LE PROPHETE ELISEE
E-1 ...?... Shall we pray. Our
heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight for the opportunity to talk to
Thy children, the purchase of Thy Blood, once more this side of the
coming of Jesus, the end of all things on this earth. So we thank Thee
tonight that they have come out, and I am so happy to know that Thou
has promised to meet with us wherever two or three were gathered
together.
And now, O Lord, move afresh with the Holy Spirit upon us. Bathe our
souls in His power and in His beauty, and let nothing be seen except
Christ. And may I be able to speak words that would cause the sick and
the afflicted tonight... As this night is set aside for them, may they
see that Jesus is willing and waiting their coming. And may many be
healed and even many saved, for we ask it in Christ's Name. Amen.
E-2 Now, we are happy to be back in the service of the Lord tonight and since... Kinda held the crowd a little late this afternoon and in the speaking at the Philadelphian Church, but we really had a wonderful time at the Philadelphian Church this afternoon.
E-3 The lady that's going to
hear me say this might smile just a little, but she was raised a
Methodist. And there was a message the two gave in unknown tongues and
interpreted. I've seen that just ridiculed. I've seen that just not put
in order at all, but this afternoon the way it come, not a whole big
conglomeration of it, just as the Bible said, three... And two of it
went to the--the people, the laity; and the other was directly straight
to the ministry. And the lady come out; she said, "Hey, wasn't that
marvelous?" And so I say, "Amen, it was."
It was marvelous to see the Lord come right back down, moving in the
same type of Spirit and done just exactly. That's living... That's
setting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. I believe that
with--with all my heart.
E-4 And now, tonight we have set this time aside for a prayer line to pray for the sick. And tonight, God willing, I want to pray for the sick just like Brother Roberts does, and Brother Tommy Hicks, and Brother Valdez, and--and Jack Coe, Brother Osborn and them, just take them and pray for them.
E-5 So I had a pretty good
South supper, an overgrown hamburger, a great big one and--and all the
trimmings that went with it. So I--I come in to usually under
the--the--the discerning of praying, I come constantly in prayer so
that there won't be... just have to watch every moment...
But tonight, just to be free to speak awhile and then bring the people
through and talk with them and pray with them, and see... I believe the
Lord's going to do a great thing here tonight; I just believe it. And I
kinda got a little fleece before the Lord. If that seems to work just
right, well, then maybe the Lord would permit me then to go ahead and
pray for the people like that every night, whole groups of them.
So as Brother Joseph said a few moments ago, he--he's a fine little
Swede. He sure is. I love him, but, oh, my, he--he says such nice
things. And I don't want him to say it, but he says it anyhow about not
wanting popularity, never wanted pop... I want to be honest, not
popular, honest.
And I don't say nothing to be popular. I don't mean to be that way.
That isn't... The only one place I want to be popular is when Jesus
comes. I--I want to be real popular then, Him say, "Well, it was well
done, My good and faithful servant. All these is come now, all of you
come together." Oh, my. I just want to walk right close to Him as I
can, don't you? So that's when I want to be popular.
E-6 When the late Mr. Roosevelt
come to the little city (my city's too small for him), but when he come
to New Albany, just below me... I think we got about twenty-one
thousand; they got about twenty-seven thousand. But he stopped there in
one of his elections and electioneering, and, oh, my, everybody just
filled the whole country around there to see Mr. Roosevelt. Well, I was
like Zacchaeus, I was too little. So I... to look over the crowd, so I
got way up on top of the hill.
And the train stopped near the river. And he stood on the back po--or
the back part of the train to make a little speech. And so I backed my
truck up to a shed and climbed up on top of the shed to look. I
thought, "Well, you know, nobody knows I'm here now; probably Mr.
Roosevelt doesn't either." Doesn't make much difference.
But I want to live so that when Jesus comes, that He will say to me
like He did to Zacchaeus, "Now, come down off of that shed." I'm sure
we all feel that way, don't we?
E-7 Not long ago, a brother
that used to be with me and managed my campaigns, Brother Baxter, he's
preached right here in Chicago to you many times. He was speaking at
when the late King George and the Queen came by Vancouver... That was
before he was healed. And he had ulcers in his stomach and he had a
multiple sclero--sclerosis and he just could hardly set up. But yet
with his royal blood, he set like nothing was wrong with him as he
passed down through the streets. And Mr. Baxter said he just stood
there and wept, because there passed by his king and queen. I thought,
"Oh, if that would make a Canadian feel that way about an earthly king
and queen, what will it be when Jesus comes?" My.
When I see Him, when we crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords, and
I hear all the "Hosannas"; when all the redeemed of all ages stand on
this earth, a singing praises and songs of redemption... And around the
earth there will be a circle of angels with their heads bowed, don't
even know what we're talking about. They've never been redeemed. They
don't need to be redeemed; they never fallen. But we, who have been the
fallen race of Adam, we needed redemption. So that's the way we can
sing what it means to be a redeemed. He has redeemed us back to God by
His Blood.
E-8 Now, I'm looking forward for that day, putting every effort I can and know how to the good of the Kingdom of God. Misunderstood? Certainly. That's right. But I expect that. If I wasn't misunderstood, why, I guess I'd have to check up and see what was wrong.
E-9 Now, tomorrow night, the
Lord willing, if God is willing, I wish to preach on a--a salvation
message, and we'll expect... Bring your sinner friends in tomorrow
night for an altar call, and then we'll just see how many that'll
serve--get to serve the Lord tomorrow night. 'Course, tonight too, or
anytime you want to serve the Lord, that--we're ready to show you the
way, the best that we know how, to introduce you to the Lord Jesus.
And then, 'course, tomorrow night we'll have prayer for the sick just
the same. And then the next night is my last night, but the meeting
continues on with great servants of the Lord to be here, great men,
great forceful speakers. And I'm sure you'll enjoy them very, very much.
E-10 Now, tonight just by way of
text and to get out just a little early, if the Lord willing, and to
give a little extra time for the prayer line. I wish to read a text out
of the Old Testament in the Book of II Kings the 4th chapter and the
21st verse.
And she went up, and
laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and
went out.
And, now, may the Lord add His blessings to His Word.
E-11 Just one more word to Him
before we speak, shall we pray. Heavenly Father, now, this is Thy Word.
And we're so happy tonight that--to know that we have the freedom of
speech yet in this our beloved country. And, oh, how it grieves our
hearts to see it just gradually, like termites under a house eating it
up...
And, oh, how we love to speak of Thee, and to speak to the people of
Thee, and to see them that loves You, their faces light up and tears of
joy run down their cheeks, knowing this, that someday we will receive a
Kingdom when Jesus comes and sets upon the throne of His father, David.
And there'll be a thousand years that peace shall reign in every heart.
Oh, even nature's groaning, waiting for that glorious time, that day.
And we're looking for the coming of the King.
And as we're here tonight 'lectioneering for Him, O God, I pray that in
some way, in Thy Own way, that You'll speak tonight to every heart, and
let those hands that hung down be lifted up. And I pray that You'll
bless the feeble, the ones that's sick and weary. May they be
strengthened tonight, going out across this school yard with their
hands up in the air after the meeting, rejoicing and singing praises to
God, those in wheelchairs be walking, and shouting, and leaping, and
jumping for the glory of God. Father, grant it, for we ask it in Jesus'
Name and for the Gospel's sake and the fulfilling of the Word. Amen.
E-12 Our subject tonight is
about an Old Testament prophet. We... How many was at the Philadelphian
Church this afternoon? Let's see your hands. That's fine. And now, we
were speaking on an Old Testament prophet this afternoon, Micah. And
the Bible, or the Hebrew letter tells us that, Hebrews 12, that all of
these things of the Old Testament were shadows and types and were
signs, mileposts, that we could look at, and they're examples.
We see when men failed to serve God, what happened. We see men who
stood out like real soldiers and served God; we see what happened. So
we can take from there a choice. And I trust tonight, if there be any
here that's out of the way, that you'll make Christ your choice tonight
before the services is over.
And may God in some way give us words to say or something, that would
cause your attention to be turned from the things of the world to the
Lord Jesus Christ. To know Him is Life; not to know the church, or not
to know the catechism isn't Life. Not to know the Bible, though as good
as It is, not to know the Bible is Life. Satan knows the Bible real
well. But to know Him is Life. To know Christ as personal Saviour, it's
Life to everyone.
E-13 Now, the prophet we're speaking of tonight is Elisha, and he is the successor of Elijah. Elijah was a great man. He was... Spoke of him the other night here, as the judgment or the justice of God. Elijah was a great and powerful prophet.
E-14 And every evening when I'm
home, after we--everything's cleaned out, I take my little girls and
give them a Bible study: put them in the car (so nobody interrupts us)
and ride around, wife and baby. And I give them questions like, "Who
was Elijah? What was he?"
And right quick them little old six-year-old and eight-year-old girls
say, "Tishbite." See, right quick.
And I'd say, "How do you know that he was a... How could you tell if
you'd a meet him today, what kind of a man was he?"
"Oh, he was a hairy man and had leather around his loins." Little
Rebekah and Sarah want to holler out. See?
Just keep drilling that into their minds, drilling it, constantly.
That's what you do to your children, mother. Quit running around over
the city and gadding about; give your children Bible lectures and
things. That's--that's the thing to do.
E-15 All these here societies and posts, although it's in the church... The church is societied up, there's no time to raise the children. And I believe you've heard my expression of women preachers. Now, I might have to crawl back on that. But--but let me tell you. Every mother is a preacher. Sure. And God gives her a little congregation at home to preach to. So now, just keep it going. That's good. You get it first. So then, go right with your children.
E-16 And here some time ago, I
was reading an article where there was a home, and five boys was borned
in this home. And as soon as their oldest one got old enough to go to
the Navy, off to the Navy he went. The second one followed, the next
one, until all the whole five went away to the Navy. And there was no
Marines or Navy men in their family. The mother and father couldn't
understand just why these people, these boys, every one wanted to go to
the Navy.
There was a--a real fine combing investigation made of this. And come
to find out, in the bedroom where these boys all was brought up, in
this bedroom there's a beautiful big picture hanging there of a big
ship sailing on a quiet, calm sea. And it so impressed the boys as they
went to bed at night, looking at this picture. It was on their mind to
sail that quiet soothing sea. And along the morning when they arose,
the first thing they could look at was that ship making her way through
the quiet, calm sea. And it impressed the boys so, that each one become
a sailor.
