Be certain of God

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1 And it reads like this:
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was an inhabitant of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these three years, but according to My word.
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cedrith ... Cherith ^^ (I meant to say)^^, that is before Jordan.
And it shall be, that thou shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee...
So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
Rise, and get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and for my son, that we may eat it, and die.
And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou has said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it to me, and after make for thee and thy son.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
And she went in and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which was spoken by Elijah.

2 For this morning's talk, just before going overseas, I have chosen a text of this: Be Certain of God.
And now, Lord, bless Thy Word as it goes forth, and may the Holy Spirit capture our minds and our thoughts, and prepare us for His visitation, as we have asked Him to come. For we do not come to the house of the Lord to be seen or to see, but to learn of Thee, and to know of Thy nature, and Thy way, and Thy causes, that we might be able to face the problems of life with a real assurance, being certain of God. Grant it, Lord. In Jesus' name we ask it. Amen.

3 It must have been a dreadful morning. It was so hot and dusty, and people was in the street starving, and the earth was so hot it was ready to burn. All this was the reflection of their sins and their moral decay.
You see, Ahab was reigning in--in Israel at the time or over Israel, and he was the wickedest of all the kings of Israel. There had been no king as wicked as Ahab, for he, being taught and knowed better, he failed not to continue to displease God in everything that he did. Although he had a great military system, and the people had become very prosperous under his reign. But yet, you cannot displease God and expect to get by very long.

4 And then, in his wedding, instead of marrying among his own people, he went over and married a sinner, an idolater, worship of idols. He married Jezebel. And she was not a believer.
And no believer should ever marry an unbeliever, under no circumstances. Should always marry believers.
But Ahab had done this evil thing. And no doubt but what Jezebel was a beautiful woman. And he'd fell for what she looked like instead of what she was.
That's so many people make that same mistake to this day.
And she had brought idolatry in the nation, among the people. And the people, the priests, their ministers, had fell victim to this great popular demand.

5 And it's a very picture of our country today. We have fallen under the popular demand. No doubt that the priests thought it would be all right as long as their government okayed it. But I don't care what the government okays; it's got to be what God okays. And the people thought that it would be all right if they anticipated in some of their worldly things.
And one might ask me to retrace what I have just said, that it was a very likely picture of today. We may not think that we are idol worshippers, but we are. And the government endorses it. People today are idol worshippers, because they worship idols. Some of them worship movie stars for idols. Some worship money for idols. And some worship television stars as idols. But all that you put before God is an idol, let it be whatever it may be.

6 Even Satan, our great adversary, is such a smart one, until he even puts sometimes the church before God. You might have a great church. It may be a great building, or it may be a great denomination, and again, it may be a great congregation; but let nothing come before God in your heart. Anything in before God is an idol.
And these people knew that they wasn't spiritual like they used to be under the reigns of other kings. And they thought just because they was a religious nation that everything would be all right. And that's the way we have come to that place also.

7 Some months ago I was talking to a very fine friend of mine. And he said, "Brother Branham, I believe that you pin this United States down too close." He said, "You're always roaring out the sin and how God is going to punish this nation."
I said, "He's got to do it in order to be just."
He said, "But Brother Branham, you forget that this nation was founded upon the Scriptures, and our forefathers came here and God gave us this heritage, and we are a religious nation."
I said, "That is true, all of it. And no one knows how I appreciate this nation. But look, my brother, Israel also was chosen of God, and He sent her prophets and great men. But, God cannot stand sin. He made Israel reap every grain they sowed. And if He made Israel reap what she sowed, He will make us reap what we sow. He is no respecter of person."

8 And we've got to the place to think that because we're resting upon what our forefathers did, or what upon our great founders of our churches, what their great sacrifice was to God, which is all right and so much appreciated. But we cannot draw salvation from what they did! Salvation is an individual affair between every person and God. Not with our nation, with our church, but with ourselves before God we answer.
It's come to the place in our country until in the midst of the most spiritual people that we have... You go to spiritual men and women, and you find in their heart that there's something lacking.

9 We have been, in the last few weeks I've been going over some of these things and finding that in the man that I thought was the kernel, yet I found that they're putting emphasis upon temporal things, going around and saying, "God gives me the biggest so-and-so; God gives..." You're bluffing!
Great material things don't always rest in God's will. God makes the rain to fall on the just and the unjust. But what the world needs today is not a bluff of faith, to try to bluff yourself into something and call it spiritual.

10 Sometimes faith will do great miracles and still doesn't come from a spiritual heart. Did not our Lord say, "Many will come to Me that day and say, 'Have not I did this and that in your name?' and I will confess to them, 'Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.' What is iniquity? It's something that you know to do right and don't do it. "I never knew you," He will say. And we're living in that day.
What we need today is not a lot of material things; we have that. We don't need greater churches. We don't need greater congregations. We don't need more on radio and on television. We don't need so many more of these things. But what we need today to be spiritual, is a person that will humble themselves before God if they haven't got a penny, and will pray till that spirit within them is satisfied with the goodness of God, and a revival takes place on the inside of their heart that changes their attitudes and atmosphere that they live in.

11 You might not have a pair of shoes on your feet. You might be dressed in rags, but something's in your heart singing the melodies of God. I'd rather have it than all the money in the world.
So you can't say that natural things is always the sign of God's blessing. David spoke that to the Lord, that he'd seen the wicked spread forth his ... like a great bay tree. But God asked him, "Did you ever consider him at the end?" No matter how good of clothes we wear, how much we have to eat, that isn't what goes in the presence of God. This body that we dwell in perishes regardless of how it's taken care of. But it's the soul that's in man; it's a condition of the spirit that moves into the presence of the living God.

12 But we take things for granted. We think that just because that we are a nation... So had Ahab and all of Israel in that day had taken things for granted that everything was all right. Their priests and preachers had tried to tell them, "All is well; everything's just fine." But they had one; he cried out against the wrong thing, because this one knowed that a holy God could not be satisfied with modern trends of an unholy religion.
So does the God of heaven remain the same today. And all of our efforts and big things that we're trying to do, God will never be pleased outside of an entire sanctified life before Him.

13 We might build schools and shrines and tabernacles; we might have organizations; we might do great things; but yet God won't be satisfied until the human soul becomes a sanctified ... on the altar of God, consecrated for the works of God. And you don't find that no more.
You find our prayer meetings are so weak, just about a minute of prayer, jump in the bed. We find out that happens about once or twice a day. When all of us are guilty! Our nation morally is decaying. We've got Billy Grahams and Oral Robertses everywhere, but until there comes a thirsting in the heart of America to bring it back to a living God again, to a living experience, till a undying faith, in a living God, we're only beating our brains, as it would say, out.

14 We might walk with our chest out, with our collars turned in the back, and walk down the street and desire to be called Doctor or Reverend. We might pastor the greatest churches there is in the land, and we might be as pious as we could be, that no man can put a finger on our lives. But until that soul that's on the inside of us is on fire for God, until something in there that's yearning after Him, "Like the hart panteth for the waterbrook, my soul thirsts after Thee, oh God". Until we get to that type of an experience.
Therefore, Communism and so forth will gain the grounds as they're doing, and all the joining that we can do will never stop it... It's predicted to come. But God is calling to His church.

15 How that this little woman must have been of the caliber of Elijah, because usually your action shows what you are. And again, she had been chosen to entertain God's prophet. Remember, she was a Gentile, not a Jew.
And the land was burning up. And no doubt that this little woman, being of that caliber, being of the believer type... For we see that God would not have called to her if she hadn't have been a worthy one to entertain God's prophet, for He would've never sent His prophet to a house that was unworthy.
It was not his choosing; it was God's choosing. It wasn't her bidding him; it was God bidding him. He had been placed by a brook; the ravens were feeding him. But it was God's command for something to take place. And God surely went to a believer of the same nature of Elijah.

16 She was a widow woman. And we all know what she--a widow woman would've went through with, her husband dead and a young boy to raise.
And in the lands there they depended on their crops. They didn't have projects as we have today and defense plants. They depended on their crops. And because the iniquity of the people and their moral decaying had brought a drought on the land, here they was all starving and dying.
And then we find that no doubt she'd prayed night after night all night, as she begins to see that meal barrel going down, down, down. And it must got to a place till there was not even another cupful of meal in the barrel. All she had was just a little handful. Death was coming right into the gate, at her door. For there was no way of getting any more. The whole nation was starving.
And the oil was just a good spoonful left in the little container. Just that much oil and that much meal lay between her and death. She must've got real sincere about her prayers. You let that strike your home; it'll be a little more sincere than we are this morning, when we know that death lays at the door.

17 And I believe maybe we'd think perhaps this; that she'd prayed all night long, for one more day settled it. She could look at the pale lips of her little boy of about three or four years old, and she could see her own bones dwindling away as the flesh was going from them. And it must've been a terrible thing as this mother, seeing these things going, and yet with her hands before God praying day and night. "Now, we're down to one handful of meal and a spoonful of oil."
You know, it's a strange thing. May God let this soak into every one of you, if you never hear me preach again. Let this be a message. It's strange, most strange, that sometimes that God does things that way.

18 You know, when we have confessed our sins and met every requirement that God requires... we believed on God. There's circumstances has to be met, and it's according to His will. And we've confessed our sins, and we've made all the wrongs that we have did right, done everything that we know how to do, every requirement that God has made or asked, we have met that requirement, and yet He lays silent; He just won't answer us.
I'm sure that I'm speaking to people this morning who's come to that place. I've been there many times myself. When I've went back and traced my life and turned over every stone, and I'd find that I did something wrong, I'd go confess it and say, "Lord God, I'll make it right," and go do so. Then come back again and say, "Now, Lord, Thou art God; You'll answer me. Surely I've met every request that You required me to do. And every requirement, I have met it." And still He won't move, seems to sit silent; that's when you've got to be sure that He is God. Don't be discouraged; the only thing is, that in your heart to be certain of God.

19 My text, be certain first before you do anything; be certain in your heart that it's God. And when you've met everything that He said, then you're sure that He's God, that's when faith goes to work, right there. Faith stands steady, for it knows that He is.
And you met every requirement. You believe that He is, and faith holds steady. Oh, blessed be His name. Faith won't move, for it's sure that God is and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.
May this go way down deep and never move from you, Branham Tabernacle. If you've met God's requirement, and in your heart you believe that He is, God's only testing your faith, for He loves to do that. You've confessed your sins and you've met every requirement that God requires, and still He lays silent, remember, faith says that He is. Then faith holds onto it, not knowing what it's all about, but it knows that He is, and it's certain that He is.

20 Then remember, if He is, His words has to be true. And if He required you to meet these circumstances and you did, He's obligated to take care of His Word. Don't back off, and say, "I never got healed; I..." Oh, you poor, weak faith. Don't believe that. If everything's confessed, and everything's out, and you've met God's requirement, faith holds right there. There's nothing will move it. He is, and you're sure. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with the wings of an eagle. They shall run and not be weary; if they walk, they shall not faint."
Wait, when you've met His requirements; that brings your faith to a showdown. If you have met... God's requirements has been made... or met, and you have fully considered it, and you have done everything that God required you to do, then your faith rests right there that He is. Be certain of God!

21 You know, He loves to test us. He loves to see the reaction of your faith. Did you know that? God likes to see how you'll react. When you say, "Oh, Lord, I believe You; Thou art my Saviour. I believe that You are the healer; I believe that You are the One who gives the Holy Spirit; and the things that I am requiring, You are the God who gives that!" And then when you confess all your sins and promise God what you'll do if He will let you get well, and then because it don't happen, you run off like a coward somewhere; God can't use that. There's no way for Him to use you. There's no way for Him to answer you, because He only answers by faith. Then all of a sudden you go away and He can't answer. But real true faith stands there, being sure that God is. Be certain that He is.
And if God asks this thing to be done, to confess your sins and so forth, and you've done it, faith says that He is; it's certain that it's going to happen. Your request has to be granted. Oh, I hope you don't miss that. If you're sure of God, God's sure of His Word. He's only waiting to test you.

22 He did it many times. Let's rehearse one or two cases. Let's think of the Hebrew children. They wasn't to bow to an idol. God had confidence in them. And when they heard they had to go to the fiery furnace, they said, "Our God is able to deliver us from this furnace. But if He doesn't do it, we're not bowing to any of your idols." See, they were sure and certain of God.
They knowed that He was Jehovah. They knowed that He answered prayer. But whether He did in their case or not, it would have to be for the good, so they just made their statement, confessed their sins, and walked into death.
When they were going to the fiery furnace, knowing that they were certain that if God let them burn up, He'd raise them up again in the resurrection. They were certain of God, because they knowed that God would work everything for their good. And when we are certain of God, we know that God works everything for our good.

23 So they made one statement. They were certain. And they walked right into the fiery furnace, and God let them walk there, sitting looking at them. He wanted to see their reaction.
When the king said, "Did you bow when the trumpet sounded?" they said, "No, we did not bow." There's your faith, holding tight.
"Well, then if you did not bow, you know my decree?"
"Yes, we know your decree."
"My decree is that the furnace will be het seven times hotter than it ever was, and I will throw you in there. Do you now want to bow?"
"No, we will not bow." There's their faith.
God said, "Well, I will see what they'll do about it. I will see what reaction their faith has."
So he said, "Bind their hands, and bind their feet, and start them to the furnace." And they walked up that furnace with the fire in their faces, God still standing looking at it. But they were certain that He was God. They had made their confession. They had made everything right that they knowed of. They were certain that He was God.
So they walked right up that fiery furnace. Right at the last moment, there He come riding out of the heavens on a chariot of wind, fanned the breezes off of them while He consoled them and talked to them.
God lets your faith come to the spot to where it'll react.

24 There was Job of the Old Testament, when Satan, our accuser, accused him of being a secret sinner. But Job knowed that he had not sinned. He knowed that he'd confessed everything that he'd done and put a burnt offering out there. That was God's requirement. That's all God required, was that burnt offering and a confession. And Job done those things.
And Satan said, "I will take his camels, for he's a rich man; I will take his sheep." And finally he taken his children, the closest to his heart.
But still Job stood pat, for he knew that God... he was certain He was God, for he had talked to Him, and he'd met His requirements. He searched down and found out, "I've made every burnt offering. I said in my heart, 'Perhaps when my sons gave a feast and my daughters attended, perhaps maybe they did secretly sin in their heart, so I'll offer a burnt offering from them and confess their wrongs."

25 Oh, God, when a man keeps what God said do, he's certain He's God; He has to answer. Faith calls Him on the scene every time.
When you've done what you know is right, when you've met His requirements, when you've confessed and made right and done restitutions, and laid it before God, I don't care how silent He is, He's still God, waiting to put that faith there. You done your works, now He wants to see your faith by your works. He wants to see what you'll do.
If you've been anointed and prayed for, God's waiting to see what you'll believe about it, not run up next Sunday, and run the next day unto the next healer comes through the city; He's waiting to see your reaction on your faith, not walk back next day and say, "I feel so bad; I don't guess I got healed." You're not fit for the prayer line in the first place. You're not ready yet. You don't believe that He is God. I don't...

26 You might say, "Brother Branham, I disagree with you." Your own action proves what you are. "By their fruits you shall know them." If a man says that he is a Christian, and he still drinks, and smokes, and gambles, and tells dirty jokes, and says, "Part of the Bible's right and part's not"; He might preach the Gospel, and deny part of the Bible; he's still a sinner. He's not right yet.
But when you openly confess that God is the same God, and your life applied in His hands to be, "Lord, I am the clay; Thou art the potter," then ask what you will. Faith will never move; it'll stand right there.
Though circumstances will seem to fall from right and left, but that faith never moves, because you're certain that He's God. And if He's God, He keeps His promise. He can't make a promise and break it. If He's God, He's got to keep His promise. Oh, I love that. He's got to stay with it.

