nights in meeting there. And this time, I'm trying to stay a little long, because it's so difficult to take the--to take the... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God bless every one. And I just love little children. She passed by there. Bless her little heart. Yes, sweetheart. She has eye trouble, don't she, mother? She's extremely nervous too, isn't she? Isn't that right? You're suffering with a back trouble. Isn't that right? Yes, ma'am. Well now, you believe me what I tell you, will you do that? You go home testifying that you're healed, and about your daughter too, and everything will be all right for you, if you'll believe it. God bless you, sister. Now, the little sweet little thing come by waving her little hand. Well, I just love little children with all... Now, don't... Do not doubt nothing, sister. Now, that's... You know that I'm perfect stranger to you, and I do not know you, know nothing of you. But you believe me if what I've told you to be the truth, and God... You go ahead and just testify, say you're healed and all is over. And your baby will get well, and everything will be all right.
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Now, I want you to remember that tomorrow night... Everybody try to be in tomorrow night for the healing service. And next week, our... What we try to hold off for so many cards, is to try to get to a place where... Our meetings are usually congested with many, many thousands of people. But it hasn't been too many people in the meetings. And I feel if we'll just take next week and we won't have any prayer cards. We'll just pray for everybody, just let everybody come up and pray for them. And--and I believe that there's been enough said around, and watched the things that's been in other meetings, till I'm--I'm trying to find a way... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Something that God can get every one of, you know, heal everybody. That's what I want to see.
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Someone told me there'd been somebody here for many, many times in the other meetings, and had never been able to get into the prayer line. That's what I'm trying to get away from. Just as quick as possible get to a place to where we can get every one prayed for. The signs and wonders are glorious. And I believe though, I tried it in Kuopio, and many of the different places. And it was just wonderful. But in America I have never seen the time just yet. I was trying to find the will of God, to find out what God wants me to do. And then I
always want to walk in His perfect will if I possibly can. Everything that I--I know that it can be done to--to help.
Now, everybody be reverent, believe with all your heart. And now, I want to thank some of the dear people that... A certain lady, I... She may not even be here. A couple days ago, she bought me some clothes. (My little boy's speaking here.) This woman, kind of a poor lady, was all right. I--I looked at the clothes, and I--I admired it, so that I--I didn't know what to do. Anybody gives me anything, I appreciate it just million times more than if I bought it myself. I was... I just want to thank that lady, if she's here anywhere, and may God bless her and give her the desire of her heart. And I appreciate... Someone sent me a box of handkerchiefs and some things yesterday. And I appreciate that. God knows that I won't wear those clothes in bad places. I'll just use them to preach the Gospel, everything that I can. And I'll do all that I know how to do for others. And I appreciate it...?... Now, the only thing I can say, is, "God reward you, sister, brother, whoever you are that gave those things." Yes, sir.
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And I was just going to announce it last evening. I thought, "Well, I have this..." Maybe she was here, and I forgot about it. And I appreciate. Someone... And if there's anything, if anyone gives... Don't you feel that way about it? If it's something someone give you... And I've got a--a great person. I love outdoors, guns, knives, hunting, you know. That's where I found God as a little boy, wandering in the woods. And I always loved hunting. And someone... Sometimes a fellow give me a barrel of an old .22 rifle, about that long. And I took a piece of board and made a stock out of it. Why, I wouldn't sell that thing for nothing. Its value would be worth a dime, probably, maybe fifty cents. And I put a hammer on it and I fixed it up. But it's worth a thousand dollars to me. I remember the old brother that had it. And I... Just anything, no matter what it is, that anyone gives, anyone, it's... I cherish it greatly. Now, that... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] We're going right on through, I think, until about Thursday or Friday. Isn't that right, Brother...?... That'll be the longest meeting, I guess, I ever held in my life at any time. And so... Up here in this city. And I certainly haven't seen any place that I would have seen any more spiritual cooperation among the people. And fine faith is what I have found right here in this city. God bless each one of you. You'd be surprised. Just standing right here now, you can see thing after thing happening in the meeting (That's right.), of what's going
on. If I could just only get the people to believe it with all their heart, soul, and mind. If they would do that, it would just be marvelous how God would... Now, many times, you can see what's going on. But to ta--say the person's healed, I couldn't say it. Now, I couldn't say until God shows me. I can only say what, everything. Just like the little lady here, telling her what, the man... If I would've had...
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I believe that's the new little boy here. I don't believe. This is the first time--his first time he's been here isn't it? You been here before? Third night. I've never noticed him before to... Now, just a... Are you a believer, the parents? You believe with all your heart? Now, if you'll just believe me, I'll be able to tell you about the child. But now, its healing, I... 'less God tells me. Yes, I see the child. It looks like a spastic, but it wasn't. That child was injured at birth. Isn't that right? Is that what done it? That's right...?... Now, there's some kind of a connection between us now. You know, both of you; you feel real strange now, don't you? See? You've contacted that Spirit. Now, just be real reverent and believe with all your heart, you can have just what exactly what you ask for. If you can believe... But the first thing is to believe. You, I believe, I have said I seen the vision from...
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There's a little lady, setting right there with a white looking dress on, young girl; you're trying your best for me to say something, aren't you, sister? Do you believe with all your heart? And when I walked on the platform awhile ago, you started praying, or something or another, didn't you? Because I turned around, I noticed you were praying or something. You were wanting me to tell you that what-what's wrong and what... Isn't that right? Let me go to telling you a little story. You're just a young woman. We know that by looking at you. But one time, there was a woman in the Bible, something of your nature, and she promised the Lord what she would do if the Lord would just bless her. Is that true? She goes up to the temple to pray about it one day (Is that right?), this woman. And the priest misunderstood her. And she prayed with such sincerity for God to take away her reproach, until she was misunderstood. Is that right? And the temp--priest of the temple came out and said, "The Lord grant to you your desire." And in nine months from then, she had her desire (Wasn't that right?), a little baby. God bless you, sister. And may God give you the child that you're desiring right there. Don't worry, mother. I believe that she'll embrace a child soon. Now, just have faith and believe with all your heart.
People down in this end of the row, look this a way and believe with all your heart. Here's a kind of a heavy set lady, setting here I just contact now by the Spirit of God. Sister, if I tell you what's wrong with you... I know... Yes, I see now. Here's what it is. You have difficult breathing. Isn't that right? Difficult breath, you can't breathe good. If you'll do what I tell you to do and believe me as God's prophet...?... You know that you're a stranger. No way in the world that I'd know that except God. You believe in that? Would you go testifying that you're healed, and telling people you're healed? God will grant it. There's a man setting right next to you also with that white shirt on. He's in trouble also. Isn't that right, sir? Now, I don't know. Your trouble is in your arms. No, no it isn't. You have a prostate trouble for one thing. And you're having trouble in your... No, you got pleurisy. That's what it is. Isn't that right, sir? It's in your sides, along like that...?... That is right. Will you believe me as God's prophet? You know that you're a stranger to me. All right. You go and forget you ever had pleurisy. Testify of your healing, you shall have what you've asked for.
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God, be merciful. Nervous and eye trouble, isn't it, sister, with your little girl? Have faith. She'll get over that and be all right. Amen. Do you believe too, sister, with that complication, cancer? Even everything else work on you, isn't that true? Yes, sir. All right. This lady setting here with this white looking collar on, you have complication. You have... You've had cancer also, haven't you? All right. Jesus heals you now. You're over that. You can go home and be free as you want to be. Don't fear about the girl's eyes there, sister. And your nervous trouble, also, that'll leave you and you'll be all right. God bless you, sister, and have mercy. Just have faith. Just believe. Down in this a way, every one look and believe. Have faith. All right, sir, you setting there with your short sleeves on there, with eyes and ear trouble. Isn't that right? You believe me? All right. Testify that you're healed, and God will make you well, and heal you right now if you'll just believe it. Oh, dear brother, sister, anywhere, God is here. He can just make known...
Let us pray just now. Our heavenly Father, many are the afflictions of Your people, but It says, "The Lord delivereth them out of them all." Oh, time would not permit how that You could sweep over this audience, one from the other, speaking to them. Lord, surely the people would know that Your servant, standing here with not an earthly way, knowing that there's a spiritual contact between these people and Thy servant. And I'm trying to tell them
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it's Your Divine gift that was sent down from glory to manifest Your Presence. As You told Nathanael, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I knew you." You told the woman about her sins. You told them where to find the mules. You knew where the fish was that had a coin in his mouth. You know all things, and You reveal them to us as we serve You. And we know You said, "These things that I do, greater shall you, for I go unto My Father." And Your Spirit is here tonight, manifesting.
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Father, help me as I speak the Word. May the Word now go forth with power and bring forth a results that'll start this audience, every one--the cripples to walk, the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak. May they leave here rejoicing, happy, shouting, glorifying You. And may tomorrow be a new day, a dawn that when blind sees, and the deaf hear, lame walk, cancers are gone away, weariness of flesh, faith is in, Jesus rules and reigns, all doubt is gone. Grant it, Father. Bless You Thy people. We're gathering together here at the end of the week to serve You and to bless Thy Name through praise and thanksgiving. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Now, everyone now, I want you to listen real closely while I speak for a few moments. Don't doubt, just have faith to believe that... I want to read in Saint John, the 14th chapter, you that have your Bibles. I wish to speak just for a few moments. And I believe God's going to give us a breakthrough tonight. I believe it's on the audience. You feel better now, don't you, brother and sister. The little lady right there in front. But just have faith now. Just believe with all your heart. All right. Let not your hearts be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house there are many mansions: if it wasn't so, I would have told you. And I go and prepare a place for you. ... if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, to receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Where I know... where I go you know, and the way you know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not where thou goest, and how can we know the way? Jesus said unto him, I am the way... truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father but by me. If you had known me, you should have known my Father also... from henceforth you know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
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I want to use that for a just a little text, for a few moments. Then we want to come back into the healing service again. Just to speak to you on the Word, "Show Us The Father And It Suffices." In other words, "It'll satisfy us if You'll show us the Father." Now, I want... How many would like to really see God, that wants to here, would like to see God? All right. "Show Us The Father And It'll Satisfy Us." Now, that... I want to speak to you just quickly if possible upon some ways to see God, and how to see Him. And if... God, if I can, by the Scripture, and by the wonders and signs, prove to you Who God is, and where He's at, will you believe me? Will you believe me? All right. "Show us the Father and it'll satisfy us."
I'm going to take about four ways to see God. Then we'll come down and make it, in the last part of it, a way where you'll be--have to see God. I'm going to show Him to you, if I can, by the help of the Spirit tonight in four different manners. Now first, we want to speak of God in His universe, and God in His Word, God in His Son, then God here in His people. I want to show you God in His universe, show you God in His Word, show you God in His Son, then see God here in His people. Then that ought to satisfy any of us, surely.
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Let's bow our heads. Eternal God, the Author of Life and Giver of every good gift, as we now have opened up the Word and read It, the Words that fell from Your beloved Son Jesus. We know they're eter--eternally true, and that they're infinite. There's nothing more truer than God's Word. And we love It. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word. And now, Father, that the people may be established now, may be settled upon the Word, the solid Foundation, that is, if Satan should come to them in any manner, they could flee to the Word. "It is written."... Now, Father, help us tonight and open the Word to us, and open our understanding. Circumcise the lips of Your servant that speaks, and circumcise the hearts of the people that the Word may fall in, that It may fall in rich fertile ground and bring forth a hundredfold. And may there not be a feeble one among us after tonight. May it be over tonight, every one with faith, Father. Grant it. And now, may the Holy Spirit take the things of God and deliver them right out to the people, for we ask it in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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That's the aged old cry: "If I could only find God." The... All ages, people are born to worship. You'll worship something. Maybe it's your child, your car, your home, your job, maybe even your church. That will not work. It isn't the church we worship; it's God. The caveman, the Indians, the American Indian, we found that he worshipped the sun. And he believed there was a happy hunting ground. When one died, they put the corn and so forth, his bow and arrow, and sent him out across the sea somewhere in his canoe, that he would find the happy hunting ground where he would have provisions to carry him over. There's something in the human heart that calls out for a worship, somewhere. No man is on earth without worship. He worships something.
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Jesus told the woman at the well, "You worship, ye know not what. We know salvation's of the Jew." Now, worship is not all we desire. There is a provided way of worship. Did you know that? See? There's a way to worship, and a way, right way to worship and the wrong way to worship. I'm not trying to tell you which way to worship; but I'm telling you; there's a way that you have to approach God. And if you do not come that provided way, you certainly cannot find God. There's a way for me to go home, not across the field, shortcut; go the highway. That's what was made; it's provided for me. God don't have any shortcuts. We all come the same way. That's right. No shortcuts to glory. We must come the way.
Look in the beginning when Cain and Abel were turned from the garden, their parents, and they both seen they were mortal beings and knowed they had to die... Look. Cain and Abel, both of them wanted to worship God. And Cain, he built an altar to God. Now, if an altar is all that God requires, Cain was justified. And Cain made a sacrifice upon the altar. Is that right? Well, if a sacrifice and an altar is all God wants, Cain was justified. Then Cain also he built an altar, and he worshipped; he put a sacrifice on it, and he knelt down and worshipped God. But God was displeased, because he didn't come the right way. See, he built a church, an altar; he put a sacrifice on the altar, brought the fruits of the land, was probably the--more beautiful. You must watch this, friend. Don't never forget this.
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Brother Gordon told me I could have this little privilege tonight, as it was, to speak to the people awhile just before we make
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the final outpush for the ending of the services. Notice, it refreshes me to speak on the Word. It helps me. It keeps me... Sometime under that anointing, It falls on me. And then I stay under there for a long time, I get so weak I can hardly stand. But preaching never bothers me. I love to talk of the Word. Notice. Then... Reason I was calling those people a few minutes ago, and different ones, and I see another one come right now, that's healed right now. But the reason I was doing that, is because that you might know that His Spirit is here now. He's in the building now. See?
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But now, back to Cain and Abel, when Cain worshipped, he built an altar; he sacrificed; he worshipped God. But that wasn't enough. And it was beautiful, no doubt the flowers and things that grows in the field, and he decorated his altar. Why soon, as soon as Easter come, across the nations there'll be million dollars spent for Easter flowers that go on the altar. Well, God don't care about that Easter flower on the altar. He wants you on the altar. You're the person for the altar, not your flower, or your money; He wants you. The altar was built for you to sacrifice your own will to His will. See? Well, then... But if an altar, sacrifice, worship is all that God requires, then you'll have to say Cain was justified. And watch that beauty. Now, that's right in our--many of our Full Gospel churches coming right into it. See? They want to build a little better church, put a few thousand dollars in a pipe organ. That doesn't bring God in. That might bring people. But self-sacrifice brings God in--to the will of God. See?
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And remember, in glory the first thing that ever caused the first sin, that Satan wanted a little better things than what Michael had, went over and set himself up a--a better, beau--more beautiful kingdom. See? That's beauty. Here it falls right down into his son, Cain, coming right on down. And he decorated his altar, beautiful. But here comes Abel dragging a little old lamb behind him. I don't see nothing so pretty about that. They didn't have any ropes in them days, I guess, so they had a vine, maybe, wrapped around his neck, because it was--it was Christ. That's Who It was. For they led Him away like a La--Lamb to the slaughter. They put a rope around his neck. And here he come, leading this little lamb, bleating, pulling back. He laid him upon a rock. Perhaps didn't have any sharp knives in them days. Probably took an old sharp rock, and held his little head back, and begin to beat his little throat; Abel did. See? And the blood begin to spurt out of his little arteries in his neck. Did you ever hear a lamb dying? Most pathetic thing you ever heard
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God looking down out of heaven said, "That's what it takes." The blood speaking, what did it speak of? Years after that, the Lamb of God was led away. Blood... You're the blood of your father and mother. But being borned again, you become the Blood of God, the Blood of Christ cleansing us. And there He was, the Lamb of God, hanging up there on Calvary, bleeding, bleating, His bloody locks dripping from His head upon His shoulders, the blood spatting everywhere. I believe, like Billy Sunday said in that hour, said, "There's Angels setting in every bush, said, 'Just turn Your hand away. Point to us, and we'll destroy this mob.'" Some of them said, "He saved Himself... He saved others and Himself He cannot save," criticizing. That was the greatest tribute was ever paid Him. He couldn't save Hisself and others, so He gave Hisself to save others. There is the way. There brought down the results standing there for the Holy Spirit coming through the Blood, the Life brings the human today in contact with God.
Everybody wanted to find God down through the age. Job of old, he said, "Oh, if I only knew where He was." In his trouble setting there on the ash heap scraping his boils... God dealing with a saint in this case... There he was setting there scraping his boils. Some of his church friends come to him, set with their backs turned to him, not much consolation. But Job wanted to know, "Oh, if I only knew where His house was. (In other words.) If I'd go knock on His door, He'd come out and talk to me." That's what he wanted to do. But notice, when a man is hungering and thirsting for God, God will draw nigh to the man always. See? Give up, surrender your will to God. Then when his church members came and could not console him, accused him to being a secret sinner, said he'd sinned before God... Job knew he had not sinned, and he knew he was all right. But then God sent a young man down by the name of Elihu, come down to meet Job, perfect type of Christ again. He didn't accuse Job of being a secret sinner. He tried to tell him of Someone Who would come and stand in the breach in the last days, to put his hands upon a sinful man and upon a holy God and bridge the way.
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Job, being a prophet, caught the vision. He stood up. Lightnings begin to flash; thunders begin to roar. The prophet had come in contact with his Father, God. He turned and said, "I know my Redeemer liveth. At the last days, He'll stand upon the earth. Though the skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God,
Whom I shall see for myself. My eyes shall behold, and not another." Soul calling out for God, God in His universe...
Recently I was watching. I love birds. I was watching some eagles here not long ago when I was on a fishing trip, an old mother eagle, setting way on top of a mountain. And she threw her wings out, and the little eagles caught ahold of her wings, and she went down into the valley. It was the first time they'd ever been out of that old nest. Reminds me there. Could you see God there? Yes, a sinner. Now, this is kind of... Did you ever... The things of the world is like a eagle's nest: full of sticks, and thorns, vomit. The eagles are regurgitators, and they vomit their food, smell. And a sinner that's living in the nest of the world, among the vomit of the world, barrooms, and walking around, knowing nothing about anything else but the old nest of the world... Then I seen her take her little ones, and they caught ahold of her wings, and she went down the mountain into the valley, throwed out her big wings and the little eagles let loose. They begin to run around, their little feet touched for the first time upon soft ground, upon the grass. They eat green grass. "He leads me beside still water." Oh, my, how glorious and wonderful.
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Then, notice closely, when he was--they did that, then the little eagles... The old mother eagle, when she seen that, what was... She went plumb back up into the top of the mountains again, set down upon the rocks, begin to look down, watching those little eagles. And I begin to think, "My, doesn't that seem like..." Some little girl's sick. One of the elders, will you please run over and have prayer with the little girl; she fell in her chair. And then... Now, notice closely; pay attention this way. The little girl's got sick and some of them going to have prayer with her. I think she has a card in her hand, be in the line probably in a few moments. All right.
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Notice closely now. But the old mother eagle setting up there begin to watch. I thought, "How glorious that Jesus came, taking us out of the things of the world, put us out in this glorious freedom out here." Them little eagles, running carefree, eating grass and so forth, just like glorious old time Holy Ghost meeting, when the saints of God have come out of the things of the world, down on the green carpet of God's blessings, carefree. Our Saviour has climbed the ramparts of glory. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. He knows everything. All times, He knows what's wrong with you.
There, she was watching. I noticed her. I picked her up through my binoculars. And I seen her turn that big head sideways and look. I thought, "What's the matter?" She's setting. She watches over those little eagles. There's God in His creation again, God in His universe. I thought, "What would happen if a coyote would happen to run in towards those little eagles, what would take place?" Why, that old mother would be there after them in a moment.
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After while, I seen her hold her head up, and she looked up, and she made a squall. All at once, she darted from that mountain, down into the valley. And when she went down there, she threw forth those great majestic wings and let out a scream. When she did, every one of those little eagles left off eating, run as quickly as they could to their mother, grabbed their little bill ahold of her wings, like that, with their bill, put their little feet in them wings. I wondered what was the matter. I couldn't see it yet. But across the mountain come a hurricane that she could smell in the air and knew it was coming. She was watching over her brood. And then, before she could get off the ground, the storm was already sweeping down through the hollow. When she did, she pierced that storm blowing at sixty miles an hour. Those little eagles holding on to that mother's wings. And right into the cleft of the rocks she went. I thought, "O God, one of these hours there's coming a scream from heaven; the trumpet of God shall sound, and every Christian shall fly on to the wings of the old rugged cross, piercing the storms of life out into the cleft in the Rock, Christ Jesus." Oh, my. God in His nature, watch Him in His universe. Just in a moment, how He can take us, no matter how hard the trial is, just hold on to His wings, and He'll bear you away. Watch God in His birds, and how He cares for it. Watch God in the sunset.
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Not long ago, there was an infidel passed through the lands making infidels out of supposingly to be Christians. He was so educated, till the ministers was afraid to attacked him. And then he went to Europe. On his road back he got broke down. He went out into the west to make him a rest. And one day while he walked out from his camp, oh, he swelled himself out. He begin to look. Down there come that whispering of the wind, down through the pines, and he begin to look up. He looked at those rocks hanging in the mountain. He said, "O rocks, Who put you in the mountains? Have I been wrong about the chronology of this world?" All of a sudden God begin to speak. The Bible said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will cry out." God in His universe, speaking from His rock.
Well, that infidel knelt down by the side of a tree, said, "O God, have mercy on my soul." There you are. Their pastors were afraid to attack him. God could let the rocks speak out. God's in His universe, speaking to His people.
I've seen the sunset. Stand and cry like a baby, just couldn't help it. Glorious to see God in His sunset and His sunrise. God's in His animals. You go out here and look at the paper this winter. And the papers say, "Tomorrow is going to be fair." And all the news commentators say it's going to be fair. Watch that old sow take the shucks off of the--the north side of the hill, and take them around on the south side and make her bed. Don't you believe what the paper says. No, sir. It'll be cold just as sure as the world. Go out to hunt and find a rabbit going down underneath in the fallow row. Watch for snow and cold weather. Sure. They got a God-given instinct.
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Not long ago... I go up into the mountains to hunt. And in there, there's a... Many times these ducks come out of down in Louisiana, go up into the north and make their nest up there in the slime in Canada and around. And they lay their eggs and hatch them. And when they hatch their eggs, in among those group of ducks there's a little duck that's born that's a leader, a little drake. Just as soon as the first cold breeze sweeps down across the mountains, that little old duck will run right out in the middle of the pond. He's never been off that pond in all of his life. He was born there. He'll run right out there and stick his little old honker up in the air and honk four or five times. Every duck on the pond will come to him. "What's the matter?" God has given ducks instinct. That's right. They know that that little old duck is borned a leader. Something's going to happen. There's a cold breeze a blowing. The trouble of it is, when the cold breeze blows, man won't listen to his Leader, which is God.
This little old duck, all of them will get right around him. He'll raise off of that water. Never been off of there in his life, and go just as straight to Louisiana as he can go, to the rice fields to dodge all the cold weather, because God's given him a provided way to detect. He's never been off of there. He has no compass. He don't trust a compass; he's trusting instinct that God's give him. If a... We ought to have "duck sense" anyhow. If God could give a duck enough instinct to dodge the cold and go to safety, how much more ought He give His church with the baptism of the Holy Ghost to trust God. God in His nature, God provided a duck with instinct. God provided you with the Holy Spirit. He's your Leader. He's here now
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One day, my dad and I were plowing, and the horses begin to snort. I said, "What's the matter with them, dad?" He said, "Son, there's a storm coming." I said, "Oh, my. Dad, look at how clear it is." He said, "God has so provided that horses has an instinct. They can smell storms for miles away." And we hadn't made two more rounds till we had to hurry to the barn. The horses seen it, knew it. They could detect it by an instinct before there was a sign of anything you could see with any other sense. Oh... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] the Holy Spirit. Oh, church of God, you who claim to kiss the blessings of the rim of the cup of blessings, how can you doubt God, Who is almighty and omnipotent, Who stands now to bless and to heal every person in this building? Why? How could you doubt Him? When men, through the age, is the only people that's ever amount to anything is those who dare to take the stand for God. Many things how God provides...
How bears is my favorite hunting. The old mother bear, she... In the fall of the year when mating season, they'll go up into the mountains. There she'll eat hemlock cones, and she never eats anything else. Her stomach is all shrunk up to just about big as my fist. Summertime, it'll hold five gallons. And it shrinks up. She stand over the back. The little ones are born about February. She never wakes up. She maybe has anywhere from two to four little bears. And she never knows nothing about it until about May when she wakes up, and her cubs are great big fellows then. Never eats a bite, and those little bears nurse from her. What is it? God's provided way. That's right. God makes a way.
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Not long ago, there was a little preacher, a little minister in a nearby city. And he thought maybe that he knew lots about the--the thing. There's a little boy that went to his church; he asked his mother, "If a..." Wait. All right. I guess they're going to take the little girl out to, maybe it get blessed or something, take it... Going out to the prayer tent? All right. All right now, notice. That's all right. All right. We notice, this little boy, he went to his pastor, and he said, "Pas..." Or, he asked his mother first. That's a good way. God healed you. Go and give your heart to Him then. Isn't that right? Good way to do.
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Now, notice. The pastor... First, the little boy asked his pastor, said, "Pastor, I have heard you speak so much of God, could anybody see God?" Well, the pastor said, "No, honey." Said, "Nobody can see God and live." Well, he was just a boy. And he asked his mother, and his mother didn't know. He asked his Sunday school teacher; she didn't know. Said, "No one could see God." He was so disappointed. He used to stay up on the river near the six mile island up there. There's an old fisherman there that had long white beard. He hung around with this old man.
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One day, up the river they were, and a storm came up. And after the storm, they came down the river. Any boatman here knows what the rhythm of oaring your boat and feel of the waves tip the oars, you know. And the old man looked around, the sun had come out. There was a rainbow setting. The leaves were all washed off and pretty. The old man kept pulling his boat; tears begin to roll down his cheeks. He'd pulled a little farther and looked back again. The little fellow setting in the stern of the boat become so enthused till he run up in the middle of the boat, and he said, "Sir, I'm going to ask you a question my mother couldn't answer, my father couldn't answer, my pastor, my Sunday school teacher. No one could answer me." Said, "I believe there is a God." And said, "Could I ever see Him?" It was too much for the old fisherman. He just pulled his oars in, threw his hands to his face and wept like a baby. He reached and put his arms around the little boy, and said, "God bless your heart, honey. All I've seen for the past thirty-five years has been God."
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Why, sure. There was so much God on the inside, he could see Him on the outside. If you want to see God in His universe, get Him on the inside. Watch how the birds sing different in the trees. Even your enemy looks different when God comes on the inside. He's in His universe. He's in you looking out, showing you the magnificent part of His universe. (Quickly, we'll hurry.) God in His universe, you believe He is? Did you ever see Him in a sunset? Did you ever see Him in a sunrise? Ever see Him in the beautiful mountains? Oh, my. Sometimes I get there and look down upon the scene and just scream to the top of my voice. I can't help it. There's a deep calling to the deep out there. God in His universe... How we could stand here for hours and speak of Him, how God speaks out of His universe.
Now, let's take secondly, quickly, so we can get to it: God in His Word. How many believes God's in His universe? All right. You can see Him in His universe. Let's see if He's in His Word. He said, "My Word is Life." Truly, Life... Now, the only thing, the Word... The letter killeth; the Spirit giveth Life. What I trust now with all my heart, that God will quicken ("Quicken" means "make alive."), quicken the Word to you now by His Spirit. Jesus said, "A sower went forth and sowed seeds. And while he slept, another sower came by and sowed tares." And He went ahead and told the parable. The disciples could not understand Him. Jesus explained to them. He said, "The sower is the Son of man. The field is the earth. And the Seed is the Word of God." Amen. Notice, "The Seed is the Word of God." If it's... Whatever God's Word says, It's a seed.
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Now, the way to raise a crop, is first get the ground ready. Is that right? Take out all the stink weeds, and the briars, the creepers. That's unbelief and doubt. Sweep it out of your heart. Get ready. Then the field's broke up. I'm not very much on this dry-eyed repentance. I like to see a man come down before God, say, "I'm sorry, Father. Receive me." Broke up, the ground ready for the Word... Notice, then any Divine promise of God is a Seed. And that Seed in the right ground, will produce its kind. Corn will bring corn. Barley will bring barley. Wheat will bring wheat. And any Divine promise of God will bring the results, if it's placed in the ground, and there watered with faith, prayer, trust, God shall bring it to pass. I'm saying with experience.
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I'm thinking now that the best doctors the United States' got, two years ago, said, "Reverend Branham, there's not a chance for you." Oh, it makes my heart sing "Amazing Grace! how sweet the sound, saved a wretch like me. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] There, setting in Mayo's clinic. They said, "You broke yourself, boy. You'll never come out of it." I turned the old Word. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them." I said, "Father, place them in my heart. I shall water them with faith day and night; tonight I stand in perfect health." Once a blind man, led me by my arms. I couldn't see a thing, just objects in front of me moving, only daylight was dark. And tonight, my eyes test 20/20. Why? I took God's Word. No one with a gift to cast the spirit away, the Word will do it, faith in God's Word.
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Jesus had all the fine qualities of God in Him. Do you believe
it? He had powers upon powers. But when He met Satan, He never used His power. He give an example for the weakest of Christians. When He met Satan, He said, "It is written. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." The weakest Christian can take that stand. Hold it. Sure, God's in His Word. Every time when He would meet the enemy, He said, "It is written." I believe He had power to do it. But He met Satan on the same grounds with the same Word that you can meet him with, every one, "It's written." You believe it? Why, it's written. "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them." Watch the order of the Word. Believe now (present tense) you receive it, and you shall have it. It'll be given to you later, but believe it now. Before you can get your crop, you got to plant the seed. Water it. Believe it. Don't dig it up every morning to see if it's... Every time you dig it up, you'll delay it that much more. It'll never grow if you keep digging it up.
When you settle it in your heart that God's healed you, sister; you, little boy; you, brother; any of you, settle it in your heart and believe. Take God at His Word and start testifying about it. Give it plenty of water; fertilize it. Watch what takes place. The Word of God will produce just exactly what It says. If that's not the inspired Word of God, I wouldn't be standing here. I wouldn't believe in it. But I know It's the truth. Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not pass away. "I the Lord have planted it; I'll water it day and night 'less some should pluck it from My hand." There you are, God in His Word. God speaks anything, He means it. God says it. Then there'll be so many things and such things, and it was. God said, "Let there be light." Light sprang from somewhere from the Creator. God said, "Let there be this," and it was this. "Let it be that," and it was that. What God said is seeds. God's in His Word. You believe it?
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He said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high. I'm going to send you the promise of the Father." Yes. That was God's Word. Christ was the Word. Oh, in the beginning was the Word; the Word was with God; and the Word was God; and the Word was made flesh and dwelled among us. You say, "Well, God said the commandments, and God said this." Everything that Christ said was the Word of God: Father in the Son, speaking through Him. "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high." My, God's in His Word, manifest Hisself.
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He told a man, "Go wash in the Pool of Siloam (Sent.) And the man washed in the pool and obeyed the Word, come back clean. God's in His Word. You believe that? God is in His universe. God is in His Word. God will confirm His Word. Up there on the day of Pentecost, when they were all gathered in one place, afraid, cowards, setting in behind the walls, walled in a little room, but they had a commandment not to leave Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high. There they are, a hundred and twenty gathered in the upper room, fastened the doors, pulled down the windows, if there was any. Then all of a sudden there came a sound from heaven like of a little rushing mighty wind. And It filled all the house where they were setting. Out into the streets they went. They didn't care about their human prestige. There was all the aristocrats from all over the country gathered there at the day of Pentecost. They went into the streets staggering, swinging their arms, and acting like a bunch of maniacs. Say that's wrong and you deny the Bible. The Bible said they were drunk.
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And listen, women, you who think because you got your name on the church, it's all right. The virgin Mary was with them, acting like a drunk woman. And if God would not permit the mother of God to come into heaven without receiving the Holy Ghost, how are you going to go in anything less than that? Is that right? You'll pay the way with the Lord's despised few. They said, "Why, these men are full of new wine." There, the women and all of them... Did you ever see a man drunk? Everything's all right with him, staggering, butting against things. "That's all right." See? Drunk. Said, "Be not us drunk upon strong drink, biteth like an adder, stingeth like a serpent. But be drunk upon the Spirit," drunk. So in drunk with the love of God till you can forget all about the past, only know what God is doing now. Live for today. God in His Word... Yes, sir.
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Then notice, when they were all cutting up like that and acting that way, and all of them, they stood by laughing, making fun of them. The critics never all died back there. They might've, but the spirit lives on. Notice this. Then Peter, a little old fellow didn't know his abc's (He couldn't sign his own name. The Bible said he was a ignorant and unlearned man.), stood on a soap box, or a stump, or something, said, "You men of Judaea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known unto you and hearken to my words; for these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it's the third hour of the day; but this is that."
Back to the Word. "This is that which was spoke of by the prophet Joel, 'It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I'll pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.'" Brother, Peter said, "This is that." If this ain't that, I'm going to keep this till that comes anyhow. Yes, sir. For I believe this is that that was spoke of. God in His Word speaking to the people. God said He would do it. God will do it. You take God's Word and see.
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Then to confirm the Word, He sends His prophets; He sends His signs; He sends His wonders. And even in all of that, when God will move down into an audience and reveal the very secrets of a man's heart, tell him the things to do after the Word saying it first, which is the foundation, then the prophet comes and reveals the secrets of his heart and tell him what to do, then you mean to tell me you'd be afraid? Why, my. I'm saying now that God has double confirmed it. That's right. God in His universe, God in His Word... Now, quickly, let's take God in His Son. You believe God was in Christ? I believe it with all my heart. The Bible said that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He was Emmanuel. In other words, He was the expressed image of Jehovah here on earth, as Jehovah inveiled in flesh, living here on the earth, the only begotten of the Father, from His bosom.
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Notice, God becoming flesh that He might suffer the penalty of sin, for He was the One Who pronounced sin. He was the...?... One pronounced this penalty upon sin. And He couldn't have some individual person besides Hisself. It wouldn't be right for me to say, "My wife will take your place, my boy, my brother, anybody else." If I'm just and sovereign, I take your place. And God had to come down in His Son, Christ Jesus, to suffer. That's right. And God's Blood bled from His body. Yes, sir. God was in His Son. He eat like a man. That's right. He spoke like a man (That's right.) when He would talk to people. But I tell you, when some people come to take Him, one time, some soldiers, they went back and said, "Never a man spake like this." He was a man, but that was God speaking out of Him. When He was standing, as I said the other day, by the side of Lazarus' grave, tears rolling down His cheeks, He was a man. But when He said, "Lazarus, come forth," and a man been dead four days come back to life again, that was God speaking out of His Son. Yes, sir.
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He was a God-man. I believe He was the--the infinite Son of God, borned of the virgin Mary. That's right. Everything the Bible said He was, I believe He was. When He was on earth, He looked like God;
He talked like God; He--He preached like God; He rose like God; He ascended like God. He, God was in Him, God manifested here in a body of flesh on the earth in a form, His Son, Christ Jesus. Notice. God was in His Son. He was always... God deals back there in the beginning. When He was with the Israelites, coming through the wilderness, there was a rock going along there, following them, a spiritual rock. And God told Moses, "Smite the rock, and it'll bring forth water." What was it? He smote it with the rod that was in his hand. That rod wasn't Moses' rod; that was God's rod, the judgment. And he smote the rock, and the rock brought forth water.
And when one time they wanted a drink, they went to the rock. When they wanted something to eat, they went down and a bunch of bees had a hive in there. In the rock there was a cleft. God stood in the cleft. The bees had their nest in the cleft. Anything they had need of, they went to the rock. And the Bible clearly teaches that Christ was that Rock that was in the wilderness. If you're thirsty tonight, go to the Rock. If you want honey, sweetness, go to the Rock. If you want life, go to the Rock. If you want to believe God was in His Son, go to the Rock. He was in the Rock. Speak to the Rock, and It'll bring forth Its waters. There you are, God in His Son.
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One day, there was some people down there trusting God's Word down in Babylon. Let's watch it just a few moments. And oh, I can see a great thing happening. There'd been an issue made, that anybody that went down there and begin to worship any other God, or didn't bow down to what the government said, would have to be throwed into a fiery furnace. There was three boys there, four of them, three of them mainly, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego. They decided they was not going to bow down to any image. They were going to serve the true God. They believed His Word. All right. Notice. They found out that these boys, they wouldn't bow down. So they het the furnace according to the king's commandments, seven times hotter than it ever was het. Said, "We'll burn that religion out of them." You can't burn the Holy Ghost out of a man. Why, It's fire Itself. You can't burn It. They took Brother John the Revelator, boiled him in a vat in--of grease for twenty-four hours. They thought he was a witch.
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Some man came here at the temple, the other day, or the place, said, "Hey..." Brother started to give him a card down there, and he was laughing. Some of the ministers was telling me about it. Said, "It..." He said, "I come to get my fortune told."
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Oh, my. They thought John was a--bewitched the grease. It wasn't John bewitching the grease; it was the Holy Ghost had him bound up. The grease couldn't burn him. These Hebrew children believed God's Word. They said, "God is able to deliver us from the fiery furnace. But nevertheless, we're not bowing down to your image." Oh, if we could just get some Shadrachs in this building. Said, "I don't see no difference in you. Go over there and somebody prayed for you. I don't see no difference." "You can say what you want to, but I'm not bowing down to your unbelief. I'm taking God at His Word." That's right. God's in His Word.
Let's notice this scene, being we started it just a moment. God help us for a minute now to see God, how He will reward. We get away from the subject just for a second. I can see morning come. Let's dramatize this a moment. I can see the furnace. The skies look like turning black and red. That furnace was burning. I can see king Nebuchadnezzar set on his throne. Said, "We'll just burn up that bunch of holy-rollers out there and stop all this fuss." Step back out there, "We're getting tired of all this here carrying on around here anyhow." All right. I can see them getting ready now to heat the furnace, bring out Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, bound their hands behind them. Three men with long spears begin to march them up, where they went up to the top of the cupola to drop in. My, don't you think that when you take Christ as your Saviour, as your Healer, that the devil won't put the heat on you? He sure will. Yes, sir. Just watch him.
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Remember, I've warned every one of you, within seventy-two hours, what would take place. The Bible said, "When the unclean spirit's gone out of a man, he walks in dry places, then returns again (Is that right?), with seven other devils worse then he was." Be careful. Let the good Man of the house be standing there with faith warring him away, telling him he can't come. Refuse to see it; refuse to have it, or anything else. Stay right with it. Notice. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] was...?... They started a death march going up there. They're going to burn up these loyal believers in God, one that trust God's Word. They're going up to the--be burnt up. They walk up. You know it. I can hear Shadrach say to Meshach, "Are you--are you sure we're all prayed up?" I can hear him say, "Yes, I got the victory. Let's go on." Amen. That's the way to do it. Marched right on just a little farther, kept going, going. They got almost there, they begin to get a little faint. I can hear him say, "All right, are you ready now? "Yes, we're ready."
These fellows pushing them, holding their heads back, get right up. Just one more step now and away they go, down into the fiery furnace to be consumed. Why, the men that was standing plumb behind them, died of the intense heat. The length of a spear (Probably half of that pole or more.) behind them, died. Goes to show that God was right with them on the march. He'll be right with you from this night on when you take Him. Just stand on His Word and believe He's in His Word and in His Son. Here they go, marching on, right up to the edge. Watch, one more step and in there they go.
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Our picture looks pretty dark right now for believers, doesn't it? Let's just turn our camera, or our binoculars, and look up. You know, all the time there's something going on on earth, there's something going on in heaven. I can see Him. Let's look at Him a moment. I can see Him setting on His throne (Oh, my.), His priestly robes all around Him. I can see coming to His right, a noise. What is it? Let's call It Gabriel, the great Archangel, run up to the side of Him, pulled His sword, said, "Master, have You looked down in Babylon? Three true believers are meeting their end. Have You beheld them? I've obeyed You all since You created me. Let me go down; I'll change the scene just in a few moments." I believe He could, don't you? Yes, I believe He could.
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That big sword pulled, and David seen Him with it--Joshua seen Him when he crossed the river. Said, "I'm the captain of the Host of the Lord. I've seen that sword drawn." Said, "Lord, let me go down, Master." I can hear Him say, "Gabriel, You've been a good Angel. Since the day I created You, You have obeyed Me. But I just can't let You go." I can see Gabriel put His sword back into the sheath, take--stand attention to His side. Oh, my. Everything in the heaven obeyed Him. That's right. All but the heart of men, they don't want to obey Him. They don't want to believe Him.
Look, coming to the left, here comes another Angel. Look at Him. God has ministering Spirits, Angels. I believe on this One right here now not far. And He stood... What is His name? Wormwood: Bitter waters. I can hear Him say, "O Master, have You looked down into Babylon. Let me go down there this morning. You gave me the keys in the
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antediluvian destruction. I poured the waters over the earth." You know of... Woodworm has it, controls of all the waters of the earth, the Bible says. And there He says, "I'll go down and wash Babylon off the face of the earth." I believe He could've done it, don't you? Yes, sir. "Oh," He said, "Master look down there." I can hear Him say, "Woodworm, You have been a good Angel. You did obey Me and break up the springs of the deep, and so forth, and destroyed the world in the days of Noah. But I just can't let You go." I can see Woodworm taking His place again and stand at attention.
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"Have You considered?" another Angel said. He said, "Yes, I've been watching them all night long." Oh, brother, if He was considered about three, He's considered about three thousand here tonight too. His eye is on the sparrow. He knows right now what you have need of. He knows why you've come to this meeting tonight. I can hear Him say, "I can't let You go, You fellows, because I'm going Myself." Oh, my. I can see Him rise. You think I'm crazy, don't you? You're going to call me holy-roller anyhow, so you might as well go do it. Notice. I love Him. I owe my life wrapped in Him. I see nothing but Him. I can see Him rise from His throne, His garments drop around Him, gets out there. And way back over in the north country, I see a big thunderhead. I can hear Him say, "Come here." Oh, my. I can hear Him say, "East wind, West, North, and South, come here." Everything minds Him. That's right. I can hear Him say, "Go over there and get under that thunderhead, and roll it over here. Here comes the East, North, South, and West winds, go under this big thunderhead. And here it comes, churning up at the side of the throne. I can see Him step off on that. Oh, my. Say, "Winds, I'm going to drive you like horses this morning. I'm going down into Babylon."
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I can see Him reach up and get ahold of a zigzag lightning with His hands, pass by the Tree of Life and pick off a branch. They made their last step, trusting God's Word. And about the time they stepped in, there was One like the Son of man, standing by their side (Hallelujah. Yes, sir.), with a palm, fanning away. Even with hot breezes down, talking with them. When king Nebuchadnezzar opened the doors, said, "How many did you put in?" Said, "Three." Said, "There's four. And one looks like the Son of God." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. His powers cannot fail. He cannot. God is in His Son. Yes. You believe that? God is in His peoples. God is here tonight.
God manifested Hisself in His people on the day of Pentecost. When that old fisherman stood there and spoke that sermon, till he shook the stalactites of hell into the devil's eyes, and three thousand come into the Kingdom of God. The next day he preached again at the healing of a sick man laying at the gate, lame. He healed him, and five thousand souls swept into the Kingdom of God. God in His people... Yes, sir. I can see little Stephen standing there, a poor little fellow before about a half a million people in that great Sanhedrin court that morning. And the Bible said his face showed like an Angel. God was in His people. He said, "Oh, you stiffnecked, uncircumcised of heart and ears, why do you resist the Holy Ghost? Like your fathers did, so do you." And they gnashed upon him. And when they stoned him to death, him with his little head in the bosoms of God, and said, "I see Jesus standing at the right hand of God."... God rocked him to sleep on His bosom, like a mother rocking a baby. God's in His people.
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I can see that old fisherman without a grammar school education, or without even could sign his own name, a ignorant and unlearned man, with so much God in him, till the peoples passing through the streets wanted his shadow to pass over them. Every one was healed. Why? God in His people. Hallelujah. ...?... said when he come to the cross, when they were going to kill him, he said, "Only one regret that I have; I haven't got five lives to give for the glory of God." God in His people... Yes, sir. When they went to kill, the apostle Peter said, "Turn my feet up, my head down. I'm not worthy to die like my Lord." Oh, my. Andrew's cross, how he... They'd killed him; how they'd burn them to stakes. They fed them to lions. They sawed them asunder. They put them in jail. They told them they were crazy. They shut the doors. They've run them out of the cities. And God lives on in His people. Some...
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April the 6th, 1909, when the sun begin to peep up over a little Kentucky hill, a little old mother setting there, fourteen years old, in a little old crude made bed, no floor but the earth. All the stuff, a little table, a little old straw tick laying there to lay on, a little old shuck pillow for her to lay their head on... My daddy with his pair of overalls on, standing at the foot of the bed... But God permitted me to come into the earth. As the morning star was peeping across the mountains, coming circling into the window, came a supernatural Being whirling into the room when the mountain people standing begin to cry. Oh, my. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
Years after that, standing in a little old room one night, cold, praying with all my heart, here come the supernatural Being, His august Being lit the room like the morning sun shining. He spoke to me, in a scream, "Come, fear not. I'm with you." (Hallelujah.) "You're to take a message of Divine healing to the peoples of the world." Here He is, performing miracles, calling out diseases, healing the cripples, blind, deaf, dumb; working among His people. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is in His people. Do you believe it? Oh, hallelujah. He's here now. He's in His people.
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God has sent ministers everywhere to pray for the sick, to heal the sick. I believe right now... You believe God's in His universe? You believe God's in His Word? You believe God's in His Son? You believe God's here in His people, showing signs and wonders? Then let's accept Him. "Show us the Father and it'll satisfy us." He's here. He's healing the sick, making the lame to walk, the blind to see. Cancers, deaf, dumb, cripples, He's here to perform miracles right now. You believe it? Accept Him upon those grounds. Let me show you God's here. I want about six or eight preachers that's got the Holy Spirit, believes in Divine healing, to come here a minute.
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Do you still hold, "Show us the Father"? All right, come here. Brother Markham, I want you to stand right out there at the end of that row. And you with him, brother, right at the end of that row, right there with him. Come here, two of you brothers, stand right here at the end of this row. See if God's in His people or not. Come right over here, brother. You two brothers to stand right at the end of this row. And you other two brothers, go on over to the other end of the other row there. Stand out here and face this other way, brother. You two right over here at this end, face that way. Come out to the end of the rows, right at the end of the rows. Stand right at the end of the rows. You two brothers there, go right there where that lady's setting, right there. Don't fear about your child, sister. All right. Go right down at the other end there, brother, right there at the other row down there coming out. Stand there at the end of the row.
Do you believe God's in His people? Do you believe that God would tell me the truth? Have I told you the truth as a witness? Here's what the Angel of God said, "If you get the people to believe you and be sincere, nothing shall stand before your prayer."
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Now, look. There's been two or three paralyzed people setting in chairs here this last week has walked away. A blind person said their little boy led into the building the other night, and the Holy Spirit called her. She received her sight and went out of the building. Cancer after cancer, deaf, and all things are being healed here. Is that right? God is here. Sin after sin has been called out, disease after disease. And there hasn't been one thing that's ever come before the gift but what It spoke it right out what it was. Is that right? Then God is in His people. Then you believe that I'm telling you the truth.
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How many in this building will want to be healed right now by God? I'm telling you, God is in these preachers. God is in you. God is here now. God loves you. Do you believe that? God loved me. God loved me when I was a little boy. He loved me all the time. He loved me back yonder when I was walking down the school road, barefooted, with nothing on, with a little pair of overalls, and a little old molasses bucket with corn bread and molasses to eat. God loved me. He loved me then. He loved me when I'm...?... right. God loves me now. His tired servant standing here. He will love me in eternity. He will love us when all the oceans has... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... God's Word will be the same when there's no moon, stars, earth, nor nothing else. God's Word will everlasting stand. Is that the truth? God is here in His people tonight to perform this. Every man and woman that wants to be healed by Divine healing, got faith in God, step out in the middle of the aisles. Set your prayer cards, or whatever you got... Step in the middle of these aisles. Stand right along there. Now, don't come out farther, just right there at the end of your aisles. Hold yourself, each one. Believe me with all your heart. I can prove to you that God is here to heal every sick person in this building.
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now I'm found, I was blind, but now I see. SHOW.US.THE.FATHER.AND.IT.SUFFICES_ CLEVELAND.OH SATURDAY_ 50-0819
The Angel of God is here. Oh, my, friends. If you could only see and feel this glorious unction of God moving. Listen. Each one of you ministers, as these crowds begin to come, I'm going to be praying. I want you to lay hands on them while I pass them also. I want you to do this. When you go through this, every one of you stand in the line, these ministers anointed of God to pray for the sick. I want you to believe. I want you to throw down all unbelief; tramp it under your feet; walk out of this building glorifying God; for God is here tonight to heal every person in the building. Do you believe it?
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Say "Amen." All right, ministers, wherever you are, as these audience start, you lay your hands on them. I send you to do so in the Name of the Lord Jesus. May God give every person in here, right now, the healing of your body. While you people come, the brothers are praying now, right down the line. Go on, brothers. Start your prayer. People, start coming on, right down the line.
While we bow our heads, every Christian in the building everywhere, every Christian bow your head everywhere. And when the little prayer line starts, move right down this line. I'm going to stand here and ask God to heal every one of you. Grant it, God, now while we pray. Bow your heads. Our heavenly Father, we've gathered here in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. O eternal God, Author of Life, people are passing down these lines, men and women. O Father, Your servants are standing there, believers, laying their hands on the sick in the Name of Thy Son, knowing that God in His universe, God's in His Word, God's in His Son, God's in His people. God's here now speaking out His glorious manifestations of His truth, making everything real. O eternal God, send Your blessings upon this group of people just now, and bless them, and give them every one, perfect healing of their body. Satan, thou demon powers of hell that's bound these Christian people, in the Name of Jesus, the Son of God, come out of the people. Turn them loose and let them go...?...
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... you for that fine compliment. And how I feel unworthy to accept it, but I with humility, I hope that I never deceive anyone and I always can keep the friendship of God's people everywhere. It's by that that I can minister to you.
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I guess some of you seen a minister just shaking my hand then, with--with a joyful hand grip. He was telling me that one of his members, that all the best doctors around Cleveland, hospitals here could do nothing: tumor in the head. And something had happened to her that it was for the time of life (you know what I mean), had been
with her for six years. And the other night in the meeting God healed that mother yet... She went home and in the... It's her stran... Think it not strange before this audience, but I'm just your brother. The menstruation periods which had not been for six years, happened that night, again, right back again, regular again. Oh, He is the Lord Jesus. That's right. His power is here. After all the doctors had given her up, nothing could be done, but now God has healed her. And you know what those tumors in the head go if they become malignant, is cancer, is what it is, and--the growth, if it becomes malignant and-and bursts here and kills the patient right over. But God is our Saviour.
And I was looking this afternoon around upon this tent and the audience; it just reminds me of days gone by when we used to have the old Gospel tents filled up, and the people praying, way back in the days. I used to read when Finney, and Wesley, and Sankey, Moody, and all those used to have meetings and the people gathered around, unroll tents. Won't it be wonderful when we meet them again? Oh, my, what a time.
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Last night and today has been very glorious to me, loosed from under the anointing so that I could preach and to--and to speak to the people. And today I was to tell my life's story. And last night I just had a glorious time within myself as the Holy Spirit was blessing me. And today it's... After I went home last night and had a glorious night's rest--never woke up till about eight-thirty this morning. And I feel good today, and I'm just sure tonight's going to produce a great meeting for us all. To get to meet these minister brothers, the greatest privileges as I have is to give to God's people of the things of this earth, is to get to meet fine ministers.
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Yes, Brother Gordon, this has been one of the smallest audiences we've had for this much time, but it's been one of the sweetest meetings of just cooperation, everything wonderful. So we're thanking God for it. It's been prayed that God will send Cleveland an old fashion revival that'll just sweep throughout the entire country. That's right. God bless you all. It's been my privilege to minister as much as I could to all that possibly could get into the lines as much as I was permitted to stand at the platform. Many, many testimonies are coming in. Three or four cases of paralyism, setting paralyzed in chairs and things, most of them called right from here... I see what's happening, then when God heals... You wouldn't expect me to tell a man or woman to stand up and walk or something if God hadn't showed me he was healed. He could not
stand up and walk. But when God showed me that they're healed, they're bound to walk then (See?), because God said so, and I wouldn't say it until God told me. And then when He tells me... And what I tell you to do, you do it and be assured that I'm speaking from the Master. That's right. I'll never tell you nothing 'less it's so. Now, if you want to turn it down when I tell you, you want to refuse it, why, that--that's up to you and God. You see? But if He is... If He tells me anything to tell you, well, I'll--I'll tell you right from the platform and then God will... You just follow what I told you to do and I'll assure you by the Word of God, that God will bring it out, and you'll--you'll be all right.
Now, we're very happy that everything's coming along just fine. I don't have as much chance to talk to you like this, the people came in, was taking some pictures out there. I got to shake their hands and things. I just love to do that: to shake people's hand and meet them. There's some of them little old girls along there, little old boys and girls, little old fat chunky things, I just autographed them and...?... Over in Finland they just... In Sweden, everywhere you go, they all wanted your autograph. You know, I love to do that. They're... That's God's men of tomorrow in those little children. I just love the little fellows, and I got to talk to them out there a few moments ago, and very, very happy to get to do so. And for pictures and things, oh, I just love to think... See, I was talking to my wife not long ago about something like that, and how God had blessed, and how I love people. And He give me the opportunity to get to meet them, and it's--it's fine.
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And now, just a little statement here that I want to make... Was asked me a few days ago... It's concerning some things here at the tent and about our situation, how we're set up and how we operate. I might go into that just for a moment so that it would be clear before everyone's mind. Personally, myself, and owning things, and property... I own nothing. The only thing that I have is what clothes that I have and an automobile that some people gave me because my old Ford was backslidden. Oh, my, it was in an awful shape...?... I couldn't get from place to place. And they bought me a '30, '49 car and gave it to me, which I greatly appreciate. And it's never used for nothing else but the Gospel. I dedicated it for that.
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A few years ago, I lived the seven years of my married life in a--a two room shack, and was very, very poor. And I was in Calgary, in Canada, where we was having many, many thousands, and great
signs... One person had searched Canada, till they drove three thousands miles in a taxi cab just to get to the services. Three thousand miles in a taxi cab, and by day, sometime there'd be as many as twenty and thirty ambulances lined all around, couldn't even get near the place, hardly, for the place... Having a glorious meeting, and my wife and babies at home were in this little old cabin, shack, that we lived in. We only had to pay just a few dollars a month rent. We couldn't afford it. Now, that's right.
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I never took up... I tried to take one offering in my life, and I failed on that. But I didn't... I never--wouldn't let me do it. I worked and pastored the Branham Tabernacle at Jeffersonville, which is a interdenominational institution. I worked every day, sometime with a pick and shovel, sometimes on patrol, sometimes in line work, and so forth: worked twelve years and pastored a church and never received one penny, not one cent. I was able to work. Now, not as I got anything against anyone... A minister, he's to live by the Gospel. But I was young; I was healthy, why shouldn't I work and not be an obligation to the people? Not because that they wouldn't do it; they would be glad to do it. But I just felt like if the rest of them worked, then I'd work also. So I worked and--and paid my tithings right at the church. I believe in tithe paying. Now... God has blessed to me millions of times. And I never would take up offerings.
I told you, believe the other day, how I tried to take up my first offering. Wife and I would get a tough spot where we couldn't make the ends meet, and I... Many of you know what I'm talking about. So I--I told her, I said, "Well, I'll just take up an offering over at church." She said, "Well, I'm coming over to watch you do it." And she set down in back a little piece from me. And all the time my heart was failing; I just kept talking around different things. Directly I said, "Oh, I forgot," I said, "I got to take up an offering tonight for myself." I said, "If ever you... I hate ask you, but I've just got a snag that I can't get through." And I looked around, and bless their hearts, I believe some of them that are in here this afternoon was right there. And I happened to look, setting to my right, and a little old mother, was wearing a little old gingham, I guess, or whatever kind of clothes... I don't know nothing about goods that women wear, so little old dresses on, you know. She had little pockets beneath her apron, and she went down there like my grandma used to have. She brought out one of them little old long pocketbooks, you know, that you snap over the top. She was reaching down after those nickels, and I looked around. I thought, "Oh, my." That would haunt me as long as I lived if I took that. I couldn't do that. That...
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The deacon had went and got my hat and was going to pass the hat. I looked at that, and my, I felt a big lump come up, and I said--well, I said, "Now, look. I was just teasing you, but I didn't mean that." I said, "I just wanted to see what you would say." And my wife looked at me. And we really had an obligation had to be met. But you know what, I had an old bicycle over home, and I went and sold that old bicycle, and we got to meet the obligation, didn't have to take up the offering after all. I never want myself tied to any earthly thing. I want to be free where I can study the Word of God.
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Now concerning the tent here, the tent does not belong to me, or none of the equipment belongs to me. It belongs to the "Voice of Healing," a inter-evangelical paper which is published in Shreveport. A little paper, the paper once was mine. When I started, we--the ministers kept telling me that, "You need a paper to carry your articles in." And, well, I told Brother Lindsay, the one who was very much interested in that; I said, "Brother Lindsay, all right, we'll start it." And I, one day while in praying, God gave me the--the name, the title, "Voice of Healing." And it will--will rank right with my ministry, "the voice of one crying in the wilderness," and so forth. And so I gave it the name of "Voice of Healing."
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I stayed so long in the platforms and things until I had to take a eight month's rest. I was off the field when they thought that I would leave the world. You've heard the story of that. And while I was gone, why, some of the other ministers that were following along behind my ministry, but going ahead praying for the sick, and they were carrying articles and so forth. So the suggestion was made that we make it a inter-evangelical paper, and just not have any-representing any one certain man. And that's the way I like to see things. I don't want things that are looked as to myself; I want it for the church of the living God, for everybody. You know, Jacob dug three wells. The one well, they drove him away, and he called it "strife." And another one was "malice," I believe, or "hatred," or something. He dug the third well and he said, "There's room for us all." So I think that's what it is now: there's room for us all. Way down in Kentucky where an old Missionary Baptist Church, we used to sing the song, "Room, room, yes, there is room. There's room at the fountain for me." Did you ever hear of it? It's a little old song, and that's what it is.
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Brother Lindsay then, taken the paper and made it a non--I
believe into a non-profited organization, of the paper, representing all the ministers of the land who carry a Divine healing ministry that's living the right kind of life and above reproach. Brother Lindsay looks into those things. And then, my... He wanted to make me president of it. He wanted to give me what more. But I said, "Brother Lindsay, I want to be just--just in the paper. That's all. And make my articles the smallest one in the paper. If nothing else, the itinerary so the people will know where I'm at. That'll be all that's necessary. I don't want one thing out of the paper but telling of the meetings and do what you want to, for I'm for anything that represents God." And the little paper does. It's a very fine little paper.