Now, if a picture of a ship will impress boys to become Navy men,
sailors of the sea, what ought the picture of the Lord Jesus Christ do?
See? Always have the right thing before your children. "Bring up a
child in the way that it should go." See? Bring it up and teach it
right. It'll certainly, won't depart from it.
E-17 Now, Elijah was a--Elijah
was a stern man and very bold, and he was set in here for an example.
God placed him here to show His Divine judgment through this man. And
Elijah, his successor, was a young fellow and not too old, probably in
his forties or something, when God called him. And he received a double
portion of the Spirit of God that was upon Elijah, come upon Elisha.
Oh, what a type there that is of the Church. See, as Elijah the prophet
was taken up and Elijah asked... Elisha asked Elijah, or vice versa it
was, Elijah asked Elisha, "What will you that I do for you?"
And watch. He asked a great thing: "That a double portion of your
Spirit come upon me."
Now, the Bible wants us to ask for big things, not to be satisfied,
"Lord, yeah, I belong to church now. That's enough." No, that's not
enough for me. I want to do something else. I want great things. "Well,
Lord, by His grace, I claim a million souls for Christ in my own
individual ministry, a million souls or better." I'm not satisfied with
that. I want two or three million souls for Christ. Just got to keep
going as long as I got breath and energy to move, I just want to keep
on going. Because this is the only time I'm going to be able to do
that. Right now (See?), right now. And this may be your last time that
you'll have the opportunity to do it.
E-18 I think of sometimes how
mothers will refuse to raise children, bring up children. And young
women practice birth control, buy a little dog and lead them around.
And you only realize, lady, that just about twenty years of your life
that you have, that God's 'lotted to you, that you're going to be able
to do this great duty for God? Do you know your child might be a modern
Finney or--or something like that? Do you realize just twenty--about
twenty years of your life is the--as long as you--you'll be able to
raise children?
And all through the eternities you'll enjoy the blessings of God if you
bring a child in this world and raise it right. That star that's
shining yonder in glory, you'll be associated with it. See? And then to
refuse to raise the little fellows because you'd rather take your
running around and carrying on, that's ridiculous. You shouldn't do
that. And now, don't do it. No, sir, don't you do it. You be a happy
person.
Mothers of old, they loved to raise children. But, oh, this modern
American day that we're living in now. I tell you; our nation is simply
polluted. There's not a hope left to this nation, as I see. Only an old
fashion revival; and according to the Scripture, it'll never be
nationwide. So then, we're just left... It'll be a revival among the
people, the Elect of God, but it won't be a real sweeping revival take
the whole nation in, never was and never will be. And this great
kingdom has got to fall like all other kingdoms to give way to the
eternal Kingdom of God, which to be--should begin soon. We love our
country; sure we do. But it breaks our hearts to see the pollution in
it today. Oh, it's terrible. The stench has reached the nostrils of God
and--of the conditions.
E-19 Now, Elijah asked for,
"What can I do for you?" that he was going away.
He said, "That a double portion of your Spirit come upon me."
And he said, "You've asked a hard thing, but nevertheless, if you see
me when I go, then you'll have what you desire." Now, I can imagine
that young fellow keeping his eye on that old prophet, every move he
made. Everywhere he made a move, he moved with him, because he wanted a
double portion of that Spirit. And if you want a double portion, keep
your eyes on Jesus. Amen. That's right. What a type that was.
E-20 When Jesus was taken away,
being Elijah typed, now the church asked... A mother asked for her two
sons, "Let him set the right hand and left hand."
He said, "That's not for Me to give. But can you drink the cup that I
drink?"
She said, "Yes."
Said, "Can you be baptized with the baptism that I'm baptized with?"
"Yes."
He said, "You shall. That's true." So then a double portion: "These
things that I do shall you do also, and more than this shall you do for
I go to the Father." A double portion of the Spirit was on Jesus has
come to the Church. See?
E-21 Now, a double portion of
Elijah's Spirit come on Elisha, and he done twice the miracles that
Elijah did. And a double portion of the Holy Spirit... Now, I want you
to notice. Elijah had a robe as a symbol. A robe was what he was
wrapped in. And he... It was a symbol of the Holy Spirit. And as he
went up... He watched, and the robe fell back from the chariot. And he
picks up the robe, and laid it on his own shoulders, and went down to
the Jordan, and started doing miracles.
And Jesus, the baptism that He had was the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
which was in Him, that come on Him at the river Jordan after He was
baptized in water. John bare record seeing the Spirit of God like a
Dove coming upon Him. And notice. Then when He went up, He sent back
the same Robe that He was wrapped in, the Holy Ghost upon the Church.
And now, people that believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and
afraid to take Divine healing? When we... And are afraid to declare
yourself a member or associate among those believers? Why, you should
be ashamed. It'd be the greatest honor to know that I have been wrapped
in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. And He seen fit to
do that.
E-22 So then when this young
prophet goes back, he begin to perform miracles. And the Church, when
it picked up the Robe of the Lord Jesus, it started performing
miracles. And as long as there will be a true Church in the earth,
they'll always be performing miracles. Sure. It's still wrapped in the
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. And His Spirit dwells in the
Church and performs the miracles just like It did.
As I said last night, Jesus said, "As the Father has sent Me, so send I
you." And the Father that sent Him went with Him and was in Him. And
the Jesus that sends you, goes with you, and is in you till the end of
the world. Amen. Oh, how beautiful. And know it's not just some little
calendar you picked up, or some story off of a news rack out here, it's
God's eternal Word, the Bible. That's true. God Himself could be no
truer than His Word is.
Now notice, then Elijah, Elisha, rather, as he returned back he made
bitter water sweet with a little cruse of salt. Oh, miracles was just
flying everywhere.
E-23 And then there was a... Oh,
he got a... Now remember, he had a temper too. And some children begin
to make fun of him because he was bald-headed. And he cursed those
children, and that wasn't so much for the children's sake; it was for
the parents that didn't raise up their children to respect God. That's
what it was. The parents lost their children, because two she-bears
killed forty-two of them, must have been a hundred or more running
after Elijah. And going right down through Samaria where they'd had the
Word preached so long, and the prophet... But do you see something
there? It was the people's attitude towards God's messenger.
Never in the world was God's messenger ever received by the
ecclesiastics. Show me in the Word where it ever was. Never. The
church, so called, since the very beginning of time has rejected the
true Message of God every time. And you can't expect it to do any less
today.
When Jesus come, He was rejected. And He said, "Which one of your--you
or your fathers didn't stone the prophets? Which one didn't reject the
prophets?"
E-24 Now, look at this little
story right here. Read between the lines. I love it, don't you? Between
the lines... Why, look at these little children going out and making
fun of this preacher that was bald-headed. Look what they said to him,
"Go up, thou bald head, like Elijah, won't you?" They didn't believe
that Elijah went up. They doubted it.
Their priests and them had told them, perhaps, "Oh, he didn't go up.
It's just some fanaticism. And that guy's supposed to be anointed with
the same anointing as he was anointed. Oh, it's nonsense. Tell him to
go up."
And here went the little kids. "Bring up a child in the way that it
should go." And here they went down because the parents didn't believe
it.
And how can you expect your children to go to Sunday school and serve
the Lord, when you yourself don't even go? How can you expect your
children to be something when you're nothing? That's a little sassy,
but I don't mean it that way; but He had me to say it, so I... This is
not premeditated. All right. But that... I didn't mean you wasn't
nothing, but I mean when you know that you make no profession. How can
you expect your children to be righteous when you're putting such an
example before them? How can you do it? You're the best example that
they have. They're going to look to you when they look--won't look for
no one else, because your nature is in them.
E-25 Like Satan, he knows a
whole lot about human beings. He said to God, to Job, he said, "What
would a man give for his skin?" Sure. He knows something about human
nature. He helped pervert it. He knows... He had a hand in it. He knows
a whole lot about it, and he still knows how to--what to do to cause
people to fall. He knows human nature.
He knows just to--what to present before you and make you fall for it.
He knows just how well to put the smell of whiskey, how tantalizing to
make a cigarette, how well to put a--a place out here of a young boy
and girl just in their teen-age, drinking beer. He don't try to place
the picture a few years later and look at them old batty-eyed hags.
That's right. You'd be daresn't to put a picture of a complete nude
woman, but he knows just how much clothes to take off of her to make
her tempting. Sure he does. He knows human nature. He knows how to
catch you in it too. And he's awake day and night, going about like a
roaring lion devouring what he will. Certainly, he is. So there he knew
just how to do that.
E-26 But God turned around, and
in Elijah he cursed those children, and forty-two of them was killed by
bears that run out of those woods, and killed forty-two of the
children, because they were disobedient, and had been raised in the
wrong kind of a home, and the wrong schooling, to make fun of God's
prophet in the stead of respecting God's prophet. I'll tell you; if
you'll respect God's servants, you respect God. As you respect Christ,
you respect God.
Now, who is God's major Servant? Not some man here on earth. It's the
Holy Ghost. And that's the One you make fun of. That's the One that
people laugh at, say, "Now, look at them people. Don't they act funny?
I believe they're a little bit crazy." When you do that, you're making
fun of God. That's right. And you'll commit the unpardonable sin; it'll
never be forgiven you in this world or the world to come. For Jesus
said, if you speak a word against it, it'll never be forgiven.
E-27 So, Elijah, he had to pass
through a little place called Shunem. It's not very well mentioned in
the Bible. I think over in Joshua when they was dividing the land, they
mentioned where this little place, Shunem, was. But every little spot
God's going to have a witness somewhere. So there happened to be a real
lady lived up there in Shunem. And she was a loyal woman, a real lady.
Her husband was an elderly man.
And it come to pass that Elisha, when he would go through, he went up
to Mount Carmel. And on the road up, he had to pass through Shunem in
order to get to Mount Carmel. Now, Elisha had a cave up there. He had
him a special cave where he went to pray. By the way, that's what it
was, a cave up in Mount Carmel. He went up there at the new moon and on
Sabbath to pray.
