QUAND L'AMOUR S'ELANCE
E-1 Be here again this morning,
look at all these faces that's been enjoying the blessings of the Lord
for little did I know I was going to have to come up here and testify.
But it's always a pleasure to me to speak to God's people at any time,
because I feel that it's... They said in the Bible time, "I'm one of
them." And to be associated here with such a lovely group...
Through the week I have certainly enjoyed immensely, all these
wonderful testimonies of the brethren who has gave us these great
testimonies of their healing and of their... these businessmen who have
told us of their--how their business prospered. And Brother Gardner
last evening, I appreciated his testimony and talk. And so many things
has happened, that I have come to get full.
E-2 As I said, "William Booth
Clibborn one time said that down in London, England, that they was--he
walking around with the police one night, because he missed his car,
couldn't go home, it was a streetcar, too late, and it was raining."
And said, "He found a man that was over-intoxicated laying in the
street. So they just picked him up and throwed him in the patty-wagon,
taken him over, throwed him in the jail." Mr. Clibborn said, "Well,
down at the...?... of the Salvation Army," said, "well, we would take
him in, fix him up, give him a hot bath, and give him some coffee and
such." And said, "You just let him lay there on the floor?"
Said, "Sure, that won't hurt him."
Said, "Well, why do you mean, it won't hurt him?"
Said, "But he's too full of drink." said, "He's... The whiskey so much
in him, it's got every pore just filled up; the--the cold and stuff
can't get in."
E-3 I think that's the way our
meeting ought to be: so filled up with the Holy Spirit, the world and
the devil don't even have a chance. That's right. This thing just keeps
coming off, maybe I'm supposed to hold it in my hand.
One of the outstanding things that struck me greatly amongst the
testimonies, which has all been very great. But one of the things was a
testimony of the Brother sow man, Brother Crowell, of his... How the
Lord dealt with Brother Crowell. How many heard his testimony?
Dr...?... and I was talking about it a little later.
E-4 And now, you see, Brother
Crowell, being a very fine Christian, he had tried hard, and his good
friend, and our friend too, Brother Oral Roberts had prayed for him,
and he didn't seem to get any different. Then he thought, "Oh, Brother
Branham pray for me, I'll get all right." So well, I prayed for him, no
different. I stood by him for forty-five minutes, almost, one day, he
and his lovely wife, to see if the Lord would speak in a vision to say
something to him. But nothing happened. And then finally, at the
hospital, when the doctors had operated and give him no hope, or not
much hope of ever see him come through again, then when he was at the
end of his road, then sovereign grace stepped in. And the glory of the
Lord came down on him in the room, and he was just, said, just bathed
in God's beauty.
And when love has been projected, then it's time for sovereign grace to
step in. It'll do it every time.
E-5 You know, it's a strange
thing that how we human beings like to do things ourselves. But we are
children of God, and many times we have to just take a seat and set
down till God comes around and does it His way.
And notice the little child; I was just setting back there a few
moments ago, talking to a very fine medical doctor from Chicago, who I
had the privilege of having breakfast with this morning. And we were
speaking, and he perhaps... He knows this; I'm sure he does.
Many times you have a little child, and he gets on a little temper
tantrum, we call it, at our home. Oh, he's just kicking and squealing
and going on. He's going to tear up everything, and going to hold his
breath. And usually a mother will come, and shake him, and throw him up
in the air, and try and to get him to get his breath. I don't think
there's a case in history where one of them ever died in one. He just
has to run to the end of his road, and then nature takes over.
That's the way with us Christians sometime, we just have to run to the
end of the road and let grace take over. We have to run all of our
theology out, so God can really get to work. You believe that? And God
does work in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform.
E-6 Now, I've noticed this, that each one of us, as sons and daughters of God... Many times I have thought of Pentecost. There they said they were all in one place and in one accord. Now, where's there's unity, well, there's power. And then if we only knew, that each one of us in a--an amateur way is a creator. Now, we're sure that you understand that. Usually, the little success that the Lord has given me, as I'm to testify this morning, of success, is because of this one thing: that the patients that I'm praying for in the sick line, I have to enter into their fellowship of suffering with them. And that's the reason that I can't have a prayer line where you just run them through like a bunch of sheep coming through a yard. You got to feel the--the need of that individual that's standing before you. If you don't, you can't have the feeling of it.