Then the tent problem was named and overseas. First thing, it come by inspiration. Our auditoriums would just take two or three nights, have to leave. Some cities, dear Christian people crying and begging, we'd have no place to go. Brother Moore, crossing a bridge at Little Rock, one morning from the meeting where many great signs and wonders were being done, Brother Moore had a inspiration that the Lord told him to build a tent. Brother Moore went out and had this tent built by Brother Welch in Pensacola, Florida. While there, overseas... Brother Moore is a businessman as many of you know him. He's a contractor. He allowed a half million dollar job while he was gone to some more people, come back, found hisself broke. And there he was and couldn't take the tent. Then it fell to the hands... Me, I have nothing. And so it--it fell to the hands of Brother Lindsay to save the--the--the tent. He goes and buys the tent himself, and puts it in the name of "The Voice of Healing." Therefore, the tent does not belong to me or any certain person. It belongs to the "Voice of Healing," and I just pay rent on it while I'm here. Everywhere I go, I pay rent. I'd rather... I like auditoriums, have nothing against auditoriums, but if this tent is going to be used for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the tent rents cheaper than an auditorium. But I would rather pay three hundred dollars a day extra for the tent to know that the tent was going to be used for preaching the Gospel than to be at the auditoriums where they sponsor dances and everything else of the world. I'd rather do that. So anything to...
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Therefore, the tent could be mine if I wished for it, but it's not that. Brother Lindsay's a very fine man to work with. Brother Lindsay, and Brother Hall, Brother Baxter, all those men are very fine. But then, the people made up a donation to buy me a home. They built me a little five room house. The day when I walked into it, I looked up there and I seen it... I'd always been a pilgrim; never has a Branham never owned nothing; we're vagabonds. And I--I looked at-at that--at our little house, and I said, "Lord, I'm not worthy to walk
into it." I knelt down at the gate and took my wife by one hand, little boy by the other and I said, "Father, I thank You. As long as You let me live, I'll remember everyone that put even a penny on here." But I said, "Now, I--I won't have this for myself, for when I leave, let it go to Your ministry."
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And the little church had no parsonage, and I went out and give it to the little church. And it belongs to the church; it doesn't belong to me. I live there. When I go, another minister will step in. It'll still be used for God. It can't be sold for nothing else but go for the church. The church property was give to me. The city... When I had my first revival... It's about what's here this afternoon, is about the crowd that we would have for revival. The city built for the--the tent--tabernacle and give it to me, and I turned it over to a group of people or made, not an organization, but just a--a incorporation out of it, so I own nothing of this world, nothing but just what people give me. And that is clear now, everyone knows that what it is, I--I appreciate...
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And every penny that's left from our meetings (Brother Lindsay and them knows just what we needed, and so forth) we turn right straight back into the Gospel work then, and try to live just as cheap as I can. When I go to the cities, I don't look for big hotels. The cheapest one I can find is what I want. See? I want to be just as poor as everyone that comes to me to be prayed for. That's right. If I'd accepted the money that's offered me, I'd be a multimillionaire. I had one man out of California, after his wife had a cancer of the breast, they had to fly quickly because they thought she was dying. And when that cancer left her, the window curtain rolled up tight like that before hundreds of those Armenians and let down like that. And the demon power left the woman, and the doctor said she couldn't live till morning. And now she's a well woman today, walking around. And that man owned that--part of that big Mission Bell Winery, and things, and sent me a--a--a check, bank draft for a million, five hundred thousand dollars. And I refused to put my hands on it and look at it. The Baxters had brought it to me. I said, "No, sir, I don't want to see it." "But Reverend Branham, it was sent to you." I said, "I do not want to see it. I don't want nothing to do with money." When a man gets his mind on money, he loses God. That's right. And that's right...?... You can't keep your mind on... You got to be...
Here's three things that I've noticed in reading of other ministers. If this ever gets ahold of a minister, it's got him. And
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there's a weak spot: money, women, popularity. That's right. Dodge the very appearance of it. That's right. For money, I care not for it. I've got a little old fat wife here, that I think's the sweetest woman in the world. That's right. That's right. She's the only one I've ever cared for, and that's--and some little children. When I was a sinner I lived clean, and when I'm a Christian... And for popularity, who am I? Six foot of dirt, that's all: sinner saved by grace. And if it wasn't for God, where would I be? So I... We're nothing. That's right. And we're... And you pray for me. Thank you, friends. Now, I'll hurry right through with just the high points of my life's story. Mother can't stay very long, because in this I have to bring in dad. And you know how it is. All right.
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Let's read some of the Scripture first, now. And remember, let's be out tonight early and expect God to not leave a--a person... I want to come in tonight, if the Lord's willing, after speaking last night and tonight, come right straight in, start the prayer line, just immediately. And next week, I'm going to, if I possibly can, average a hundred people a night, if I possibly can in the prayer line, until we're through. You've been so nice. I'm going to, if they have to hold me by one arm and the other, stand here at the platform again. You've been so nice and so reverent, I'll do everything that lays within my power to help you, that I can. You've waited; you've been patient. Many has been healed, and great signs and wonders has been done. And I trust that this week will be the greatest of all, and it's the last, the longest service I've ever held any time, of any time of meeting.
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Now, in the 13th chapter of the Book of Hebrews, we read these words, beginning with the 10th verse. I'm so happy today to know that my minister brothers can set here on the platform while you all are looking for the Scripture. When I ask them to leave the platform when they go at night, it isn't because I don't want my brethren around me; but remember they're human, and I--I'm conscious of somebody around me. You see? And they would set down there and pray for me. They're good brothers, and I put my endorsement upon any of their ministries. And they're good God saved brothers, but what it is, if there's somebody... Vibrations coming from here, and from here, and from here... You see, if I can keep the people away just so I can single them out one by one and talk to them...
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And now, I wish to read now out of the Word, beginning with the 10th verse and 14th verse inclusive: We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which
serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. I wish to make that my text for my life's story this afternoon: Here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Shall we pray.
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Our heavenly Father, oh, I'm so happy today to be here at Cleveland, this great city, one of the major cities of our beloved nation, and to be here to give a testimony of Thy Son Jesus, Who has died to redeem this lost races of people throughout all the world. And now, as You've gathered us here together this afternoon...?... pour out of Your Spirit upon us. I believe You. May every man, woman, boy, or girl, and every church, every creed, denomination, race, color, forget all about the past now. Let's look to the future. Let's look to that continuing city that is to come. Cleveland is home to many thousands, yes, millions, over a million people here. God, we pray that men and women will never be satisfied until they've met peace with You so that we can go to that continuing city. Looking upon the giant skyscraper in the city, looking upon the fine buildings and structures, but there'll be a time when there won't be one stone left upon another. We believe that these cities in this great major conflict that's coming, will be rocked with atomic powers, and millions will die in hours, blowed to bits, even the earth shook from its orbit, going into the sun. Great heat shall scorch men as the Scripture says in the book of the Revelation. Now, help us, God, to get our mind on You, settle down. To go into this bloody trail, I review it, Lord, the best of my knowledge. You help me as I start back from the beginning, when You put Your hand on Your poor humble servant. And may all my mistakes today, may others and young boys and girls that's coming on, may they be stepping stones to bring them to Thee. May they profit from my errors and suffering, that they might know You in the power of Your resurrection. For we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Child Jesus. Amen.
Now, those outside, can you hear all right out there, outside? Well, I'm sorry you have to set there in that sun. It's awful bad, but we just haven't, look like, the room right here.
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Now, every one of us are minded at--at this time when anyone goes to talking about a home, it--it reminds us of--of some similar experience that we've all... How many strangers here that's away from home, let's see your hand. My, there's many of you. All right. Frankly, all of us are pilgrims and strangers of this earth. We're seeking a city to come, whose Builder and Maker is God. Abraham left the land of Chaldee and the city of Ur, going out sojourning, professing to be a pilgrim and stranger, for he was seeking a city whose Builder and Maker was God. Inspiration, something telling him that there was a city somewhere, and Abraham went to find it. And John, on the isle of Patmos saw our future home coming down from God out of heaven, where we're going someday. The great inspiration of God tells us that the home is just beyond the gloom where we all go.
Let's take a little trip, will you? I just want to talk to you just from the bottom of my heart. Let's take just a little trip. I'm just going to let myself forget about even being a minister, just talk to you. Let's go down home just for a while. Everybody likes to do that. Wouldn't you like to go back to the old trail again...?... or standing there rather, and kinda begin to think about it. I can just see every little path, when I was a little boy. Many of you remember those experiences, little girls... Think of them, most of those little girls... That old mother used to hold her apron strings, done gone to be with Jesus. Them little girls that you played with and borrowed the pencils in school from each other, many of them's done crossed the border...?... The old dad and mother, and so forth, that used to get you ready go to school: gone. Here we have no continuing city but we're seeking one to come.
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When I was borned, I weighed five pounds, little bitty boy. And I haven't growed very much since. But then my mother, she carried me around on a pillow. I was borned in a little log cabin, way in the mountains of Kentucky, Cumberland County, near a little creek called Renox. There's only one way you get through there, that's you go through the creek. That's the only way to go is by the creek. It's a little isolated place, way down near the Tennessee line on the Cumberland River. My father was a logger. My mother, her father was a school teacher, and the principal of the rural school. Didn't get to go to school very much in Kentucky, you know, the creek could get up; you couldn't go. In the summertime they had to take a gooseneck hoe and chop out the corn, tobacco, and stuff that they raised in the hills, make a living.
I was down, standing by the little old cabin, not long ago, and took a picture of it. I think it appeared in my book: a little old two room cabin. The porch... The end of the kitchen had fallen down. I looked at it. I could imagine seeing my mother there. My dad was just a young man, mother, only fifteen years old when I was born. A little mountain children... And my dad worked hard all of his life. He died young: fifty-two. I'm thankful that mother's still living today, could be here with me.
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All my life, I guess I was a misunderstood person; no one understood me. When I was a little boy, I could... Just as I can barely remember... My mother knows behind that, how the Angel of the Lord came to the room. And I--I do not know... I know this, I mean, that it was not goodness of my father and mother; they were both sinners. Never was no merits of my own, it was a merits of Jesus Christ. Our family... Later on, we... Poor, oh, my, I'm just almost ashamed to tell you, that I--how poor that we had to live.
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I was setting... And I was misunderstood so much till when I'd be talking on the street to someone, somebody else would come up, well, they'd walk away and leave me stand. And I love people, but no one had nothing to do with me. I was what they called the black sheep. I'd go downtown when I was a little boy... School, they had nothing to do with me. I wouldn't smoke and things with the rest of them, so they had nothing to do with me. When I was a... become aged to go out with girls, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen years old, why, because I didn't go to dances, and parties, and things like that, I was a wallflower. So they had nothing to do with me. When I become a minister in the Missionary Baptist Church, I was a fanatic. So God finally got me to the place where He was bringing me to (You see?), to the people of His call.
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And I was setting not long ago on the porch. I'd just come in from a meeting. I was so tired I couldn't hardly go. My, I was so tired. I just got most of the crowd away from the house. I set down on the porch, and my poor old wife, she was just thirty years old but turning gray. I put my arm around her and set out on porch, and we was rocking a little bit. She said, "Are you tired, honey?" And I said, "So tired I can hardly stand up." Just then a car drove up. It was my piano player from over at the Tabernacle. She seen me setting there, and she got... She run up to the porch and just started crying, laid something in my lap and run away. She said, "I--I won't take your time. You--you rest while you got this minute. I won't..." And she run away. And I picked it up. I looked at it. There was a little
picture on there. I looked up. I seen some big old sand cranes. We have them in Indiana; I don't know whether you have them here or not. They was down at the ponds all day, feeding. The sun was going down in the west. I looked over here and had that poem,
Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me. May there be no mourning at the bar, When I put out to sea. MY.LIFE.STORY_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820A
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You've heard it. It had a picture of a ship coming in a window open, the water, the sun going down, the star coming out. Now, I looked there, and I said, "Honey, think of it. A few years ago I'd go down on the street, be talking to somebody. Why, somebody else would come up to talk to them, why, they'd go away." And I said, "Now, I have to almost hide out somewhere in the woods, to get out. And stop on an airplane somewhere, and they know you're coming through; they'll have sick people laying right on the ramps to be prayed for." I said, "Think of it now." I said, "What did it? My education? I have none. My personality? I have none. What did it? The Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God Who redeemed me. He was the One Who gave me friends.
I looked; I seen those little sand cranes going down, squawking. And I looked at two or three of them flying. I said, "Look, darling, they have been... God has provided for them all day long. They've eaten crawfish, and minnows, and so forth, out in the ponds, and it's coming night now; they're gathering down on the Ohio Falls there where all the cranes come and gather at night. And they set there and chatter together like they were on a picnic, just having a-and sleep together through the night. God provides for them."
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Just then, two of my favorite birds... You might know what they were: robins. Oh, how I love a robin. Every since I heard that story, little fiction story, when Jesus was dying at the cross... Listen, little boys and girls; don't never shoot my little robin. Leave him alone. He's a fine little bird. And I think the little fiction story and the song, you know, of how that when Jesus was dying, no one would come to Him. And a little brown bird flew into the cross to try to save Him, to pull the nails from His hands. He got his little breast all red with blood, and he flew away. And from then he had a red breast. I--I think of it and I think, "God, let me seal my breast with Your Blood too, there when I come before You." And that's just the little thing, that I like robins and... And two of them flew up in the tree and went to their nest, the little ones "Churrr" a little. I said, "Look, God has fed them all day long. They're
tired and weary now. They've come into their nest to their little ones to gather in for the night. Now, O God, someday when life is all over and I've done the best that I can do, won't You let me gather in with the people I preached to?" As sure as God has a place for the birds to gather, He has a place for us to gather. Someday we'll gather together at the setting of the sun we're going to gather.
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Well, I remember the days when a little boy, about... There was about four of us in family. I'm... My mother's the mother of ten children, nine boys and a girl. I was the oldest of the family. Then they come about a year and something different, all the way down to a little girl. And now, she's married, has a child. But I can remember when we was just three or four in a group, and we used to live in a little old place, and they left mother Rush's place, I'm speaking of, a little two room cabin, slat, old clapboard shingles, you know, little old side down like that. And where we'd all had gathered around out there and--and little old... Before the--the door, I can just remember it, all the grass was wallowed down where these bunch of little Branhams wallowed out there like a bunch of little opossums around a den. Little old boys...
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And we had a table and didn't have very much furniture in the house. I can remember two old beds, the old great, big...?... high post beds and old walnut, I believe they were. We had straw mattresses. Did you ever sleep on a straw tick? Yes, you know what I'm ta... Oh, I'm not the only country boy, am I? So an old straw tick... And they had an old wash stand, mother had, right between them. And it had marble in the middle here, and two little things on the side, little drawers you pull out. I remember that. And over on the other side they had an old trunk that had those little...?... in it, you know. It was them little tick-tack or ever what you call it on the-on the--the metal. And mama's safe, out in the kitchen had the same kind of stuff on it. And papa give us a--a bench that we set behind the table to eat.
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And look, I never will forget. Did you ever eat on a old wooden bench in the kitchen? Oh, my, my. And I remember mother used to holler at dinner time, and all those little Branhams would wash their face, and under the table, you know, and up on the bench on the other side. And we'd have a great big pot dinner, Mulligan stew, mainly. And each one would get him a plate full. And we baked our bread, mama baked it in a--in a--a bread pan, corn bread. And she'd cut it in the middle and put it, and set on the table, and... You know Jesus broke bread and blessed it; He never cut it, so each person broke his own piece of bread. That's Kentucky, brother, a way
down there. So she'd get this unbolted meal and make the flour. And I used to set right next to dad, where the bread did, and I'd always manage to get a corner of the bread. It was brown and crusty, you know. I'd get that part there and then we'd have--had bean soup and I'd... You'd crumble the corn bread. And you know, that wouldn't go bad right now (That's right.), just to think of it; it'd be fine.
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And I remember we'd set there and eat. I've eaten many places since then, but, oh, brother and sister, if I could only go back to that one more time (That's right,), to those old times back there, and all the loved ones. How we'd gather around there. And I remember when they moved from there to another place. And how dad used to take us down to town on Saturday night. That was a big night. They had a little old Jersey wagon, drove a little mule. I remember his name: "Cootsie," they called him. And a little old mule, and dad would go get it. And I seen him come in when he... My dad was a small man, was about my size. And I used to see him when he would roll up his sleeves. We had a glass tacked on a tree on the outside and a wash bench. You remember when you used to have that, and the... Mom would make the hand towels out of an old meal sack, pull the hems of the strings out, you know, make a little fringe on them. They was rough. That was...?... When she'd get my ears, I thought they were all rough. And she would stand me up and make me wash myself, and she'd use it rough, and...
And I remember seeing dad when he'd roll his sleeves up and--and wash, and I thought, "Oh, my, my daddy; he'll never die. Look at those big muscles." He was a logger and great big strong arm. I thought, "Oh, my, look at him; he'll never die," but here we have no continuing city. He left, a young man, a lot younger looking when he died than I am now.
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And then, when... A little later on along, I remember then, the old house where it stood. I look at that old house and I thought, "Oh, my, isn't that strong. How wonderful, what the structure of it is." I said, "That house will be there for many generations." I was passing by just before I come down here, and they had the housing projects built there now. Nothing to represent... I remember the old field out through there where we--brother and I used take and catch those little old meadowlarks, go out and try to get them out in the field. Run down through there... And my, my, you don't know what I'd give to get to run down that path again barefooted, to meet dad when he come across the field: pick one up in one arm, one the other, walk with us to the house. Oh, my, those
golden days. I remember when dad, standing out there... And I thought, "Oh, how great, how this all is." Many of you have similar experiences, but them cities is passing away. Those houses are gone. Here where the old spring where I used to lay down and drink cold water...?... in there no more. We have nothing earthly here that'll last very long.
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Notice, down there toward the school... Oh, how I remember going to school, those great days. I remember dad and mother used to go to town on Saturday night. Us kiddies would want to go with them. And they'd pay their grocery bill. Pop made a whole seventyfive cents a day. Great money then, but he had to feed five children on it. And look, all of you know from my testimony, when I'm telling things, whether it's good or bad, I've got to be truthful and honest. You'll know it at the judgment, though I know it here. My father'd drink very, very heavy. Irish and he just... Fact, it's what killed him.
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Notice, and I remember when he would come in, and we'd go to town on Saturday night. We'd all get in a little old Jersey wagon, go to town, pay the grocery bill. We'd wrap up in blankets if it was wintertime. In the summertime we'd set on some straw. We'd stop down at the corner, the old feed store...?... And I remember when they'd pay their grocery bill, pop would get a sack full of candy for a treat. And he'd bring it out. That was for us boys. Boy, there'd be five little pair of blue eyes looking at that sack of candy, and every stick... That old peppermint candy was good. And every stick must be broke equally. And if there'd happened to be one that'd come up not enough sticks, every eye see that would go just exactly right. Yes, sir. And we'd set there and divided up that candy, and we would eat it. And I would sometimes try to play when I'd suck on my piece of candy awhile, and put it in my pocket, and keep it. And Monday mom would say, "William." I'd say, "Yes, ma'am." "Come get me a bucket of water." I'd say to my brother, "Humpy, I'll let you suck on this piece of candy if you'll go get that bucket of water for me." Oh, I let him have two licks off of it. And I'd run. It was easy day for me, if I could just resist the temptation of eating that candy. Old peppermint sticks, do you remember it? It was good. Oh, my. I guess I could go out tomorrow and buy me a box of Hershey's, but it would never taste like that. That's the best candy I ever eat. And we'd keep it over, you know. And we'd hire one another about [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... limited amount of food and stuff with what we could bill. And listen...?... mama...
Look, friends, it isn't a sin to be poor. No, it isn't. And maybe none of you has had to go down this trail; you don't know what it is. That's the reason that I could never be a rich man when I see poor little children on the street without clothes to wear, and people without coal in the wintertime. How could I set and hold money in my hands and such as that going on? I couldn't do it. No one with any kind of a heart could do it. That's right. I don't see how rich people can heap theirselves together treasures like that. No, sir. God have mercy. I'm seeking a city that is to come whose Builder, and Founder, and Maker is God.
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And I remember, just a little brief case. I remember one year I went to school all year without a shirt. There was a rich woman my daddy was working for; she give me a coat. I never will forget it. When I went to school first, mama made me a pair of... some clothes, I think it was out of pop's coat when he got married [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... had great big white buttons on it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] little pantywaist type, you know. All the kids laughed at me, said I looked wimpy. I didn't care what they said. If that was my daddy's coat, if it was good enough for daddy, it was good enough for me. I wished I had it today. I remember that winter I had no coat to go to school. I remember one day going to... It was getting up towards March. I had this old coat and had it pinned up like this. It get wet or anything in school, I had to wear this little old coat. I didn't have nothing on, for I couldn't have none. I remember the teacher said to me, said, "William, why don't you take off that coat." I said, "Teacher, I--I'm cold." I wasn't. I couldn't take it off. She said, "Move over there at the stove." She fired that stove up, and sweat run down my face. She said, "Aren't you warm yet?" I said, "No, ma'am." Now, I couldn't take it off; I didn't have on nothing under it (See?), had it pinned up like this. And she said, "Well, you've got to--a bad cold. You got to go home." And she'd send me home.
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I remember the first shirt that I got after that. My father's sister's children come over. And one of them was a girl about my age. They stayed two or three days, and when they went back, the girl left a dress there, one of her dresses. I got to looking at that dress. It had short sleeves; I thought, "I can make a shirt out of it." And I cut the--the dress part off and put it on, you know, and took off my coat: looked pretty good. So... Only the buttons was in the back of it. But I got into it and had went down to school, and all the kids begin to laugh at me. I remember though that they had that little dugey-ma-
flock stuff on it, you know, little what-do-you-call-it?. What is it? Rick-rat (That's right.), rick-rat all over it, you know, up and down the sides like that, and--and it... I said that wrong, didn't I? Rick rack? Rick rack. That's right. All right. Then I had all up and down it... And I said, "You're laughing at that," I said, "Look, you just don't know. That's part of my Indian suit." Indian suit? My cousin's dress. They all laughed at me and made so much fun I had to go home crying. Oh, my. What crosses...?... That's right.
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All right. Now, those old times pass by. I remember going to school. We kids, we couldn't take our dinner like other children. Lot of them had--would... Their mothers would bake bread; they'd make sandwiches, you know, and put stuff between them. But we couldn't afford that kind of bread. I had a little half of gallon syrup bucket. And we'd take a little jar in there, and had greens in one. The other one had, maybe, beans or whatever we had left over: a piece of corn bread laying there and two spoons. And we--we're ashamed to eat before the other children, brother and I. And we'd slip out and go over the hill, go down to the edge of the woods, and we'd set there and eat between us.
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Look, that brother's in glory today. Oh, my, how I wished he was here. I--I tell you... Not long ago I was coming out of Texas, from a meeting. Oh, I was so tired. Why, I said, "Let's ride up the road." And we ride up the road and passed by the old school where we used to go to school at. I would look at the place and I thought, "Oh, my..." I stopped. I said, "I want to drink from that old well over there." And I went over to get a drink of water and I pumped it and drink. I leaned across the fence like this, was looking. The baby and wife were picking some violets there in the yard. I begin to think of different things and remember seeing all of us little old boys lined up there: time of the First World War. And they'd... I was a little old boy and we'd have our hands leaning on their shoulders...?... them stockings down, what had stockings, and--and or shoes, and the toes all out of them, standing there. I remember a time; it's right after Christmas. Mama popped some corn. And we taken some in a sack to school. That was a rare. She popped it to string on the Christmas tree, what she had left over. A little old cedar tree, it was cut down out in the field, put the popcorn around it, get some papers, and make them loops, you know, put it around we got at school.
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And I remember setting there, looking. I remember mother give us that sack of popcorn, and we put it in the cloak room where we used to have to keep our--our coats or our lunches. And I
happened to think about that popcorn. I raised up my hand. Teacher said, "What do you want, William?" I said, "May I be excused?" Said, "Yes." I went out to the cloak room, and reached down in there, and got me a great big hand of that popcorn, went out and stood out behind the schoolhouse, and eat that popcorn, and come back in. When dinner time come, we went in to get our lunch and went over the hill. And Edward said to me, he said, "Say, brother, something's happened to that popcorn." "It sure has, hasn't it?" I knowed what had happened to it. I'd eat it.
Standing there leaning over the fence and thinking about that, I said, "God, I'd give all the world and my life now if I could take him that handful of popcorn to where he was at and give it back to him. He died before we ever come to a place where we'd have very much, just enough to barely live on. God called his precious life. I was out west working on a cattle ranch, and he died in the hospital calling for me. You could hear his screams plumb down the street, a hollering, "Bill, come to me." One of these days when I cross the portal, I'll be there. That's right. He got saved just before going.
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I remember looking at it there and thinking about that. I thought... I looked up on the hill where we used to sleigh ride. I remember it about 1930--1917. Mama worked for the government, sewed shirts for the soldiers. They had bundles of shirts, and that's how we lived. They have to go down of a weekend, take the shirts down. She got four dollars and forty-four cents to make a bundle of shirts. That's what we lived on.
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All right. When she was going down, I remember us little boys... She couldn't buy us a sled. And all the boys had sleds out on the hill riding. Come a great snow and sleeted and froze over the top, and we would slide down the hills on our sled. Brother and I didn't have any sled, so we went out to the old country dump, got a big old dish pan. And we'd set in the dish pan and put our legs around one another and hugged each other. Down the hill we'd go. We might not have been as much class as the rest of them, but we were riding just the same, so we... That done all right until the bottom came out of the thing; then we couldn't ride no more in that. So we went down and got us an old log. We'd get up on the hill and get on this log, and here we would go down the hill on the log. Oh, my.
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I remember during the time I wanted to be a soldier. I'd see
those soldiers come up from Utica Pike, that flag a flying, my, the banner is rolling, the drums a beating. I'd stand there, a little bitty boy, and my mouth open, my hair hanging down in my face. Oh, when I get to be a man, I'm going to be a soldier. I'd seen with them leggings on and standing. They'd holler, "Attention," and everybody'd stand...?... I'd say, "Oh, my." And when I got old enough and the war come on, they wouldn't receive me. One thing, being a minister, and another thing, I guess I just wasn't man enough to go. They wouldn't take me. I tried many times, tried to volunteer, and they said, "We'll call you if we need you. Reverend Branham, go on back." I thought, "Well..." But friends, I finally got to put on a uniform. That's right.
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I remember Lloyd Ford, a friend of mine. He used to ro-belong to what they call the Lone Scouts. They sold papers called "Path Finder" or something. And he got a Boy Scout suit for that. Now, I... Oh, I admired that boy. I said to him, I said, "Lloyd, when you wear that out will you give it to me?" He said, "Sure, I'll give it to you." But my, that suit lasted a long time, looked like it. It got to a place till I thought the thing never would wear out. So finally he said he'd give it to me when it wore out. Well, I went on for a while. After while I missed him wearing it. I said, "Lloyd, what become of the suit." He said, "Well, Billy, I'll see if I can find it." He looked around, and come back, and said, "Well, Billy," he said, "the--the last piece of it," said, "just went to pieces, and--and mother taken the coat and made the dog a pallet." And said, "It's all ruined and gone now." Said, "I couldn't find a piece of it, only just one legging." I said, "Well, bring that to me." Just one legging, a little--had a drawstring, little legging about like that. And he brought that one legging to me, and I thought, "Oh, my, how I like that legging." So I put it on at home, you know, and I thought, "How dandy. If I can just let the school kids see me with that legging on..."
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So I went down that day. I remember going to school. And I got up on the hill just right, and I thought, "Now, how am I going to do? I've got to find excuse to put that legging on so they won't know that that's the only legging I got. So I--I don't know what to do." And I put it back in my coat, and I went on to the school. And there Edward and I were riding down the hill on this old log, and I--I turned over on the log, and I act like I hurt my leg. I said, "Oh, my. " Never hurt. I said, "Oh, my, mmm, whew, that was a strain on my leg." I said, "It just reminds me; I've got one of my leggings...?... in here." I said, "That'll help my leg a whole lot." And I put it on and went into school. I was going to... You know the old blackboards we used to have at
school? I was going to write on the blackboard, so I did this-a-way (See?), put my leg like this one the outside--one that had the legging. I turned sideways like this and write...?... Everybody and-and all the kiddies got to laughing at me, and...?... like that, and they... I got to cry. The teacher made me go home. Had one legging...
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But brother, sister, today I've got a uniform, and I'm in the army, the army of the Lord, fighting the foes of the wicked, dressed... You might not be able to see it, but I know it's there; I feel it, the armor of God: the full Gospel in my heart; baptism of the Holy Spirit; God working signs and wonders; the helmet of faith--shield of faith; and the helmet of--of salvation; shod with the Gospel; the sword in hand, joined with you, ranks out here now, that our armor's inside of us.
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Looking up there and think of the those old times, I started crying; wife said, "I thought you come home to rest." I said, "Honey, I think about those things. I think, 'Where is Ralph Fields?'" Said, "Gone." "Where's Wilmer?" Gone. "Where's my brother, Edward?" He's gone. "Where's Rollin Halloway?" Gone. Here we have no continuing city. I looked back up on the hill to see where the old place was. I thought if I can just visualize seeing that little old line, little old--through that broom sedge there, going up to the house... Gone. The house is gone. Daddy's gone. Oh, my, here we have no continuing city, but we're seeking one to come whose Builder and Maker is God. My friends are gone; my brother's gone; daddy's gone; my home's gone. Mother and I left, for the story.
Notice, then... Think of all those things and how I cheated my brother out of a handful of popcorn. It all come back to me then. Brother, sister, don't never do anything wrong, for it'll come back to you just as sure as you're living. Do right; you're bound to come out right.
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And then, I remember... I'll have to hurry 'cause it's getting late, get right down now, it's... Have to leave in a few moments. And you'll give me your attention as you have been, I think you're awfully nice. On down I wish I had time to move in and get the story of the coming of the gift and so forth, but I'll have to kindly skip that. I remember the time (many of you'll read it in book and so forth), how the Angel of the Lord appeared to me down, told me never to smoke or to drink
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or defile my body in any way, that there'd be a work for me to do when I got older: appeared to me in that bush, and how they have misunderstood it. My mother could give you the story, standing here. And how that even my best girlfriend, one time, called me a big sissy because that I wouldn't smoke a cigarette.
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And I always had my opinion of a cigarette smoking woman and I haven't changed it. That's right. It's the lowest thing that women ever done. That's right. To see them setting in a place... The other day I started to holler, "Fire." right here in this city. A woman setting there, and smoke coming all out around her like that, and a poor little baby laying in her arms; I thought, "You want that baby eyes being ash trays? God never give you that baby for that purpose: your duty to raise it right." And women, listen here, take my advice, if you do smoke, oh, in Jesus' Name forget about it. Never do that; that's awful. Don't do that for I know if this spirit that bothers me... Now, don't get up and go, everybody will know how guilty you are. See? Now, and I know one thing, if this Angel of the Lord comes from God, as I know It does, you'll certainly answer at the day of judgment for doing it. We're in the spirit of the latter days: people, heady, highminded, can't tell them nothing; they know it all. They won't stop and listen to human, to reasoning. Listen. Stop those things. Live right and live before God.
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I tell you one thing, you get the Holy Spirit, and then you can go ahead and smoke after you get the Holy Spirit. Someone said to me the other day, "Did you ever baptize anybody that smoked?" I said, "Look here, brother, I haven't a yardstick at my church. (See?) I teach the people what's the truth, and then when they receive Christ, Christ takes care of the rest of it." Here's there's an old oak tree out here. It holds its leaves all the year through, all the winter. Springtime come, there's them old dead leaves hanging on it. You don't have to go pick the leaves off to make new ones come on. Just let the new life come up, the old leaves goes off. That's right. Let the Holy Spirit come into a person's heart, they clean up and fix up and a few things like. That's right. Just get them to Christ; that's all. Then it's God's business from then on.
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Now, I never tell people what they have to do, and what they can't do, and what... That's up, between them and God, but I know that one of the lowest things that I ever see women do is smoking. I stand here and see them set there and act like that, it's just something in me. I wished I didn't feel that way, but it's something in me makes me feel that way. And I... It's not me; it's Him. And I
know by that what it'll be at the judgment; so escape that. You don't have to do it. Get away from it. Stay away from it. You can't come in this prayer line without it being called out on you; that's one thing for sure. He'll call it every time.
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And notice this one thing now. Later on down through life, I--I had girlfriends like all boys. And I remember I was a little skeptic of girls; I seen the way women act. And frankly, I never did have very much use for women. I don't mean you sisters, now, but I... Just to see how untrue they were, some of them... I was around, watched my father drinking and hung around those places, and maybe I'd be around, and I'd see how women come out and living untrue. And a lot of them women's done gone on to meet the judgment now, and will have to stand there in that day. And I said I'd never get married; never want nothing to do with one. I'll be a trapper and a hunter all my life, and I'll never have nothing to do with the girl. So when I got to be about... When I was even seventeen, eighteen years old, I'd pass down the street. I'd see a girl on one side, and I thought she was going say something, I'd cross over and go over on the other side, because I just didn't want nothing to do. That's all, didn't want to hook up--caught up with it or anything, I wanted to keep away from it. And so I went ahead. But finally I found a girl that was a real girl. She was--was a Christian. She afterwards become my wife.
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I guess you wonder how I ever got married being so bashful. I tell you how that happened, just quickly as I can. I met her. She was a--a pretty girl, but she was such a lady, the way she carried herself. And I'm so glad that her little boy, hearing--this afternoon he's hearing this, and I can say his mother was a genuine lady. Yes, sir. And I met her; she was a member of a church up there. And she asked me to go to church with her, and I did. I kept going with her a long time, and I--I thought she was pretty. She was a real girl, so I... But the only thing was, I'd been going with her for about a year and something, and I knew a girl like that, I couldn't take up of her time if I wasn't going to get married, so I'd have to let somebody else that wanted to get married have her, and that was going to be an awful spot to pull away from me.
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So you know how you think they all look, you know, with teeth like pearl, and eyes like a dove, you know, and on like that. All of you get them... Don't you think that of your wife, you know? You ought to continue thinking that of her too. That's right. That's right. Keep that thought
in mind, just as sweet... Wait till she's made immortal on the other side, then look at her. She won't need any--what do you call them manicure stuff you put on your face here to make her look right then. God will have it...
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I believe if a... I can't believe scientists that women, when they was a ugly looking thing, and whatever they was with men with hair out his nose like that and look a prehistoric animal. I believe that when God woke Adam up to look at Eve, she was the most beautiful thing that eyes has ever looked at. That's right. It goes to show that man, even this day, the desire in men, craves--look at a beautiful woman. Why? Because that--that strain comes down through that time (See?) like that, to know that, that that was given plumb from garden of Eden. And I can see her setting there, her lovely hair hanging down around her hips. Adam looked at her: it was the flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. And see him take her by arm and walk down through Eden, oh, my. Don't worry, mother, it'll be that way someday again. That's right. There'll be no old there, and there'll be no babies; they'll all be about one age, marching on.
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Notice, then what happened? I thought, "Well now, I've got to ask her, and I just haven't got the heart to ask her. I don't why. I've got to let her go if she won't marry me. Now, her father was making about five hundred and something dollars a month, and I was making twenty cents a hour digging ditches. My... I had an old crippled up Ford, was in awful condition. And then I had a... That's about all I had. I didn't even have a suit. I had a trousers of one kind and a coat of another. But she loved me, I know; and I know I loved her. And I'd go to church with her and she was very sweet girl. She was just peaceful and nice. The I thought, "Now, I've got to do something about it. And what am I going to do?" And I didn't have nerve enough to ask her. Do you know what I done? I wrote her a letter. Sure did. That's an awful way to become married but (See?)--but I would... Now, it wasn't just, "Dear Miss..." it had a little, you know...?... I fixed it up the best that I could, and I--I got it all fixed out, you know. I took it going to work, and I--I--I dropped it in the mail. Well, when Wednesday night was coming, we had a date to go to church, and I--I begin to think, "What if her mother got ahold of that?" Oh, my.
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Now, her father was a good hearted Dutchman and... But her mother is a fine woman, but one of those prissy types, you know, and I... She didn't like me very well. So never mistreated me, that... She
just didn't like me. So I thought, "Oh, how am I going to get by her?" So I begin to think when Wednesday night come on, "What if she got that letter and she's the one that meets me on the porch? Now what am I going to do?" I begin to think, "I just won't go." Then I thought, Well, if I don't, I've lost my girlfriend. Now what am I going to do?" I had to do something. So I went on up. I thought, "Oh, I'll take a chance."
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And I went up there and nobody out. I knowed better than to blow the horn for her to come out. She'd tell me about that if I wasn't man enough to walk up the door and ask for her, I didn't go out. I think that girls that takes that attitude now, would be a lot better off. That's right. That's right. And so I went up to the door, and I knocked at the door, and getting kind of warm, you know. And I thought, "Who's coming to the door." And she opened the door, she said, "Oh, hello, Billy." And I said, "Hello, honey." She looked at me and I thought, "Oh, my, my, my, here it is." Then she said, "Won't you come in?" I thought, "Oh, they get me in there, then I know I'm in for it." You know. I said, "I--I--I'll just wait right here on the porch." "...?... step in." Said, "Mother's here." And I thought, "I know not to step in." So... Said, "Mother...?... Step in." I said, "Aw, well, now. Is it all right if I wait right..." And she said, "No, step in."
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So I stepped and just stood, and just barely stepped in too. She shut the door, and I waited a little while and I thought, "Oh, my." She got ready to come out. I thought, "Well, must be all right." So I thought, "What's she going to say now? This is my last day. I know that. Boy, she's going to tell me, twenty cents a hour, I could never make her a living like that, living in a home that she does. So I went on, went down to church that night, and I was thinking, "Oh, my." right after church, had it made up to... See there, you cross the bridges before you get to it? I said, "Now, well she'll tell me after church, 'Well, Billy, I'm sorry but is our last night together.'" I could just hear her say it. Oh, I just knowed she was going to say it. So I went out. I never heard a thing that Dr. Davis said, and he just preached on. I never heard a thing. I--I was worrying about what was going to happen when I got outside the church.
That night when we left the church and we started walking home, you know, I was walking down, and the moon was shining
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bright. She said, "Did you work hard, Billy?" I said, "I sure did." I thought, "She never got that letter. (See?) She never got that letter. It hung up in the mail box, or it hasn't been delivered." I got pretty brave then. And I said, "All right." I begin to look over at her, look her right in the face. And I thought she passed through, and that moon shine on her, how pretty she looked. You know? So I thought, "Oh, my, whew, I hope she don't get that letter now 'cause I..." going on like that, and I was getting pretty brave, you know. She said, "Billy." And I said, "Yes." She said, "I got your letter." Thought, "Oh..." I said, "You did?" She said, "Uh-huh." Just kept on walking... I thought, "Well, woman, say something. Tell me...?... something." You know how women can keep you in suspense. You brothers know what I'm talking about. And I'm... I just kept walking on, so I... I said, "Well, maybe she never read it." I said, "Did you read it?" She said, "Uh-huh." She kept walking on. I thought, "Oh, my, say something 'fore you get up there at the house, sure enough." So... And I said, "Did you read all of it?" She said, "Uh-huh." I said, "What'd you think about it?" you know. Said, "It was all right."
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Well, we got married. There you are, so she...?... We got married. And just before we got married I knowed I had to--to ask her parents for her. She said, "You'll have to ask mother and daddy." I thought, "Oh, oh. I'm in for it again." I said, "How about just asking your daddy?" She said, "Oh, either one of them." I said, "Thank you, honey." I went out and remember that night, I was going to ask her daddy and I set down so nervous. He lightened at... So I said... I was so nervous, and she'd look over at me, laughing. And then so I got up off the--the duofold. I walked over, and she said, "Good night." And I said, "Good night." I said, "A-hem, Mr. Brumbach..." He said, "Yeah..." I said, "Could I--I--I speak to you just a moment?" He said, "Sure." He come walking out, you know, great big fellow, walked out on the porch, and I said, "Sure is a fine night." He said, "Yes, it is, Billy." I said, "My, I like this weather, don't you?" And I'm so nervous I didn't know what to do. He said, "Yes." Said, "Go ahead, Bill, you can have her." I said, "Do you mean it, Charlie?"
He said, "Yeah." I like him today. My, I thought just then, I thought, "Oh, my, that was fine. I said, "You talk to mother about it. Will you do it?" He said, "Oh, yes, I'll fix that up; it's all right."
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I said, "Charlie, look," I said, "I can't make her a living the way you do." I said, "I--I--I'm only making twenty cents an hour." I said, "I--I can't make her... But Charlie, I love her with all my heart, and I'll work as hard as I can to make her a living." He put his hand on my shoulder, a fine man, said, "Billy, I'd rather you have her than anybody I know of." He said, "You'll be good to her. And after all, happiness don't consist of how much the world's good you own." That's right, friend. And I said, "Charlie, we'll be happy." And he said, "Well, I hope that you are, Billy." And he said, "Be good to her." I said, "I will." He said, "I'm glad to know that you're going to get married."
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When we were married, we were happy. And oh, my, we didn't have nothing. I remember when we went to housekeeping, we rented two rooms, and I went out and bought an old second hand cooking stove, and I paid a dollar and seventy-five cents for it and paid a dollar for the grates to go in it. Somewhere I went to Sears and Roebucks and got one of them tables, breakfast sets that's not painted. And I remember I painted a big shamrock on it, 'cause I was Irish. I painted a big shamrock on it; she just laughed about it. We had an old folding bed. Anybody know what a folding bed is? Somebody give it to us and we had two linoleum rugs, and an old folding bed. We went to housekeeping, but brother, it was home. We had each other and that's all we cared for.
I become a minister and was preaching the Gospel then, and I had a little church and was preaching the Gospel. I didn't make very much. And after awhile God blessed us in our home, and my little Billy Paul, which is setting back there in the audience, come on the scene. I asked God to give me a little boy, and when he was born in the hospital, I first heard him scream in the room, delivery room; I said, "Lord, it's a boy, and I now give him to you. His name shall be called Billy Paul." And the doctor come out in a few minutes, said, "You have a fine boy in there. You like to see him?" I said, "Yes, his name is Billy Paul." And so he come out and here he is with me today."
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Went on and we struggled and worked and tried to make a living and go on the best we could. I'll hurry right through now as quick as possible to this tear strained part. And then, why we're doing fine. We saved our money. I was still paying for my old Ford. And I--I remember, we got a time where we was--I could go up to Dowagiac, Michigan. Old Brother Ryan, he's somewhere in here today. I believe you'll see him along here. He's coming in. He's an old man. I used to thought he belonged to the House of David, 'cause he had a long beard and hair. I went to see him at Michigan to fish a little while. We'd saved our money, and she wanted to stay home 'cause they had a--a working group in the church, and she couldn't leave to go with me. And I could drive. It was about two hundred or better miles up there. I went up and spent two or three days fishing.
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And on my road back, I passed through Mishawaka, Indiana. And there was a people out there, and the worst church manners I ever seen in my life: they were screaming and...?... Well, I never seen anything act like that. So I thought, "I believe I'll see." And it was a Pentecostal group of people. The minister was named Raugh, where they was holding... Might somebody might know Reverend Mr. Raugh from Mishawaka, Indiana. And they had a Pentecostal group. Well, I went and stopped and went to the door and police was directing the traffic on the outside. They was all up and down through there, and those people were clapping their hands, and screaming, and running up and down the aisles and shouting. I thought, "My, my, what a group." Why have you heard that little song, "Something got a hold of me"? It beginning to work on me a little bit, you know. Well, I thought, "Well..."
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I counted my money. I had exactly two dollars and seventyfive cents and had to go home. So I counted how much gasoline it would take me: a tank of gas to get home. I had seventy-five cents left. So they... Going on, their meeting was going on, they was having a conference, a national conference. And I went down and got me a whole big bunch of stale rolls with sugar on them and wrapped them up and put them under my seat. And I knowed I could live off of that. Although they was having dinner there, and so forth, but I had no money to put in, so I didn't want to eat from them when I couldn't put nothing in the offering. So I couldn't find a place to stay, so I went out in the country in an old corn field and stretched out my seat out of my car, and put my trousers under there to press them that night, and laid down.
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And I know that night they had a big bunch there, and they
begin to preach, and they said, "All the preachers come to the platform." Two or three hundred preachers walked to the platform. And they had different ones, they said, "Now we haven't got time for all of you to preach. Just stand up and give your name, and where you are. And when it come my time, I said, "Reverend Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana." Set down. "Evangelist," like that. Just on next like that and went on through. And directly he said some man was going to preach, a colored man. They had to have it in the north, 'cause they couldn't have it in the south on account of the colored and white together. They brought an old fellow out there; he had on one of those great big old preacher coats, you know, them long... Old colored man, a little bit of a rim of hair around like that come walking out like this, you know. And I'd heard all good preaching that day. He walked up.
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First time I ever seen a microphone. And I was watching the public addressing outfit, little bitty thing hanging there at the big tabernacle. My, it all looked good to me. And I was looking around, you know, but what amazed me is those people so free and happy. My, I didn't--was used to that. And then this old man come out there. I thought, "Look like they'd have some of the young men preach instead of that old man, about dead. And he come walking out there like this; he said, "Well," he said, "Children..." He got to talking, you know. He took his text. Now preachers been preaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and I was listening close, and all these things. But he took his text from back over in Job: "Where was you when I laid the foundations of the world, when the morning stars sang together and sons of God shouted for joy?" and he begin to preach on that and him... They preach those things down here, but he went up, back there with Job, plumb down through eternity, and down, and come back on the horizontal rainbow coming. About time he got preaching there about five minutes, that old stoved up man let out a yelp, and screamed and jumped up in the air, and clicked his heels together, throwed his chest back, tipped off that platform like a little bantam chicken, said, "Well, you ain't even got room up here for me to preach." I looked at that, and I said, "My, that's what I want. If it'll make an old man act like that, what would it do to me?" If it's that...?... Why, I thought, "That's what I want." And I said, "I ain't going home till I find out more about this."
That night, out there I knelt down. I said, "Oh, God, them people's got something that I want." I said, "Let me have some of that." And I was... Listen, I said, "Now, give me favor with them somewhere. When I go down there," I said, "May I'll just... Maybe just them things get all over me and I'll feel that way."
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So I went on down there. You know the Baptists don't act like that, you know, they have the... You know. And now, no disregards to the Baptist church, now, and that's all right. If the Baptists would've stayed back...
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Listen, not long ago I was preaching in a Baptist church just as hard as I could preach, and all of them setting there just as starchy. I said, "Say, is this the Baptist church?" Pastor said, "Yes, sir." I got up preaching again, and I was getting a little wild, I guess you know that. So I got a...?... preaching up like that, nobody said, "Amen." I said, "Say, is this the Baptist church?" Said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Look, you all not Baptist; you're just church joiners. Down in Kentucky where I come from when we Baptists down there, when we get saved, we'd be down at the altar and beat one another on the back till we come through. That's real Baptists, brother." That's right. That's the kind of Baptists we need today. That's right. That's exactly right.
And then I... But these people... I remember going on and praising the Lord. And I went out and I prayed, "God, let me get some of that. That's what I want." Next day, I went out to church about ten o'clock. They just got through breakfast, and I'd had my rolls. And I come down and got me a drink at a fountain down there in the city, drove my old Ford up, got out. I put on a pair of them seersucker trousers that morning, and a little old tee shirt. "Nobody knowed me, not a soul." I walked in, set down by a colored man. And I was setting there, you know, and I thought, "Oh, my. " All of them was clapping their hands and singing and shouting and screaming. I thought, "Oh, my, if I just had grace enough to do that. If I can just get loose to do that, I want that." And I was watching. And bye and bye after awhile the little fellow come up to the microphone. His name was Kirch, from Cincinnati, and--Ohio. And he said, "There was a young minister on the platform last night by the name of Branham." Said, "We want him this morning to come to the platform for the morning message." Seersucker trousers, tee shirt... My... Not me.
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I was way back there; I just kind scooted down in the seat like this. So they begin and he went in and he sang another song. He said, "Anybody inside or out know the whereabouts of Mr. Branham?" I was the youngest preacher on the platform. He said, "Come to the platform," said, "we--you're to bring the morning message." I just set
real close, never said nothing. That colored fellow looked over at me said, "Do you know him?" Oh, my. What could I say? I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Go get him." Oh, I--I--I couldn't lie to him. You see? I said, "Listen, fellow, I want to tell you something." Said, "Yes, sir." I said, "I--I--I'm--I'm Brother Branham, you see," but I said, "I can't get up there." I said, "Look at these trousers. See? Look at this tee shirt." He said, "Them people don't care how you dress." I said, "But look, I--I--I can't go up there." I said, "You just keep still. Don't tell them I'm here. (See?) Just keep still." He said, "Anybody know where Reverend Branham is?" That colored man said, "Here he is. Here he is." Seersucker trousers, tee shirt, my... My face was red, you know. Oh, my. What was I going to do? I got ahold of my Bible. I said, "Lord, I prayed last night for something, maybe it's You." I said, "I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't preach around where them fellows are." I'll go up there. And I started to walking up there. Everybody was looking at me, you know, and them seersucker trousers. And you know how they'd be pressed under a Ford seat, so... This--this old tee shirt, and it stained all over, you know.
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I started walking up...?... I was up fishing. So I--I started walking up there and I said, "Why, why, people," I said, "I'm just a little bit... I don't know what I am," I said. "I--I--I feel kindly funny," I said, "I--I--I'm not used to your all's religion," I said. "And..." And I said, "I--I--I wanted to speak just a little; I'll do the best I can." And so I got up over there--over there where the rich man lifted up his eyes in hell, and my, something got ahold of me. The next thing I knowed it was about a half-hour later. I was out in yard just. My, what a time we had.
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Here come a fellow up with a big pair of Texas boots on, a big hat, said, "I'm Reverend so-and-so." I thought, "Well, I ain't so bad dressed after all." I said, "Are you a minister?" He said, "Sure." Said, "I heard your message." Said, "I heard you was a evangelist." Like for you to come down to Texas and hold me a revival." I said, "Well, look, I'm just a young preacher. I just started." I said, "I ain't--hadn't got into this way just right, with you all. Oh," I said, "I like it."
A fellow tapped me on the shoulder. And he looked and he had on a pair of those there knickerbocker pants, bloused at the
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knees, like I used to wear when I was a little boy: golf clothes. He said, "I'm Elder so-and-so from Miami." I said, "You a preacher?" He said, "Yes, sir." I thought, "Well, I'm all right then." So he said, "Why, here." Said, "Will you come and hold a meeting for me?"
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And a lady come up from some, oh, way up in the Indian country, said, "Oh brother, we need you up there." I thought, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You. Maybe this is what You're going to do something for me." I got on over there; and I begin to take down their names and address. I said, "I'll find out. I'll talk it over with the Lord, with my family..." When I went home, I'll never forget. Running in... My wife always met me with her arms stretched out; I can see her yet today, bless her heart. She come running to the door; I said, "Oh, honey, I got something to tell you. I met the best bunch of people in the world. I begin to tell her all about how they was acting. She said, "Well, where they at?" I said, "Up at Mishawaka, Indiana." I said, "You think they're ashamed of their religion? They just scream and shout, run, shake one anther's hands." I said, "They don't care. They're just as free like birds in the air." I said...
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She said, "Were they at?" And I said, "Up in Mishawaka. A whole bunch of them up there." And I want to show you something. Reached down in my pocket. I said, "They have given me invitations to come to their churches to preach." I said, "You believe it?" She said, "Is that true, honey?" I say, "Yeah." She said, "Well, maybe you couldn't preach in their kind of church." I said, "That's what they asked me to do." I said, "Well, I'll go." So she... Well, I said, "Would you go with me?" God bless her heart, she'd always go. She said, "Yes, honey, wherever you go I'll go with you." We didn't have no money. We went in and counted our money, what we had, and I didn't have even enough to make the payment on the car. I said, "Well look, honey, the--the--the Bible said don't take nothing and take no thought." I said, "The Bible said if you got two coats, give one of them to your brother and go on out and He'd supply." Now, I said, "Do you think if you and the baby could go on and be..." "Yes, yes, we'll do it."
Next thing we had to tell our parents then. And I went and told my mama here. Of course mama, it's all right with her. I'm thankful for a good mother and said, "Sure, honey, God bless you." Then we had to go. And this time her father and mother had separated, so I had to go to her mother. And when I went to her mother, she said, "William..." Oh, my. I knew what was up. She said, "You cannot take my daughter." I said, "Look, a... Look, them's the nicest bunch of people." She said, "I've heard of that bunch of people; they're holy rollers." Then she said, "You're not pulling my girl out across this world. Today she's got something to eat and tomorrow she's starving amongst that bunch of trash." And brother, I come to find out this, and I say it from my heart. "What she called trash is the cream of the crop." That's exactly right. I say that with reverence. That's true. Now.
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you..." She said, "Well, mama, I want..." Well, there it was. And I said... She started... She said, "Well, if she goes, her mother will go to the grave broken hearted." And the wife started crying. Well now, I couldn't stand that, so I told her; I said, "Well, we'll wait and go later." Now, there's where I made my mistake." Now, if I would have went on, this gift would have been in operation way before that, 'cause I'd come amongst people who would recognize it. You see? But I said, "Well, we won't go." And brother, sister, from right then my trouble started. The first thing, you know, my church begin to drop off. My brother was killed, having his neck broke in the street. He was riding in a car like this with his arm out; his neck was broke; his blood poured out on my other brother's body. And I run to meet him, but it was too far, died before I could get to him. My sister-in-law died a few days after that. My father died in my arms. Everything begin to go wrong. Then the '37 Flood came on. You heard about it, many of you on your radios and things. The Ohio River, spread out through the country.
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She said... And I said, "Well, she's my wife and she wants
My wife taken pneumonia. Little old Dr. Adair, I shall never forget him. He come. We're buddies. We'd fish together, and hunt together, and everything: one of the best doctors, medical doctors there is in the country. And he... We went to school together. He come up there and looked at her, said, "Billy," said, "that girl's got pneumonia." I'd just taken him his Christmas present. He--he never... God had give us a little girl between that time, little Sharon Rose. I couldn't call her the Rose of Sharon, but I could call her Sharon Rose. And I called her Sharon Rose. And God gave her to us and she was a
sweet little lump, and we just loved her so much. And she'd just got to a place to where, the mother would set her in her little, the "four corners," you know, out in the yard, and I'd come up, and I'd blow the horn on the car like that. She'd recognize and lift her little arms and go, "Goo, goo, goo, goo." My, how I loved that little lump of human flesh. I'd hold her in my bosom and kiss her and love her. My little boy... I just love little children, and God had give them to me. And I'd put them both on my back and piggyback and ride around, you know, just as happy as we could be, nothing...?... but just... She had just the two children in a little over two years. And then...
But she taken pneumonia when she went to get the children a Christmas present. And the doctor said she'll have to lay right here, Billy, 'cause she's--probably will die if--if she ever moves. But her mother come up and said she was going to move her down to her house. And Dr. Adair said, "She'll have to get another doctor, 'cause I wouldn't do it, Billy," wouldn't permit it. So they--she went and dismissed him and got another doctor and taken her down there. And the flood broke through, and then all of us was put on the rescue to--to work with the flood. We rushed her out to the government hospital where they temporary placed the hospital. The dikes was breaking through; the city was washing away.
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I'll never forget those nights. I remember they called me. Both babies was sick with pneumonia, and she was laying sick with pneumonia, out in the hospital there with a fever a hundred and five and both babies sick. And I come up... I come up and had my car, and I had a boat and I was raised on the river and said... I operated a boat pretty well. And everybody was just pulling people out of the flood, and people drowning and everything. I got my boat... I was working on a wall and some of them come, said, "Oh, the--get down here, preacher, right quick and get your boat in down here." The dike broke, you know, over on Chestnut Street, and the houses are washed away, and there's a mother on top of the house out there with a bunch of little children, about eleven o'clock at night.
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I rushed down there real quick and throwed my boat in the water, started it up. And I had to buck those waves as high as this tent, almost, up in there where they just a dashing against the side of those buildings like that. And I heard a mother screaming. I looked over there, and she was standing on the top porch, out over her house, and the--the waves just shaking that house like that with four or five little children standing around her. I said, "See where the
street lights hadn't went out yet, down through there." And I went up through the alley like this with the boat and it just washing things from under it. Went down through that way. Finally caught to the post and throwed the rope around and run in, the mother fainted. And I picked her up and pulled all the children, packed them, put them in the boat and got back.
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Just as I got to the bank I heard her say, "Oh, my baby, my baby..." Well, I thought she'd left a little baby in there. "Where's my baby?" though she was talking about a little--a little about three year old child she had there. And I said, "Oh, my, a little baby laying in that house..." And I went back again, and I knowed the poor little thing, how I love children. And the waves were horrible then. I just got to the house, and throwed the rope around again, and went in, looked at all around, and I couldn't find no baby, and just then I heard the house give away. And just as it give away I run real quick to the porch and grabbed the--the rope at the column, went down and pulled the slip knot out of it, and then the current caught me and out to the river I went, like that.
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And I got out there and I couldn't get my outboard started on, like that, the string just froze. Sleeting and snowing, and I was trying to get it started. It wouldn't start. And the current caught me, and there the falls just below me. And I knowed what was going. And there, setting in that boat, out there, rocking back and forth, and the waves twisting like this, me pulling on that string, and it wouldn't start. And I'd pull again, it wouldn't start. I thought, "Oh, my, a half a mile farther, and down through that chute I'll go and they'll never find a piece of me, when I go down through there." I thought, "Oh, God, the wages..." The way of a transgressor's hard, friends. Don't you never get that, but what it is. And I thought, "Oh, God..." I begin to remember it. I begin to remember Him then, that He called me to go and I didn't go and I refused to go. During that time though, we'd went ahead and received the Holy Spirit, both of us.
And I was pulling the string; it wouldn't start. I got down, I thought, "There's little Billy Paul. I'll never see him again. There's little Sharon Rose. I'll never see her again. There's wife laying there in the hospital, right at the point of death. I'll never see them when they break the news to her that I'm gone and find my truck setting there, and then it... Well, some of them might've seen the house move away. What will happen?" I said, "God, have mercy upon me. Please, dear God, I don't want to die. I'm sorry that I did what I did."
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I said, "Help me to start..." I pulled the chain and away it started. Cut through and come way down by Howard's Park and come back. Went and got my car real quick, left my boat tied up, top of the tree where I could get back to it. And I come up and got my car real quick. And some of them said, "Why, they're telling the depot washed away awhile ago," where the wife was.
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And I run up through there real quick, and I met a major there. And I--I stopped and I said, "Major Wheatley..." I knew him. I said, "Is it true, that I...?" He said, "Yes, the water broke through." said, "All that hospital bunch was taken out though." Said, "I think that all of them got on a car, a train, and they've gone to Charlestown, Indiana, and you can find them up there." I jumped in my car. I remember the last time I seen my little associate pastor. He grabbed me by the hand; he said, "Brother Branham, if I never see you again, I'll see you in the morning." And that's the last salutation one another as we saluted one another. He died during the time of the flood. And all... Oh, he never died; he went home to be with Jesus during the time of the flood: a little boy, filled with the Holy Ghost, a little Frenchman, DeArk was his name.