E-28 Well, he wasn't very well
wanted in the city, I suppose; for this woman must've seen him as he
passed through and seen him rejected. And Shunem was just about as far
up as he could get in his journey, and he'd have to stay there
overnight. So he would rest there, and maybe in the street, or in the
woods, in the fields somewhere as he passed by. And maybe sometime
without food... And this good woman as she went up into the city,
quickly she spotted this man and knew that he was a holy man.
Now, she being a Shunammite, yet in her heart she was a believer. And
no matter where the person is that is a believer, God in some way will
get the true Message to them just as certain as He's God. That's right.
He will manage to get it some way. He will put an ache on somebody's
heart somewhere, they'll write to them, to hear testimony, turn the
radio or something or other; they'll hear the true Message. God will
grant that to them.
E-29 And this woman, perhaps,
maybe, let's say she... One day she went up in the street and she heard
someone preaching on the street corner. And she seen him rejected, and
she knew that was a servant of God. So I can imagine that after Elisha
got through preaching, she said, "Kind, sir, would you go and meet my
husband. I will fix you all some lunch, right away."
Well, I can hear Elijah say, "Thank you, ma'am. I'll be glad to do that
for I'm a bit hungry after the message." And down to the house they
went. She goes in and introduces her husband to this prophet, and
Gehazi, the servant. And she made some cakes ready right quick, and
some little dainties, some little cookies, and so forth.
E-30 And by the way, there's a little Danish woman last evening that sent me a box of cookies and some things to take... I know she's not... She can't understand English anyhow; she's here. Probably don't want to know what the right hand, know what the left hand's doing. And I thank you, each one, for your little tokens and blessings. I appreciate them. And this little Danish woman sent me some cookies to take home to the baby. And said they were Danish, and she couldn't write English, so had someone else to write it. Now, I'm having an awfullest time to keep out of them before I take them to the kids. I'm just having an awful time. I walk back and forth, look at them, and back to the other side and look at them. Well, I'm trying to make it out till I go home.
E-31 But maybe this woman set a
plate full of them on the table, and Elisha had a--a real jubilee. And
he thanked the woman for it. And time after time he passed by. So the
good woman's own impression or revelation... Do you believe in
following revelations? Certainly. I believe the church is built upon
Divine revelation. And as she was inspired to do something for this
man...
I can hear her say one day to her husband, "Now look, dear, we're--we
were well--we can do this. We have plenty. We have great farms and so
forth, and we're able to do this. Now, we are both believers in
Jehovah, and this is His servant. Now, let's do something nice for him,
and in doing for him, we'll be doing for Jehovah. And, after all,
you're getting aged, and I'm in the middle age; so it won't be long
till it'll all fall somewhere; and we have no children or nothing to go
to. So let's just do something nice for Jehovah by entertaining His
prophet; for I perceive that he is a holy man, and he passes this a
way."
She called him the man of God, for she seen God working in him. And she
knew that God was in this prophet, and she wanted to give respects to
God. And the only way she could give respects to God was to respect the
servant of God. Now, friends, that's the way you do it, is when you
respect God's order. That's true.
E-32 Here not long ago... I say
this with respect to my Catholics friends here tonight, and lot--many
of my people are Catholic. But I say this not to hurt you, never. I
never come for that. I come to bless you. And nothing to say anything
against your religion. For I'll say this: If the Protestant lived as
true to his teaching as the Catholic did to his, we'd have a different
world. That's right. But... What they're taught they believe.
But not long ago in the Vatican, I went over to see the Vatican. I was
having a meeting there for two nights right in Rome. And the next day
in the stone's throw of the Vatican, they taken me over to see
something strange. It was a great church, and down beneath they had
like a--a vineyard, or I would say, a planting place.
And when the monks died, they taken them there and planted them, like
you would seeds in the ground, and let them stay there until the meat
fell from the bones. Then they take the bone and polish it up and make
light fixtures, and--and make places, and put the skulls on the corner.
And it's just lined and packed up, oh, high as this ceiling, just all
kinds of bones of the monks; had many there then, turning back to the
dust.
E-33 And to see the superstition
of the people. They had rubbed those bones until they was almost rubbed
them in two. And just little superstitions like that... God doesn't
dwell in bones. God dwells in Spirit in mankind, the impulse of the
heart as it beats through man. God has servants.
You say, "Well, what about when they laid the man on Elijah's bones,
and he came to?" Well, that just happened to be a time that this, not
exactly a coincidence, and yet it was too. Because there was an alien
army coming after these people, and they didn't know... They didn't put
him in there purposely. They just threw him in there, and God raised
him up right quick when he struck Elijah's bones, in order to run away
the army. Not anything in the bones; Elijah was in glory. Amen. So God
dwells in human beings. Amen.
Now, the only way people will see Jesus when they see--when they see
Him in you. You are written epistles. If Christ's Spirit dwells in you
and brings your condict--conduct into subjection to His Spirit, and
makes you act like Him, and talk like Him, walk like Him, live like
Him. See? People see Jesus in you. There's the old song, "Let others
see Jesus in you."
E-34 And so, this woman had seen
God in Elijah. And she said, "I think it's nice now if we do something
for this servant of God. God will respect it." Why, she was just a few
hundred years ahead of time. Jesus said, "If you give one of My
disciples a cup of cold water, at the judgment it won't be
forget--forgotten."
We fail to see the power that God has placed in His people. God is in
His people. You believe that? God was with His people one time, when He
walked on earth. But now, God is in His people. "A little while, the
world sees Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I (personal pronoun, now)
will be with and in you to the end of the world."
God dwells, moves, works in mankind. Hallelujah. God doesn't work
through orders. He doesn't work through organizations. He works through
individuals. God works in man. God doesn't do the work today. He
energizes or projects His Spirit into men to do so. He said, "I am the
Vine." The vine don't bear fruit. "Ye are the branches."
E-35 And as David duPlessis said
to me today at noon, "If these lazy Pentecostal people would get up and
do something instead of trying to take a ringside seat and watch God do
it, the church would be moving on." I think that's right.
Get up and move. God's expecting you. You are the branches. Your hands
is His hands. Your lips is His lips. Your thoughts is His thoughts.
E-36 As I said last night, "Nathan said to David, 'Do all that's in your heart, for God's with you.'" God is with His people, in His people. "God in you, the hope of glory..." See? God is in His people. He's tabernacled. Once in this pure, unadulterated body of the Lord Jesus, by virgin birth, and that Blood cell was broke and He made a way. You couldn't do it. You couldn't merit it. But He merited your rights. And God, after dwelling in Christ and giving Himself as a ransom for reconciliation, to bring man and God together and unite them together again... When the Dove and Lamb come together, heaven and earth kissed. Man and God was reconciled. There you are.
E-37 Now, watch this now, as
this woman, her motives, her clear pure mind, her heart's desire was to
do something for God. And the way she could do it, was to help this man
of God. And she knowed he was a man of God.
So she said, "I pray, thee, my husband, let us do something nice for
the man."
Well, they said, "What would it be?"
Said, "Let's go get the carpenter or the contractor (or so much) and
let's build him a little room by the side of our house, by the wall,
that when he comes by he can call it his own. Just let him have it. And
let's put a little stool and a bed and a table."
And little did she know, that she was building the tomb of her own
child, and was building a place that she'd see the most wonderful thing
that ever took place in that day, when she was helping this man of God.
And her husband said, "Dear, I believe that would be just right." So
they get the carpenter, go together, and come up and built this nice
little room on the side.
E-38 Well, Elijah come by one
day, and I can imagine seeing how she fixed it up. Could you imagine?
That little woman, like a little Dorcas or something, she goes up
there, and I can see her just polish the floors with the old scrub
brush, you know, till the pine boards just shined. And I can see her
fix this little stool here and put a little pad on it.
She said, "He will be so tired, this servant of God, when he comes by.
And I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to make the bed just
as soft with feathers as I can, and make it just as nice, and put a
nice straw tick beneath it or something. And I'm going to have it just
as nice as it can be for this servant of God. Keep... I'm going to come
up everyday. I'm going shine up the window, and what I'm going to do.
And I'll bring the little bouquet of flowers everyday and set it on
there, where if he comes by. And I'll put a little welcome mat at the
door. And I'm going to tack a little--a little speech on the side of
the door, and say, 'Dear humble servant of God, this is my gratitude
towards God. I give this in God's Name to you.'"
E-39 Oh, and one day Elijah come
by. I'd imagine the flower in the room was blooming so pretty. She'd go
out early of a morning and pick them, you know. The early the morning,
the dew settles down. There's something about the quietness of a night,
alone, the--the dew falls and it freshens.
Oh, if we would only get quiet and alone with God (See?), how the dew
would strengthen us, take the wilt out of us and make us fresh. Did you
ever go into a rose garden early of a morning? Did you ever go into a
honeysuckle bed early of a morning? And the whole air is just bathed
with fragrance. Oh, how I love that.
Down in my part of the country in Indiana, I'd get up early and turn on
the switch key and get out somewhere where the locust, or the
honeysuckles, when they're blooming. And I just set by the side of the
road and just... Oh, how I just love to smell it, and to look at it,
and see those little honeysuckles standing up.
I said, "O God, in the run of the day and in the run of the days, if I
get all wilty and indifferent, let me lay in Your Presence in the
quietness, alone with You. Then I come out fresh again." Oh, my. That's
what God wants to do. With a fragrance of prayer all over us, covered
by the Blood of the Lord Jesus. How fresh we are before the Angels
then. How fresh we are in the Presence of God.
E-40 I can see her pick a nice
bouquet this morning of honeysuckles and stick it on the room. She
said, "Oh, I trust that the man of God may be by today." She cleans up
his little place and shuts the door and pins it on.
And after a while a weary, tired prophet comes up the road, his feet
sore, dragging a little staff along, a little cruse of oil by his side.
Well, I can hear him say, "Gehazi, you know, son, our Shunammite
friends there, they built a little room out there. I wonder if they had
somebody come to stay with them? I just wonder why that room's built?"
Gehazi said, "Say, master, there's a little note on the door. Oh,
maybe--maybe someone else owns it. Let's go see."
And Elijah goes over and reads, "Dear servant of God, we thought it
good in the sight of God to do this in the Name of God for you. And we
hope that you enjoy your stay each time. If we can be of any further
service or blessing and help to you, just let us know. We are at your
service."