E-7 Like Paul Rader once
said--said, "He was going to work one morning, so he... He and his wife
had had a little, well, a disagreement." And he said, "As he started
out, he kissed his wife good bye, she was crying." Said, "He always
walked out to the end of the gate and turned back and said, 'Bye.' And
she said, 'Good bye.' So that morning when--the same routine, parting
time he said, 'Good bye,' and she said, 'Good bye.'" So he went out on
the street and begin to think, "What if something would happen to me
today, or something would happen to her?" Said, "I'd knowed we'd never
meet again on this earth."
He got to thinking about it and said, "God begin to deal with him. He
ran back to the house real quick, jerked open the door; she was
standing behind the door still weeping." Said, "He never said one word
to her, but just pulled her around and kissed her again, turned right
back around and went out. Went to the gate, and turned back, and said,
'Good bye.'" Said, "She said, 'Good bye,' latched the gate." And said,
"The--the difference was, the last time there was a feeling in it; he
meant it."
So that's the way it is, there's got to be a feeling in it. There's got
to be something that--that's projected from you to meet the person
you're talking to.
E-8 Few weeks ago down in
Mexico, we were--were talking down there, and on the platform there was
an old man came to the platform who was blind. I looked at him; his old
wrinkled feet, and they were--probably never had a pair of shoes. Just,
oh, the poor man, and he wanted to kneel down and take out his rosary,
or prayer beads, and what they say, and so I raised him up, and through
the interpreter I said, "No need of doing that."
But when he put his arms around me, blind... And I thought, "You know,
if my daddy would lived, he'd just a been about his age. And here I am
with a pair of shoes on." I looked down and they--they wouldn't fit
him, or I'd have give him my shoes. But to feel that poor man's, holds
his pride. And then to know after all of that, never maybe a good meal,
no clothes hardly to wear, maybe a life that had a lot of burdens that
only a--a man of...?... like he would know, then to be shut off in
darkness where he couldn't see. Something inside of me begin to bleed,
"Oh, God, that poor mortal, a man like I am, has a feeling, he loves,
eat, drink, lives; he's a man, and he is in this condition." While
praying for him, put my arms around him, his old hands laying across my
shoulder, patting. I said, "Heavenly Father, if this would make me feel
to see he's like that what does it do to You?" In a few moments I heard
him screaming and going on; he had received his sight.
E-9 Now what it is, is love.
Love, my brethren, I realize I'm standing here this morning with a
seventh grade education talking to scholars. But it no makes it--make
any difference, of how much theology, and of how many ways we turn the
Scriptures to make it fit our point, there'll never nothing take the
place of love: "Where there is tongues, they shall cease, where it's
prophecy it'll--it'll vanish, and where it knowledge, it'll do the same
thing, but love will endure forever."
And if we this morning, as Christian people, and facing the great
crisis that's on the earth today, and in meetings like this if we could
concentrate for one thing, to purpose in our heart, that we love the
heritage of the Lord Jesus, that we could feel it...
The other evening while I was speaking in the tabernacle, the church
behind the place here, speaking on love and how that we must have the
feeling of the people, we must feel for them and love them... Love is
the greatest weapon that God ever put into the hands of man. And
through that... You can't fool people. You can't...
E-10 You knowing I was a game warden, conservationist... My mother's a half Indian, and I--I love outdoors. And just a little sideline now to life, to let you know what I mean when I'm speaking this. Until the burden gets on the Christian Church for lost souls, we're fighting the air. Let us stop speaking... I believe in gifts and signs and wonders, why, certainly. That goes with the body, but let's not put that ahead of love and lost souls. Let's get into--a burden on our hearts.
E-11 The Holy Spirit marking the
Jews in the...?... to Jerusalem, He only come to those who sighed and
cried for the abominations that was done in the midst of the city.
And now, perhaps this morning, we take up to this challenge... All the
glory, all the power, all that God has given to us here in this
meeting, and the great things that we've seen, how many laid on their
face last night and last cried and sighed for the abominations of
Minneapolis? See, there you are. He only marked those kind. See?
E-12 Now, to show how love is
projected, this is... You might laugh at this. But it--it's true as I'm
standing here. One time I was out in a--a field, when I was game
warden. And there had been a--a bull had killed a colored man at the
Brook Farm, just below where I lived, great Guernsey bull. And he
had--he'd been sold away to another man. And he just turned him loose
into the pasture. And I knew that bull was there, but I never thought.