And away we went. I--I went out there to try to--to get across and when I got my boat down there and got up there, the Lancassange Creek up there was backed through for about eight miles of water through there, twisting. There wasn't a river where it cut around. And some of them said, "Well, last train that crossed, went on a trestle. The trestle washed away and every one of them was drowned right by the...?..." Oh, my, I said, "It can't be? It can't be," and I tried again; I tried to pierce it. And I couldn't... try into the night. The waters taken me back. Come to find myself cut off from everybody, setting out in the room, up on a hill. And there, for about five or six days I had plenty of time to think all over my wrong, when God called me to go and I didn't go. And setting there thinking, "My baby and wife has drowned. My mother, where was she at? I didn't know where she was at. I didn't know where no one was at.
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And finally when the rivers dropped enough that I could get a boat across, I rushed across. And I said, "Maybe they went to Charlestown..." They told me the boat--the boat got through--I mean, the train got through. And I went to a great big place at Charlestown where they was keeping all the refugees. And I went in there; they knowed nothing about nobody named Branham in there. And I walked out under a tree and met old Colonel Hay, a very good
friend of mine, he said, "Billy," he said, "that train went through here. I don't think it even stopped, was ran on through the dispatcher's office." He went down there and said, "Yes," said, "the engineer of the train will be in just in a few moments that drove that train through." Said, "It was a cattle car." Her father was a brotherhood organizer on the Pennsylvania, drives the south route through now. And there it was going out on a cattle car. And the sleet and rain upon them. I knowed they couldn't live like that, and I had... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Two sick children... And so how could I get to Columbus, I was cut off. And there, walking down the street, crying, wringing my hands, don't know what would take place, I... Someone wal--run up to me, said, "Billy, you're looking for Hope, aren't you?" And I said, "Yes." That was my wife's name. They used to call her Hope, me Faith, and little baby, little Billy Charity. So they said, "You looking for her?" And I said... Said, "My girlfriend is at Columbus, Indiana, and your wife is laying by her side dying with...?... tuberculosis." I said, "No, it can't be." Said, "Yes, she is." I said, "Can you get me there?" Said, "Yes, if you can walk a ways." I said, "I can walk anywhere."
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We got up and got in the car, and I went to Columbus. I went up there and I thought, "Where's she at?" I run into that... They had her in a--in a Baptist church, down on the basketball court, gymnasium. And I started down through there, hollering... There's cots everywhere, and people was stretched all like this, and every sickness and everything. I started screaming top of my voice, "Hope, oh, Hope, where are you, honey? Where are you?" I loved her. I love her yet. She's in her grave out there, but God knows she was a good God saved woman. And I looked and I was crying, screaming, "Oh, where are you, Hope?" I looked over there, and I seen an old poor, bony hand go up in the air. It was her. I'll never forget how I felt. My heart begin to drop. And I run over to her, and fell down, and grabbed her hand. She did weigh about a hundred and thirty pounds; she probably weighed sixty or seventy then.
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I was crying. I said, "Where Billy? Where's Sharon?" She said, "They're in a home somewhere." Said, "I'm going... I, aren't I Bill." And I said, "No, honey, you look all right. You're going to be all
right." I said, "Oh, God, have mercy. Please, dear Jesus," I said, "will You have mercy. Let my wife get well." And I was praying; somebody was patting me on the back. It was the doctor, said, "You Reverend Branham?" And I said... Said, "Come aside a minute." I went over; I said, "Yes, doctor?" Said, "Isn't Sam Adair your doctor at home?" And I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Well, I'm going to tell you," said, "you better get ready for this." Said, "Your wife is going to die," said, "she's got TB." And I said, "That's galloping consumption." And said, "She won't last for just a little while." I said, "Doctor, no, she can't go." I said, "You looked at my babies?" Said, "Yes, they both been sick, but they're getting better." And I said, "Oh, look, I'm going to take her home." And he said, "You can't do that." Said, "You just stay right here." Well, after finally, when I did get her down home, she just kept getting worse, worse, and worse all the time.
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Dr. Adair came back to give her pneumothorax treatments. They done everything that could be done. She kept getting worse. I'd pray, and cry, and beg with all my heart. Looked like it was just black before me as it could be. Finally, they taken her out to the hospital. They sent and got doc--a doctor from Louisville. He come over and looked at her, and he said, "No." Dr. Dillar from the TB sanatorium, and he said, "There's nothing could be done for her, reverend," said, "she's going to die; that's all." Said, "Just might as well make ready for her to die," said, "because it's down in both lungs and has just got such a hold of her till there's no hopes of saving her." What was I going to do? Oh, my. All the time I could hear that ringing in my ears, "I called you and give you the opportunity. You wouldn't go," like that. You reap what you sow, every time.
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And I remember, I went ahead trying to work, trying to get things so we could eat, and I could pay my bills. And I was working one day. Getting worse all the time, she was. And I heard it come in, said for me to report at once at the hospital for my wife was dying. And I never will forget; I took off my hat, took off my coat, laid it down. I said, "O God, have mercy on me, and let me speak to her again before she goes." I turned the car, and I was just close to Henryville, Indiana, or at Underwood, I mean. And down the road I came, rushed to the hospital, jumped out of the car, and run up the steps real quick, going into the hospital. And after I went in, I seen little Doctor Adair coming down the hall with his head down. He looked at me like that. Tears broke through, and He turned his face
and started running and motioning to me. And I went up to him; I put my arm around him; I said, "Doc, look Sam, come here. What's wrong." And he said, "I believe she's gone, Bill." I said, "Surely not." I said, "Go with me, doc." He said, "Billy, how could I go in there?" Said, "The girl cooked me a many a dinner. She was like my sister." Said, "How could I go in to do it?" Said, "I don't want to see her no more." He said, "You stay out here." And I said, "I'm going to see her." Said, "Don't go in there, Bill." Well, I said, "Yeah, I'm going...?..." He said, "Here." Called one of the nurses, "You go with him." She had a little red medicine or something or other. The little thing said, "Take this." I said, "I don't need that."
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I walked in. I said, "I want to go alone." I pulled the door behind me. I looked over there. She had real dark eyes and black hair: German girl. She was all doubled up like this. I looked down upon her, and just as still. I put my hand on her forehead. It was real sticky, didn't look like she had any life. I put my hand over on her head, and I said, "O God, please." I said, "That's my baby's mother. Let me tell her good-bye. Will You do it, Lord? Let me tell her goodbye. I don't want her to go without telling her good-bye. Will You help me, dear God, if there's forgiveness in Your great heart. Will You just let me say good-bye to her?" Her head moved. I looked down. If I live a hundred years, I'll never forget those big, dark eyes looked at me. She couldn't talk. She motioned her finger. And I--I got down. She said, "Why did you call me?" I said, "Why, honey, you're not going." She said, "Yes, I am." She said, "I don't mind it, Bill, I just hate to leave you the babies." She said, "But I know..." Well, then I said, "Honey, you--you're not going. No--no you'll get all right; you're going to be all right." She said, "Now, Bill..."
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Just then the nurse broke in. She said, "Reverend Branham, you come on out." She said, "Come here," to the nurse. And she said out, "Evelyn," she knew her, a schoolmate. Said, "If you ever get married, I hope you have a husband like mine now." And I said, "Oh, honey, don't say that." She said, "I...?..." Evelyn started crying, went back out. She said, "I want to tell you something honey." She said, "I'm going," and she
said, "It's glorious to go." She said, "I was on my road, and I had someone by each arm, looked like white angels, and they were taking me down through a white path to my home." Said, "I could hear you calling way back up the road." Oh, oh. Said, "Honey, you're just as peaceful," said, "great palm trees, and birds like the dawn of a morning, and...?... tropics."
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You know what I think? I think she was just on that breach between the natural and the supernatural. She said, "I been taking a walk." Said, "Promise me one thing, that you'll always preach this glorious Gospel of the Holy Spirit," she said, "for it sure pays when you're going, Bill." She said, "I guess you know why I'm going, don't you, honey?" And I said, "Don't say it." She said, "No, not your fault; it was mine." I said, "Yes, honey, if I wouldn't have listened to your mother, would've listened to God instead of some woman, I'd been better off, wouldn't I?" She said, "That's right, honey, but it'll come out all right for you." I said, "Hope, don't leave me. And she said, "I have to go, honey." Said, "I hate to leave you and the babies." She said, "Promise me something, will you?" Said, "I got some things to tell you." And I said, "All right."
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Said, "I have to tell you quickly, 'cause I'm going back; they're waiting on me." She said, "Don't think I'm beside myself; I'm not." She said, "You remember that time you was in Louisville and you wanted to buy that little old .22 rifle, and you didn't even have enough money to make a down payment?" I said, "Yeah." She said, "I always wanted to get you that rifle." She said, "I've been saving the nickels to try to get enough money to make that down payment for it: three dollars." And she said, "After I'm gone, when you go home, look up on the top of the old folding bed, under that newspaper. And promise me you'll get the rifle. You want it so bad." You'll never know how I felt when I went back home and found about two dollars and seventy-five or eighty cents laying there in nickels where she'd saved it, allowancing herself, do without stockings, mainly, to put it up there. That's a real wife.
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"Now," she said, "another thing I want to tell you." She said, "You remember that time that you bought me them stockings, I sent you down to get stockings?" And I said, "Yes."
She said, "Them was the wrong stockings." How it was, we were going to Fort Wayne. I was going to preach that night up there. And I was going up to Fort Wayne, and she sent me down to get some stockings. There's two different kinds. One's called chiff--chiffon? That's them. What's the other one? Ray--rayon? Rayon and chiffon. And she told me; she said, "Go get me a pair..." Is the rayon the best? All right. She said, "They cost sixty-nine cents." She said, "Go get me a pair of--of rayon stockings while I'm--while I'm getting ready." And I went down to get it. And I was going down the street. I never did buy any clothes for women, didn't know any clothes. I was going down... She said, "Chiffon." "Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon..." Somebody said, "Hello, Brother Branham." I said, "Hello... Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon..." Go on down, say, "How you getting along, Billy?" I said, "Fine... Chiffon, chiffon, chiffon, chiffon..." And I passed around a corner, and a--a fisherman friend of mine met me at the corner. He said, "Oh, Billy, Perch out on the piers are biting." I said, "Sure enough. Crawfish is what they're hitting?" I said, "Well, I got to go to Fort Wayne." I said, "I'll meet you Monday," and we're talking like that. Then when he left, I forgot what it was.
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Well, she sent me to Penney's to get it. So I used to go with a little girl by name of Thelma Ford, and she was working at Newberry's and I know that the--that they set them stockings in there, so I went in and thought I'd ask her. Well, I didn't want to show my ignorance to the people. And I went over there, and I said... She said, "Hello, Billy." And I said, "Hi, Thelma." Said, "What do you want?" I said, "A pair of socks for Hope." Said, "A pair of what?" And I said, "Socks." Said, "Hope don't wear socks." And I said, "Yes, ma'am. She wants socks, and she wants that full style, that thing in the back, you know, and ever what it is, you know." I said... She--she said, "She wants stockings." I said, "Well, ever what you want to call them..." Then I thought I'd already showed how dumb I was, and I didn't want to get into it worse.
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She said, "What kind does she want?"
I said, "What kind you got?" And she says... What's that pronounced? As rayon? Chiffon? Is that the kind? Well, she starts and said, "Well, we've got some rayon." Well, I never heard... I said, "That's what she wants." See? Sound like chiffon to me, chiffon, rayon. See? And I said, "That's what she wants." And she said, "She don't want rayon." I said, "That's what she wants." And so she went and got them. It was only about twenty something cents. Why, I said, "Give me two pair of them." She said, "Are you sure of that?" Said, I said, "That's what she wants." So I took them up there. You know how you went--brothers like to show off to your women, you know. And I said, "Oh..." I said, "I'm Abraham's son, little Yiddish." I said, "You know how to shop. Huh?" She said, "Did you get me chiffon stockings?" And I thought, "Yes." That was what the good kind was. And I said, "Yes, ma'am. That's what I got." And she was lady enough not to tell me about it. And when she got to Fort Wayne, I thought it was strange, she had to have another pair of socks.
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But what it was, she told me, said, "Honey, I didn't want to tell you." She was too much a lady then. Said, "I had to give them to your mother. It was for an older person." Said, "I'm sorry I kept it back from you, but I just couldn't tell you." I said, "Bless your heart, sweetheart." "There's one more thing I want you to promise me: you won't live single." I said, "Oh, Hope, I can't promise that." She said, "Don't live single, and have my children pulled about from post to post." She said, "I--I'm--I'm going, Bill." She said, "Will you promise me?" I said, "Honey, I can't promise that." Said, "Promise me, won't you?" the poor old feeble hands reaching up to me. Said, "Get a good girl that's got the Holy Spirit. She'll take care of the children." She said, "Bill, I'll meet you there." I said, "All right, honey." I said, "Are you really going?" She said, "Yes, I'm going." I said, "Sweetheart, someday, so help me God..." I said, "I'll take you out here to Walnut Ridge and I'll bury you, and I leave a place there for myself and the kiddies." She said, "Do one thing. Promise me too, that you'll never let loose, but you'll preach this Gospel that you heard up there at Mishawaka." I said, "I promise." She said, "It's glorious to die by, Bill." And said, "I hate to leave you and the babies, but it's so good to go back." And I said, "Honey, on that day the sun will be as black as sackcloth,
bloody. The skies will be waving and gray too." I said, "If I'm alive, I'll be on the battlefield, but if I'm not, I'll be sleeping by your side. And if you go before I do, if I'm alive, and you go before I do, when you see the city coming lowering down from God out of heaven," I said, "go over to the east side of the gate; stand there under the big pillar. When you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and them coming by," I said, "scream my name as loud as you can: Bill, Bill." I said, "I'll gather the children together, and I'll meet you there at the gate." She said, "I'll meet you, honey." And I kissed her. That was my last date with my wife." And brother, sister, if sometimes I get weary and tired, but I'm going to keep that appointment. One day I'm going to meet her.
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I walked out of the building, went home, oh, my, my heart breaking. I couldn't stand it. Mother told me, "Come to her house." I couldn't do it. I went over that night. I was going around the house. I went in the room, laid down. I shut the door. When I shoved the... I was laying on the cot and I shoved my foot, shoved it together; and when I did, there was her coat hanging on the back of the door. I-I... It was all over again. Just then, somebody knocked on the door, said, "Billy?" And I said, "Yes." Said, "I got some bad news to tell you." I said, "Well, I was right there when she died." "That's not all of it. Your baby's dying too." I said, "No." "Yes." Said, "Dr. Adair just left and said not let you come to the hospital; it's dying now with tubercular meningitis." I couldn't stand it no longer. Then got--I got up. Two men setting in an old truck, we went out there to the hospital, and I went in. Doc said, "You can't go in there." I said, "Yes, I can." "No, you can't," said, "Billy, you got to think about Billy Paul." Said, "See, she's got meningitis. She's contracted that from her mother," And he said, "if you go in there, you might take it to your boy." I said, "Doc, I must go." He said, "You can't." So he set me down in a room. As soon as he got away, I slipped in anyhow.
And I went down there. It was a little old hospital, and there, when I walked into the room... I'll never forget it, there laid my little eight month old darling, little Sherry, laying there. And she was suffering so hard, her little legs was moving up and down like that, fast. It looked like her little hands was waving at me: good-bye. I looked at her and she was suffering so hard, I said, "Sherry, do you know your daddy, honey?" I shooed the flies out of her eyes. And
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when she looked at me... She was suffering so hard till one those little baby blue eyes had crossed. I never could stand it to see a cross-eyed child from then. I've never seen one pass the platform but what was healed...?... That right? I seen four hundred and something cross-eyed children healed in six months. Oh, when I see a cross eyed child I think of my little Sherry laying there. She was suffering so hard until that that--her little eyes crossed and her little hand tried to wave at me.
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And I said, "Know, daddy, honey?" and her little lips trying to speak to me like this, "goo" to me, and they were quivering; she's a dying. I put my hand over on her; I said, "O God, please God, don't take her. You took my wife; You took my daddy, and You've took... O God, isn't there forgiveness in Your great heart?" I said, "Please, dear God, please spare my baby." I thought, "Whatever I've...?..." I said, "Won't You do it, Lord? Looked just looked like a black sheet begin to unfold, coming down. Oh, I knowed she was gone. I looked at her; I thought, "Oh, my, if I had it to live over again, they would never be trash. I don't care who would...?..." I thought, "Oh, if I could just go back, I'd never listen to another thing anybody told me; I would listen to God and Him alone. I'd listen to Him." I looked down at her and I knowed she was going. I said...?... sweetheart, daddy's going to...?... you. You won't be so...?... just wave at me. I just done been...?... took up home. I said, "You're worried about...?... whether...?... street. I placed my hand over on her little head; I said, "Lord, You gave her and You taken her away. Though You slay me, yet I'll trust You. You're still my Saviour. I love You." I'm not a baby. But when I think about it, tears me to pieces.
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I thought, "Oh, God, how You will just take that precious thing from my heart?" Then...?... yonder I said, "Not my will though, let thine be done. God, if You slay me, I'm just going to trust You." I said, "God bless you, honey. Good-bye, Sherry. You're... I will put you in mother's arms in a few hours up there in a casket where she's laying now. And one day daddy will see you again." I stepped back and every bone in me seemed like, went to pieces. I dropped to the floor. The Angels of God come down and packed her little soul to be with her mother. She went to meet mother, tucked her little helpless body in the arms of her dear mother. We went out there to the graves and buried them. Reverend Smith from the Methodist church, walked up there and got the handful of dirt, said, "Ashes to ashes and dust unto dust and earth to earth." Them old clods begin to beat on top of that casket as it went down in the grave. I raised up, I couldn't stand it.
Way back up on the side of the hill was some big cedar trees. I heard the wind whistling through there. It seemed like the song said,
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There's a land beyond the river, That they call the sweet forever. And we only reach that shore by faith's decree. One by one they gain the portals, There to dwell with the immortals, Someday they'll ring those golden bells for you and me.
Last Easter a year ago, her little son there, Billy and I, we'd go to the grave early of a morning, I had a little bundle of flowers under his arms, I said, "Let's go visit mama's grave." We were going along there with the flowers, coming day. I took off my hat, and the little old fellow took off his hat. I heard...?... I said, "Don't cry, sonny." I put my arm around him. We set it down by the side of the grave. I read it: "Right there lays Hope Amelia Branham and darling daughter, Sharon Rose." I said, "Sweetheart, the re--re-reason we're kneeling here Billy, in Jerusalem there's an empty grave this morning. That's right. And your mother died in Him Who rose again." I said, "Someday, we'll see mama and sissy again in a better land."
After my wife, they'd buried her, I went home. I tried to go to work. I had thousands of dollars in debt, and frankly on that till just recently got out of it. ...?... father had died, no insurance. We couldn't afford insurance or nothing and there he was. By the way I'm not an insurance person. Buy insurance... One guy come to me the other day, said, "I want to sell you some insurance." I said, "I... Listen, don't talk to me about that." I said, "I have insurance." Said, "Oh, you have insurance?" I said, "Yes, sir." Said, "What is it?" I said, "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine." He said, "That'll not put you in the grave up here." I said, "I'm not worried about getting in there. That'll bring me out." I said, "I'm worried about coming out, not going in." I said, "That's right." I ain't got nothing against insurance, it's all right. You see? That's all right. And some people's insurance poor. That's right. But I tell you of an insurance you can collect on it right now: Just now the Holy Spirit of God. Is right. The assurance of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, and we'll come out again.
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Then when I was there, laying on the bed one morning... I remember getting up on a post. I was working for a electrical company, trying, the Public Service Company of Indiana. I was working real early one morning. I was taking down some taps. I was singing, "On the hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame." I noticed the sun coming up, shine against the telephone pole--or the electric pole and that cross arm looked like the picture of someone hanging on the cross, wiggling out there on the hill, the shadow. I said, "Yes, it was my sins that put Him there. It was my disobedience that put Him there. He died for me." I just got so... I was... I could see my wife going, but I couldn't see that baby going. I just couldn't do it, and I said, "O God, why did You take that precious little thing from me. Here I am left alone in the world, me and the boy to wander around together." I said, "Why did You take her, Lord?" I got so worked up till I said, "Sherry, honey, daddy's coming to see you this morning." I pulled off my rubber glove. There laid twenty-three hundred running right by me; break every bone in your body. I said... Gone crazy... I pulled my glove. I said, "Sherry, daddy's coming to see you. I can't stay away from you any longer." I said, "God, I hate to be a coward, but I can't stand it; my heart's a breaking. I can't stand it." The next thing I knew I was setting on the ground. How I ever got down from there, God only knows. And I believe that if that gift hadn't been foreordained to put in there, I'd have been gone right there, 'cause I made up my mind I was going to take my life as a suicide case. I'd lost my mind. I'd gone crazy. And I got--went home. I said, "Oh..." I put my tools in the car, I said, "I'm going home, I've gone crazy."
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And I went home and stayed with mama that day and that night I was going around the house and I picked up the mail. And as soon as I went there... I fast it back in a little old room there, a little old fireplace, and I mean, a little old stove setting there, a little old cot. I stayed right there at the home. It wasn't... I didn't want to go no where else. There wasn't very much there, that old furniture, but she and I lived together with it, and it was ours. It was a whole lot. That's right. It ain't the value of anything; it's the way you look at it. That's right. And I've always lived together here in...?... She loved it and kept clean. I want to stay right here with it till I die too. And I was staying there, and I'd come in of a nighttime look around over her things, then I would lay down. That night when I come in there, looked at these letters, and the first one had on it, said "Miss Sharon Rose Branham," her little Christmas saving: eighty cents. And I looked at it; I thought, "O God..." I knelt down on the floor; I said, "O God, I can't stand it; I'm going to die." I said, "Please, forgive me. Will You always...?... me, Lord. Please have mercy on my poor, sinful soul." I said, "Don't let me be here. I've... You... I've died to myself,
why am I on the earth?" I said, "I can't stand it, losing my baby and all I got." And I said, "It's just after me day and night."
And I went to praying. I got real sleepy, that haze come upon me. I went to sleep. I dreamed that I was out west, and I was walking down by the side of a--a prairie, as it used to be. I seen an old prairie schooner and a wheel was broken a laying down sideways; and I was singing that song, or whistling, "The wheel on the wagon is broken..." 'course that was our broken family (You see?) then. And-and it won't run no more. And I was whistling like that, "the wheel on the wagon's broken," going along. And there stepped out from the side that wagon was the most beautiful blond-headed girl I ever seen. She was dressed with snowy white, her pretty little blue eyes a shining, her blond hair; she said, "Hello, dad." I tipped my hat up; I said, "How do you do, miss?" And she said, "Hello, dad." I said, "Dad? I beg your pardon." She smiled and I said... She said, "Well, don't you know me?" I said, "Well, lady, you're as old as I am. How could I be your father?" And she said, "Don't you know your teaching, dad? You teach immortality."
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See, I don't believe there'll be little babies in heaven. If they're resurrected little babies, they'll always be little babies. If they're real old people that resurrects on a cane or crutch, it'd be that way with immortality don't know. We'll be one age, one thing forever. We'll be of one age, I believe with all my heart, about the age of Jesus. I... That's just might be a thought but I don't... I know immortality, if it's resurrect a little baby that big, it will always be that way. I believe we'll be one age; there'll be no old or young. We'll be just in that middle age right there forever. I believe men and women... Like God when He didn't tell Eve she was a little bitty growed up, or Adam, He just made them in His own image, and that's when He'll do it again, they're a full grown stature of people.
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And she said, "Don't you remember your teaching of immortality?" And I said, "Oh, who are you?" And she said, "Down on earth I was your little Sharon." I said, "Sherry, that's not you, honey?" She said, "Yes, it is, daddy." She said, "Where's Billy Paul, my brother?" I said, "Well, honey, I don't understand."
She said, "Mother's looking for you." And I said, "Where's Mother at?" She said, "Up at your home, your new home." I said, "My home?" I said, "Honey, I--I--I--I--I--I never had a home." I said, "Branhams don't have homes." She said, "But, dad, you got one here." And I turned to look, and there was a great mansion, glory to God coming up. And I said, "Is that mine?" She said, "Yeah, mother's up there waiting for you." I said, "All right." She said, "I'm going to wait for Billy. I'll stand right here. I'll be up there after while." Said, "Mother wants to see you." I took off as hard as I could running. When I got up there, I started to run up them big steps like that. And I looked, coming walking out on the steps, here she come in all of her beauty, white robe on, dark hair hanging down, her arms reaching out. I run to her and grabbed her hands and knelt down. I said, "Oh, Hope, honey, I said, "I can't stand it no longer. I'm just about to go wild. And I--since you've left." She said, "I seen all's went on, Bill." She said, "Promise me something." I said, "What?" She said, "Promise me you won't worry no more." I said, "I seen Sherry, honey. Didn't our girl make a beautiful woman?" Said, "Yes." Said, "She's waiting for Billy here to see him?" I said, "Yes."
She said, "Promise me you won't worry, will you?" Said, "Sharon and I are better off than you are. Oh, honey," she said, "Just promise me you won't worry." And I said, "All right. I won't worry no more." And she kinda raised up like this, and looked around, and she said, "Will you set down." And I looked, there's a great big chair setting there. And I looked at that chair and I looked back at her. She said, "I know what you're thinking. Here's what it was." While we was a preaching... Now we didn't have nothing, just them old hickory bottom chairs. We was living in a house. And I--I'd preach half the night, work all day long with a air hammer, and pick and shovel. I'd come in at night, and I wanted to buy one of them chairs, them, you know, Morris chairs, you call them, whatever it is, you know, lounge chairs. And I wanted to buy one. They was for sale then for fifteen dollars and ninety-five cents. And I would just pay a dollar down and a dollar a week to pay for it. And I had got one and moved it into the house, and my, I'd set there of a night and just relax when I come in, studied the Bible till I'd go to sleep. And one day while I come in, and I'd got a dun, I couldn't make the payment that week. The next week passed; I couldn't make the
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payment and they sent to come get my chair. And so I--I just couldn't make the payment, I just couldn't do it. So I told her; I said, "You call them up and tell them to come get it, honey."
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And so, I remember coming in that evening. She'd baked me a cherry pie. I--I love cherry pie so well. And I went in, she'd had some of the boys to dig some fishing worms so I could go fishing. They was setting out. She was a real girl. And so, and she had set out there and we come in to eat supper. I seen she was extremely happy, or seemed to be, or putting on something. She had her cherry pie and I was eating it. And afterwards I kind've suspicioned something. So I said, "Let's go in the front room." She said, "Oh, let's go fishing first, down at the river." I said, "No, let's go in the front room." And she put her arm around me. When I walked in the room, the chair was gone. She started crying, put her head over on my shoulder; she said, "I'm sorry, honey, I tried everything to borrow two dollars even," but said, "I couldn't do it." We'd paid about ten dollars on it, and said, "I couldn't do it; we just had to let it go." And then she looked at me and she said, "Can we...?..." and I said, "Yes." She said, "Well, sweetheart, there'll never be nobody come and get this one. It's already paid for. It belongs to you." Said, "You've been so tired; you been preaching and praying for the sick." I--I wasn't praying for the sick then. So I know that sometime my going will probably be from the platform, praying for the sick. That been the thing that was a help...?... to get up.
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She said, "But they'll never come take this." Said, "It's yours. Now set down and rest awhile." One of these days, friends, I don't know if day and night, I tried all that I can do to live and do what's right before God. One of these days I'm going home to rest. That's right. One of these times you'll see it the paper, I want you to stop and sing, "Only Believe." They're going to play that when they put me in the grave, they're going to...?... or go before Jesus comes, they'll put me in the grave and when I do, I'm going to go on to where there's chairs set down in to rest a little while. Come over, I wish I'd meet every one of you over there. I believe there's a land beyond this here, beyond the vale of tears and sorrows and heartaches. I have preached day and night; I've stayed till eyes shut crying; I've stand at the platform until they had to pack me out. Why? Because I've tried to make up for the time that I lost back there. Brother, sister, you look down there and say, "Oh, this is easy, these here things. You don't know what's behind the life. That's right. This old heart's been broke and tore to pieces until God gets out, but someday it'll be over. There forever home. Won't you meet me over there? Would you like meet me? I'd like to make an appointment with
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Just as sure as I stand on the platform I believe there's a heaven to go to. I believe there's a land of rest where we live at. I don't care if I had to eat soda crackers and drink branch water, I wouldn't compromise on this Gospel. It's the truth of God. I don't care if I'm called "Holy roller" or whatever you want to call me. That's all right. I know it's the truth. I've stood by them when they were dying and hear them say,
Happy day! Happy day, Since Jesus washed my sins away. He taught me how to watch and pray And live rejoicing every day.
It ain't what you do here; it's the way you go out of this life. And I know without the Holy Spirit, you're lost. Won't you receive Him this afternoon?
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Let's bow our heads. Our times has gone on. Heavenly Father, O God... O God, when my mind goes back to all those old tracks down along the time... I was laying there in the hospital there, I...?... When she looked around and... Oh, it was so perfect. And I thought, "O God, I know she's at rest now. My little baby, little Sherry's over there. O God, there's brother... Oh, soon I shall go, Lord. Help me. Help me to be true; help me to be faithful. I'm sorry that I did what I did in the beginning, Lord, how I shunned to preach the Gospel; how I failed, and maybe men will be lost because of it, but, O God, help me now to make up for it. Here we are here in this city. I'm passing by, doing all that I can, Lord, to exalt Thy Son, Christ Jesus, Who died, and when He did, He saved. Maybe here this day, Father, there's those who are lost, don't know where they're standing. I don't know where in sin and darkness, lost, wandering in darkness, someday shall wind up in a Christless grave, in a devil's eternity to spend. Oh, help, dear Father.
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Bless my poor little orphan boy, setting this afternoon, weeping, looking on, thinking of his dear mother that crossed the veil. But You had to break our hearts. But now, You've give me another lovely, little sweet Rebekah. How I thank You, Lord. The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away, blessed be the Name of the Lord. Another companion to live with... Trying to do all that I know how to do to reach people...?... I'm so glad, happy for this meeting here. I realize that our parting down here we'll--may never meet again until we meet up there to face all the deeds that's done in our life. Then, Father, what will be then? Help us to meet each other there, won't
you, Lord. Those hands went up this afternoon, showing Your appointment, we can meet together someday in a better land, where we won't cross the deserts and plains and around the countries to pray for the sick no more; it'll all be over then. They'll be no sickness or sorrow. Bless, will You, Lord, today. Bless all those who are here. Bless those that are in need of Christ just at this moment. Won't You grant it, Father? In Jesus' Name.
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While you have your heads bowed, in prayer if you will, how many in here would like to say, "Brother Branham, going put up my hand. I want you to pray for me right now that I'll be a Christian. Put up your hand. That's... God bless you, you, and you, and you. Oh, my. Outside, way out there, is there some? God bless you out there; I see your hands. Oh, my, hundreds of hands up. What a marvelous time the Holy Spirit gives us. I looked upon you... I know a while ago the offering was taken up for me to help me to live. You put your substance in there; part of you're living, you're sharing it with me. Oh, it's... I...?... Won't you please accept Jesus so we can live together forever? Oh, if it--if it return...?... to Jesus, go home that you can live forever. Will you come while the sister goes to the piano?
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I'm going to ask, "How many here would like to receive Christ and be filled with the Holy Spirit life today?" Come and say, "Brother Branham, by the grace of God, I'm accepting Christ now as my Saviour and I'm coming right forward. Give me my hand, standing here on this platform. You pray with me. I want to go to heaven too, when I go." Will you come while they're playing, "Almost Persuaded Now to Believe"? Will you do it while we all stand all over the building, everywhere, or in the tent, however many here. Ever... People keep your places. Christians pray like not before. This may be the last time that we meet on this earth. Will you come right down here now around the platform while we pray. God bless you, sister. Someone else now while we all sing. God bless you, sister. God bless you. God bless you, sister, and you too, God bless you, brother.
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Will you come now, all of you that would like to get a blessing from God...?... the saving of your soul to salvation. Mother coming with her two little girls, God bless...?... God bless you, honey. Come here; let's have your little hand. God bless you, sweetheart. Oh, my, God spoke to you. A little girl setting here, her little dark eyes looking up, full of tears... The Bible said, "A little child shall lead them." The grandmother... God bless you, mother. Good old mother
with a scarf around her head is coming. Won't you come? All of us together now, as they're singing, (God bless you, brother, sister. That's where you start life. Come, sister.)
"Almost persuaded," Now to believe; "... most persuaded," Oh, Christ to receive; Seems now some soul to say...?... "Go..."
(God bless you, sister. God...)
Won't you come? Won't you come? Let every sinner come forward, will you now? Come forward by this confession of Jesus Christ. No matter what church you belong to, if you haven't been borned again, won't you come forward now? Your name on a church book doesn't settle it, dear friends. This might be the last time that there's ever a altar call that you'll set by. Remember, a crowd of this size, six months from today, there'll be a group of you won't be on earth. Think of it. Remember, there's at least two dozen people in here that won't be here a year from today, about three or four thousand people gathered, or more, here, this afternoon. There won't... There'll be as many as maybe a fifty of you in a year from today will be gone. This may be your last opportunity. All the experience you have in putting your name on the book, don't believe that. Come forward if you believe me to be God's servant. Accept my word. If you're not borned again, will you come just now while we sing that verse again? Come on, everybody.
"Almost persuaded," Now to believe; "Almost persuaded," (God bless Oh, seems now some soul to say, "Oh, go, Spirit, go Thy way,
you, sister.) to receive; (All right...?...)
Some more convenient day. On Thee I'll
What if that day comes for your convenience, but it isn't convenient for Him then? I stood not long ago, by the side of a man that was dying, who refused Christ. He screamed and told, "Take those demons away from me. They're wrapped in chains. Don't let them get me." I stood by a woman's side, who had abortion cases, killing little children. She said, "A little cold babies hands are running through my hair." She said, "Let that...?... away from the window there with those great big heads on it. Brother, I seen a man who shot another one, calling of his blood on his hands, he'd dodged the law, but he was standing before God then. I stood by a Christian not long ago, old Daddy Hayes, his white flowing beard, said, "Raise my hands." Said, "A happy day since
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Jesus washed my sins away." I've seen them go in all kinds of conditions. And you're going to go in some condition, and there'll be a many many of you will have to meet that before a year from today, maybe all of you for all I know, but you know you got to. Won't you come here now? Christians over to my right, in here? Wonderful. Outside, anybody hasn't been borned again? How many is borned again and raise your hand. That's it. Wonderful. Why then, looky here, friends. Here is the cream. There's not one sinner left in the building. Here's the sinners are standing here at this day, praying for mercy. Ministers of the Gospel, you come here. Come right around where these people are, stand right along them. Now, look, I want you to be... Just stand where you are for a few moments. Come, sister. God bless you. God grant it. God bless you. You all want to believe now and accept Him just now. Ministers of the Gospel, mingle right among the people here. Let some good Christians from this side drop right in here, if you will. God bless you, dad. Many of you weary days is passed by. Now, I'm coming home. God bless you, dad. Grant to you... Dear old father, standing here, shaking my hand, and another one. Let's bow our heads everywhere. Accept Him now. Though your sins be as scarlet, they'll be as white as snow. They are see Him dying yonder for You. All Christians praying everywhere, heads bowed, very sacred moment. Come right on up, young man. That's right. Join right in with them. Bow your head. See Him mid rendering rocks and darkening skies, my Saviour bowed His head and died. Accept Him now as your Saviour. He promised that, "He that comes to Me, I will in no wise cast out." Young people, life is before you. All right, every one's bowed. Heavenly Father, today these dear people has gathered up here to the altar, an old, old sawdust trailed tent, gathered up here by the wooden bench to give their lives to Thee... O God, in the mercies of Christ, and by His merits they come, not in themselves, but in the grace of Christ they come, trusting only in Him, knowing that someday death's going to come into the room. One morning the doctor will probably leave the room saying there's nothing else can be done. Loved ones will be standing and wringing their hands, crying. The cold vapors of death floating over the bedside, cold chilly winds of death sweeping, their pulse coming up their sleeve. Then breaking through the mist will come the old Ship of Zion. The morning star will come down in the valley of death to light up the road. They'll see two glossy wings of the Holy Spirit reach across Jordan, say, "Come, you blessed of My Father. I seen you that day in the little old tent meeting down there in Cleveland when you come accepted Me, now I'm accepting you." Grant it, Father, just now. May Your Spirit woo each one of them, knowing nothing they can do,
but just accept Him now, to believe on the Lord with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength; he shall be saved. Grant it, Father. With your heads bowed, just in prayer, every one of you. Accept Him now. Ministers, while you're in there moving... Every Christian praying. Let's keep a praying. Father, bless this people now. May Your Spirit move upon them just now. May they accept You as their Saviour. God bless you, Brother...?...
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Thank you, Brother Lindsay. Good afternoon, or evening, rather. We were kinda all bundled up here tonight, and I was kinda thrilled. I was talking about peppermint candy. How many was at the e--evening service--the afternoon service? I was speaking about peppermint candy. And bless their heart, I found little children standing out there, and give me two big sticks of peppermint candy. That's very fine. And now, honey, I hope you're listening; I'll just lick it right here tonight. These are all for me. That's all right. That's very fine. I'm blessed of the Lord. I still love peppermint candy anyhow. Very fine. Can I leave this out, Brother Gordon? If you...?... Oh, yes. That's right. Okay, that's fine. Can you hear all right? All right, just fine. Now, this is what I always said was a spare tire. Someone asked me, said, "You a preacher, Brother Branham?" I said, "No, I'm a spare tire." That's when the rest of them's flat. Then we can roll over it. That's it. Thanks.
Well, we we're supposed to be here a hour...?... And I'm sure that all of you are happy to be here tonight. Drawing near this is the second Sunday night of our tent--service in the tent. And we're going along now a two nights longer, I think, until Thursday night, God willing. And we're expecting God to bless us in something. Tomorrow night, I have announced that I'm... have something a little different, perhaps, that I could... going to try something different, in a way that I could pray for more sick people each night. Maybe try to get a hundred if possible, each night. That is, if I have--try explain it to you more tomorrow, and I could pray for each individual. Now I
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believe the faith of the people is high enough now until I can do that, I believe, by the help of the Almighty. God grant it to us. I wish to read just a little portion of the Word. And just as quickly as possible, you'll have to... Too many...?... Now, in Saint Matthew the 9th chapter, at the 27th verse, we begin to read an instance here, that taken place in the days of our Lord.
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Now, everyone can hear, all around all right? Can you? Way back in the back row, can you hear? All around. That's very fine. I'm not a... pulled a lot of...?... anyhow. And I...?... little things in front of you. It's not as strong as the other big night, because...?... Listen closely. And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came unto him; and Jesus said unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. (I like that, don't you?) Believe ye that I am able to do this? And they said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you. (Now, what if they were just did not believe, they would've never been healed.) And their eyes were opened; and Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See that no man know it. (So they did believe, didn't they?) But when they were departed, they spread abroad his fame in all of that country. And as he went out, behold, they brought unto him a dumb man possessed with a devil. (Now, if you'll notice, this...) [A brother interrupts--Ed.] All right. That's a whole lot better, isn't it? Thank you. That's very fine. Brings us back home again, doesn't it? That's right. That's just fine. Now, as I was reading, And they brought unto him a dumb man possessed with a devil. And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitude marveled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. But the Pharisees said, He casts out devils through the prince of the devils. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and disease among the people.
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Now, I want you to notice the arrangements of the Scripture
here. First, the blind man. And he just...?... Yea, he said, "Lord, have mercy." And Jesus said, "I can if you believe that I can." (Did you get it?) Then He... They said, "Lord, we believe." So He touched their eyes and said, "Now, according to your faith, be it unto you." And they could see. Then they brought to Him a man that was deaf and dumb. Now, today, it would been... Why, this man, they--his nerves died in his ears. But Jesus called that deaf and dumb person, a spirit, a devil that had deaf and dumb. Now, that's what it was. It was a spirit. The deaf and dumb spirit went out of the man. He could speak and hear when the spirit went out of him. You see what I mean? But if you say that today, modern meri--meri--medical science would laugh at you, and say, "Oh, spirits. There's no such thing as that." But we Christians believe the Bible. The Bible said, "It was a spirit." Now, here's what takes place.
There's a group, I noticed here somewhere this afternoon... Without the anointing on yet, I--I can't find them. But there's a de--a group of mutes here. Now, I trust to God that they're in the line tonight. At Portland, Oregon, I had a whole school to come, a whole unit. There was a little scout class, nine or ten of them, that a woman brought them, and each one, one right after the other one. They had prayer cards. They come to the platform, and all nine of them speaking and hearing when they left the platform and returned to their school. And the medical science pronounced them healed. Nine of them. The state's senator was setting up in the balcony, and seen this did. Now, if you can get the people to see that it's a deaf and dumb spirit... It's a spirit.
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Now, looky here. Like I explained the other night. If something was cutting off the circulation in my hand... Now, there's only one way to ever get that out, and that is to release this. And then nature will take care of itself as long as that binding comes off. Well, that's the same way it is when an unseen force binds the ears, or the tongue, or some limb of a person. Now, you take people that's bound. Now, it's hard to tell that person. Maybe a Christian, renown, full of the Spirit of God, but yet, bound. Now, the...
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Someone made a remark in a paper not long ago: said, "Well, the people are all going down to the Branham healing campaign and getting de-demonized." Said, "He takes... He--he detects all the
demons and casts them all out." Now, that was a very flat thing for someone to say. But through ignorance, the man done it. If he'd have only just set down and read the Bible a minute, he would find out. Now, he did that... just said that because he didn't know any better. And if he did know better, God help his soul, 'cause he's blasphemed the Holy Ghost then. And there's never will be a forgiveness for that. See, "Whosoever blasphemes the Holy Ghost..." It's a unpardonable sin. It can never be forgiven at all. Through all eternity, you're still lost forever. To speak it--you don't just speak against the Holy Ghost. See? So be careful. If you don't understand it, just don't say nothing, just go ahead. See? Let it alone, 'cause... Oh, my, the things that I have seen happen, friends, in that.
But the Bible plainly states that they are demons. And they bind people. Look at the woman, the daughter of Israel. She was all bound over, bent over. And Jesus said, "Which one of you, having a..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Said, "How much more is this daughter of Israel, who's been bound by the devil?" Stooped over, perhaps arthritis. Today, the medical doctors would say she had arthritis. That's the medical name. But Jesus would've declared it to be a devil. Today, cancer, cancer is a medical name, comes from the word "crab," got lot of legs. They call it cancer. That's medical name. Jesus would've said, "devil."
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Of course, if anyone with a common school education knows a "devil" means "tormentor." You've got a tormentor in your soul, see your pastor. You've got a torment in your body, that's what I'm here for. See? All right. Tormentor, devil... Epilepsy, that's a name the medical science gives today. When the man brought an epileptic to Jesus, he said, "My son has a devil. And oft times he throws him into the fire and into the water." See what it was? Falling, pines away, faints out: epilepsy. He said, "The devil throws him in." And Jesus cast the spirit out, said, "Come out of him." Is that right? The boy had the hardest fit, I guess, he ever had. He fell on the floor and was frothing there on the ground. They thought he was dead. But He said, "He's not dead." And He took him up. He was just... The devil had throwed him into that tantrum before he left him, tore him. Many times it happens.
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Today, if a Christian now, when they come and the demon's been cast from them, and they take worse right away, they say, "Oh, I failed to get healed."
You believe what's told you. Faith comes by hearing, hearing of the Word. And God's here with His gift confirming the Word with signs following. See what I mean? One of the most marvelous things that I could think of right now, for just a little instance, just before coming. I was... Well, I always... I'll be get something else, so that it'll... It won't take me just a moment. Back in the first part of my ministry... I don't know what these ministers here tell of other things. But this is one thing that happened, that I know none of them here was with me when this happened.
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It was about the third meeting I ever had. And my wife came down. She--she's the most backward bash... She's worse than my mother. And you know she's bashful. And I told her; I said, "I'm going to introduce you to the people tonight." And she was afraid to come, afraid I'd really do it. She's just bashful and backward, timid little country girl. And she--she came to the meeting. And she came down to meet me. And we'd been having there at the tabernacle, oh, three or four hundred people, or a thousand, maybe, on a big night. But this time there was thousands there. The other night, at the same meeting I was telling you about, the newspaper they carried where that woman had raised up from the dead, Mrs. Hattie Waldorf. The cancer dropped out of a man's neck, rolled across my foot? You remember me telling that just a few nights ago? "Arkansas Sun," from Jonesboro carried the article. Was in this meeting. And Jones... Great big cross there... Twenty-six thousand people at the meeting attended.
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And so the newspaper reporter was standing as close as that pole when that cancer fell out of the man's neck and rolled across my foot. And I picked it up and laid it on a piece of paper. And he was afraid to put his hands on it. And he asked the man if he could get the picture. He said, "Yes." But he took the picture of his neck where it dropped out: a minister. I seen a man one night with one on the side of his nose, looked like a great seed wart, white about like that. It's... On the ends of it. The inside, it was real bloody and red, just like this was. And while I was praying for him, the cancer left. And no one seen where it went. His face was as smooth...
In the same meeting, I'd seen a woman come in with her handkerchief over her face. That's the meeting I stayed eight days and nights without leaving. And a woman come; she had her
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handkerchief over her face, like this. I thought she was weeping. It's was along three or four o'clock in the morning. I took ahold of her hand. And I thought she was weeping. I said, "Lady, why the vibration is cancer." She moved her handkerchief down; her nose was eaten off, young woman, about thirty-eight years old, forty. So I said, "Oh, my." And she said, "I've just been give up by the best of doctors. It's done too far gone now. They can't do nothing. They've fought it with the Xray treatments, radium, and everything. But it's too far gone." I said, "Do you believe?" She said, "With all my heart." I said, "Will you take my word for what I say?" She said, "I will." I said, "Let us pray." And I prayed. The vibrations stopped. I said, "Sister, there's only one thing that I can tell you; you just have my word. The blessing of God is upon you. If you'll accept it and accept my word, and believe that I've told you what God has said in my heart, you'll get well."
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And about two months after that, I was in a certain place, and here was a young fellow standing there. He said--raised right up in the meeting. He said, "Can I testify, Reverend Branham?" And I said, "What is it? Go ahead." I said, "Say on." And he said, "Looky here. Do you remember..." Said, "I'm an exterminator from--from Texarkana." Said, "My mother setting here, about two months ago come to you with no nose." Said, "I want you to look at her now," just as perfect as she could be. Well, that's right. And he said, "I've got the doctor's statement right here too with it." And... where it was. And her picture before and after, where it was, a statement.
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In the meeting, wife came down, and the baby was just a little bitty thing then, just about three, four months old. And we... She came down that night. We went... We'd went out to the train to pick her up. I went to the service that night. And before we got there, about two city blocks away, it was just like it's in here--the people. Those Arkansas people... Is there... They--there's some of here, I'm sure. I've never had a meeting, even in Canada but what there's somebody from Arkansas. Anybody here originally from Arkansas? Let's see your hands. That's right. I know that. That's right. I know. See? I've never seen...
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I was going to ask them in London, England, and Sweden; anywhere you go, you find people from Arkansas. Where I was over on the west coast, and I said there one night where I was having
services, where Charles Fuller at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium... Brother Fuller said, "Brother Branham, the people over here will never come to hear such fanaticism." I said, "Oh, they won't?" "No." Said, "You'd better preach the Gospel while you're over here." I said, "That's what I'm doing." He said, "Well," he said, "that's Divine healing." I said, "Brother Fuller, I belong to the Baptist church too. I know how you're feel about it." But I said, "Let me tell you something." He said, "Brother Branham, everything over here is Divine healing." Said, "People won't come out." He said, "First is that McPherson movement. Next was that fanatic Pentecost." He said, "And all upand-down this street here and everything's got Divine healing." And he said, "People won't come out. You're renting that auditorium for nearly a thousand dollars." He said, "You're going to be left alone." I said, "Look, Brother Fuller," I said, "God will recognize His gift if it was in the middle of hell." See? I said, "Don't worry about that." He said, "Well, I can't advertise it." I said, "I never asked you to, Brother Fuller." I just talking to you. Said, "Come on down and kick your hat in." I said, "I'll be there." But he said, "I'm telling you before, you'll be left without." We went down there that afternoon, Brother Moore, and a group of us. Had about eighteen, twenty-hundred people setting around. And when his group went out, he had his sermon...
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Now, remember, Charles Fuller is a wonderful, God-sent man, a real Christian man. Don't know whether you ever got his program or not. He has the "Old Fashion Revival Hour," which is a very fine program. Wonderful, marvelous teacher, a good man, aged, he's getting pretty aged. But he's a good man. I believe he's a real Christian. And when we was leaving, Brother Fuller was going out, Brother Moore and I were standing there. And there went his audience out after he made a fine talk. And a lady came down, shook hands with him to give her heart to Christ, which is wonderful. He was going to start out. And there when all of his crowd out, fine dressed people, you know, very highly educated. He was standing there telling them, "Just you believe right now, and be saved. That's all." See? Then when his crowd went--going out, here come my crowd in--wheelchairs, straight jackets. And brother, it's a different thing when your faith has to buck something like that. Just preach, speaking to a crowd, and tell them to raise up their hand and accept Christ. He turned pale looking. That night, there was so many people there, they stood plumb down on the side of the beach. A fifty-five hundred auditorium wouldn't even seat half of them. They was standing out everywhere. I tell you, where the carcass is, the eagles will be gathered. You can
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Notice, wife was there that night when we looked and seen all that mass of people standing there, Jonesboro. She said, "Honey, did all those come to hear you preach?" I said, "No. They've come from the east and west. They come from the north and south, and the lands afar to feast with the King, to dine as His guests." I said, "They're children of the King." I said, "They're not here to see me, honey. They're here to see Jesus." She said, "Well, how will you ever get to the auditorium?" I said, "There'll be men to meet me at the bottom of the hill here." I looked at that crowd; I said, raised up my hands. I said, "Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious Blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more." The Gospel is the greatest drawing card the world's ever had. That's right. Though preached in its simplicity... "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me." That's true.
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A lady that afternoon, had been blind. She walked out, and she seen the trees and things. She went over there at the graveyard, looked at the tombstones where some of her people had been buried. Years since she'd seen... So four men... I never seen what become of the wife after that. They was pressing me in towards the crowd. There's probably two thousand people standing against the door, like that. And so we finally squeezed through the crowd until we got on the inside. And I hadn't slept. I was just so weary; I lost about twenty-eight pounds of weight. And I was pressing into the crowd, them great big strong fellows pushing me through. And I got up on the platform, there was eighteen or twenty stretcher cases setting right along like that. And setting right here was a little girl. She was tubercular case. Her nurses was with her.
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And I just got to the platform, and I started to look down, and I could just feel the vibration coming. There'd been a great thing happen there that afternoon. There was a lady come across the platform, another instance. I took ahold of her hand. She had a female vibration. I said, "You have a female trouble." She had a little boy on her arm. She said, "Yes, sir." I said, "You believe me?" She said, "With all my heart." I took ahold of her hand, and I begin to pray. It wouldn't leave her. And I said, "Sister, I don't understand why. Are you a Christian?" She said, "Yes, sir."
And I just looked at her. There it moved out. A vision begin to move. Now, remember, that woman standing there was told of living untrue to her marriage vows four days before that, before the audience, twenty thousand people or better, listening. And she started crying. The man behind her was her husband. He jerked her around, said, "What's this?" (You see why I have to pray often?) "What's this?" She said, "Darling, I'm sorry." Then It just... I just let myself loose. It moved over on him, and told him of the same act with his bookkeeper, and the car they were in, and where they were at. He turned white. He said, "Brother, what must I do?" I looked... He looked at her, and he reached his hand out, said, "Darling, I've been a rat." Said, "If you forgive me, I'll forgive you. And we'll start life anew right here before God's people." She said, "I forgive you." And they put the little boy between them, and hugged one another, knelt down on the floor and give their hearts to God. And Reverend Richard T. Reed, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, baptized them in Christian faith. The next morning they were added to the church. That's the way the Lord works. Truly.
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Now, when they was at the platform, this little girl was looking. And I looked up at her. And I looked down to her, rather. And she was looking up at me. And I kept seeing someone standing to my right, kept motioning their hands, like this. And I looked down there, and I seen some people rejoicing. There'd been a blind man from up in Kennett, was healed that night before that. And he was going on his road home, been drawing a blind pension for twelve years. And he was healed. I asked God to bless him. I said, "Do you believe?" He said, "With all my heart." I said, "Go on rejoicing, testifying of your healing." They led him out to an old Ford. He started up the road, about a hundred and something miles up to Kennett, Missouri. And he was going up the road, praising God for his sight, just as blind as he could be. All at once, he screamed. He said, "Stop the car. I see the lights." He jumped out of the car, up-and-down the road he went, jumping and screaming. He went into Kennett, just... Or at the Catholic church was having mass, put his cane up in the air and his hat on there. He walked down through the Catholic church, screaming, "I'm healed. I'm healed by the glory of God." Out into the Methodist church he went. Up-and-down the streets he...?... the country there. They were
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Looking out to one side, I seen a man motioning his hand, like this. And I thought it looked like a ambulance driver. He had on a blue looking uniform. And I said, "Are you motioning for me, sir?" He said, "Yes, sir." Said, "Brother Branham," said, "I've brought my patient down from Kennett, where the blind man was healed this morning." He said, "And I've got to make another trip tonight from the hospital." And said, "I think my patient's dead." (We had to have a house doctor there. There's so many sick and things; you have to have a house doctor. We couldn't find him anywhere.) Said, "I think my patient's dead. Won't you come to her?" And I said, "Brother, I'd like to go. But how could I get through that crowd? There's probably two or three thousand people between here and there."
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They had a row reserved for ambulances out there. Many of them, eighteen or twenty of them setting in that row. And I said, "Well, I--I couldn't get out there." Four men stepped down out of the balcony, said, "We'll take you, Brother Branham, if you wish to go." I said, "Well, if you'll sing a hymn while I'm gone, or something." One of the ministers stepped up to the microphone. And they started me through the crowd. Oh, my. I was pushing, and people crying and begging. Oh, you know. We got out to the ambulance; they opened the door. And he stepped to the door. And one sight that I shall never forget...
Sometime when I can get alone up in the mountains, I set down and think these things over. Now, I don't have time, hardly. And there was a dear old Arkansas brother, very typical, an old faded out blue shirt on, been washed many times, his hat, sewed, the top of it with twine, wrapping cord, his shoes, the soles of them about off. And he was kneeling down on the floor, gripping this hat, and needed a shave real bad, and the tears rolling down his face, saying, "God, give me mother back." And I looked, laying there, there laid a woman with her mouth open, her eyes open, also set back. And the intern said, "Here's Brother Branham."
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He turned around, said, "Oh, Brother Branham," said, "how I want--wanted... She wanted to see you." Said, "She's a good woman, Brother Branham." Said, "She's helped... She's raised five children." Said, "They're all grown and married." Said, "Now we..." Said, "We've
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got her a little place." And said, "She... We picked blackberries last summer," and said, "together." And said, "She made some quilts." And said, "She's been so bad with cancer," said, "they've give her up. And we sold the blackberries yesterday, and some of her quilts so we could have the money to pay the ambulance to bring us down here." Said, "She wanted to see you so bad. And she's gone, Brother Branham. It was her last request. I've done all I could do, sir." And I said, "God bless you, dad." I put my hand... I said, "You'll see her in a better land then." He said, "Yes, she was a Christian, Brother Branham. But oh, she wanted to see you so bad."
I said, "All right." I said... Took a hold of her hand. Now, I do not know whether the woman was gone or not. God is my... I think she was in a coma. I'm not sure. Although I couldn't feel her heart, nor nothing. But now listen. Then I put my hand on her; she felt cold. I put my hand on her hand; it felt cold. And it looked like muddy looking stuff, had run from her eyes. And her--had her false teeth taken out, and her lips was drawed in and her mouth setting back like that, her face real thin. And she was... had her eyes set right back like that, and she was laying that way. And I took a hold of her. I shook her. Seemingly she was dead, whether she was I do not know. God is my judge, I couldn't say. But when I took ahold of her right hand, there went that cancer. Well I knew then, I think now if the woman had been dead the cancer would have left too. Now, I--I believe it would. Now, that's the reason I think she was in--in a coma. So I was holding her hand, and it was hitting, I could hear, feel it hitting like that; turning, hitting. So then I said, "Dad, let's pray." And he said, "All right, Brother Branham." And he got down on his knees, and began to calling, saying, "God, why did you let her go like that? Why couldn't she just have lived a little while longer?"
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Now, after hearing him praying, I started crying myself. I couldn't help it. Poor old fellow, I looked at him, his old hands was raising up to God, and he's feeble and trembling. And I said, "Heavenly Father, You Who brought again Jesus from the dead," I said, "be merciful. Comfort the brother's heart." I kept on. I kept on praying. He was just screaming at the top of his voice. And I said, "Father, be merciful and heal her." And the vibration of the cancer stopped. Well, Satan said to me then, "She died then." Well, I just kept holding on. I said, "Lord, I believe that You brought up Lazarus from the grave. I believe You give the woman, the widow, her son again. I believe You laid Your hands upon Jairus' daughter and she came to life. Now, You're here. You can spare her life. And
I'm just looking to You, Father. I pray that You'd hear me," like that.
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And I felt her grip my hand. I knowed she was alive then. I didn't say it. I just quit praying and watching him crying so much, he didn't hear me cease praying. And I looked, and I seen this skin on her forehead begin to wrinkling. I knowed life was in the woman. I just stood there a little bit on the side of the bed. In a few moments, she was beginning to look around. Said, "Howdy do." He done got down on the floor with his head on the floor, just a crying in the ambulance. And I said, "Howdy do?" She said, "Who are you?" I said, "I'm Brother Branham." She said, "Oh, you are?" I said, "Set up." And she set up, like that. He raised up, looked at her. He said, "Mother! Mother!" And he threw his arms around her and begin to hug her, like that. And they were just screaming both of them together, sitting in the ambulance. And I started to go out the door.
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And the driver set there, the intern, the driver. He said, "Brother Branham, you couldn't get out that door." Said, "They're just packed against there." Said, "I'll tell you what I'll do." Said, "I sent those men all around..." Way back in the parking lot, standing full of people. And some of them hadn't left there for eight days. It was drizzling rain. And so they had this... Set right in the seat. Anyone on the inside, stayed there. They let somebody go out and get them a hamburger or something, come in. They'd eat right there. They wouldn't move. They stayed right there, slept right in their seats. And he--he just started to unbutton his coat, like this, and hold it back at the door, like he was taking his coat off. Said, "Now when I do that you go out the other side. And they're going to meet you down there at the end." I said, "All right." That looked like a hypocritical deed, but I just couldn't... I had to do it. I couldn't get back to the auditorium.
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And I went out the side, like that, the other side which was near the fence. I went down along that row of ambulances there. And way down, come around the end of the alley, come into a big parking lot. And just about as far as three, four times this tent. And it just milling full of people. Well, I thought, "Where are those people at?" And no one knew me.