27 Job made his offerings; he done everything. He knowed that he was right. And here come the church members by, some of the churches of other denominations, said, "Job, you might as well confess that you're a sinner, for God wouldn't let you be punished like this unless you was a sinner."
But Job said, "I've made my confessions. I've put the burnt offering out before God, and I'm not a sinner." He knowed where he was standing. Then everything went on, just on and on and on, just as hard as it could go, trying to down Job and to bring Job to a place that he would deny God and deny that burnt offering. The very minute you take action upon anything that you confess, it shows your weakness, your doubt of God. You ask God for anything and walk around doubting it, then you are a doubter and not a believer.
Job knowed where he stood, and he stood firm on that foundation.

28 No wonder Perronett said in his dying hour,
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other grounds is sinking sand.
On that solid rock of Job's confession... Even his beloved wife walked out. When his health was gone, and the boils was all over him, and he scraped himself and cursed the day that he was borned, said, "May the sun not even shine; may the moon stay down at night."
His wife said, "Job, you're so miserable; why don't you curse God and die?"
He said, "Thou speakest like the foolish women." He was certain there was a God, and he'd met the requirement. Oh, I feel religious. He knowed that he'd met God's requirements, and that settles it. God was testing his faith. He will test yours; He will test mine.

29 But when we've met His requirements, "Repent every one of you and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost," that's His promise. "Any among you sick, call the elders of the church; let them anoint in oil and pray. The prayer of faith shall save the sick and God shall raise him up." That settles it. "Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another."
You've met God's requirements, "These signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils; they'll speak with new tongues; if they take up serpents or drink deadly things, it shall not harm them; if they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." That settles it.
Be certain of God. Be sure that in your heart that you believe that that's God's Word. Job was.
His wife said, "Why don't you curse Him and die? Why, you're getting worse all the time."

30 How Satan likes to throw that at you. "Why, you're no better than you was when you was anointed. You're no better than you was when them preachers prayed for you. Them preachers ain't right in the first place." It doesn't matter about that preacher; it's your faith in the living God what mounts. It's not what the preacher is; it's what God is. The preacher never made the promise; God made the promise. It's not up to the preacher; it's up to God and your faith to believe that that is God. So, be certain of God. Be certain that it's God, and that's God's Word, and God is in His Word.
And Job said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman." Said, "The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." He was certain that there was God.
And when he got that out of his mouth, the thunders begin to roar and the lightnings begin to flash; God moved on the scene; it always calls Him on the scene. He sits silent for a long time.

31 That's what He's doing, looking at this bunch of hell-bound Americans, church-going hypocrites. I'm not angry, but sin angers anybody that's right with God. I'm not angry with the nation, I'm not angry with the people, but I'm angry with the devil who has caused these things to blind the people.
These blind pastors and preachers let them get by with some kind of a little man-made theology. You've got to be born again, and God keeps His Word. Seen him as he's lulling them. You'd better be sure that there's God. "Having a form of godliness, and denying the power thereof."

32 This poor, little woman, she knew that He was God. As that barrel went down, down, down, down, circumstances got worse and worse all the time. But God was letting it get that way. He just loves to do that. He loves to put your faith to a test to see how you act on it, let you be anointed and prayed for, then make you worse. Said, "Come on, Satan, put him to the test; I know he believes Me." Bless God forever! Oh, my! "Put him to a test now; I know he took My Word for it." Could He say that about you?
He said that about Job, said, "Do anything to him you want to, but don't you take his life, for I know he loves Me. He's made the burnt offering; he's made the requirements; he did what I told him to do, and he believes it. Now, roll him over the coals if you want to." He took everything away from him; God doubled it when He give it back to him. Sure He will!

33 He puts our faith to a test to see if we really believe that He is God.
That little woman no doubt said, "I prayed; I prayed; I know I'm an unworthy Gentile."
Remember, Jesus spoke of her in the Bible; He said, "Wasn't there many widows in the days of Elijah?" But He was only sent to one, and she was a Gentile.
Oh, he said, "I prayed." And maybe when she seen that last little cake, death had done entered the gate and come into the door. One more bite apiece, and she and her son died. I can see her all night praying, the hot winds a-blowing, and the earth parched, and the people crying and screaming in the streets. She walked around through the house. She looked at her little boy, looked at his little pajamas, they were all out, and his little feet sticking out, looked at her own hands, wrinkled. She walked back and forth, but she said, "I know that He's God. I've made all of my confession; I've done everything that He required; and I'm asking for our lives for His glory." God seen her.

34 Rest of them was going out and having a big dance somewhere, prettying themselves up, having a modern television show or something, carrying on with the world. But that woman was alone with God.
Daylight broke. She said, "The little fellow had cried all night for something to eat; what'll I do with one little handful of meal?"
You know, that meal was Christ. Any Bible student knows that Christ was the meal-offering. And that meal offering had to be ground with a special burr too, till it cut every little piece of corn the same, because Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. And every believer believes that and rests upon it. Hallelujah! You can have all your old, cold formal religion you want to. For me I believe Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. I make my stand in the world of infidels. I still believe that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Them burrs cut every bit of it just the same, because He is the same. He's the same God that He was then, He is right now, this morning. He always will be the same. That's what the meal meant.

35 And the oil means the Spirit, as we know according to Ezekiel 4 and so forth. That's the reason we anoint with oil; it's the Spirit. What is it? As St. John 4: "The Father seeketh such to worship Him in Spirit and in truth." Jesus was the truth. He was the meal-offering, and this oil was the Spirit. And the Spirit mixed with the truth has got to bring something. Put it together, it makes a cake.
Oh, where's your faith? When God's Word's preached in its simplicity, though in its power that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and the Word goes forth for the meal, you've got the oil to mix with it. It may be just a little handful or a spoonful, but whatever it is, it's real.

36 Now, what's it ready for? It's ready for the cross. It's ready for self-sacrifice. That's what you have to do. If the Word's been preached, and you've got the Spirit and it mixed together, it's self-sacrifice to deny every pain, to deny every sickness, to deny everything that's contrary to God's Word and stand on it.
The doctor says this, that, or the other; that don't make a bit of difference. You stand on it, because God said so. The meal comes; you got the oil; you mix it together.

37 Now, I hear a voice. It's a little after daylight. A voice speaks and said, "Go out in the yard and get two sticks." Did you notice the Scripture said two sticks? The cross. She's got the meal and the oil, but she's going to be called on to act now, act with it. Ever much you got, much meal or oil as you need, but you've got to act---self-sacrifice, two sticks.
In the old times they never found a better way to make a fire. When you take a stick and lay it across a stick, and light it in the middle, you scoot both ends. The Indians burn their fire. I've burned a many time all night long, just take a log and lay it this way and one that way, and just keep pushing it into the fire as it burns.
That stick was a cross. Two sticks the Bible said. The voice said, "Go through the yard and get two sticks." The same time up on the mountain there was a voice thundered down to the prophet and said, "Go to the city; I have commanded." Oh, my! Both of them obeyed. Something has to happen. Both of them are obeying.

38 If the preacher preaches the Word, and the man that receives it believes It and acts upon it, something's got to happen. If you're a sinner, you'll have to be saved. If you're sick, you'll have to be healed, because God promised it if we are certain of God.
As certain as He's God, He has to keep His Word. Certain. Then the command was, "Go to the city, for I have commanded a widow woman..." A vision broke before the prophet. Here he comes, walking. He doesn't know where he's going; it don't make any difference. He's just obeying.

39 She don't know where the sticks will be laying, but there's two sticks in the yard somewhere. She starts off; she goes out in the yard. She looks around, "Oh, how hot!" The screams from the city, the night prowlers coming in, scrambling along drinking their wines and so forth. She looks down the street; she sees nothing. She finds one stick, part of the cross, self-sacrifice. She gets another piece of stick, and when she picked up that second stick...
Oh how gloomy it must have been, death laying at the door. Her and her son had to eat one little piece of the hoe cake and die. That was all of it! And sometimes right in the midst of gloom that we hear the voice.
When she picked up that second stick and started back, there was a voice come over the gate, said, "Fetch me a little water in a vessel."

40 She turned to look with these two sticks in her hand, with the meal and oil mixed and ready. She said she'd dressed it, mixed it together. That's what... The Word and the Spirit has to mix together, lay it upon the cross of self-sacrifice to deny anything that's contrary to what you've asked. That's right. "I mixed it; now I'm going get these sticks."
And that voice said, "Bring me a little drink of water in a vessel."
She looks, and she sees a man standing, leaning across the gate, thin-cheeked, bearded, bald-headed, looking across the gate with an old piece of sheep skin wrapped around him. Looked like he was kind of a kind looking old gentleman. She said, "I will share my water with him."
Waters of life: You're willing to give it to anybody, to tell anyone, to go anywhere.

41 "Just a moment, Sir."
She starts back with the sticks in her hand. And the voice thundered again. "Not only do you share your water, but bring me a little morsel of bread in your hand." Bread of life, water of life; was it of life? She'd die as soon as that perished.
"Bring me your water and bring me your bread." What do we find here? What lesson can we find? "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness; other things will be added." "Bring me a little water and a morsel of bread."
Then she turns in her gloom; I can hear her say, "Sir, (something like this), you're different from men that I've seen. And men that I hear speak, you seem to be so positive of what you're saying. But I've only got enough meal, just a handful, and just a spoonful of oil. I've dressed it, and I'm going to cook it with these two sticks. And I'm going to eat it, me and my son, and die. That's all I got."

42 What we hear then next: "But fetch me the little cake first!" God first! No matter what anybody else says, what anything else, what any evidence, how gloomy it looks, whatever it may be, take God first, His Word first.
"Doctor said I can't get well," but His Word first! "I'm too much of a sinner!"; "I'm a prostitute!"; I'm a gambler!"; "I'm a drunkard!" God's Word first! "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; red like crimson, they'll be white like wool." First God.
"Go bring me a little cake first. All that you've got bring it to me." Are you willing to give it into His hands?
My life, all that I am, I'm fifty years old. "Are you willing, William Branham, to lay it to me? Are you willing, you little children, to lay your life to me? Are you willing? Can you do it? Sick people, can you trust me? Put Me first."

43 "Bring a morsel of bread in your hand and fetch me a little water." She looked at him. There was something told her that that man knowed what he was talking about. God knows His own. "My sheep know my voice." They know whether it's Scripture or not, whether it's right or not.
She turns in obedience. That's what you've got to do. And when she turned to obey what the prophet said do, then come the thunder from heaven that every man looks to hear. For there come a thunder out of the voice of the prophet that every sinner and every sick person longs to hear, "Thus saith the Lord." How we long to hear it.

44 How that people sit in my driveway, and say, "Come to this door; my daughter's in such, my baby, my so-and-so, just say the word." How can you say it before it's in your mouth? You'd be saying it yourself. But they long to hear that "Thus saith the Lord."
There it come across the fence, because she was obeying, and the gloom broke: "Thus saith the Lord, the barrel will not go empty nor the cruse run dry until the day that the Lord God sends rain on the earth." Oh, what a consolation.

45 She made the cake, she give it to the prophet. She went back and made some for her son and herself, and they eat and drank with plenty upon the earth. Where did it come from? How did it get there? Scientifically tell me where that meal come from. Where did that oil come from? How did it get in that cruse?
She'd poured it dry every morning; she'd emptied the meal barrel every morning. And it was dry, but when she went back for more, it was there. Where did it come from? Take God at His Word. Be certain of God. He's the Creator.
You might've lost your health. You might've lost your fellowship. Take Him at His Word. Be certain that He's God. The gloomy times that's looking now may not look so gloomy if you'll just take His Word and be certain that He's God.

46 In Germany once I saw a picture, and it always stuck with me. A German painter has painted a picture that's called "The Cloud Land." And when you see it off at a distance, it's the horriblest looking gloom you ever seen, just clouds matted together when you're looking at it from a long distance. But when you get real close to it, it changes; it's angels' wings beating together, singing hallelujahs to the Lord. So that's what gloom is sometime. If you look at it at a long distance, it looks gloomy and dark; but take God at His Word and be certain that He's God, and move up close to it; you'll find out it's just angels' wings a-beating together.

47 She was somewhat like Abraham was, called on to give everything she had, lay it on the altar of sacrifice. Maybe you're called like that this morning: Give up your ways; give up your unbelief; give up everything you've got, and then take the oil and the Word and mix it together, and put it on a altar of self-sacrifice. You'll find out it'll call God on the scene as certain as I'm standing in this pulpit.

48 Think of it while we pray. Have you a need today? Have you a need greater than you're physically able to obtain? Is the money so low that you can't pay your rent? Is the children wanting new shoes, and you ain't got the money to buy them? Is the barrel empty at your house and the cruse about run dry? You can't buy feed for your stock, and there's something wrong. Remember, He made a promise.
Are you sick and the doctor says that you need an operation, and you haven't got the money to do it? You have need.

49 Are you a sinner? Is your need great, knowing if God should call today you'd be lost? Are you a backslider running from God? And you know you belong to some church, but you know you're not right, your own conscience tells you according to the Word, that you're not right. And you have a need? Don't let these words fall in thorny grounds or on rocks, stony hearts; may they fall in good, fertile soil.
If you're sick and the doctor says you can't get well and you promise God that you'll serve Him all the days of your life, and you're certain that He's God, come meet His requirement. If you have a need, will you first do as much as to raise your hand to God that you have a need of something? God bless you. Let us pray.

50 Oh Lord, just as certain as I'm in this pulpit this morning, I know that there could not be one of those hands go up without You knowing it, for Thou art God. You said, "Is not so many sparrows sold for two farthings? How much more are you than a sparrow?" How much more did You see the hands of those mortal beings in which Your Son Jesus died for. How more did You see their hands than You would a sparrow if it fell this morning. I suppose a dozen sparrows wouldn't sell for a penny this morning, cause no one wants them; there'd be the trouble of burying them. But You know every one of them; You know every feather that's in their body. You know every hair that's on our head.
Oh Lord, answer prayer; let them be certain this morning that You are God, and It's Your Spirit. May the dullness and glamour of this modern day religion drop away from them, saying, "Oh, I belong to certain-such church." God, may that fade from their minds right now. In this one moment may they catch a glimpse of eternal life. And then they'll seek and hunger for it, to know what God is, and they're certain that He is; He keeps His Word.

51 To the sinner, may they repent quickly, make ready for baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. And You promised You'd give them the Holy Ghost. You said it, Lord; You keep Your promise.
There's a backslider that's certain that You are God, and they've wandered away, may they come today because You said, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white like snow; red like crimson, they'll be white like wool."
And if there's those who are sick, may they realize that You're God; You keep Your Word; You must keep Your Word. And as they lay theirself with their oil, the Spirit that's in them that's confessing they believe, and then also with the Word, the bread of life that's went forth, Christ ground up to them in the Old Testament and in the New Testament to show that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. May they mix that Word with the oil---Spirit---that they've got, then stand to their feet at the altar, saying, "This is all I got, Lord, I bring it." Oh, how You'll multiply, how it'll call the God of history on at that scene; how it'll make Jehovah rise with a heart swelling that, "I got a child that'll obey Me. I've put him through the test, that he proves that he loves Me and he believes Me. He's certain that I am." For it is said, "He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek after Him." Grant it this hour, as we commit it to You.