And when he reads that, I can see a tear trickle down old Gehazi's
cheek like that. "Oh, isn't it wonderful."
E-41 And Elijah looked down
there, said, "Look at the door mat, 'Welcome.' Now, isn't that just
fine? You know, Elijah, I feel... Gehazi, I feel just as welcome to go
in here as if I'd built it myself." That's right. That's the way you
want to feel. That's the way you want to give. Give with a free heart.
Give unto the Lord.
And so, he goes in and said, "Now, looky here." Oh, my. Elisha
stretched hisself out upon this bed, took off his sandals. And Gehazi
took his staff and set it in the corner, and poured a little water out,
and give him a rag to wash his dusty face, like that. Oh, the prophet
was so blessed. He laid there. I can hear him say, "Gehazi, go, call
this Shunammite. (Amen.) But first, 'fore you go, let me smell those
honeysuckles." And my, that blessed his soul. And he set it down and
went and called; and she stood at her door.
And he said, "Ask her if I could speak to the chief captain for her,
because he's a bosom friend of mine. What if I could speak to the--the
king, the mayor of the city, or whoever it is. I know them. Maybe I
could speak to them for her. What could I do to repay this?"
"Oh," she said, "nothing, nothing. Think nothing of it, because it's
just a little token of love to God that I give to you."
E-42 Gehazi come back and brings
the message. And said, "Gehazi, what could we do for her? For all this
kindness, surely there should be something."
And about that time Gehazi said, "Well, master, she's... has no
children. And you know what? Her husband's an old man."
And I can see a vision forming in front of Elisha. Said, "Go, tell her
to come here just a minute. I want to talk to her." Amen. Said, "Go,
tell her to come here." And she stood at her door, and he said, "Just
about the time of life, according to the time of life, this time next
year you'll embrace a son."
"How do you know, Elijah."
"I done seen. He will be here." And how the spirit of Elijah still
lives. Sure it does. It's still the Spirit of God. It wasn't Elijah; it
was God. And said, "About this time next year, according to the time of
life, you will have a son."
She said, "Oh, don't lie to me, man of God."
And he said, "Well, you just go." In other words, "And you'll see. Just
go on." 'Cause he'd already seen the vision. It was all over.
So then, just about the time of life, she embraced a child. Oh, how
happy she was. Her husband an old man, and her middle aged, and here
they had a lovely little child. What a blessing a child is to a home.
How it brightens up everything.
E-43 Wish we had time here to
stop and tell of the barren women that I've had to come, and say, "Pray
for me, Brother Branham." Standing on the platform, see visions of
women that's passed age of bearing, and they're embracing children
right now, because the God of Elijah still lives.
Here a few days ago, standing at Shreveport, I dedicated a baby. A
little woman had been married for about fifteen years. Her and her
husband, very healthy, couldn't understand, less the husband was
sterile or her one. And they--they couldn't understand why they
couldn't have any children. And she was in the prayer line. She started
up, I said, "Just a moment, lady. You're coming here to ask for a
child. THUS SAITH THE LORD, I see you standing here on that same step
with a boy baby with brown hair and brown eyes in your arms. For THUS
SAITH THE LORD you shall have it. And she turned, and begin weeping,
and went down, and embraced her husband. About three months ago, I was
standing at this same spot; I dedicated to the Lord a brown eyed and
brown haired baby of that woman, dedicated to the Lord.
E-44 Then I was with Brother
Sothmann, setting here somewhere in the building tonight, very fine
Christian brother from Canada. A few years ago, about eight years ago,
standing over there, I guess in a run of a year there's sixty or
seventy-five of these things happen. There was a lady who came to me,
and I... She was very nice. And she'd brought me big jars full of
juices and things when my wife and I was there. And she said, "Oh,
Brother Branham, how I enjoyed the messages."
I said, "Thank you, sister."
And she said, "I certainly believe you as the servant of the Lord."
I said, "Thank you, sister. God reward you for that."
And she said... While she was standing there I saw a vision. Now, she
was way in her middle age. This has been eight years ago. And she said,
"Oh, Brother Branham," she said...
I said, "Sister, the... THUS SAITH THE LORD I see you standing holding
a baby in your arms in a little blanket."
And she said, "Me?"
And I said, "Yes, ma'am, you. It's THUS SAITH THE LORD."
And she said, "I hope you're right."
I said, "It isn't me speaking; it's THUS SAITH THE LORD." Well, two or
three, four years passed; she begin to doubt it.
E-45 Not long ago, when Mr.
Baxter and I were up, and I'd went into northern British Columbia
amongst the Indians and had a little meeting up there, come down with
Brother Rasmusson, who's here, setting right here now. We come back
down through Calgary and when we was in... Edmonton, or rather. And
while we was at Edmonton there the night of the service, I was coming
back from being hunting, after we had the meeting, and stopped in. Her
husband met me there, very noble man.
And he said... I had just a little thin coat on because it was early
fall, and was warm here yet. It was pretty cold in Canada. He wanted to
give me that overcoat. The man has never failed in the last seven years
to send tithe money to support the missionary program that I'm
supporting, never. He's been a loyal man, a good man. And he... And
standing there that night he wanted to take off his coat and give it to
me. I said, "No, Brother Gobel. Bless your heart, certainly not." And
then, at Christmas time he always sends a nice little cake or something
to the kiddies, or little dolly or something, just to be nice. Not
because it's no other way, but he's just that kind of a man.
E-46 And so standing out there,
he said, "Brother Branham, I'm a builder, and I build for the
government. But, you know, there has been a prophet tell us that I
should not go up into--around Dawson Creek, or a little above there (I
forget the name of the place), to build a post office. For he tells us
that the Russians are ready to make a march through Canada to the
United States and will clean the whole British Columbia out as they
come down."
Well, I never want to doubt a man's word. Now, you mustn't never do
that. And so I said, "Well, maybe that is so, Brother--Brother Gobel."
I said, "My, and that is a prophet said that?"
"Yes." So...?... loving brother. He said, "Oh, I don't what I'll do
now." And said, "I'm out of work, but, yet, that was such a wonderful
job."
I slipped off and went out and knelt down and started praying. And when
I did, the Angel of the Lord come, said, "Go, tell him, THUS SAITH THE
LORD, go on up there because the man's wrong." And said, "And also,
speak to him to tell his wife to watch that doubting that she's doing
about that baby."
So I went back, and I said, "Brother Gobel, not to discredit your
brother, your friend, whoever it is, the man might have been impressed
to say that. Now, you'll... I don't want to have anything light of that
brother. No, sir." But I said, "I have, as a servant of the Lord, THUS
SAITH THE LORD; you'll be safe and be blessed. Go do the work."
He said, "If you say that, Brother Branham, I believe it."
I said, "Tell your wife to quit doubting about that baby." That's been
about three years ago. Well, last week the baby was born. After eight
years and something, God's Word is eternally true. And the same God
that lived in the Old Testament is the same God that lives today.
Hundreds of those cases...
E-47 Why, what am I trying to say? It's Jesus Christ that was back there with Elisha. It's Jesus Christ with you today, that's with you, in you, through you, over you: Christ, He's the same.
E-48 Then when this baby was
come up to be of a age, along about ten or twelve years old... Oh, how
happy that family was with this little boy.
Now, listen close before we start the prayer line. We want to make the
climax here, if God willing.
Now, watch this little fellow. Oh, I can imagine this little Shunammite
boy as he jumps over the chairs and pulled off all those things and
everything. But, oh, it was all right; that was a boy, their only
child. I know what it is; I got one. And so, oh, how he'd just go on
his daddy when he come into the field at night. He'd grab the little
fellow and bounce him up-and-down. And, oh, how could you not love a
little fellow like that? No matter how mischievous they are, that's all
right.
I'll tell you; they're only that way once and that... How do you know
that you're not holding a prophet on your arm. How do you know... When
Abraham Lincoln's mother picked up that little baby down in Kentucky,
in a split-rail cabin on an old shuck bed, and those little hands that
struck him on the--her on the face; how did she know the greatest
president was ever in the United States patted her on the cheek? How
did Charles G. Finney, who sent a million souls to Christ, how did his
mother thought... When he was a little baby and patting him on the--her
on the cheek, that she was--having a little hand spatting her on the
face like that, would point the way to a million people to glory? How
did Moses' father and mother, or Elijah, any of the rest of them?
Certainly. Love those little fellows.
E-49 And here this little fellow
just jumping and romping and playing, till he got big enough to go out
in the field with his daddy. So he goes out in the field and is playing
around out there one day. Now, I--I believe he got a sun stroke. It
acted like it. He being so old, "My head..." about eleven o'clock in
the day, "Oh, my head, my head." And so they didn't have air
conditioning in that day like you have now. So they... He had a servant
that set the little boy on a mule and take him up to his mother. And
she put him on her lap and begin to rock him and do everything she
could for him. And about noon, he died.
Now, talk about a dark hour. How could that woman at that time... What
would you done? The darkest hour that ever struck her life. What
happened? The midnight stroke... You know what lot of us would've done?
Have been wailing and screaming and crying and going on. That's what we
would've done. But not her, she was a woman of faith. You know what she
did? She called on that God that she loved. Hallelujah. An inspiration
that led her to do a favor for the prophet, said "Take that baby and
lay him on that prophet's bed where he slept." What a place to take
him. Just exactly right. Amen.
So I can see her pick the little fellow up in her arms and kiss him,
brush his little curly hair back like that, walk out to the outside,
down. And the father, following her, was screaming to the top of his
voice, and all the neighbors were wailing, her walking quietly, tear
run down once in a while. But it wasn't all finished yet.
It would've been if she had no hope. But there was something inside of
her. Hallelujah. She know how she got him. She knowed the lips that
spoke him here. She knowed there was a God of heaven, as Daniel said,
"There is a God of heaven." Certainly. And she held the little fellow.
Now, if she'd felt like it was all over, it would've been all over. But
down in her heart there was something moving. When all hopes was gone,
yet something begin to move. When all reasoning had gone... We cast
down reasoning. It ain't what you can think in your mind, your
intellect; it's what your soul tells you, what your heart tells you.