They hadn't seen me back there. So I started pushing through, trying to get up towards the door. I thought maybe they'd be up there towards the door. The big lights out there. And I--I was going, pushing through, like this. And everybody hollering, "Set down. Quit pushing." I just kept on going, you know. And I... "Quit pushing." And I just kept on going. After while, I... There was a big fellow standing there, whittling with his knife. I kinda stepped up against him, like that. I said, "Pardon me." He said, "I said, 'Quit pushing.'" I was afraid he was going to push. So I--I did stop. And so I said, "Yes, sir. Excuse me, sir." I stood there a little bit. He was looking down at me, kept on whittling, talking to the other fellow.
I looked at him a little bit till he got his head turned good. And I looked around to see where the door was. It's quite a distance yet to the door. I couldn't see no one coming for me yet. So I heard a cry. I heard somebody hollering, "Daddy! Daddy! Oh, daddy." The most pathetic cry. I looked around to see where it was. Coming down through the audience come a well dressed colored girl, just as blind as she could be. Her eyes were just as white with cataracts nearly as my shirt. She was coming along like this, nobody noticing her, coming along, like that, hollering, "Daddy! Oh, daddy!" And I watched her. And I thought, "Well now, isn't that amazing. Look like somebody would help that poor girl. Regardless of what they think about it; they--they ought to help that girl some way." I thought, "I believe I'll help her."
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I didn't see no one. So I started moving out to her. And I thought, "You know, maybe the Lord will heal her." So I begin to think about that. And I heard her crying. And I... She was crying. And I walked out. And I thought, "I'll just try her faith, just get a conversation with her." And I... Ever which way she was going, I'd make myself get right in her way. And finally, she bumped into me. And she said, "Excuse me, suh." And I said... That's southern talk, you know, "Suh." And I said, "Yes, ma'am. And she backed off. She said, "Daddy!" I thought, "Now, I'll just see what kind of faith you have...?..." That looked like a hypocrite again, to do that. And I said, "Ah, what do you want?" She said, "Suh, I lost my daddy. I cain't find him no whuh." I said, "Look like you're blind."
Said, "Yes, suh. I's blind." Nice talking lady. And I said, "Well, ah, I don't see no more colored people around here." I said, "Where you from?" She said, "I's from Memphis."
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And I looked over, and I seen all that bunch of chartered busses setting there. I seen one of them had Memphis on it. I thought, "Well, I could get her over to that bus anyhow." So I said... if the people didn't begin to recognize me coming in. So I said, "Well, what are you doing over here?" Just to test her faith... She said, "I come over to see the healah." I said, "The what?" She said, "The healah." And I said, "You don't believe that, do you?" She said, "Oh, yes, suh." Oh, my. I begin to feel something stir in my heart. And she said, "I listen to all the good radio programs." She said, "This morning, I heard people testifying from this place that had never talked before in their life." And she said, "I heard of a blind man from up in Missour' that received his sight." Said, "Sir, I come over to receive my sight." My, I thought, "Oh, I'm a hypocrite, Lord." I said, "Why am I bump into her like that?" I thought, "Well, I'll go on through with it." I said, "Do you believe in that?" She said, "Yes, suh!" She said, "I believes it with all my heart."
I said, "In the day... How'd you come to go blind?" She said, "When I was a little girl, the doctor told me I had cataracts." And said, "He said, 'When they got ripe...'" Now, I don't know what "ripe" means yet. But said, "When they got ripe, he would take them out." And said, "Now, that they got ripe, he said they done went down and wrapped around the optical nerve of my eyes. If he'd pull the cataract, he'd pull my eyes out." Said, "My only hope is to get to the man. And they tell me this is his last night here. And I can't even get near the building. And I've lost my daddy, and I don't know what to do. Nobody will help me." She said, "Could you help me to the bus, sir?" I said, "Yes, ma'am." But I said, "First, about this healing..." I said, "Did you hear that man testify about that Angel coming down from heaven?" She said, "Yes, suh." I said, "Do you believe that?" She said, "With all my heart." I said, "In the day when we've got all the best medical science and the best doctors we ever had, and you mean to say that God Almighty would do something like that?"
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And I... Now, she couldn't see me. She was totally blind--had been since she was twelve years old, and she was about twenty then, I guess. And said... And I said, "Are you totally blind?" She said, "Yes, suh. I couldn't tell daylight from dark." Said, "I haven't for years." And I said, "Well, look. Do you... Why don't..." I said, "We--we got good doctors." She said, "But, sir, they can't help me." She said, "I'll tell you what I'll do." She said, "If you'll get me into the building where that man's at, I'll find my daddy after that." Oh, my. That was too much for me. I couldn't stand that. She said, "You get me in to where he's at, and I'll find my daddy." She said, "There's a blind man been blind twelve years, this morning received his sight. And sir, won't you help me get where he's at, that I might receive my sight?" And I thought of poor old blind Fanny Crosby:
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by. BELIEVE.YE.THAT.I.AM.ABLE.TO.DO.THIS_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0820E
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And I looked; my heart was just a breaking. I said, "Look, lady. Perhaps I'm the one you want to see." And friends, I'll never forget. Those hands grabbed me by the lapel, like that. She said, "Is you the healah?" I said, "No. I'm Brother Branham." I said, "Jesus is the Healer." And she held me, like that. She said, "Oh, don't pass me. Have mercy." And I said, "Sister, 'course, I would do all I could as a man. And I believe Jesus will hear our prayer." I said, "Do you believe Him?" She said, "With all my heart, sir." I said, "Now, let me have your hand." Do you think she'd turn loose of my coat? No, sir. She's holding right there. She said, "I isn't going to turn you loose, suh." She said, "Is..." And I said, "Well look, sister. Let me have your right hand. And you can hold with your left. But I want to feel the vibration of those cataracts to know whether they're dead or not."
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I finally got her to let me have her hand. I took ahold of it, and there they was. I said, "Now, so that nobody will notice us," I said, "you bow your head now. Don't raise your head till I tell you to. And believe with all your heart." She said, "I do, suh." She bowed her head.
Here's the way I was praying. I'll never forget the way I prayed. I said, "Heavenly Father, some nineteen hundred years ago, there was an old rugged cross dragging down through the streets of Jerusalem. It was dragging out the bloody footprints of the Bearer. On the road up to Golgotha, His little, weak, frail body fell under the load. Along came Simon, the Cyrene, colored man, Ethiopian, picked up the cross and helped Him bear the cross." Said, "Father, I'm sure You understand. And here's one of his daughters tonight, staggering in darkness. Won't You help her?"
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No more than I said that, the vibrations ceased on my hand. I said, "Now, keep your head bowed, sister, just a moment." And she kept her head bowed. I waited a minute for the shrinkage on the cataract. I said, "Now, keep your eyelids closed until you get your face about even with mine... your judgment." Said, "Yes, suh." Said, "I feel real cool." I said, "Just don't open your eyes." When she got about even, I said, "Now, receive your sight, for Jesus has healed you." She opened her eyes. She said, "It took... Is them lights?" I said, "Yes, ma'am." Said, "Is that people passing?" She said, "O Lord, I who once was blind, can now see." And she screamed out. She fell forward. And the people begin to notice. And here they come, running together. And I started to run. I heard... I looked coming down, just a little bit before I started praying; I seen a man pressing through the crowd, hunting for me. And I started towards them.
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Just as I started towards them, there was an old brother. I never will forget. He--he had a--a club. He had a crooked foot. He was standing like this. He said, "I know you, Brother Branham." He said, "I've been standing in this rain for eight days." Said, "Tell me what to do, and God will back your word." I said, "You, with all your heart, you believe?" He said, "With all my heart." I said, "Throw away your club and be whole in the Name of the Lord Jesus." He threw his club away and made out a scream. And up in the air he went, jumped. Down he come, just as normal as any man, begin to screaming.
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And friends, I started to push towards these men. There's no harm in saying this. When I first started, my brother gave me a suit to go out in, he'd had a wreck it, and tore it in several places. And my wife and I went down to the ten cent store and got some of them
patches you iron on with an iron, you know. And I don't know what they are. And I sewed the pocket up, where it had tore down here on the side, down along the side. Took a needle... And I'm not very much of a seamstress. So I sewed it up. And when I would go and meet ministers or anything, I was ashamed of that ragged coat. So I'd hold it sideways and put my right hand out, like this, and shake hands with my left hand, and say, "Well, I... Excuse my left hand, but it's closer to my heart." See? Just like that, to say that, instead of letting them see that old ragged coat.
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But, brother, while I was trying to get to that men, God bless their gallant hearts, they were pushing through there, trying to get their little babies, trying to touch that old ragged coat, when I passing by. They're just throwing down their crutches, and people screaming and hollering, just so that they're try to touch the old coat. Brother, it wasn't the old coat that done the healing; it was their faith in Jesus Christ that done the healing. And that same Christ, that was in Jonesboro that night, is here in Cleveland tonight to perform any miracle, to do anything that faith will rise to require it to be done. Do you believe that?
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Let us bow our heads. Heavenly Father, I'm thinking of that glorious, marvelous night, that poor colored girl; thinking of a few weeks later from then, stopping there in the airplane hanger, someone walking up and saying, "Remember me, Brother Branham?" O God, someday when it's all over and we've gathered to the other side, what a marvelous time it'll be to set down with those redeemed. Here we are tonight, Lord, way across the country here in Cleveland, Ohio, been across the blue waters to the other lands down to the needy. We're still struggling on, not weary in the way. O God, believing You for all things. Seeing You here to heal the sick and the afflicted, bringing this morning glorious powers, manifesting Yourself in great healings, interpreting the hearts of the people, telling their diseases, the secret sins and thoughts of their mind, healing the paralyzed, the lame, the deaf, the dumb. O Christ of God, this great night, it'll be history after while, if Thou tarry. Help us now to move in with real faith. Grant it, Lord. May the people repent of all that's done that's wrong. Accept us now in the Beloved, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.
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Oh, isn't He wonderful, glorious? While the prayer line's being formed, believe now with all of your heart. We'll wait first till we get some out. You don't have to have a prayer card. That doesn't have a thing to do
with it. That prayer card is merely to get people lined up. They give out a hundred each day. And when they do, I think it's twe--fifty at morning and fifty in the afternoon. They bring the prayer cards up, and shuffle them out, hand them to each person and they write down their diseases. And you bring up... That's merely to keep you in line. That doesn't have one thing to do... God bless this couple coming here. All right. He's here to perform any miracle, do anything that you believe that He will do. Just have faith in Him; believe Him.
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Now, right from the platform here, many, many times, many times God heals the sick and the needy. God can reveal right here from this platform what you have need of, if you'll just believe. Do you do it with all your heart? Have faith. You have faith and God has mercy. See? And by His mercy, He'll heal you, make you well. Believe with all your heart just now. Now, here it is. What... You know what I'm trying to do right now, don't you? How many realizes that? See? I'm waiting for the anointing to strike me. That's right. When I feeled It... I know it's here at the platform... Friends, God knows what's true. Sometimes I don't see it. But look, while I explain it. It's just a pressure, like, in the--like in mid-air. If It went this way, you could tell it. If It come this way, you could tell it. It's right... You could tell. It's just like a form of a man. And now, It's to my extreme back, right here. And when He comes down over you, it just feels like It goes, "Whoosh [Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]" And then when I hear It comes down, then I--I look out over the audience; I can see things a happening. Then I can only speak just what He says. See? I can only speak, just to tell what's wrong, what is. I watch close, try to--try to get--let Him work through the people.
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Now, while you're lining up back there, every one just be real reverent, and have faith and believe. Trying to catch the little lad, but he's got his little face turned, mother, and... The gentleman setting right there, you with the brown shirt on. You have a back trouble, don't you? Isn't that right? You believe me as God's prophet? Would you obey what I told you to do? Stand on your feet and be healed then. Jesus Christ makes you well. Amen. God bless you. Now. All right. He's here, will heal. You have a back and heart trouble too, don't you, brother, setting there in that seat, big fellow? Isn't that right? Stand up on your feet and be healed then. Believe Jesus Christ. Stand up. God bless you. Here, this brother setting here. Yes, sir. God bless you, brother. The lady setting next to you is extremely nervous there. She's bothered with nerve trouble. Isn't that right, sister? All right, stand
up. You believe it now? Accept it and be healed. Sister, you--you, if you're refusing food, you've had a stomach trouble or something, setting back there. Isn't that right? Stand up and receive your healing too. Jesus Christ makes you whole. Go home and eat what you want to now. I see you're moving, washing your mouth, and things like... Go home, eat anything you wish to. Jesus Christ makes you whole.
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Have faith, believe, have... God will grant it to you. All right. Let the patient come. Now, everybody reverent. Now, just a moment. Every one be just as reverent as you possibly... Give the prayer card to him, sir. Oh, you've already got the prayer card? All right. Everyone be just as reverent as you can. Now, now, you come forward, sir. Now, usually in this a way... The thing when you're looking out on the audience, just imagine, it just feels like a thousands of people just--just pulling, just contacting you, like that. See? You can't hardly segregate it out, what's wrong. But when you get them one at a time, where you can see them...
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Let's see your hand, sir. I have to see it some other way. You look this a way, sir, and believe with all...?... Now, it's something different from what... I can't... You have a few troubles, inward troubles. But not... There's something, or you wouldn't be weeping like that, for just merely for that. And it's... I want you to look this way. And now, I'm not reading your mind, sir. I--I'm--I'm just trying to find out what's wrong with you. Yes, sir. And I want you to... You believe that God will reveal to me what is wrong with you? You believe with all your heart? Yes, sir. I see what is wrong with you. You've tried everything in the world nearly to get well, haven't you? You've been to doctors. Everything has turned you down. And it's a nerve condition. Isn't that right? That's right. Nothing can help you. You've been given up. But Jesus will help you now. Do you believe me, brother? You believe it? Will you obey me as His servant now? You want to be healthy and have all that weary and gloomy and crazy feeling, like you're losing your mind, and things like that? Now, I tell you where that started, on the prostate. See? But what really is doing it, it's a demon. It haunts you. Isn't that right? You have no peace at all. Day and night, it's after you. Seems like you just get gloomy feelings in there. Isn't that right? Yes, sir. Weary, don't sleep, nervous, getting up...?... at night. Isn't that right?
How would I know that except God reveals it to me? Yes, brother. Now, I'm going to ask Jesus to heal you and to make you
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well. You believe Him with all your heart. Now, there's the things that no one would've knowed, except Christ would reveal it. Ain't that right? Down through your life, you've had a trouble...?... You once was...?... the line, walking...?... Isn't that right? And you ask forgiveness for that...?... see it one time. Isn't that right? May God give it to you. Isn't that the truth? Every word of it. How would I know that except Christ Jesus would reveal that. That's right. For no one would know that but God Himself alone. Isn't that true? Now, I'm not reading your mind, but just telling you exactly what's happened. Is that right? Yes, sir.
When you was a--when you was a child, a little boy, with knee pants on, you've got problems with something, run... I believe it's a dog that chased you, or something (Isn't that right?), a big dog, and you run to a porch. That's right, I see it as a little boy. Is that the truth, sir? All right. Who would know that but God alone. Isn't that but right? Oh, my. How marvelous. Now, His... Is that the things, the very truth, my brother? All right. Then I'm going to ask Him to let it leave you. Will you take my word now, and do as I tell you? Will you do it? Now, while I'm praying, you say, "Jesus, I believe with all my heart. And now, I commit myself to You. And I believe that prayer of faith is going to save me now." You believe that? All right.
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Let's bow our heads together. Our heavenly Father, Thou art here to bless my brother. O Thou Son of God, Who's able to reveal the very thoughts of our hearts, able to do all things, free this poor caged mortal; in a cage that he can't free himself, like an eagle in a cage beating his wings until his weary eyes fall backwards. O Father, be merciful to him. Thy servant knows what he's suffering. Thou demon tormenting his life, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, come out of the man. Now, look here, sir. It's gone. Now, you're free. You go out of here testifying... You feel all right now? Fine. Wonderful. That's... Go out of here rejoicing, testifying. Now, if I could tell you what happened to you when you was a little boy, down through the age, down to where you are right now, the life that you lived, the things that you've done, that was true, wasn't it, every word, true? Now, I will tell you what will be the results in the coming future. Go out of here happy, singing, testifying, telling people God healed you, forget you ever was nervous. Thirty days from now, you will be a different man altogether. God bless you, my brother.
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Could you get the testimony? Could you hear what was going
on, what was said? How many could hear it? Way back. About the big yellow dog when he was a little boy, chased him, as the news boy, chased him across the street and up on the door step? And then the next thing, that when his life that he lived down, when he was in his teens, the age, and down like that, and on down till a few--when he was brought into the church, and the things he done, and all about it, and how it's been working? Who would know that except God alone? Is that right? Now, what happened, I seen the man go right straight back up in the air above me there. And I seen a little boy with a pair of brown knicker pants on, being chased and pursued by a--a dog. And that's just how... Now, the Presence of the Lord Jesus Christ is here, friends, to heal, to make well any persons that's here to be healed.
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All right, you little lady, you come forward. Now, everyone be just reverent as you can. If I'm not loud enough, you tell me, 'cause when It comes down over me, the anointing, that... How many seen the picture? You seen the... All of you've seen the picture of It, haven't you? You mean there's people here that hasn't seen the picture of It? It's been taken and examined by a government examiner. It's at the table back there. Here, I believe it's... Here it is when It was caught in the picture. Now, that is tested by the G. Edgar Hoover outfit, of fingerprint and photography, and so forth, to be proven that it's perfect. The first time in all the world's history that a supernatural Being was ever-was ever photographed. First time in all the world's... George J. Lacy at--at the Shell Building in Houston, Texas, was the one who had to examine it for two days. If you notice, see how It's licking and blazing and burning? And they... George said, "Well, go before the world."
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First, it had to be tested. It's not a trick photography or something. And we got the best that the United States has got, and he kept it two days. And his--his statement's right here. No picture can be given out until the statement goes with it. And there it is. It whirled right down before thousands of people, right over where I was, a licking, flaming fire, go, "Whew--whew." [Brother Branham illustrates the sound--Ed.] right around, like... When I was standing there testifying, I said, "I tell the truth. And if I tell the truth, God will testify of me, for I testify of Him. And if I do not tell the truth, God will not testify of me." And I said, "Through signs and wonders, He testifies." And I said, "He can testify..." And about that time, here He comes. And He testified. And there it is now. Demons has screamed it out. Unbelievers, scientists have to say it's true.
Mr. Lacy looked at that, he said, "Well, it's been said by hypocrites that those lights that were around the saints and the Saviour, was just artist's work." Said, "They were there because it can't be doubted no more. That is not psychology; a optical lens of the camera won't take psychology. No, it--it's there." Here's the paper of it. If we had time, we would write it. That's the way It comes into the meeting. That's the way It's been seen many, many times. When I was baptizing hundreds down at the Ohio River at the foot of Spring Street in Jeffersonville, where thousands were blacked on the bank... At right at two o'clock in the afternoon, I was baptizing the seventeenth person. I started to pray, and thousands standing there looking. And down from the heavens came that green, whirling down like a big star in the distance. When It got close, It was that Light, a Pillar of Fire. I think It's the same One that led the children of Israel in the days that went before Moses. And It's in the church today. It's here tonight, the same Pillar of Fire.
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When He told me, He said, "As Moses was given two signs to vindicate his ministry, so will you be given two signs. And by these signs, that people will believe." And there It is. I believe It's the same Angel of the covenant. And He came down when hundreds and hundreds standing there, people fainted, and fell, and everything. The papers carried a great article, "Mystic star appears over minister at two o'clock in the afternoon while baptizing." There It was. Friends, settle yourself down. The hour has come. There's been a lot of "playing religion." There's been a lot of playing church. But the hour has come where God's calling out His people. That's right. And He's vindicating it by signs and wonders. And that's it. And here's the statement. Anyone's welcome to read it. It's here any time, and for anybody. And look at it.
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Call George J. Lacy. You've heard of him. He's one of the Edgar Hoover outfits, one of the best there is in the United States. This hall then goes to the... This picture goes to the Religious Hall of Art. For the first time in all the world's history that a supernatural Being was ever photographed... I say, "Thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ." When that comes down, that's what does the--the works. Now, the--the Christian believes by the signs and wonders. Demons scream out. They testify of it. God knows that's true. And now, God
has came down and showed the scientists. And the skeptics can't doubt no more.
Brother, as sure as I'm standing in this pulpit, this country is ready and ripe for judgment. That's right. I'm an American, and I love it. If a war breaks out, I'm ready to go. I had five brothers in the other war--four brothers, I mean. And we're ready to go now. Yes, sir. This is the greatest nation there is under the heavens. That's... I'm glad to be an American. That's right. And if it's worth... not... If it's worth anything, it's worth fighting for, it's worth standing by. That's true. But, brother, when we are weighed in the balance and found wanting, when the Gospel has been refused and turned down, and talked about... As you sow, so shall you reap. Israel was God's favored people. That's right. But as they sowed, they reaped. We're bound to have a great time of judgment. The world is ready for it now, and going to receive it. You mark my words. And then if that don't come to pass, you say, "He's a false prophet." We're going to receive judgment. I feel it in the Spirit.
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All right, sister. Let's see your hand. Come this way. Now, only thing I do this, sister, is just to contact you. Or, is this the patient? Sometimes people are standing here, and maybe to talk or something. That's the reason I see... My brother there keeps them lined up, so it's just the patients with cards. All right. Yes, sister. God bless your poor soul. Now, look this a way. The thing I'm doing... Now, this is not... I'm just... You're human. You have a spirit. And this is a gift to contact your human spirit. You are a Christian. You--you're a believer, Christian believer with the Holy Spirit. All right.
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Now, look. In the Bible, I want to tell you something. One time when Jesus' ministry just become very popular, and one of them was converted by the name of Philip. And he went for Nathanael, his brother. And he brought Nathanael down to where the prayer lines, we'd say, was. And when Jesus saw Nathanael coming, He said, "Behold, an Israelite, indeed, in whom there's no guile." Is that right? In other words, today you'd say, "Behold, you're a real good Christian." Is that right? Now, that's what you are. True. And He said, "Whence knowest Thou me, Rabbi?" He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree." Is that right? That's what Jesus said to Philip. And Philip acknowledged, and said--or Nathanael, rather. And said, "You are the Son of God, the King of Israel." Didn't he? Now, Jesus said, "These things that I do, greater shall you." Is that
right? Now, when did I know you? When you were refusing food there at the table because of your stomach trouble, and it's left you now. You go on home and eat what you want to. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right. (Pardon me, sister.)
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Good evening, sister. You believe with all your heart? There's something wrong with you, of course, or you wouldn't be here. Now, look this a way, sister dear. I see you have several things wrong with you. You been scared about one thing, when it's wrong. Yes, I see something else too. I see you have arthritis also, don't you? Do you believe me? You have to, don't you? You do. All right, you just remove your glasses, raise your hands up in the air, and say... Give God thanks and praise. Stomp your feet up-and-down, for it's left you. And you can go on home holding it for souvenir, sister. You're healed. God bless you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right.
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All right there. Come on, little girl. Bring the little... Oh, my. A sweet little thing. Oh, my. It's a little mute, or... Now, it's both on... I... It's deaf anyhow. I... All right. Bow your head, everybody. O Jesus, Son of God, You Who brought Life to us, this dear little curly headed angel... I'm thinking of my own little Rebekah, Lord, thinking my little Sharon that lays there. And here's this darling little thing comes crying, leaning her little head over on my bosom. O God, bless this little girl. If You were here, You'd lay Your holy hands upon her, and every demon power would turn her loose. Jesus, help Thy servant, Lord, as I challenge this enemy for this child. May I have power of faith to believe, that will rebuke that demon from her. Satan, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, turn her loose. Still holds her. Keep your head bowed. O Jesus, Son of God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon this little girl and heal her of this ears, Lord. You're here to make her well. And this spirit of the devil has come to the little thing's ears. Thou art here to make her well. Thou demon, come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. There it goes. Looky here...?... Can you hear me little girl?...?... Does it hurt you all the time? Can you hear me all right? It quits hurting you now. Huh? Well, bless her little heart. Let's say, "Praise God." O Jesus, we thank You for Your goodness and mercy. Bless her now, and keep her well through Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, honey. You love Jesus? With all your heart? I love you too, honey. And I think you're a sweet little girl. All right, you return back to mommy now and say, "Thank God for healing...?..." Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. All right. Now, everybody be
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And bring the little laddie on. Now, everybody just as reverent, and don't make noise if you possibly can. Hold it steady here. Ears too, all right, bow your head, everyone. Dear heavenly Father, as this little laddie boy stands here tonight, Satan has bound his ears. Thou can give him back his normal condition, God. And I pray that You'll heal the little fellow and make him well. You said, "Suffer little children to come to Me. Forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of God." O God, this dear little boy. Thou art here to make him well. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant, as I pray through the Name of Thy Son. Thou spirit of the devil that's bound this little boy, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out from him. Yes. All right? All right, you may raise your head. Little fellow's crying... Can you hear me? Say, "Amen." [The boy says, "Amen."--Ed.] Amen. There you are. You're normal and well now, honey. Say, "Praise the Lord." Raise up your hands and say, "Praise the Lord." [The boy says, "Praise the Lord."] Amen. There he is. God bless you, honey, run along. All right.
All right, come forward. How do you do, sir? Let's just give God praise... Go ahead. That's all right. I... Let's just rejoice in the Presence of our Lord.
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Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now I'm found, Was blind, but now I see.
You with the heart trouble there, do you understand, sir? You believe with all your heart Jesus will heal you and make you well? Setting there in that second row, back behind there, if you have faith in God, believe with all your heart, you may receive. Your back and all will be healed. Do you believe it? Stand on your feet. Yes, that's you I'm talking about. Jesus healed you of your back trouble and heart trouble, brother. You're well now. God bless you. Amen.
When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun; Oh we've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first begun.
Amen. You all believing? People thinks it's kind of a noisy group. But you ought to have been there on Pentecost when--when they were all acting like drunk people, the virgin Mary, and all. You say it's not so? The Bible says it is.
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He's here. All right, sir. Your tumor left you. You can go on off
the platform. You're healed from your illness. All right, God bless you, brother. Amen.
Oh, how Oh, how Oh, how Because I love Jesus, I love Jesus, I... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] how I love Jesus, He first loved me.
(How many really have...)

I'll never forsake Him, I'll never forsake Him, I'll never forsake Him, Because He first loved me.
Our heavenly Father, that's from the depths of our hearts. You're here. Your Presence is felt right now with us. We see signs and wonders. You said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Nineteen hundred years have past. You said, "I'll be with you always, even to the end of the world." Cleveland receiving its time of visitation, the Gospel being preached just before...?... Help, Father, that all will receive Thee, be healed and saved through the manifestation of Thy gifts and powers that You promised in the last days. For we ask it in the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Amen.
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All right, bring him. You know, sometimes you just have to give vent to you're feelings, don't you? Jesus said one time when the people were screaming. Some of them said, "Make them hold their peace." The priest, they said, "Make them hold their peace. They make us nervous." Jesus said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will cry out." See? Something has to take place. Oh, my. When He's near, something takes place. All right. You believe? All right, the arthritis you had has left you. And you can go off the platform praising God. There you are, you're healed. Let's say, "Praise be to God." Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today... All right, bring your patient on. Come on, sister. All right, have faith. Everyone believing with all your heart. Do you? Right now, do you... Would you accept Him as your Healer? Could you believe Him? How's the back feel, brother? All right now, isn't it? It's done forever. Your faith saved you, dear brother. I seen that a few moments ago.
Good evening, sister. Do you believe me? Would you accept me as God's prophet, to believe that I know what God would have you to do? Would you do what I tell you to do then? All right. Your-your eyes is what's a bothering you. Isn't that right? Now, tonight, when you go home, I want you, when you lay down, to put your hand
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over your eyes, and say, "Lord, help me." In the morning when you wake up, it'll all be gone. You'll... You believe that? All right, sir. God bless you, and be with you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Now, I want to have your testimony when you come back. You come back and tell what happened. She's going blind. The op... The very nerves in her eye are dying. Give her something to do so that she could believe it, and have faith, and God will grant it to her. Now, you do what I told you. And you come back tomorrow night, and let us see--hear from you. How many believes she's going to be perfectly normal? With all my heart, she's... I believe it with all my heart.
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All right. Come on, sister. Bring the--the patient on. All right. Of course, we see what the woman has in her hand right here, walking across the platform. She's all ready going to trust God. Thou spirit of the devil that's bound her in her ears, in the Name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, leave the woman. Can you hear me? Say, "Amen." Hear me now? Say, "Amen." Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Never left her. No, there it is. All right, let's ask again. Our heavenly Father, we ask You to be merciful to our sister, to heal her, to make her well. Satan, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of the woman. Hear that? Hear that? Hear me? (She's just hear a little bit.) Hear me? Just--just hears sound, that's all... There it is, still on her. Now, everyone just a moment. It may be something wrong with her life that I can find out just in a moment.
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Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessing upon this woman who I bless in Thy Name. Thou demon, leave the woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of her. Now, everyone can see it's still holding her. See? See it on my hand? Now, watch here, audience, so you can see, so you'll know what I'm talking of. So you see this, when it leaves her now, she'll hear. See? Now, watch. Look at my hand now. Now, watch, I'm going to take my hand off of hers, put my own hand on; look here. Now, watch. I'll take her other hand over here and put on. Now, watch as soon as this hand goes on here. There it is. See them little white things running there, like little bubbles? Now, that runs right straight to my heart. That's what upsets me so. See? See it running in there? Now, watch. Now, watch when I raise her hand up. See them leave? Now, watch. There they
are. See them? Now, that's what it... Now, there's what's wrong with her. She's also got female disorder. She's got kidney trouble. See?
Now, let's pray again. Everyone be just as reverent as you can. See? Almighty God, Author of Life, and Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the woman, and bless her, who I bless in Thy Name, that she may be healed tonight, and this spirit of the enemy taken off of her. Thou demon, leave the woman. In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of her. It's still holding her. (You may raise your heads and look.) If I could write to her, I want to ask her a question. You got a pen on here? All right, everyone reverent. Now, just bow your heads.
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Jesus, Son of God, have mercy upon the woman here. Why this spirit is holding her, I know not, Lord. And I cannot know until You reveal it to me. And I ask You to be merciful, and reveal, or, heal the woman, Father. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant. In the Name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Satan, thou demon of deafness and troubles that's bound this woman, in the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of her. It's still holding there, sister...?... Now, that's one, the sullen type now. I don't know just what to do until God shows me. I'll have to wait to find out what He tells me to do. There's something wrong in the woman's life, or some way God's a holding it. I do not know. See, I can't say until He reveals it. Now, that shows the helplessness of me. See? All I can say is what He would tell me. I can just... Be reverent. I believe He'll tell me, show me what it is.
I'll try once more to pray for her and see... I'm looking right at the woman. I can't see a thing. She... I can see what's wrong with her. Here it is a vibrating. But I can't... There's nothing before me to see what's wrong with her life or anything. But there's some reason God's a holding this. I do not know. I've asked her, wrote here, "Does she believe?" She said, "Yes." Now, I shall just pray again. Our heavenly Father, I ask You to be merciful. Grant the healing of this poor woman that's here deaf with this spirit, bound with troubles. I ask You to heal her. Grant it, dear God. If there's anything that's wrong, I ask forgiveness, and pray that You will make known tonight, that she--what is wrong and why that this spirit doesn't leave her. If it's weakness of my own faith, forgive me. If it's weakness of her faith, forgive her. Then, Lord, hear the prayer of Your servant and make this deaf spirit to leave her in
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Well, it's still moving on her hand. Now, just a moment. I've got some more in the line. I'm going to have her set here just a moment till I can get her behind me and start on with some of the rest of the prayer line. And I can find out what's wrong with her. Now, you see how helpless a person is till God reveals it? Here she is, standing here. I don't know what--what to do. I can't say until God shows me. See what I mean? How many understand now? See? See, it isn't Brother Branham; it's the Lord. Maybe that's what He's doing that for, that you see that it isn't me; it's Him. Now, here it is. I can catch her disease here. See what it is, she has female trouble, kidney trouble, and deaf in both ears. And there-there it is. But now, to make it leave her, that's her faith with God. See, that's all I can do. I'm going to ask her to set here just a minute. Don't want her to leave. I want her to stay here till it's over. Look. Tell her to look towards me and pray. Now, everybody be reverent. We can see what's wrong with the woman. Just a minute.
All right, come right ahead, sister. Now, audience, if you'll notice... Look at my hand now. See? The same thing isn't wrong with the woman. Frankly, it's something like paralysm, or something. I don't know. I'll have to find out first. It's something that hasn't got a germ disease. There's growth on that woman's ears back there. But what this is here, I don't know. See? I'll have to find this by a vision if God will reveal it to me. If He doesn't I... If He doesn't, I can't tell her. See? Now, if it isn't, I won't know nothing about it. And if I do know, I can't heal her. Healing comes from God (See?), from God. Now, everybody just reverent.
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Now, you look this a way, sister. Just a moment. I want to talk to you just a minute to touch your spirit. And how long have you been serving Him? A long time? Yes, ma'am. You love Him with all your heart? Do you believe with all your heart? Yes, ma'am. Look, you've had this trouble for some time. It's arthritis. Isn't that right? And you've... In the last year or so, you must've failed quite a bit. Haven't you? And you have. You fell off some. And yes, I can see. You've been falling off constantly in coming down. Isn't that right? I can see you in a vision. Here about a year or two ago, you looked heavier and--and better than what you do now. You been nervous too, haven't you, sister? That's right. Isn't that the truth? Now, do you believe with all your heart that God will heal you? All right. Now, everybody bow your head just a moment. Our heavenly Father, I ask You to heal our sister, standing here.
Make her well, dear God. May this power of the devil that's bound our sister, leave in the Name of Jesus Christ. Come out of the woman. All right. Look this a way now, sister. All right. Do you accept your healing now? Say, "Thank the Lord." Now, raise your feet up-anddown. There you are. Now, you can go off the platform well.
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Let's say, "Praise be to God." Hallelujah. He's here. He's here to heal the sick and afflicted. Don't you believe that? Now, how many in here wants to be prayed for tonight? How many wants to be prayed for? Now, I want Brother Lindsay, or some of them to come here. I want to deal with this woman here, this woman that's--that's... She keeps turning her head sideways. You can't tell her, 'cause she can't hear. I want to find out why that spirit won't leave her. And how many will wants to be prayed for now, just hold up your hand, and say, "Brother, I want to be prayed for, and I believe Jesus with all my heart." Do you believe with all of your heart? You believe He's here to make you well, every one of you? All right. I'll tell you what I want you to do. How many Christians is in the building, let's see, and around the building, let's see your hands? All believe in Divine healing? All right.
I want you that's sick, just the sick ones that want's to be prayed for, stand up, you that's sick and can stand up, you that can. Now, Christians, I want you to look how many sick people there is. And now, I want each one of you sick people to lay hands on one another. Lay your hands on one another around. That's right. That's fine. Oh, my. You believe, honey, with all your heart? You believe, honey, with all your heart? You do? Do you accept Him as your Healer, honey? You, brother? All right. While everybody's in one accord then, let's have prayer. Brother Lindsay, I want all the ministers, if they will, to come out here in front too just a moment. The ministers that believe in Divine healing, I want you to walk out here just a moment. This is for a purpose now. Seeing this prayer, maybe while you're attacking their prayer, I can see what's wrong here. You see? Putting up a bars here between the audience and this woman here, is where I'm going.
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All right. That's just fine. Look at the ministers believe in Divine healing. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Sure. That's fine. If you believe God, you have to believe in Divine healing, don't you? That's true. All right. Now, let's every one bow our heads while we pray. Our heavenly Father, we believe You now to be the great Jehovah
God that led the children of Israel in the wilderness. We believe that You're here to make well every person that has need of healing. You see their hands on each other. Lord, there's been something in this woman behind me tonight that I can't find out. And I know that You will show it to me. I know You will, Father. I believe You. And I pray that You'll surround us with Your Spirit, and let me see to this woman just what's wrong. O eternal God, bless these handkerchiefs here. Heal all that's represented in these handkerchiefs. Make them every one well. Those people out there, Lord, You see their hands laid on one another. You know all about them. And Father, I pray in Jesus' Name that You will heal every one of them. May the power of Satan turn them loose right now. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may that sullen, ungodly demon spirit leave. Come out of the people in the Name of Jesus Christ. That's right, accept it. Believe it with all your heart.
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Now, look at the people being healed, raising up around. Let's give God praise. Hallelujah. Christians... Come on, Brother Lindsay. Get her out from the tent. Accept it. Believe it with all your heart. Can you, sister, believe it? You there with the cancer, Jesus Christ just made you whole. That's right. You with an ear trouble, God healed you. That's right. Move your glasses. That's the way to do it, sister. There you are. The lady blind, both eyes crossed. There she is, normal and healed. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." You're being healed, friends. What about it there, brother? You believe with all your heart? What about you, brother? Do you believe with all your heart? Accept it. How do you feel about the trouble? You feel it's gone? Accept it (That's right.) and be healed. God bless you, brother. How many in here accepts it with all your heart right now? Accept healing. Let's give God praise while I go to see this woman here to see what's wrong. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." How many now believes in Divine healing? "I'll accept You, Lord Jesus, as my Healer just now." O Father, grant the spirit of Satan that's bound these people, to leave them. Just now, may the Holy Spirit take over their lives and make each one of them well in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Good evening... As usual...?... good to be here. That is the truth. Well, I--I'm tired I ever get to be, why, I still I'm very happy to be here...?... anywhere to serve the Lord. See quite a little difference in our crowd tonight. It was... Last night it was long days. Just... Yesterday was a very long day. And of course, that would... And people were tired and worn...?... And now, we're starting another week which is the longest service that I have ever held in my life. And I trust that it'll prove out to be a great blessing to all. I'm just as tired as I ever was in my life. It--it would seemingly that it--that that would make you tired. But if I would just give you some little inside picture that you might know what I--I mean. There's...
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Those visions, that's what weakens me, the--the Supernatural working on a natural man. Someone met me and tell me about that picture. Said, "Brother Branham, that don't look like you." I said, "Well, if that was saying that the Angel of God was that close to you that it was, it probably does change you a little bit." Now, think of being under that constantly day in and out. Then I have to get out somewhere and give vent to myself. If you don't, why, you just... You just get so weak, you can't hardly go. It look like you're strength is just gone. And then another thing, when you're in a meeting like this, a mass meeting, when peoples are praying, that affects me no matter where I am. See? It--it affects you. The--the Angel of the Lord is--is--is a moving. You see? And--and hurrying on you, constantly. Might seem strange, maybe a little different from your teaching, but we can only testify of what is truth. True.
And now, I hope to get to return again sometime to Cleveland, up here at the--to have a meeting when we can come back again. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And I--I will try. I feel that it's greatly needed here at Cleveland. And--and my... If I should come back again, it'll be a--it'll be better. It'll be easier to start then. This is kinda pioneering then. You see? Look like everybody was bypassing Cleveland, leaving it go. But seemingly, Something told me to come to Cleveland. Here's where it was to come to. Say, "Well, Cleveland is... Well, the most of the people there are belong to these kind of churches. And then..." But no matter what they belong to, all of us, is to hear the Gospel. And to see... And those who struggle for the cause. I was sent to those people, those men who's weathered the storms. And they taught these things, and believed them, and look forward for It to
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And I was talking to a minister friend of mine today from Del Rio. He and another minister just flew in here. Their plane's setting down here at the--the coast now in a little hanger down there. And so it... I said, "Well, our--our crowds hasn't been very big. But it's been one of the sweetest meetings I've ever in, just seems such a harmony among the people, the ministers: everybody with one heart, one accord." My Brother Lindsay told me, "Could you just stay a few more extra days." I--I wanted to do it, because I'm looking for something to happen that I prayed for, and seen it one time in my life; that's for an entire congregation to be healed at once, everything healed just at once. And looks like with such unity, and such cooperation in the Spirit, that this could happen. And as the meetings begin to dr--draw towards a close, the anticipation of the people, they're--they're... They know they must press some way. See? And they'll just reach out and accept it just on-on--on the ground. And usually, the last night of the service usually produces better than all the services, 'cause it's the last night, and people say, "Well, this is my last chance. I've got to reach..." And all they have to do is just make a reach; it's there. Just as sure as God's there, it's there. And they--they'll find it, but they're just a little afraid to step out. You see?
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And then I--I--I want the ministers of the congregation to remember this, the minister brethren: there'll be people in your churches that's been crippled, that you'll notice, they're going to start walking. There'll be people there, that's been sick, that'll walk up and say, "Brother pastor, I had stomach trouble. I didn't get in the prayer line; but you know, that's left me." See? And it... I know, standing here on the platform, you can just feel it pull and then let up. It's over. You see? They may not have recognized it, but it is. See? Just watch what happens. It's got to. If they'll just halfway believe it, it'll be right.
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And now, do this. Now, last evening, I've had... Since last evening, I've had a very much of a--of a tussle, and praying over a matter that God has been dealing with me on something; and that is about such a miraculous mount of faith in here, and can touch just such a few people each night. That's one thing that's always bothered me. Now, I hope... There's no newcomers; you've all been to the meetings before, haven't you? You... Let's see how many's been here before, raise your hands everywhere. Why, practically... That's fine.
Now, you understand the--the meeting, and how it... Many of you've been here for a long time. And many of you have been setting here waiting to be prayed for. I heard today that one man has received many prayer cards, and never had got into the prayer line yet. He's been up almost the prayer bench and some little fellow that's very sick. We have no control of that. God alone does it. I... Maybe the man's faith is just not right yet. But if he will believe with all of his heart, it'll be all right anyhow.
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And what I've always wondered, could I minister to all the sick. That's what's been my heart's desire. I tried it. I told you one time stayed at the pulpit for eight days and nights. Couldn't get...?... more--thousands and thousands more at the end of the eight days than there was. And I never left the platform. I slept here, eat here, and everything, right at the pulpit for eight days and nights. I did, I taken about a eight month vacation after that. I had... In other words, I couldn't get out. I was just in a nervous break. It just liked to killed me. So then, I--I knew then that I must use a little more wisdom than what I had. Jesus never even tried to touch the peoples like that. Is that right?
Now, let's just get right down to our hearts now. And I want to tell you something, and we want to talk just for a few moments, just heart to heart. Now, I realize, and you realize too, and ministers, that a man can take a Divine gift, send his soul to hell with it. You know that? A gift from God... Now, I don't mean just something that you imagine. I mean if God has really given something, and give it to your charge, you've got to use that with the wisdom of God. Now, I--I've never in my life talked to a congregation like this, especially a congregation of healing campaign. But the thing that I want to see... I want it so bad... And that's the reason I'm talking to you the way I am.
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Now, remember, Divine gifts can easily get a person into trouble. That God, if He finds someone that He figures that He can entrust a Divine gift with, we should reverence with all of our hearts... Now, you remember, how many believes Moses was a Divine gifted prophet of God? He was. Everyone believes that. But Moses, with that same Divine gift, got himself in trouble. Did he? God told him, said, "You go speak to the Rock." He'd already smitten the Rock once. Said, "Go speak to the Rock." And that Rock was Christ, is that right? And Christ wasn't smitten the
second time; we just speak to Him now. He was smitten once, and He brought forth the waters of Life. And we just speak to the Rock now, and It brings forth the waters. Like God so loved the world. The Rock in the wilderness was a perfect of John 3:16, "God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, and whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have Everlasting Life." Those Israelites were perishing, and the Rock was smitten and brought forth life--water. "And God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son. Whosoever believeth on Him should not perish (A perishing generation of people)--should not perish, but have Everlasting Life," by speaking to the Rock. See?
But Moses went down there and smote the Rock. He got anger. He forgot all of his... He lost control of himself. He got all worked up, and excited, because of the people... And he just smote the rock again, and it didn't bring its water. But he smote it again. Is that right? Now, he was a Divine prophet sent from the Presence of God, borned in this world to be a prophet, a vindicated prophet by signs and wonders, the Pillar of Fire followed him. And we know that he was a prophet sent from God. And God had entrusted him with that power, and as far as I know, Bible readers... I'm not much of a scholar, because I never got but just a grammar school education, seventh grade at that.
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Look. But here, the only place that I can see in the Bible where the program of God was ever broke, any all the types, was right there when Moses smote the rock the second time to bring out the water. Regardless, if it wasn't God's will... We know it wasn't God's will. We'll admit that, don't we. But Moses had power to bring it whether it was God's will or not. Is that true? We know it was against God's will. But God had entrusted His servant with that power. When he smote the rock, and it didn't...?... bring forth its water; showed it wasn't God's will. And he smote it again; he called for it. It had to come. That's right. He was endowed with that power; he brought forth water. It was against God's will. And God dealt with Moses later about that. Is that right?
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You remember Elisha? Young fellow went baldheaded, was young, when he was young man. Some little children begin to holler, said, "Old bald-head, old bald-head, why didn't you go up with Elijah?" Remember that? That angered prophet now, turned around angry, and cursed those children in the Name of the Lord, and two she bears run out of the woods and killed forty-two little innocent children. Is that right?
That's not the nature of the Holy Spirit. You know that. But that prophet was angry. See? You have to be careful what you do.
Therefore, when people come up here for healing, I'm watching them. And I see people sometimes run up here with a Divine gift, if he didn't examine that case perfectly, right truly... And if something had been put on that person, a curse of sickness, sometimes it happens that way. Sickness sometimes, and diseases, and afflictions is God's whip to bring the people back to to the path...?... All right. Not every time it's like that. Remember the boys at the gate? They said, "Who--who sinned, he, or his father, or his mother?" Remember that? Jesus said, "In this case, neither, that the works of God might be known."
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Now, you have to know those things. That's why on each case, I examine it real closely. I know right where I'm standing. And if I ask once and it doesn't leave, then I'll check closely. And then if I don't see nothing, I'll leave it alone till God shows me what to do. Have to watch that thing, because there might be something put on that person, God intended to be there to bring them to a certain thing. You come right back around and take that thing off what God's put on, look where you stand before God. And if God's endued you with something, to do something with... you have to watch. Therefore, brothers, their Divine gift... I have said this... Many of my managers and things know this is true. I've went to... When I first started, I was so elated with it, till I would go into a city and call a meeting. I'd say, "You go to the city and bring me... Let the ministers or somebody, bring me somebody that they know is crippled or afflicted, and let me have that person. And I'll assure you that person will be healed 'fore I'm through." And I made challenges like that.
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I went into Phoenix one time. And I made a challenge. They brought a little crippled Mexican girl. Oh, she was horribly. A hour and forty-five minutes I had that child on the platform, just held it, stayed right with it, and pled to let--that God would let the baby loose... come loose. The baby come loose, went around, walked down off platform there, walked down and come back again. And I remember at Vandalia, Illinois, where I seen the great--one of the greatest...?... I ever seen in a meeting. And I said that same thing. I said, "You go get a person and bring them to me." They did, a boy brought born blind, about fifteen years old. I stayed right with the boy, stayed right there until that boy received his sight. And after I did that, taken the time where hundreds was setting to be
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And after I heard him screaming, and he come back... He was wondering through the crowd; he got back; he said, "I told my mother that I wanted to see what the man looked like that opened my eyes." I said, "I hope you see Him someday, the Lord Jesus Christ." So he took hold of my tie, he said, "Mother, is..." I had on a striped tie. He said, "Is that--that color of them things through there. Is that what you call stripes?" All of them crying. He said, "Now, what color would you call his suit?" He said, "That's what they call lights up there?" Born blind, never seen in his life... Lot of people were fainting everywhere.
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I went to the hotel that night, my brother Donny and my little son, Billy. They went in the hotel. It was about two o'clock in the morning. And I was lying down sleeping, had just went to sleep, which I don't sleep very much at night, always in prayer. Nighttime, when all demon powers shut down towards morning. When they're not roaming, that's the time the Holy Spirit moves in and talks to me. Go early if you want to pray; rise up early. Most all the...?... workers is gone...?... demons... demons... And places are closing up. That causes strange things... You know what I mean by that.
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Notice. And I was laying there. I--I was woke--wakened up all at once. And I looked, and I thought, "My, it's daylight already." I said, "Looky there. It's daylight there in the..." Looked out and I thought, "Wait a minute. The window's back here. That's the side of the wall." And I looked again; it was a white cloud, milling like this. I said, "Oh, I see." It was the Angel of the Lord coming in the room. Many times demons has followed me in the room. I've felt their flesh rubbing me, and bells and things, when haunt at me half the night nearly.
Then I--I got out of the bed, and I knelt down. I knowed It was a Spirit, but I had to find out just what It was first. And I kept waiting. I felt It come around the bed. It come; you could feeled It. I say I'm talking to you from my heart. It's just like... Now, I--I do not feel It now. Sometimes I feel It, and It's standing right over here; I can tell it; if It's standing right down here, you can tell it. It's just like a pressure in the air that's against you, like that. You just... You feel it.
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Then watch, and I see a patient standing here; and right in there, looks like above them, and I can see the things you hear Him tell. You've heard it been told of everything they done in their life. Is that right? Heard Him even repeat the prayer over that they said to God. Isn't that right? And all kinds of sins and things that they've done, revealed, it's been perfect every time. Is that right? Never fails... What does that? I just talking just exactly what I'm seeing taking place. Just what I see, that's what I say. Sometimes I look out over the audience; I can feel something pulling. I'll watch real close. Then it cuts off; it's somebody else on the other side is healed. Maybe this way and that way. Maybe I can be real quiet, and single out a certain person, where it is. First thing, if I can get that channel, look like I get the rest of them somewhere else, not... To look, you know, looking on, then it--it'll start... You can see a vision rise up then and start like that. Then...
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Now, when I looked and seen that, I got down on the floor and started praying. And as It got closer, I knew It was--It was the Angel of God. And I could feel what It was. And I said, "What does the Lord want me to do?" Never said a thing. Just--just long time was standing right near the foot of the bed, and I was kneeling like this. And I said, "O heavenly Father, what have You sent Your Angel to Your servant for?" And I said, "Your servant is listening." And I waited. I knew It was still there, but I didn't know why...?... Waited I guess five minutes passed. I felt It moving closer to me. And when It did, I just heard that Voice sound like way back. I could not impersonate the Voice if I had to. But I heard It just as plain and audible as my voice is to you. Said, "You're confining too much of that gift of healing to perform miracles. It will come to pass that people will not believe you unless there's a miracle performed." I said, "I shall never do that again, so help me, God." Went out of the room...
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I raised up. I laid down on the bed, and there It was, just above the bed, milling around, like a whole lot of colors in a rainbow, milling around. And I looked at It, and I laid there a little while. I felt relief, felt that my sin was forgiven me.
And I said, "Does my Lord care if my little boy see You?" Nothing made any noise. We had just twin bed. We had to... every place was taken up for miles around, and my... on... And we had twin beds in the room. And my brother and my little boy was sleeping on the bed next to me, the twin bed. And I said, "Billy, Billy." He didn't answer. I said, "Donny." He didn't answer. And I took my pillow, watching that. And I knew, by not answering, I knew it was all right. Never said yes. And I threw my pillow like that, and it hit my brother, Donny. And I said, "Donny." He said, "Yes." And I said, "Call Billy." Billy said... Or Donny said, "Billy, your dad wants you." Just then the... I said, "Billy, look." He looked, said, "What do you want, Daddy?" About that time, Donny jumped out of the bed screaming, "Oh." Billy said, "Oh, daddy, daddy, daddy." He jumped out of the bed, and jumped over, said, "Don't let that get me. Don't let that get me." And I said, "Honey, that won't hurt you."
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I said many times... I was single five years. And I been father and mother both to him, and just pack his little bottles of milk in my pocket, and at nighttime lay it under my head to keep it warm, so I could give it to him at night. His mother died when he's only eighteen months old. And I just had to raise him, been both father and mother. I said many times when I'm going be, specially flying, he said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid you're going to go away and never come back to me again." I said, "No, honey, I'll--I'll be back." And I said, "Now, honey, that's the reason daddy goes. That's the Angel of the Lord that leads daddy. He was just in the room talking to me, and I asked Him if you could see, so you won't worry about daddy, and know that that's the Angel that leads daddy. That's where that Pillar..." Was about like that, mingling with colors...?... and...?... went on. Donny, he didn't know hardly what to think, my other brother. And then It milled around like that, went, whew [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.]...?... Then He told...?...
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And I want you to get to you people something here, that I believe that you people in Cleveland know this...?... You know, many of you gets the wrong conception of Divine healing. Now, this is not a gift to perform miracles. Miracles is a separate and different gift from healing. Did you know that? The Bible said, "Do all have the gift of healing? Do all have the gift of miracles?" See? But miracles are performed. That's right. It's a miracle every time somebody, a--a vision that happens and tells people what's wrong with them. That's a
miracle. It's Supernatural. That's a miracle. But healing... Now, look. When Isaiah went up to heal Hezekiah... Do you believe God sent him up there? Do you believe where--after he told him he's going to die, set his house in order? Well then, when Isaiah went up and pronounced him to be healed, it was even three days before Hezekiah regained enough strength to come down off his bed and go in the house of God to go worship. Is that right? And when Jesus pronounced the Roman, or Centurian's son healed, he said, "From that same hour, he began to amend."
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If you had a cut on your hand, you done everything for it, and nothing, just kept getting worse. After while, you put something on your hands; it begin to help it. But it didn't get well; it's getting well. And when the curse of sickness is taken off of you, not every time it's a miracle. Now, if sometimes it just happens spontaneously. Sometimes the curse is just gone, and the cure follows it. Now, listen real close, so you'll be sure. There's hardly a time that within the space of seventy-two hours after a healing has taken place, until Satan's right back at the place again. That's the Bible. When the unclean spirit's gone out of a man, he walks in dry places. Then he returns with him with seven other demons worse than he was. Is that right? You know as he goes on, if the good man of the house isn't there to hold him off, faith to believe...
Now, I want you to listen closely to my commission. God knows I want this to happen in Cleveland. I'm weak and I'm tired. And I don't--I don't... I dread to say that. But friends, do you realize I'm facing demon powers? And I must live right and do right. And I must be truthful. I don't care if the newspapers tell they had to drag me out. That--that don't make any... That don't stop it from being true; that's true. But when they lie about it, that's a lie. But when it's the truth, it's the truth. Now, I wished I could see a vision. But I can't help it. My strength, just goes right away from me. I can't help it. And I wondered why it was, it always makes me so swimmy that way. A few days ago, I was reading at the Bible, of Daniel. After he had those visions, he said he was troubled in his head for many days. Do you remember that? Daniel. Then that give me consolation again, to help me to see.
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That's when mortal beings... When the Supernatural comes upon the mortal being, it causes a conflict with the flesh. That's right. It weakens the human being so. Even Christ, laying on the back of a boat, and those terrible waves didn't even... So much virtue had gone out of Him, till them terrible waves didn't even wake Him up. Isn't
that right? But when awakened, then He stilled the waves and the sea. Now, even in human form, went away, went out... Virtue went out while the Supernatural worked. And Jesus, in many cases, went into a city, and He healed one person, and left the city: Lead a man outside the city gates, restore his sight to him, and go on somewhere else. Went into the land of Gadara, healed the one. 'Course, they there was a...?... But then He did heal all that come to Him one time, to fulfill which was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: "He Himself took our infirmities, and bear our sins...?..."
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And Jesus said that He could do nothing at all until first the Father showed Him. Is that right? Saint John... When He passed by that pool of Bethesda... Now, just let these words sink deep now, when Jesus passed by the pool of Bethesda, there laid great multitudes of people that had been laying there. They... Now, watch the kind of condition they were in: the lame, halt, blind, crippled, withered (Is that right?), waiting for the moving of the water. For an Angel came down at a certain season and troubled the water. And the first one with faith, stepping in, was healed of whatsoever disease he had. Someone said to me, when there'd been at least five paralyzed people leave this building here, that's been setting here paralyzed, they said, "What..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, go down and tell those paralyzed people so we can believe. Brother, he wouldn't believe, if Christ Himself was standing...?... That's right. I can do nothing at all. God gets all glory, for I can do nothing. I can only do what He tells me to do.
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If you worked in a bank where plenty of money was, but you can only take out what they'll let you take out. Is that right? I may be in fellowship with God, where all the powers to heal every person in the world. That is true. But I can only do what He says do. And it's not me that does the healing; it's your own faith that contacts God and heals you; and He speaks through His gift and tells you you're healed. See what I mean? You get that? I have nothing to do with the healing. I'm just a mouthpiece for your prayer to God. See? If your prayer has reached God, and He's told me that you're healed, then I believe it, and I speak it to you. If you believe it, then you're healed. Now, notice. No matter what the symptoms are now, you believe it.
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Now, watch when He met me. Let me quote this for the last time in this night. When He came to me in the room... Imagine yourself now, setting in the room.
The wife came along two or three o'clock in the morning. Been praying. Didn't know why He didn't let me go back home. Little old cabin, way in the hills...?... ground, dark, mile and a half from any road. Little old trapping place where I used to go hunting and trapping...?... way back in the hills. I'd went back there when I started in after six days, of May 1946. I was walking around that house when my...?... Her--her brother came up and said, "Brother Branham, ride up to Madison with me." I said, "I can't, I've got patrol today." He said, "Oh, come on, go on up with me." I said, "No, I can't, brother. I've got to go to Henryville to patrol today." He... I said, "Come on in. Wife's got some dinner ready."
It about twelve o'clock, and I was rolling up my sleeves, and he said... Was going around to wash them in a little two room place where we lived. He said.. I said, "Will you go in?" He said, "No. Thank you, brother." I said, "Brother Roger, come on." He said, "No." He said... I said, "Well..." Said, "I'll see you later." I said, "Are you going to church Sunday?" He said, "I'll see you at church Sunday." I said, "All right."
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I reached down and unbuckled the gun belt that was buckled around me, for I was going in to lay my gun on the porch to wash. I had the... And just as I started under a maple tree, seemed like the whole heavens broke up, and just come open. I'd been afraid of it. That's right. All my life, I've wondered what it was. I turned white, fell back. He jumped out of his car and run. Said, "Brother Branham, what's the matter?" Wife went out with a pitcher of water, give me a drink. Said, "Are you fainted?" I said, "No." I said, "I'm all right." I said, "Seemed like every leaf on that tree fell on me." I said, "It... I don't know what that is, Brother Broy." I said, "It's followed me all the days of my life." And I said, "I-I believe that being that people has told me that it was the wrong thing..." I said, "I remember lots of times in the Bible, that when the demons had to testify of the power of Christ... When a lot of times a clergyman said, 'Why, He's Beelzebub. He's this, that, or the other.' Demons said, 'We know Who You are. You're the Son of God, the holy One of Israel.'"
I seen when Paul and Silas was up there at Antioch when that little old fortuneteller, when all them ministry up there said, "Aw, they're impostors." And that little fortuneteller run out, said, "These are the men of God to tell the way of life." See, them demons recognized that gift in those men, before, sometimes, religious teachers did. And I said to my wife; I said, "Honey, call them up. Tell them I don't know when I'll ever be back to work again, for I am now going to find out what that is or die." I said, "If..." I said, "I've got about twentythree dollars left in the bank. And I'll write you a check. And I'm going to leave, and I shall never return until I find out what that is that's followed me all of my days. One says this and one says that. But I'm going to find out what it is." And I took my Bible, little old Scofield Bible, about like that, and I put it under my arms, and I took off. And I went and I read until nighttime. I got a cave I go into, and it'll be way back in the hills. But this is a little old log cabin where I used to trap. And I prayed and I prayed. And I was setting there praying, holding my mind with a power that reaches the spheres on in, beyond the moon and stars, and the fogs, and gets a hold of God way in yonder somewhere. Setting there meditating, thinking on God...