52 And now, while we have our heads bowed, and those that are in need of anything, would you stand to your feet that wants to place... Now, if you're not certain that He is God... if you're certain He is God, and is going to keep His promise, salvation, healing, whatever it is; if you're certain that He's God, stand to your feet. If you've got someone else you want to pray for, stand to your feet if you're certain that He's God. Make your request known in the assemblies of the saints. You're doing it as you stand to your... [Gap in the audio].
I'm certain He's God. I believe that He keeps His Word. And I'm sure that my request ... I'll lay it under the blood right now. If you do that, lay every sin, every... Sin is unbelief. You might be a church member, but I'm meaning sin, your unbelief. You're laying it down as a sacrifice; you're going to sacrifice it; you're coming to the cross. You're going to sacrifice now all your unbelief and give it over to Him and know that He is, and you're certain He's going to answer. If you're that, raise up your hand. Remain that way.

53 Lord, Thou art God. Here is their oil and their corn mixed together; they're bringing it to the cross where the fire of God shall fall into their hearts, if they really mean that, and consume that sacrifice. You'll move on the scene, rise the high waters. Coming from heaven in a chariot of fire, You'll shake the whole heavens and earth to reward them.
As they stand with their hands up in the air, signifying that they believe and have laid themselves and every request that they got right on Thy altar. O God of heaven and earth, the Judge of the heavens and earth, surely the Judge of heaven and earth will commit righteousness; surely He will keep His Word, you who know the hearts of men, the hearts of women, the hearts of these people.

54 Lord God, I put my own hands up, for I know that I've got a change of ministry now. And I believe that You are; I've seen You standing yonder in a Pillar of Fire. I've seen You search the secrets of men's hearts, and not one time have You failed. You promised it when You made it yonder across the street here, when You first started dealing to do these things. And You protected me around the world and around and around. I'm sure You're God; I'm certain of that.
I offer myself with these people and the sacrifice of all that I have, Lord, to You for service. I'm starting again, Lord, moving around the world. Help me, O God. If I disbelieve You at any time, forgive me of my sin, forgive me of my unbelief. I know that You are and a rewarder of those that seek You.

55 Likewise, I confess the sins of my people this morning, their weaknesses and their doubtings, as they're standing with their arms in the air. I confess their sins, Lord, and all of our weaknesses. Send the Holy Ghost upon us with the seal of Your approval, that You are God, and You're here now to receive us, and to take us into Thy arms, and to redeem us of everything that we've lost. If it's our health, may it be restored a hundredfold. If it's our soul, may it come to us as a blooming, shining article, filled with the Holy Ghost to be presented before God. If it's unbelief, may it become to us again, Lord, with faith to move mountains. Grant it, Lord.
We believe that You're moving, the Holy Spirit, saturating through this building, over these people, and in their hearts, moving them to accept the Living God. This we do in the name of Jesus Christ.

56 My faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
%#Saviour divine!
Now hear me while I pray,
%#Take all my sins away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
Do you mean it? Do you receive it, raise your hands, say, "I now receive it of Him."
While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,
%#Be Thou my Guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
%#Wipe sorrows, fears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.

57 Let us bow our heads. After this stern, hard-cut message, rude and brought out in a rough way, but it's the truth. And if you'd humbly believe what you have asked for that you receive, don't you never let nothing push you from that straight road. Stand right there. No matter how much I'd preach, whatever I'd do, or whatever any man would do, it'll never take effect till you accept it as your own personal property.
If you believe that with all your heart, everything that you have desired... If you've confessed your sins, God has forgive you. Don't you never doubt it no more. If you're a backslider, you've been taken back this morning. If you need the Holy Spirit, then be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins. That's God's Word. He will not alter It for no church, no denomination, for nobody else. It must be that way. We got to meet His requirements, not the church's requirements, His requirements. That's what we must do.

58 He said, "The prayer of faith shall save the sick." If you're sick, I've prayed the prayer for faith for you. You've prayed it in your own heart and believe it, accept it, stand pat on it; it'll have to be that way. Nothing can take it.
No matter how gloomy it looks... You say, "Well, it might look like I'm still sick." That doesn't... It's just angels' wings gathered together. That's all. It's God in a form of blessing. It's looks gloomy to you. Draw a little closer to it, and look at it again; see if it ain't God standing there keeping His Word.
Now, as we have our heads bowed, I'm going to turn the service to Brother Neville, our pastor.

Be certain of God

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1 All things are possible,
only believe.
Let us remain standing as we bow our heads for prayer. O mighty God, that brought again Jesus from the dead, we are approaching Thee this afternoon in His name, knowing this, that You have give us the promise that You would hear. "This is my beloved Son, hear ye him." And we come in His name to ask mercy, and to ask healing and salvation for those who are hungering and thirsting for such; forgiveness of our trespasses. And praying that Your Spirit will cause many to come to Thee this afternoon, both in this visible audience and in the radio land.
We thank Thee, Heavenly Father, for the morning services all around the world. And pray that You will bless every service and every minister and every church this day, that's preaching the Gospel. Come, Lord Jesus, and receive us into Thyself. And while we're waiting Your coming, help us to be loyal servants. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated.

2 I was enjoying some fellowship this morning with the Armenian people of the city, at their church. And to my surprise, there was a lady who could interpret languages that... Last evening I was speaking here and was ... the Holy Spirit was speaking, rather, and was calling the people out in the meeting, and telling them of their different afflictions and their diseases. And sometimes I couldn't make them understand just who it was, and then the Holy Spirit would call their name out, as you've noticed Him doing that.
And then they were telling me this morning---which visions to me are just like a trance---and they were telling me of a woman that I had called back in ... somewhere in the audience, and had told her that a certain affliction had gripped her. But she couldn't understand me because she didn't ... she was from another country, a Finnish woman. And then the Holy Spirit, to show that He's no respect of person, spoke through here and called her name and told her to bless God, spoke in a language that I didn't know, and called the woman and give who she was and something about the Lord's blessings upon her, something another, in Finnish language. I don't even know English, let alone Finnish. So, it goes to show that God speaks in all the languages, and all human beings belong to Him. How wonderful.

3 He is doing the exceedingly, abundantly. I do not wish to take too much of the time, but just while this is on my mind... I remember, sometime ago, at the Sam Houston Coliseum down in Houston, Texas. And we were trying to (had such an overflow crowd) till we were trying to take care of part of them at the Coliseum and part over to Raymond Ritchie's. Now, I'm sure that the Angelus Temple knows who Raymond Ritchie is. He was a personal friend through the founder of this church.

4 And I would pray over here for a prayer line, then go over to the Coliseum and pray. And one night when my brother was taking me from the prayer line, I heard a little Spanish girl weeping. And she would have been the next in line according to the numbers of the prayer cards I was calling. And she wasn't nothing but a child of fifteen years old, something. Well, my brother started pushing me on, and the man that was supposed to take me. But somehow, something told me, "See that child." And I said, "Oh, bring her here." And they brought her over and she gave her prayer card to the man, and so she came over. And I began to speak to her, and she just stood there. I thought she might be deaf and dumb. But find out, she couldn't speak English. She could not understand one word of English. And so, I asked if there was an interpreter. And they got a man and brought him up for the interpretation.

5 Well, I asked her a few questions, and she begin answering me through the interpreter. And then all of a sudden the vision come. And I said, "I see before me a little girl with little plaited hair hanging down her back. She's sitting by an old fireplace eating yellow corn from a cob that's been took from a kettle which hangs over the fireplace. And she's eaten too much of it; she falls violently ill. And she's taken to the bed by her mother, and is throwed into epilepsy." And then the vision left.
And the little girl turned to the interpreter and said, in Spanish, "I thought he couldn't speak Spanish."
And the interpreter said, "You spoke English, did you not, Brother Branham?"
I said, "I did."
He said, "Well, she said you spoke Spanish."
I said, "Stop the recorders, all along the row." And they stopped and we played it back; and every word was English. And then we had her to repeat what I said. And as long as the vision was going on, she heard every word in English.
"How hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?" God is still God. Now, when I begin to say words within myself, she didn't understand that at all. But the Holy Spirit speaking English was interpreting it to her in Spanish. God is a good God, as Oral Roberts places it. Certainly is true.

6 And if we could only grasp that this afternoon, that His goodness to that little woman (Finnish, or whatever she was) last night, to be sure that her faith would be recognized, He called her in her own language. Wonderful. Now overseas, many times, we see that happen in the foreign countries. That, I will be standing, speaking, and it'll turn right back around and use my language and call people, their names, and everything (just like it does here) in their own native language. That's what I call pentecost, I believe that that's the Holy Spirit.

7 Now, the last few nights we haven't been giving out any prayer cards for a prayer line. So, I believe it would be in order tonight to have a prayer line, to pray for the sick. All next week, beginning Tuesday night, we expect to go all through next week. So, you come out each night, come praying, bringing somebody with you. The boys will be giving out the prayer cards in about thirty-five minutes, as soon as the service is finished here. And you who want a prayer card, just remain. Now, they'll bring the prayer cards up here and give them out to anyone who wants them. May the Lord add His blessings to all that we do, for we do it in His name.

8 Now to our subject and to our lesson for a few moments. Brother David read the Scriptures, because I had just met an old friend, that's sitting present this afternoon. About two years ago I was up on the River Of No Return with my good friends, the Christian Businessman. I love to hunt. And they had a new guide that year, and I kind of fell in love with this man, a young fellow that ... and he would... I liked him. There seemed to be something about him that was a little more than a cowpoke. And I had met his wife; she was a waitress at the restaurant, at the place where we were eating, up at North Forks near Salmon River, Idaho.

9 And on the road back, it happened to be that God let this young fellow become a chum to me, to hunt with me. And I remember getting a good shot one morning at my elk, way across the valleys, and got him very humane. And this young fellow was helping me skin him out. And I was noticing him, and I said to him, "Jim, are you a Christian?" And, I believe, he said he belonged to some church or something another. But there was something about him that seemed honest. That night when we went in, sat at the table, I kept watching him. While he was laying on his camp bag, sleeping, I passed by and laid my hand upon him, and asked God to save him.
And today, him and his lovely, little wife meets me back here in the back; they're both Pentecostal believers, has got the Holy Ghost, sitting present now. Prayer changes things, Brother Gillespie. Oh, He's so real. If we will just pray, and then believe that we get what we ask for.
So, that's why I had Brother duPlessis to read the Word for me; I just had to greet Jim and his wife. God's give them a lovely, little baby since then; we're happy.

10 Now, Brother David was reading out of the book of Kings, of Elijah, the great prophet. And it must have been a terrible morning, dry and hot. They hadn't had no rain for three years and six months. It was so dry and hot till the world was ready to blaze into fire. The people were starving in the streets and there was a cry everywhere. All this had been brought on because of the moral decay of the nation. Israel was loved of God. But when they got out of the will of God, the enemy taken them over.
God loves His church. But when we get out of the will of God, the enemy takes the church over. And Ahab, who was king of Israel at that time, and to my thinking, the most wicked king Israel ever had, because he married an idolater, Jezebel. She was a sinner and a ungodly person. And instead of being a man of his own house, he gave in to her. And through that they had caused the nation to come to moral decay. They'd went after ... brought the nation into idolatry, because that they'd went after her idols.

11 It's something similar to today. All the people agreed that it was all right for them to do that because the government---the king and the queen---endorsed it. And they was the most popular people in that nation. And because the king and the queen did it, the people thought that it would be all right. Now that's about the picture of our country today. Many people just follow one another. And they think because that the government has given the booze sellers license to sell whiskey, that it's all right to get drunk. It's wrong.
And many times good women think because that the cigarette companies puts these pictures out on these advertisements---the women smoking cigarettes, and the movie stars and many of them, and the popular women smoke---that it's all right. That's what's caused our moral decay in this nation. The backbone of any nation is motherhood. Break motherhood, you've broke the back of the nation. And I've got a statistics that shows that ... I believe it's about eighty percent of cigarette smoking mothers has to raise their babies on bottles. Because there's so much nicotine in their blood, it will kill the baby before it's eighteen months old.

12 You talk about a sabotage; that's one of the greatest sabotages the nation's got. And regardless of all of the warnings that the doctors put out---such slogans as "cancer by a carload," and all these warnings---the people want to follow one another. Because it's some silly woman, actress of some sort, advertises cigarettes and blows it through her nose and acts smart. But that's no place ... or no thing for a lady to do. It's wrong.

13 I was passing down one of your streets here a few days ago, and I seen in a barroom. It said, "Tables for ladies." I don't mean to be rude and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but ladies don't go in places like that. They've never had one in there. [Audience applauds.] I'd imagine they've never had a customer and never will, because it's no place for ladies. But fine people sometime see those things and see people who are up-and-up (what we call) go into such places, and they think that's the thing for them to do. "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man."

14 But you see, the king had said this is all right because his wife thought it was all right. And they'd caused a moral decay. And then they thought because they were prosperous, no wars and so forth, that that was the sign that God was with them. Prosperity is not always the sign that God is with you. Many times that's deceiving. "The rain falls on the just and the unjust. But it's by their fruits they are known." And so this nation was really corrupted, and God had sent judgment upon it. All the preachers had bent under the heavy load, because the members of the church had forced them to do things.
I feel sorry for a preacher that's got no more God about him than to let his congregation dict' to him, and get him off in a rut like that. I believe that we need preachers that's men, that's God-fearing, God-sent servants who's not afraid to call black "black" and white "white." The gospel's been handled too much now with kid gloves on. We need some old-fashioned preaching like Billy Sunday, and John the Baptist, and some of them old-fashion hell-fire and brimstone messages again back to the people. I know it's not popular. So when they got away from that, you see what a condition the nation's got in. So it takes that, brother.

15 And all that the pastors have give in, so they let the ... they'd had a social gospel, no doubt. And so, but there was one who didn't give in. There was a little, old prophet in the land in that day. He didn't bow down to any of their idols, for he knowed that Jehovah was a Holy God, and He required holiness, and cleanliness, and decency. For he knowed that Jehovah could not change. And if... Jehovah, to bring the children out of Israel, had to cleanse them and sanctify them. And when they walked disorderly according to His commandments, He placed judgment upon them. He knowed that Jehovah was the same yesterday, today and forever. Therefore, he would not give in. Oh, Jezebel hated him and all of her company hated him. But God loved him and respected him, because he never let down on the Word of God. He stayed with it.
God, give us more Elijahs in this cruel, evil day of corruption that we're living in, that's not a-scared to preach what's the truth, what the Bible says. "Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord." You must be cleansed from your sins by the blood of the Lord Jesus.

16 Now. There was a woman in the land; neither one of these people know each other. But she must have been an honorable woman. She must have been the type of woman that Elijah was a man, because God chose that woman out of all the women that there was in Israel to entertain His prophet. And he would have never chose an immoral woman to entertain His prophet. And this woman was a widow woman. The drought was in the land. And she'd started out, after the death of her husband. She had a little baby to raise. And she was struggling to try to make a living for the little fellow. And finally the bread begin to cease. And it come to a place one day, when she went in to look at her little fellow, and she seen his little sleeves out, torn. She might have looked at herself in a mirror, and seen that how she'd left the table with something on it for the baby; and her own cheekbones a-sticking out, and her little, frail-looking arms. She didn't mind it for herself, but the little boy... She was try ... she didn't want to see him die.

17 So finally, one day she went to the meal barrel and there was just one handful of meal left. She goes over to the cruse to see how much oil, and just about a good tablespoonful. That stood between her and death. I suppose that night there was an all night prayer meeting. Isn't it strange how God lets us get right down to the end of the road? No doubt but she checked up, said, "Lord God, (something like this) I've served You. I've done all that I know how to do. I've met Your requirements. And here I've got one handful of meal and a spoonful of oil between death for my child and myself." All night long she must have prayed.
And when the little fellow would wake up, turn over and say, "Mama, would you go back to the cupboard and see if there's just a little bit of that bread left?" She'd go back, cry a little, and then she would come back and give him a little water to drink, for she knew she just had this little bit, and it had to maybe make the next day. And the little fellow maybe couldn't sleep good because of hungry.