I was over on the creek turning loose some fish, and I thought of a man
that called for me to go pray for him.
So going up across the hill to pray for the man, being about, right at
three or four hundred yards from the fence in a little clump of bushes,
this Guernsey Bull was bedded down there. And I got close to him, he
raised up, and he was a killer. I looked back to the fence; it was too
far for me to run; he was so close to me. There was no tree for me to
get into. Well, I thought, "This is the end; I can't go no farther. For
if I try to run, he will catch me, so what can I do?"
E-13 Now, that's when we come to
these crisis that when sovereign grace steps in. Then something
happened in--in my life that I wish it would--if it ever comes again,
that It'll never leave. And I only wish that there was some way that I
had the power this morning to project that to this group of men and
women here, and it never leave you. Like when the maniac at--up at
Oregon, when he ran to the platform to kill me, many of you read that
book. Something happened there.
You've often wondered, I guess, how those things happened. It's
something in the stead of despising that man though he was there to
take my life, a Divine law set in for him. And he called me a hypocrite
and a snake in the grass, and thousands of people setting there, and
spit in my face, drew back his fist, and said, "I'll break every bone
in your body."
People probably setting here was there. But instead of despising the
man, something--grace came in, in a moment when I needed it. Grace sets
in and projected a Divine love into my heart that I could project to
him, and thought, "There stands a man, like a man--like I am." Said,
"He--he likes to eat and drink and his family; but the devil has him
bound." So the love of God constrained me, and the man humbled himself
and fell across my feet. Grace stepped in when love was projected.
E-14 And in the case of this
bull trying to kill me, he got up on his feet, looked at me, and
snorted three or four times, and throwed his horns into the ground. I
looked around, there was nothing. And as a officer I was supposed to
pack a gun, and I wondered why I didn't have it; I would've killed the
bull, and then went and paid for it. But I had no gun. God seen to it
that I had no gun.
So He wanted to show His Divine grace in a crisis hour. And something
struck me, way better than a gun or any weapon of this world. It was
the Divine grace that took my heart, and thinking of that animal,
wanted to live the same as I wanted to live. And instead of hating him,
as he was planning to take my life, I loved him. That sounds juvenile,
but it's the truth.
E-15 And as he rushed towards
me, I said, "Creature of God, I am the servant of God; I'm on a
legitimate call to a man who's dying. And our Creator has sent me, and
I'm sorry to disturb you out of your rest, but in the Name of He Who
created us both, go over and lay down under the tree."
And when he got so close to me, within ten feet, I was no more scared
of that animal then I would be of my brethren here this morning, come
Divine love, perfect love cast out all fear. And he stopped. He just
looked so depleted; he looked both ways, turned around, walked over,
and laid down under that tree and I walked in three feet of him, passed
by through the field safely.
E-16 When love is projected, Divine sovereign grace of God takes a hold. That's what happened to our brother. When he had trusted in me and Brother Roberts, or Brother Roberts and I, rather, and every man, God had to show him that He's God. And when His love comes about to a place God in the great crisis of even the doctors could do no more for him, I couldn't help him, the vision of power, my own--the gift wouldn't work. Brother Roberts' gift of healing wouldn't work; my gift of vision wouldn't work; the doctors couldn't work; then sovereign grace stepped in and brought a blessing.
E-17 One day while mowing my
yard, I'd be mowing the front part, and cut--cut a few rounds, and I
had to get back to the back real quick, and--and change my clothes, and
go and pray for people. And our front lawn was growing up 'fore I could
get to the back yard. And one afternoon, hot, I pulled off my shirt to
try and take a few more rounds while nobody was at the house. Way down
in the corner of the fence, I forgot there was a hornets' nest down
there. And I ran this electric mower into the fence and shook those
hornets, me with no shirt on, and you know what hornets are. And they
were all over me, just in a second, very angry. Well, one of them can
kill you, sting in the head, in top of your head, or somewhere in the
temple it would kill you.
And so in that crisis, in that moment when I was standing helpless,
then sovereign grace took a hold and something happened. As kiddish as
it may seem, I loved those little creatures. And they... I thought,
"They were in their nest, God in His wisdom, He put them here for some
purpose, and they were in their nest and I disturbed them." They never
come disturbing me; I disturbed them. And I said, "Little creatures of
God, I am the servant of God, and I am trying to pray for His sick
children, and I've got to mow my grass, and I disturbed you. And I'm
sorry I did this, and I love you." If you mean it, it'll work. If you
can't fool a bee, how much more a man. You've got to have what you're
talking about; you have to know.