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It was getting along towards three o'clock in the morning. I said, "God, I'll stay right here until I die, until something... I'm a minister. And don't let me be deceiving. If You want something for me to do, if there's something You wish to speak to me... You've showed me signs and wonders. And people have told me to forget about it, and I was eat too much supper, or something like that." I said, "But I want You to tell me, Father. If it's wrong, come down now and stop it from me. Shut it off, so I'll never know no more about it." I said, "Have mercy, God." I cried till my eyes was swollen. I said, "God, I'm sincere. I don't know what to do. I don't want to fail You. I've done all that I know how to do. But what is it You want me to do?"
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And in there in prayer, all at once, I seen a Light a flickering. I looked around. I thought, "Well, here. Somebody's coming with a flashlight? Couldn't be a car coming back in here. Now, where was that at?" And I looked, and it was spreading out on the floor, getting bigger and bigger. I said, "Where...?..." Looked up, and right up there hung this same thing that you see in this picture there, whew, whew [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.], round and around and around, that Light getting
bigger and bigger. And I turned around and looked, and I heard something going [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.], walking just as clear, just about like this cadence...?... walking slowly. I heard a footsteps approaching, barefooted at that. And I looked, coming across the old board floors, I seen under this Light that was coming down, I seen that it was a--a man's foot. I seen a white robe...?... Imagine how you'd feel. I said, "Oh, my." I looked like that; It walked closer. And when It come into the full Light, It was a Man had His hands folded like this. He weighed about two hundred pounds, and kinda dark complected, kinda more like a-a Mexican's complexion, you know, like the Spanish, or some dark complected person, smooth face, no beard, had dark hair down to His shoulders, had a white robe on. And His characters, you can just talk about it. One of it was so meek; and it looked like again if He'd speak, it'd turn the world over.
And He walked right up to me just as smoothly. And I was biting my fingers until I was bleeding almost. I was sitting back. I couldn't get up. I... Honest, I was so scared. I--I just couldn't move. And you'd be too. Don't think... Now, just imagine setting way out in the wilderness like that to yourself, and look around, and there It stands beside of you like that. I was biting my fingers. And He just walked up to me and looked at me, just as pathetic, down sometimes. He said, "Do not fear." And when He said that, I knowed that was the same Voice. First time I'd seen Him as a Man. I'd seen Him in that whirl of fire; I'd heard Him in the--the whirlwind in a bush. And I'd seen all those things. And I'd heard Him talk to me, showed me visions. But when He spoke the first words... It's not imagination, it's a audible voice. Just as you hear mine. And a man just as real as I'm standing here. Why, I could've shook hands with Him if He'd raised His hand out. I could've patted Him on the side. He's just as natural as--as anyone could be.
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And He looked at me. He said, "Do not fear, for I am sent from the Presence of the Almighty God," said, "to tell you that your peculiar birth and life has been to indicate that you're to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world." And said... Now, listen. "If you'll be sincere when you pray, and get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even to cancer." Now, let's stop right there on that much of the Message. I'll tell you the rest just in a few moments. He said, "Now, you... I have appeared (in other words) from God to tell you that your peculiar birth (Which I had, there sets my mother can tell you.) and peculiar life (That's right. No one never understood me.) has been to indicate that you're to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the
world." Seventh grade education, poor, how could I ever feed the world, local little Baptist preacher there in the city? He said, "If you'll be sincere when you pray..."
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Now, remember. The gift was borned here. I had nothing to do with it coming. No one--no one, friends. Don't never let anyone deceive you. Gifts are sent from God alone. God alone, it's the foreknowledge... Now, there's nine spiritual gifts in the church. They might be on--like on this man tonight, and on that one over there, so forth like that. But prophecy of that type, and so forth, has to have two or three witnesses to a--look over it, and judge it, and see if it's right or not. But you never see them stand before Isaiah or Jeremiah, or any of them to judge them. They had THUS SAITH THE LORD from their birth. And everybody knowed that what they said come to pass. They had the Word of the Lord. And in div--in old times, divers places God... At sundry times, God spoke to us by the prophets, but in this last days has spoke to us through Jesus Christ.
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In the body of Christ, through all these nine spiritual gifts, which brings... Any group of people, any gathering of holiness people that believe in Christ has the right to have the nine spiritual gifts. It circles through the body. It's in the body. It's not a praying individual. It'll be on this one here tonight, and that one on there the next night, and maybe over here another time. This person can pray the prayer of faith tonight, and maybe it's on this one over here the next night, over on that. It's a gift that's in the body, working around to all of you, milling through the body: nine spiritual gifts. This one might prophesy tonight. There's where we get trouble. One might prophesy and tell the truth. That doesn't make you a prophet. It might never come to you again. A prophet is a vindicated person from birth, coming down with the Word of the Lord. A prophet...
There's a difference in a prophet and a gift of prophecy. And if you'll notice in the Bible, healing is in plural, gifts, g-i-f-t-s, gifts of healings. But a p-r-o-p-h-e-t is a prophet. And there's a gift of prophecy, which is in the church. It's to be judged by two or three judges when It's been given. Is that true? Oh, holiness church, we're so short of the things of God. These real teachings is what the church needs. Now, let's set together and be mutual before God. What would the church today, in the name of the holiness church, ever stand before the Bible, and the Bible life of the truth? See what I mean? You get little things you argue about. That's right. And that's what
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makes you carnal when you argue among one another. Forget it. By one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body. And it's your brother. Don't try to run him down; pick him up if he's done wrong. Let's keep the Body going.
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Now, one of these days the Body's going to come together just like that. That's right. Just like Solomon's temple, cut out all over the world. But when it come together, there wasn't a buzz of a saw or a sound of a hammer. It went right straight together. Every mis-fit cube went right to its right place, and there it fit together. That's the way the Body of Christ will go when Jesus comes. She'll go up just arm in arm (That's right.) to meet the Lord.
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Now, these gifts... Now, He said, "If--if you'll get the people to believe you..." Now, listen. Now, watch, friends. See if you get the order. Now, be... Now, you, mother, with the little boy here. And you, lady; and you along here, setting in these chairs. Whatever is wrong with you... Now, get this. And all you people that's sick in here. The gift is in God. And I can only say what He says say. I can only do what He says do.
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Jesus passed by the pool of Bethesda. All those crippled, lame, and blind laying there, He healed one man that had an infirmity. He wasn't blind. He wasn't crippled. Neither was he lame or halt. As far as I know, the Bible said he had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. And Jesus healed him, and turned around, and walked away from them people who believed in Divine healing. Is it the truth? If He, the Son of God, would turn and walk away from practically, I'd say, ten thousand people there... The Bible said great multitudes; you know what it means. If He, with His compassionate heart, turned and walked away from them people, and healed one man that was diseased in his body, and went away from that whole multitude, then in question... The same chapter, John 5, the 19th verse. The Jews questioned Him. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you: the Son can do nothing in Himself." Well, if the Son could do nothing in Himself, how much less can a servant do in himself? See?
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I'd like to see everybody healed. I'd like to be able to say to this man in the wheelchair, and this man, and that man in there, "Get up and walk." Oh, God knows how I'd like to say that. Sure I would. But what if I would say it just in myself, why, they couldn't move. But then they'd say, "Why, he's a hypocrite. Why, there's nothing to
him." But if I ever tell you to get up, you get up, for you're going to get up. That's one thing sure. If it don't, you wouldn't mind, you might never leave the spot where you're at (That's right.) alive. Notice. You can only do what God shows you to do.
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Now, watch. The gift is what God has sent down. Now, if He sent in the form of a brass serpent, or a pool of water, or whatever it is, you believe, not the water, not the serpent, but the gift of God. Is that right? The brass serpent didn't pray for nobody. Neither could the pool of water pray for anybody. But God said... Jesus ascended on high, He give gifts back to man, and now, of course, God operates by the Holy Spirit through man. Man is God's agent.
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Now, quickly, before the time gets away. Notice close. "I have appeared to you..." I'll put it in my own words. See? And I was quoting His words. He said, "Fear not, for I am sent from the Presence of God to tell you that your peculiar birth and life, to indicate that you're to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world. You be sincere when you pray, and get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer, not even to cancer." Now, watch the order. God sent the gift nearly forty years, about forty years ago. It's been in the world ever since. This pardoning. Now, the thing I was to do, was to pray for the sick and be sincere when I prayed, and nothing would stand before the prayer. "If you can get the people to believe you..." See the order now? See? The thing of it is, it's... The thing is, is to get the people to believe that this is the truth.
And I said to the Angel... Now, you got that part, have you? The gift is not to the discernment; the gift is to pray for the sick, and get them to believe you. You get what I mean? Nothing shall stand before the prayer, not even to cancer. That's just to pray for the sick, and tell them. Said, "Now, you're..." I'm going to pray for you. You believe? I believe with all my heart, and lay hands over on them, and pray for them, and ask the blessing in the Name of the Lord Jesus, pass them on. They're supposed to go away rejoicing, believing they're going to get well. The crippled supposed to believe they're going to walk. The blind's supposed to believe they're going to see. Well, I said, "They will not believe me, because I'm uneducated." He said, "As the prophet Moses was given two signs to prove that he was sent from God, so will you be given two signs to do before the
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people." In other words, to a vindicate that I've told you the truth. And He told me what they would be. "Do these signs before the people."
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Now, here is my condemnation. Before Almighty God, Whom I stand before this night as a minister, before one of the loveliest little groups of people I ever stood before, I say it from the depths of my heart: I am condemned the way I use it. Now, that's right. One thing, I'm a harming the people, so many of them. And another thing, I'm not obeying what He told me to do. It will discern and bring out anything there is in this building. Now, that's true. But that don't heal the people. And as I take them one at a time as they come up here, begin to tell them, talk to them, and so forth like that, tell them all about their diseases... Never did one of the apostles do that. Never did Jesus do that. They did not do that. Yet the gift is here to do that.
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Now, here's what... If I could come here and produce that one time, and prove that it is the truth, then every person in this building that's got any salvation at all, ought to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and say, "Just lay your hands on me, brother, and pray. I'll get well. That's all I have to have." Now, isn't that right? Therefore, I could just meet great multitudes. But hundreds comes to the meeting, and go away, and say, "I didn't even get in the line." And I have tried. And say, pass the line through. And ask them, "Well, he--he--he never... He never discerned my case." Well, you know what's wrong with you. You know what you've done in your life. Why should I come up here and reveal that to you, and tell you the things that you've done and things, when you know what you've done. If you're a sinner, get right with God now. If you've done wrong, don't wait till the Holy Spirit has to call it out here for you on the platform. Get right with God right there and confess it. Then come on in the line. It won't stop the line, and let's pray for the people and let them go on. And they'll go on believing, getting well.
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Now, listen, friends. I believe that before Almighty God, Who I stand now, if I would walk from the building right now, the message that I have preached is justified in the sight of God. I believe it. For He has confirmed and performed everything that I've declared that He would do. Is that right? Then, what I'm wondering now, why couldn't we have a prayer line and pray for about a hundred or more of a night, and not even have to stop and tell the people these things, and discern all their diseases, hold them by the hands, and work up their faith. Why don't you come
on your own faith now, being that God has proved that He's here. Come on your own faith, and go out of the building rejoicing, and saying "Thank God, I'm healed." That's what He said do.
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Now, it... Am I... If you think I'm telling the truth... Be honest in your heart. You think it's truth, raise your hand? That's the truth. I believe it, friends. Therefore, I believe hundred people each night, or more, could be prayed for. And dear brother, sister, that being that I'm weak and tired... Now, standing talking doesn't bother me. I could preach day in and out, and it wouldn't bother me. That builds me up. But this other takes it out of me. I can bring two people before me now, and stand here and hold them until their disease is gone, and I'd be weaker than if I'd used a pick and shovel eight hours today. God, Who I stand before, knows that's the truth. It's something that just tears the life out of me.
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And I wonder if, one of these nights, if God would permit, why couldn't we have a line like that, and let everybody come down, and let me stand here. And if I wish to stop and wait for one... I want to pray for you. Not just pass you through like you used to have the old fast line. They used to come through here, and people... They'd send me out there to be--let me pray for the sick. I'd get so weak I couldn't stand up. Then two men, one on one side, one on the other, would hold me there, let the people come by and lay their hands on me. Hundreds of them were healed. But many times, they come staggering through, said, "He never prayed for me." They were right. He said, "If you'll be sincere when you pray." It's the prayer of faith that saves the sick. If you've got faith enough, you won't even have to come here. You can be healed where you're setting. But He told me, "If I would pray for the sick, and get them to believe me, be sincere when I pray..." That's what done the healing. Their belief that God has sent His gifts.
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'Course, He forbids me to take glory, and I--I couldn't do that. And even know, friends, that no man, no flesh could glory before God. And what am I standing here for? What am I out in these meetings for? I'm working for Christ. I have a little church at home, provides a living for me if I go back to it, lovely. I could go fishing every day, and preach twice a week. Could I get by with that? My soul would be haunted with the bony hands reaching for it. I must stay in the pulpit till I die. Woe unto me if I don't declare this counsel of God to the people (See?), of this healing power. And He's here. Christ, the Son of God, is here to heal the sick and the
needy. I want to read just a Scripture before we go...?... It's found over in Matthew, the 4th chapter. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues... preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every manner of sickness and every manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought unto him the sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils... and those which had the palsy; and he healed them.
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Now, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Now, remember. You believe He told the truth? Every case He healed, He seen the Father do it first. What about that? Is it the truth? If there's a great multitude healed, God showed Him a great multitude healed. For He said with His own sacred lips, "The Son can do nothing except what He sees the Father doing." Is that right? "Verily, verily (Absolutely, absolutely, in other words) I say unto you, that the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing, that doeth the Son likewise. Whatever the Father has done." Now, He's here. Now, just as I said that, I--I felt Him move up. The gift that I'm speaking of now, is right here to my right, right in setting here somewhere. Now, that is true. I can feel It just as sure-just as you can hear my voice.
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Now, look. Now--now, listen to me, friends, I can feel my lips getting numb. I can...?... that He's here. Sometimes I look to see if I can see Him. I know It's standing near me. God is my Judge, Who I stand before, It's getting closer and closer...?... near to me. Friends, I've tried to be honest with you. I've done all that I know how to do. Let us believe now. Won't you believe Him with all your heart...?... Oh, my, what a great time to be healed. Now, spirits of infirmities will leave the people. Many would be blessed. There's such a deep sincerity... Now, I'm not saying that He would bless you. He's here right now...?... And I believe this with my heart. If we call a prayer line, and the people come by, and not even ask for a discernment, just say, "Brother Branham, just stand back there and do as the Angel told you to pray over me. And I'm going away from this place and shout and say, 'God's healed me.' I'm going to stay right with it. I'm going to stay there now, and I'm going to get well too."
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I got some ministers today... or a couple of days ago, to--told me... Some lady come in here, dying, laying on a cot. Just in the last stage
to be healed. She said when she brought the mother sitting here at the...?... They had an awful time getting her in here. Said, "While I was preaching...?... I looked down at her and said, 'sister,' and begin telling her the things of her life, and what was wrong." I said, "Do you accept my word?" Nodded that she did. I said, "Go on, Jesus Christ has healed you. And now, she's just glorifying God, pronounced well, going all around through the city.
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Many things, awhile ago, if I hadn't been in this meeting, a lady, who sent a telegram, a minister from Jamaica, someone. His wife is in the last stage of cancer. And said that... could you fly here at my expense right away. Said, "You're the only hope that we have, and would come and help wife through to God." Now, when you get home, there's dozens of letters. I get down over them and pray. I say, "God, You know them. Show me where to go." Then I pick out wherever He tells me, then away I go. Here I just went in home not long ago, and there was different... There was about fifteen long distance...?... or airplane tickets and things, coming in from all over the country, different places where I'd been...?... This one, that one come for me. Just went on through. I said, "Honey, you know I just come...?..." Flew to New York, and just come back. And I said, "Well, then there... a big television company said if we come to Madison Square Gardens, he'd put the thing on television free of charge." That's right. It would come through--through to the audience. And so I'm going to give him that opportunity, right...?... So then when the... His mother had been healed...?... And so then I--I got back, and the wife said, "Honey, looky here." Said, "My, this place has been crowded with...?..." She said, "Let me call them to you." I said, "Well, honey, you know I..." She said, "Well, here's this from this, and this from that, and this from the other one, like that, different ones...?... California, from Oregon, this one down in Florida, this from over here. And then she said, "Here's... And--and, you know, Arkansas, the mayor of the city there his wife dying of cancer, on like it."
Said, "What'd you say?" Holy Spirit stopped me. I said, "Go back through those again." Went back. And oh, it was bad weather. Oh, my, just the early spring, snow everywhere. And it said, "Mena, Arkansas. The mayor of the city, his wife is dying of cancer, calling for you." He belonged to the Assemblies of God. I said, "Just a moment. Let me pray." Said, "He's been trying for four or five days ago to get a hold of you." Said, "Let me go into my room."
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I went in the room and studied a little while. The Holy Spirit said to me, "Go to Mena." They had the worst case I could've gotten. They had to drive with the car through the hills, and everything else. And the plane was snow bound. I said, "The Lord willed me to go to Mena. Get him on the phone, tell him I'm on the road. Send over to meet me...?..."
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I got down there, and the doctor and all of them set in the room. Walked in the room where she was and laid hands on her. Said, "The Lord Jesus sent me here that you might be healed." She got right up and walked out of the building like that...?... That's right. There it was. Caused a revival right to break out in that country. She passed about a gallon and a half of water and pus. And about a half hour from that... Weeks and weeks later, I was in a meeting. Here she was standing there. She said, "I'm feeling fine, Brother Branham." Just as fine as she could be... Why? Obedience.
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Now, He's here. You believe if the prayer of faith was said over you, you'd get well? Do you believe it? (How many prayer...?... Where's your prayer cards start? What number? One? What's the letter? B? A hundred of them out?) I believe we'll pray for a hundred people right now. Don't you think so, in the next... I'd say, the next hour? Without having discernment, just pray for the... I believe every minister in this building could pray with us. Look friends, your minister has just as much right to pray as I do. Now, be reverent. Now, He's here, and each one of you's got your prayer card. Do you believe if we'll just make a line here of...?... All that hold numbers, whole hundred line up here. And come right down through the line, and let us just pray for you. I believe you'll get well.
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If you'll go away from this platform tonight, just rejoicing and saying, "Thank God, for healing me." And go on out of the building and believe that with all your heart, I believe you'll write your testimony in within the space of a few days, that you're perfectly well. Don't you believe that? How many would do that, would go out of here... How many would make a committal to God, right now, and say, "Lord, I believe if the-if the things that's been confirmed that this man has said, and I know that they are true, as far as the discernment..." Now, just shake yourself a little bit. Pinch your inside part. Wake up. What more could God do? What more could He do? He couldn't heal you against your faith no more than nothing, could He? And if you do
believe Him, you're healed anyhow. Is that right? It's your faith in God's Word that He can heal you. Now, don't disbelieve. Have faith in God. Do you believe Him with all your heart?
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Now, look. Now, that you might know, the Holy Spirit is here. Will you just be reverent, every one of you, just as reverent as you be for a few moments and just look this a way. Now, that you might know that... You say, "Well, I believe maybe the Holy Spirit's left him." No It isn't; He's right here. And I'm going to ask our heavenly Father now, if He will heal somebody in this building, somebody that--that you could see, that's actually healed. And let Him show it to me. And you pray for your healing now, and let the heavenly Father show it to me. And if He hears my voice... For the Angel has talked with me, said, "My thoughts in heaven was louder than my voice on earth." He knows what you're thinking about. And if you... If God will just let me see one of you healed and will confirm that to be so, will you believe with all your heart then, that He's here, and He's blessing...? That--that I...
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Now, remember, I'm not Him. I just represent Him. I'm His-His channel here. And remember this. He can move from me any time He desires to. He goes at His will. God knows I love Him. And I want Him to always stay with me, for I love to work with His people. It's the greatest pleasure I ever had. But God... He--He--He can... He has the right. I have nothing for--on Him. He is the One Who can leave me whenever He desires...?... But I love Him and want Him to stay here. But He can leave whenever He wants to. But I trust that I'll have favor with Him, and He will grant His blessing to me.
Now, let's bow our heads. Lord Jesus, I--I don't know any time in life... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... I was in a prayer meeting of this type when I was any more sincere than I am just now. For, Lord, You know I'm weak, and I'm tired; and the meeting is long and dragging out. And I feel, Lord, that--that it was right for me to stay here, for I... If You would not have led me so, I would have left. No matter what would been the cost, I would've left. But I felt that You wanted me to stay, so I stayed, Father. And I tried to tell to the people, explain to them that You are the One that heals, that You've come to vindicate Your servant, and let them know that it's not me, that it's You. You can take or give at Your leisure. You're God, and there's none other like You. And now, Father, answer the prayer of those sick people out there,
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someone, and show it to Your servant, that You've put the blessing of healing upon them, that they're going to be healed, going to get well. And Lord, it'll increase the faith of others, and let them know that You're still here with Your servant. Will You hear my prayer, Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen.
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Now, every one just be reverent as you can be, and be in prayer now. Do you really believe that what I've said has been the truth? Have faith, every one. Now, look this way, and believe with all your heart that God has answered your prayer. Now, will you believe me if He shows me. Now, every one there in here, you know that I'm... I believe He said this section here was roped for the sick, in this section here. I don't know. Is that right? This--this in here? All right. You people right in this line in here then, look this a way. Just believe with all your heart. Have faith. Now, I can't tell whether it's the lady here or the man. I believe it's you, sir, with the back trouble setting there. All right. Will you obey me as God's servant and believe me? All right. I want you to get up and walk out the back of that tent and raise your hands and say, "Thank You, Jesus, for healing me." For your back trouble has left you, brother. Walk out the back of the tent there and say, "Thank you, Jesus, for healing me."
Sister, you have a desire in your heart, don't you? The kind of a little lady there, setting right back behind the lady here with... There, you with your finger up like. There's a desire in your heart for something, isn't there? Isn't exactly a sickness but it's a affliction of some sort, isn't...?... It's deep sincere crave for something. Is that true? Would you stand up just a moment. I believe this lady here is thinking so hard right in front there. Yes, it's you. You... There's a lady in the back, a young lady there, about... Look this way. Had to get above this lady right here, 'cause she's thinking about the little blind girl setting next there. And I'm trying my best to see. Yes, I see what it is, sister. All right. Now, you're a stranger, aren't you, sister? I don't know you, do I? But if God has revealed to me, and showed me just exactly what you have need of, will you believe me? All right. You been barren, haven't you, without children? You're desiring a child. Isn't that right? May God grant your desire. Do you believe that God will...? May God give you the baby that you've desired. Now, believe with all of your heart, God...?... Have faith. Don't doubt.
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Now, let's see back just a little piece farther. Every one will look and believe. Have mercy, God. Yes, here it's coming one right
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through here. I believe it's the lady with the white... right there with the white hat on, setting right... No, it isn't. It's the lady right behind her with the brown suit on. Stand up, sister. Yes, you had cancer, didn't you? It's left you now. You can go on home rejoicing. And the man right behind you, that patch over his ear. It's cancer too, isn't' it, brother? Have faith in God. All right. God bless you. Go home, be healed up. God bless... Your nervousness and all that has left you. You removed and go...?... Now, down in this section here, see if there's any sick people in here now. Look this a way, every one now, and have faith. Now, I can only speak as the Holy Spirit says speak. There they go, rejoicing. Let's say, "Thank God." I'm not too sure just where it's coming from, but I believe it's the lady with the little girl in her arms. There's something wrong. It's--it's you, isn't it, sister? Is it a female trouble that's bothering you? Is that right? Stand up on your feet. All right. You're healed now. Jesus Christ makes you whole.
Just a moment. Here's someone else. This lady setting here with the black dot--or white dotted dress on. She has female trouble too, don't you, sister? Raise up. You're healed now. God bless you. Have faith; have faith. Now, let's see the cripples. You crippled people, look this a way and believe. Have faith. Is your boy seem better, sister, with the heart trouble? Yes ma'am. Going to be all right. You feel all right, sonny boy? You're going to be well now. Look at the happy little tot, how he is. Stand up, honey, so the people can see you. Was healed of heart trouble the other night, laying there couldn't even hold hisself still. There he is, healed with heart trouble. Well, bless his little heart.
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See an aged woman laying there. Look this a way, lady. Poor old mother, gray-headed. Look this way now. Have faith. You're a stranger, sister. Isn't that right? But you're suffering. You're bound with--with rheumatism. Is that right? Now, look and believe. Do you believe this is the same Spirit that told the woman at the well her sins, and told her to go get her husband? You believe it's the Spirit of Christ? You're a sinner yourself, lady, isn't that right? You haven't given your life to Christ. If you'll give your heart to Christ, your rheumatism will leave you. Will you believe that with all your heart? You move now, and give your heart to Christ. Now, rise up from that thing and go out there in the building. You can walk. Go out and the Lord Jesus bless you. Look down this way, cripples, afflicted people. Brother setting here, blind, with these glasses on. Yeah, you that's raising your hand. Do you believe with all your heart? You believe that God will make you
whole? Will you accept my words as God's servant? You will? All right. I'm going to say to you, you'll rise from there and exercise your faith, Jesus Christ will give you your sight. Stand up on your feet. Walk out the tent door over here. Go on. You can see. Go on off. Everyone reverent, please. Young man, you've been bound for some time too, haven't you? You believe Jesus? Look, young man, you'll be bound to the chair as long as you live if you don't exercise faith and believe. Do you believe it now that you're setting in His Presence? You do? All right. Want you to rise up in the Name of Jesus Christ, and walk on out. You're not bound any more with the powers of hell. Bound... You believe? All your heart? (What's the number?) [A brother calls the
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I get too weak before I started the prayer line. All right. Do you believe God knows everything that's in your heart? He knows all about you. I want the ministers to stand here at the end of the line. And as the people come off of the platform right here, I want you to stand here and get... tell them to praise the Lord as they leave the platform. How many Christians is going to join with us in prayer now? Now, all you people standing here with prayer cards, every one of you may be healed tonight. Will you now do what I tell you to do? Just a moment until they get... All right, brother, how you feeling now? Go right on out. Let me shake your hand...?... Do you see all right now? Move right on out. You got your sight. Go home, tell your people what great things Christ has done. But in the next few days, your sight will be just as normal and perfect as it can be. Go on rejoicing.
How many of you here standing in the prayer line now, raise your hands and to this, say, "Lord God, I now commit myself to You. So help me, God, from this time on, I'm going to testify of my healing regardless of what takes place." O eternal God, bless these people who I bless in Thy Name. May every person that crosses this platform leave the platform shouting, rejoicing, and happy. They've seen Your works now for many, many days, some fifteen days, and they know that You're here and know all the things of their heart. Now, Lord, for the first time in my life since You've commissioned me to go and to pray for the sick, get the people to believe You, I start tonight in the Name of Jesus Christ to getting the people to believe as I lay hands upon them, seeing that discerning each thoughts and hearts takes so much time. Lord, many are waiting. I pray that You'll heal each one of them in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
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All right. Every one now be seated that's not with prayer cards to enter the line and wait. All right. From afar. Bless our...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I ask...?... Jesus Christ, Son of God, I bless this sister for her healing in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Do you believe you're healed, sister? Go shouting. Go praising God for you're healed. O Jesus, Son of God, heal our dear sister for Your glory in Jesus' Name. Amen. That's right. Go praising Jesus...?... Now, everyone, thank the Lord. Say, "Thank the Lord," as you leave here saying you're healed now. This is going to be a sign whether that God wants me to do this or not. See? Now, everybody believe. Father...?... I now...?... Christ...?... Now, remember. As you come, as you believe, so shall it be unto you. How many knows that's true? It's your touch that draws the virtue of God down. If you don't believe, don't--don't come. If you believe, come right on and be healed. All Christians be in prayer now. Do you believe, little lady? In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I...?...
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Come forward, sister. O God, I bless this, my sister in the Name of Jesus Christ...?...
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Let us all believe Him with one accord. Let's stand right now. Many great healings. How many will sacrifice your card and say, "Now, I believe with all my heart." It's been confirmed both ways, back and forth. Throw your card up in the air, and say, "I trust It right now, Jesus Christ, my Healer." Will you do it? There's goes... That's the way to do it. Look at the cards a flying. Let's raise our hands and give praise to God. A crippled man went walking down through there. One of the little old blind girls just received her sight, went away seeing? Being blind, went away seeing with her sight. Heavenly Father, send Thy power, heal the whole congregation just now, Lord. Satan, turn them loose in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, may they go and be healed right now...
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Good evening. Happy to be back again tonight, to be here in
the service, and trust that it'll mean much to every one of us, that God will miraculously heal someone tonight, that He might receive glory to Himself...?... I'm sure if we'll just all believe Him with one heart and one accord that God will grant it. Don't you believe that? I believe it with all my heart. Just a little tired tonight and I... just look like... I--I wished I didn't...?... that. Now, as far as being physically tired, no. It's a... I guess you would call it mentally tired. It's just, seemed like it just-your strength just goes away, and you don't know...?... where it's gone, but it goes. But God is our Strength if we trust Him.
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Today, it's been quite a day. I've been praying much today concerning the meetings. So many people sent in telegrams and calling in, knowing that I'm to be home Friday. And then they want to know who's to be the first one that goes through... And you understand now why it is? It's just constantly on the move, and you don't get any time of rest. That's it. I... The only way I get rest is when I don't go home and just go somewhere else hide there a little while. Then when you do, why, it makes you feel bad to think in the meetings, and then you couldn't get to pray for little children and you just, seems like you can hear them at night calling for prayer, mothers and crippled people. And what that is, that's the cry of their prayers...?... calling down. Just--just think...
I just... Sometimes when I go up in the mountains... I have a picture of the audience. And I set it down, maybe by the side of a tree, and just kneel and just pray and pray and pray. God will heal them. And it's to my interest... My, I like to see people get well. No one can enjoy, appreciate good health any more than I do, when I've spent much time, been very, very sickly in my young days. I... One infirmity, especially, bothered with stomach trouble, for years I've drink barley water, eat crackers, and maybe start out walking, start spitting that right up, like...?... something. I went to all kinds of doctors and clinics, just nothing can be done. They just said, "Well, the... just, nothing can help you." They give me medicine, and everything, but just--just couldn't stop it. It just went on, just the same.
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About seven or eight years constantly, and I would just eat. And I would just try not to look at the table, and see the people eat and set down. And I would try to drink my barley water, you know and maybe a little prune juice for breakfast, barley water for dinner and eat a few crackers, soda crackers with the barley water. Maybe a graham cracker, occasionally...?... so forth [Tape repeats--Ed.] When I see people, what they would... I'd go to work, pick and
shovel, and work all day long and go over to eat, just drink the barley water, you know and...?... [Tape repeats--Ed.] I'd look, see those fellows eat and just my mouth would water. And I'd had a constant headache all the time. That's what was the matter. I'd just went ahead once walked around with a great big glasses on, just... Sometimes I just fell for... Just had to lead me, I'd be so blind. Weighed about a hundred and eighteen, twenty pounds. And to think that now, after all those years of suffering through there, and now, my eyes are 20/20. That's just as perfect as human eyes could be. I can read newspaper print five feet away from me. And my--my stomach, I... God be praised, I eat anything I want to and just enjoy it. And I'm so thankful for it, and feel good. Weigh a hundred and fifty-three pounds. I'm just very thankful.
E-5 When I was a little boy, I--I was Irish. Of course, my conversion didn't change that too much. And I... Someone said, "Do you think there's any chance for an Irishman?" I said, "Yes. There's one of them in heaven, Michael." And so I--I said, "It's..." So I know there's a chance then for me. But they... All the... When I was a kiddie, I used to like to box, right smart. Now, we had a--just a Falls City championship there. I boxed a whole lot in that. And then I got to getting up to where I could fight eight and ten round fights. I won fifteen straight professional fights. And I lost my sixteenth one to Billy Frick from Huntington, West Virginia, Evansville, Indiana, at the arena. Fought it... One of them give a draw and the other one given him the decision because he really rightly did it. The first time in my life I ever looked up to God to make a promise. I wasn't sure of myself when I went in the ring that night. I said, "Well, I... If You'll just let me come through this one Mister, I--I won't have no more of it." So I stood in boxing rings since then. But I'm fighting another opponent, the devil. That's right.
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And I'm so happy tonight that... It's so much...?... and knocks, and pulling me, so forth like that. But even if it is, we have a great Master. And we could just preach the Gospel full and free, and let it go, the chips fall wherever they wish. God takes care of the rest. Now, I want to make this statement. I--I've been just a little leery about saying it, but tonight I feel just a little bit dressed up. I don't know whether you noticed it or not, that's a suit a sister gave me. I-I appreciate it very much. Thank you very much. That's... God bless that sister. Thank you all. People send and give me nice ties, shirts, socks. I was a little afraid to say anything about it from the platform. Maybe somebody thought that I was... get the wrong impression, that I was just saying it just because maybe... Oh, no. Just don't think that. But it--it's so
appreciated. I just couldn't let the people do things like that, and then let me not mention it in some way. You know, some of don't even put their address on it. I couldn't say the woman's name that bought me that suit of clothes. I--I couldn't never let her--let the--the right hand... left hand know what the right hand was doing, I suppose. But I--I appreciate it from the depths of my heart.
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And I'll say this, my dear sister, and to all you others. You never give anything to anyone in your life that appreciated it any more than I do. That's right. I do. And the Bible says, "Insomuch as you have done unto the least (That's me.) of My little ones, you have done it unto Me." He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man receives a righteous man's reward. Whosoever receives a prophet in the name of the prophet, receives a prophet's reward. Now, I trust that God will return it to you a hundredfold. And I'm sure, if God lets me keep my right mind, I'll never be in barrooms with it on, 'cause I don't go to those places. Never was in one. And I... And I--I only go to church, and to my home, and out to visit the sick. That's where I go. And I trust that God, while preaching in this suit, will let me win thousands of people. And I pray that the Holy Spirit will so anoint, that those people who even come by, many of them, as they did in Arkansas, and touched, will be healed by His glorious power. And in glory, when life is all finished and our earthly journey is over, I hope I'm standing near when I see Him put a great white robe on you. I'll bow my head to Father, thank the Lord for you, clothing you in His righteousness. God ever be with you is my prayer.
One time, I thought it wasn't right to receive a present someone give you. Brother Sharritt, a man corrected me on that. He said, "Brother Branham, I hate to correct you on anything." But said, "You're mistaken there." He said, "You've caused those people for not receiving their presents; you cause them to lose their--their reward." He said, "It's more blessed to give than it is to receive." Then he told me of his story. I did... I just believe I'll tell this right now. It just comes to my mind for a moment. John B. Sharritt from Phoenix, Arizona, one of the business managers of the campaign... Many of you has met him, no doubt. If anybody here would happen to know Brother Sharritt, or anybody, John Sharritt, Phoenix, Arizona? Well, he's a product of God's Bible School in Cincinnati, Ohio. The dean of the college was just talking to me long distance a few moments ago, a very fine man, Brother Stanley. Many of you hear Brother Stanley from the... God's revivalist. He's at my house waiting
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And he and Brother Raymond T. Richey... Many of you heard of him, haven't you, from Houston, Texas. He belongs to the church, Assemblies of God, and has a Evangelistic...?... there. And so Brother Sharritt, he was borned kind of--of a fellow that didn't have very much of the world's goods. His father was a very poor man, and he was very rowdy. And he left his mother. And John Sharritt, about fifteen years ago, was selling apples at a nickel apiece out in front of him like this in St. Louis, Missouri. Apples... On a little bi... couldn't have a cart to take care of his mother. And he had an impediment of speech. He couldn't talk at all. If you go to talking, just stand at just...?... He just... he try again. And like if he was going to say, "Good evening, he'd say, "Goo... [Brother Branham makes unintelligible noises--Ed.]" Wait a while and say, "Goo..." And that's about the way he'd try to get it; awful bad...?...
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Well, but he begin to seek the Lord when he was a boy. And all the boys was running out to different places with young ladies. He said, "Lord, I--I'm going to trust You. I--I--I'd--I'd be awful out trying to talk to young ladies. But I want to be married and have children. And I'm going to serve You, and You give me a wife." He committed it to the Lord: age of about twenty-five. If he could've pass every woman by in the world, he couldn't have a better one than what he's got. God give him a lovely little saint. But one great thing he loved children so well... She was barren. He was married for many, many years, six, seven, eight, ten years, no children. He cut concrete on the street, twenty-five cents a hour to make a living. And they'd saved their money, and they bought a little three room house. I think it cost about fifteen hundred dollars back in the time of the depression. And they'd paid, and paid, and paid. And...?... paid until till they paid all of it off.
But just about the time they got it all paid off, they had a revival in Phoenix. And there was a man by the name of Doctor Sutton. Don't know whether you know him or not, a...?... A Gospel-full Gospel preacher came down there to Phoenix, and he was staying in a tourist camp. And the Lord appeared to Brother Sharritt one night in a dream. He said to him, "Take your silverware and your clothes and your wife, and leave your home, and turn that over to this Brother Sutton." Think of it. After about ten years of hard labor in the depression, saving and striving, and the Lord told him to turn that place over to Doctor Sutton, which was a--a well known minister.
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Brother Sharritt said, "All right, Lord." Went to his little companion, said, "Honey, the Lord has spoke to me and told me to turn our house over... Just to take our silverware and our clothes, and turn the house over to Doctor Sutton." When he went and told her, she said, "All right, dear." She believed in her husband, said, "If the Lord said for you to do that, God's got something else for us to do."
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So she... He turned all he had now. And he didn't have no place to take his wife that night. And they found the tourist camp that cost seventy-five cents. And they stayed in the tourist camp that night, and making twenty-five cents a hour cutting concrete on the street (That's right.), working daily for... He's a great big man, weighs about two hundred and twenty-five pounds. And about a week later, some rich lady told him that--that she would move some of her things back in her garage, if he wanted to live in her garage, up towards Camelback Mountain (You know where this place is.), kind of a big old aristocratical part of the country there. Said, "You... If you'll keep my yard trimmed of...?... come in, and keep the grass watered, and so forth." Said, "You can live in my garage free." He moved up there without one thing. He got some boxes, got him a...?... and laid on the floor, got him a mattress...?... him and his wife slept there. Brother Sutton said, "Brother Sharritt, I don't..." Said, "The Lord had said for me to do that. That's all right."
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And he went on. And he was that way about a year, lived a good Christian life. Finally, the lady that he lived with was a multimillionaire woman. And she seen his honesty. He was a Christian just like a Daniel down in Babylon. She went up to him one day. She said, "John," she said, "you know what? The Lord spoke to me last night in a dream, and told me that I shall loan you ten thousand dollars to go in business." "Why," he said, (he couldn't talk) Said, "Lady, I--I can't even talk. I'll never make a businessman." She said, "But the Lord told me to do it, and here's the check." He said, "Well, ah, I--I--I couldn't let you do this." Said, "I--I don't want ten thousand dollars laying on my... No, huh-uh." So she said, "But the Lord said for me to give it to you. I notice you've been a good honest man, seen you reading the Bible. And I got me a Bible and was reading. And the Lord told me to give you the check, loan it to you, for ten thousand dollars to go in business."
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So he took the check. He didn't know what to do. So he went
on. And one evening he was walking up and seen a little old five room house for sale for two thousand dollars. So he went down there and cashed the check and bought it for two thousand dollars. And went down there, him and his wife, and begin to knock the plastering off of the place and replastered it nicely, Him and his wife working together. And he plastered up the house, fixed the ground, and put a sale sign up on it. And if he'd have got three thousand, they'd have made money. And he sold it for six thousand. Today John Sharritt's worth a half a million dollars. That's been about six or seven years ago since he started, worth a half a million dollars. He's the father of three fine little children. Oh, my. He said, "Brother Branham, what if I would have... What if Dr. Sutton wouldn't have taken...?... what God told me to do. See what it would've been?"
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And now, he stood there, said, "Lord, whenever I see your program, I'll..." Just, he had so much money, said, "I don't want..." He owns orange groves, ranch houses. He owns the big Thunderbird Ranch there, one of the greatest there is in Arizona. And he said, "All these things..." He said, "I--I've got more money than I know what to do with." And God give him a fine little girl, then a little boy, then a little girl. That's the reason he isn't with us tonight. The little baby's just recently born. His wife had been barren for all these years. And now, she's bearing children, just...?... doing. Oh, what a happy family. And he said, "When I come to Phoenix..." He said, "Went up to the meeting one night," and he said, "Lord, isn't that where You was talking about?" And then he said... come to me. He said, "Brother Branham, you don't owe me a penny. But if I can pass your hat, or bring your coat, I want to be in the campaign." And I had prayer for him, and God restored his speech back to--to him again. Now, he's healed, with his fine home, everywhere. Gives his tithes to the Lord of everything he makes. Oh, my. He's just blessed. So it is more...
Now, if you want to write to him, just write to John B. Sharritt, Phoenix, Arizona. It'll get to him. And ask for the testimony yourself. Now, he printing tracts and everything, scattering the Gospel everywhere. He'll probably be with us shortly again in the campaign. It's more blessed to give than it is to receive. See? To... And now, that isn't saying... You let God tell you what to do. See? And when God tells you that Mrs. Jones over there is a widow woman, and needs some--some clothes, and He speaks to you to go, help that widow woman, you go help her. You--you do that. Because listen, friends, all the money that we have will pass away someday. That's right. It won't be no more. It's just the eternal things. That's
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the things that we have in our soul. Is that right? We came into the world naked; we go out of the world naked. As Job said, "The Lord gave, the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." That's right.
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Now, everybody be reverent. Be prayerful now. And God will bless us, I'm sure. I'm going to ask you something tonight, if you will for me while I read some Scriptures. Maybe I'll wait till I read the Scriptures. Let's turn to Saint James the 3rd chapter--or the 2nd chapter of Saint James, beginning with the 21st verse. There was a--a certain man of this city that I just heard the name just now. He said if I would return back to be here at the Sunday afternoon and Sunday, he would rent some big auditorium somewhere and have a Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening services. And... this coming Sunday. So I have to pray now. I want the Lord to reveal what to do--wants me to do. Now, I appreciate that, brother, your offer, regardless. God bless you. If you've got that much heart for the sick people, then your blessing will come to you just the same. Exactly. To see the needy...
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Now, in Saint James the 3rd chap--the 2nd chapter and the 21st verse. This would almost look like a contradiction in the Scriptures. But there is no contradictions in the Scripture. You know, the... You heard people say that Scripture contradicts Itself. It does not. For ten years, there was a challenge laid on my plat--on my pulpit, to any person who could show a contradiction in God's Word that could not be straightened by the Word of God. It's not so. All the Scripture is mingled up. That's right. It's all broke up and placed in here. And that's the reason seminaries, theological schools will never be able to know It. It's hid from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and will be revealed to babes such as will learn. You have... It isn't how much schooling you've got...
Certain... A little old boy down in Kentucky, close to the country where I came from... Someone said the other day, said, "Brother Branham, what part of Kentucky you from?" Oh, my. It's a way down in Kentucky where they... Way down. Don't even have a roads in there, just creek bottoms. And so they had a little old rural school. Little old boy about the second grade... He got up there one day, and said, "Teacher, the Lord called me to preach." Why, she laughed at him, hair hanging down his face. Said, "The Lord called me to preach." I guess the boy's fifteen,
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sixteen years old. And said... Why, the teacher said, "The very idea. Forget about it." Well, he went to the principal of the school. And oh, they couldn't let him preach. But a few months after that, some great minister came through with some great D.D. to his name. So they permitted him to have the school. So he preached a two week's meeting, never had one conversion.
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So the boy's father thought the boy really was called to preach. So he went to the principal, said, "Well, if you let him have it, why don't you let my boy have a try?" So they went down there, and he let him have it. They all... Everybody come out to hear this boy that night. He got up there, and he couldn't read the Bible. So they had to get somebody to read the Bible for him. And he got to preaching. So when he got to preaching, that little old self-styled teacher, along with about fifty others, found theirself at the altar, weeping their way through to Christ. See? That's right. And there was a real revival broke out in that part of the country. And literally hundreds came to Christ. Why? It doesn't take the--the great education. It takes a full surrendered heart to Jesus Christ. No matter how illiterate you are... "Though a fool will not error in the way..." Is that right?
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So listen closely now as we read the Word.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith... with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness; and he was called the Friend of God. You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was... Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and... sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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Now, the first thing... It looks like Paul was speaking in Romans the 4th chapter, justifying Abraham by faith; and James is
justifying him by works. But it does not contradict. Paul was speaking of what God saw in Abraham, and James was speaking what man saw in Abraham. Paul was speaking of what God saw in Abraham, in Genesis 6, when He told him that he was going to have this child by Sarah. And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. He believed the promise. That's what God saw. And then James speaking, was speaking of what man saw in Genesis 22 where Abraham offered up Isaac. See, what faith is... What faith you have, that's what God sees. But what your works is, that's what your neighbors see. See? Show me your works by your faith--without your faith, and I'll show you my works by my faith. See? Notice, I believe that this audience here has faith. I believe that. But I believe you're afraid to turn it loose on works. For I--I believe that if you would just let your faith loose... See?
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Now, as far as I know, I got two more nights. Last night, even tonight I'm trying my best to hold back just as close as I can, and keep from straining too hard. Then the last two nights, if God be my helper, I'm going throw my whole heart and everything I've got in the service...?... But I'd like to get this to you while I'm speaking. 'Cause probably tomorrow night and next night, I don't even want to say nothing, just have the prayer line, and get ready, and come onto the platform, and go to praying for the sick. But if you would do this, dear friends, if you would give God a chance... Now, you believe. I ask if you believe, you say "Yes." Is that right? If you believed, you'd say, "Yes." Then if you believe, you've got to act like you believe. Isn't that right? You've got to act like you believe.
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Now, notice. If you could believe... Say, for instance, I was at the altar as a sinner... Now, the only way that you'll ever be able to obtain anything from God is by faith. You all understand that? For the whole Christian armor is faith: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, all the unseen. And we as Christians, we do not look at what we see; we look at what we believe. See what I mean? We believe it before there's any natural evidence. The virgin Mary, when the Angel of God met her and said, "Hail, Mary, blessed art thou among women..." and begin to tell her that she was going to give birth to a child without knowing any man, being a virgin, she accepted the Angel's Word. And she begin to testify and tell people that she was going to have a baby without knowing a man before there was any natural evidence at all. She just
believed it. And she acted upon what she believed. Now, that's what you have to do to get well.
Now, when... There was no one could tell me what to do by a gift when I was at Mayo Brother's at Rochester, when they looked at me, the best doctors in the world, and said, "You haven't even got any kind of a chance." See? But one Scripture, that's Hebrews 3:1... I seen that. That He is the High Priest of our confession. He's setting at the right hand of the Father to make good anything that we confess that He has done. But He cannot do nothing for us until first we confess that He has done it, and act upon it. See? When you... "Whatsoever things you desire..." Jesus speaking, "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it." That's the order. See? You believe now that you receive it and it shall be given unto you. That's...?... For He's the High Priest to make intercessions for your confessions. And He cannot heal you until first you confess He has. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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...?... can He save you. No matter how much you cry... You can come to the altar, and cry, and pull your hair, and scream, and say, "God, God, have mercy." I believe in old fashion repentance. But you could stay there and repent until year after year, and you'd never be saved until you believe in your heart that He has saved you, and raised up, and confess it. If you confess Me before men, I'll confess you before My Father and the holy Angels. Is that true? Now, see, you cannot be saved only by faith and your confession. Is that right? Now, He will make good anything that He died for. In here did He say, "Did He die for my healing?" I'll accept God. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. He...
Eighty percent of His ministry was Divine healing. Eighty percent of His ministry was on the miraculous side, showing the people that the supernatural God was working in human flesh. And my brother, sister, may I say this with reverence. That's exactly what He's doing in this tent now, trying to get to the people. But if He was standing here tonight, dressed in these clothes, He could not do any more for you than what He's doing here night after night. Is that right? For He could not... He could tell you what--who you were, what you've done, what was wrong with you. But He could not heal you until you believed it. And when you would believe it, the Father would reveal it to Him, and He'd tell you, "Go your way; your sins are forgiven," and so forth. Is that the way He acted in His ministry?
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And listen to His own sacred Words coming from His sacred lips. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself; but what He sees the Father doing." It's the Father makes known to the Son, and the Son speaks what the Father says. Well then, if He was standing here, and you'd accept God as your Healer, and you'd be healed, then the--the Son would reveal it to you, your sins are gone. Your healing is right. Now, isn't that just exactly what the Son of God is still doing, working through mankind His instrument? Oh, audience, how I wished I could have the words that I could just get this to you. But that would...?... draw people, do anything in the world for you. And yet I know exactly what you need, and know what you want, and how can I get it to you? See?
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And if I could (Oh, my.), I would stand here, if they'd light... If I had some little capsules that I could give every one, and they'd all be healed. And I know if to work, get those capsules, that I would have to take one of them with my nose and start pushing from here to Columbus, Ohio, down the road, going down through the street, pushing with my nose; knowing that that would heal you people when I got Columbus, and if I had no nose left, I would start tonight. That's right. Now, God knows whether I'm telling the truth or not. I would start down the street, pushing that thing with my nose, to know that this group of people could be healed. I... You know I want my Father glorified. And how I want Him to be magnified. I want all the world to look to Him. And if they would just look to Him... Now, He is more willing to heal every person in the tent tonight, than you are willing to be healed. Think of that.
"Now, how do we get healed then, Brother Branham?" The first thing, you cannot be healed... You're just making yourself... If I...?... until in your heart you believe that you're healed. 'Cause now, remember, you can't play with Satan. He knows whether you believe or not. Don't you try just to make out. You really believe. And now, think, friends, that you would get down to business with God, He'd come to business with you. Oh, how I we've got to get...?... Look, then by faith now you look. He's the High Priest of your confession. You are healed just by the same merits that you're saved by. You're saved by the merits of Christ. Is that right? Now, not trust your own merits; there's nothing you can do to be saved, only believe on Him. I couldn't go to heaven in my righteousness. Neither could you go there in your righteousness. God wouldn't receive it. But He will receive the righteousness of His Son. And if we believe on Him as the Scripture says, believe that He is, and will confess Him, He will work
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If a sinner came and got--went out tonight, and said, "Well, I got saved."...?... what they... You look just like you always did. You're the same person. Well, if you say, "Well, maybe I didn't get it. Maybe I just thought I did." You'll go right straight back to your sinning, and like a hog to its wallow and a dog to its vomit. That's right. But as long as you're willing to... Could you imagine taking a hog from its wallow... You could take a hog out here, and bring this hog in, and scrub it up with sal-soda, or whatever you wanted to, do that painting on her toe nails, like women do on their fingers, and fixed up with--with--with clothes on, and put it on a hardwood floor, and give it grape-nuts for breakfast, and that hog would die. You take him and turn him loose, although scoured up, he would go just as straight to the wallow and wallow again as he could get to it. [Tape repeats--Ed.] Why? Why? The nature of a hog...?... hog nature in there... But you put a lamb out there, in that wallow, he'll bleat and cry until somebody gets him out of there. Now if you want to keep a hog out of the wallow, it'd change the nature of the hog. That's the way to keep the sinner out of the things of the world, change the nature from a sinner to a Christian. And that can only be done through that great powerful work. I've seen prostitutes changed. [Double recording.
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Sometimes... This is the first tent we ever had. In a big auditorium used to have a room for the maniacs. I'll tell you a little story...?... I walked into a room not long ago, there's about fifteen insane cases laying there, crying, beating their heads and screaming and everything...?... go in there. And as we shut the door, I looked, and there set a fine looking young lady setting there. Looked like it'd be an idol for any man. I said, "Howdy do?" And she said, "Howdy do Brother Branham?" I looked down. I said, "Which, where's your patient?" She said, "I'm a patient." "A patient?" I looked at her. I couldn't detect anything just right, so I thought I'd set down and talked to her. She said, "Are you kind of startled?" I said, "Yes, ma'am...?... with these people here." She said, "Well, Brother Branham, I want to give you my story." I said, "All right."
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She--she begin to talk. She said, "When I was a little
child...?..." Said, "But I got out with a bunch of girls one time and smoked. They got me to smoking, and they got me drinking. Went out with a bunch of boys. I become a professional drunk. I've been so drunk." And said, "When I begin to drink, smoke, and I begin to be a prostitute on the street," selling the morals of her life. And she said, "They taken me up and put me in the Good Shepherd's Home." And said, "When I heard the sermon in there..." And said, "Of course, while I was in there I had to do right." Said, "When I got out, I went right straight back to it again." And said, "Then the law picked me up and give me a two years in a woman's prison." And said, "Then I come out again." And said, "They advised me to... Some people said I ought to go to church, a different church, the Protestant people: and told me to come to this Protestant church." And--and said, "I did. And I went and joined the Protestant church." And she called the name of the church. And she said, "I'd go right back out and have the same desires that I ever had." And she said, "I've tried. I've prayed. I've cried, Brother Branham." She said, "I've done everything that I know how, and tried everything that anybody ever told me." But she said, "I just can't keep from doing it."
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I said, "Look, sister," and I begin to feel what was wrong. I said, "You don't want to do that. As--as pretty a woman as you are, you expect someday to be married and have a husband and babies like all real women do." She said, "Yes, sir." I said, "You couldn't be like that. You know you'd be miserable to yourself, a disgrace to your children, and, oh, I... What all you would be." And she said, "That's right." I said, "You don't want to do that, do you, sister?" She said, "No, sir." I said, "There's something that makes you do that, isn't there?" She said, "Yes, sir." And I said, "Oh, as old fashion as it may seem, it's the devil on you, sister." I said, "Now, your doctor might not want to believe that, and so forth. But it's a devil that makes you... It forces you to do that against your will." She said, "That is right." She said, "I always thought that was right."
I said, "Now, look, if you will believe in the Lord, and will pray, God..." She said, "I've done that, brother." I said, "I'm not talking about what you have done. I mean now. And you just do as I tell you to do, and you'll be free from that." She said, "Well, can you free me?" I said, "No, ma'am. Only Jesus Christ can free you."
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She said, "Well, I've already come to Him to give my life..." I said, "Sister, just a moment. Will you... You just do as I tell you. Will you?" She said... I said, "Let us pray now." And we got down and prayed. And she was crying. And she raised up a few minutes. She said, "But, Brother Branham, I'm--I--I--I'm going to go out tonight." And she said, "I--I'm going to try my best." I said, "No. You'll go right straight back again." (See?) I said, "It's not over." She said, "But I have con... I've done all that I knowed how to do." I said, "But it's not yet, sister. It's got to be something to pull that nature from you and change you." And she said--she said, "Well, I prayed. I've cried." She begin to cry and started out.
So I got down to praying with her, asked God to make that demon turn her loose. And while I did that, and laid hands upon her, laid quiet there with her head down like this for a few moments. Directly she turned around, and she looked at me, and great big velvet eyes. She said, "Brother Branham, it's something's happened to me." I said, "Now, it's over." That's right. "Now, it's over." She said, "I just feel... Well, I don't know." I said, "There isn't enough devils in the world could upset you right now, if you'll just go on like you're going now." That's been a little over a year ago. The woman is married tonight with a lovely home, never drink from that time, or had no desire to drink, or to smoke or anything. What was it? There was no medicine she took. But by the supernatural divine power of the transformation of her soul through the power of Jesus Christ took her and took away all the desire and iniquity. And if she would die tonight, her soul is quiet as anybody else. That's right. Well, she comes out in her marriage to live and married to the Lord Jesus, Who redeemed her. And the God...
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Listen. She was a character, on the police courts and...?... records and everything, gun moll. Now, notice. But tonight, she's a lovely woman, to be a mother, settled down to a good God-saved Christian. What a difference. What did that? Where everything, where the law failed, where'd the houses of the correction fail? Where'd medical science fail? The Blood of Jesus Christ took up and can't fail. Why? By faith. Why, the power of God that would change a prostitute to a saint, a drunkard to a--a righteous woman... Why that, by the same power will take any cancer, deaf, dumb, blind, crippled... For the same Blood, from the same Man, on the same day, atoned for your healing that atones for your salvation. Is that the truth? He was wounded for your transgressions; with His stripes you're healed. The
Blood run exactly off of the same Man at the same day. Is that right? How did that... How do you get it? Not because you think, but because you--something strikes you that you know you got it.
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Looky here, friends. Let me give this illustration. I might've done it before. What color is that shirt? It's white. Anyone that's got sight knows that shirt's white. You have five senses of the body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. Now, none of those senses will declare God. When God made man, He made him in His image instead of man's. And He put him in five senses to contact his earthly home, not to contact God with. Those senses don't declare God. They declare the earthly home, where the man had to contact his earthly home. He had to see, taste, feel, smell, hear. But faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You do not see it, taste it, feel it, smell it, or hear it; but you believe it. See what I mean? Now, if every person in here... If this boy setting here, little lady setting here, little--the young lady setting here... I'm talking to cripples, of course, and here and there, and the people that's got diseases, if you believe, if you'd pray right now, until you was so sure that you were healed, just as sure as you say that's white, it's over. I'll assure you, if you'll get that type of faith, God Almighty will speak through me and tell you you're healed, will reveal it. See friends?
Therefore (You see?), I'm throwing it away from myself. It's not me. I'm just a... If only I couldn't breathe... You couldn't breathe without God, could you? Let your spirit leave you, you're gone. Is that right? God holds your life in His hands. Is that true? You can't make yourself live. You live by God. Just the same as I can't say nothing till God says something. I have no control of it. He says it. When He says it, then it's true. That is true. God confirms it with signs and wonders. Have faith. Place your faith in Christ. Now, it doesn't matter if I would call Reverend Markham, or one of these ministers here up to the platform to pray for you, if you... It's just according to your faith, be it unto you.
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That minister has just as much right to pray, or any of the other ministers, or not only a minister, but any Christian who's a believer, to pray with faith, prayer of faith... Anybody who believes in praying for the sick, believes in Divine healing anybody: woman, man, boy, girl. I've seen my little girl, that's only three years old prayed for a crippled child, and it was healed. That's right. For her little heart begin to beat; she said, "Daddy, look at that, the little girl."
I said, "Pray for her, honey." And a week or two from that, the child was well, the child. God hears anybody's cry that'll believe. And the reason you ask others to believe, because you're binding your faith together to move away that power of the--of doubt. The first sin that was ever committed was doubting God's Word. Is that right? God said, "The day ye eat thereof, that day you die." Satan said, "Surely you'll not die." And he got Eve to doubt God's Word and go to seeking knowledge. Is that right?
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Today, the whole world... I have nothing against education. But the world they got a educational program. And they got it down into the church. And from the platforms, a minister has to be a certain degree or something, or he has to have so many degrees or he can't--or he can't--he ain't welcome in the platform. You let me get some of these aristocratic churches that use my Kentucky words: "hain't," "tis," and "carry," and "fetch," and... They'd kick me out. Well look, brother, the Kingdom of God don't come by education (That's right.), it comes by a surrendered heart to God. And I'm not trying to support my ignorance. But I'm saying this, my dear friends, that a simple child faith... Don't seek for knowledge. Now, you're think that I'm a...?... or throwing it at the doctors. I believe in doctors. I believe in hospitals, institutions. Whatever can help anybody, God, send more. But there's not a one of them that ever did heal anybody. And they don't confess--profess to heal somebody. They claim to assist nature. God is the Healer.