18 I've been through those places. No doubt but what there's many here been through those places. I seen my mother leave the table of a morning, set back in the house and cry, when she'd... What we had on the table was some stale bread. And she'd pour some coffee over it and some sugar over the top of it for us kiddies, and go back in the room and weep, say, "I'm not hungry," when she was hungry. And us trying to go to school like that.

19 And the woman as she seen that crucial hour coming, no doubt she checked up and said, "Lord, I've done all that I know how to do." When you've done everything that you know how to do, and met every requirement that God has required, that's where faith takes ahold. That's where faith comes in. If you've met every requirement that God required you to do, then sometimes God tests your faith, to see what kind of a reaction you'll have on your action. Oh, He's good at that. It just proves whether you really believe what you think you believe. You know He does that many times.

20 One morning there was some Hebrew children was going to be burnt up. And they knew that they had done God's will. And they said, "We're not afraid of the king's commandments. Our God is able to deliver us from this fiery furnace. Nevertheless, we will not bow to his image." Now, God was going to give them a test to see what their reaction to their action would be. And He let them walk right straight to the fiery furnace before He ever moved. But when all of God's requirements has been met and you're certain of God---that God will do it---stand still then, and God will do it.
If you sit in these meetings, and you seen the Lord God move out over the audience, healing the sick and afflicted, and yet, you seem to still have your disease. And when I ask for them to put hands on each other, and you've made your wrongs right before Him; you've accepted Him, and you've been baptized in Christian faith, and your heart's clean before Him, then sometime when God delays His answer He's only wanting to see what you'll react by. Just be sure that you believe that it's God and then hold on to it. Don't you move.

21 If you've been prayed for, hands laid on you by believers, the Bible said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." That's God's requirement and God requires you to believe His Word.
Job. God let the devil test Job once. When Job went out and made a burnt offering for his children... They had a party, so, Job knowed in his days what teen-agers was like, what they were made up of, that mind that can't get settled. And so, Job said, "Perhaps, what if my children did sin, I will offer a burnt offering for them, anyhow." And when he was standing pat on that offering, what God required---a burnt offering... That's all He required, to confess and make a burnt offering. And Job knowed he did that. And then the devil was turned loose on him; and he begin to kill his children, destroy his goods. And he had some of his church members come to him and said, "You are a secret sinner. You've got something in your heart that you haven't confessed, Job."
But Job knowed that he hadn't done it. He was sure that he had met God's requirements and he stood pat on it. That's it. He knowed he'd confessed his sins; called for God to try him, search him and see if there was anything wrong, see. God was just waiting to see what Job would do, because Satan said, "I will make him curse You to Your face."
But God said, "There's none like him in the earth; he won't do it." God had confidence in him.

22 And maybe if your healing's a-lingered a little bit, God's got confidence in you that you'll hold on. If you believe that the Holy Spirit, the signs and wonders that He promised is being done here, then accept it and hold on to it. God's requirement. "I'm the Lord who heals all thy diseases."

23 When you receive the Holy Spirit, get born again, and the devil begins to tempt you, "Oh, you're wearing the same clothes; you look like you used to." But you are sure that something happened inside of you; God changed your life. Don't make any difference what the devil said; just get away from it because you're sure that it's God. Amen. Amen means "So be it."

24 I'm sure the Holy Spirit is here now. I'm sure of it. And I knowed that what we ask, we will receive it. It might not come just right now, but it's got to come. God's promise is true. We ask Him for anything, we don't doubt; we believe that what we ask for we get, because we met God's requirements: Given our life to Him; surrendered our will to Him; our lives, our soul, all that we are we have surrendered to God. Then our heart condemns us not, we can have what we ask for. "If ye abide in me and my word in you, ask what you will and it shall be done unto you." That's His promise. Just be sure that you know God, and know that that's His promise.
Someone said to me many times, brother, said, "Aren't you afraid, Brother Branham, when you go there at night time, that maybe that Angel of the Lord might leave you sometime?"
I said, "I'm sure He won't, because He promised me He wouldn't do it. And I've got faith in God to believe that He will meet that requirement."

25 That night at Portland, when that maniac run out on the platform to kill me---you've read the story---you better be sure of it then. But I was sure that I wasn't trying to speak of myself. When he called me a snake-in-the-grass, and spit in my face, and said, "Tonight I'm going to knock you all the way out into that audience," I just stood still. He weighed two-fifty or more---and I weighed one hundred and twenty-eight, had to look up to him---those great, big, giantly arms, and his teeth set, and his eyes, his fist drawed back, running towards me.
And the Spirit of God said, "Because you've challenged the Spirit of God, tonight you'll fall over my feet." That was God, that wasn't me.
So he said, "I will show you whose feet I'll fall over." And he drew his fist back to hit me.
And when he did, I said, "Satan come out of the man." And he fell and pinned my feet to the floor till the policeman had to roll him off of my feet.

26 Just be sure it's God and then hold on to it! Stay with it. When God says anything, He has to keep His Word. Just be certain that it's God. Take God's Word. If God whispers to your heart, "I'm the Lord that healeth thee," stay with it. That's God's promise. God promises to give the Holy Spirit, stay with it until it comes.

27 I was reading old, Uncle Buddy Robinson's book here sometime ago. And he was plowing corn, he said, with his old mule, Alec. And he got mad at Alec that morning because she was tramping down the corn. And he bit her on the ears, and she run off and looked at him. And he said, "Alec, I'm ashamed that I bit you." Said, "Looky here, me preaching sanctification with a teethful of mule hair." He said, "What a disgrace." And then he got ashamed of himself. And he got down in the row of corn, and said, "Lord, if you don't give me the Holy Ghost, when you come back you'll find a pile of bones laying here." Then he received it. Be certain it's God, then hold on to it.

28 She was certain she'd walked upright before God. And God proved it by inviting His prophet to live with her, see. God confirms things. So, the morning was breaking; the birds was beginning to sing as dawn begin to break. She looked at the little fellow again and she patted him. She knelt down and said, "Lord God, he will be getting up in a few minutes. I will go and prepare the last thing I got and give it to him. And then I will take him in my arms and we will die together." So she went and got the handful of meal.
Now meal was a meal offering, which means "Christ the Word." And when they ground the meal offering in the days of the Bible, they used a certain burr that ground every little bit of meal just exactly the same. There was no difference in it. Well, that types this. The same means "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever." When God ground His life out of Him at Calvary, He gave it to the church, that He'd be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

29 Then she goes and gets the oil. The oil represents the Spirit. That's why we anoint with oil; it represents the Spirit. And she put the oil and the meal together and begin to prepare it. And when the Spirit and the Word gets together, something's going to take place! She was at the end. So she got the Word and the Spirit and begin to mix it together. Now it's ready for baking. She goes out in the yard to pick up two sticks. Did you notice the Bible said, "Two sticks?"
Now in the old days... Jimmy, I guess we've done it many times ourselves. You take two sticks and cross them and you put the fire right in the middle. And as the sticks burn, you push them in, if you're camping out at night. It keeps the fire going all night long. Pushing it in; the fire was in the middle. If you notice, the two sticks represented the cross: self-sacrifice.

30 Now, she'd mix the Word and the Spirit together and was ready to put it to the fire. And she goes to pick up these sticks. And, perhaps, she just got the last one in her hand and was starting back in the house, and she looked at the gate. There was a gentle-looking old man (perhaps bald-headed and whiskers hanging down) standing, leaning across the gate. He said, "Would you fetch me just a little drink of water?"
She looked at him and thought, "Well, I've got just about a half a gallon in the house. But the poor, old fellow looks so thirsty. I will be willing to divide with him." And she might have said, "Yes, kind sir. I will get you a little of the water, because the springs have dried up and everything. All waters had dried up." And she started in to get the water.
And he knowed...

31 You see, God answers on both ends of the line. About two hours before that, the brook had dried up on top of the mountain where Elijah was. He said, "Elijah, go down to the city and keep walking until you find a woman with two sticks in her hand. She's going to feed you." God does things real. "I've sent you down there and she's going to feed you. She hasn't got nothing in the house, but I'm going to feed you."
And he walked down the street till he seen that woman packing those two sticks, and that must be her. So he had to catch her attention. He said, "Would you fetch me a little water?"
And she said, "I will."
And as she turned and started, he said, "And just bring me a little morsel of bread in your hand." Elijah, seeing that vision, already knowed what the conditions was.
And she said, "As the Lord liveth"---Elijah knew she was a Christian then, a believer---"As the Lord liveth, I've only got just a handful of meal and a spoonful of oil, that I've already prepared; I've dressed it, got it ready. And I'm taking these two sticks to make a little cake for my son and I, and we're going to eat it and die."

32 See, now here comes a great lesson. But Elijah said, "Bake me one first." Oh, what is it there? What lesson do we learn? "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness." "Bake me one first."
And she looked. She said, "I wonder who that is? There's something about the man that seems to be different."
And he said, "Bake me one first and bring it."
And she started in to do what he said. Then she heard that comforting Word that always comforts, "For thus saith the Lord, the barrel will not be empty nor the cruse run dry, until the day that God sends rain on the earth."

33 What was it? That very dark, crucial moment come, but God's always on the scene. If you're sure that it's God, if you've repented of your sins, if you've met God's requirement, then be sure that God will keep His promise. Whew! If men and women could only realize that! God's obligated to His promise. And if you've met his requirements, if you've confessed your sins, and you've made your wrongs right, and you've done everything God has required, then hold on to God. You've got to see daylight; He's got to bring it through. Just be certain that it's God and He will take care of the rest of it. If you're sure that it's God!

34 Sometime ago, I was over at a little city in Arkansas---about fifteen years ago, not quite that long, I'd say twelve years ago. They have a terrible segregation in Arkansas. And I'd been into a little church, and the policeman helped me in and out. And I was coming out of the church and I could hear someone saying, "Mercy, mercy." I thought, "Where is that coming from?" And I looked over to my left. Standing over to one side stood a Negro man, way out from the white people. He had his little old cap in his hand, hollering, "Mercy, mercy." And something struck me, "That man wants to talk to me."
And I said to the policeman, I said, "I want to go over and see that man."
"Oh," he said, "Mr. Branham, you can't do that; you'd start trouble here in Arkansas." Said, "You can't do that." He said, "We just can't let you do that."
I said, "But the Holy Spirit is telling me to go."
He said, "Well, Brother Branham, you'll start a race riot." Said, "All these white people here to be prayed for, and you go over there to that colored man."
I said, "I can't help what kind of laws you got. I follow a law and that law is the law of the Spirit."
And he said, "Go to that man."

35 And I just pulled loose from him and I went over there. And I heard his wife say, "Be of a good courage, honey; the parson is coming."
And I got over there, and I said, "How do you do?"
He had his hands out like this. He said, "Is you..." I'm not saying this disregarding to my colored friends, either here or on the radio. But he had a real Southern talk. And he said, "Is this you, Parson Branham?"
And I said, "Yes sir, it is."
He put his hands on my face. He said, "You's a younger man than I thought you was." Him blind. And he said, "Has you got just a minute, I want to tell you somethin'?"
I said, "Yes, brother. I got as much time as you want to talk."

36 He said, "I's been a Christian since I was a little boy. My old mammy," said, "she's been gone for years." And said, "I's been blind now for several years. I got cataracts on my eyes. The doctor man said he couldn't take them off. They done wrapped around the optical nerve, and he couldn't take them off." And he said, "I never heard of you in my life, Parson Branham." But said, "Last night about nine o'clock I went to bed," he said, "I dreamed I saw my old mammy come up to my bedside. And she said to me, 'Honey, rise up and put on your clothes, and go down to a city called Moahart, and have Brother Branham to pray for you; you're going to get your sight.'"
He says, "Do you believes that, Brother Branham?"
I said, "I believe it with all my heart."
He said, "My old mammy never told me a lie in her life. And I got up and put on my clothes. And my wife helped me to the bus station. And we's went over to the auditorium and they told us you were here. And we come over here, and been standing here." And it raining as hard as it could rain.

37 I looked at him. I put my arms around him, and I said, "Lord God, I don't know, but somehow he's certain. And I'm certain that you let his old mammy come to him in a dream to tell him that he was going to get his sight. And he's so sure that he's going to get his sight, Lord God, let it be now." And I no more than said that, and he started batting his eyes.
He said, "Thank you, Lawd."
And I said, "Can you see, Uncle?"
And he said, "Shore I can see." Said, "I knowed I was going to see."
And his wife said, "Honey, can you really see?"
Said, "Shore, you see that red car setting there?" Said, "Shore I can see."
A great scream went up from everywhere and the people glorified God. What was it? He was certain that God had spoke to him in that dream. And if God's certain by a dream, how much more certain is He by His Word? Be certain. Hold on to it. God will bring it to pass. Let us pray.

38 Lord, when I think of many of the experiences... I don't know today where that man is; Thou knowest. I may never have the privilege of looking at him again on earth. But no doubt, sometime across the river yonder, when we have both climbed the golden stairs into Your kingdom, I shall see him there. Because he was certain; he couldn't read Your Word but You spoke to him by a dream and by his truthful mother. And he was certain that his mother wouldn't lie. And if You had sent him a dream of his mother, he knew that he was sure that he was to get his sight. I believe, Father, that's the reason You gave it to him. He moved from his bed; he went into action; he put his faith to work, and You confirmed his faith by giving him his sight.
There are many sitting here, Lord, today---many out in radio land---that's read the Word and heard the promises, but has never been just sure of it. God, let them be certain today that if God has said so, He has to keep that Word right. And sometimes He lets reaction come just to see what we will do. May every person now, that's both here and in the invisible audience, let them take ahold of Your Word, Your Promise; confess their sins and their unbelief, and hold on to that promise until daylight breaks for them. Grant it, Lord. May they be sure and certain that You will keep Your promise, everyone of them. For we ask it in Jesus' name and for His Sake. Amen.

39 God bless you. How many's certain God keeps His promise? We used to sing an old song over in the Baptist church: His promise is true; He will not forsake you, God is still on the throne. Did you ever sing it? Let's see your hands all that knows it. Give us a chord, sister.
God is still on the throne,
And He ever remembers His own;
His promise is true,
He will not forget you,
God is still on the throne.
Wonder, Brother Duffy, if you can help me lead it. All right, let's sing it.
God is still on His throne,
He never forsaketh his own;
His promise is true,
He will not forget you,
God is still on the throne.
How many believes that, raise up your hand? Let's stand while we sing it now, all together; lift up your hands to God as we sing it. All right, again.
God is still on the throne,
He never forsaketh His own;
His promise is true,
He will not forget you,
God is still on the throne.

40 Now turn around and shake hands with somebody near you. Let's sing it again now as we're shaking hands. All you Methodists, and Baptists, and Presbyterian, and Luthers, and Pentecostals, make up with each other; chew each other's chewing gum; just have fellowship; just really have a good time together. All right, sister. Let's sing it again, everybody.
God is still on.....
(Do you believe it? Raise your hand now.)
He never forsaketh His own;
His promise is true,
He will not forget you,
God is still on the throne.

41 All believes that say, "Amen." We're off the air now, so you can holler "Amen" real loud. Amen!
God is still on the throne,
He never forsaketh His own;
Though trials distress us,
And burdens suppress us,
He never will leave us alone.
Amen. He's Everlasting God; from eternity to eternity He's still God. When this old world's so heaped with sin till it's got a headache band around it, staggering like a drunk man coming home at night; some of these days sin is gone beyond the stars and the moon, and she will burst and fly into eternity, but God will still be on the throne. Amen. Amen. I feel Pentecostal right now. Amen. Old time salvation, the power of God, the Holy Ghost. God is still good. All right, Brother Duffy.