E-18 I said, "Little creatures
of God, go back into your nest, and I'll watch and not disturb you any
more." Covered with hornets. And as I have to meet God at the day of
the judgment and you people, those hornets swarmed two or three more
times and one took a beeline and everyone of them went right back into
the nest in the Name of Jesus Christ, by the grace of conquering love.
Dear
dying Lamb, Thy precious Blood
Shall
never lose its power,
Till
all the ransomed Church of God
Be
saved to sin no more.
Ever
since by faith I saw the stream
Thy
flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming
love has been my theme
And
shall be till I die.
E-19 How wonderful He works. How
He can do those things. Here some time ago, last year you Christian
Businessmen packed the article. It's on my mind, I might as well tell
it. Mr. Mercier and Mr. Goad is setting here this morning, was up on
the...?... showing in nature. God moves in nature. Love conquers
everything. And when love is projected, grace comes in to help it. Then
it's real conquering love.
Then standing on the porch about ten o'clock one morning, down the
lane, came an old opossum walking. Many of you has heard the story.
Here he come, walking in there, and his--her arm, or leg was all chewed
by dogs or something, and blowflies all over it, and maggots, where
that it had been bloated for so many days. I thought it had rabies. I
said to the boys... A young colored girl, we was reading it in the
paper, had taken her baby and wrapped it up and drowned it in the river.
E-20 And then when we went out
to find out, this old mother opossum, had nine little bitty naked
babies about inch and a half, two inches long. Now, opossums don't
travel in daytime; they prowl at night. So when I seen her in there, I
thought she had rabies. And we put a rake over it, and found out that
she was biting and biting that rake. And I said, "Looky here, there's
really more motherly love in this animal, the opossum, then there is in
that colored girl who drowned her baby." That's right.
And then I looked at that poor leg, instead of her laying there playing
opossum, she took out to the house and exhausted and fell over. I said,
"You see, she only has just a few minutes to live. But there's such a
mother love to her, that she'll spend those--spend those moments that
she's got left to that motherly love constraining her to give those
moments to those babies. There's more love to the animal for her baby
than there was to that ill woman."
E-21 All day she laid in the sun
nobly, her little opossums nursing the milk from her. That night Mr.
Woods come by and taken me out for awhile to rest, come back eleven
o'clock, she was still laying there. Said, "She's gone." Mrs. Wood said
to me, said, "Billy, why don't you kill it."
I said, "I can't do it, Mrs. Wood; she's a mother."
Well, said, "Them little babies will die a horrible death. You have to
punch her to see if there's any life in her."
I said, "She hit all over, Her head's chewed up; her legs is all chewed
up."
Said, "But she's--she's got to die." And said, "She's just suffering."
Said, "It's only a humane thing to take her life."
I said, "But, Sister Wood, she's a mother; she's crying for those
babies."
Said, "Well, the babies are going to die a horrible death. Kill her and
just pick up the little ones..." And she's a veterinary, said, "Throw
them on the ground, kill them or something," said, "and they'll die
quickly." Said, "You're a hunter, why don't you take your gun and shoot
them?"
I said, "I'm a hunter, but I'm not a killer."
E-22 Then the next morning,
getting up, my little girl Rebekah, setting here somewhere this
morning, she was out on the porch early. And she--I looked at her, and
I got up; I couldn't rest very well through the night. And I know, as
studying conservation, that that, an animal life, if that opossum would
have ever moved, she'd have moved when the sun went down. And any other
hunter, conservationist, knows that. She'd have moved when the sun went
down. But she laid all night, and those little opossums were still
trying to nurse their mother. Becky said to me, my little girl of eight
years old; she said, "Daddy, are you going to kill her?"
I said, "No, honey." I said, "What you doing up so early? You run on in
the house with mommy."
I went over there, I kicked her on her foot, dew all over her, she
still laying there, but I see her--part of her mouth move; she's alive.
I thought, "Oh, what can I do?" I made Becky go back in the house. I
went in the den room and set down. Set in there, rubbing my forehead, I
thought, "Well, I don't know what to do with this animal."
E-23 And just then something
said, "Well, you were talking yesterday about love. And this opossum
loves her babies so much, I sent her up here to your door, and she's
laid here for twenty-four hours, her turn to be prayed for."