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If I cut a place in my hand, as I told you a few nights ago, all the medicine in the world wouldn't heal that hand. If I die and they'd embalm me, and sew that hand up and put all kinds of medicines on it, fifty years from today it would still be there. Medicine doesn't heal. You take the life out of there, there's no healing. Life is the Healer. And Life is God. Jesus came that you might have abundance of Life, more Life than what your normal life is, to believe on Him to be healed by faith. Now, I'm not excited. But I know what I'm speaking of. This... The right mental attitude towards any promise of God will bring it to pass. There it is. Say, "What are you talking about gifts for?" Gifts are to edify. They're additions. Here is the first and only foundation for Divine healing or anything from God, is the Bible. If you get off of that, you're out of God's will.
And Divine healing isn't a hocus-pocus affair. It isn't saying a few mystery words over somebody and hypnotizing. It's the truth
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revealed through Jesus Christ is Divine healing. That's right. Gifts of the Spirit are brought down to edify. Or other words, it's the flag a flying over top of the building. It's the appearance of the outside to attract the people in out of the rain. See what I mean? Now, gifts come from God. If they are from God, they'll testify of God. And God will testify of them. Is that true? If you are sick, pray until you believe with all your heart... Did you ever just pray for something you just knowed you was going to get it? That's faith. See?
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Now, if you believe that with all your heart, accept it and act on it. Now, you can believe it just as much as you wanted to; if you didn't act on it, you'll set right there like a sinner would...?... the altar. If you got down there and prayed, and prayed. You said, "Lord, I know You saved me. But that--that's just a... I know You said..." He'll never get through until he rises, and confesses it, and stays with it, and shows works with it. James says, "Just as a body is dead without the spirit, so is faith without works is dead," no matter how much you believe. And that's why I'm telling you, friends, these gifts are brought in to make the Presence of God real to you. (I guess I'm nearly deafening talking.) The--the gifts are brought to make the Presence of God real to you. Then your faith looks up to God and accepts Divine healing, or salvation, or whatever you have need of from God. It isn't only do one thing or another. Anything that you have need of in this earth's journey, God will supply it if you have need of it. He promises to supply your needs, not your wants, your needs. And He's God. And He can only get it to you as you believe Him. And gifts are to make you feel that He's here. And His attitude towards one is towards all. Amen.
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Oh, my. Friends, I--I... You may think that I'm a awful peculiar sort of a person. But I wished I could just take the faith that's in my heart and spread it out to you right now. You see what I mean? There'll be a spontaneous something happen here that every person in the building... You say, "Well now, Brother Branham, I don't know whether I can move my hand or not." You'll never move it as long as you think that. Believe that He's done it, and go say He's done it, and act like He's done it. Move it an inch. If you can't move it, let's take it all, move it a little bit farther. The next day I'll move it a little farther. The next day I'll move it a little farther. Satan said, "That's far as you can go." Say, "Oh, no, I'm going on." Keep on with it. Stay with it. Great faith will bring you right now. A little faith will bring you on anyhow if you'll stay with it. Just when you see the ray of light, follow it. Stay with it; it'll bring you out. Oh, my.
Now, Jesus could identify Himself. He identified not Himself but His Father: "... the Father that doeth the works." Now, when Philip come, He showed Philip, Nathanael, the people where the mules were tied, where the money was in the fish's mouth. Is that right? Now, He said, "These things that I do, greater than this shall you do. You do the things that I do, and still more of them, for I'm going to the Father. But I'll come again and be with you, even in you."
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If the spirit of an artist was in us, we could paint a picture like an artist. If the spirit of a gangster was in us, we'd have guns. If the Spirit of Christ was in us, we'll quit our meanness, do like Christ; we'll act like Him. And then if that Spirit's in there, we'll have... The things that Christ had, we'll have also. See what I mean? But you can't make yourself. You've got to believe. That's where I think you're--you're doing, friends. Listen to me. There's where the mistake's at. You try... You try to work yourself up in it here. Instead of doing that, just set down with childlike faith, and God will lift you up...?... "He promised it to me. Give me faith to believe it right now. And when He drops that faith, he moves out; accept it, Father." Stand right up, and that's over. Just as simple as that is, friends. You have to be careful, and be reverent, and believe God with all your heart. Now, these gifts, signs, wonders brings God's Presence to you. Now, you believe tonight with all your hearts. God surely will...?... friends. Believe it?
Let's bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, O Jesus, I have talked long. I--I wanted the people to see You, Lord, how You have died to bring us faith, to redeem us...?... Grant to us tonight, Father, Thy blessings. Heal Thy people tonight. Many are setting here, and some of them without faith. Some of them have faith, and afraid to work with it, Lord. Let their faith be turned loose tonight. And as we go home, may we go home rejoicing, happy, being healed, through Jesus the Son of God I ask for it. Amen. Just a moment now. While they're fixing to call the prayer line, a little fellow down in Houston, Texas, recently passed through this platform. He was... We'd had a line, just coming through like we did last night, and saying, "God bless you," and had a little prayer. He passed through, and he--he was jerking, like this. And he passed through. And there'd been a woman in a slow line, down there, that had been healed with a goiter. And she had an umbrella, walking up and down the streets, screaming, and going on.
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Little fellow passed by. I said, "God bless you, my brother, you believe?" He said, "With all my heart." I said, "Go home now, and let... Your faith will make you whole," passed on by, like that. Here he come back in the line. He said, "Brother Branham, you--you--you told me I was healed. And I'm still jerking." I said, "Brother, you told me you believed me." And he said, "I do." I said, "You're not acting like it." I said, "You're to believe what I told you." He said, "Well, I do believe it." I said, "Well, why are you coming back telling me you wasn't healed? See how easy it is?" He said, "Well, Brother Branham," said, "am I healed then?" I said, "Yes, sir. Just as you believe you are? Did you believe He heard my prayer? He told me if I'd be sincere when I prayed, get the people to believe me, that nothing would stand before the prayer. You believe that?" Said, "Yes, sir. I believe it with all my heart." I said, "Go on." He said, "Okay." He started away. A few minutes, here he come back through the line. Said, "I haven't stopped yet, Brother Branham." And I said, "Well now, look. I'm not talking about when you stop now. You might not stop for a week, or ten days, or three months, or four months, or two years." I said, "Abraham waited twenty-five years on his." See? Is that right? And Scripturally you know it. I said, "You believe what I told you." He said, "Well, I don't get it, Brother Branham." I said, "Brother, the Angel of God, Who is declaring that I told the truth, told me this. If I could get the people to believe me, and be sincere when I pray..." "Oh, I see it. I see what you mean." Said, "I--I--I'm already got the healing, I'm just waiting for it to stop." I said, "That's right." Said, "All right." Said, "I'm healed." And went on, you know, and kept saying, "Praise the Lord, he was healed."
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About a month after that, or two, maybe about, I'd say, six weeks to be safely, I was in another meeting. And come out of a broadcast, out of the studio, which was in the auditorium, and I just walked out there, and a phone... The usher standing there, said, "You're--you're wanted on the phone. It's from your own home, from Indiana." Well, it happened to be in Indianapolis was there, instead of Jeffersonville. And a lady said, "Are--are you the Divine healer?"
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I said, "No, ma'am." I said, "I'm Brother Branham." She said, "Well, look, I had a..." Said, "I'm from Indianapolis here, Indiana." And said, "I had a--a son that goes down and stay with my sister each year down in Houston for his vacation." Said, "He's had the palsy." Said, "He dropped when he was a baby on his back, kind of injured him. He's had the palsy," said, "for years." And said, "He come home here a few weeks ago, saying some Divine healer healed him." And said, "He's just been going around here hollering, 'Praise the Lord, he's healed,' and everything else like that." Said, "He's had the whole neighborhood tore up." And said, "Why, there was no difference in the boy." And said, "He..." Said, "We told him," said, "now, we're Christian people." He said, "But, mother, I--I saw blind people see, and--and deaf people hear, seen cripples walk away." And said, "Passed through the line and he told me to believe that I was healed." And he said, 'He said the Angel told him that.' And what the Angel told him on the other things is right, and that's right. And I'm healed. And nobody's going to make me say any different. I'm going to stand right with it." He just kept on.
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And she said, "He did that for several weeks." And said, "He would come down and set down in a chair, and say, 'Well, thank God for healing me,' just shaking as hard as he could." And said, "The people... Why, he's got a reproach." Said, "The neighbors would laugh at him." And said, "They'd all go to saying, 'Well, I guess he's healed. There he goes. Look at him shaking. Now, isn't that a shame that somebody'd deceive somebody like that?' Like that. Said, 'Isn't that a shame,' the neighbors would say. 'Well, that fellow ought to be arrested, ought to be run out of the country,' and like that, 'for telling that boy that.'"
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If I wasn't telling the truth, I should be. That's right. But it's the truth. So it went on. And she said, "He..." When he come back the second time (I forgot to tell you.), he said, "Brother Branham, if you'll heal me, I'll give you a hundred dollars right now." And I said, "Brother, if you offered me a million, I couldn't heal you." And then he said, "What about that woman with the goiter?" And I said, "Her faith in Christ what healed her, brother." And so she said, "Well now, he was doing that." He said, "Last Saturday... Last Friday evening, afternoon (I guess) he came in." And said, "But one of our--our friends from out in the country was visiting us, and he come in, shaking, set down in the chair and said, 'Praise the Lord for healing me.'" And said, "My relative from the country, said, 'What's the matter with him?'" "Oh," said, "he got down there, and some preacher got him all
worked up and told him he was healed." And said, "He's been carrying on there like that ever since." Said, "'Fore he got..." He said, "Well, I--I am healed." Said, "I..." "Oh," she said... Got to laughing at him, you know. And then so the mother got to laughing at him just to make him stop saying that, you know. Said, "It was bringing a reproach." It'll never bring a reproach on testifying for what Christ died for at Calvary. No, sir. He healed every person when He died at Calvary. He did. That's right. You have to accept it.
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Then when this... Well, she said, "He set down in the chair. And he was shaking, like that, and kept on shaking." Said, "He got to crying." And said, "We got to laughing at him." And said, "All of a sudden he jumped to his feet just as still as he could be." Said, "Now, I am healed." That's right. God had visited him. She said, "Reverend Branham," said, "we made him set down in a chair and set there for hours to be sure," said, "he never shook a bit." And said, "We took him down to our church, a very noted Baptist church." It's broadcast right through here. Said, "We took him down to the church, and the pastor looked over him, and said, 'There's no...?... It's true.'" Said, "Then we took him to the medical doctors Saturday. And they examined him, said, 'There's nothing wrong.'" Said, "Now, this is Sunday and he's still...?..." "Why, I told you I was healed."...?... She said, "Now, he promised you a hundred dollars, and I want to know where to send it." And I said, "Oh, sister..." I said, "If he's a rich man. He's got so much money he don't know what to do with it. Tell him to go down the street, and the first little ragged kid he sees, go in and buy him a lot of clothes and give it to him something." And I said, "And give God praise," (That's right.) I said, "for his healing."
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Now, what it was... What if he'd have failed when they begin to laugh at him? You stay right with it... If you believe it, stay right there and don't you fail to stay. Stay right there and God will make it right. All right. Now, remember, I promised you that tomorrow night, going to try as hard as I can. We're going to have a prayer line in a few moments. We'll line the people up here, all the sick peoples there that's got their prayer cards: going to pray for them just as long as I can. And if any of you would think that God has already healed you out here in the audience, think that you're healed you, you're... Maybe you want me to ask Him to show you, would you just raise your hand, and say, "I... you want..."
Let's have just a little line from right here. Here's the sick people. It's right in here, isn't it? Right in this line of people? All right. Will one of the...
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Well, let's just--just come around through the audience. Will you believe now and pray with us? Let us bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, You know my heart, and You know what I have need of. And Thou knowest that I'm not here to make a show. I'm only here to try to claim the promises that Christ has given to the people, and trying to exalt Christ to them, that they might believe on Him and be healed. Now, You'll bear me record, Father, that I have told the truth, that's in Your Word, and in the testimonies and so forth, that You're here. And I know that You're going to heal the people. And please, heavenly Father, help them to believe on Him, and to be healed tonight. Grant it, dear Father. And now to... If there be strangers in our gate, and they might be here sick, and maybe for the last time, and this is why I ask this, Father... If You'll just show me something with somebody out there, something that's wrong, and will heal that person... Just as Moses put his hand in his bosom and returned it out again... Will You do that for us tonight, Father? I'm waiting on You, going forward now, by faith, believe that You're going to do this for us in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen.
Now, if the piano will, slowly, "Abide With Me." Just love that song: "Abide With Me." That's what I want God to do. Now, dear people, you know I don't know you. I don't know one thing about you. And the only way that I ever have of knowing, would have to be through God. You know that. I'm trying to be sincere to you for I know someday I've got to stand with you before Christ. And what good would it do me to come before Christ if my heart wasn't right with you. You'd laugh even if you'd be there and be laughing, rejoicing, having a wonderful time; and I'd be a castaway. And I'm here struggling with all my heart. I'm tired, and weak, weary, trying to help you. Now, you believe me with all your heart. And maybe the Lord Jesus will... If I could just get one person in-around this--around the group, somewhere that... Now, you're all believing. There's a group of people... I hope that someday you'll understand what this--what we--what this feeling, the way it is now. Just seems like this--like that there was a ten thousand needles sticking in you, drawing your life, drawing, like that.
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Now, just be as reverent as you can. I--I see somebody just as far back this a way as I can get. I'm not sure just where it's at.
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But in that distance if I--if I am wrong, God forgive me. And being weak and tired...?... But I--I think the lady is setting by the side of the man with the checkered shirt on there. I think it's her... Aren't you real nervous, sister, some kind of a nerve condition? If that's right, raise up your hand. That's right. That's up to... Something with the lady just behind you, but I can't tell what it is. And here's this other lady here is calling so hard for this. You--you're nervous, aren't you, sister? Now, just go home. You're going to be well. Do you believe me? All right, don't never say you're nervous any more. Go on home and just rejoice, and have a good time, and raise your family. God bless you, dear.
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Now, now, I'm not sure. I'm awfully weak, friends. But I believe this lady setting here with this blue dress on, setting right here... Isn't there something wrong with you, right here on the end of this seat? Isn't that... Now, I can't make this part exactly, but I... Isn't there something wrong in the bowel system, colon trouble? Is that right, sister? If it is, raise your hand up. All right. Do you believe me now? All right. Don't never think about that no more. Go on home. Eat what you want to, and be blessed. I believe the lady lost... Somebody lost a goiter, just then. I believe it's that third lady setting there. Did you have a goiter, sister? Is that right? Well, it left you. God bless you, right there with your hand up there like... That's right. All right. The blessing of God is on you, sister. I felt it ringing.
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Now, let's move somewhere else. Let's get over... Everybody just as reverent as you can be... The lady setting right here, you have a prayer card in your hand. You got a prayer card for the line? Maybe I oughtn't to call her. Say, some of you maybe be in the line... Is your number way back? How far back is your number? I don't know where they'll call from. You've had some trouble, haven't you? I can't tell just what it is. But I believe it... Haven't--haven't you had an operation? Have you had an operation? I see you in a surgery room. (Now, friends, I wish you could see what I'm looking at now.) Yes, it was a cancer operation. It's come back on you too, hasn't it? All right. Do you believe me now with all your heart? Jesus Christ heals you. Go home and believe with all...
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The lady setting there with that sling on your arm. It just be something wrong with your arm. Let's see just a moment now. Now, have faith, sister. I'm trying to get to the diseased people. Anybody sees the crippled people, they can see what's wrong with them. But this is something of a mystery.
Now, look this way, lady. She's got her arm in a sling. Oh, no. That's cancer too. Isn't that right? And say, haven't you been prayed for? Didn't somebody pray for you? You're kind of wondering about whether it was all right or not, didn't you? All right. You go ahead now and believe that with all your heart, and you'll be well. Just believe with...
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That little girl, standing right behind there. That mother, her little girl with them, setting there by the lady. Look this way, honey. Seems like there was something wrong with you, kind of a black looking something hanging over the little girl. Just a moment. Look up here, sweetheart, the little girl. Let me see you. Oh, yes. All right. The little girl has a... I'm not sure now; it's either her bladder or her kidneys, one. It's a kidney trouble, I'm pretty sure, right in... Is that right, sister? A kidney trouble? Stand up, sweetheart. Let's see where that... There it is. Yes. All right. That kidney trouble's going to leave you, sweetheart. You're going to be a well girl. Do you love Jesus? If you love Jesus, raise up your little hand, like that. That's right. Oh, that's fine. Amen. Just have faith. Believe with all your heart. It seem like... Now, I'm... I believe this lady that's jerked, right over the second from her there. Did you have a goiter, sister? Was a growth there, a goiter in this lady setting right there, right along there? It seem like somebody in there had a goiter, somewhere, that left. There's where it was at. I couldn't make out... All right, sister, swallow in your throat. All right, it's gone. There now, you're healed. God bless. I could tell the goiter left. But I couldn't tell just where it was.
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Oh, isn't He the Lord Jesus? Now, look, friends... Feel all right now, don't you, mother. She's just... There it is. You just say, "Praise the Lord." Now, friends, look. Believe now with all your heart. There's a lady setting right there trying her best to catch ahold. I can't see what's wrong with you, sister, you with that red dress on there, with that red coat laying across here. You--you were trying to contact me, wasn't you, sister? Trying... There's something with you, isn't there something wrong? You're... I can't... Yes, I believe... I'm not too sure. It's a nerve condition, 'cause there's a, I believe a convulsions. Isn't that right, convulsions? If that's right, wave your hand. All right, God bless you. You believe me as God's servant, as His prophet? How would I know what was wrong with you outside of God telling me? Now, you were trying to find me here, and your vibration's been picked up. Now, you go home and forget about that, and just say, "I haven't got no more convulsions," and you'll never have no more. And go on and you'll be well. You believe that? You love... Will you serve God all your life? God bless you.
Let's bow our heads now just a moment. Our heavenly Father, I want to thank You just now. Seemingly, Lord, if I could just talk to the people a moment, they seem to have an inspired look upon their face. And some of them are reaching out and catching by faith... Thank You with all my heart for Your goodness and kindness. Thank You for all that You've healed through these past two weeks: the lame, blind, the paralyzed, people that had TB is already pronounced well by their doctors; tumors has disappeared, can't even find them nowhere. Great hideous cancers binding people has left; doctors can't find no trace of them. They're gone, because faith in Christ has taken them away. Bless these people, Father. Tonight as we start the prayer line, may many hundreds be healed tonight. Grant it, Lord, that Your Name might be glorified, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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All right, just a moment. Oh, my. Looks like everybody is getting healed. How glorious. How marvelous. What a faith. Friends, believe my words. You're just afraid to let loose yourselves. You're afraid to trust God with it. Don't be afraid, what more could He do? He couldn't do no more. And here's one thing. I never... I want to leave this--this tonight, that your pastor... You don't have to run around across the country to people to be prayed for. Your pastor has the right to pray for you. Now, I'm going to ask the pastors in this church that's cooperating in here, if they will come here and let the people pass through them first before I come down here. I want to examine some of the cases that comes through. (All right.), of the... anything that's wrong with the people. Will you pastors come here just a moment? God bless you. I want you to line up a dual line, right down along this platform here. Or here, come right up here and I'll stand at the bottom of the steps. Now, I want you congregation here, I want you to believe. And do you believe me?
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That soreness is a leaving that place right now, of where it was at, where that cancer was operated. Isn't that right, lady? Now, you go on. Here's another thing, sister. You are... You've desired a closer walk with God, haven't you, to get closer to Him? Now, you go ahead and do that. See? You wanted to. You've been praying for a closer walk. Isn't that right? Then you prayed for a closer walk. Now, just while they're lining up, I have something to tell you. I could see It's moving over you a few moments ago, and I didn't get to tell you. You prayed just hard that you could get to come tonight to see
me. Is that right? And prayed that God would do something for you here. You made God a promise too, haven't you, that you'd serve Him the rest of your life with all your heart if He'd let you get well. He's done it now. Now, you go on and--and serve Him with all your heart, and have faith in God.
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I'm glad for this group of ministers standing here with their bowed heads to believe that Jesus Christ is going to heal the people. I don't know where brother will call the line. I'm going to leave it to him. I'm going to walk down here at the end. And let the people come through this line, every one, and let them be prayed for by these ministers first. I want to check their--down here at the end of the row to see what's happened to the people when they come off. Now, that brother's tell me they believe. I believe. They believe. If they do, and you believe, then you start praising God. And when you get--get down to here... If you're crippled, you'll be walking. If you're blind, you'll be seeing. If you're--if you're deaf, you'll be hearing. That's right. And when you get down here... And if you've got sickness, it'll be gone from you. Then when I leave, then you'll realize that your pastor has the right to pray for the sick. They're good, God-saved, Holy Ghost filled men. That's right. And I'd certainly put my endorsement upon them to pray for the sick.
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All right. While I pray just a moment... Heavenly Father, You know the weakness of my body. You know what I'm trying to do. And I know there's people here that wants to be healed. And O eternal God, help me now tonight. As I've lined Your children up here on this platform, Your believing servants, each of them with a bowed head that's waved holy hands in the air over the sinners, telling them to believe on the Lord Jesus and be saved. They've taught healing. They believed in it. And now, the confirmation of their teaching has come to pass. And now, Father, reward them before the people who they stood gallant for. I have them standing here tonight, and standing here as representatives of Divine healing and the cross of Christ. And now, Father, when they lay their hands upon them people, may every unclean spirit leave the people. May the blind demons come out of the blind. May the deaf hear and may the dumb speak. May the lame walk. May cancers vanish, tuberculosis, all kinds of diseases leave. And may this be one of the most marvelous nights that'll inspire their hearts, and will set an old fashion revival to go in here that'll never cease. May it never cease until Jesus comes. Grant it, Lord. And I'll be standing here at the end of the row, Lord. And grant that every person come off of the platform will be praising God for their
healing. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen.
All right. Every one that's got a prayer card, line them any way you want to. [A brother calls the prayer line--Ed.] Let everyone be in prayer everywhere else. As soon as these are out, we'll bring in another group and let everybody that desires... Now, if you've got something wrong with you that you don't know what it is, and you want to find it out... If you've got something that's holding you back in your life, don't come in this line. Wait and come in tomorrow night or the next night for that discerning Spirit to pick up what's wrong with you. See? But if you've got faith to believe, come in here tonight. Come right on in and be healed. Everyone, as soon as these are over, let the rest of them... Everybody pray, everywhere. Christians, this is your duty to pray. You're soldiers.
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Thank you, Brother Lindsay. Good evening, friends. Brother Lindsay was just telling me, he had to slip out just a little bit early, and so we were just kinda talking it over...?... how it is. That's what was the... we were speaking of. I'm very happy to be here again tonight, and want to thank all of you for your time, and--and your fine things that you've done for us since we've been here. And today I had the privilege of setting with your pastors and their wives. Such a lovely hour of fellowship we had. The Presence of the Lord was there. I shall long remember it, of the fine cooperation among all of the ministers together, how lovely they all were, and how nice they--they--they were to me. And how nice all of you have been to me. There's so many things that you've done, I just can't mention them from the platform here. But I'm sure that every one of you knows what it is. And I'm very thankful from the depths of my heart for what you've done.
Even one brother was so kind awhile ago. He had a rifle he wanted to show me. He run out there and had it in the car, and said, "Just take your hand and put it on this...?... "But that's very nice.
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God bless him, and there's another...?... One brother came and taken me up in a big tower, up here today, two of them, up here where you look all over the city. And just little kind things... Last night when I went home, there was two cakes setting there and a great big cherry pie. And am I full of cherry pie...?... It was so good. I sure appreciate it. And I... Everybody's kind. I tell you about Cleveland people, I found this: they do more acting than they do talking. So that's--that's best. Action always speaks louder than words, definitely. That's right. A young man said to his--to his girlfriend. He kept telling her how much he loved her, and he--and he wasn't just exactly true as he should be. She said, "Why, honey, if you just act instead of talk..." So then... That's right. If you just act, instead of talk...
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Well, we're sure the Lord will be with us tonight to bless us, give us of His--His blessings, I trust. Now, I...?... He turned it off of them. Or either I turned it off, one. Somebody turned it off anyhow. Can we... Don't believe... Now, we're getting somewhere. That's just li--like that light: it isn't the--the lamp that makes the light, it's the--the electricity that's in the wire that makes the light. It heats the wire, and the wire gets hot and makes the light. But it isn't the great wire. It takes the--the current off of it, it's dead. And that's the way it is with us. And did you ever know, electricity... I've worked in it for years. But there's--there's no one in the world that knows what electricity is. Isn't that strange? No one knows what it is. They can harness it; they can make it light; they can cook with it; they can heat with it; they can light with it. But no one knows what it is. It's two pieces of material rolling together makes the continuity, and sends out the electricity. And that's the way it is. When those two pieces get to rolling together, that's what brings it off in the generator. And so that's the way, when a--a Christian gets to working with God, rolling together, that brings an unseen force that does mysteries that none of us knows nothing about. Only we know It's God. Isn't that right? Yes. Take that away from us and we're dead, aren't we?
So we're thankful tonight that God has blessed us, given us of His grace. And now, may He add His blessings to us as we worship together tonight. And I was getting awfully tired. Last evening they got me. Before I even knowed where I was at, I was outside. And I... There aren't... Many of the ministers was praying for the sick, which I hear they claim that a great results. I'm so happy for that.
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And always remember: when you get sick, call your pastor, or go to your church: go somewhere and let someone pray with you. And little prayer cloths is commemoration of Divine healing. Many of you believe in that, don't you? sending a handkerchief one to another?
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Now, I believe I made announcement before, and I will again tonight. I send those out by the thousands a week all over the world. And great testimonies of all kinds come in from everywhere. Some of the most outstanding testimonies, especially among the cripples and so forth, where they have to wait. And people who have children, they get them and keep them in the Bible. And every once in a while, you just hear of all kinds of things that's done. And now, I send those to anybody, anyplace in the world absolutely free. And if you wish one, just write me at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and I--I'll be glad to send it right to you. And I have some instructions now, that one of the secretaries at Jeffersonville, at the office sent me some last night, of the receipts, of how to believe healing in the Bible. I believe my brethren gave--sent out last night what I had here. There was a few left. He sent me about a dozen. I told him to give out to the sick people that's... And how to believe God on Bible grounds. And everything must be based on the Bible.
Now, if you wish one of these just to be in your home, just send after it, you're welcome. And just to... Put it on the... Acts the 19th chapter and leave it there. And when sickness or something in the home, why... I probably wasn't right for your picture. They told me you was going to take the picture, my brother. And he said it wasn't the reporters. So I--I'll be glad if you wish for another one. That's all right, brother. And so many times when Christians, or anything that can be done for--anything for the glory of God, all right. See? But I do not like the work of God criticized. That's right. All right, brother...?... And so I--I like for it... everything in God's Kingdom to run just as smoothly as...?... run.
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Now, just write me, William Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana, and I'll be glad to send you one. That's... Or what you need for some of your loved ones, to send them out. Now, when you find it, to have a little piece of paper that's been fixed up by, a little mimeographed sheet on what to do. But now the ribbon, I prayed over it myself, each one. Thousands upon thousands... Each time I go home, I just get great bolts, hundreds of yards of
ribbon, take off to myself in the woods or somewhere, and set there and pray, and pray, and cut the ribbon, pray and pray for them. And I believe one thing that God will respect, is sincerity. If you be real sincere. That's what the Angel told me in praying said, "If you'll be sincere and will get the people to believe you, nothing shall stand before your prayer."
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Something happened awhile ago, and I... It was an attempt of something, that I have never, in all the days of my ministry, ever did this. I... They asked me last evening of some business man of the city, which is a brother in Christ. And for the benefit of the Cleveland people, and all the people everywhere, for another day of service... The man has purchased the arena, or a big auditorium, somewhere here in the city, for a service. And he... They asked me last night, Brother Bowman, one of the associating pastors, that they would, or cooperating pastors, rather, if they would--if we'd have the service. And I told him I should pray and seek the Lord. The managers, I asked them, and they were all right. 'Course, whatever the Lord says to me. I was pretty tired, and yet I had to go. But what could anyone say to a group of people like this...?... coming. That's all. So Sunday afternoon, and Sunday night. They'll announce it, probably tomorrow. There'll be services in some auditorium here in the city or arena. And Sunday afternoon services will probably be a Gospel service, preaching, and Sunday night praying for the sick.
And I think we all ought to say for that brother who is sponsoring this, we ought to all say, "Thank God for our brother." [Congregation repeats--Ed.] "Thank God for our brother." Long may he and his live through ceaseless ages. For anyone that's got that much feeling for the sick people and the needs of the people of the city, God is sure to bless the business man like that. That's right. So it's greatly appreciated, I'm sure, by me and by the--all the people of this--of all the Christian people. Let's all gather out. Bring out the unsaved for Sunday afternoon. Maybe the Lord will give us a great altar call, and maybe a altar call, maybe make three, four, five hundred people [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] will believe God. And as I go home praying tomorrow night with all my heart... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] get saved for Sunday afternoon that it may bring in precious souls into His Kingdom. Then Sunday night, oh, my, I just trust that we'll have a glorious healing service Sunday night. I trust it'll be so. May God bless all of you, and ever keep you in His Divine will is my prayer.
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Now, for our Scripture reading, in... Just a testimony, and then
we shall start the... Tonight, we're going to take just a regular... Go right ahead with the prayer service as usual, the Lord providing. One of the brothers was just a little elated this morning. Have I got time to tell this? I don't... It was a... We were having breakfast together, such a fellowship. I raised up to talk... And it's just about like it is in here now, just about that close. We were talking concerning the meetings, going out to the streets. Reverend Mister Bowman had a hold of my arm. Been talking, "How did you see those things, just what nature is it when it takes place?"
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Well, while I was walking with him, all of a sudden, Something just came right down over me, and I realized I was in a different part of the city. I--I knew. I could hear Mister Bowman talking, but I--I knew I wasn't with him, I was somewhere else. And I looked, standing on the corner, there was a lady holding two little twins, or a little pair of twins. And they were, had their little hair braided in the back. She was holding them with her hands. Then I begin to get to myself, and I was still walking right with the ministers. Two or three of the ministers was walking along, and one of the minister's wives. And then we started for a little few steps farther. And just as I started to tell him about it, It came down on me again.
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I was, that time, walking right along the street, but I was riding in a car, just as natural as if I was in my room and transformed right here. See? And I seen three girls with some kind of a--a costumes on, like they were--been to a wedding or something, walking the streets this way. I didn't know just what it was, they were crossing this a way. And he said... Then, I came to myself. And I told the brethren what was going to happen. And when we got in the car and started out, we was supposed to go south on a one way street. And this minister, I suppose to have been raised here, he turned right vice versa, went right down on the opposite side of the street.
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And my, there was a big policeman mounted on a horse there, act like he was going to tear us apart. He was... Oh, my, he was just saying everything. And I wondered. And he held us up a few moments there. Just long enough for the three girls with the costumes to come walking by us. Said--said, "There's the reason, brother. Don't you see them there?" Oh, my. All of them said, "Praise the Lord," then. The cop said, "Go on," without--without giving us a ticket. See, it's just so happens, brothers. The infallibility of it, it's perfect. There's nothing bogus. It's real.
Now, there's many times those things happen. Many times, go into a city... Many times in a meeting. I stand here and see one after the other. That's in the meeting. I just don't take time. I took more time talking on something else. No doubt but what they're healed. The blessing applies to them. Now, I see in the meeting sometimes of different people that's going to be healed, see different desires and things of people. Now, I tell you... Now, in the prayer line tonight, just as certain as anything, God's going to make a great blessing come on. Now, if I--I don't find it here, it'll be in the prayer line, because I know it's for tonight. And I... See?
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And notice. You see it, just--just walking along the street. Many times that's happened. You don't know when it's going to happen, or what's going to do. You're just simply transformed. And you, of course, you just taken off somewhere else, and showed just what's going to happen. Then you just drop right back down again. And then you know just what... Sometimes I be setting in the room. I'll be setting in the room at home, just setting there waiting. And it just seems like Something just changed, and you're somewhere else, and you see just what's going to happen, see the way it acts out. And then when it does, you be back in your room. And then when that comes to pass, you see it. It's nothing I do. I just act it out as drama. See? I just act out what He's already told me to do. That doesn't take faith. That's just acting out what He told me to do. See?
Now, the only part that faith is included in, is in this prayer line when I have to exercise faith here. But when it... When I'm praying for the sick... But someone, if you tell me to go to someone's house, and how everything would be. I just go there and wait until everything's just the way He says, then I just say what He said. And that's all. It's got to happen. It's already happened. It's in the foreknowledge of God. It's already been planned out. And I just go down and act that out. See? So it--it isn't nothing that I could do, but just act on what He told me to do.
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Now, the ministers there, going along the street. My, it happens all the time. But just... I guess God just had me speak so that He'd let the ministers know it, know that I was talking about it up on the street there. And to let them see that happen. And even he turned... See, it wasn't him that turned that corner, the
Holy Spirit had to take him down there. It had to be that way. Do you believe in that? It had to be. Those girls wouldn't have been anywhere else. We'd have went the other way, we'd have went around it. And see, the girls would done been up this other end two, three city blocks away. But we had to be there. He couldn't just went right ahead.
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That police had to stop him and hold him there till those girls crossed in front of us according to what He showed me. See? And the police was just a bawling him out until that time. Then the police said, "Go ahead." See? The police didn't even know it was the Holy Spirit working on him. See? It was, holding him there. For, brother, sister, God makes the enemy crazy. Why, Judas Iscariot throwed down the silver and said, "I've betrayed innocent blood." See? Is that right? The Roman said, "Truly, that's the Son of God." Pilate's wife... Look at Pilate, said, "I wash my hands. I find no fault in Him." Is that true? That's His enemy. Look at his pagan wife. Said, "Have nothing to do with this just Man, for I've suffered many things in a dream today, because of Him." Is that right? A heathen... God makes His enemies to testify. The demons that were in those people screamed out and said, "Why, You're the Son of God, the Holy One of Israel." Is that right?
Demons, fortunetellers spoke out to the apostles. When others said they were impostors, these fortunetellers said, "Why, they're men of God that tell us the way of Life." See? Makes the demons testify of Him. Everything has to testify. On the day that He died, God testified. The earth testified. The moon and stars refused to shine. The sun went down in the middle of the day. The elements all changed. It was so dark you could feel it. And think, the moon shut off; the stars shut off; the very God that created them was returning back. God Himself, Jehovah, couldn't stand to see the sight of the punishment that had to be upon His own Son. And all the elements... When He--when He died, the Roman said, "That's the Son of God." There was a great earthquake that shook the rocks that had been in the mountains since the days of the creation. The earth claimed He was the Son of God. The sun said He was the Son of God. The moon, the stars, the elements, everywhere...
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And He went to hell, and they knowed He was the Son of God. And those that repented not in the long-suffering of the days of Noah, had been waiting in those chains back in there, they knew He was the son of God. Their whole...
Noah testified of Him. Enoch testified of Him before Noah. And all, everything had to know He was the Son of God, and that what had been spoke of the woman's seed had come to pass. Then He rose up, took the keys from the devil, the keys of death and hell, rose up, broke the sunders of the grave and split it open; come out. Oh, my, said, "All powers in heavens and earth is given into My hand. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." He ascended up on high, setting at the right-hand of God making intercessions. And we have just as much power as heaven's worth. Is that right?
What if someone would come in here tonight and give you a money order for a million dollars. Oh, my, a poor maybe in...?... Now, you would rejoice and say, "Oh, my," how rejoicing. And maybe there'd be a man come in that was tattered and poor, dirty, and ugly. And no matter what he looked like, it isn't the messenger, it's the message that he gives you. Is that right? So don't notice the messenger; it's the message that you're hearing. Now, and you'd look at that piece of paper, you'd start rejoicing. You'd say, "My, I'm worth a million dollars. It's a postal order for a million dollars, or a bank draft: a million dollars." You'd say... "I can't see; what are you rejoicing about? You haven't got nothing." You'd say, "Well, I've got a money order, or--for a million dollars." Well, I'd say, "Well, that isn't nothing but just a piece of paper, just ink wrote on a piece of paper." You'd say, "But looky here. That money order, before it could be written, there had to be a million dollars deposited before that order could be written." Is that right?
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Well, you say, "When you read the Bible, what makes you all carry on so when you say, 'He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes you're healed?' When He said, 'Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you've receive it and you shall have it.'" Well, we should start rejoicing. "Why," you say. "well, that's just a Words, just Words." But brother, before that Word could be written in the Bible, there had to be a deposit made at Calvary up there to take care of everything that He said. Yes, sir. And each one of us has an account there and can draw off of it tonight, just anything you have need of. And He's standing there with a pen in His hand at the right-hand of the Father, ready to write out your forgiveness, ready to write out your healing, or anything that you have need of, He's ready to write it tonight. Is that right? Your deposit was made at Calvary. Anything that you have need of, He's there to make it right before God. Oh, no wonder we're happy people.
No wonder we can rejoice in the God of our salvation, for He's marvelous and wonderful.
Now, in His reading--or in the writing, rather, we read this, in the book of Saint Matthew the 9th chapter, and the 18th and the 26th verse inclusive: And while he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him--worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come... lay thy hands upon her, and she shall live. (Oh, I like that. See? Come... lay Your hand upon her. Now, he was a Jew talking to Jesus.) And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples. And, behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
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Now, listen to the Scripture, not the promise that you have. But she said in her heart, "If I touch His garment, I will be whole." See? Now, you have more than that. You have a Divine promise. Is that right? You have a Divine promise, and a Divine gift here in your midst now. Just look how much more you've got to believe by than what that poor woman had. She didn't even have a Scripture for that. And the Scripture said, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That's a promise. But she didn't have no promise, but she believed it anyhow. Watch. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith has made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. And... Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, And he said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. And the fame thereof went abroad in all that land.
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God bless His Word there, said, "It shall not return to Me void, but it'll accomplish that which it was purposed for. See? Your faith in God's Word brings the result. The little ruler... Let's think--let's think he was a fellow that... He--he
probably separated himself from the believers, because that the big church that day did not believe Him. They didn't believe in Him. "Why, He's nothing but a--an impostor." But what if those fellows could come out of hell tonight and come back up. They'd want to believe on Him. They know now He's the Son of God. They knowed then It was their visitation, but It's too far... Now, don't you let that be your excuse; you believe now. Believe now.
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Now, remember when Jesus was on earth, He was considered a fanatic, being against churches. And He was called a spiritualist, Beelzebub. Is that right? One knows who Beelzebub was, the devil, big fly, scared the other flies off the platform, Beelzebub. They called, in other words, He was a spiritualist. He was doing all these things by spiritualism, or some wicked devil or something. [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
Separated himself from the believers went out...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... That right?
Now, just have faith and believe. Now, this little ruler, he separated himself from the believers and went out to stay with the rest of them. And... But there come a need; his girl got sick. Well, he probably called the doctor, and the doctor done all he could do. But the girl got sicker and sicker. And after awhile, the breath left her; she's gone, a child about twelve years old, presumingly. But now, the girl was to be sick. All hopes was gone; the doctor couldn't give no hope. Now, he had to get to Jesus. That's sometimes the way God has to get people, 'fore they'll believe Him. Isn't that right? They had to get to Jesus. I can hear somebody say, "Well, that fellow, that Nazarene, that fanatic over there that's doing that healing, that Divine healer, why don't you call Him?" "Well, the... I'll get put out of the synagogue if I have anything to do with Him." See, He was considered a quack. And brother, all the people that's ever lived like God, or been in God's program, has been considered heretics, quacks, fanaticism. Some--some others may be. That's true. Probably some of it--some of it may be.
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But just as sure as there is a false; there is a true. See? There has to be a good dollar before a bogus dollar can be made off of it. Isn't that right? If--if it wasn't, why, the bogus would be real. So now, it's up to your discernment. If it's according to the Scripture, working against your life, then you believe it. "For no man can do a miracle in My Name and speak light of Me. Isn't that what Jesus said?
That's right. And these signs shall follow them that believe: the nine spiritual gifts, operating, moving in the Body which was promised by Jesus Christ. See?
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But the world has got off and got so formal and indifferent, till they just had their own set ways, their own rituals, their own creeds and so forth. And if you don't come right up to that, you're not in it. See? That's the way the churches are today. You've got to come right up and look through my glasses or you don't see at all. See? Now, you got. Now, God doesn't limit Hisself to any church. No, He doesn't. Remember, when the disciples got to thinking one time that they were the only ones, the only ones, Jesus, the very next day sent out seventy others. Is that right? God never wants anyone to build anything around themselves. All glory goes to Jesus Christ, the Son of God. See? So we mustn't try to think of ourselves, or our church. We must spread out our arms and look for God. That's right.
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Now, when you see anything, search it, look through it. "Well," did Jesus say, "if you'd have knowed Me, you would've knowed My days. Didn't Isaiah speak of Me and so forth?" Now, all the prophets spoke of this day. Isn't that right? These things would be taking place in this day. And said in the last days, scoffers would come. Is that right? Now, look the way He said the spirits would--or the Spirit speak-spake, that in the last days, people would be. They'd be heady. You know what heady means? High-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Look at these arenas and things over here, the stadiums: Sundays and everything else, they fill up the picture shows and the dance halls. Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, incontinent, fierce, and despisers of those that are good... Holy-rollers, hillbillies, and everything else... See...?... Despisers of those that are good. Not as we are good. But my, there's none good but God. But God is in the people what makes them good, marks the perfect man. It's God in you that makes it perfect. See? "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." See? "Be ye therefore perfect." How can you be perfect? Not in yourself, but in Him. God don't look at you then; He looks at Him. Well, you say, "I'm in Him." How do you get in Him? By one Spirit we're all baptized into one Body, and then you're in Him, when you're baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body: I Corinthians 12. Is that true? Then in Him...
Now, "heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, and
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despisers of those that are good, having a form of godliness..." not church...?... The people go to church, Sunday school, confession: "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away." Is that what the Bible says? Now, remember, there was emphasis put on that. The Spirit speaks expressingly, that in the latter days, these days. Express time of the-that prophecy to be fulfilled is now in the latter days. There we are. We're here. "Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof; from such, turn away. For this is the sort that goes from house to house and leads silly women, laden away with divers lusts:" Sewing circles, and kitchen circles, and soup suppers. Now, I--I hope that don't hurt any of you. But brothers, when it comes to a time at my Tabernacle, which I may have to return someday, but if it gets to the time that we have to boil chickens and sell it for fifty cents a plate to pay the preacher, I'll quit preaching. That's exactly right. And that means sewing circles where they stitch and sew, and sewand-sew, and talk about Miss. So-and-so. That's--that's about the way it ends up. That's right.
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When I was a meter reader, I went into a basement where they was having some kind of a thing like that. And the jokes that a drunken sailor wouldn't tell, them women were telling up there. They didn't know I was a preacher. I was reading the meter. And I went up and knocked on the door. And they come to the door, and all of them in there smoking cigarettes and going on. I said, "Ladies, the..." I said, "I may get fired for this, but all right." I said, "Do you mean to tell me that you all are here in a religious worship, when I heard some of you repeat a prayer awhile ago?" Said, "This is our circle sewing something." I said "And the jokes that you're telling, aren't..." She said, "You're supposed to be reading the meter." I said, "I'm a Gospel preacher. And I'm on my Father's business all the time." That's right. I said... And I knelt down in the room and had prayer in the room, and that broke up that sew-and-sew circle after that. That's right. And I asked God to save that bunch of sinners. That's--that's right. I don't know whether it had any effect or not; I may have to wait until eternity, but I did my part. Right. Oh, my. "Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, from such, turn away." Get away from it. Stay away from it. Get out to God, and pray through to God, and stay right with God. Live for God.
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I--I... Usually in my services... Anybody's been in other
services know; I never speak to people like this. It's not... But I feel the time has come, friends, when something's got to be said. See see? If God has performed these things, and then if God is the--is-it's true, we know He is, and can perform these things, the Holy Spirit's telling me to say these things. I don't know why is to say these things. And friends, turn away from your ways of just halfway Chri--there is no halfway Christians. You're just fooling yourself. See? You're-you're either a Christian or a sinner. You never... As I said, you never did see a drunk sober man. You're either drunk or sober. Did you ever see a black white bird? Either black or white. See? And you're either right with God or wrong with God. That's right. And the only way you can be right with God is being borned again. Jesus said, "Except a man be borned again, he can't see the Kingdom of God." No matter what he's done, how many good deeds he's done; he's got to be borned again. Then when he's borned again, he can understand what it's all about. Now, God bless you, ever keep you is my prayer.
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We're going to have the prayer line just in a moment. Time now so we can run an hour and a half or more in the prayer line, or as long as we possibly can. Thanks again, all of you. I guess you're wondering why I stopped, didn't you? I--I know it's time to stop, for the One Who watches over me has moved to the platform. And I know when it's time to quit. All right. It's time for the prayer service.
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Let us bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, I don't know why You wanted me to stop just at this time. I had other things to say, and the little story to tell about the--the case of healing. But Thou has spoke, and I--I want to obey. Bless, dear Father, now, the services. May Your Spirit move over this audience in a great marvelous way. Father, may men and women setting here tonight, may they just shut off themselves from all other thoughts but You. May they forget about the work that they've got to do tomorrow, or the things that they did today. May they live for this hour that's coming on now, that it--as though it might be the last hour that they live on the earth. May they be thinking only of Christ standing here at the platform, oh, in His majesty and His great holiness, see Him standing here, a Man of sorrow, acquainted with grief, bowed down His head, the Lamb of God. He was smitten, bruised. And He was a Lamb led to the slaughter. And oh, how that His trembling hands, and His quivering flesh, when they nailed the nails, and when they pulled the thorns down over His brow, and the Blood run down into His eyes... How I long to stand where Mary stood and John at the foot of the
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O God, we're now at--coming close to the close of this lovely little meeting here we had, Your children expecting You. We know it's the devil's business to get around the people, say, "Well, we'll just wait. We'll find out." O God, that's what he did in the days when You were here in flesh, caused the people to be deceived and walked away, and forgot God, and reaped the great harvest afterwards. Father, may men and women not neglect tonight. But may they come and accept Thee, Who we love and are cherishing, and are giving all praise and glory. And may Your gift, the great Angel of God that stood to the right of Thy humble servant, that spoke and sent these things, and confirms it in the eyes of thousands. O eternal God, may He come tonight with great power and blessings and minister to each and every one here, Lord. May many be healed tonight because of His Presence. And God shall be given all glory, and all praise will be given to the great holy infinite Son of God. For we ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
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Now, every one be just as reverent, as possibly you can be while we're having this time of prayer service...?... [A brother calls the
prayer line--Ed.] Only believe, All things are possible, only Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only Only believe, only believe, All things are possible, only believe; believe. believe; believe.
Your card called for that, sonny boy? Does your card call for there? No. I can...?... didn't have your card; I was going to say... get some of the ushers and bring you...?... All right, now, just a moment. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... not long ago...
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How many knows who wrote that song? Paul Rader. Oh, how... What a gallant soldier. I was acquainted with Brother Rader. I knew him. He belonged the Baptist church. Hear of his death when he died... I telephoned him not long ago...?... great warrior. The little Moody Bible school broadcast was down there singing, they tell me, at his... So they had all the curtains pulled down in the room, the shades. And they were sing in there, singing, "Nearer My God To Thee," and something. And Brother Rader was quite a cut-up. You know how he was. He looked around; he said, "Who's dying, you or I?" Said, "Raise up
those curtains." Said, "Sing some good old fashion Gospel songs." So they started singing "All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name," and...?... So Luke was standing there, his brother. I guess you knew Luke. Called Luke up to his side and said, "Luke, we've been a long ways together. But to think of it, five minutes from now I'll be standing in the Presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." Closed his eyes and went to meet God. A few weeks ago, I was at Fort Wayne Gospel Tabernacle where we were having a service. And in there... I never had heard the song before. A night or two after the Angel of the Lord appeared to me and commissioned me, I was in--walked into my church, my pianist was over there playing, "Only Believe." And I said, "Play that again." The Angel of the Lord seemed to like that.
"Only Believe," and I think of that epileptic being brought to Jesus, He said, "I can, if you can just believe, for all things are possible." That's... I'd played it. It's been our campaign theme song all along. One night there at Fort Wayne, I was setting up there, way up in Brother Rediger's study. How many ever heard of B. E. Rediger, Fort Wayne Gospel Tabernacle. You knew...?... Romaine then, didn't you. Romaine, now she's be married this month. She'd been...?... psychiatrist... She begin...?... One of her--her sister died the same way.
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And I come down one day at home, and they... So many hundreds of people gather around on the outside, I couldn't hardly get in. When they was bringing me back out, my brother, or somebody said, "Well, won't you come back here in your coal shed? Mrs. Rediger's back there in your coal shed." I said, "What Rediger? B. E. from Fort Wayne?" Said, "Yes." He's been dead for years. Well, not dead, gone to glory. He was a warrior of faith. I believe he was pressing on, and God had to move him off the scene. He'd got into this time here. He's going on with God. Then what happened? I said, "B. E. Rediger's daughter?" Said, "Yes, but she's been in this condition for about two years now." And I went back there. You'll never know how I felt when I seen Mrs. Rediger. She always had a place in my heart as a real lady. And Mrs. Rediger, setting in my coal shed in the church with her daughter setting there, barren. The anointing had done left me. But standing there thinking of Brother Rediger, in a few moments, it come on. She just set there with her head down, and frothed at the mouth: beautiful young lady.
And all at once, the Holy Spirit came down, the Angel of God come near. I said, "Satan, come away from that girl, in the Name of the Lord Jesus." She come back to her right mind, went home normal. She's right now. Was then took care of all the business this summer at the Tabernacle and everything. She gets married this month.
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While setting there in the Fort Wayne Tabernacle there, listening, I heard that song come in, "Only Believe." Right in the same seat where Paul Rader set. Oh, my. Something moved over my heart. Oh, my. He's gone, but his songs live on.
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our life sublime, Partings leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;
Let's pray now. Father, I'm thinking of Thy servant Paul Rader, thinking of how he believed You for Divine healing; thinking of Brother Rediger. O God, how each year they climb up there to his grave, them dear precious people at the... His love lingers on in their heart. Many of them want to be buried around him, knowing that someday the grave will come open; he will come out. Across the world, there's many of those dear precious saints of God that Your children has rallied around. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someday, when we all come forth to go to meet each other, and then be caught up in the air to meet the Lord. We're longing for that day, Father, which we know is near. Bless us now tonight as we, this generation, are doing our part to make a path that others might follow behind. Help us, Father, tonight. And now, I realize I'm to stand here before demon powers, and know that they're in this building tonight, circling, haunting against me. But Thou art here, Father, to protect me from all powers of evil. I pray that You'll help me tonight. May every spirit unclean spirit leave the people. May they be made whole in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
Let's see your hand just a moment. I want to talk to you a moment...?... Brother, this is the first case 'course tonight. But I--I believe you have tumor. Isn't that right? Uh-huh, tumor... It hit like a tumor. And every time I start to make... say something else... It was 'cause I was... I couldn't believe it in my own heart that it was a spirit that would be...?... I couldn't hardly think in my own heart that that young fellow would have a tumor. I thought it might be something else, some other something. But it--it wasn't. It--it's a tumor. And the spirit, every time I'd start to say something, it'd feel it break up tumor, tumor,
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Now, young man, only God can heal you. You know that, don't you? You're just a laddie boy. You want to serve Him, don't you, brother? Will you do it if He will let you get well? And you'll serve Him all your life? God bless you. Let us bow our head. Father, I ask Thee to be merciful to our brother. He's in need, O God, of being healed. Bless him now, and may the Spirit of the Lord be upon him to make him well. May this evil power that's on him, may it leave and go away. May he be healed in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, just a moment, audience, it holds to him. Now, you may raise your head just a moment if you want. I want you to see something here, young man, to increase your faith. You're nervous...?... Try to think your own thoughts. You know what I mean? Your own... Now, watch. I want you to take your hand off of mine. I want you to look here at my hand, my arm. Just looks like yours or any other man's, doesn't it? Let's have your hand over here just a moment. See how, doesn't have any effect at all on my hand there, does it? Now, take your other hand, lay it on there. Now, watch what happens now: Starts swelling. Those things, see it run across there, them little things? That's what we call--what I call the vibrations.
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Sometimes you pick it up in the air from demon powers. Don't you think but what there's several of them here tonight too. That's right. Now, it ain't going to do you no good to try your best... And you know who I'm talking about, try to throw anything up this a way, because God will put it back on you. Remember that. The young man is sick. Now, if that leaves, you're going to be well. If it doesn't leave, of course, I... If--if you probably want it... Now, only your faith...
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Now, I want you to come here just a...?... I want you to watch real close now, and I'm going to pray again and ask it to leave. And if it leaves and turns normal... Now, watch. Just move that hand off to yourself, this hand. Now, see, goes back normal. Now, lay your other hand just the way that one was, just the same way. Now, it isn't. Of course, that to me doesn't mean anything. It's the discernment what means to me. Laying your hand on there, as my hand to swell and turn all kinds of colors, and white things or ever what it was run across it wouldn't mean nothing there. The--the mystery of the part to what the God part is, to tell you what's wrong with you. Isn't that right? But now, watch and lay this hand on there a minute. There's what
you can see yourself. Now, I'll try to hold my hand just as still as I... See, it isn't the position my hand's in. You can see it, young man, just the same anywhere. See that just run across there? That's your tumor. Now, it's that live multiplication of cells. It's got a life in it, moving across there, just "Thrrrr, thrrr..." [Brother Branham illustrates.-Ed.] TESTIMONY_ CLEVELAND.OH WEDNESDAY_ 50-0823
Now, I'm... I want you to watch my hand and believe with all your heart that you're going to get well. See? And you say you will promise God that you're going to serve Him and everything. All right. Will you bow your heads again, now everyone, while the boy watches hisself. Our heavenly Father, be merciful to the young man. The enemy is trying to hold, but You're more than a match for the enemy. Now, help us, dear God, to have faith to believe You. And now, Lord, we come to You with childlike faith, believing that You are, and a rewarder of those who will seek You. And now, I plead around this platform the Blood of the Lord Jesus, that we might be hedged in, that the Spirit of God may have preeminence, might be able to cast out evil spirits, and to make these people well. O, thou demon, that's bound the boy, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, come out from him. There it goes.
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Now, young man. Before I look at my hand myself, something's happened, hasn't it? Audience may raise their head if they desire. All right. Now, I'll raise mine. Now, look brother, something happened, didn't it? The tumor died. Now, watch. Now, see the way your hand is now? That's just exactly the same way I had mine. Now, put this hand over here. Just like it was. Now, this hand... You see when you put that on there, it would swell up, turn real dark, and little white things would run across it like that. Is that right? Now, put it on there now and see what happens. God bless you, brother. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Just have faith and believe.
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All right. Come on, brother. Now, see, it takes faith. If--if--if thou canst believe, all things are possible. Howdy do, sister. Can you believe? All right. Let's have your hand... Yes, ma'am. You have more than one disease...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.] Yes ma'am. That shows in a vibrations can... trying to cross there...?... Watch when you take your hand off, look at my hand now. Put your hand over here on mine. Now, put this hand here on there and watch it. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Now, put this hand here on there and watch it. There you are. Now, look at this. Oh, I see you have more than one. You have arthritis too, don't you? You have... See,
arthritis is acid in the blood like...?... This is the turn of the...?... But I was looking there, and seen a little...?... in there...?... All right. Do you believe now with all your heart?
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Will the audience bow their...?... Heavenly Father, to the sacredness of knowing that You're here, and knowing that the Blood of Jesus cleanses from all sins, evils, all sickness, and afflictions, and diseases, through faith, believing. Now, Lord, have mercy upon our sister. She's suffering and standing here, knowing that these things has been revealed to her. I'm asking this blessing. Help me to have faith for her, and with her, that the enemy might loose her, then that her testimony might be great, that she'd go out and tell others, and lead others to Christ. Hear the prayer of Your servant. Thou demon, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, leave the woman. All right, sister. Look this a way. It leaves you. Go free. Wait, put your hand back again. Raise your feet up-and-down. Go off the platform just rejoicing, being happy; for Christ heals you and makes you well. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Oh, He wants to heal many tonight. All right. Now, if I can just keep--just myself settled, as close as possible. That helps. Now, everybody be in prayer.
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And you out there in the prayer line: how many out there has got these cards, or hasn't got cards, that's trying now to be healed? All right. Just try... Now, the thing for you to do is this. You ask our heavenly Father. And if He... Sometimes I don't see It; I feel It. It'll let loose. But I... Then I don't get it. See? I can't tell just who it was, but it leaves. And then I--I wondered where it was. But I'm trying awfully hard for you. I'm doing all that I know how, under a difficult tonight, real difficult. Now, be in prayer.
Come forward, sister. Here...?... Look this way. Yes, ma'am. You have many... Been failing lately, haven't you? Oh, I see another thing. You have stomach trouble too, don't you? Yes, ma'am. I see the two of them. You're nervous too, aren't you. Is that right? A palsy like... All right. Do you believe now that Jesus is going to... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] be normal? You do that? Let us bow our heads. The lady's a Christian and a believer. Our heavenly Father, Who brought again Jesus, Thy Son, from the dead, and setting at the right-hand of Thy majesty tonight, making intercessions for us poor unworthy creatures of the earth, calling to us to come unto Thee, "All ye that labor and heavy laden; I'll give you rest." Rest from our worries, rest from our sickness, rest from our sins, just give us rest. "He that cometh to Me I will in no wise
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cast out." Now, sister here, oh how she needs You tonight. Go at the table, can't eat... But You can make her well, Father, if she just let that faith loose. Satan, thou tormentor, come out of the woman in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Look this way, sister. It leaves you now. Go eat what you want to. Diabetes has left you. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."-Ed.]...?... Everyone just as reverent as you can be for a moment.
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I understand she's...?... Yes. Tumor, is that right? Now, you'll believe? Let's bow our heads. Our heavenly Father, be merciful to this poor woman. Grant, Lord, that she may be healed of this tumor. And I ask You to be merciful. Grant it, that here she's to have it removed, maybe to die in the operation. But Thou art here, Father, to remove it for her. Take all this from her. Help her now to be healed in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. It just doesn't leave. Just a moment. It didn't leave her. See, you see it running on my hand like that. Satan, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, come out from the woman. Seems to hold. Everybody just keep your heads bowed. I want to talk to you. Now, you look at me. Do you--do you live far? Not very far. There's something... See, the tumor's making a act, some way. But there's something causing it to keep it from leaving. You believe me to be a person that's...?... too, worked hard in life...?...