Be certain of God

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1 God bless you, Brother Littlefield. And good evening to all, the audiences both visible and invisible.
We have deemed this a great privilege of having these three days of service in your fair city. And I said, if there was anywhere in this country I'd like to live, would be here at Cleveland, because it's a great religious center.
This morning, I had the privilege of dedicating a new church in Cleveland. And its congregation dedicated their lives anew to the service of the Lord. We had a glorious time this morning.
I want to thank Brother Littlefield, Brother Hall, and all the pastors here in the auditorium tonight, and those who have... Some of them have dismissed their churches for this service. I thank you very kindly, brethren, for your fine cooperation and consideration for the gospel and revival in our time.

2 I want to thank also the radio station, which is broadcasting this service. And as I said last night---we were on the road over tonight, wife and I was listening again to the programs as we do---I sure would love to be close to where this radio station was. So I believe that the influence that music puts upon children, it would pay every Christian throughout radio-land that this radio reaches, to keep their radios tuned to such a station as this tonight, because it brings the right kind of an influence through music and through preaching of the Word to our children. It sets them in a better environment.
Also, I want to thank the police force for their fine cooperation. Last evening, I met one of the young police out here that shook my hand, once a Christian. And he said he'd fallen away from God; had been to my Tabernacle at Jeffersonville. I certainly pray for that young man, God will bring him back to the fold.
I told him a little story, that a man said one time: "I got away from John 3:16, but John 3:16 never did get away from me." It'll stay with you.

3 Now, to the school: I want to thank the school for letting us have this auditorium for the service. May the Lord bless them. And all of you that have come and made this possible, the laity, and the fine compliments from the people throughout radio-land, for the testimonies of their healing, and so forth; I am grateful to God for all these things.
Usually, the last night brings forth a better results when it comes to the healing services, or prayer for the sick, because there's great anticipation, the people waiting and pressing, knowing that they want to get healed. When a person begins to hunger and to thirst after righteousness, then God moves in. That turns His heart.

4 And now, the gospel of our Lord is not the most popular thing in the world. Frankly, it's very unpopular. But I count it and deem it such a privilege to stand for the full gospel that Jesus Christ died for, to preach it, and to believe it, and live it.
And now tonight, I know it's very hot in the auditorium here, and it's things that we cannot help. But we will try to make the message just as short as possible, and get into the prayer line, because we promised to pray for many people tonight.
I want to say this: If any of you in here believe in sending prayer cloths, one to another, according to Acts 19, where they taken from the body of Paul handkerchiefs and aprons and, laid them upon the sick, and they were healed. To me, I believe that every word of the Bible is true. What God did once, He will do again.

5 I believe this: that God is infinite, and we are finite. And when God is called on the scene to act, and the way God acts when He's called on the scene, He must forever act the same way if He's called under the same circumstances again. Like this: If God ever was called on the scene to save a sinner, and the attitude that God taken towards that sinner, He will have to take the same attitude towards the next sinner and every sinner that ever comes before Him. If anyone comes sick, and He healed them, He must take the same attitude forever. Because we, being finite, we can make a mistake, say, "Oh, I was mistaken." But God is infinite, and His words are perfect. And the way He acted first, if He don't act the next time and every time after the way He acted first, then He acted wrong in the first place. He was wrong to forgive the first sin if He won't forgive every sin. He was wrong when He healed the first person if He won't heal every person that comes to Him.
God just requires for you to come His provided way. And His way is Calvary, through His Son, Jesus Christ. Now, it isn't how much we can sing, how well we can preach, how much we can shout; it's coming God's provided way.

6 If you had a artesian well on one hill blowing out water, on the other hill you had a crop burning up. Now, you could stand on the hill where the crop is and holler, "Great well, spring your water over to me and water my crop so I can have food." You could holler until you could holler no more, it wouldn't act. But if you'll work according to the laws of gravitation, you can bring that water right around to your crop.
There's enough electricity in any room to light it up. But you can't holler, "Great electricity, I'm conscious you're here. Light up this room." No. You've got to work according to the laws of electricity, and then it'll light up the room.
And the same way it is; we are conscious that God is here. And God doesn't heal the people just by going to church or making confession; He heals you upon your faith in His finished work. That's the only basis that He can heal you. And if you'll believe that... It's not the touch of a minister's hands; it's not the anointing of the oil; it's not the prayer that he prays so much, as it is your faith to accept the finished work that Christ did for you. That's God's law. Then if you can believe that, all things are possible to them that believe.

7 And now, if you desire a prayer cloth, just write me at Jeffersonville, Indiana, and I will get it. Now, I'm not trying to get your address, because I do not have any programs to support. Never did let my meetings get to that place where I have to have thousands of dollars. I don't have to have anything. Only thing I need is just more of God.
And then, my expenses... Talking with Brother Roberts not long ago, I think his expenses runs around ten thousand dollars a day. Billy Graham's, I think, was running twenty-eight thousand for a few minutes in his broadcast and television, and so forth, all around the world. What would I do if I had to take money like that. I'd been preaching thirty years. I've never took one offering in my life. I don't let my meetings get in that condition. I just keep them humble where I can go to a little bitty church four, or five, or wherever the Lord will call.
I'm only wanting to help you. If you want a prayer cloth that I've prayed over, just send to Jeffersonville, and I will send it back to you free of charge. It's nothing. I might say this: The rain won't fall too hard, or the night get too dark, but what I will be glad to offer prayer for you any time I can, or do something to help you. The Lord bless you, is my prayer.

8 Now let us bow our heads just before we read the Word.
O Lord, the great God of heavens and earth, who brought again the Lord Jesus from the dead, raised Him up on the third day, according to the Scriptures, and He sits now at the right hand of the Majesty on high, no more dead, but ever alive to make intercession upon our confession, the High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. We humbly come, because we have been bidden to come, for He did tell us in His Word, "Ask the Father anything in My name; I will do it."
Therefore, Lord, we first want to thank You for what You have done for us in these last three services. You have blessed our hearts with Your presence, and have healed the sick, and have given salvation to those that were thirsting for God. We pray, O Lord, tonight that You'll double the portion tonight by filling every heart with the Holy Spirit, giving healing to those that are sick and needy, blessing us altogether.

9 And as we are praying, we would not forget those that are in the hospitals, and infirmed in the convalescent homes. Many of them in the old age stage, that maybe their loved ones and many of their associates, nearly all has gone upstairs... But we have this glorious consolation that He will never forsake us or leave us alone. When we are growing old and feeble, He will stand by us even through the valley of the shadows of death.
Bless us together, forgive our sins, and speak to us, Lord, through Thy Word as we wait upon it. Bless this church and all that's represented here, this radio---the station---and all that is concerned. For we ask it in the name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Son, our Saviour. Amen.

10 I have chosen for a text tonight found in the book of I Kings, the seventeenth chapter and the fourteenth verse.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel ... will not waste, nor ... the cruse run dry, until the day that the LORD God sends rain upon the earth.
You know, God's people have always been in the minority, not always in the majority. And I'm speaking of the chosen and the elected, God's chosen people.
And it's always a strange thing to me, how that people that have accepted Christ, is afraid to trust Him, afraid that there might be something they're not sure of. And I'm going to make my text tonight, "Be Certain Of God."

11 It must have been a hot morning. It was along about daybreak. All night long she had prayed, for death was strolling at the door. And this nation was backslidden. People were starving in the streets, and the water fountains had dried up. And there had been three years, not even moisture had fell on the ground by the dew. It showed a moral decay in the nation. It reflected the sins of the people.
It was during the time of the reign of Ahab, Israel's most wicked king. He had married a sinner, Jezebel, a beautiful modern movie star, very indifferent towards the kingdom of God. And he, being one of these kind of husbands that lets the wife run the house and run his business, showed that he was backslid. Then, being an Israelite, he'd give in to her idolatry. And between them, they had brought all the nation to idolatry.
And when you start on the wrong road, you'll never be able to be reconciled, till you come right back to the place where you left God.

12 Sometime ago, a chaplain told me that he found a man laying on the field, a officer, and he had been machine gunned across his chest. He was dying. And he said to him, "Captain, you are dying."
And through the struggles, he said, "I know I am."
He said, "Do you know God?"
He said, "I used to."
He said, "Well, go back to where you left Him, and there you'll find Him again."
And the captain, dying, said, "I just can't think right now." The chaplain said, "You'd better think, for your lungs are fastly filling with your own blood, and you're dying, Captain."
And he begin to try to think. After a while, a smile come over his face. He said, "Oh, Chaplain, I remember now where I left Him."
Said, "Start from right there, Captain."
Said, "All right, Chaplain." He raised his eyes towards heaven, and he started like this: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." And he died.
Where did he leave Him? At the cradle. There's where he found Him, at the cradle.
Wherever you leave Him, that's where you'll find Him. He will never walk in sin with you. You might be a good American or a good church member, but God will never walk in sin with any person or any nation or any church. He cannot tolerate sin. It's a evil, horrible stink in His nostrils. He will not do it.

13 Ahab had done wrong marrying this woman, marrying a sinner, unbeliever. The word sin means "unbelief."
I was speaking some time ago, and I said, "Committing adultery is not sin. Drinking whiskey is not sin." I was at the Henryville Methodist church.
And a precious old sister stood up, and she said, "Then, Brother Branham, what is sin?"
I said, "Unbelief." You commit adultery, and drink whiskey, and lie, and steal, because you do not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Those things are attributes of unbelief. When you have received Christ, you do not do those things. You have love, joy, peace, long-suffering. That is the fruits of the Spirit, the attributes of the Holy Spirit that dwells in you.

14 All these things had long left Ahab, because he married this sinner girl. Oh, she was very sexy, like these modern girls of today. It proved it, after her husband was dead; she dressed herself and twisted out before Jehu, thought she could vamp that man of God, but he said, "Pull her out of the window." If we had more men like Jehu today, we'd have less Jezebels. But that was her nature, and she was a worshipper of idolatry. And she brought the whole nation to idolatry.
And so has our modern trend today, falling away from the things of God and has brought the world to one of the greatest idolatries that we have, that's idolled you. Just idolling around. Great is the iniquity of the people today, making plenty of money, and think that God's blessing us because He's prospered us. That's no sign of God's blessing, not at all.

15 But they were prospered. And they were told by the government, the church was, that it was all right. The government, Ahab and his kingdom said these things are all right. So they had become morally decayed.
And it's not much different today. Our government has endorsed selling whiskey, selling tobacco. And our doctors say to cigarettes: cancer by the carton. And the government says go ahead and sell it for revenue. You think God could bless on the top of that?

16 I read in the Readers' Digest recently that the doctors pronounced how many ... tens of thousands of Americans this year were doomed to death because of smoking cigarettes. How many in the insane institution will take this year because of drinking whiskey? How many homes will be broke up because of modern drinking, sociable drinks, selling whiskey, beer, just at random? And tens of thousands of church members indulge in it. How can we ever expect God to bless that?
But as it was in the days of Ahab, so is it now. The government said it's all right. So they wanted it to be modern. Oh, the call had been so great until the modern preacher had broke down, and give into it.
That's the way it is today. Modern preachers just break down, because their congregation won't put up with it: to preach the gospel in the power of the resurrection, and the old fashion baptism of the Holy Spirit cleaning up a man's life. They put them out. They get a preacher that'll preach things that they want to hear. I ought to be their pastor a little bit.

17 Some woman got on me a few days ago, because I made a remark about the modern American wearing these ... ladies wearing these immoral clothes. How they come down the streets with little skirts on like they were poured into them, and all sexy dressed. And she said, "Mr. Branham, that's the only kind of dress that you can buy in the store."
I said, "Your excuse is thinner than the broth made out of a shadow of a chicken that's starved to death." I said, "They still sell sewing machines and goods. You don't have to do it. Because you want to do it."
Let me say this to you here, and also in radio-land: You might be as pure as a lily to your husband, or to your boyfriend; but if you dress and get out on the street like that, and sinners look at you to lust after you, you're going to have to answer at the day of judgment for committing adultery with that man. You will be turned down at the day of judgment, and who's fault is it? Not the sinner; it's your fault for pushing yourself out in front of him like that. Modern patterns of Jezebel. That was the dark ages of the Hebrews; this is the dark ages of the Gentile.

18 Oh, but there was one during that time, a little number of people, a poor little widow woman in the city, and a prophet sitting up on the hill fed by the crows.
Ahab hated him, and so did Jezebel. They wouldn't have give him a drink of water if he was dying. But God was taking care of him.
The Christian looks to God for his care, not to the world. Some ministers look to their congregations for a meal ticket, preach what the congregation wants them to preach. I'd rather lay on my stomach, and eat soda crackers, and drink branch water, and preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus, than to have fried chicken and live in the best house there is in the city. Right. Be right with God. That's the great thing. Preach the whole Word; tell people of their sins. You'll be hated.

19 Reminds me of a little parable I was telling my children. I got two little girls. One of them's name is Rebekah; she's my first born. And Sarah, her little sister, is next. Rebekah's about twelve years old, skinny, long-legged. And Sarah is a little short girl. She's seven years old.
And one night, I place it like this: I was coming home from meetings, and they'd waited up a long time to see me. And they got sleepy and had to go to bed. I come in weary and tired and worn. I laid down to sleep, sometime after midnight. And along before daylight, I couldn't sleep, and I got up early to keep from waking the wife up, went out into the parlor and sat down in a chair.
And as I was sitting there thinking of the meetings, and praying for the different ones who'd asked me requests, I heard a scramble in the children's bedroom. Here come the door bursting open, and here come Rebekah just as hard as she could go. And she jumped up a-straddle my knee, and her long legs reached down to the floor. She threw her arms around me and begin to hug me.
Then I heard something falling, stumbling over the rugs. Sarah was behind her. And she was wearing Rebekah's hand-me-down pajamas with the feet much too long, and she couldn't stand up good with them on. And she was stumbling.

20 And when Rebekah got seated real good, her long legs reaching down to the floor, I thought, "Well, this is for some cause." And Rebekah reminded me of the church that's all settled. Knows all of its doctrines, been in for a long time, well seated.
She turned around to her little sister, Sarah. And Sarah was at the door then of a hall. She said, "Sarah, I want to tell you something." She threw both arms around me, and she said, "I've got all of daddy, and there's none left for you."

21 And little Sarah, like the minority church. Her little lips dropped down, her little brown eyes begin to water, because that Becky had all of daddy, and she loved daddy too.

22 So, I stuck out my other leg to her, and motioned my finger. Oh, her little eyes brightened up, here she come with them little pajama feet flying, jumped right a-straddle my leg. And she's like the minority church. She wasn't so settled down with great denominations behind her, and she was kind of tottery. I was afraid she was going to fall, so I took both arms and put them around her. I hugged her up to my bosom.
She snugged down close to me for a few minutes, then she turned those little bright eyes up to her sister, Rebekah, and she said, "Rebekah, my sister, I want to tell you something." She said, "It is the truth that you've got all of daddy, but I want you to know that daddy's got all of me."
That's the way I want it. I may not know all the grammar, and all the Greek, and all the Hebrew, but all I want to know that Christ has got all of me. I want to be so completely insufficient till I can feel His arms around me.
Elijah might've not known all the laws of the land, but God had complete control of him.