I waited, I said, "Heavenly Father, if the rejecting of a human being
for the love for her baby, and You put love in that animal which could
not... it hasn't got a soul, it had to be guided by the Holy Spirit up
that lane, everywhere from the woods, and turn into the only place that
had a gate or a fence." I said, "I'm sorry."
And went out there and said, "Heavenly Father, if You have directed
this dumb animal to be prayed for, and I've been stupid enough, or so
busy, that I never recognized it was You, then I pray God, that You'll
heal the opossum."
And as God Almighty, Who we stand before, my solemn Judge, the opossum
turned over and looked at me, raised up, picked up her babies, stuck
them in her pocket, put that tail up in the air, marched right down
that road, got out in the gate, and turned around as if to say, "Thank
you, sir," and went straight to the woods with her babies.
E-24 What was it? When love is projected, Divine grace takes its place and helps it And when love failed in that colored girl's heart, and the love of that opossum to her babies, Divine grace to an animal, sent to the place for a prayer of delivery. If Divine grace will act that way upon a animal, what will it be to a human being who'll consecrate themselves to Divine love of the Lord Jesus Christ and has recognized Him.
E-25 Not long ago, coming from,
flying from Dallas, Texas, and we got into a storm, and the plane came
down at Memphis, Tennessee. And I went into the Peabody Hotel there to
stay all night. And while I was in there they told me, "Tomorrow
morning at seven o'clock the plane will go, and there'll be the car
will come to pick you up."
I said, "All right."
The next morning I got up at five, wrote some letters; I thought I'd
run down to the post office and mail them. I was going down the street.
This has been about eight or ten years ago when I first met you
Pentecostal people. I was going down the street, a humming a little
song, "Jesus keep me near the cross, there's a precious fountain."
And as I went down the street, something said to me, "Stop." Do you
believe in being led by the Spirit of God? Surely you do. Something
said, "Stop." And I stopped. I was quite a little distance from the
post office, and it was the Holy Spirit. I'm so glad today, that He's
still the Holy Spirit.
And as stopping, I got up into a little place; I prayed; I said,
"Heavenly Father, is that You talking to me?"
And just as plain as you hear my voice, something said to me, "Turn and
go back the way you come."
E-26 Did you ever have something
like that to happen to you? Follow the leading then. So I turned and
went back, on a past the hotel, way down, way over into another place,
I thought, "My," looked at my watch, thought, "It was time for the
plane to leave." And something kept urging me. As I moved on, something
kept saying, "Move on." I moved out of the better part of the city,
down towards the river, way down. I thought, "What am I doing, going on
here?" I didn't know. Many times you don't have to know, as long as
Divine grace is leading.
And as I walked on down towards that river, I looked at my watch, hour
had passed, past the time for the plane to go. But the Holy Spirit
said, "Move on." I kept on moving till I got down amongst the colored
folks.
E-27 Down there in a little
colored district, there was many little houses, as you went down a
little hill like, I was walking along there, and I looked, leaning over
the gate, there was an old typical Aunt Jemima, colored lady. And I was
singing that little song you that Pentecostal people sing, "I'm So Glad
I Can Say I'm One Of Them." I was going along, thinking about it,
beautiful morning, springtime, sun had rose high, the odors besides the
hill and the honeysuckles and roses was perfuming together, such a
beautiful place to be. And then being led by the Holy Spirit.
I looked at this old colored woman, when she seen me coming she begin
wiping her eyes; she looked again, she wiped her eyes and she started
smiling. I thought, "What's on her mind?" I quit singing, started
walking on by, and then she said, "Good morning, Parson."
I said, "Good morning, Auntie." I said, "I want to ask you something,
how did you know I was a parson?"
She said, "Parson, just a minute," she said, "Did you ever read the
story about the Shunammite woman in the Bible?"
I said, "Yes, Ma'am."
E-28 She said, "I's is that kind
of woman." And said, "I prayed to the same God, the God of Elijah." And
said, "I asked Him and promised Him if He'd give me a child, that I
would love it, take care of it, and would dedicate it to Him." And she
said, "The Lord give me a boy." Said, "I've loved him, and I still love
him," and said, "I dedicated him to the Lord." But said, "Parson, I'm
sorry, he's gone astray." And said, "Two days he's been unconscious,"
and said, "the doctor man was here and said he will never wake up no
more." And said, "He's unconscious. And I was setting on his bed last
night." His sovereign grace. For a mother's love...