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That's what it is...?... You know that's right, sister. You--but you've had a desire to do that, recently, more than ever in the last two or three weeks. You been praying about that, asking God if He'd take you back. Isn't that right? One time you tried to commit suicide. Isn't that right? That's right. But now, you've gotten away. This thing's come to bring you back to the Lord. Isn't that true? I'm not reading your mind, but I'm seeing a vision. Is that the truth? Will you promise then that you'll return to God, and will serve Him all your life and live... You will? You promise it? All right, bow your head. Our heavenly Father, our beloved sister standing here, who's once knew You and wandered away, and now the secret sin of her life is revealed to her, the thing that's caused her to wander away. And now, down through that channel of time, days passed by, You've come and revealed it to her. Lord, she's coming back. Will You receive her tonight right here at the platform? A commemoration and of the hour. Thank You, Father. Thank You. God bless you, sister. Your sins are forgiven you. Your body is healed. Now, go and sin no more.
All right. Sometimes you might wonder why those things are, what does this. The lady, guess you could hear from here, she--what she done when she was a little girl, and then when she once knew God and wandered away from God, and how, it's about two weeks ago, how she wanted to ask God, tried to pray and get back. She'd never even come back to the full realization of Christ till just now. And when she... It would not leave her until first that was revealed to her, and told to her. Then it left her, and the tumor died and went away. Friends, the Almighty is here in His Person. All right, it's a deaf spirit on the woman. All right. Bow your heads just a moment...?... Jesus, the Son of God, Who cannot fail. The heavens and earth may pass, but Thy Word cannot pass. You promised these things, and we're happy to be living in the day to see them come to pass. And now, as our sister standing here, Satan has put a deaf spirit on her, maybe to cause her to be deaf, walk out before a moving vehicle somewhere and be killed. Ailments of her body set in, Lord... with faith, believe. Oh help, dear Father, that she may be healed this night. Thou demon, come out of the woman in the Name of the Lord Jesus...?... real...?... It's all over and gone, sister. Could you hear what the diagnosis was? All right. The lady's perfectly hearing. I asked her if she could hear. I told her of her... She had arthritis, trouble in her back, and she had tonsils--bad tonsils in her throat. Is that right, lady? Now, you can hear me all right? Now, watch this: say, "Praise the Lord." [The sister says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Praise the Lord. [The sister says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] You're perfectly normal and well. Go on off the platform rejoicing. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] All right. Everybody be reverent.
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Howdy do, sister. Come just a little closer if you will, sister. Now, as you come, come believing. There's something wrong with you, or you wouldn't be here. Sister, I perceive that you're a good woman. Would you believe me if I tell you something? You would believe me and accept it? You would? All right. The female trouble you had is already left you, sister. God bless you...?... All right. Let us... Everybody be reverent now. Now, everybody just as reverent as you can. All right, sister. I don't know what happened to you, but as I turned around, a white flash come by you. You're healed. Go off the platform...?... Now, that was about the second time that ever happened in--in my ministry. The girl got healed just as soon as she started--started across the platform. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." That's the way I like to see it do. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] Now, as she got here, her faith
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Young lady, did you have extremely lot of faith when you come up there, believing you was going to be healed? Did you believe it with all your heart? Was you praying or something to be healed? That--that--that's a mystery to me. I don't understand it, but I seen a Light flash around you. I knew you was--you were healed. God had blessed you. Do you feel all right now? She heard me. Oh, yes, ma'am. That... Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] All right. Everybody just as reverent as you can be now.
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All right. Come ahead. Now, you're a stranger to me, aren't you. You're a stranger. I'm not too sure of this, sister. If you'd just come a little close so I could talk to you a little. Now, do not fear. Of course, you have a strange feeling now. Yes, ma'am. That--that's nothing to hurt you. It's the Presence of the Lord Jesus. It made you well of what was wrong. I--I want you to look this way just a moment. You're extremely nervous right now of course, and you don't... For one thing, I know you don't have a good circulation of blood. There's something concerning your blood that's wrong. Now, I can't tell just what it is, but your blood circulation is--is not right. But I can't tell it. It's not... It's something that's happened. And I believe it's something lacking in the blood. (See?) And instead of being something that--that's a disease... Yes. It's a desire in your heart for something, isn't it. God bless you, woman. The... Listen. You're desiring a child, aren't you. Isn't that right? Yes, ma'am. There's something wrong with the blood. I know. See? The-the blood is not fertile. But God makes your blood fertile, sister. O Jesus, Son of God, poor little trembling woman, walk up here like that. As much child birth control is going on in the world today, and a mother, a woman walked up like this and desire children. God bless this woman, who I bless, and may she receive the desire of her heart. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Your humble servant begs for this woman. Amen. Bless you, my sister.
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Let us say, "Praise be to God, Who gives us victory." That was kinda little puzzling me, there was something wrong in the blood stream that was causing that condition. But God is here to move everything. God is the Giver of Life. I had an extremely lot of confusion the other day about someone. A little girl setting there has done been healed of deafness. Just brought her card over and give it to her, setting right there. When I turned awhile ago and spoke about it...
Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] God bless you, sister. That's very good. Just wonderful. Mother, you setting there (Amen.), you're in serious trouble, aren't you, mother? You believe me as God's servant? It's some... Why, it's a...?... also, but I believe that it's you. Don't... You've had...?... a tumor, malignant tumor? Do you believe with all your heart? Do you believe if I'd--if I'd asked God to bless you, you'd be healed? May God grant you your desires.
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The young lady that brought you there also. You're sick also, sister. That's... You're her daughter. Isn't that right? I see. And don't you have a cyst trouble? Isn't that right? God bless you. May the Lord Jesus grant you your desire, both of you, both mother and daughter. And go home and be well...?... Oh, let's say, "Thank the Lord." They putting their arms around each other. Our heavenly Father, may this blessing that Thy servant has asked for them, that mother and daughter, may they receive their blessing. May they go out, Lord, believing the Angel's Message that said, "Nothing shall stand before the prayer." May they be healed, each one, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I pray. All right. How do you do, sister. Now, just a moment. Come just a little closer. Well, you have several things wrong with you. There's some connection with this woman and someone else in here. Now, there's associate spirits. Now, be reverent, everywhere. It's in this vicinity, right in here, somewhere. This woman's before the gift. Now, I don't know what's wrong with her. She--she's got many things. But it just keeps pulling right across this a way, the two between there. It's a... It's somebody in here that's sick the same way she is.
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Now, now, just a moment. I wish you could feel what that is. Just, oh, I want to say, "Hallelujah." Look this a way, sister. Believe now with all your heart. You have heart trouble for one thing. Isn't that right? Let us pray. Our heavenly Father, be merciful, Lord. This woman has number one enemy: heart trouble, and know she can't stay very long without Your help. No physician can ever have anything to do with heart trouble, only the One Who lives in the heart, Christ Jesus. God, bless her. May she be healed of this heart trouble. Satan, you who bound her, come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Now, your heart's back to normal. Go on your road rejoicing and be happy. There it is. Amen. Amen.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."-Ed.] Now, I know they're--that woman was... See those two spirits? How that Jesus Christ can heal anything, can't He? Isn't He the Lord Jesus? Now, there's heart trouble just flashing in here everywhere now, because that sets faith afire. You see? Now, just... See? I don't know just where it is. The call on heart trouble, there's very much of it. That's all right, sister. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. See? See? He's here to heal. That's His healing blessing. Everybody be just--just be praising the Lord...?... you're thankful for His goodness. Accept it. Always just accept it and be... Isn't He marvelous? Now, there's a lot of heart trouble I see... You keep praying now.
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And bring here the next lady in. You want to be healed? Yeah, just keep believing. Yes, ma'am. You're extremely nervous, aren't you? Nerve trouble got you all broke up, have all kind of thoughts and everything. Isn't that right? O Jesus, Son of God, set this woman free from this enemy that's binding her. Thou demon, come out of the woman in the Name of Jesus Christ. All right, sister. I bless thee in Jesus' Name. Go home; you're shouting, praising God for being healed.
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All right. Come ahead, sister. How are...?... Howdy do, sister. Now, before it starts, that heart... You got heart trouble too, haven't you? Is that right? it's just moving everywhere. Those... Come here. Female disorder also, that right? Female trouble, heart trouble, and you're extremely nervous. It's nervous heart, what's a doing that. Do you believe with all your heart? Our heavenly Father, You said that, "Whatever you bind on earth is bound in the heavens; what you loose on earth is loosed in the heavens." And if I be Thy servant, found favor in Your sight tonight, loose this woman in the Name of Jesus Christ from this heart trouble, female trouble, nervousness. May it leave her. I bless her in Thy Name for this purpose. Come out of her, Satan in Jesus' Name. There...?... Amen. God bless you. All right. Marvelous.
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Bring the lady here. You believe, sister, if I tell you something? Would you take my word and accept it? Something's on you now, isn't It. Something's making you feel very strange. Your faith, sister. Your arthritis is gone from you. Go off the platform rejoicing and happy and well. God bless you. This lady setting here with this black hat on, right through here, has
got heart trouble too. I can't tell just what's happened. That... Yeah, lady, you with your fing--your hand up. Isn't that right here? You got heart trouble? Stand up, lady. Yes, that's... Oh, you're Sister Brown, aren't you? Well, I'm--I--I--I--I didn't know who you was, Sister Brown. God bless you. May Jesus Christ grant you your desire. Now, being that you was Sister Brown, I knew who you... Let's find someone else right there. Let's see. There's a little lady setting right there next to you here that's trying to find favor too. Would you stand up, young lady? Look this a way. You believe with all your heart? You know the lady next to you? You don't know her, huh? I don't think you did either. You just set down there, happened to be setting by her. Is that right? The little lady, you're nervous, aren't you. A nervous trouble, got eyes that's bothered you also. Eye trouble is... Say, you're Catholic by faith too, aren't you? By faith, you're a Catholic. All right. Accept Jesus Christ as your Healer now, and He will heal you. Will you do that? If you do, raise your hand? Raise your hand, say, "I accept." God bless you, sister, and grant to you the desire of your heart. Amen. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.]
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Lady setting here, setting here looking at me with the glasses on, breast cancer, but Christ has healed you of that. You can stand up now and you're--you're made well. And you there with the brown coat on, likewise had it. Now, you just stand up. You, standing there with your prayer card. Yes. Stand up. Jesus Christ has made... Yes, sir. He's made you whole now. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] He will heal any of you if you'll believe it. Do you believe it? Let's stand then. How marvelous. I'm believing, friends, while this Spirit's a moving through the audience, right now is the time for God to heal the whole audience of you at once. Let us do it. Let us believe Him with all of our hearts.
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Yes, that was a heart trouble case, standing right there. God bless you, sister. Yes, it's you. You're healed. God bless you. That's-that's you well. Yes, sir. Is that... Amen. Yes, mother, you with your hands up. You were healed just then of your heart trouble. That's... I don't... Let's--let's bow our heads. Standing here in the line, dear friends, maybe you wasn't just exactly through the line. Believe, all of you with one accord. Lay your hands on one another there, will you? Lay your hands on one another. Accept God's provided way, will you please? That's the way. Raise up and say, "I thank You, Lord, right now for healing me." Now, while I pray for you, believe with all of your hearts. He can heal all of you right now with one accord. Heavenly Father, I now ask You to heal every one of these people.
May the Holy Spirit of God fall in this building. Satan, turn these people loose just now. In the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the people. Raise up your hands now, and say, "Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord." How perfect. How many thank the Lord for your healing, say "Amen." That's right. Believe it. Give Him praise, for He knows what's wrong with you. My, friends, it looks white all over you down there. Everywhere, it's just a glorious power of God...
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So happy to be here. Sorry it's the last night of this... No, it isn't the last night. We got Sunday yet, haven't we (That's right.), Sunday afternoon and Sunday night. That's very fine. So I'm happy that we have that. Because... Yes, sir. And tomorrow night also. Friday night, Saturday night we rest then. Then Sunday night-Sunday afternoon, Sunday night. You make the announcements...?... regards...?... when the services start...?... That's very fine. And now, we're going to expect a great time. I've got to leave here by 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning, and drive two hundred miles to be in the service tomorrow night, and then come back. And the next day, be back here for Sunday the following day. And then, two services right one after the other.
But it's a glorious thing to be serving Jesus Christ, the Son of God, truly happy to be here. I believe tonight that if this would be our last night on--on the earth to be together, why, we still have the testimony of the Lord Jesus, don't we? We sure believe Him with all of our hearts. Now, we're going to ask this question just now. How many has been healed in this meeting, that feels that you've been healed, let's see your hands? That's very fine.
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Just awhile ago, I said, "One thing of leaving people, just about the time you get acquainted with people, then you have to say goodbye." But it's not good-bye in our services...?... it's for--for a little while. And you've been so nice to me, and everything, so I'm really sorry
that our services close. And I said to my little girl today; she's ready to go. She's just wants to go home right away after... There's no children to play with. And I said, "Honey, do you want to go home?" She said, "No, daddy, I like it up here." So I... She's just fine. Everybody's babying her and everything, so she's really glad to stay. And... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...
Home church of Brother Rediger, one of the gallant heroes of faith in days gone by. His daughter is...?... Eagle...?... passing...?... God had made her well. She's...?... marry this month. And a very lovely girl... Mister Bosworth, Fred Bosworth. Now, many of you are acquainted with him...?... I'm sure he's here. A very fine Christian brother... And he's one of our...?... that goes with us, Brother Bosworth. And he was with me then as a manager. And I remember when I met him in Miami, Florida. He was just done give up all Divine healing, and laid back, I guess he was done seventy something years old. So when he... He had me come over to a service, and see it, why, the old fellow got just a boy again. And I said to him, "How old are you, Brother Bosworth?"
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One night standing down by the--a hotel in Miami. I'd just walked out, looking out over the beach; it's just wintertime. Just as straight, you know, when he went walking away, just with the spring of a young man, you know. Here I was of about one third his age and dragging along. He looked down at me. I said, "Brother Bosworth, when were you your best?" He said, "Right now." He said, "Brother Branham, I'm just a kid living in an old house." And--and that's Brother Bosworth. You know, he's a great joker. And he and his... Fred, and Brother...?... also.
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In a meeting Mrs. Bosworth, his wife, was selling books at a book stand at the entrance to the tabernacle, when there was a--a young lady, named...?... Bryan, cross-eyed. And she said, "I've tried to get a prayer card..." And all she had done to try to get in a line, but it was... It was no use. She was failing. I believe that was the last night, the night the man was healed of multiple sclerosis, that sent the word to King George of England, which I have his statement. God had healed him. And the man had been bed patient ten years with multiple sclerosis. He's perfectly well tonight, glorifying God.
The little girl was crying, a young lady. And Mrs. Bosworth said, "Honey, you--you don't understand." That's right. Some words to that. Said, "Now, you--you don't need a prayer card. If you'll just walk right out here and stand in the aisle," and said, "you just believe it with all your heart that God is going to make you whole, and," said, "God will speak to Brother Branham up on the platform."
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And I was having a prayer line, coming down the prayer line. And the girl though, just very polite, you know, and had... She walked out... Last night of the service... She walked out there, and just got a hold of God. And all of a sudden, I feel something come on me, and pulled me around. She was standing way farther than the distance of this building here. I said, "All right, sister, God has healed you of those crossed-eyes." Both eyes come straight. The girl's here in the building somewhere. I wished she'd just come forward, if you're hearing my voice, sister...?... Somewhere... Here she is, right here now. Let us say, "Praise the Lord." Everybody. [Congregation says, "Praise the
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Lasts just as long as faith lasts. That's it. When you get weak in faith, it will come right back again. Whenever you get weak in faith, your sins will return right to you again, the same old desires, only worse. Is that right? So go and believe. The little lady was standing way away from me. And her faith... See, her faith touched God. God had said the only thing you have to do is speak to her now, and...?... there come her eyes straight. She's well... Now, thousands of those cases... I believe we had four hundred and sixty some odd cross-eyed cases, cases of Divine healing, by crosseyes, which was perfectly straight and normal. And it's making less than a year in the services we have in town...?... Mister Moore's been...?... Cross-eyed people that was healed. We're so thankful for that, and for all.
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I see a little baby setting here now, its little feet in plaster paris. Little baby... She remembers at Fort Wayne that night, a little baby was there, and his little feet was so clubbed. Oh, my. It was horrible. They had it in braces. The doctor said, it would always be that way. When it passed through the line, I said, "Sister, now go and take
those things off." See? Here come the baby walking back just as normal as it could be. Stood her up on the platform. There's his little feet just as straight, went right on. It's marvelous what the Lord Jesus can do for us, if we'll just only have faith and believe. That's all. Just believe.
Now, I wish to read just a little bit of the Word. And again I... Before leaving this part of the service in this tent, the old tent's been a blessing to us. And I'm very thankful for it. And I--I pray that God will let it stand many, many great storms...?... along. May many souls be saved under it. And the...?... to go from this meeting to pay with the tent, and...?... while I was here. Very thankful for it--for it. It goes only for Gospel use. It's owned by the Voice of Healing, Shreveport, Louisiana. It'll not be used for circuses and things like that. It'll be used for the Gospel. And the men who use it, they rent it. We rent it. Pay the rent in, the rent pays for the tent. And that when that comes to pass that all that's taken care, we add more sections to it. Just keep on like that. Then the--the money that would come in from rent there, will just keep going for different things and just move just right along. Always, the non-profit organization, the "Voice of Healing." Brother Lindsay is the editor, and Brother Moore is a co-editor, and Sister Anna Jean Moore is a circulating editor. It's a little paper that carries all the--the--any group that's having Divine healing services in these last days.
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All right. In Isaiah 53, is one of my favorite Scriptures. Just...?... time to read it tonight. It's so appropriate right now. Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of... dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness... when you should see him... we see him, there is no beauty we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrow... acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our grief... carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquity: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep has gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of
us all.
Shall we pray. Our heavenly Father, just reading the Word now, may the Holy Spirit take the Words now and go right into the hearts of the people; and may they come to a full realization, this night here under the tent, that it's Jesus that we speak of. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. Oh, how we love Him with all of our hearts. With gratefulness, we come to bow our heads to the dust of the earth from which we were taken, and someday shall return, if the Lord does tarry. And I ask You, Father, to bless us tonight, and will move upon us in a great marvelous way, and may many great healings be done tonight, because of His Presence. May those dear people here reach right out, take a hold, Lord. Grant it, Lord. And there, hold to the Rock of Ages until the power of the Lord sweeps them through the gate out into the freedom, out of the clutches of the enemy, till they're free from sin and sickness. Grant it, Father. Hear the prayer of Your servant as we pray in Jesus' Name. Amen.
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This is... Tonight, we won't take much time to say many words, only I want to thank all had a part in the service. I want to thank the cooperating ministers. God bless them. These strangers here ought to attend their church. Give them a visit, a calling. And I'm sure they're--that they're good God saved men, sent of God. Never have had a place that ministers and people were in harmony and love than this group of men. And the audience has been wonderful, just... I've never have called one person down, only to keep their head bowed. I marvel at that. Usually in meetings sometimes, God has to send in...?... a half a dozen or more, to make them come to the respect. Now, that's... This here, the people just reverent, believe with one heart and one accord. That's the way to do it. And now, that's wonderful.
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And all of our expenses has been met. We're just thankful to you. They gave me a love offering which I appreciate from the depths of my heart, to anything those... Someone wrote me a little letter awhile ago. And, my, if they didn't tear me up about Sunday afternoon's meeting. Oh, my. Some lady. She said, "I come to see miracles, not hear about what something happened in somebody's life."
With that attitude, sister, you'll never see them, until one's been performed on you, and that's when you get converted. That's right. That's right. 'Cause your heart's not right with God have something like that. The attitude towards it proves it. The fruit--taste of the pudding is the fruit thereof. So notice, "By their fruit ye shall know them."
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Now. And now, we've had glorious success for Jesus Christ. Do you know, Jesus has done more here than He could do in His own city, hasn't He? For there was no mighty works Jesus could do in His own city. And in this city, He's done mighty works, hasn't He? So He's had more success in this city than He did in His own city. Think of that. Jesus Christ, after nineteen hundred years, has had more success in Cleveland, Ohio in six weeks meetings here, or a three week's meeting than He did in His life's journey in His own city. Think of that. Goes to show that the glorious Old Gospel Ship has the same power it had in the beginning (That's right.) where men and women will believe on them. Now, we're thankful for that, and pray that God will bless all of you.
And I hope to see you Sunday afternoon. And Sunday afternoon is preaching service. If the Lord doesn't change my mind, I want to speak on the subject of the return of the prodigal son, for Sunday afternoon. And come out if you're in...?... And then... Then we... Then Sunday night, I trust that we'll have the greatest healing service we've ever had. Just trust that the place will just be illuminated with the power of God. Maybe I'll be a little rested after a few nights of rest now, driving Saturday night, be more able to go into the service. This way, I become dense, dull, like. And I--and I be--when I get tired and worn, the senses of this gift becomes more or less dull. I think the fellow on anything natural would. After you go so long, you become kinda dull, sense bound...?... that's the way this...?... And I trust that God will give us a great fresh start again Sunday night. Come out believing. Come out praying, everyone.
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Thank all the ushers and the officers, and everything is cooperating, though they give me...?... this afternoon. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... a few minutes overtime. Not... I was in the parking lot, supposed to leave here at four o'clock. And I was out running around here and there. And the Lord called me on two visions
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today, to go out to...?... on the streets today. I was setting in the room. The Lord came down, and He said, "Go down to this corner and turn to the left and go down here and stand there. There'll be a woman come along with a gray suit on, a little white hat." Said, "She has cancer to be healed." And there she was, coming down the street. She said, "Aren't you Reverend Branham from that tent?" I said, "Yes." She said, "Oh, I tried to come, but my husband won't let me come to..." I said, "The Lord has healed you of your cancer, sister. Pass on in peace." Said, "Oh, my." She went down the street weeping like that. See, God knows all about those things. And so it's marvelous.
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I believe I seen a--a backslider brother come to the Lord this afternoon too, come back to the house of the Lord, to the fellowship of His--His Son, Jesus. Now, pray much. And I was just looking at two sweet little girls setting here. Bless their little hearts...?... Just as sweet. I...?... two of the little girls just setting there with a little blond hair. I remember one of the most pathetic sights I ever seen in my life was at Mexico, where we're going to try to make those trips this winter if possible. I remember we went across the border at Juarez. The first time I was ever in Mexico. And when Brother Moore and I, we crossed the border and went in there, I walked down the street. And oh, my, the people on the streets, TB and everything. I reached down and tried to give them money and take hold of their hand. My, how that tubercular would be hitting. I'd try to tell them; I couldn't understand their language, and they couldn't understand mine. They pulled back. They were afraid, like... I went on down the street. We went around by some church. And oh, it was very poor.
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We seen a little fellow there was sacking up old rotten tomatoes on a little...?... down the street. I tell you. It would make you feel like you were no good when you seen that. I noticed another sight. There was a little fellow there. He didn't have on no clothes, but just a coat. He had a little old bill, fastened it all full of paper all tore up. He was reaching down in an old garbage can. He's pulling out something, you know, and he'd shake the water off, and rake the things off his hand, and look at it. Nearly all of them was partly blind. He looked at it like that, and he lay it in a little bitty old bucket of a thing. His grandmother standing there, barefooted, and her feet's like a
bear on the bottom, just as calloused as it could be, piece of an old dirty shawl on, standing there keep the cold in her hands. And he'd reach down and feeled again. And I said, "I'm going over to look at that." They said, "Oh, you oughtn't to go over there." Said, "They..."
I went over there. What it was, this little Mexican boy was getting little bitty bits of potatoes, about like that, out of the bottom of the slop can there. When Mexico throws anything away, it's really bad. But he had about a half a dozen. Now, and he was just laughing, and they were laughing. They were looking at their potatoes. I thought, "My, And I just left over there. And my brethren had paid about at least seventy-five cents or a dollar for my breakfast when we crossed the border." I looked at the poor little fellow. I... Looked like their heart would just swell out of him. Now, he might be a little Mexican. But he gets just as hungry as a little American. When he's hungry, he's just as hungry. Yes, sir. And Jesus died for him just the same as--as He died for all of us. And I looked at him; I thought, "Poor little thing. What if that was my little Billy Paul." Looked at him...
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And I walked up to where he was, and the grandmother seen me coming up. Now, perhaps it was grandmother. She run back. And I touched the little fellow, like that. And my, he jumped out into the street, thought somebody was going to stick him or something for taking those potatoes. He looked. And his little eyes with kinda tears in them, and shaking like that, and like looking at me...?... Held the little fellow...?... I was pointing up towards heaven holding my hand over my heart. And I let him know that I was a minister. I kept pointing up like that. And...?... all around, see what was going on up there. And I--I knelt down. I knowed he was Catholic, so all of them there are Catholic...?... I begin to make crosses, you know, on my heart. And hold up my...
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I walked up. I reached down in my pocket, I had about, oh, five or six dollars in halves, and quarters, and things I had in my pocket. And I had him hold his little hands down. And I told him to
hold his hands like this, you know. And he looked at me, you know. And I finally got him to hold his little hands. I dumped all that in his little hands. And he looked at it like this. He got down and looked at it close. Stood there a little bit, put it down in his little pocket, and looked up to me like that, took off his little cap, knelt down on his knees and took a hold of my hand. Oh, my. Said, "God bless you, honey. I'll visit you again one of these days, just soon as I can." That's right.
We have a lot of things we could do with money, if we Americans would just do it. Do you know that? That's right. There's where it's really needed, where it's suffering and in need. Poor little fellows... Brother Gordon and I, the Lord willing, around Christmas, going take a trip down through there to see those little fellows. God is merciful to us, isn't He? We American people don't know how well off we are. That's right. To know that the need of this world, how they're in need. And yet we have plenty and... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] No feeling. He said, "I was hungry; you didn't feed Me. I was naked; you didn't clothe Me. I was in prison; you wouldn't visit Me. When were You, Lord? Insomuch as you have done unto the least of these, My little ones, you have done it unto Me." That's right?
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All right. Now, we're going to start the prayer line, 'cause I want to pray just as much as possible tonight for the sick. Starting about thirty-five minutes early tonight, for I want to pray just as long as I can. I want to go, 'cause I've got to get to bed real early in order to drive in the morning, get back home for the services tomorrow night. So let us bow our heads again, if you will. Friends, you may laugh too much: you may talk too much; you may walk too much; but you'll never pray too much. "I would that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without..."
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Our heavenly Father, we've come now to the end of seventeen nights of service, one of the longest services You've ever permitted Your servant to have. Now, tomorrow night is another one here with Brother Lindsay and Brother Hall. Father, we pray that You'll meet with them here. Bless those two dear Christian brothers. May the power of the Holy Spirit be near to deliver the sick and the afflicted, those who may not be here tonight. We ask You tonight to clear the whole building, Father, of every sick person. May there be a great
pouring out of the Spirit. Many hundreds, all that's in need tonight, may they be delivered here at the platform tonight, Lord, and out in the audience in their seats.
And as our little sister testified, standing plumb back, way in the back of the building, God come down upon her with those eyes being crossed since a baby, moved those eyes out straight. The power of the Holy Spirit taken away. God, without wavering faith she moved forward, and her young heart blessed, going everywhere now, come all the way up here just to get to say, "Jesus heals." He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Think of the little girl there, cross-eyed, blind, stomach trouble, was healed. And You permitted it to go in the great book of Who's Who. O God, we thank Thee for Thy mercies and kindness. Be with us tonight now, won't you, Father? Pour out Your Spirit upon us and give us a great deliverance tonight, for we ask it in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
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Now, everybody tonight, I wish we would just try to settle down to this one thing: that God is here. I wonder if you'll make me this promise before we start praying for the sick. If you make me this promise, and say, "If God touches me in the least tonight, I'm going to rise and claim my healing right then. May the first time that faith anchors in my heart, Lord, here I come." Do you remember the lepers set at the gate? They said, "Why do we set here till we die? Let's do something about it." And now, you do the same tonight. Let's do something about it. His Presence here... A little deaf baby, was setting there last night. And that mother, oh, how she was looking, how she was trying. I could feel it pull, pull. Then just got everybody in there be--got to pulling. And I know several of them stopped. I turned around; I said, "Somebody in there, there's several of them He healed. I can't tell just who they were."
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The mother turned around and spoke to the baby, and brought the card up with tears rolling down her cheeks. Said, "My baby's hearing." See it? That's it. That's it, just go believing with all your heart. It'll be so. It's your faith that makes you whole. Isn't that right? Your faith, no other way can you be healed, only through faith. Now, God bless these people's heart here [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] away. All right. Now, we want try to get as many as we possibly... You can make the call to yourself. I'll put it on his hands for tonight. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... pray that God will help him to make the choice.

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All right. Now, how many cards, you got a hundred out? I believe, maybe, after we get a line a going a little while, maybe we won't have to linger so long with one. Then just let them come right on through and the whole group be healed. Wouldn't that be marvelous to see? We used to have it... How many was ever in one of the fast lines? What, when we used to have fast lines then... We passed them through there, and testimonies would just pour in. The only thing they wanted to do, is just get near you. Just to get there when the anointing was on, then they called their blessing and went away rejoicing. And they were healed. See?
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The brass serpent couldn't pray for no one, could it? The Pool of Bethesda, the Angel didn't pray for no one. It was a troubled water. Is that right? They just looked and lived with the brass serpent. And in the days of the apostles, they laid in the shadow of Peter and was healed. Now, if you don't believe that this is Bible times again, just a repeat. In this last days, God's calling out a people of the Gentiles. He's calling on the Jews and a Gentile Church, the same thing, a contract.
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In the old days, when a contract was made, you know what they did? Notice. God just telling me to say this, I don't know. A person would go and write a--a contract on a piece of paper. They'd write the contract. And then on the contract, they'd write what it was they was going to do, then they'd tear the paper in two, and they would kill a beast. The me... And over this beast, they tore the contract. They would give one person one part, one part the person the other. And when they come together... When this agreement was brought together, that had to be exactly the same piece of paper cut through the letters, and had to dovetail just exactly with that or the contract was no good. See, the agreement was no good. The same piece of paper that was tore away, had to come right back and dovetail in with the other, like that, to make it perfect. And then, as their pledge, they killed a beast when they made their pledge.
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believe that? "All we like sheep have gone astray. God laid upon Him the iniquity of all. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace upon Him; with His stripes we're healed." That was God's contract to the Church. Is that right? Then God killed the Lamb at Calvary. Do you believe it? And from Him, He tore Him apart. He took part of It, the body up into glory, set It on the right-hand of the Majesty. You believe it? And the Holy Spirit, He sent back to the people. Is that right? Then when it comes together, when this contract is come together at the day of the judgment, the same Holy Spirit that fell on the day of Pentecost is grouping around a bunch of people; It'll go right back to that same Body, to dovetail right into that same Body. It's a contract.
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So therefore, the same Spirit that was in that day, is here today. The same signs, wonders, miracles are being performed. The same people are believing in the same manner. When they seen the apostle Peter, and recognized him to have the gift of God in him when he called out and told the people what they did... And they recognized, he told Ananias and Sapphira their sins. He knew what God put in his heart to do. And then in that, after them recognizing that, the prayer lines got so great, till Peter couldn't pray for them, and they laid the people in the streets that even that old fisherman, not some big D.D., but an old fisherman, that his shadow would pass over them. And every one that his shadow passed over was healed. There you are. There's no Scripture for that. There wasn't any then. But God healed them because they respected the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And He will do the same thing today. It wasn't Peter. It was... They respected God Who he represented. Is that right? That's Who It was. And his shadow passed over them, and they were healed, because they believed it.
We're back in the same days again: God moving among His people, great signs and wonders. Now, you don't have to lay in a shadow, but you're under this tent tonight, around it, where the Holy Spirit is here. Just let It pass over you. Then rise up, say, "Yes, I believe it. Right now I accept it." Be healed. Amen. You believe that, sister? You do? That tumor's been bothering you a lot, hasn't it. Yes. Hasn't that tumor been bothering you? All right. It's dead now though, sister. God healed you, 'cause you believed. Have faith in God. Amen. Oh, my. How marvelous. He's--He's here and can heal all things. Just have faith. God will grant it to you. My, how that's coming in now. Oh, people. Wished you could just only... If...
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Look. I tell you what. If you've been just a little afraid, take my word tonight, will you? Take my word and act to do what I tell you, and I'll be responsible for you at the day of the judgment. See? That's right. If you will believe on Jesus Christ with all your heart, and believe that He healed you now, and accept Him that way, that's all you have to do. Go forth testifying, telling your healed, and go right on, and God will see that you're deliverance. That's true. Praise the Lord.
Been looking back in the crowd, just seeing where it's coming. Way back from farther back than I could ever come from. That's exactly right. Somebody right in this channel right here was healed with a cancer just a few moments ago. I'm not sure. I think it's the lady there with the white hat on right there, right over there. I'm sure... It's right along in that section. Lady, did you have cancer, setting right there, the woman's got her hand up. Was that a cancer case? Did you have cancer? All right. It's gone from you, sister dear. It's left you. God bless you. Amen. All right. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." My, another cancer case right here. Won't you accept it with hay fever too. God bless you. Is that right? Stand up. I seen you...?... There you are. You're free from it. You, sister, with the cancer case. Stand up. Jesus Christ heals and makes... Why my, you could stand up over the building and be healed, if you'd just believe it right now. He's here with mighty power. O Jesus, Son of God, Author of Life, Giver of every good gift, send Thy blessings upon the people. May signs and wonders be wrought tonight in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Grant it, Father. Hallelujah.
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My, look. I wonder how many of you would believe this right now. If we'd get right down here, and just let the people pass through and put a--our hands on them to bless them, that they'd be healed. How many believes that, raise your hands. Has it been confirmed to you? Do you believe? I told you, the last night I'd ask you this. If these things didn't happen the way that I said the first night, call me a false prophet. How many was here the first night and heard me say that, raise your hands? I said if it did happen, then believe God. Is that right? Well, do they happen? Is it the truth? All right. Now, look. Jesus Christ said this, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Follow who? "Them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick (not pray for them), if they lay their hands on the sick they shall recover." Is that the last Words He said? The last promise He give the Church before He ascended into heaven? Is that right? He
said, "If you find believers, and they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, I want to ask you: Have you faith enough tonight?
If we just--I'd get right down here in this aisle, stand right down here, and just stand there and pray. And everybody come by, lay hands upon that person, and let them... And if you got faith to say you go ahead and be healed, go out of here rejoicing and praising God. I'll do it, if God or somebody has to hold me up to do it. If you want me to do that, I'm wi... I'm here to serve you in any capacity you want me. We... How many would rather have that, than they would just go ahead with the regular line, raise your hand? All over the building now, I want to see. All right. Look, Howard. Contrary now. Who'd rather go ahead with the regular line and call out some things. If that's... put your hands. All right. We're going to line up and pray for all the people then. Amen.
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Just a moment. Just... I--I--I asked them something else. Oh my. You believe with all your heart now? Now, look. The Scripture says, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Is that right? Where's my minister brothers at tonight? Come here. You're going to see the glory of God tonight. No, sir. I want you to come right down here. I want to get right down there with the people myself. For all these people, some of them setting here, some of these poor people hasn't even got a prayer card. Now, everyone just be--just be reverent just a moment. Stand there. I'm going to be--come right down with you. Just make a double line of the cler--of just the ministers now, not--not the rest of them, just the ministers. We're going to have to make a line so they come around this a way. Just in a moment, my brother will start calling the numbers, get all the prayer cards first. And then we'll start from the prayer cards, then get the rest of them that hasn't got prayer cards. Are you now?... Every person just be reverent. Everyone stand just-just as reverent as you can.
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Now, let's see how many prayer cards we got in the building. Let's see your hands. There's probably a good hundred to a hundred and fifty prayer cards. Now, first, we're going to have the prayer cards to file in number, and we'll have a place for them to stop just in a moment. Then I want Howard or somebody to stand here, or I'll say... Maybe some minister to stand here at this platform. And as
soon as the prayer cards are through, then just keep having the whole group to line up and come through and be prayed for, coming through, each one to be prayed for and have hands... Now, you must know now. Are you sure that you believe? Are you sure? Are you convinced that the Spirit that's moving here in the church is the Lord Jesus Christ? Are you convinced? Do you believe in the Divine gift that God has given? Do you believe it comes from God? You do? Then if I have told you the truth for seventeen straight nights, then I'm telling you the truth now. Am I? I'll say this: If each person in here now, will make a committal, right now to God... See, make your committal to God. And the only thing you have to have to fulfill the Word...
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Now, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "If they..." Now, that's the last Words that Jesus give the Church. "If they lay their hands on the sick..." What will happen? "They shall recover." Now, if symptoms should arise, what would you say? "It is written." Is that right? Are you ready with your faith to say, "I am now ready to commit myself to God in this manner." If you do, raise your hand? Now, He... You are now committing yourself to Him to go through the order, just like water baptism, just like any other order of the Church--the Lord's Supper.
This is a sacred order of the Church, that, "These signs shall follow them that believe; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, that wasn't me that said that; that was Jesus Christ Who said that. Now, the first thing you must do, is surrender yourself entirely to Christ, and surrender your mind to His Word. "Lord, I won't act upon my own feelings, upon my own thoughts. I will only act upon Your Word. I'll have no control of my own thoughts concerning it. I will act upon Your Word." Now, get that straight. Now, you're not to go down and say, "Well, I've lost my healing." If you do, brother, it'll be worse than ever if you make this committal. You're to stand right now. Remember, just like coming into the church; you are supposed to make this committal, and say, "Lord God of heaven, I'll stand by Your Word, so help me, till the last drop of blood's left my body or breath." See? You believe when your baby passes through the line, it's going to be healed, sister? You do that? Frankly, it's already healed, but I want you to pass through the line anyhow. It's healed awhile ago. All right. But just, I want you to come through so you follow the regular...
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Now, all of you that wants to make this committal, put your hand on your heart, like this. Those who are standing here, those who cannot, lay your hands on there. Now, raise up your hand. Now, you now commit yourself to God, that from this time hence, you believe that you're healed by the power of Almighty God. You'll do that?
Almighty God, I now commit this to You, as Your humble servant, in the Name of Jesus Christ...?... Son of the living God, Who suffered bled and died under the--for the remission of our sins, and the healing of our bodies... Who has believed our report? To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Here it is tonight. They believe the report. The arm of the Lord is revealed. We believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and now rebuke every spirit of the devil that would bind these people in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. May it leave them, Lord God, as they pass through this line, and we lay hands upon them. May the same meeting be tonight, like was in the streets of Jerusalem, when the shadow of Peter passed over the people. We Gentiles believe the gift. We believe God. We believe Christ just as they did then. And we're just as thankful. And Lord God, may Your power sweep over this audience and heal every person in the building. And as they go through this line, may they rise, shouting and praising God for His glory. In the Name of His Son, Jesus Christ, we ask it. Amen.
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All right. Now, he's going to line the cards. And I want you to... Look. Will you still do something else for me? When the first hand touches you, rise your hands, and say, "Thank You, Jesus." Go right out through the building praising... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] God saying, "Thank You, Jesus. Thank You." Have nothing else but praises of God constantly rolling through your heart all the time. Yes, sir. Now, here I turn the service now to brother, while I go down here in the line to start this... [The prayer line is called. Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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I find that I could say from my heart that so many people were healed. It's the greatest fast line that I ever seen pass through in my life. Now, I could say, that at least eighty or ninety percent of the people that passed through the line are healed right now. I checked back with their hands. I tried to reach with my hand to feel, to catch vibrations, and they would be clear as they could be as they passed by. Practically every one that was passed through the line is already healed. God, Who is my Judge, Who I stand before, know that I tell that which is true. I see a blind man that's been in meetings for a long time, walking
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Now, I think what they ought to do, is all the brothers, let's line up. And everyone put your hands on the people on the wheel cots, and let me come down where you're at. All ministers, get around. And everybody in prayer now for these people. Now, you that's on the wheelchairs and in the cots, when the prayer is asked over you, believe with all your heart. God bless you. Look friends, from the depths of my heart, I love you with Christian-warmness of Christian love. Wonderful. Now, as you get around. Let all people bow their heads while we pray.
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Thank you, Brother Paul. Good evening, audience. That makes me feel real good to know that I'm welcome back after all the preaching, singing, witnessing. Goes to show that we have a mutual fellowship. It doesn't end... Even death doesn't separate us from each other. We'll live on somewhere. Love lives on; after all things are gone, love still stands. Where there's prophecies they shall fail; where there are tongues they shall cease, but love endures forever...?...
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Happy to be here, as I say again this afternoon, and have this opportunity to talk to you just a little while. It's warm. And tonight is a healing service, closing of the revival. And we're going to try tonight, if possible, to minister to every one that we possibly can, and put most of the time in for praying for the sick...?... Now, I got home just very late. The next day after...?... on Saturday on Friday night... And then Saturday morning I had a service. Saturday afternoon so late, I had several emergencies that had to be taken care of right at once. And then I left the service last night and got in just a little while ago, about an hour. I'll have service this afternoon and tonight. Tomorrow at noon I have service at New Albany, Indiana. So you see where it's keeps us just a constantly on the move. But we're very happy to be anywhere that we can speak just a little word working to...?...
I'm so thankful for the ministers here, and seem that kinda inspired or help them along. But that's the purpose of being here, is trying to help others. We... I could never take the message to all the world myself. It's going to take thousands of us together to do this and together when we can unite ourselves, forgetting about our churches, and our doctrines, and so forth, to just know this one thing: Christ and Him crucified, and know that among us. And I think that God is fixing to do a marvelous work right away. I believe we're going to see the moving of the Spirit, like we have never in all the ages. And I feel led to say this, which I've felt for some time, the last few weeks, that I believe that the little portion that God has given to me to try to minister here if I'll just...?... expecting for something else that'll be more marvelous than what you've ever...?... These signs that God has given me to do before the people. I believe it'll be more gracious than ever in Indiana. Pray for me. And others can catch the inspiration and just move up close to God like a great Christian army go marching on.
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I want to say again for me: the little presents and things that was give to me in this week, I didn't get to open some of them till I got home, all the things...?... Even the little girl that night when I got home... Someone gave me a box of cookies and...?... my little girl was very happy to have them. Now...?... this afternoon I do not wish to take too much of time... How many people are here in the building here today that's Christians, let's see your hands, Christians, all over the building. Oh, my. Is there a...?...or being that you're not...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape-E-4
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All right. Everybody remember to pray for the meeting. After the meeting...?... be gone sometime...?... just remember me in prayer. [Portion of the tape was not audible enough to include--Ed.]... great liberty...?... Remember what...?... And I can't depend on myself, for I...?... and I have...?... the Lord...?... that He'll inspire the entire congregation and lead His people...?... that He's God in the midst of us, and ready to glorify His works among...?... Now, I'm very thankful in that way. Can we just speak to Him just for a moment now, while we bow our heads? Our heavenly Father, we're very... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] for You, Who preached the Word [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ministers they are. Those who are without the Holy Spirit, may they come today.
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I wish to...?... from the way of...?... I believe that's the way the story goes. And--and...?... 'cause the father had received the-the...?... [Tape is inaudible--Ed.] I spoke to the church by power...?... About five years ago, I was speaking there on Sunday afternoon...?... down there with a little old...?... [Portion of tape is inaudible and not included--Ed.] They had the "Amen corner" on one side, and the ladies over on the other side there. And they were...?... and pedal songs on the organ. They had an old organ that you pumped with a stick...?... Did anybody ever see one?...?... Oh, yes... pump organ...?... Great big went out...?... [Portion of the tape is inaudible and not included--Ed.] I spoke to them about Divine healing that afternoon, and of course...?... I heard a...?... and I thought I'd go down and see what...?... four men who were standing down there...?... And they were...?... [Tape is inaudible--Ed.] and I walked up and...?... and they turned and looked...?... looked at me...?... took off his hat and said, "Good morning, Parson...?..." I thought...?... a great big...?... While I was speaking in the afternoon...?... service for about...?... Anyhow, the...?... come walking down the woods... I was speaking on the subject of the resurrection of Christ, when this big old boy standing back there...?... I ask for...?... and he ran to the altar, and hollered, "God, have mercy on my soul." And when he came up, why, he never got all the way to the altar hardly...?... Why, there was about fifty of those old grannies out there, grabbed him around the neck and down to the altar they took him. There was about fifty some odd conversions that afternoon. And now, they didn't get down there and a dry-eyed confession and get up. They'd prayed with him about two hours, I guess. They got up, and their clothing was so wet and just wringing them out where they'd perspired. They got up and shouted. And down through the woods and up over the hills they were hollering, "Hallelujah, hallelujah."...?... They might be embarrassing, but they had the old time Holy Ghost religion. That's right. 'Cause they...?... That's the truth.
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Now, while I read these...?... if you will. Over in 15th chapter of Saint Luke, I wish to read these verses of Scripture, beginning with the 11th verse of the 15 chapter of Saint Luke. And He said, A certain man had two sons: the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided--divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger... gathered all together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country;
and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... servants of my father's have bread enough... to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] And am no more worthy to be called thy son: [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] ... the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no... worthy to be called thy son. But the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him... put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: ... this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they begin to make merry. May the Lord add His blessings to the Word.
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As a minister, as a speaker I--I am not. My part, this lot here on earth is to pray for you sick people, which I greatly love to do. And I'm not... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] The only thing that I can say tonight...?... And you pray for me, all of you minister brothers, while I speak on this subject...?... for this meeting. The one thing... And notice...?... Jesus speaking this parable, He was trying to express the feeling of the Father to the lost, to those who were alienated from God, gone out. Remember, one time we were all sinners, cut off from God, without mercy, without any hope, walking about in the world, darkness, lost forever; Jesus taken our place as a sinner and died in our stead. And the Father sees...?... marvelous Gospel. I've often wondered what it was like to meet Jesus, what could I ever expect...?... Where--where would I be?...?... What would be my place?
PRODIGAL_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0827A E-9 [Tape is inaudible--Ed.]...?... to me not long ago...?... [Tape is inaudible--Ed.] to the doctor...?... [Tape is inaudible--Ed.]...?... all of my
sins...?... and I--the faith that I do not claim to be...?... Many times, the Christians here, we try to...?... with God. You say, "Well, this isn't very bad; but the least sin should be confessed, always, no matter what, how little it looks to you, it's sin in the sight of God. Look how little the first sin was. For the Lord had give to the human race... When the first sin was committed was...?... When the message came to heaven, and that, "Your son, has fallen..." Well, it looked like Adam ought to be running around through the garden, hollering, "Oh, Father, oh, Father, where are You?"
But Adam went and hid himself. And it was just like the first meeting, the Father's calling, "Son, son, where art thou?" See how man would try to justify themself. He'll try to stand behind someone. Instead of coming right out and saying what he is and confessing his sins before God, he'll try to hide behind a stump.
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And here, the searchings of God, walking, looking up-anddown through the garden, just grieving for His lost boy. The Father hunting, searching for the son, and the children, His son searching for the Father. And today, it's just the same. Just as soon as man sins, and instead of man coming out and confessing his sins before God, he'll try to get back. He'll try to hide behind something. He'll try to get a self-made religion. Look at Adam. Made--he made aprons of fig leaves, and put them around him... the fig leaves... But when they came to the place where God called Adam and Eve to stand before Him, they realized that they had a man-made religion. The word "religion" means "a covering." And they were covered by a self-made apron. You see it?
Now, that strain is in man yet today. And instead of trying to come God's way of repentance and believing on His Son, letting the Blood of His Son cleans us from our sin, we slip around, try to find some other way, some way of escape from coming God's way. We'll-it will--this religion... We will join this, and we'll do this with...?... And the fig made leaves, when they had to face God was no good. And you'll find out, my dear friend, that man-made theories will not stand when you're coming down to the last breath of this body and this life. It's good to live with those things, but you can't die by them. And I guess for my age in the ministry, I've probably stood by as many dying people as--as anyone of my age, because I've been much called on to the dying.
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Not long ago, a certain young lady in our city, had received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. She came up to the Tabernacle. Another young lady of the city, very popular, belonged to a modern type of religious group that denies the Blood and the covering, and said that we were a cult and a bunch of--of holy-rollers, because that we believe in the saving grace of Christ. If that's what it takes to be a holy-roller, then I am one; for I believe in the Blood. This young lady went to dances and shows, but she was the Sunday school teacher in the church. The church denied the Blood of Christ, said there was no such a thing. The pastor said it dried up nineteen hundred years ago: a social gospel. And by and by the young lady got out with some boys, fine looking little lady...
This little girl come up to the Tabernacle. She kinda dressed kinda old fashion. She used to go down the street, her hair combed back just as tight as she could get it without these, ever what you call the manicure on her face, and--or ever what the stuff is that they wear. On down the street she would go. Yes, it's the truth; we teach against it. God help preachers to get down to the Gospel. Listen, ladies, there was only one woman in the Bible that ever painted herself to meet a man, and that was Jezebel; and God fed her to the dogs. So when you see them wear that, say, "How do you do, Miss Dog meat." That's exactly what it was: God fed her to the dogs. You don't want to be like her. God will make you pretty in your ways: pretty is, as pretty does. But even our holiness churches are letting down. You know that's the truth. You better come back to the old hewing line again then, back to the Gospel.
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Now, notice. And this young lady, she just carried on every way: went out to dances and parties and so forth. She taken sick. They didn't understand what was the matter, and when the doctor got to her, she had a venereal disease, she was too far gone. Tried some shots, but it didn't work... So the pastor told her she would go right on to heaven, because she was a Sunday school teacher. So they all gathered in the room to see her go out and the Angels of the Lord come to get her. I just passed by that...?... a little while before that. The pastor was setting out in the hall of the home, lovely big home, fine people. Just stepped out of the room, and the Sunday school class was all in, singing songs to see her go to heaven. And the pastor stepped out to smoke out in the hall. And when death struck the girl, she begin to get hysterical; she said, "Where is that girl?" They said, "What girl?" Said, "Here's all your class." Said, "I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about that girl that (called her name), that's from up there at the Tabernacle, that used to speak to me about my soul?" Said, "Go get her."
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They went to the pastor, and he came running in. He said, "Now, honey, listen." Said, "We'll call the doctor and give you a shot. You're getting a little hysterical." She said, "I'm not hysterical." She said, "You deceiver of men, I'm lost and going to hell, because you taught me that." And the girl died and went out to meet God, lost, crying for the girl that had tried to tell her what was right. Look, brother, when you drop down to the end of this life's journey, you'll wish you had lived a holy clean life when you face God. Be sure
and remember that. Now, about your church, what you belong to, that doesn't mean nothing to God. It's what you are in your heart. That's right. God ain't going to ask you whether--what church you belonged to; it's what you are in your heart is what God is going to look at.
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Notice, how that Jesus speaking here about the father and the son going away. He must've been--had this on his mind, how that God's searching, calling, pulling the people to repentance. And today, the Holy Spirit's still going through the land, calling out to the lost and the dying. Before we leave this here, about the fig leaves, I wish to say one more word. Notice what God did. God, when He met with Adam and them, they had their own made religion. Hasn't been twenty-four hours ago someone said, "Brother Branham, you know what my religion is?" He said, "My religion is the golden rule: Do unto others as you'd have done to you." I said, "That's good, but that hasn't got any salvation in it." That's right. "Except a man be borned again, he will no wise enter the Kingdom." Borned of the Spirit of God, renewed, regenerated, become a new person in Christ Jesus: old things pass away and all things become new, converted, changed over, going your road this way, and turn and come this a way, vice versa.
Now, but then when they stood before God, Adam in disgrace come out and said, "I'm naked." Now, notice, God went out and got some skins, and come in, and made aprons, and tied them around them. Now, notice, if God got skins, He had to kill something. Something had to die to make a covering; and He killed something, and He got the skins off of them. And something died in their place, because the penalty was death. So an innocent victim had to die for the guilty to cover them up. And so is it today, brethren, not the golden rule (It's all right.), not to teach a man...?... But God gives something to cover you up, His Son Christ Jesus died on Calvary, the Innocent for the guilty to make a way that you and I might be innocent in Him before God. And that's just the thing you let the Holy Spirit is searching the land today to try to find someone to believe on Him, on Christ Jesus.
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Now, our story starts, a very pathetic story to me; and I shall try to approach it just a little bit now, this portion... Let's set a drama this afternoon, picture back just a little bit, so that the children might receive it. God, help our children. Not long ago, a great J. Edgar outfit, Captain Al Farrar...
Dr. Bosworth was making his address, fixing to introduce me; and just as he did, someone stepped up with plain clothes on, and touched his shoulder, said, "I'd like to have a word to say." Dr. Bosworth said, "That's not customary here, sir." He showed his credentials. He was Captain Al Farrar. And he said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Friends..." Ten thousand had gathered...?..."
And he said, "Captain... I'm Captain Al Farrar." He said, "Most everyone here knows me, because my native home is here in Washington, Tacoma." He said, "My business is to break up graft." And he said, "When I heard this Branham's a...?... I went to...?... the west coast to stop...?..." He said, "I've seen those things, and I heard you preach or speak; and it he didn't seem like a racketeer to me." Said, "We brought--went and got medical doctors, and sent a little boy in there that was--been paralyzed in his limbs with polio. The Holy Ghost...?..." And said, "When he came through... We've stayed two nights. Finally we got the boy in the line." Said, "When he came through, Brother Branham said, 'He's a victim of polio.' And he asked the father if he would believe. And the father was on the police force. And said he said he's...?..." Said, "Brother Branham said within a space of eight days the boy shall be well." And said, "We've watched him." And said, "The little lad is standing behind the curtain here tonight perfectly normal, returned back to school." He said, "I want you all to be well rest assured of this: We've checked their findings, what they do with them, and the things." He said, "I want you to know that it's not a racket, that it's truly the hand of Almighty God."
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The next day he taken me down to this jail where they had there. And they had the young ladies in there, some of them gun fighters. They were walking up-and-down the floor, cursing one another. Said, "What do you think of that, Reverend Branham?" I said, "Oh, my." I said, "Can I speak a word to them?" ...?... "Certainly." I went down to with the young men there. And there they were in their horrible condition. He showed me how they been...?... They put... They open certain cells, and can only keep them here. Someone would shoot him he'd touch the button here, and locked every police and everything, all around the place. Then after he was finished, he had two guards with him, and when we went down into the galleries, he said, "You like guns, don't you, Brother Branham?" I said, "Yes."
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We went down into the gallery, beneath, way down in a celllike. He said, "Here's where we practice with the young men. He
begin to tell how far you could be from one place to the other, and how to shoot, so forth. And I noticed him checking...?... at me. And I wondered what he was going to do, dismissing the officers that were with him. And we were in this little place alone, metal all around. And said, "Brother Branham..." Said, "Yes, sir..." He put his hand on my shoulder, and I thought, "Oh, my..." He said, "We wonder if there's a chance." I said, "What do you mean, if there's a chance?"...?... He said, "I--I haven't been no bad man." He said, "I try to hold to the law and do what's right." "That's your duty, sir." He said, "Well, I really want to find Jesus." And I said, "Do you believe?" And he said, "Yes, sir. But I haven't found...?..." Said, "I belong to a church here. I--I don't know Him." Said, "There's no need of me trying to fool myself." He said, "I joined the church that's in the neighborhood here." Said, "I don't know... Let's pray." I said, "All right, Captain Farrar, you--you can receive Him if you'll just believe." He said, "I tell you. Before you leave Washington, you set some place where we'll meet, and we'll go together, and there we'll talk it all over." Said, "You just fix it. We'll have a dinner and go out together, and so forth, and maybe I'll take the...?..."
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I said, "Captain Al Farrar, you can receive Him right here...?..." He said, "Not down in this gallery..." I said, "Yes, sir." Said, "Would He come down here?" I said, "He went to the belly of a whale one time. He went down in a fiery furnace to get some of His children out. He'll come down into this gallery." And there that officer, unbuckling his gun, and laying it on the floor, and putting his arms around me like that, God miraculously come down, saved him...?... going preached the Gospel...?... Preacher going out, seeing the Father is still turning back the lost. No matter who you are, what environment you're in, Jesus will come anywhere you can believe.
Look at this prodigal this afternoon, where he was: worst place for a Hebrew that could be in, a pig pen. Notice, look at the drama now. There's an old fashion country home. Let's just see it in our minds for a moment. I can see, living there, a lovely old couple, worked hard all their lives and had two sons. Of course, the son always falls heir to the inheritance. And then this younger son, perhaps... Let's say they'd went to church every
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if he hire somebody to take him there on the hill. One said, "Well, I just drive these horses within two foot of the rim at a full gallop and never go off." The other one said, "I can drive it within six inches and never go off." Said, "What about you?" to the next one. He said, "I stay just as far over as I can." He said, "You take me around." Don't see how close you can get to the sin. See how far you can stay away from sin. Get way away from it, just altogether shut it off. It's a shame that our American people do: wallow and doing the things. You go in some homes today... I've went to Christian homes, and open the ice box, and it would be full of beer cans, supposed to be Christian home. Christians don't fool with that stuff. That's right. What do you think you're doing? We've traded the old fashion prayer altar out of the house and made a card table out of it. That's what's stops your children from...?... it's parent delinquency. If the parent would teach the child and see where they're at, take care of them, it wouldn't be so...?... That's right.
We see young ladies, laying down here on these beaches, bathing suits on before men. And out here on the streets with some of these vulgar clothes on, and let somebody insult some of them, and you want to...?... That's right. Send her out like that or let her go out like that... So...?... I was talking to some little lady the other day; she said, "Well, I'm trying to get her some suntan." I said, "Look, I got a little girl at home; I don't know what will...?... but if I ever stre--catch her stretched out like that, she will get a sontan, but it will be Mr. Branham's son giving her a tanning with a rail or something behind her, just as hard as I get her home." That's
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Now, I can see the young man goes out from...?... 'cause...?... all you do is pass back and forth to the church...?..." I can hear them say, "Why don't you...?... Come on down to my house and live like a boy should live." Well, first thing you know, I can see him now: he's going to ask his daddy: "Dad, you're getting old, and mother's getting old...?..." But he comes in one day, and...?... his mother and father... First thing he said, "Father, I want you to give me my portion. I'm tired of hanging around the house here. All of my friends...?... They're all out going, has their own places. I want to do as the rest of them does." Don't you never follow the crowds; you follow Jesus. But that's the attitude of young people today: "I want to do like the rest of them." Don't never you pattern yourself by them; pattern your--your pattern by Him.
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Then I hear him say...?... I hear the father say, "Well, son, this is only way I have of making a living. This is the only livelihood." "Well, I have an inheritance, and you give it to me. My rights..." What is your right? I can see the poor old father; it bothered him very much. "Well, what are you going to do, son?" He said, "I'm going down to the city, and I'm going to live like the rest of them."...?... "...?... stay with mother and I, we love you with all of our heart, and we want to be good as we can be. We've done everything we can." But that wouldn't satisfy. Satan's got ahold of the boy. So he was going down to the city and live like the rest of the worldly people. Then I can see his father tell the mother, "Mother, you know would happen? Our boy has got with the wrong crowd. And he's a young man now, so there's--he's asked me to sell the farm and take all that I have and divide it with him and his brother." I can't...?..."
I can see the old mother. (God bless those dear old sisters.) I have one of them at home. How I love her tonight...?... by yesterday, and she's been so good to me, I like to look...?... Your mother hasn't got...?... I'm full of joy and peace when we go up there for a few...?... And I said, "Mother, I--I need to go...?..." This old mother, I can see her here in this story, as we see her go to her son and say, "Son, mother's washed a many clothes, and ironed, and tried to take care of you...?... Why do you have to...?..."