23 Around about daybreak... All night it had been horrible. See, she'd been gradually getting lower and lower in the meal. And that night, she knew that when she put him to bed, her little boy... His father was gone. She was a righteous woman, a God fearing woman. And that night, I can see them as they knelt down to pray. And as she looked at his little pajama arms, and they were thread bare; his little face was marred from hunger. She'd give her part to him, because she knowed just a little longer and they'd be gone. There was no bread in the land. There was no meal; there was no oil; there was no rain; but yet, she trusted God.
She couldn't sleep. Every once in a while, he'd turn over and say, "Mama, won't you go out to the cupboard, and look one more time, and see if there's just one bite of that bread left. I'm so hungry, I can't sleep."

24 How she'd bite her lips until they would bleed. She'd go out in the kitchen, and raised up her hands, and say, "Oh, Jehovah, I am a widow who believes in You. And You've took the little boy's father, your servant, up into heaven to be with You. And if You don't help me, it won't be long till we will be visiting him. Nevertheless, whatever You do, I love You just the same, and I trust You."
It seems strange when a person has done all that they can do, that they have fulfilled every request that God has asked them to do, and still He is silent. When you have done all that God has requested you to do, and still He's silent, just be sure that you know God. And remember, faith is silently waiting. He's only testing your faith to see what you'll do. God does that.

25 It was the Hebrew children that believed God and stood out for God; and they were sure that they were right with God. And He let them walk right into the fiery furnace before He ever moved, but faith waits silently, assured that everything's all right.

26 When you've done all that you can do, when you come through the prayer line and been prayed for, your heart doesn't condemn you, and you're living right with God, just hold onto it; God has to answer. He's testing you. If you turn loose the next morning, say, "Well, I'm no better; I guess there's nothing to it," then you didn't have faith to begin with. If you've got real faith, you'll hold till the last breath's gone from your body. You're certain that God is God. "For he that cometh to God, must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him."
Job... When Job was accused of being a secret sinner, when his flesh was rottening from his body, and his children had been killed, and he was poverty stricken; he still knew that he was right before God, and he held on. God was testing him. When even his wife come out, and he was sitting in the back yard on the ash heap scraping his sores with a boil ... the boils with a piece of crock or something, and his wife, the only one of his family left, said, "Job, why don't you curse God and die. You look so miserable."
He said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."

27 God was testing him. He knowed he'd offered the burnt offering. He'd come by the way of the blood. He knowed that God was God. He knowed that God answered prayer. And God was testing him. But He brought him out victorious, because he was certain of God.
If you're certain of God, you can take His Word for anything He says. If you're not certain that He is God, and this is the Bible, then you'd better be careful what you're doing. But if you're certain, meet His requirements, then faith takes its solemn rest. Faith cannot be based upon the shifting sands of man's theology. But faith takes its solemn stand upon the eternal everlasting rock of God's eternal faith. There it rests, unmovable. It knows that God is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.

28 Oh, it was horrible to watch her child dying. All night she had prayed, but she'd waited. Then I see her take a little nap, wake up, and she looks at his little thin body. He's dozed off to sleep. She seen the great ditches in his face from hunger. And she could hardly stagger around. Just about a bucket of water left; one handful of meal, and a spoonful of oil stood between her and death.
Isn't it strange how God lets His children get right down by that last moment? Oh, sometimes He permits that to see your reaction. The Bible said, "If we cannot stand the chastisement of God, then we are illegitimate and not the children of God." We're borned of the Spirit of God. Our faith in God holds on His Word, sets to His Word, and there it holds.

29 Now, watch. She goes to the kitchen. She scrapes down in the barrel and gets that little handful of meal. She said, "He will wake up in a few minutes, crying. I will cook the meal, and then he will have his little breakfast," whatever it is, the little corn cake. "Then I will take him in my arms and rock him until death takes us both."
Now, she went to the last thing she had, was meal. Now, meal in the Bible represents the meal offering. The meal offering was Christ. Christ was the meal offering in the Old Testament.
Do you remember when Elijah... Some of the school of the preachers up there, didn't know the difference between wild gourds and peas, up at the school of the seminary? And they went out and gathered a apron full of them and put them in a pot and some cried out, "There's death in the pot." And Elijah took a handful of meal and throwed it into the pot and changed it from death to life.
That's what Christ does when He's put on the case of a dying man; He changes him from death to life.

30 The meal offering had to be ground with a certain burr. That burr had to be so perfect that it ground every grain of corn just the same, showing that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
She got the meal, Christ. Christ is the Word. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." The Word, then the oil, the oil represents His Holy Spirit. And she took the Holy Spirit, the Word and the truth. Jesus said, "The time's coming," to the woman at the well, "that God will honor those who worship him in Spirit and in truth."
Many people worship in Spirit and not in truth, many in truth and not in Spirit. But when you get them together, then you've got something when the Spirit of God gets into the Word. She mixed it together. And when you get the Spirit of God on you, mixed with God's Word, something's going to happen.

31 The doctor might've sent you home to die with a cancer. And all the man knows... He's done everything that he knows in his knowledge, of the books of learning to save your life. He wants to see you live. But maybe, he don't know no more. But you take God's Word tonight and mix it with the spirit of faith; watch what'll take place.
She begin to mix it. Now, it won't mix good, unless it's got some fire under it. It has to bake it into a bread, which makes life. And when she got her little meal and oil mixed together, the Word and the Spirit, then something said, "Go out into the yard."
At the same time, the Holy Spirit, up on top of the mountain where this old prophet had been sitting up there, said, "Go down to the city, for I've got a widow down there. I've ordained her to sustain you."
She must've been a righteous woman, or God would never sent His prophet to stay with her. But God knows your needs.

32 She went out into the yard. The prophet took off towards the city with a vision, trying to find a yard that had a woman in it. And he was walking down the streets looking, for the vision of the Lord had showed him. At the same time, she come out of the house.
Did you notice, she picked up two sticks. Two sticks was the cross.
I'm a hunter. And any good hunter knows that the right way to burn a log at night, is to light a crossed log, and just keep pushing the ends in.
She had to light that, then put the meal and oil together; and that was the Word, the Spirit with the fire of the Holy Ghost to bake it into a hoe cake, of life giving substance. She picked up the two sticks, and she started back into the house to put the oil and the meal over the fire. And she heard a voice. And when she turned, there was a gentle looking old man, whiskers all over his face, bald headed, leaning over a gate with a piece of sheepskin wrapped around him. And he said, "Would you fetch me just a little drink of water?"

33 Watch the God fearing person always willing to divide. She looked at him. He was just a little different than lots of men. And there's something about a Christian that's different. I can imagine her saying, "That voice just sounds real good to me." She nodded her head in politeness that she would go get some water and divide it with him.
And as she started to go, she heard the voice again, and said, "In your hand, fetch me a little morsel of bread."
Then she turned. And no doubt with tears in her eyes, she said this: "Sir, that's why I was out in the yard to get these two sticks. I've just got a handful of meal and a spoonful of oil. I've mixed it together and dressed it. And I've got these two sticks to make a fire and bake a little cake for my son and I. We are going to eat it and die." And she looked at him.
And he said, "But first, make me a cake."
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things will be added unto you." Put God first. Put His Word first. Put His Spirit first. Put Him first. Instead of that, we put Him last.
"Bring me a little cake first."
What's she going to do? See if she's obedient to the Word. She turns and starts, not knowing why she's doing it. Men and women who are led by the Spirit of God sometimes do things they don't know they're doing. Turned and started into the house, and then she heard that voice again, that glorious word come from his mouth, "Thus saith the Lord..." She knew who it was then. "The barrel will not be empty, neither shall the cruse run dry, until the day the Lord God sends rain on the earth." Why? She was willing. She put God first. She was sure that God would do something. She held on.

34 Many times that troubles strike our homes; it's blessing in disguisement. Some people might say, "Well, you're sick, just because you're not right with God." That doesn't mean that. Job was right with God, and he was sick. But it's God testing you, putting you to a test to see what you'll do. Maybe he let the doctors say that for a purpose, to see what you'd do.
We're near the coming of the Lord. God's coming for a church. He never asked and questioned, "Will I have a church? Will I have righteousness?" But here's the question Jesus asked, "Will I find faith when I come?" God's putting you to a test, maybe, to try your faith.
And all of her trouble and death at the door, turned with one, "Thus saith the Lord." She and her son and Elijah eat many days from the barrel, and it never did waste, neither did the cruse run dry, because she was certain of God.

35 It reminds me of a German painting in Germany. It's like the great picture of the betrayal at Forest Lawn, so large, they had to build a mammoth big half a million dollar building to put the painting in. The German painting is called "The Cloud." And when you're way away from the picture, it is the most miserable, dismal looking sight. It's a bunch of clouds just mixing together. And as you start walking to that picture, it gives you a horror. Oh, what a dreadful sight it looks. But when you get close to it, it's angels' wings beating together. See, it looks different when you get there.
Maybe that's the way it is with you tonight. You don't know just why you are sick. You don't know just why... What about this. But maybe it is a blessing in disguisement. It looks like a gloomy dark end for you, but it may be the Angel wings beating together.
If you're only certain of God, you're sure that God heals the sick. If you're sure that God still pours out the Holy Ghost upon His people, then take His promise and hold onto it until God answers, for He sure will answer prayer.

36 Let us bow our heads now while we think of this. Are you certain that it's God's will to save you?
You in radio-land, think of it. Is it the will of God to save you? Are you certain it is? You sinner man, maybe at the pool room, or at the barroom, out in the car with the other man's wife, drinking, you there with the cigarette in your mouth, are you certain that God is God of holiness, that can forgive your sins and take all your iniquity away?
Are you, here in this audience that doesn't know Christ as your Saviour, are you certain tonight that God forgives the sinner? You without the Holy Spirit, both here and in radio-land, are you certain that it's God's will to give you the Holy Spirit? Are you certain the Scriptures are inspired when Peter said, "Repent every one of you, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, for the promise is unto you and to your children, to them that's far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." Are you certain of that?

37 Are you certain, you sick people, that Jesus was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquity, the chastisement of your peace was upon Him, and with His stripes you were healed? Are you certain it's God? It's God's will, if you are asking for whatever you have need of just now while we pray, and you will receive it.
How many in the visible audience will raise up your hand and say, "Brother Branham, I have a need of God tonight. I raise my hand to say that I have need of God. May God grant it to me. I want you to remember me in prayer." Here in the visible audience, raise your hand. You in radio-land, raise up your hand. Wherever you are, in hospital, wherever; say, "Lord, be merciful to me. I need You, and I'm certain that You are... Your Son, Jesus, died to give me the desire of my heart, for He completely redeemed me back to the place where we fell, at the garden of Eden. I now will accept it."

38 Let us pray. Gracious Jehovah, the God of Elijah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God who brought again Jesus, His Son, from the dead, raised Him up for a propitiation of our sins, and has raised Him for our justification... And the poet well expressed it when he said:
Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
Buried, He carried my sins far away;
Rising, He justified freely forever:
Someday He's coming---oh glorious day!
Lord, look at those hands around this country just now that've been raised up to You. You who knows the heart of men and women, boys and girls, grant, Lord, that the Holy Spirit will not leave one of them out, but shall give to each one according to their needs. And we know that we have Your Word saying, "According to their faith, they shall receive." Give to them faith tonight, Lord, and may they be certain that every promise of God is true, if they'll only wait. For it is written, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as an eagle; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Lord, teach us to wait upon Thee; lay hold of eternal life and every promise in the Bible, and wait upon Thee for salvation of our souls, for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, for joy in our hearts, for healing of our bodies, for every redemptive blessing that You died for at Calvary.
Let us have faith tonight to know that God did not cause Christ to suffer in vain. That was for all generations. For it is written, "Whosoever will, let him come." While we are coming, Lord, grant that we will receive, for we ask it in Jesus' name, Thy Son, as we commit it to Thee. Amen.

39 I love that song that the organ is now playing so sweetly, "Only Believe." How many knows who wrote that song? A buddy of mine, Paul Rader. I was a little boy, just ordained in the Baptist church as I sat at Paul's feet. Not long ago, I was at the Redigar Tabernacle at Ft. Wayne. Paul preached the same message I preach right here, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. He believed in divine healing, the power of God, the second coming.
When he was dying yonder in the hospital in Los Angeles, when the Moody Bible School sent down the quartet to sing for him, they had the shades all at the windows. Paul had a sense of humor. He said, "Who's dying here, me or you?" They were singing, "Nearer My God To Thee." He said, "Raise them shades and sing me some snappy gospel songs." So they got to singing,
Down at the cross where my Saviour died,
Down there for cleansing from sin I cried,
There to my heart was the blood applied;
Oh, glory to His name.

40 Paul said, "Where's Luke?" That was his brother. His brother and he roamed together through the fields preaching the gospel, as my son and I go together. And Luke was in the next room. He didn't want to see his brother die. Said, "Tell Luke to come here." And Luke came in the room; he got ahold of Luke's hand; he said, "Luke, we've come a long ways together, brother. We've took a many a battle for the Lord. But think of it, Luke; in five minutes from now, I will be standing in the presence of Jesus Christ, clothed in His righteousness." Squeezed his brother's hands and went to meet God.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
With partings leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing over life's solemn main,
For a forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing shall take heart again.
We make footprints for somebody to walk in. Let's be gallant soldiers of faith as we sing Paul's song tonight. May he listen from Heaven, if it's possible for a righteous man to listen in, as we sing, "Only Believe," as we worship God.
Only believe, (Be certain of God. Hold on.)
... believe,
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.

41 You in radio-land, and you also present, I wonder if you'd hold your hand and sing this with me like this:
Now, I believe, now I believe;
All things are possible, now, I believe.
Will you raise your hand to God and sing it with me?
Now, I believe, (I believe God. I'm
going to hold on.) now, I believe,
All things are possible, now I believe;
(Just worship Him now in the song.)
Now, I believe, oh now, I believe,
All things are possible, now, I believe.
Let's hum it like this:
Now, I receive (Do you? Receive His Word?),
now, I receive,
All things are possible (every promise),
now I receive; (Receive Christ in my heart.)
Now, I receive, oh now, I receive,
All things are possible, now, I receive.

42 Now, I want you to know, friends, as we're closing this meeting, if you have accepted Christ as your Saviour, or you've been a wandering star, and tonight you've accepted Christ during this meeting to come home to Him, go back to your church; please do. If you have no church, find you one. If you don't have any choice... Brother Littlefield never told me to say this. But Brother Littlefield, I know to be a man of God. I know Brother Hall to be a man of God. I know these brethren here, many of them, to be men of God. Join their church; they'll do you good. I can only be an evangelist; that's my calling. They're pastors to feed you, and to shepherd you until Jesus comes. They're the caretaker at the end. Jesus give them two pence: the Word and the Spirit. If they need anything more, He will give it when He returns. You know the parable of the good Samaritan.

43 Now, we are going to pray for the sick. Now, is there any here that's never been in one of my meetings before, where I prayed for the sick, raise your hands? Just a very few.
Well, I might make this quotation quickly, that I believe and stand on this: that Jesus Christ is not dead, but He's alive. I believe that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's the same in principal, the same in power; the only difference He is, He's in us now in the form of the Holy Spirit, where He's in one man, Jesus Christ, when He was here on earth. But He sent His Holy Spirit back, and it's in all the church universal, all the believers. And I believe the same things that He did, He promised that we should do too.

44 Now, last night as I went into it... You see, that sign of the Messiah was only done to the Jews and the Samaritans, not to the Gentiles. The Gentiles wasn't looking for the coming of Christ. Now, the Jews and Samaritans is not receiving it, but the Gentiles are receiving it. Why? It's the Gentiles looking for the coming of Christ.
See, God, if that's the way He did it first, made Hisself known as Messiah by discerning their thoughts, telling the woman at the well she had husbands, illegally, and telling Peter who his name was, and the other things like that... And by that---not by healing the sick... They healed the sick before then. But they knowed He was the Prophet that Moses spoke would come, the God-prophet. How many understands that, raise up your hands? And they said, "By this we know You are the Messiah."