Said, "I was setting on my bed last night, Parson, I said, 'O Lord, You
give me the baby in answer to prayer. I turned it back to You according
to what I promised You. Now, Lord, he's got--made a mistake, got in the
wrong company, and he's dying with venereal disease, all puss in his
blood.' And said, 'Now, Lord, I love that child.'" There's love. And
when love is projected, Divine grace has got to step in.
E-29 She said, "Now I pray Thee,
Lord," said, "here am my baby, You give it to me, but where is Your
Elijah?" Said, "O Lord, have mercy." And she said, "I prayed pretty
near all night." She said, "This morning, just before the day broke,"
she said, "I dreamed a dream." She said, "I seen a man come walking
down the street wearing a light tan suit and a tan hat." And said the
Lord said, "I'll send him." And she said, "I's been standing here ever
since daylight," that's just the way I was dressed.
When love is projected with the right motive behind it, Divine grace
has to step in.
Not knowing, I said, "Well, your boy's dying?"
Said, "Yes."
When I patted her on the back and she was still wet from the morning
dew. Had a man's shirt tied around her head. I thought, "Oh, God, this
must be it." Just led by the Spirit of God. All hopes was gone, but
love was still there. Love doesn't fear; it waits on grace.
E-30 And when I walked in that
morning, with a little old screen running across and a plow point
hanging down, walked into the room... I've been in king's palaces, I've
been in some loveliest homes that America has, but I've never felt any
more welcome in my life then I did when I walked in that little old
colored house that morning. The first thing met me on the wall, was not
a pin-up of some sort, but was a motto, "God Bless Our Home." Throw rug
on the floor and a little old iron poster bed, but it was home, and
Christ was there.
I looked on the bed, and a great big, fine looking colored boy of about
twenty years old, maybe not that old, say eighteen, sixteen. He had his
blanket in a hand, was going "Ummm, ummm."
I said, "How long he's been doing that?"
Said, "All night, parson."
I said, "Lady, my name is Branham, did you ever hear of me?"
She said, "No, sir, parson, I never did."
I said, "My ministry is preaching the Gospel and praying for the sick."
She said, "I've never heard of you, Parson Branham."
And I said, "I left the hotel; I'm almost two hours late now, for my
plane." But I said, "The Holy Spirit told me to come back this a way."
She got that little old...?... "And He told me you were coming this a
way." Grace, abundance of grace.
E-31 Then I said, "Well, shall
we pray?" And he said, I said, "What's he saying?"
Said, "He's mumbling. He thinks he's out on a great big dark sea, and
he's lost."
I looked at him a minute. He said, "Oh, it's so dark; it's so dark;
it's so dark. Oh, I don't know where I'm going." Pulling, like he was
pulling oars in a boat.
And so I said, "Shall we pray auntie?"
She said, "Yes, parson."
I said, "You lead us in prayer, auntie."
When that little old godly, saintly woman knelt on her knees, she
prayed a prayer that would shake the heart of an Archangel. As she
prayed to God, she said, "Now, Lord, I don't know what the next move
is, but I know You on the job." That's it.
And when she got through praying I was just weeping. I took a hold of
the boy's feet, he's--look like he was dying, he's getting cold. The
doctor said, "Full of puss; you know he's so running, a big hole in his
heart. He got it too late." They give him...?... everything else
couldn't stop it--too far gone.
E-32 So I said, "Heavenly
Father," she asked me to pray, I said, "I don't understand this, here
I've missed my plane, and You have me to walk down this a way. And now
this is the only thing you... seemingly, that You're here. Now, Lord,
hear the prayer of this poor old sainted mother."
And while I was praying, I heard him say, "Mama, oh, mama." What was
it? Grace was taking a hold. Said, "Mama..."
She raised up; she begin smiling, wiping her great big fat cheeks; she
said, "Yes, honey." Said, "This is your mammy."
He said, "Mama, it's getting light in the room." That old ship of Zion,
the grace of God, had picked him up, calmed the sea. What was it?
E-33 I left the place, hurried
real quick, went down, got me a taxi cab and went to the plane; they
were making their last call, it had been held up two hours. What? When
Divine love, led by the Holy Ghost, is projected... Think of it. The
love of God and the grace of God brought an airplane out of the skies,
and set it on the ground, and held it there, because of a ignorant
colored woman's prayer in faith, and her love for her little boy. If
that will do it for that, what will it to do to a borned again group of
people who's setting together here like we are?