E-50 I can see her walking out
through that little rose garden, down the little path, over to the
little corner, open up the door. The welcome mat she steps over, where
this man of God had stepped over, and laid the little fellow down, got
Elijah's pillow, where that holy man of God had laid, and stuck it back
under his little head, and put a little blanket up over his face. And
she walked back out, and everybody's screaming and going on, and she
said, "Saddle me a mule, and drive, and let's go to Mount Carmel as
fast as we can go. And don't you stop 'less I tell you to stop."
"Oh," her husband said, "it's neither new moon or sabbath. The prophet
only passes through here on those certain days and goes up there to
fast and pray, up in that little cave. Well, now, there's--there's
no--there's no need of going."
She said, "All is well." Amen. That just thrills me every time I think
of it.
E-51 What was it? Something in
her heart told her Elijah was there. You just--it just won't fool you;
that's all. It's Divine revelation. Sure it is. The same thing that
said, "Fix this for this holy man; give this holy man this nice little
place and fix it," that same revelation was pouring through her, the
same power, saying, "Elijah's up there; go get him."
Oh, praise God. If that revelation would strike this audience of people
tonight, that Jesus has raised from the dead right here now, you
wouldn't go out of here with a need. There wouldn't be a feeble person
left in here. Sure.
She said, "Now, it's all right."
E-52 Now, I can see her husband
put that little side saddle on. And he helped her as she put her little
teeny foot up in there, and lifted her up. She set on the little donkey
and pulled a little shawl across her face, kissed him good-bye, and
brushed his tear back, said, "Now, dad, don't you cry. Don't you cry."
"Mother, what's the matter?"
"Don't you cry. Don't you cry."
"Well, what... How you taking it so lightly?"
"Dear, my heart feels the same as yours, except there's something
happened. There's something in me tells me I must see the man of God
right away." And she said to the servant (they led the mules, of
course), said, "Now, you run along yourself and don't you even stop or
check up 'less I tell you to."
On up she went. I can see her going on now, just a trotting on this
little mule, a singing the praises of God. Oh, my.
E-53 And old Elijah set back
there, been reading a scroll down, you know; all had taken place,
setting back there. Gehazi setting at the door nodding... I can see
Elijah rub his eyes and look out. He said, "Gehazi."
"Yes, master." He jumps up.
Said, "Here comes that Shunammite. Go, see what she wants. Ask her if
everything's well with her, and her husband, her child."
So Gehazi went out a little piece, said, "Is all well with thee? Is all
well with thy husband? Is all well with the child?"
What you going to say, sister? What you going to say? Well now, if I am
counting on intellects, I'd say, "O merciful God, oh, my baby's gone."
But there's something down in me that says, "Say something different."
E-54 She said, "All is well.
(Amen. Amen.) Everything's all right." Oh, my. If that isn't casting
down reasonings, that's making the world what calls ridiculous. That's
what science would say was crazy. But she got what she asked for, so
what difference does it make? She said, "Everything's all right.
Everything's just perfectly all right."
So she run up to him, jumped off the little side saddle. And the little
fellow turned her little donkey around to start back. And Elijah said,
"Now, her heart's all broke about something 'cause I can see that tear
in her eye. But, you know, God tells me a whole lot of things, but He
don't tell me everything." God don't tell His prophets everything. No,
no, just as He will. Now, he said, "Now, her heart's broke, and she's
all upset about something. But I--I don't know what it is."
E-55 And she begin to reveal it
to him and to tell him what had happened. Well, Elijah said, "Now, wait
a minute. No vision, what am I going to do. I haven't seen nothing. I
don't know what to say. But I know one thing: There's a God of heaven
that lives. That's one thing. And I know that when I had the anointing
on me a many time, when I'd walk, this old stick, coming on up through
that desert, the anointing was on me. So, Gehazi, you're my servant. I
want you to gird up your loins right quick, put on the whole armor. I
want you to take this stick that I've been walking on; it's blessed.
And I want you to go lay it on the child. And if anybody tries to stop
you, don't pay no attention to them. If..."
That's what's the trouble today with us preachers. That's what's the
trouble with us church members. God's give us a mission to carry to the
lost and dying, for the resurrection to Everlasting Life, and we've
stopped and had socials, and chats, and parties, and tea parties, and
suppers, and stitch-and-sew, and so-and-so, and everything else. No
wonder we can't never get to the dead.
Said, "Don't you say anything but take this message."
E-56 So Elijah started, or, the
boy started off with the stick. But you know, the woman's faith, she
didn't know about God being in that stick. But she knowed God was in
that prophet. And she said, "As the Lord your God lives, you holy man
of God, I'm not going to leave you. I'm going to stay right with you
and see what you're going to do." Oh, I like that.
Stay with your point. Don't give back. Stay with it. She had a--a
revelation. She had a vision, as it was, or a revelation, that
something... Elijah had something for her. She's going to stay till she
seen it through, and said, "As the Lord God lives, I'll not leave you."
Elijah said, "Well, I guess if I can't get rid of you no other way,
I'll just put on my shoes and take off." So he slips on his sandals,
and here come him and the woman.
E-57 Look at this sight. Here's
a little dark boy running along with a stick in his hand. Everybody
saying, "Hello, Gehazi. How's Elijah this morning?" [Brother
Branham makes a running sound--Ed.] On the work of the Lord.
Amen.
Some of them said, "Hey, what you got that stick in your hand for?"
I can just hear him say in his heart, "I ain't going to tell you, you
unbeliever anyhow." So just keep on going. "I got a errand to do." Just
keep on.
Well, so, oh, look coming across the hill, here come this woman holding
to Elijah, and here they come across the hill. I can see the father
standing out there and saying, "Oh, here she comes. Here she comes."
And the young fellow could outrun them both. So he went in and laid the
stick on the child and said, "Here, we'll see if it works. No, no, I
don't--I don't believe it's going to work. Now, let's see. Now, let me,
just a minute--just a minute. Now, is he going to... Oh, there comes
Elijah anyhow. Now, just a minute. I don't think it's going to work."
That's why. We don't--we don't let it lay there long enough. See?
So he grabbed up the stick again and run to meet him. He said, "It
don't work." That's what's the matter with the church today. That's the
reason it don't work. Here come Elijah.
E-58 Now, look what a scene.
Here Elijah walks in, the neighbor's all screaming and crying. Here was
a defeated servant saying to him, "Well, my master told me to do this,
but his word sure failed. That goes to show he's a man. That's all
there is to it." And here come Elijah up, no vision or nothing else to
work on. Here was a woman with faith in her heart. And I can see Elijah
look over and say, "Well, if I haven't got much, I can work with yours,
so...?..." That's the way. "I'll go up on your revelation."
He walks up to the house. The father run and said, "Oh, holy man of
God. Oh, my poor little boy has been dead now for several hours. Oh,
holy man of God..."
I can hear him say, "Shhh. Stand still." Tell her, said, "Now, just
stay right out here now and be in prayer." Walks up to the door, like
he had before, opened up the door and looked down and seen that welcome
mat. Opened up the door and looked, and there it was; there's another
bunch of honeysuckle setting there.
Look, laying on the bed there's a little form laying under a sheet. I
can see him pull that back and look, and say, "Well, that poor little
fellow." His eyes are set, his mouth's open. He's stiff. He's cold.
Elijah said, "Lord, I don't know what to do." Goes over and kneels down
and said, "Now, Father, what can I do?" Child's...?... Not a thing.
Then he gets up, and he walks back and forth. And he goes over, and all
at once he happened to think of something. Now, God lives in man. Do
you believe it? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.]
E-59 "If they lay 'my' hands on
the sick," that don't sound right, does it? If... "These signs shall
follow them that believe. If they lay 'my' hands on the sick, they
shall recover." That don't sound right, does it? "If they lay 'their'
hands on the sick, for I will be with them, in them. If they lay
'their' hands on the sick, they shall recover."
God in Elijah, he knowed them visions he had was God. He knowed that
inspiration in his heart was God. God dwells in him. So he had a
revelation. He goes over, and stretched the little boy's out, lays his
hands on his hands, his nose on his nose, his forehead against his, and
laid there just a minute. He got up and said, "Lord, I don't know." He
laid his hands down; the little boy got warm. He said, "Well..." Got
up, walked back and forth again, "I don't know what to do." And after
while the revelation said, "Do the same thing again." So he goes and he
lays his face against the little boy's face, his lips against the
little boy's lips. And when he did that, the Spirit of God in that man
was projected into that child, and he sneezed seven times and come to
life. Hallelujah.
Brother, God has never changed. Just the same God tonight that He was
then. The God of Elijah, the God of Moses, the God of Abraham, the God
of the Lord Jesus is right here with us tonight in the form of the Holy
Ghost. The only thing it is with you people and I, is we don't have
faith to call Him into action. That's right. If your faith will be
quickened, and will move out, and have every shadow taken away from it,
God will do the miracles that He did in the days gone by. He will do it
here tonight among you. Do you believe it?
E-60 Let us pray. With your
heads bowed, your hearts open before God, I wonder just now if some of
you here are a worse type of dead than that little boy was? That little
boy was physically dead. I wonder if you have been spiritually dead to
these things, never believed it before, never believed. But tonight
something strangely that you feel like that you ought to, right
tonight, like the Shunammite woman was...
"Something in my heart tells me that this Bible is right, that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God. And I realize that I'm a mortal man or woman,
boy or girl and I've got to stand in His Presence. And right now is my
time to make my decision that I'll accept Him as my personal Saviour
and receive Eternal Life. While He puts His hands on my hands and His
speared heart pressing against my sinful heart; and ask Him to take all
sin and to bring me to Life again."
Will you raise up your hand and by doing that, say, "Brother Branham,
remember me in prayer when you call." God bless you, back there. God
bless you, you, you, and you. God bless you. My, hands just going up
everywhere. "I now want Jesus to take me and embrace me to His bosom."
E-61 When all the Spirit of God
that worked through Joseph, through Abraham, through Isaac, through
Jacob, Joseph, Elijah, Moses, all the prophets, and then finally wound
up in the full Godhead bodily in the Lord Jesus, and He projects It out
tonight and lets His Spirit stand at your heart's door. [Brother
Branham knocks--Ed.] "And
Lord, as You're passing by my way, I want to lay out a welcome mat at
my little door. And I want to enlighten my thoughts with the perfume of
the Lily of the Valley. I want You to come in and make Your stay with
me. Abide with me, Lord, for someday I'm going to be physically gone,
and only You and Your embrace can call me back to a Life again. And I
now accept You in Your program, and, by God's grace, I love You and
stay with You, and serve You as long as I live."