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"Now, I'd appreciate it, mama, you'd just get on...?... That's old time. I don't want nothing like that. I'm going to have my way. I'm nearly of age now. I'm going to have my way about this." I can see her put her arms around him and hug him. She just loved him and turned her head...?... He don't want a kiss in public...?... No affections...?... Next...?... The Bible said they would be this way. Paul speaks it: without natural affections. That's the way it is today. The child rules the home now instead of godly...?... They're the one who does the talking. It's strange: without natural affection. I can see the mother...?... She looked at her boy. "One of these days...?... and he think the world of...?..." That old dad that you'd be ashamed to set in...?... crossroad to church...?... That boyfriend and that girlfriend you go to church saying, "Well, look, friends isn't that's awful." You're just a little bit ashamed of him? There'll be a time when you won't be ashamed of it.
Not long ago, a young lady come in from college. Her mother had washed over a board to send her to college. And when she drove into the station, she had a--brought young girl with her, and she'd got away from God and away from church. The young girl was with her. And the young girl setting in the--the train looking out in the... There stood her mother on the outside; she was all scarred up. And the young girl was looking at her from the train, finally said, "Look at that old haggy looking woman." That was the girl's mother. Said, "Isn't she horrible? My, wouldn't you hate to have to set at the table with her to eat?" That was her girlfriend. Now, instead of the girl speaking up, she turned her head. And when she got off the train, this old wrinkled woman run up to her, and threw her arms around the girl, and kissed her. And the girl was so repulsed. And she'd got away from her, got away from church and God. And she was so cold; she turned her back to the lady. She said, "My, darling, my darling, what's happened to you?" And she was so embarrassed 'cause of her girlfriend...
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Just then, one of the conductors who knowed the story, walked up and grabbed the young girl by the shoulders, said, "Looky here, you...?... What do you mean?" Said, "Are you ashamed of your mother since you've been away at the college?" Said, "Remember, you know the story. One day the house was burning down. Your mother was a beautiful woman, far more beautiful than you are, or ever would be." And said, "You were a little tiny baby. When she was hanging her clothes in the back yard, and all at once the house caught fire. And here comes the fire engines to put it out. And the house was in flames. And you were crying up in the upstairs. No one would dare to pierce the flames. That little mother wrapped herself, and in there she run through those flames. She grabbed you. Took
her clothes from her body and wrapped your face up, and wrapped you all up, and put your arms and placed her own face to the flames. And through the flames she come to rescue you. That's why you're pretty today, and that's why she's scarred. Are you ashamed of those scars?"
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That's the way Jesus did for us. When we were sinners, ugly before God, cast away, turned away, He came, the lovely Son of God from the ivory palaces, come down on the earth, and took the shame upon Himself and the sin upon Himself, and died there at Calvary, crying. Should I be ashamed of His Gospel? Christians on the street are ashamed to stand up for the Gospel. But He was marred and made ugly, that you could be free. He was marred by sin that you could be free from sin. Don't never deny Him. Always love Him. Stand for that which is true. Stand for His Gospel.
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And now, that's the way of the attitude, nearly, of young peoples today. This young fellow feeling the same way, said, "Mother, I don't want no more to do with this family. All you do is go to church. That's all I hear..." Watch. I can see the old father put a sale sign up now. We're kinda dramatizing this of course, put it to the young people. Then, I can see him put a sale sign up, sell the old farm, and get all the goods together, and--and divide it up among the boys. Mother and dad will just live as long as the portion lasts, maybe, and then it'll be over. Notice, I can see when they divided the portion to the young boy, got his money in his pocket, he said, "Now, I'll have a good time." The next morning I can see him go and face the mother. "Old lady, pack my clothes now. I'm going to leave in the morning." Oh, my. How that poor old mother will go in and get the little things that he wore when he was a little boy, tuck them away, look at them. I can see her pick up a little pair of shoes...?... You know mother's like to keep things like that. Mama's got my old shoes that I wore when I was little bitty. She's got the long dress like they had babies then. It's a treasure to a mother's heart. And I can see this old mother take these little shoes, and set them up on the organ, get down there, and pray, and say, "Oh, God, take care of my boy. Leaving me now, I..."
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How many of you have an old fashion mother like that? Let's see your hand. Oh, aren't they lovely and sweet? "Take care of my boy. He's gone out with the world, and I don't know what will happen to him; only take care of him, Father." Praying... Did you ever have your mother pray for you? Oh, when my little old mother... I've seen
her go back in her room to herself when we would be without food, and kneel down on her knees, and cry out to God. God, give us some more old fashion praying mothers like that. That's the backbone of our nation (That's right.): good God saved mothers. I can see her crying out to God, "God, take care of my boy." No matter what you ever do, she's...?... Her heart's always ready to forgive, come back.
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Then I can see the old dad. He's just worrying, walking backand-forth, up-and-down on the outside. From the barn up to the house, back-and-forth. I can hear mother go to him, "What's the matter, dad?" "Oh, I don't know, mother." You know, how parents that are good, God saved people; they worry about their children. Now, I'm a father myself, and I got a little boy setting, listening at me right now. God knows I love him. I...?... one little...?... desire this afternoon, "Let me die ten thousand times to his one." That's right. Let him stay. The love of--that we have for our offspring. That's the reason God so loved the world, His offspring, that He came Himself to die so that we might be free; He faced the penalty Himself.
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Now, notice, this father, weary, walking back-and-forth, upand-down... The next day, when it come time for the boy to leave, I can see him packing his suitcase to get out there. I can see him go out, say, "So long, folks," and start off. Mother say, "Just a moment, son. Before you go, let's have prayer one more time." Kneel down on the floor, I can see the old mother and dad with their arms around one another, pray to God: "God, we've raised him and took him from this...?... He's gone out from the way from us now, wandering. Please, Father, take care of him." I can hear him say... Oh, this restless father is praying, he didn't want to hear them prayers of mother and dad no more. He had other things on his mind. That's the reason sometimes were impatient; just can't wait a few minutes, can't pray--can't wait for a prayer. But there'll come a time, friends, when you'll have all eternity to think about it. Pray now. Be ready now to meet the Master. I can hear them pray and get up, mother try to hug him, and he'd turn his head. And dad put his arms around him and cries, "Oh, you go off, go on off," and start off going over the hill. I can see father and mother standing there, with their hands, arms around one another, waving good bye to him as he went off over the hill, down into the city to be with the rest of the world. And this parent I can them return back into the house again, weeping, crying, and praying.
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I can see him get with the big crowds down there. And as long
as his money lasted, he was a good fellow. That's the way the world treats you. As long as you got money, you got friends. But when your money's gone, your friends are gone. That's dry weather friends. I know a Friend Who will stick by you if you haven't got a penny: Jesus Christ the Son of God. I've been to a place where I had not a cent. He loved me. He loved me just as much as I wouldn't have a penny as if I had a million dollars. He loves me just the same. That pure, holy, unadulterated love comes from God alone down into His people. That's the way we should love one another with that godly love.
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Notice, and I can see him as great in the places, and gambling devices, and halls of the ill-fame, and so forth. And after while his money was gone, and his friends was gone. He was a popular boy. He could've had a date with any of the girls. But when his money was gone, they were gone with the crowd. That's just the way the devil...?... As long as you've got money, and popular, all right, but when that time wears out, you're finished. That's all...?... the world. And I can see him. He had to get himself a job. So he went to a citizen of the country, a hog raiser. Look where he dropped from now: a Jew, not even supposed to put their hands on a carcass of a hog. And he was in need; He was starving. And he had to take a job. And they give him the worst thing. That's the way the devil does. Just as soon as he can get you started down the hill, he'll fight you with everything he's got. And then... I've seen much...?...
He joined himself with a citizen of the country. And the citizen give him two big slop buckets to go slop the hogs. Think of a place and who's...?... boy out there slopping hogs in the pig pen, away from mother, away from the religion that he once had, to keep away from hogs, now he was rooting at. That's the way the devil will do. He'll get you smoke your first cigarette, telling you there's no harm in it. And after awhile, you're a cigarette fiend. He'll tell you there's no harm in taking a sociable drink. I've stood by them before they went to gallows, stood by them before they was electrocuted, and "I never intended to..." say he, "to be a gambler. I never intended when I was playing cards to be a gambler. I never intend to...?... bottle out of a filling station. I didn't intend to be a thief." But only thing the devil wants you to do is to start, and he'll take on. Get over on his ground one time and watch him. You know what it means to do wrong, but there's an influence of the power of darkness, the prince of the power of the air that leads you trapped into these things. You've got to stand up. Separate yourself from the things of the world to come out and live for Christ. That's right.
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And I can see this child. Now, he's feeding hogs. Here he is down in the pig pen, slopping the hogs and eating from this same slop bucket. Feeding the hogs... Think of it, what he had left and what he had then. And the portion that he'd spent was really his father's that he'd earned. But here he was in the pig pen. All he could hear was just grunting of hogs. That's the way it is tonight for this nation. There's a many a mother's boy now out in the roadhouses--slop--out in all places of ill-fame. Many young ladies prostitutes on the streets... Why? Because they got away from home, got away from God, got away from the Bible, got away from Its teachings, went out and lived with the rest of the world. You stay away from the world. The Bible said if you love the world or the things of the world, the love of the God is not even in you. Stay away from it. And as long as that desire is in your heart to do that, come back to the altar. Amen. Stay there until it's all gone. Oh, my. That's the kind of old fashion religion that I'm speaking about, trying to take the desire out of you.
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I was first converted, a young lady came to me, and said, "Brother Branham," said, "what pleasure do you get out of life if you don't smoke, drink, or go to the shows, or anything?" Few nights after that about eight or ten sinners came to the altar. I said, "I have more pleasure in that in one minute than you could have in the world in ten years." Lost coming to God... That's where we have pleasure--Christians--seeing newborn babes in Christ coming in the Kingdom, soul that is eternal, something that's real... Now, I can see the chap down there now, laying in a hog pen. Nighttime, that old place would stink, so...?... in the hog pen, laying down by the side of the hogs in the trough. One night I can see a restless mother and dad begin speak about their boy...?... I can hear mother say, "I'm just so restless, dad, I don't know what to do. I just keep thinking about our boy. Wonder where he's at? Wonder if he's got something to eat." And his dad said, "Well, we've always been taught that all things work together for good to them love God. Let's pray." I can see them get down on the floor and begin to praying about little Johnny. I can hear them pray, "O God, save dear little boy. Wherever he is, whatever state he's in, take care of him, Father, and send him home." Where's he at? Down in a hog pen, going to the hog pen.
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The Angel of God come...?... "Boy, wake up." Talked to him, said, "Oh, what about you just get back home to...?... "Think of my father that has all the wealth that he has and all the things that he has given to me. Here I am laying here, dying of
hunger, laying in a hog pen, eating slop." The Bible said he came to himself. And that's what the church needs to do today, is come to themselves, to realize Who--Who is your Father, for sometimes we act as though we have no heavenly Father. For all the goodness of heaven belongs to the church: Divine healing, salvation, freedom from worry or anything, all belongs to the church. Jesus died, and we are--we inherit all that God has through Him--heirs of the Kingdom, rich...
My Father is rich in houses and lands, He holds the wealth of this world in His hands.
That's how we are. We just come to ourselves. Oh, I can see him as he begin to come to himself and say, "Oh, if I could just go home. But I've sinned, and I'm no more... I'm not worthy to go home. So what can I do?"
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To me, I can think clear to the time when he was just a little boy. When he was sick and mother brought...?... and back-and-forth, up-and-down...?... And now there's nobody to love and care for him. He's out in the cold world to shift for himself. All he hears is grunting...?... And I can hear him begin to sing an old song, maybe that his mother knew. I believe it goes something like this:
If I could hear my mother pray again, If I could hear her tender voice again, How glad I would be, would mean so much to me, If I could hear my mother pray again.
Is there old mother there that you'd like to hear her pray this afternoon. Many of you...?... Oh, if you could hear your mother pray...?... May God look down from up...?... pray now...
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Then I notice down there...?... I can see father getting real restless, get up and put on his coat and walk out to see a moonlight night, looks down across the path, wondering, "Where is his boy?" Old song my daddy used to sing when we first...?... old father singing like this. I used to see dad. He had an old red handkerchief; he used to carry out and was sticking halfway out of his pocket. He used to get up and sing this song:
Oh, where is my boy tonight? Oh, where is my boy tonight? My heart overflows, For I want him to know. Oh, where is my boy tonight?
Oh, my. Looking down the road to his boy who is far away... I can see the boy come to himself, there it sound like he could hear his mother praying. The Angels of God waiting to take the message, I can hear him raise and sing and say:
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Tell mother I'll be there (Let's all sing it.) In answer to her prayer. This message guardian angels to her bear. Tell mother I'll be there, ... heaven's joys with her to share. Yes, tell my darling mother I'll be there.
How many's mother has gone on today? Let's see your hands. Let's just hold our hands and sing that.
Tell mother... (Did you promise her you'd In answer to her prayer. This message guardian angel to her bear. Tell mother I'll be there, ... heaven's joys with her to share. Yes, tell my darling mother I'll be there.
meet her?)
I can hear him say, "I'll arise...?..." Here he comes, crawling...?... I can see dad and mother...?... sitting out on...?... out in the woods. Here he comes; the rising of the sun across the...?... shoes off his feet, clothes tattered and torn, staggering home. I can hear his mother said, "There he's comes, dad." I can hear dad say, "That's my boy." I can hear him say, "Oh, father, I'm not worthy to be your son, maybe one of your hired servants. But I'll just go on..." The, father and mother, down to the gates they went. No matter what he'd done, he's coming home now. Run, throwed their arms around him and said, "Go, kill the fatted calf. Let's make merry; this, my son that was dead and is alive again. He was lost and now he's found. Put a ring on his fingers, shoes on his feet. Put the best robe you got in the house on him." That's the attitude of the Father to every sinner in here that's staggered...?...
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I remember when I was lost and undone, out in the world, dying, a sinner, laying on a hospital bed. The doctor said I had just a few moments to live. But I cried, turned down the road. And as a child, I run to meet the heavenly Father; He kissed me on the neck, kissed away all my sins and cares. He put the Robe, the Holy Spirit on me, put the wedding ring on my finger; and I'm going somewhere
one of these days. Put me in with His people here, where we can rejoice and live together and be happy. Why? I was once dead and now I'm alive. Oh, my, I was once lost and now I'm found. There's many prodigals in the world today. There's prodigal men, prodigal women, and God calls for all to come to repentance. Is that right? He wants us to come. He wants you to come, all prodigals everywhere. I wonder if there is a prodigal here today that's strayed away. I wasn't...?... my time getting away. Is there a prodigal, raise up your hand, somebody that's run away from God, would you raise your hand right now and say, "Brother Branham, I was prodigal. I want to find Christ tonight"?
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How many hasn't got the Holy Spirit? Oh, you'd be shocked, hasn't got...?... I wonder all of you that hasn't got the Holy Spirit with hands...?... if you'd come right down here now. While we sing that verse again, "Tell Mother I'll Be There," and come right here and let's just talk over with God right now. Do you believe that He'll open the eyes of the blind for me, unstop the ears of the deaf? Don't you believe He'll hear my prayer now for your needs? Let's sing, just all together now. (That's right, come sinner friends, you... God bless you, my brother. God be with you. God bless you, sister. God bless you, my brother.)... to her bear.
Tell mother I'll be there... Tell mother I'll be there, ... heaven's joys with her to share, Yes, tell my darling mother I'll be there.
I hear the father calling the son now.

Oh, where is my boy tonight?
life.)
Oh, where's my boy tonight? My heart overflows, I love him he knows, Oh, where...
(Running here or there;...?... a hard
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I've got a father over yonder, I've got a father over yonder,
I've got a father over yonder, On the other shore. Some bright day I'll go and see him, Some bright day I'll go and see him, Some bright day I'll go and see him, On the other shore. (Let's sing it.) That bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be tomorrow, On the other shore.

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How many's got a father on the other side? Let's see your hand. Oh, my. How many's got a mother over there? Let's see your hand. Brother, sister, someday we're going to see them, aren't we? If you're not sure about your experience, come now, (Will you?), while we sing.
That bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be tomorrow, That bright day may be tomorrow, On the other shore. Oh, won't that be a happy meeting! Won't that be a happy meeting! Won't that be a happy meeting! On the other shore.
I remember when my brother was dying out at the hospital...?... "Tell Bill, tell Bill I'll meet him on the other side."
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Your moms want to know why we're waiting...?... gathered here...?... What do you think the Master thinks this afternoon? How is...?... see them gathered along...?... hungering and thirsting for life...?... Oh, God bless you my dear friends. Someday when this...?... will call, we'll grieve and...?... I believe that I have touched His glory, His heaven, the God. And I believe that the Father is well pleased this afternoon now. Seeking down in the audience and finding these that hunger and thirst for righteousness sake, that they may be filled. Won't you come, someone else, while we're waiting? Someone here that's not just know your experience isn't right with God and hasn't
got the Holy Spirit, will you come, gather around while we have prayer? Let's sing this good old song,
O do not let the Word depart, And close thy eyes against the light; Poor sinner, harden not your heart, Be saved, O tonight. O why not tonight? O why not tonight? (Will you come?) Wilt thou be saved? Then why not tonight? O why, tell me why, not tonight? O why...
Our heavenly Father, speak just now. Grant unto these to hear me come simply down to the altar, while this great moving of the of the Spirit...?...
Why not tonight...?...
You're here now; where will you be five hundred years from now?
Tomorrow's sun may never shine, To bless thy long deluded sight; This is the time, O then be wise, O why not tonight? O why not tonight?
(Will you come, the last call.)
Remember, your lovely home. I got to meet you at the judgment. Maybe the last time that I'll ever speak to you. I'm already...?... changed, listening to your drama.
... be saved? O why not tonight? You're "Almost persuaded,"
O God look. Won't you come. Many are saved, without the Holy Spirit...?...
"Almost persuaded," now to believe; Seems now some soul to say, "Go, Spirit, go Thy way, Some more convenient day, "On Thee I'll call." [Brother Branham begins humming--Ed.]...?... Seems now some soul to say, "Go, Spirit, go Thy way, Some more convenient day, "On Thee I'll call."
Just before you're seated, while the organ keeps on playing, I wonder if...?... come right now. Look, one of these days, before long, there's many in here that may be gone. I'll be gone one of these days. The moon will refuse to shine one day; the sun won't give its light. Now, if you're not just--know you're right with God...?... Now, I going to give...?... Now, remember, if--if God can reveal His secrets to His servant, then you know up in heaven...?... Won't this be a wonderful day? Won't you come? Young men and women usually just starting life, just at crossroad, you come if you're not saved. Will you come just now, sweetly, humbly for prayer?
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Someday it'll all be over and then you're going to meet Him and give an account for the deeds that's done in the body. One of these hours there'll be an atomic bomb strike this city of...?... nation...?... There won't be a living person or anything left, that might be less than year from now. Where is your poor soul going? Don't take a chance with it...?... come now. And you just stay on it playing along? You're church and all these that belong to church, but you really haven't got a real experience, won't you come? I'm very strangely led to make that--make...?... your hands. Looky here, all you Christian people. Look upon this scene. Do you think God would hide His eyes from that? If He keeps the sparrow that falls on the street? If He knows about the death of a sparrow, how about hundreds of sincere people praying. This is going to be a marvelous time. They're still coming, friends, from both sides. If you'll make your way, God will be very happy and be very glad to...?... you.
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Would you like to be represented in that number? What if it is found outside? You might die...?... This is what's happened...?... the coming of God. Oh, my, the last call was made. Where are you at? When you can...?... What if you was setting out of doors...?... heart attack will get you...?... Where would your soul be? Come right now while you have an opportunity.
Don't turn Him away, don't turn Him away,...?... Although you've gone astray; Oh, how you'll want Him to say, "Well done," On that eternal day! Don't turn the Saviour away from your heart, Don't turn Him away.
I can hear Him say to you tonight, as you're coming into last days...?... now. I want every one of you...?... if you will now tonight. If He will be...?... Oh, Christian, people everywhere, be in prayer for
these dear...?... one soul now...?... Is there one here wanting the Holy Spirit, you're in need? The same as...?... What did it mean to you tonight to receive the Holy Ghost? What did it mean to you...?... receive the Holy Spirit to really saved from a life of sin. They're sincere; they're hungering for God...?... holding you a half hour or more to give the altar call.
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Now, let's bow our heads everywhere while we pray. Minister brothers, will you get with this audience now, as they come? Go out among them and be...?... Everyone praying, everywhere. All these people here who's seeking God? Raise up your hands now, and just worship Him while I...?... Our heavenly Father, we, the prodigals from the Kingdom, strayed away. Many of us, dear Father, are not fit to be called Your children. Many, God, think that they're hired servants; but You don't want them to be Your servants. You want them to be Your son and daughter, to have assurance...?... Fill the ice box when they go to their home, when they're hungry...?... hungry and hard times, O God. Look today as many of them are remembering back, though wandering...?... of father and mother who loves them, who knows...?... mother who prayed for them...?... an old fashion father...?... Oh, wipe the tears from his eyes, setting...?... in glory some...?... today. And they're down there...?... looking this a way...?... altar calls is made...?... Sinners and souls seeking God has gathered around the altar. O Holy Spirit, move in great power just now; hover over this building...?... I know You're willing to baptize every one of them who calls on...?...
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convenient that Your kingdom and power be made manifest to these people. Open our eyes...?... this. How much greater it'll be, O God? Remember me in my days are numbered. My lot is set. Someday death's going to squeeze the body, and the life from my body and I've got to meet You, Jesus. And when I come, and lay at Your feet there, then I going...?... look for you, when the stars begin to gather...?... and my pulse comes up my sleeve, I'm going to be looking for You to stand there. You've...?... me: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil. Thou art with me, and Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. O God, now this great dark hour just before the most...?... cover me by the power of Holy Spirit just moving...?... stand...?... and be persuaded that they have come to Christ Jesus, entering at the door, the strait gate...?... the death angel... Now, as these are on their knees, give them...?... by You... Hear the prayer of those...?... the needs with all my heart, may You receive each one of them into Your Kingdom. May Your Spirit be on their lives
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May many of those that's standing in the balcony now, praying. May the Holy Spirit pour down those aisles up there. Call out your people Lord, and bless them everywhere, getting--setting...?... prayer, Father, In the Name of Thy Son Jesus. Mold those, heavenly Father, bless, we ask in Jesus Christ's Name, for Your sake. While you're praying, everybody here in prayer, raise up holy hands now and...?... needs and be merciful...?... [A brother comments concerning
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Thanks to...?... Good evening. Thank you. I'm happy to be here tonight. You say you're always happy. Yes, that's right. Since I found Jesus, I've always been happy. Are you happy? He makes us happy. Excuse me...?... [A brother adjusts the mike--Ed.] Thank you. Either my voice weakened or this. So he said, "Stand close." I... All these microphones... All right.
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We're very happy to be here the closing night of the services. We trust that God will give us a great, marvelous meeting tonight. I'm sorry that this is our last time. I mean that from my heart. I am. The only bad thing about these evangelistic services like this, when you have to say, "good bye." That's--that's hard. I just begin to know you, just like when you get acquainted. And there's some of the people here that's growed to love me, and so forth...?... And I've never had the opportunity to even shake their hand or anything. I apologize for it...?... I wished I could. My work has been always just rush into a city, then out of the city. I have found Cleveland to be one of the nicest places I was ever at. That is true. The... Everybody has been very, very nice. And I certainly appreciate that. My prayers is that God will bless you all, and give you an old fashion revival that'll just bring me hundreds of thousands of precious souls to be brought into the Kingdom of God.
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I want to pay tribute to my brother for his cooperating in the meeting...?... What a fine group of men they are. And I'm so happy to know, that these people here in Cleveland have such a...?... in this
city here. The teachers who...?... I'll tell you that God will...?... someday, if not, until this time that He will...?... that will inspire them, that'll send them out like it was first...?... Just all along, inspired with God... May revival break out everywhere through the country. I want you to get this tent full...?... if I can [Tape is inaudible--Ed.]...?... In many of those places that...?... before...?... I believe we're nearing the end of the road. I'll be happy to...?... I believe...?... you're at the end of the road. I don't know just what...?... Others believed on that, the vision I seen the other night...?... to go, and realize that only one... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]...?... ever since, great revivals break out over the city. Let's go ahead and praise God, for it's already done...?... [Tape is inaudible--Ed.]
Do you believe that? He was led to what the Father showed Him to do. And that was the...?... First born Son of God. And He was manifest to what the Father said do. And the Father was manifest to your face. Is that right? So...?... view of whatever God would do will have to come through your faith...?... He said...?... Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Now, there's many people touching Him. But she believed in her heart, for she said in her heart. "If I can just touch the hem of His garment, I'll be whole." Now, she believed that. And now, the closing of this service and things...?... I want to say this; that it's so hard for me to...?... here for...?... to the people in the way that it should be. So I pray that in my congregation that many will accept Him...?... Many critics, and they'll get the wrong impressions when you talk to them.
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And I--I do not worship that...?... That maybe... When He was telling me the real way that it is, it causes people to try to think it's your primary...?... into the miracle of campaigns. If I'd do that, if that was done from my heart, I believe God would...?... I believe it. If I was to try to get some men to--to look at me, to believe me for...?... I believe God would take...?... That--that...?... But to get it a little closer to what you can believe... In order to be healed...?... through here, that if He spoke it out, the people would get a wrong impression at this time, because...?... See, you, if you'll...?... The people that crucified Jesus Christ believed in an Almighty God. Is that true? They...?... to God. The Jews. In religions, holy, renowned men, crucified the Son of God, because they did not believe that He was God. And no matter how much they believed in Jehovah God, they can't believe in Jesus being His Son, in order to receive anything from Jehovah God. They set and read about it, Jesus, the Son of God before Jehovah...?... Is that true?
He told the Jews. He said, "As you have believed in God, believe also in Me." Is that right? Well now, if He was test His message...?... that the Angel of the Lord...?... "If you get the people to believe you... (Do you see it?) Get the people to believe you, and be sincere when you pray, no disease shall stand before the prayer." Now, I have the proof. These people believe Jesus? Then, how...?... God? Well, that's what you can do. But you should believe God, and the world believes this; it won't do you any good. Now, that's hard and I hate to say that, but it's the truth. See? Don't believe me as Brother Branham, believe and accept me for this purpose. Then when you believe me, you believe how the Angel has come for, that He is the Angel of God. And when you recognize Him to be that...
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I'm just His voice. He's a supernatural Person; I'm natural. He can bring supernatural to the natural man. He glorifies...?... speak His voice. He uses my hands. He uses my eyes to see visions. He uses my ears to tell us what the Holy Spirit uses you.
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When you're a praising God, it's your voice, when you're lost in the Spirit praising God. See what I mean? And if I should try to use one speck of my own thoughts, it'd be wrong. I must depend fully upon the Holy Spirit, on the Angel of God. Therefore, I only can speak as He speaks. And He can only speak as you believe it. Now, I do not expect everybody to be healed. There's exceptions. Many people are great lovers of God, raised up under the church. They believe their church. That's right. They believe God. That's... But as far as the supernatural being operating in a human being today, that's beyond anything they could swallow. But that's where the truth is. Now, that is the truth as God is my--is my supreme Judge, that's where the truth lays...?...
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People have their own beliefs drawed out today what they think that they're going to be, and the way it's going to be. It'll come just as according to that, or they won't believe it. And that's the reason they have their way. They thought the way Jesus was coming first... They had it all mapped out. He was going to...?... against the Roman Empire, and scatter everything, and set on the throne of David. But He didn't come that way. And God usually brings things different than what we...?... map-mapped out in order to--to seed the live tree. He will reveal it to babes such as will learn.
Now, God even hears this. Why did you go up here this house? I'm going to do all these guests tonight...?... then over to California, down to Australia to have a meeting. In order we'll probably have a India...?... some of those...?... from Jerusalem was telling me a few days ago just the...?... Got a million New Testaments, those Jewish people. Been out of its place for twenty-five hundred years...?... seeing had his newspaper: days the are returning back. They read these Bibles in the Hebrew. "Well, if this Jesus is the Messiah. We look at the Word; it looks all right. But let us see Him do a sign...?... upon the Jew." Jesus said, "Except you see signs, you won't believe." They're wanting to see Jesus of the Bible, do the signs for them to prove that He was the prophet sent from God. Oh, brother, sister, in your prayers, don't forget me, that when I come before those Jew that's been assembled together, that Jesus will come down and do signs and wonders of their prophet, that Israel might believe on the Lord Jesus. I believe it will be thousands of them saved.
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Victory is coming forth to us. We're nearing the end of the
time. You people, or the ones that are sick, you're the ones that's in meetings. And I'm the one that's sent to pray for you. I would have to answer for what I tell you. Therefore I must be sincere. And when you see God performing any miracle after...?... down here, just remember that what He does here, He wants to do there, down there, out here, and here, and over here. He wants you to do it everywhere. Please believe me tonight. And as you see Him working... If He tells some person here on the platform the things of their life, remember, He knows everything that's in your heart. Do you believe that? He know your thoughts before you think them. That's right. He knows all things.
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And He's here tonight just as He was in the days when He stood by Sarah there, and was perceiving her thoughts. Does He...?...? Don't... When He brought Nathanael to the Son of Man, "I knew you before Philip called you. When you was under the tree, I knew you." Told the woman at the well her sins. He put His finger into a deaf man's ears, spit, and the man could hear. What about here for health rules of the day? Get the original the Greek in the Bible. When He had the blind man, his parents talked to him. He spitting on the ground, talking to the man, and the words that He was saying over His lips, and the saliva in His mouth, spitting on the ground... You accept spitting on the ground? Then where He spit a great big puddle of spit on the ground, picked it up in His hands, the mud, and made a cake and put over the man's eyes.
Told him to go wash in the pool of...?... What would the health rules say about that today? But Jesus spit, and the man obeyed what He told him to do, and he came back receiving his sight. And they marveled, not because of the spit, not because of the mud, but because he believed what Jesus told him was the truth. Is that right?
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Now, that's what you've got to believe today. Believe it with all your hearts. Believe Him tonight. Believe Him right now. I feel It setting here, feel Him setting in. And how that God wants the Angels here right now. There's no danger. Don't you... Every one of you could...?... healed right now. You could be healed right here. Now, the only way that I know that's true, is because I see them setting there...?... The very God that created the heavens and made man to hear and speak, is in the building now. And then they who believe those things in here, I believe they're going far from their natural...?...
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And now, many of you here, no doubt, is suffering, some to be in my prayer line here. I do not know. When they come and call forth the prayer line...?... go forth from here and...?... That, I cannot say. But I know this one thing, friends. I do not know very much. But what I do know, I know it's the truth. That's all that I consider. And if God doesn't confirm that to be the truth, then I've told wrong. But if God says it is the truth, then I've told the truth. It's right. But that ought to be to every human here. Now, when I--I'm gone, remember this. If you hear anybody say that brother Branham is a Divine healer, you pray for them. I am not a Divine healer. I'm just your brother. And I've come here to pray for you. And God has proven that what I've told has been the truth. The deaf hear... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
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You say, "Where is the miracle?" If I could stand here in front of somebody around under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and tell that person what they had in their body and they was needy, one person anywhere in this building, it would be a miracle. Never had it showed that it was somewhere under the supernatural. God has done that. There's no one could do that except by God. An old...?... of your life that you've done down through life...?... Any of you setting up there, if I...?... out in here, it would be a miracle before God. That was the...?... that also believes He really means it, if God would deliver him...?... I usually say this to an audience when the night is never too dark, the rain never falls too hard...?... Wish I had...?... But my, there's so
many thousands...?... in here. I can't...?... But I'll say this: wherever God will send me, I go. If I could be right here now, just this meeting later, and the Holy Spirit in this meeting...?... to take a plane and go to... across the seas, I'd go right out now if I could. I would never leave the city...?... pray for the sickness. I believe it. It's obedience is better than sacrifice. God bless you all.
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Write to me, and send and get the little prayer cloths, absolutely free...?... Post Office Box 325, Jeffersonville, Indiana. Or just write to me, William Branham, Jeffersonville, Indiana. I pray over those cloths, do all that I can to help you. And don't forget to pray for me. I hope soon I can come back and meet again. Say...?... I hope you get that great big tabernacle you're talking about. I'll be your associate pastor of this meeting if you'll get the pastor to cooperate. And I believe he will. Can I be your associate pastor in there? All right. But I... [The audience applauds--Ed.] Thank you very much. That's very fine. Thank you. I'll do all that I can. Come back in certain season. You keep praying for the people. God bless my brothers and sisters everywhere.
I want to read just a Scripture, and then we're going to start this prayer line right away. Over in the Book of Numbers, the 20th chapter and beginning with the 7th and the 8th verse inclusive, I wish to read these words. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall bring forth his water, and thou shall bring forth to them water out of the rock: so that thou shall give the congregation and their beasts drink.
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Can we bow our heads. Heavenly Father, it's kinda hard for me to say "good bye" to this lovely audience of people: been so kind to me now for three weeks, constantly blessing me and giving me this...?... portion of Gospel, standing by me in the hours when we needed...?... and prayed, and called on God. We're so thankful for them. And now, Sunday night, as far as this meeting is concerned, the ministers and them, the last time in this meeting. I've tried to do all that You showed. And I pray, God, tonight that You will send the Angel Who will... down into our midst, that He might move by the Holy Spirit up-and-down through these aisles everywhere. May faith just be great, and many, many, many people tonight might be healed, brought closer to God since this day, for the great altar call,
and those needy and poor seeking. You said, "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it will be opened, ask and it will be given." Every one that knocked, it's opened. And every one that's seeking life... Create such a hunger and thirst in their heart. No one will have rest until he has found Christ. Speak to their hearts while the Spirit is drawing. Tell us now, tonight, in our hearts. Stands here ministering to those who are in need, Father...?... Spirit will be here and anoint Thy servant for this service, for we ask it in His Name.
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Gather the people together, and speak to the rock. I'm going to try to start this prayer line about right now. Pray for all that I can...?... It won't... Everyone will be prayed for tonight. What I'm speaking for now, is trying to find...?... for God in the...?... Moses had brought all the children of Israel through the wilderness. They began to chide God and Moses. And God had called their hand on it, sent fiery serpents among them that bit people. And then, God made an atonement for them through a brass serpent. They looked upon the serpent and lived. The only way they had to do to the serpent, is to pray for them. They looked and lived. Did you notice this, brother, sister? In the Bible, in I Corinthians 12 where the gifts are made known, when it comes to healing, it's in the plural, "gifts of healing?" But prophecy is one. But when it comes to healing, it's "gifts of healing," many different ways God does things.
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And He's always, since the beginning, as far as we know, has had a way for healing, Divine healing for His Church. Isn't that right? In the journeys in the wilderness, plumb back to the days of Abraham, how He healed Sara of being barren. He's been the miraculous working God all down through the ages. And if He has been down through the ages, and then come in here to the closing of all ages, could He belittle Himself in weaken His power and say there's no more to it? God forbid. Before my entered now, His promises will be...?... everywhere through the ages. Back in those days, why there was--wasn't as many people. The gifts wasn't needed as much as they are now. Just think, friends, that in the ministry that I have had from the Lord alone, I've seen many, many, many times more miracles performed than is written in the Bible, that Jesus Christ has done in these three years, in one unit, one group of His ministry. One group, He's done more miracles than has been written in this Bible. Everything that could be written in the Bible except leprosy, that I know of, has been healed, even to three specific cases of people who were pronounced dead, are living tonight, healthy and strong. Who did that? Jesus Christ. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And He's here tonight. And He, Jesus, was the Rock that was
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And the rod that Moses had in his hand, it was not the rod of Moses, it was the rod of God: God's judgment rod. Moses held it out over Egypt and flies came up. He held it out and fleas came up. Wherever he dumped this rod, it was a judgment rod. It brought judgment upon a disobedient people. And the rod was Christ, the Substitute for sin and sickness. And Moses took the judgment rod and smote the rock to bring forth water. Therefore, it was the judgment rod of God that smote Jesus and killed Him, the innocent One, and brought from Him, flowed the Holy Spirit to a perishing people now, that we'd have life. No more do we smite the rock, but we speak to the rock. And watch the nouns and pronouns. It... He said, "Speak to the rock, and it shall bring forth his (personal pronoun), his water. Speak to the rock and it shall bring forth his water."
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Maybe some of those poor Israelites... They left garlic and onions to eat Angel's food, and was complaining about it. They had left the muddy waters of Egypt to drink from the fountain of life, and were complaining about it. They had led--left the boasting physicians of Egypt to be with the great Physician, and was complaining about it. They left a bunch of people that believes the days of miracles were past to be with a bunch of people, believed that all things were possible, and still complaining about it. Isn't that just like the church today? Come out of Egypt, come out of the world, out here in this glorious Church of the living God, the firstborn, and 'cause we have little trials, God asked us to believe and to hold on. We still complain about it. Now notice, another thing they had done. They left the people back there that had no signs, to live under the Pillar of Fire and a Cloud, and was complaining about it. No wonder their water supply was cut off. That's what's the matter with the church today. There's too much grumbling about things, complaining. Be satisfied and keep moving on, pressing on.
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And when the water supply got cut off, God asked them to go to speak to the rock, that it would bring forth its waters. Now tonight, the only thing you have to do, is speak to the Rock and it will bring forth His water. And if you're on speaking terms with Him tonight... How many's on speaking terms with the Rock tonight, let's see your hands. Fine. Now, I want you to speak to Him about your condition, about your body, and He will bring forth the healing waters of Life, flowing through you freely that you could be healed tonight. Do you believe
that? God bless you, and make you a blessing to others. Now, where is the sick people? Are these in this aisle, and this aisle, and out here? Is that right? Well, notice. How many of you here is sick tonight and wants to be prayed for, let's see your hands. There's more than...?... I guess it's all... It's just a--just a...?... All right. All right. Thank you, brother. This is the audience.
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Now look, friends, you're the ones that's sick and wants to be healed. Now, you get right down to business for awhile now, won't you? Get right down and start praying right now. And just say, "Lord, in my heart, I know that...?... And You give me my desire." God will do it. And you up there that don't have a... Just look down here. What if you was setting down here sick and afflicted, and He was right here where I'm at? Now remember, God can show anything that's in here. I could have any one of you to stand up, and It would tell what was wrong with them. But that wouldn't heal them. They'd have to accept Jesus as their Healer before they could be healed. And now, would you believe this? That every one of you in here that's preached it, confessed your sins, is already healed according to God's Word? "By His stripes we--we were healed." He healed us when He died for us. The medicine was put in the cabinet, God's medicine cabinet. Did you ever believe He had a medicine cabinet? Here's what He was. Wasn't He the Lily of the Valley? Where do we get opium? From the lily. Is that right? Lily is where you get opium. What does opium do? It soothes every pain. What makes the opium take effect like that? First thing, the lily, before it can become, get the fragrance out of it, in the opium, it had to be crushed, mashed up and squeezed out. The opium comes from the... Then dispatch it, and it goes in mixed with others comes into it.
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all the opium of that Lily was squeezed out. God's got a great cannon full of it tonight and can, by faith, inject it into every sick person here. And you know, when you're on, you get opium, you just... Everything is calm, every fear has left. When the Lily of the valley, the opium is down from a natural lily, you get over it soon and have to have more in you. But this time...?... injected opium of His healing balm into you, you are healed. Every pain is gone. All the sickness is gone: the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the blind see, the lame walk. Isn't that right? So He is the Lily of the valley, He's the morning Star. The mighty praises of His glory.
And may the Lord keep as...?... I believe tonight He will heal...?... the straightening out of God of that person... sick people laying on these cots and stretchers. Heavenly Father, we come to the...?... now to ask You for Your blessing, Lord, and to heal all that's waiting tonight. May there be...?... of healing...?... [Tape is inaudible--Ed.]...?... May the Angel of God come through here tonight and expose...?... May He be already...?... down the aisles. We look...?... the silver lining in the Presence of God. May the Angels be upon us. And God, may He come tonight to here with power tonight, gathered around. May every demon power...?... May this happy people believe and see marvelous times. We've longed to see it, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. May the lady at the organ, or whoever it is, softly play, "Abide With Me." Everybody be just as quiet as possible. The other night I just... [A brother makes an announcement--Ed.] in the prayer line. The first person I laid hands upon was... or a minister standing near me. I believe it was... I forget just who this minister it was, one of the cooperating ministers. And watch dropped off my arm, hit the floor. I believe that was broken then...?... Everyone be real reverent.
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Maybe she's standing close to me here with a Bible and so forth. Oh, it would be wonderful for us now here. Just give me again the Spirit of our Lord...?... Now, of course He does. [Tape is inaudible--Ed.] What did... All right, those with prayer cards X, we're going to try to begin with the number 1, wave your hand so we can see. There's number 1, 2, 3 first. Then we'll take 4, 5, 6, then you'll have to stop...?... first. Maybe we'll choose another number then right after this fast line. Now, you have a prayer card, her with a prayer card...?... Just when you see your number's called, then you move...?... raise up you hand, and I want some of the ushers to come, and we'll get the crippled as their numbers are called...?... Now, while you're lining up, I want you on the right side, if you will. That little girl... Beginning with number-1 to number-5... 15. All right, let's have fifteen first. Number-1 to number-15, line up first.
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And now, little to say here...?... that boy back there, and the man setting there, they're seeing...?... pray over...?... See, call their numbers...?... They're along in there, then you just setting here...?... Very lovely. Can you get up?...?... will you--will feel a nurse standing...?... over there? Fell on her head...?... Please be in reverent and sincere. [Tape is inaudible--Ed.]...?... I'm standing here. I'm looking at some old mother...?... She looked at her prayer card, and she turned it over.
Her number happened not to be just that. She looked very much disappointed. I hope that... Does she... Looks tore up...?... But Jesus knows all about it. [Tape is inaudible--Ed.] Don't be discouraged. Haven't you heard... Believe with all your heart...?... Don't think you have no prayer cards. You pray real hard...?... just be of good courage; I believe Jesus is going to heal you...?...
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calling back and forth. Can you hear all right? I'm trying...?... Can-do you hear that all right? I can't find...?... normal, the baby's...?... It's just a little...?... [A brother narrates--Ed.]...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] How would I know that? Do you feel a real strange feeling, don't you? That's 'cause your faith in Jesus...?... [A brother narrates--Ed.] Now, if by the grace...?... the Angel should tell you what's wrong with you, and the desires of your heart, the things that's wrong with you, and the things that you have--have done, do you think then God will let me know what would be your future? You would? Do you believe that? Yes, amen, that is right. All right. I'm going to ask our Lord Jesus, upon that confession, to heal you, and to make you well, and then to direct me in my thoughts, not let me use my mind, but His Spirit to use my mind and tell you now what's for the future. You'll believe me?
All right, let us pray. Our heavenly Father, You're here to make known all things. And there's nothing but what You do know... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... here all know that, Lord, that You're God. There's no secrets nowhere. And now, this woman standing here, perfect stranger, never seen her in my life. But feeling the Holy Spirit near, and see her walk up here...?... to see what was happening. And then to be able to look down through her past life and tell her the very things of her life back there, tell her her troubles, and what's wrong with her... O Christ, that's what makes us feel happy. You're here manifesting Yourself. And now, Father, she makes this confession to Thy servant, knowing that she was not making it to me, but to You, believing that You'd hear. And I'm asking with all my heart: heal her tonight. May this trouble leave her, and may she be perfectly normal and well. May her testimony be great in her neighborhood, and may she even win many souls...?... for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Thou demon that's bound the woman, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, leave the woman. All right, sister... You may raise head, audience. Now, I, by God's grace...?... telling you what has been. I'll tell you what I want you to do. I pray God never give you rest in your soul until you have really surrendered completely to Him. I believe that you will do that right
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Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. That's where it is. That's all right. You going to say, "Praise the Lord," like that? That's okay. Look, God is a God of worship. And He must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth. Is that right? And anyone out in the world can mock and...?... They...?... and...?... and cut up, clap their hands for...?... And God bless you, sister. She passed by and said It was the Word. It took courage...?... laying in here...?... Isn't that wonderful? When He tells you...?... of someone else...?... ? The lady knows that I didn't know her, never seen her in my life. But when she come here, the Holy Spirit...?... begin to revealing the thing, comes right down. She commits...?... and God made it known. You believe that all right? Believe it, and watch it, and be reverent and...?... I'm trying to find out out there, coming across to me... There's somebody setting right in here...?... And I really believe you're healed...?... All right.
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All right. Every one be reverent now...?... She's a little hard of hearing. And she...?... She has kidney troubles, a pleurisy...?... Now, every one be real reverent while I ask for her healing, to heal this woman. Well, she's... She's got to reach out...?... That's been for a long...?... Our heavenly Father, we come to Thee in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, asking that You'll bless these who we bless. And this poor woman here has walked up here sincerely. She come and waited justly, honorably, received a prayer card to come here before this audience for her...?... let her come that she might be healed. As our lot tonight... As they cast the lots, it's...?... the disciples...?... may pass through the...?... tonight...?... must be brought to the platform.
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Now, I'm standing...?... here. Your Spirit has discerned the diseases and troubles of her body. Now, I ask Thee, as Your humble servant, to make the woman whole as all the people are looking on, many of them in great admiration of the Spirit of God, that's in our midst tonight, knowing that now they can go away and speak for You,
and say, "Oh, I am whole today. He's here. I was light...?... when the Presence came down, and seen It perform miracles." And I'll be a stranger stand up for that which they've heard preached, and that which is right." And now, Father, help our sister and liberate her from being in bondage of her affliction. Give Thy servant faith to challenge these demons. Foul spirit of infirmity, I adjure thee by Jesus, the Son of God, to come out from the woman. Well, her faith has healed her. Go now...?... [A brother narrates--Ed.] Now, all of your afflictions have left you, my sister. You're healed. Go on your road rejoicing, thanking God. Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. Well, that might not mean much to you. But what if you had a tumor in... And remember, tumors are...?... Whatever it was... Thank you, lady...?... All right. Everyone be reverent, and let's pray.
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All right, everyone bow your heads. O Jesus, the Son of God, Author of Life and Giver of every gift, send Thy blessings upon the woman, and make her...?... she may be healed tonight, go away from this building rejoicing and happy, praising Thee for all of Your blessings. Hear the prayer of Your humble servant. And may the power that has bound her, turn her loose in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Just a moment. Keep your heads bowed. Do not...?... raise your heads, 'cause it'll go right from one to another. There may be a spirit...?... O eternal God, Author of Life, realizing that by faith, faith alone are we healed. I pray that You'll give faith now to Your servants here. May the Name of Jesus Christ, the spirit leave the woman. Come out of her. Lift her up...?... [Tape is inaudible--Ed.] All right, you're healed. All right...?... All right. You can raise your heads and look. Well, that's okay. Raise your head and say, "Praise the Lord." All right. Go off believing...?... Let's say, "Praise the Lord."
You know what's happened in that case? The woman was told of her condition, and a deaf spirit had entered the woman, which went off of that woman standing there a few moments ago, and...?... There it was. When she first walked up, I could feel it...?... feeling when I took hold of her hand. It settled on her setting there. My, be reverent, friends, everybody. Now, just a moment. Everybody real reverent. Look here...?... (Bow your heads.) Now...?... Of course, you don't need... Have you been a...?... That's all right now. I know that spirit
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left her, so that it touched... Stand on your feet. Jesus has healed you of that anemia condition. Amen. God bless you, sister. Amen. Now, I know that spirit, when it went off of the woman here, that anemia, it went... I didn't know whether it settled on that woman. Of course, you was anemia in the first place. Is that right? All right. Jesus Christ gives you a transfusion tonight. You can go now and be well. God bless you. (All right. You take it.) Oh, my. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." My, I just feel His Presence is near. Let's say--say, "Praise the Lord." Yes, sir. He wants to be praised.
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Would you obey me as God's servant, sister? You will? Go off the platform rejoicing. Be healed of that arthritis you had...?... [A brother narrates--Ed.] That's the way to do it...?... working among His people. You're being healed? He will do it if you will just believe Him, won't He? Now, really and truthfully, friends, the Holy Spirit... The healing of the Lord is just coming down and anointing wondrously now. I see It moving in everywhere. That's the way. This lady here, arthritis is what got you, wasn't it, sister? You setting in your wheelchair, arthritis case. I thought the other one over there was arthritis, but it's not. And then I don't know. Just a moment. Now, God can reveal what's wrong with you now, not for your healing, but I could tell the action of this, it's arthritis here, from the way it pulled away from that lady. No, yours is not arthritis. If I'm not mistaken, yours is multiple sclerosis. Is that right? If it is, raise your hand. That's right, lady. All right. I can see the way it's reacting back, lady. Now, have faith. King George of England was healed a few weeks ago of multiple sclerosis. Just have some... Brother dear, I might even tell you what's wrong, but Christ is your Healer. Have you confessed everything, everything that you know and live right before Him? Now, just keep praying, because He's dealing with you now. That's right. Now, just be real reverent.
TAKE.THE.ROD.AND.GATHER.THE.PEOPLE_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0827E E-37 Everybody, believe God. [A brother narrates--Ed.]
I don't know what's wrong with you. But you're believing, aren't you? You're a believer? Yes, sir. I--I know what's wrong with you: cancer case. The same as Christ can heal you and make you well, sir. Do you believe Him? Will you serve Him? You're all...?... You've been this way for quite awhile, haven't you? I see you've had lots of experiences. Have faith...?... is gone from you...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape-Ed.]
See? Your sanity is very thin...?... spiritually...?... You're laying there, which you could get up and walk alone if you wanted to. All you need is Somebody to have to help you...?... but Somebody's here to help you; that's the Lord Jesus Christ here, support you and...
Did you ever see a person that was possessed of demons? They're many times their power, because the devil has given them super power. If the devil can give a man five or six times his power, what ought the Holy Spirit to do? A million times your power. He is your Strength and your Help. Do you believe that? Have faith in God.
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And you do this for me. The first time from now until this time on, when you feel something move through you (See?), when you do that, you come up from there, go on home and be blessed. Now, I'm leaving that to your faith in God. When you feel in your heart that God has blessed you to heal you... I can see what's wrong. I can see the experiences and things. And that's true. But I can't maybe just... But I couldn't say you were healed until I see your conditions. When there comes a Light around you, then I know you're healed. And then it's over. Oh, isn't He marvelous? The Holy Spirit is out among the people. He just is there, everywhere.
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What's the matter, sir? You that's looking at her, next to the lady...?... You've got something on your heart, too, you're praying about, haven't you? You're trying to find out. I also know what's been said. But I see you're trying to contact God, aren't you? If you would be setting...?... You're setting near, so I can see you and be...?... All right, everybody believe...?... Every one have faith now. Now, of course, you realize that...?... Now, he's a stranger to me aren't you? You--but you realize also that--that you're... Something's happening to you. You feel real strange (Isn't that right?), because of the Presence of His Majesty, the Spirit of God. You need Christ, sister, don't you? You know what I'm speaking of. Look, you're a tubercular case, lady, aren't you? A demon... [A brother narrates--Ed.]...?... You believe me with all your heart? Will you do as I would ask you? All right, sister. Let's pray. Our heavenly Father, something strange about this case. And I do not understand just right. You started the vision going, and then it died. May her faith be raise to a spot to where it should be for her healing. Forgive every sin. And I pray that You'll bless her and heal her, and make her completely well. May she be a great testimony in her church...?... if she shall return, and on the streets, and wherever she goes. Grant this, Father. May the demon of tuberculosis leave her now. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, come out from the woman.
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Now, sister, it would not leave the woman. You may raise your heads just a moment. I wish to talk to the lady. There's something wrong.
Now look, sister. I want to show you. Move your hand over on mine. I want you to look at my hand. Looks just like any other man's hand? Now, I want you to watch me put your hand on there. Watch the...?... germ draw it up, red. And just watch it. First, take this hand over here and put it on, this hand here. Hasn't changed any, sister. Now, take... When this hand's on... [A brother narrates--Ed.] Looks like it's going to burst...?... Now, if you just will remove your hand, see, that leaves it. If I lay the other hand on there it's all right. Now, watch. You take your hand off and I'll put my hand on...?... Is that right? Now, you put his hand on. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
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Now, you see it? Do you see it? Do you see it? Now, you seeing just what I have said through this microphone? If that's the truth, raise this hand up so the people will know that is true. Now, see how it's moving? Now, let's...?... Watch it. Now, here it comes again. There it is again. That's just in waves, roll over this audience. That's the way it moves. Now, she's standing right here...?... There it went. There it went again. There it goes again, watch it. There it is...?... That's your father there. [Tape is inaudible--Ed.] And a gift of God is here, a gift...?... And a germ is a life. You see...?... And that germ is a life. And you have a human life you can contact. And this Spirit that's here and that spirit there that's giving you that tubercular, knows that the hour is near, and pushing back (See?), when that spirit goes out to meet, just like a warfare.
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Now, if I could get you up into the category to believe this right, that it's God... It's the... That's right. And you--and you'll give Him praise? Now, you see signs a happening here. Something has to happen. All right. I want you to watch my hand. Believe with all your heart. Now, looky. You want me to...?... in her life. Live for Him just as reverent as you know how to live the rest of your days. You'll do that? All right. There it goes now. Without seeing...?... You can see at my hand yourself. Now look. Now, something has happened, hasn't it, sister? There's the same hand. Look, there's not a sign nowhere, is there? Now, here's a lady here. Is that the truth lady? So they can hear me. See, not a sign, the same hand. I never even moved it. There it is. You're healed, sister. Go off... May He just now go on your way rejoicing and praising God.
TAKE.THE.ROD.AND.GATHER.THE.PEOPLE_ CLEVELAND.OH SUNDAY_ 50-0827E E-43 Let's say, "Praise the Lord," everybody. [A brother narrates-Ed.]...?... as you can now. Believe with all your heart.
You believe with all your heart? See, you're already healed. God has healed you. God bless you, sister.
Let's say, "Praise be to God." God healed her standing right there on the platform. Let's give God praise like this...?... Amen. He's the Lord. No one you can touch except Him, to be made well. Do you feel all right now, lady? Amen. God bless you. Your little friend there... She reached over and got a hold of the other lady's hand, is holding her. Sister, when your prayer card...? What's your number? How far back are you? What say? Oh, yes. Stand up, sister. Do you believe with all your heart? You have tumors? Is that right? Do you believe? If you do what I tell you to do... You go home praising God, and saying, "He blessed me, I'm completely whole." Do you believe that? [A brother narrates--Ed.]...?... Somehow, I'm happy. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [A brother narrates-Ed.]...?... Stand up just a moment...?... Don't have no doubt. Do you believe Jesus Christ, this is the Spirit of Christ is moving in on you tonight? [A brother narrates--Ed.]...?... is here? All right, your heart trouble has left you. [A brother narrates.]...?... That's what you had, wasn't it? But you don't have it any more... [A brother narrates.]...?... Isn't that right? God bless you. It's gone now. You're healed. All right...?...
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Now, here's a cancerous spirit moving right here, now. Now, watch this just a moment, friends. There's somebody... You must be the patient. Right here is this woman setting on this end with a white dress on. Aren't you extremely nervous, sister? Is it a nervous trouble? Yours is also, isn't it? Nervous? All right. Both of you go home. You're healed, both of you, of nervous trouble. I see your spirits... [A brother narrates--Ed.]...?... has blessed you now. You can be happy, rejoice, and say, "Glory to God." Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Oh, my. What more could be done? Just come close. See here, bowing his head like he was crying, nearly. When you leave here...?... this men here...?... nobody say...?... through there. The aged brother setting there. I probably can't make my words normal to him. He can't hear me, just what I'm speaking of...?... Well, the young man setting there, you have a skin eruption, don't you, brother? Does it bother you a long time? Jesus Christ makes you well, young man. Just go believing. Be free. [A brother narrates-Ed.]...?...
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You believe Him? Oh, I'm looking for Him to come down and heal everybody right now. Can't you believe that? Oh, mercy...?... How do you do, sister. Do you believe? With all your heart? [A brother narrates--Ed.]...?... what's in your heart. It's heart trouble. Is that right? Do you believe...?... go home, you're not going to have no more
heart trouble. That's left you all... [A brother narrates--Ed.] Coming here and moving up this way. Has the same thing this lady has here: it's cancer. There's a close relations pulling right through here now. Both them demons realize that the power of Jesus Christ is here to make both of you whole. You believe? Will you believe it, sister? Do you believe it, lady, with all your heart? Let's have prayer for both of them right now, and ask God to heal them...?... Heavenly Father, as we stand here... [A brother narrates--Ed.] O God, have mercy as I intercede for two dying women, laying here...?... I now ask this demon power of cancer to leave these people, and to go out in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Go out of here in strength, believing God...?... Walk in the strength of the Lord. Go off the platform rejoicing, happy...?... You can do the same thing, sister. Amen. Have faith, everybody. You believe? Look and live. Christ is here to make you live.
Now, we can call another number if you wish to, or you can come right here to the platform, and call them right here. I believe God can call you from right here. Don't you believe it? I believe that each one of you can be called right out where you're at right now and be healed. Will you believe that with all your hearts? How many... Who has believed the report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Now, He's here and can heal people. Oh, sister. The first lady was here. You're... All right. Serve the...?... that you do. It's all over now. There's a man leaning around back there. He's kind of a men with a white looking shirt on. You...?... It's your faith coming, brother...?... wrong with your leg. Isn't that right? There's something wrong with your eyes, too, isn't there? The man setting right back there with the white shirt on, looking at me, you have eye trouble. There's something wrong with your leg, too. Is there something wrong with your leg? You just recently got hurt, didn't you? You got hurt. I knew there was something. Something fell on you. Is that right? Something fell on you. Say, you just recently become a believer, too, be a Christian. You belonged to another church, didn't you? I believe... I'd say you was... yes... No, you belonged to a Christian Science church, I believe. Isn't that right? And you just recently give your heart to Christ? Isn't that true? Stand up on your feet. Jesus Christ makes you whole, and your legs are healed. You're healed. God bless you...?... [A brother narrates--Ed.]
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Everybody believe just a moment now, everyone. Look, the power of God is a moving through now, swiftly. This aged woman setting out here, look this a way, sister. You are
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suffering with a female trouble. Isn't that right? A female trouble... Christ, the Son of God, makes you whole, sister. That man there with the cane, look this a way, sir. Have faith, believe. Oh, brother, you're aged. But look, you're a preacher. You're a Gospel preacher. Isn't that right? That is right. You're suffering with heart trouble and arthritis. Is that true? God bless you, my gallant brother, make you every whit whole. You waved your hands to Christ for years, that sinners could come and repent. God shall reward you. Go home and be healed and well. God bless. How many in here will believes with all your heart just now? Young man holding up your hand back there, stand on your feet. Jesus Christ has healed you of that heart trouble you had. God bless you. All right. How many will accept Him right now as your Healer? Believe with all your heart. Have faith. Stand up, every one of you, and accept it right now you're healed. That's the way to do it. All right, brother. Stand up over there. That's right. Come out. You, sister. Somebody get near this woman here. God bless you. Christ does it. Hallelujah! Now, every one of you is healed. O Almighty God, Author of Life, Giver of every... [A brother narrates-Ed.]...?... Accept it right now. Christ, the Son of the living God, is here to heal every person.
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