A little later on, I come in on a train. I got out. If you all ever
went into Memphis, how the train pulls up this a way. Just stops...
Well, Mordecai Hamm, my friend setting here would know the place. I
went up to get a hamburger. I couldn't eat on the train; it cost too
much. So I went up to get a hamburger. Jumped off the train while we're
waiting to make a change, was going to California. And I started
walking along there, somebody said, "Hello, Parson Branham." A young
colored fellow with a cap on said, "How are you, parson?"
I said, "Good morning, sir." Started walking, I thought, "Maybe he been
in some of the meetings."
Said, "You don't know me, do you?"
I said, "No, I don't believe I do."
Said, "Remember that morning that the Lord led you down to my mammy?"
"Yes, but..."
Said, "I's the boy."
He said, "I'm not only healed, but now Parson Branham, I's saved, and
I'm serving the Lord Who healed me."
E-34 Oh, all that mother's
prayers and dedication and love, when she had tried everything, taking
him to the church and he was baptized. All that she had done, yet just
as the man was the other day, sickness come and death laid at the door,
and Divine grace stepped in at the crucial moment. But obedience to
Divine love.
My brethren, let me say to--this to you, after her pray--prayer this
morning in the great move of the Lord, in this great Divine time, near
the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are trying to do this and do
that, and have this, and this denomination work up this and do that. We
have come to the end of the road. Isn't there a meeting, all the
land--everywhere has just been waiting for a great move. We got at
this, that, or the other, speakers have spoke and everything else. But
still the love of God's present in our heart believing that God's going
to move in a mysterious way.
E-35 Then when we are at the end
of the road, it's time for Divine grace to step in and take its place
and revolutionize and turn it into an old fashioned, God sent, Holy
Ghost meeting. Do you believe it, my brothers? Let us stand to our feet.
We've had healing services; we've had denominations; we've had all
kinds of things going on, but O God of heaven, we're at the end of our
road. We can't...?... with this revival. For You sent Billy Graham,
Jack Schuller, they come from great high, scholarly, educations and
seminaries. You sent men with Divine gifts who's delivered the sick.
You sent men speaking with tongues, interpretation; You sent signs and
wonders among us. But O God, our human hearts are still moved at love
and compassion believing that You're going send us something
exceedingly abundantly above all we've ever seen before. And we are at
the end of the road, standing with our hands in the air, loving You.
E-36 O God, let Divine grace take its place now, and step in and do that which man could not do. Grant it, heavenly Father, for the glory of God. May the Holy Ghost testify in this meeting, that sinners might come to the altar, that people might renew their vows, that all prejudice and difference might be taken from the heart, and men and women would live together. And they, with that Divine love for God, projected into the hearts of each other, and draw a circle of fellowship through Divine love will take its place in here and do signs and wonders in the next few hours in this meeting, as it goes on through the day, that the world has never seen nothing like it before. Almighty God, grant this in Christ's Name I pray, Amen.
E-37 Now as we stand and look
this a way, my brethren, my sisters. Sister over there, give us a
little chord of:
Blest
be the tie that binds
Our
hearts in Christian love;
The
fellowship of kindred minds
Is
like to that above.
Let that be our prayer in our hearts as we take a hold of one another's
hands as fellow citizens, and realizing that we're leaving this world
one of these days. Let's reach around and take a hold of somebody's
hand and look now, not to one another, but look to Divine sovereign
grace of God, that comes as a love gift from the rest of the rest of
this meeting and do something we never seen done before. All together
now.
Blest
be the tie (Raise
your hands up) that
binds
Our
hearts in Christian love;
The
fellowship of kindred minds
Is
like to that above.
When
we asunder part,
It
gives us inward pain;
But we
shall still be joined in heart,
And
hope to meet again.
E-38 Now heavenly Father, look down upon this scene this morning, hungry hearts who love You. And may their love creep into each other and around this room, until Your grace will baptize every one of them by the Holy Spirit, grant it, Lord. And make Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostal, all shake hands as we stand this morning, say, "Together we stand and divided we fall." May the great Church of the living God march from victory unto victory...?... God give a vision to us, speak to the people this morning and let them see Your Divine plan, and may the grace of God be spread abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, in Christ's Name we ask it, Amen.