Is there somebody that did not raise up their hands a few moments ago,
out of about two dozen? Would you raise your hands and say, "I just now
feel like I ought to do it, Brother Branham. Raise my hands to Christ
and say by this, 'Christ, I mean that I will serve You.'" Anywhere in
the balconies, around or anywhere? Are any hands that did not go up
awhile ago? God bless you, lady. God bless you, lady. God bless you
over there, lady. God bless you back there, lady...?... God bless you,
my brother. God bless you back there, young man. I see your hand;
surely God does. Up in the balcony, God bless you.
Someone else would say, "By this, my hand's up." God bless you, young
man. I see you and certainly God does, the all-seeing eye. God bless
this colored brother setting there. God bless you, my friend. God bless
you back there also, colored sister setting back there. And the elderly
man, colored man, gray hair with his hands up, "I want to receive
Jesus," God bless you. God bless this lady here with both hands up,
heart open. God bless this lady setting here with her hand up.
E-62 Not long ago... While you
are praying now, your heads bowed. Was cold in my room that morning. I
couldn't get the fire to burn. Sister Cadle come on the air singing, "I
want to see Jesus, don't you? My Saviour so faithful and true. When
I've reached that land on the far away strand, I want to see Jesus,
don't you."
Our heavenly Father, that's the desire of every heart, tonight, here.
Oh, look at them, Lord. Maybe fifteen, twenty-five people raised their
hands. They want to receive you just now.
O great Spirit, that started out back in the early age and lived in
the--the men, Who lived in the hearts of Your prophets... And down
through the age You come and vindicated Yourself. How we can see David
climbing that mountain and looking back over Jerusalem, rejected by his
own. And he wept as he went up the mount. And just a few hundred years
after that we see the Son of David rejected, setting on that same
mountain saying, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered
you as a hen would her chicks, but you would not. If you'd have only
knowed your day of visitation..."
And dear Father, tonight in my heart, I feel the Holy Spirit crying
out, "Oh, America, America, how oft would the Holy Spirit have give you
a real out pouring of a revival. How He would have gathered you and
held you in safety. But I believe you didn't understand the day of your
visitation. You scorned the prophets. You've called them fanatics.
You've put them in jail. You... Oh, how oft would He have took you."
E-63 And tonight, Lord, to the
individual. God seldom deals with a nation, but You do with
individuals. And tonight, hands has went up and wants to embrace You,
Lord. I pray that the Holy Spirit will show those people that You love
them, embrace them into Your Bosom just now. And when this service is
over, Father, I pray that they'll go out of here the happiest people
that there is in Chicago. Grant it, Father.
For now, I quote Your Word to You. This is Your Word, the living Word.
You said according to the Bible, "He that heareth My words and believes
on Him that sent Me has Everlasting Life and shall never come to the
judgment but's passed from death to life." And these people has raised
their hands in Your Presence that they believe You. Then, Father, I
have the Scriptural right to say that they've passed from death to
Life, and they've been resurrected here tonight to Life." And I thank
You for it.
And I pray, God, that You'll let us live such lives here, that when the
world is to come, way over there in the Kingdom of God; after
the...?... trials is done settled, the arms are stacked, peace reigns
in every heart, may we set down by the Tree of Life and be happy, Lord,
that this night was, that they accepted You. We ask this, for You to
keep them until that time, in Christ's Name. Amen.
E-64 I... How many feels real
good, like you just...? The Word just scours us out, doesn't it? just
makes you feel different.
Now, I said I'd be early, and here I am late. I'm usually that way. But
I wonder tonight... Now, let's see, where... What prayer cards you give
out? B, what? He's forgot. All right. I say B... 50 to 100? All right.
Who has prayer card B-number-1? Raise up your hand. Look on your prayer
cards for B. I want to ask Brother Wood, some of the ushers, or them,
if they'll take their place right down here, just a minute. We're going
to line a great line of people. All right. B-50, who has B-50? Raise
your hand. B-51, 52. All right, 53. Just start lining up here, 54, 55,
56, 57, 58, 59, 60. Now, if you're in chairs and so forth, and can't be
moved... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
E-65 To pray for you that that
curse would leave you and you'd get well? You'll always serve Him and
love Him, won't you? You know, I got a little girl at home, Rebekah.
And she's just about your size, maybe a little bit smaller. How old are
you, honey? Eleven. I think she's ten now. And so she's... She loves
the Lord Jesus, too.
And I... what... You know, little Rebekah cried the other day when I
left. She don't like to see me leave home, but, you know, God knowed
that you was up here. And He wanted me to come pray for you so you
could be healthy and strong. Don't you believe that? Does the audience
believe that? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Come here, sweetheart. Now, heavenly Father, days has gone and years
has passed by and You're still the same great Jehovah God. And this
little child, at this age, and the heart trouble is beyond the doctor's
care. But Thou, Lord, can heal.
Now, I'm thinking of my own dear brother when they took his heart out
and run their fingers through the valves, trying to open them, and it
wouldn't do it... And standing there with bowed head, and face...?...,
his eyes set, You brought him back and he lives today. O Christ, I
embrace this child; it's some man's darling; it's Your child too, Lord.
And take this curse of heart trouble from her, and may she start
mending from this hour and be a well child. I pray in Christ's Name.
Amen. God bless you, honey.
I want you to do me a favor, and you do this now. Will you, after about
three days (See?), seventy-two hours, will you write me a letter and
tell me that you was the little girl I prayed for and tell me how you
progressed? Will you do that? And then if the doctor exams you, and
say, "Say, you're getting along a lot better." Then you write and tell
me that. Will you do it? Bless you, honey.
E-66 Your trouble, brother? [The
brother speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] All right. You come in a
representative way. Do you believe that God will answer prayer? Our
heavenly Father, as he stands for a friend, I ask that Your Holy Spirit
go to that friend and restore him to his right condition. In Jesus'
Name I pray. Amen. [The
brother speaks again to Brother Branham--Ed.] Oh, God bless you, brother.
Fine.
Your trouble, brother? [The
brother speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Nervous...?... Dear God,
laying hands upon my brother. I condemn this evil and ask for his
healing in Jesus' Name. May he rejoice like the other brother. Amen.
God bless you, brother.
How do you do and your trouble, brother? [The
brother speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Oh, God bless you, brother.
Father God, Thou always are truthful and I bless this brother. And as I
pray in Jesus' Name with my body touching his, may the power, the Holy
Ghost touch him and give him his desire. Amen. God bless you, brother.
Let me hear from you.
E-67 You, sister. [The
sister speaks--Ed.]...?... Restore, Lord, this woman's health as
my body touches hers through my hands, as Thy Word has said, "Lay hands
on the sick, they shall recover." This I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. I
want you, get a check on that and write me now. I want to find out what
takes place.
Now, what's your trouble, brother, quickly? [The
brother speaks--Ed.] Oh,
excuse me, Brother Joseph. Come brother. Give me your handkerchief. My
heavenly Father, his loving companion is sick, and I bless this
handkerchief. And as the Israelites were backed up at the Red Sea and
the enemy had them cornered, but they had a promise. And the Spirit of
God came down and looked upon the waters, and it got scared, and it
moved back, and Israel went to the promise. God, this is Your promise.
And I send this handkerchief to his wife, and when it touches her, may
the enemy see that that's a promise of God. And may he get scared and
move away, and may she go to the promise of good health, in Christ's
Name. Amen. Let me hear from her now won't you? God bless you. All
right.
E-68 The baby? What's its
trouble? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Oh,
it's deaf and dumb. Oh, bless her little heart. Now, you believe Jesus
will restore its hearing and speech? You do? All right. I'm going to
pray for it. I want you to see what happens to it.
My dear heavenly Father, to the deaf and dumb child, I pray that you'll
move this spirit from the child and make it to hear and speak. And,
grant this, Lord, 'cause the child is just a baby, but Thou art God.
And I pray that You grant it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Now, just... Keep your heads bowed a minute. Now, this is not casting
out. You see? It's not a vision. I don't know what it's for. But just a
minute, I want to see if God healed the child. Keep your heads bowed,
now. [Brother
Branham claps his hands once--Ed.] Do you hear that? [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] She can hear. [Brother
Branham speaks to the child--Ed.] Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Can
you say that? Mama. Watch this. [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] See her little eyes turn
around and look and see where it's coming from? [Brother
Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] Now, she's never spoke, you
see, so she can't just... Like this. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama.
Mama. Say it. Mama. I tell you what you do, sister. Take her right her
somewhere and set and just try to get her. See? She... I believe she
can talk. I--I can't say, 'cause it's... I--I have to believe. But my
faith says that she's healed. See? I believe it. I can't... But you get
her to speak; she can hear. I know that. She could hear that. She could
hear it. But I believe she could speak too. It both works on the same
nerve. You get over there and see if she's don't say, "Mama." Get her
to say, "Mama" or something like that. All right. God bless you now.
Let me hear from you in a few minutes. All right.
E-69 Your trouble, sir? [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Nervous disorder. Christ
can heal that. Don't you believe it...?... Our heavenly Father, I bless
this man and lay hands upon him, and ask that this nervous disorder
leave him. And this blessing I ask in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Now, look son, nervousness is the hardest thing there is to fight,
worse than cancer, because you can't mentally balance yourself right.
You see? You can't get your mind running right. But now, you start from
right now knowing that you're standing in the Presence of God, and say,
"This hour, right now, I am healed." And go out saying the same thing,
say it till you actually believe it (See, see?), till you really
believe it. And then you'll get well. Do you believe that? Now, go
rejoicing and let me know what happens to you now.
You're trouble, sir? [The
brother speaks--Ed.] Come
right here, sir, just a moment. Oh, yes, buzzing in your ear and a
weakened right hip. You... that leg. You believe God will make you
well, sir? Our heavenly Father, You're no respect of age, person. And
I, as Your servant, lay hands upon this, my brother, that I'm very
conscious now that I'll stand with in the day of judgment. And ask that
You heal him and make him well, knowing that this is the time, and I
pray as the effectual fervent prayer for his healing. In Christ's Name
I ask. Amen.