45 The woman at the well, she was a prostitute. But she knowed more about the Bible than half the preachers in America. That's right. The preachers of that day, why, them preachers said, "This man's a fortuneteller. That's the reason he can discern their thoughts."
And Jesus said, "You speak that against Me; it'll be forgiven. But when the Holy Spirit comes and does the same thing, speak against That, it'll never be forgiven." That's blasphemy, because they called the Spirit that He had in Him an unclean spirit; called the Spirit of God, the works of the Spirit of God a devil, Beelzebub. He said it's unforgivable.

46 Now, if you're spiritual, you caught these messages that I been preaching, how last night they sent to Beelzebub, the god of Ekron, to consult him. You should be spiritual enough to understand which is right and wrong, what speaks and what isn't.
Did you ever see a spiritualist preaching the gospel, and healing the sick? No, sir. Satan can't cast out Satan. The devil can't heal. Jesus said, "If Satan can cast out Satan, then his kingdom's divided." Satan cannot heal. God's the only One can heal. God's the only Creator. Satan can pervert what God's created.
And what is unrighteousness? Righteousness perverted. Here, let me say it. We're a mixed multitude. But I'm your brother; you'd listen to your doctor. You married men. You live with your wife as a wife. The bed is undefiled. But another woman could do the same act, and you'll go to hell for doing it: the same act, but perverted. All unrighteousness...
What is a lie? Is the truth misrepresented. All the devil can do is to pervert righteousness. He cannot create. He's not a creator; God's the only Creator. So, it takes creation to heal, and God's the only Healer.

47 Jesus, when He was here, He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows Me." He saw a vision. Everything that He did, He said, "I do nothing except the Father shows Me first." Saint John 5:19. So it was by vision.
Now, He promised those things. He told His disciples, "When you... When the Holy Spirit's come, don't you do that before the Gentiles; do it before the house of Israel." The day would come for the Gentiles. Now is their day. So God introduced Himself that way, the Messiah.
And the woman, when she seen Jesus tell her that, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You're prophet. We know when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us all these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
She run into the city, said, "Come, see a man who told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"

48 If that was the sign of the Messiah then at the closing of their age, He's got to give the same Messiahic sign today. If it isn't, it isn't the same Messiah.
The same grape vine will brings forth grapes. You don't see pumpkins coming off of a grape vine, watermelons off a cantaloupe vines. You find watermelons on watermelon vines, grapes on grape vines, and pumpkins on pumpkin vines.
And you find the Spirit of Christ in the children of Christ. We go to church to find the Spirit of Christ and we find creeds. We find laws and doctrines. God's Spirit, the same Spirit that was in Jesus Christ is in the church.

49 If I told you I had the spirit of Al Capone, you'd better call the police in and arrest me; I might have his gun. If I told you I had the spirit of some famous artist, you'd expect me to paint these hills out here just as natural as they are, because that's what the artist would do if I had his spirit.
If I had the Spirit of Christ, I will do the works of Christ. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, then believe Me not." And if the church does not do the works of Christ, then don't believe that church. Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe."
And we've perverted it by works of men, doctrines of men. The Bibles said, "In the last days, they'd be heady, high-minded, and lovers of pleasure more than of God, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are good."
You say, "Them's communists." No, them's Christians, so-called, and church members. "Having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." Saying, "Oh, God did that in another age, not this age." The Bible said, "From such, turn away." We're living in that day.

50 Now, I'm going to give you a Scripture, then call the prayer line. As I spoke today at the dedication, everything's perfected in three. Jesus comes in three. God is in three: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; them three are one. Justification, sanctification, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, those three are one.
When a baby's born in natural birth, first thing comes from the mother is water, blood, spirit. When Jesus died at the cross, He gave what it constitutes to make the new birth: water, blood and Spirit. All things of the natural types the spiritual, or the spiritual types the natural, either way.

51 Now notice. And this... The coming of Jesus is three times. Did you know that? Jesus come the first time to redeem His bride. He comes the next time; we're caught up in the air to meet Him in the air. We caught up to meet Him. He comes to receive His bride. The next time He comes, He comes as King and queen to reign on the earth with His bride: three comings. Right.
And the church is in three stages: "Let him that's filthy, filthy still; let him that's holy ... righteous, righteous still; him that's holy, holy still." Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." How many knows that Jesus said that, say, "Amen."?
What was it? A day just like that day. Look at perversion, homosexuals. Picked up a paper last week when I was in Los Angeles, the Christian Businessmen's meeting where I was their speaker; and homosexual is on the increase forty percent over last year. Boys, men living with one another, living in hotel rooms: perversion. The natural course of life being perverted, because women has belittled themselves and become so common, it's perverted men, perverted minds: women living with women, men living with men. Just what God said would take place. "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man."

52 Watch the order. There was Sodom, the ungodly. There was Lot and his bunch, the lukewarm church member. You admit that? He had a form of godliness, but went down into the world. Look where the church member went. There was Abraham, the elected and called out. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I feel religious right now.
Them three classes of people are in the world today: the world, the ungodly; the lukewarm church member; and the elected and called. Watch when God got ready to destroy them. Jesus said, "As it was in that day, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." Watch the perversion.

53 Now, Abraham was sitting poor, in the minority, sitting out under the oak. And he raised up his eyes and he saw three m-a-n coming. They looked like men; They had dust on their clothes. And they said they were strangers, and they were passing through.
But there was something in the heart of Abraham that he knowed They were more than men. He run out to Them; he said, "Come back and sit under the oak just a little bit." Watch now, shadowing the coming of Jesus. He said, "Sit down here just a minute. I will fetch a little water and wash Your feet; and rest Yourself. And I will bring You a morsel of bread. Refresh Yourself; then go on about Your business. For this is why You come by."

54 Let's take Abraham. He run in to the tent. Sarah was ninety years old; Abraham was a hundred. They were looking for a baby and believed God, holding on just certain that God was going to answer like I preached on tonight. Twenty-five years they held for that promise, giving God praise all the time for the baby, her getting older all the time, but they were certain of God. What happened? All of a sudden, Abraham run into the tent; he said, "Sarah, get out the flour. Knead a little of it." In other words, "Sift it right good. Make some hoe cakes down here." And he run out into the flock, and begin to feel around and got a little fat calf, killed took, dressed it, brought it out, and cooked it, and sat down. And they ate it.

55 I can see Abraham get the fly bush, begin to... How many knows what a fly bush is? How many you all from Kentucky anyhow? All right, a fly bush. We never knowed what a screen door was till just recently. We had an old limb off of a tree, or mom make a fly bush; we'd have to stand... Them old cabins... And shoo the flies away from the table while we ate.
Abraham out there with a fly bush. I don't guess they had screens in those days. And while they were eating, Abraham's heart was beating. You know what the Bible said it was? It was Almighty God and two angels (Hallelujah.) in the form of men.

56 A preacher said to me not long ago, said, "Listen, Brother Branham, you don't mean to tell me that you believe that man was God?"
I said, "The Bible said it was God (Yes, sir.) in a form of man."
"Oh," said, "how could He be?"
I said, "You don't know our God."
What's this body made of? Sixteen elements of the earth: potash, calcium, petroleum, cosmic light. God just reached over and got a handful of each, went, "Whew!" Said, "Step in here Gabriel; we're going down to Sodom. Whew! Step in here, Michael." And breathed one for Himself, walked right down here in human flesh. Don't tell me He wasn't God. Abraham said He was Elohim, the great God Jehovah. He wasn't a theophany either. It wasn't a vision. He actually eat the meat of that calf, drink the milk from the cow, and eat corn bread. He was a man.
There He was setting there. See if it isn't spelled capital L-O-R-D. Any of you Greek scholars look what the word means: Elohim, the Jehovah. You just don't know who God is. I may not be... I may go back...

57 Here the other night, I was combing these two, three hairs I got left. My wife said to me, said, "Billy..." She's sitting there laughing at me now. She said, "Billy, you're almost bald-headed."
I said, "I haven't lost a one them."
She said, "Pray tell me where they're at."
I said, "You tell me where they was before I got them; I will tell you where they are waiting for me."
The Bible said, "The hairs of your head is numbered." Not one of them shall perish. There was one time they wasn't nothing, and then they was, and they went back to where they was before I had them. So will this body be someday. The calcium, potash will go back, but God will speak, and I will jump from the earth. That's my God.
He holds the whole world in His hands. He just "Whew" blows the stars off, made the solar system, spoke His Word, and it was so. The very dirt that you're sitting over is His Word made manifest. If it didn't, where did it come from? The dirt that you're walking on is His word made manifest. He said, "Let there be..." And there was. I believe every Word that He says is the truth. No matter how long it lingers, it's so anyhow.

58 Here was this man. Now notice. He kept looking towards Sodom. And two angels got up and went on down into Sodom. There wasn't very much miracles performed, just one little thing. But they went down there and preached to the Sodomites: A modern Billy Graham, an evangelist, preached down there to that world, a great congregation they had.
But this one Angel that stayed behind, I want you to notice; He preached to the elect, the church, the called out. Watch how He done it. Now, He was a stranger. Listen now; you'll miss it. Now, Jesus said, "As it was then, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man." The gospel preached by God through mortal being...

59 Notice. This man stood and looked at Abraham. Women in them days wasn't like they are now. Every time somebody comes up in the yard, the woman's got to put on her little shorts, and go out in the yard, and see what her husband's talking about, butt into his business. Shame on you. Shame on you men. If you got more man about you to let your wife do that, it's all right, I guess. That was raw. But I... I don't take it back. That's the truth. Now, that's just the truth.
I got little respects for a man will let his wife do a thing like that: smoke cigarettes, and drink whiskey, and wear those kind of clothes.
Man's not measured by how big a muscle he's got; he's measured by the bag in the knees of his pants where he prays. Man is not measured by muscle; that's beast. He's measured by character. There never was a greater man than Jesus Christ. And the Bible said, "There's no beauty of Him we should desire Him," little stooped-shouldered, thin Fellow. But in Him was God---character. Man is measured by character. I've seen men that weighed two hundred and fifty pounds, throw a baby out of a mother's arms and ravish her. And you call that man? I call that beast.

60 Now, listen. This man setting there, He said, "Abraham, where is your wife, Sarah?" A stranger, how did He know she was married ... he was married? How did He know that his wife's name was Sarah? Watch that Angel, what message He gave.
Abraham said, "She's in the tent behind You (And the Bible said that the Angel had His back turned to the tent.)--- behind You."
Said, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" How did He know that he had a wife, and how did He know her name was Sarah? Watch the nature of that Spirit now to the elected church.
The gospel is wrote between the lines, the same as on the lines. He's hid it from the eyes of the wise and prudent, and revealed to babes such as will learn. Jesus thanked God for it. So do I. Don't take the seminary experience; you take the knee-ology experience to know God.
He said, "You see, I'm going to keep it a secret from Abraham, he's going to be heir of the world." He said, "Sarah, your wife's going to conceive. I'm going to visit you about the time of life," twenty-eight days for Sarah, her nearly a hundred years old. That time had ceased with her forty, fifty years before. "I'm going to visit her according to the time of life. You're going to have this child."
And Sarah, inside the tent, laughed within herself. And the Angel, with His back to the tent, said, "Why did Sarah laugh?"

61 Oh, I hope you're not so numb by the things of the world that you don't pick that up. Don't you see the nature of the same Angel just before the coming of the Lord? Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man." Surely, you're not spiritual dead enough not to recognize that. The discernment... Just at the end of time of the Jews, God sent that Spirit. Just at the end of time of the Samaritans, He sent that Spirit. Just at the end, before judgment, when He's going to burn the world up, Sodom and Gomorrah, He sent that Angel as a witness. And bombs are hanging yonder ready to blow this world into bits in one minute's time.
There's Billy Graham and them evangelists out yonder pushing that Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Angel of the Lord's with the elected church, the called-out group, showing signs and wonders of discernment. So shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.

62 Let us pray. Lord, no man can come except You draw him. How can a man understand unless God reveals himself to man? Now, Father, there is the Word; that's Your Word, and it shall not fail. Heavens and earth will pass away, but Your Word will never fail. Let it be known tonight, Lord, that You're God, and Your Spirit is here in Your church dealing with Your people. In the name of Jesus Christ, we submit ourselves to Thee for the service. Amen.
Now, it's immaterial to me... If the Holy Spirit would come into this meeting right now, and would say thus to me, say such a thing, give discernment out in there to you people, it ought to convince you.

63 Now remember, it's not the hands of the preacher that heals the people; that's a Jewish tradition. The little man, Zacchaeus, that had his... Not Zacchaeus, but the... His daughter died. I can't think of his name right now. When his daughter died, he said to Jesus, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter and she will live." He was a Jew. But when the Roman centurion had his servant at the point of death, he said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the word; and my servant will live."
Jesus turned and said, "I don't find faith like that in Israel." That's what we Gentiles ought to be, but we have to fall back to our traditions, laying on of hands, and so forth. But that's what it takes.

64 All right. We're here to serve the Lord. Now, we don't have... We line up people and pray for them. Last night, we had a great line of discernment. Every person that come into the line... Everybody that was here, raise up your hand, that knowed it was true, every whit, and people out through the audience without prayer cards, raise up your hand, was here last night and seen it? All right, there you are. Mouth of two or three witnesses, every word be established.
Tonight, we said, we would just line up the people that had left over prayer cards, and pray for them tonight, just pass them through the line. Now, it doesn't matter to me, either way. But remember, the same God that was here last night to give discernment, is the same God here tonight.
(Did you give out any prayer cards today? Z? How many? Fifty and fifty last night, that makes a hundred.)

65 All right. Prayer cards Z. We will have to call them in numbers. Prayer card Z number 1, raise up your hand. Prayer card... [Blank space on tape.] I surrender my will to the Lord. [The congregation repeats after Brother Branham.] Now, you that's... Is that all of the prayer cards? Is there any more prayer cards in the house? No more prayer cards. All right. [Blank space on tape.]
This is our first meeting. This is our first meeting. We're born, maybe, miles apart, and first time we've ever met.
Now, here is a perfect picture of Saint John the fourth chapter: A man and a woman meets for the same ... first time in life. How many knows that? Jesus begin to talk to the woman. And then He found where her trouble was. And He told her what her trouble was, and she said, "Sir..."
Now the Pharisees, the preachers and so forth, said, "That man's a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub, the devil." Anybody knows that fortune-telling is of the devil. All seance, and fortune-telling is of the devil. But what is a fortuneteller? Something that the devil has perverted. He couldn't be a child of God, but the devil made a child of hell out of them, see. But...

66 Jesus talked to the woman. When He told her what her trouble was, she said, "Sir, I perceive that You're a prophet. We know... We Samaritans know that when the Messiah cometh, He will tell us these things. But who are You?"
He said, "I am He that speaks to you."
And she left her water bucket, and went into the city, and said, "Come, see a man that told me the things that I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?" How many of you ever read that in the Scripture? All ever read the Bible did.
Now, if Jesus Christ... What my contention is: the same yesterday, today, and forever, the same act can take place. 'Course, the woman might not be guilty of sin like that, but there's some reason she's standing here. I don't know; I never met her. But God does know her.
If God will reveal to me what you're here for, will you believe me to be His prophet? You will. You will. You do believe me. Thank you. I meant "servant."