Now, I want you to believe now that you're healed. Now, I just want to
touch your ear and ask God to heal you and make it to hearing and
everything all right. I want you to believe that you're leg's better.
Feel your leg and see if it feels any better. See? Do you believe it's
better, feels? It's better? That's very good. And how's the ear? It's
better? Oh, I thought you had a hearing bad. All right. Now, you go and
let me know what happens to the leg and to the ear. Will you write me
and tell me? Just at Jeffersonville... God bless you. All right.
E-70 Now, bring the lady. Oh,
she can't walk very good, or pack and bring her. That's good. Now,
sister, what's your trouble? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Paralysis,
asthma and paralysis. Now, there's only one thing can help you, sister
dear; that's the Lord Jesus. You're a beautiful young woman. It's such
a shame to see you in this condition. I wished I had power to do it.
I'd do it, sister. I would. God knows my heart. I don't have.
I--I--I--I'm not the one. See, it's already been done. See? Christ did
it. And now, only thing I can do is pray for you and ask you to believe
that it is done, and Christ will make your body obey your faith. You
believe that now?
That... You... Is this your daughter? Do you believe it? Will you let
me know how it comes out and what happens? How long she been this a
way? Since a child. Then any improvement would show right away,
wouldn't it? Are you here in the city? Would you... Are you going to be
here a few days? Would you let me know in the next, say, tomorrow night
if there's any improvement? And any of you, I want you to do that. Will
you believe with me now, while we try to pray the prayer of faith?
E-71 Our heavenly Father, as
this lovely young, black-headed, black-eyed, young woman stands here,
who would be a darling to anyone, I pray for her, Father. The devil has
did this; I'm sure. I know not why it is. And I ask You, Lord, as this
night is set for this; I lay my hands upon this paralyzed, afflicted
young woman and ask with the sincerity of my heart, that, God, the
clock will not come back around again until there'll be something
happen that'll cause this mother and her to return to this platform
giving You praise and glory. If You'll do that, Lord, I promise You
I'll start praying for the people in this manner and doing all that I
can for Your people. Let this be an example, Father. I pray in Jesus'
Name for her healing. Amen.
God bless you. Now, you feel better, do you? You do feel better. Well,
that's very fine. I believe you are better, right now. And I believe
you're going to be so much better in the next twenty-four hours, your
mother is going to come here and tell about it. Don't you? And you
too... All right. The Lord bless you now. All right. God bless you.
[The
woman speaks--Ed.] God,
I pray that in Christ's Name, You'll bless this handkerchief for the
woman. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, let me hear. [The
woman speaks again--Ed.] Father,
grant to this woman her desire. I pray, God, that her heart will be so
elated over her daughter that everything that You have for her will be
granted to her, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you.
E-72 Now, sister, what do you
want to be prayed for? Oh, God bless you. Heavenly Father, bless this
little woman as she stands here waiting for her turn. I lay hands on
her and ask for Your blessings to rest on her, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
God bless you, my sister. Do you believe now? Amen. All right. Fine.
Your trouble, sir? [The
brother speaks--Ed.] Stomach
trouble. O Father God, I pray for this man's stomach trouble and ask
that he be healed, and maybe tomorrow he will come in and bring a
letter, "My stomach never has bothered me since." In Jesus' Name I ask
this. Amen. Let's hear from you, brother. You believe now? All right.
That's good.
What's your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] What?
Oppression. Come here. That's the devil, of course. Our heavenly
Father, bless this lovely young woman standing here, as she looks and
says, "Oppression." See her holding this handkerchief and rubbing her
hands together, know that it's the devil doing that. And I pray, God,
that You'll rebuke him and make him leave the woman. And may by
tomorrow night, Lord, may these people be flooding this place, telling
what You've done for them. May she be come and telling the great
praises of God. Amen. God bless you, sister. You believe now. Go
rejoicing and thanking God.
E-73 [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Knot
under the arm and cancer in the stomach. You realize it's death,
sister, if God doesn't heal you? You must believe now. O heavenly
Father, as I look in the face of this sincere looking woman, God, I
pray that in Christ's Name that You'll bless her and take all this
cancer from her. May it die and not bother her no more, in Jesus
Christ's Name. Amen. I want to hear what happens to you now tomorrow.
All right.
Now, you... What you want prayed for, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Yes.
All right. You believe Jesus will heal you? Heavenly Father, I pray
that You'll close this place. Thou art the One Who could open the Red
Sea and close the Red Sea. And I pray, God, that You'll heal this
woman, in the Name of Jesus, Thy Son. Amen. Now, believe it, now,
sister, all your heart.
Now, come sister. What's your trouble? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Arthritis.
Heavenly Father, this is something the doctors cannot do anything for.
But Thou art not a remedy; You're the cure. And I pray that You'll heal
this woman and may she be well the rest of her life, in Christ's Name.
Amen. Now, do you believe? All right. Go, rejoicing. Let me know what
happens by tomorrow night.
E-74 What's your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Oh.
God, I pray that in Christ's Name that You'll heal the woman and make
her well. May tomorrow night her testimony be here that God has healed
her. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.
Now, don't look to me as... But remember, the God of Elijah is here.
Watch and see if He doesn't prove that He's here.
Your trouble... I seem like I ought to know you. Aren't you Mrs.
Domiko? Mrs. Domiko's friend; that's right. [The
woman speaks--Ed.] Oh?
Oh, well now, that's sure to... Now, He's the Healer, isn't He, sister?
Our heavenly Father, I pray with all my heart that in Jesus Christ's
Name that You'll heal this dear woman. This growth is on her, and You
alone can take it off. And I lay hands upon her in Jesus Christ's Name.
Amen. Now, let me hear tomorrow what happens.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] I
do. God be merciful to you, sister. Are you believing now? Our heavenly
Father, as Your servant, You're... And after hundreds and hundreds and
thousands of years has passed, You're still God. You'll be God always.
People still needy, and as long as there's a need, there's a God to
meet that need. And I pray as I lay my hands upon her, as Elijah laid
his body upon the child, I ask for her healing through Jesus' Name.
Amen. God bless you, sister. Now believe.
E-75 Sister Wood, of course, I
know your trouble at this side. Heavenly Father, I pray for my sister
with the sincerity of my heart. May this be the time that You'll make
her well from her side. I pray that it'll leave her now and never
bother her again, in Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God bless you, sister.
Your trouble? [The
brother speaks--Ed.] For
another brother. Would you come just a little closer. Heavenly Father,
he represents someone else somewhere in this world. I pray that You'll
heal that someone else and bless this man for his efforts, in Jesus'
Name. Amen.
Come, sir. Your trouble, my brother? [The
brother speaks--Ed.] Your
only son's mentally ill. Heavenly Father, may he, O God, as my heart
bleeds for him, may that evil spirit leave the boy. And may when he
returns home, find it even gone, and come and give testimony to the
glory of God. Father, I humbly ask this, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God
bless you, brother, and may you receive what you've asked for.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] He
does though, doesn't He? Our heavenly Father, as the little lady's not
certain, but it's a stomach condition somewhere. I pray, Father, that
You'll make the evil leave her as I lay my hands upon her, in Jesus
Christ's Name. Amen. God bless. Now, let me hear what happens tomorrow.
See? All right.
E-76 Sister, what's your trouble? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Your
daughter in a hospital? All right. You want to take this handkerchief
to her. My Father God, I place this handkerchief before Thee in my
hands, which is unworthy. But Thou has so seen need to send it to all
the world. I pray, heavenly Father, that You'll bless this handkerchief
when it lays on her daughter. May she be dismissed from the hospital a
well person and come home, through Jesus' Name. Amen. Now, God bless
you, sister, and may it be so. Let me hear what happens.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Arthritis...?...
Oh, I see. Gets worse all the time. Yes. All right. Now, sister,
there's only one hope; that's in Christ. Are you now conscious that
even the preaching of the Word... Have you ever seen the meetings,
other meetings? Was you here last night? Did... You was here Sunday?
Did you see how the Holy Spirit worked among the people? Now, see, He's
here just the same. He's right here. See? You believe that? Now,
heavenly Father, I lay hands on our sister and bless her in Jesus'
Name; that between now and tomorrow night, the sign that I asked You in
the hotel room tonight, I pray that You'll have this woman returning
saying the arthritis is gone. In Jesus' Name I ask it. Amen. Now, don't
doubt. But come and let us know what happens. Will you do it? God bless
you. All right, then.
E-77 Now... [A
brother asks the congregation to remain in prayer--Ed.] Just a few more minutes and
we'll be finished. All right. Come right along.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] O
God, in Christ's Name I pray that You'll heal this woman of arthritis.
May her testimony tomorrow night be great, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God
bless you, sister.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Eyes.
Heavenly Father, as I hold the hands of this young woman, I pray that
in Christ's Name that You'll restore to her her sight. And may she be
well and testify to Your glory tomorrow night, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
God bless you, young lady.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Nervousness
and headaches. Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll bless this young
woman and heal her of nervousness and headaches. And may her testimony
be tomorrow night, "It's never bothered me since." I pray for this
blessing in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister.
And your trouble? [The
sister speaks--Ed.]...?... O God, Thou knowest all things. I
pray for this dear woman that You'll heal her of this trouble. In Jesus
Christ's Name may her testimony be tomorrow night, "I'm healed." Amen.
E-78 God bless you, sir. [The
brother speaks--Ed.] Dear
God, this dear man with a double rupture and desiring a double portion
of Your Spirit, God, I lay hands upon him as Your servant, and knowing
the need of the day, I pray that You'll grant the things that he asks.
I sincerely ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you.
[The
sister speaks--Ed.] Oh,
back injury. You believe that tomorrow night you'll be coming up here
testifying...?... and your stomach, you can eat again? Heavenly Father,
I bless this woman and I ask for her healing for a testimony in her
neighborhood of the Lord Jesus. I ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. Now,
let's hear tomorrow.
[The
sister speaks--Ed.] Yes,
imperfect hearing and stiff finger. All right. You believe that you're
going to be hearing perfect? You believe you're going to be hearing
perfect and your finger's going to be well? Our heavenly Father, bless
this woman and make her hearing perfect and heal her stiff finger. I
pray for this, that tomorrow night the testimony will be to the glory
of God, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister.
I believe we'll hear it, don't you? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.] I'm
believing.