67 The word prophet kind of scatters people sometimes. You feel it resented, see. Of course, a preacher's a prophet. But a seer, one who sees visions... Now, I'm not a preacher; I've had no education to be a preacher. I stumble around. I like to tell what I know about it; but a real scholarly educated preacher would never class me as a preacher, see.
But my gift of God... He knows I love Him, and He's given me a gift of discernment. There sits my wife. She's knowed me since I was a boy, and seen tens of thousands of cases, and seen me when the visions come, till sometime I'm unconscious for a hour of two, just seeing visions, and come up and claim it, and tell the people. And not one time has it ever failed. That has to be God.

68 Now, if the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what you're here for, or something about you, that you know I don't know, you'll believe it's the Holy Spirit? and you'll accept it?
How many in the audience would accept the same thing, raise your hand? Now, be reverent.
Now, now look where the drama sets. Now, the Bible's going to be found to be truth or a error. I'm going to be found a false prophet or telling you the truth. If I tell the truth, God will vindicate the truth. If I tell a lie, God will show it that it's a lie. But His Words can't lie. That's the reason I'm sure; I'm positive I'm telling you the Word of the Lord; it's God's promise. Now, believe. Let's see what He will say. I don't say that He will.

69 Then the rest of you... All of you in the prayer line will believe it anyhow, whether God says anything to you or not? Will you be willing just to pass through the prayer line? If you will, raise your hand? Now, you'll just pass through, lay hands on. If God's this close to you here on the platform to know the very secret of your heart...
Here, this woman and I with our hands up, the Bible laying here, we've never seen each other before in life. If we did, we didn't know it. I don't know her, know nothing about her. But God does. Let Him reveal it, and see whether it's truth or not.
I see the woman coming from a distance. She's not from here: from Chattanooga. That's right. You're suffering with a tumor. And the tumor is not visible to me now, but it's located under your right arm. If that's right, raise up your hand. You believe now? That you might see that it wasn't guessing, look to me, sister. Let me see what He said. Now, see, I don't know what I told you. The only way I ever know, is them tapes. I pick it up, see what He says. Yes, I see you doing something under your... Oh, it's a tumor, under your arm. And then, there's... You're deaf in your left ear. That's right. That's true. Ella is your name. You can return home; Jesus Christ will make you well. Mrs. Ella Blackburn, go home to Chattanooga, and be made well in the name of Jesus Christ.
Do you believe? Now have faith in God.

70 Lord Jesus, I lay my hands upon the woman and pray for her in the name of Jesus for her healing. Amen. Don't doubt now. Don't let this drop. I know what's wrong with the people. You believe that? Looky here.
Go eat your supper. The stomach trouble left you. You had a nervous stomach for a long time. Go eat now. Jesus makes you well.
Now, you believe, sister? In the name of the Lord Jesus, may she be healed. Amen.
God, in the name of Jesus Christ, let our brother be healed.
Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, let our sister be healed.
O Lord, may it be, as I lay hands upon her, may she be healed in Jesus' name.
Come, sister. You believe your back trouble's done? Just walk on.

71 If thou canst believe. Now, what's the matter? What let down? Don't you believe that those people...? God knows their heart, the same as He knowed the first woman's heart. Now, don't you see what a time I have in America? One of those cases in South Africa, every person on the ground would've left wheel carts, stretchers... They take seven truck loads of wheelchairs and stretcher from one thing being done like that. The next morning, them blanket heathens, walking down the street in Durban, South Africa, singing, "Only Believe" behind seven truck loads where twenty-five thousand miracles were performed in one minute.
And we are smart and educated (see), and we set like a wart on a pickle. Don't know... "The ox knows his stall. The needle knows the master's crib; My people knows not." Well, that ought to shake your heart to say, "Lord God, I am healed. I believe it."
Here, I see a little woman sitting here praying, right here now, up here, sitting on the end of the row right here looking at me, head against her hand, leaning up on it, suffering with a trouble with her leg. Do you believe God will heal you? If you do... The sister right above there, got something wrong with your back. Do you believe that Jesus Christ will make you well? You do? Accept it and believe it, and you can get well.

72 You think God can heal your diabetes and make you well? You have a prayer card? But you have diabetes. I mean, you had diabetes. Jesus Christ healed you.
Will you do me a favor? The lady sitting right next to you's got heart trouble, and she wants to be prayed for too. That right? Raise up your hand. I didn't touch you; you didn't touch me. But you've touched the High Priest, and He acts the same as the woman that touched His garment. Go home and be well.
Those people has no prayer cards. See, it's the sovereign grace of God. Why can't you catch it?
Here... Here's a dear woman. I don't know her. We're strangers. Now, if I took every person... Just a few of them, I'd get so weak; I can't stand here. Why, there was one... That one little woman that touched Jesus' garment, He said, "It made Me weak." Is that right? "Virtue went from Me." If it would make virtue go from the Son of God, what would it do to me, a sinner saved by grace. I couldn't do one if it wasn't that He said, "These things that I do shall you do, and more than this shall you do (It's His promise.), for I go to the Father."

73 I don't know you, you don't know me. If the Lord will reveal to me what your trouble, would you believe it? You know that it... Well, you'll know it's the truth or not. All right. May the Lord grant it. So this people can see and not sit in doubt.
The woman is not here for herself; she's here for her son. And her son is a mental case. He received the baptism of the Holy Ghost some time ago. And now, he's got all nervous; he can't think; he can't hold his job. That's the truth. Take that handkerchief in your hand and lay it on him. Don't doubt, and he will come to himself and serve the Lord. Go, believe it.
Do you believe God?
Come, sister. Come believing. Lord God, in the name of Jesus Christ, be healed.
Come with these little ones. Oh, Father God, in the name of the Lord Jesus, I bless them. May they be healed.
Come, my brother. Lord, in the name of the Lord Jesus, bless and heal my brother. Amen.
Come, sister. O Lord, as she passes by, may it not be like passing by a man, but may she know that Jesus, the Son of God is here. His Spirit is here. And if they laid in the shadow of Saint Peter and was healed, a ignorant fisherman that couldn't write his name... It wasn't that ignorant fisherman; it was Your Spirit, Lord, that they recognized. And may this woman pass by the anointing of the Holy Ghost and be healed in Jesus' name. Amen.

74 Come, Sister Wood, I know you, so come here. Lord God, this woman I know. Her crippled boy, that was a cripple, infantile paralysis growed his leg up behind him. They slipped into a meeting, and You spoke and called his name, and brought him and straightened that crippled leg, till he doesn't know which one was crippled now. His mother's sick. She needs healing, Lord. Let the power of God that straightened David's leg, heal my sister. I ask it in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Bless you, Sister Wood.
I wonder if David's close. A boy... His father was a Jehovah Witness. His father's filled with the Holy Ghost. He could give you testimony of his brother. How many read about the little fish coming to life that time? It was his brother that was standing present. David, where are you, David Wood? Stand up. There was a boy, a polio case, his leg drawed up behind him, sitting way back in the audience in a big tent meeting; and the Holy Spirit spoke to him and said, "Thus saith the Lord..." There he is, a witness that God heals polio. Amen.

75 Oh, I feel like a holy-roller. Amen. I feel like shouting. If it takes that to serve God, then let me do it.
I've sailed the seven seas, traveled the world six times around, and I've never yet seen a holy-roller. It's a blackguard name that the devil tacked on the saints of God. There's no such a thing. I've got some nine hundred and sixty-nine different denominations from the government register, and not one of them's called holy-roller. There's no such a thing.
Come, little lady. You believe God? Lord God, in the name of Jesus Christ, may the girl get well. Amen. Believe, sister.
Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ, may the lady get well. Amen.
Come, sister. Lord, I lay hands upon the woman and the child. In the name of Jesus Christ, may they be healed.

76 Come, sister. Now, see you... Don't let down. When you come by here, start praising God. When you're prayed for, I don't care if it takes twenty-five years; if you're the children of Abraham, then you've got the faith of Abraham. That discernment don't have to be each time.
Here. Are we strangers to one another? I don't know you, and you don't know me. But God knows us both. Do you believe that that...? I want you to be witness to the congregation. Here's a woman that has faith. Right now, there's a real strange feeling on you, like sweet, consoling, comforting.
How many ever seen the picture that the government taken of the Angel of the Lord right in the house of...? George J. Lacy's examination, the head of the FBI, said it was an Angel of the Lord. The light struck the lens of the camera. Said, "The camera won't take psychology."
That same light's hanging on that woman right now. That's what makes her feel that way. Now, this is like another dimension, to you scientists. It just places me over to a place, that I'm looking at the woman, and I know as soon as I look to her, and keep my thoughts to her, and the Holy Spirit help me, He will tell me about her. She's here to be prayed for for her foot that's bothering her. That's "Thus saith the Lord." That's truth, isn't it.

77 Now, you say, "You guessed it." All right, see if we did. That was not a guess. You got somebody else you're praying for; that's your grandson; and he's got his neck broke. And he's in a government hospital, a army government hospital, not here, but in Missouri. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Go and believe and receive your healing in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Come, believing the Lord. O Lord, heal her I pray in Jesus' name. Grant it.
Young man, you're nervous, upset. Don't you know God can heal nerves? Now, it's hard for a nervous person to get a hold of it. You've been wanting a place to place your foot, see. You're great thinker, crossing bridges 'fore you get to it, and taken other things. Don't do it no more. You don't feel bad now. See, it's off of you now. If you'll go believing, it'll never come on you again. In the name of Jesus Christ, believe it.
Lord God, in the name of the Lord Jesus, heal this woman, I pray.
Lord God, I pray that You'll heal our sister as she passes by, not by me, but under the cross.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, heal this dear person, Father, as she passes by. Grant it, Lord.

78 You're shadowed to death with heart trouble. But do you believe God will heal your heart? Then go. As you have believed, may it be to you.
Another shadowed to death with cancer. Do you believe God will heal the cancer? Then go, and rejoice, and be happy.
Can't you believe? Say, this lady sitting right back there suffering with headaches, do you believe God will heal you? If you do, receive your healing. Amen.
Blessed be the Lord. Here's a little woman sitting here with a white uniform on. She just touched the Lord. She's got hip trouble. She fell and hurt her hip. That's right, isn't it, lady. You was sitting there praying, and you said, "Lord, let him call me." You was praying just then. You touched the High Priest. Now you'll get well; Jesus Christ heals you. Amen.
I challenge your faith to believe God. I say in the name of Jesus, to believe.
You believe God will heal that asthma, sitting right back there? If you believe it with all your heart, you can have it.
You believe, sister? In the name of Jesus Christ, may you be healed.

79 Do you believe, sister? In the name of the Lord Jesus, be healed.
I just don't understand. Why can't you catch it, friends. No matter whether there's a vision or not, don't you know the same God is the same One who knows all about you?
Got a growth in your mouth. That right? I don't know you. God knows you. Miss Carroll; that's your name. You're from Dalton, Georgia. Return home. Believe, and it'll get well.
Now, don't doubt. Believe. Have faith in God. Amen. In the name of the Lord Jesus.
God can heal that tumor if you'll let Him. Believe Him. In the name of Jesus Christ, may it go from him.
Lord God, I pray that You'd heal this woman in Jesus' name.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, heal our sister.
Come, brother. That's the One [unclear words] Lord Jesus, heal our brother in Jesus' name.

80 "These signs shall follow them that believe." You believe I believe? You believe? "Then these signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." You believe it?
Pass by. In the name of Jesus Christ, may you get well.
Come, sister. Crippled, you believe that God can heal that crippled boy sitting out there, can heal you too? Then give Him praise and you'll get well in the name of Jesus Christ.
Come, sister. Do you believe? In the name of Jesus Christ, be made well.
Do you believe, little boy? In the name of Jesus Christ, God, heal this child.
Do you believe, brother? In the name of Jesus Christ, may you be healed.
You believe, sister? In the name of Jesus Christ, be healed.
In the name of Jesus Christ, be healed.
You believe, sister? In the name of Jesus Christ, be healed.
In the name of Jesus Christ, be healed, brother.
In the name of Jesus Christ, be healed.
Come, sister. You believe with all your heart? In the name of Jesus Christ, may you be well.
In the name of Jesus Christ, may my brother be healed.

81 Come, sister. Get over that stomach trouble; go, eat now. Amen. In the name of Jesus Christ. God, I pray that You'll heal her in Jesus' name.
God, I pray that You'll heal our sister in Jesus' name.
God, in Jesus' name, heal our brother.
Lord God, in the name of Jesus Christ, heal our brother.
Heavenly Father, it's written, "They shall lay hands on the sick; they shall recover." In the name of Jesus Christ, I do this.
Almighty God, I lay hands upon my brother. In the name of Jesus Christ, may he be healed. Amen. God bless you, dad.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I lay hands upon my sister for her healing.
Come, sister. What you so nervous about? That's what caused your stomach trouble, and got you the condition it's in. You're going to get over it right now, aren't you? In the name of Jesus Christ, may it be so. Amen.
Mother, that old heart's beat a long time. It's getting bad now, but if you'll believe, it'll keep beating. In the name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed. Grant it, Lord.
Come, sister. In the name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed.

82 In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray that You'll heal my brother.
Come, brother dear. Lord God, in the name of Jesus Christ, may my brother get well. Amen.
In the name of Jesus Christ, may my brother be healed.
In the name of Jesus Christ, may my sister be healed, Father.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I lay my hands upon the woman and ask for her healing. Amen.
God, I lay hands upon my brother in the name of Jesus for his healing.
Come, sir. In the name of Jesus Christ, I lay hands on my brother for healing.
Come, sister. You believe with all your heart? Your back trouble will leave you then. In the name of the Lord Jesus, grant her healing, Father.
You have the same thing. Now, believe with all your heart in the name of Jesus Christ.

83 Do you believe that that diabetes will leave you and you'll get well? You do? Go ahead. Believe it, and you shall have a blood transfusion of Christ.
Do you believe me to be God's servant? You believe God can tell me what's wrong with you? Will you believe it? Well, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. You got nervousness and heart trouble. That's right. Your nervousness is what makes your heart trouble, it's a nervous heart. When you eat and lay down, flutters. It has all kinds of sensations and feelings. It ain't going to kill you. Do you believe that, Louise? You live in Tennessee, Clinton, Tennessee. But you're not from Tennessee; you've come from California, Los Angeles. Had a lot of trouble in your life: lost a boy just recently in a automobile accident. That's "Thus saith the Lord." Believe on the Lord your God. Go and receive your healing. Will you do it? May it be so in the name of the Lord Jesus.
All right. Is that all of the prayer line?

84 Are you convinced that Jesus Christ lives? Are you convinced that He said these things would happen just before the coming of the Lord Jesus? Then we're near the end of the journey, and the Angel of God has come down into our midst, and has proved Himself to be the Son of God, raised from the dead and fulfilling every word.
How many in here that's not well, and you want to be healed, raise up your hands? Oh, my, I couldn't get through all of those. Will you believe me as God's servant? Do you believe that God would let me say something was wrong? God's proved that I told you the truth.
Here. All that is believers, raise up your hand. Now, lay your hands on somebody next to you. I will give you a Scripture; the same Scripture said, "These signs would be done like this." The same God said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay hands on the sick, they shall recover." It's not me. It's not me; it's Him. And it's not my hands; it's the hands of any believer. You believe it, sister? You believe there [unclear words]. If you believe it, your deliverance is right at the door.

85 Now, don't you pray for yourself. You pray for the person that you got your hands on; let them pray back for you. The Bible said, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for the other, that you might be healed." Now, lay your hands on somebody next to you.
Something just has to happen. Something has to happen. God's Word's true. If you believe it ... people getting healed. There it is; that's it. There it is. Now, raise up and accept your healing. Stand up on your feet, each one of you. Stand to your feet and accept your healing. That's the Holy Ghost. You are healed in the name of Jesus Christ.