E-79 [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Our
heavenly Father, as this child stands here and asks, just a young woman
here at the crossroads of life, I pray that You'll heal her of this
nervousness, Lord, and this growth in her neck. I pray that tomorrow
night she'll come back and say the growth is gone and her nervousness
is gone, and she'll be well so she can serve you. God, then if You'll
do this, I'll run a pray line like this constantly. Grant it in Jesus'
Name. Amen. God bless you, sister.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] High
blood and arthritis. Heavenly Father, I bless this here woman, as I
hold these hands, perhaps, it's pat a little baby's cheek many times,
rocked the cradle when the baby was sick. O Father, I pray that You'll
take the arthritis and trouble away from her and may tomorrow night she
return rejoicing saying, "It left me. I'm well." In Jesus' Name. Amen.
E-80 [Someone
speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] The little baby, the little
deaf and dumb baby is saying, "Mama" and can hear. [Congregation
worships--Ed.] Let...
Send them back up to the platform now.
Your trouble? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] O
God, in Christ's Name heal the woman and make her well. I pray in
Jesus' Name. Amen.
What you say? [The
woman with the baby speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Ma, Ma. Well, that's very
fine. Now, you're my little girl friend. Do you believe that...? Can
you say, "Mom" for me? Mom. Mom. [Brother
Branham asks the woman--Ed.] See
if you can do it. Mom. Ma. Ma. She's trying hard. Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma.
She thinks I'm trying to get her to smile for her Mom. See? [Brother
Branham claps his hands--Ed.] Oh,
play up turn up on the music, wherever... [The
organist gives a few chords--Ed.] Mmm. Mmm. Ma. Mama.
She said it down there, did she? [The
woman speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] She said that here, your
mother? The neighbors that brought her, and she took her out the door
and she said, "Ma." And that shows that that spirit has gone from her.
She's never spoke to her in her life. She's a baby. Now, could it be
possible for you to get her back tomorrow night, if you could train her
a little bit tomorrow on how to talk and bring her back? I want the
audience to see what happened. And you'll do that?
E-81 What, are you Norwegian or
something? Swedish. Well, that's very fine. And she's not Swedish
though, is she? I didn't think so. You look like an Irish girl. Yes,
sir. Oh, yes. Her father is working and her mother has two small
children, but the child has heard and spoke tonight. See? Now, that's
just--that's just real faith. Just go believe it; that's all. And what
I'm doing, I'm trying my best just to throw myself in there and just
believe for the people, then see what happens. If it works, I'll run a
prayer line every night like that. God bless you.
Now, I want to hear tomorrow. You train her. Now, she don't know how to
say... See, if we say, "Pull your ear," she--she started doing that. If
you say, "Move your finger," or get her to do that, she'd mock it. Now,
she thinks we're trying to get her to go... See? But you have to make a
sound. You see? You bring her back tomorrow night. Or if you can't, the
next night, anyhow, so the audi... I'd like to see her tomorrow night.
I believe she'll talk tomorrow night. She was saying, "Mama," and so
forth. Don't you? Do you believe it with me now? God bless you, sister.
All right.
E-82 Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] O
dear God, heal this poor lady as she stands here, a good woman. And I
pray that You'll make her well through Jesus Christ's Name. Amen. God
bless you. I want to hear from you tomorrow night now.
Your trouble? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] O
God, heal our sister of this stomach and kidney trouble. And may she
return tomorrow night saying, "Well, it's all gone." We pray in Jesus'
Name. Amen. You believe it now? All right. That's right.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Blind
in left eye and losing the sight in your right. Oh my, that's too bad.
Just a lovely little lady. Now, don't you believe tomorrow night that
you'll be able to come up, and even show us, and point to us, and tell
us by this left eye can see and the right one's good again?
Don't--won't you believe that? Will you believe it? I... [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Amen.
That's fine, honey.
Our heavenly Father, I bless this child standing here going blind. Now,
Lord, Thou knowest all things, and I hope and trust in You that
tomorrow night this will be one flood of testimonies. Grant it, Lord.
And may the child be able to see out of this blind eye, the little deaf
and dumb girl, speaking and hearing. Grant it, Lord. I pray in Jesus'
Name. Amen. Now, let's hear from you, sister. I believe it. Don't you
believe it? All right.
[The
sister speaks--Ed.] O
Jesus, this poor woman, arthritis, ringing in her ears, sinus
infection, Thou can heal these things. And I bless her, Lord, as a
prayer of faith. You said the prayer of faith shall save the sick. And
with all my heart, I'm trying to yield myself to Your Spirit, knowing
that You're standing here at the platform. I ask for her healing
through Christ's Name. Amen.
E-83 Come here. [The
brother speaks--Ed.] Hard--hard
of hearing? Tomorrow night, do you believe you'll hear perfect?
Heavenly Father, I ask for his healing tonight, that the evil spirit
that's made him deaf, the deaf spirit will leave him, and tomorrow
night he will come back rejoicing, praising God, and can hear perfect.
In Christ's Name I ask it. Amen. I want to hear from you, now, tomorrow
night.
Your trouble, sister? [The
sister speaks--Ed.] Your
baby. Heavenly Father, I bless the mother for her offspring, her baby.
And as the Shunammite woman came for hers, may the God of heaven bless
her child and make it well, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you,
sister. All right.
God, she stands for the sister that she played with as a little girl.
She has cancer, and You alone can heal her. May the message come,
like--like the lady down in Kentucky a few weeks ago. May she be
healed, in Jesus' Name. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, believe now.
Amen. All right.
How many loves the Lord? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.]
[Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?...
the Lord Jesus with all my heart. Isn't He wonderful? Love Him...
Praise the Lord. God is real, isn't He? You know that song we sing,
"God Is Real. I can feel Him in my soul"? Jesus is wonderful.
Let's pray just a minute. Heavenly Father, I pray that You'll magnify
Yourself. Let these people know that You're here, that You're God, that
You're real. I pray in Christ's Name. Help me, God, just now, in Jesus'
Name. Amen.
I don't know. How many more we got down there, Billy? About five more?
Think we'll change the order of the meeting. Do you believe God's here? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.]
E-84 You got bad breathing,
haven't you, sister, setting out there? You believe that God will make
you well? Amen. It's gone now. Thank the Lord.
Isn't He wonderful. God is here. I just can't hold it any longer. It's
just choking me down. Visions are flashing everywhere. Oh, how
wonderful.
There stands the Angel of God, standing right over that lady setting
there with sinus trouble. If you believe, lady, about three back from
the row on the other side, believe with all your heart, you can be made
well. If you believe it, you can have it. Amen.
What do you think out there, you in the audience, are you believing? [Congregation
says, "Amen."--Ed.]
Do you believe, lady? All that nervous trouble you think will leave
you, do you? Amen. That throat trouble too will leave you, don't you?
You believe that cancer will go out of your throat? You do? If you do,
praise the Lord, say, "I believe Him with all my heart." Amen. Then in
Jesus Christ's Name I condemn this enemy, that leaves the woman. Amen.
God bless you. Go rejoicing. Amen. Isn't He wonderful?
You believe that Christ will heal you? Yes, your son's mentally ill,
isn't he? Wasn't that strange? But you got sinus trouble too, and
nervous trouble that you want to get rid of also. Do you believe Jesus
will make you well? Amen. See, I want you to know that all the time,
passing by here visions was coming. I just didn't say nothing. Amen. Go
and receive it, sister. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, receive it.
Hallelujah.
He's here. Have faith out there and see if He doesn't call you.
E-85 How do you do? Don't know
you, lady. God knows you, don't He? Do you believe me to be His
prophet? Do you believe that these people passed by here were actually
blessed? What would you think of being healed then? Your faith, is that
right? If God will prove to you, He's standing here on the platform...
I never seen you, just a woman, come up here on the platform. If God
will tell me what you're here for, will you believe me as His prophet?
Will the rest of you believe me with all your heart? You're all nervous
and upset about something. Yes, it's caused by death. That was your
son-in-law, just killed recently. That's right. You're here for a
person that you're praying for for salvation. That's your daughter.
Yeah, and two other people. You got three handkerchiefs for people to
be prayed for. Is that right? It's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, do you
believe? O God of heaven, let Thy mercies rest upon her and bless
these, in Jesus' Name. Amen. That's... Yes. Amen. Have faith. You
believe?
You seem to be all elated, little lady, setting there on the end of the
seat. You believe me to be the servant of the Lord? You don't have a
doubt in your mind? You believe God will heal you of that kidney
trouble and make you well?
What you weeping for, setting next to her, with the red dress on? Do
you believe me to be God's prophet, little lady? If God will tell me
what your trouble is, will you receive your healing? You'll believe?
TB. You believe that Jesus will heal you?
E-86 The other little lady with
your hand up. What do you think about it? Look at me here a minute. Do
you believe me to be God's prophet? If God will reveal to me what your
trouble is, will you receive it? You have kidney trouble too. That's
right.
What do you think little fellow, setting there, little bitty boy? What
do you think about it? Do you believe me to be God's servant? If God
will reveal to me what you want, or something another about you, will
you accept it? You will? Got stomach trouble. That's right, isn't it?
You want to be healed. Like to go back to Maryland and be made well, is
that right? Uh-huh.
That lady next to you is from Maryland also. The little lady with the
red dress on is from Pennsylvania. That's right. This other lady's from
Maryland. That's right too. You're all from out of town. That's right,
isn't it? Raise your hands if that's right.
What do you think, lady? You believe me to be God's servant? Do you
believe the power of God is here? You believe that God will give you
your desire? You believe that God is here, Christ, Who can reveal all
things, the secrets of your heart as He promised He would in the Bible?
Do you believe that? All right. You're awfully nervous, aren't you? And
the reason you got nervous, then you got a stomach trouble from it.
That's right. Because you're nervous.
Say, by the way, as I look at you, I see a lot of water come floating
in. You're worried about somebody overseas. It's up in a mountain
country or way up in a rolling country. It's a Scandinavian; it's
Norway. And it's a man. And it's your son, and he's in a
hospital...?... seeing a face, and... It's yellow jaundice he's got,
and he's in a hospital. That's right, isn't it? If that's right, raise
your hands. THUS SAITH THE LORD. O God of heaven, send Your blessings
and bless I pray, in Jesus' Name.
Folks here, do you believe? Are you ready...