1 Brother Baxter. Good evening, friends. (I’m wanting to bring …?… ) 2 Good evening, friends. Very happy to be here tonight in the service of our Lord to represent His Son, Jesus Christ, to you, in the way that He…His death at Calvary, His atonement for you, for the healing of your body, salvation to your soul, for joy and happiness.

23 I believe it’s written in the Scripture, one of the writers said, “Above all things, I would that you’d prosper in health.” And now, I pray that God will let every sick person in here, tonight, be well. I’m sure it’s the will of God that all of you would be well. He wants you to be well, if you and I can only have faith. If we just, sometimes, wonder what that great article faith, what is it? You know, to my surprise, and I say this with reverence in heart, fearing ’less I would say something wrong, I find that about eighty percent of the people that say they believe just has hope instead of faith. Faith is just so sure. It’s positive. It never moves. It’s just got to be.

34 Faith is an element. It’s a sense. It’s the sixth sense of the human body, or, the…it’s the one sense…the human soul has two senses. Part of a man, that his five senses control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the inward man has two senses: that’s faith, unbelief. One of them governs. 5 We come to a place till I’m—I’m wondering seriously about this, that if we really, when, if we’re not playing the borderline too close. Don’t you think so? Borderline Christian. Do you believe there is such? There is. They’re afraid to launch out into the deep: borderline. Just as long as you can walk…

46 Recently, when coming from Africa, I, while I was down there, I haven’t time, now, to tell you, but the Lord told me to go a certain place and do a certain thing at a… And the management of the itinerary they had set was altogether contrary, and the men didn’t understand it. They just wouldn’t let me do it. I said, “All right. Look, we’ll suffer.” 7 So I went and prayed again. He gave me permission, and told me I’d suffer over it. I did. The whole party did. I suffered worse: with a parasite. And we found out later, if we’d went and done what the Lord told us to, there’d probably been two hundred thousand souls saved in the meeting, or more, even more.

58 Mr. Jackson, which is here at the meeting somewhere, from South Africa, knows all about it. When I pulled off—off of a tree, threw it before the ministerial international group, and said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, we—we shall not go that way. If we do, we’ll suffer. It’s not right to go that way. We should go from here at Johannesburg, straight to Durban.” They couldn’t understand it, of course. But I went in then after…I’ll just give you the detail of it. Won’t take but just a moment or two, maybe, ten, fifteen minutes. 9 When we landed at Johannesburg, I didn’t know very much about South Africa. My wife, setting, will probably have to laugh at this, when I told her, I said, “You write me, honey, Johannesburg, Southern Rhodesia. Johannesburg…” I mean, beg your pardon, “Durban, Southern Rhodesia.” Durban’s not in Rhodesia. It would be like writing to Zion, Canada. See? It’s a…it’s another nation. Rhodesia is another nation. South Africa is where Durban is, but I didn’t know. The Lord sent me to Durban because that’s where Miss Florence Nightingale was healed, she went back. And I promised the Lord that I would go if…That’s where I thought I was going.

610 When I got off at Johannesburg, Brother Baxter and them was waiting for me there, and he said, “Here’s where we have the meeting.” About twenty thousand people or more are out around the place there. And my, when we got out there, I don’t know how many was out then; about twenty or thirty miles out of town where they taken us, where the meeting was being held. 11 And the first night, I was so wore. I’d been in the air for three days, when I come down. I was tired, worn, no sleep. You know how it is with them bouncy planes over the seas and so forth. (Thank you, sir.) And so, then, when I got down in there, well, I just walked to the meeting, and just got in, and there was tens of thousands of people gathered in there, and everywhere, been waiting three days for me, all gathered out.

712 Just as soon as I got in, I saw a vision just break before me. And there come a boy with one leg about six inches shorter than the other. I seen his limb come down normal. I looked around to see where the boy was, and I seen him setting. We hadn’t had time to give out no prayer cards. We couldn’t call a prayer line, my, not in that kind of a crowd. 13 I said, “Young man, Jesus Christ has healed you. You’ve come over here from Durban. He’s made you well. Stand up on your feet.” There, his leg was perfectly normal. The headlines in the paper, the boy… The reporters went and measured his legs to see and testify of his father and mother. There it was.

814 The next day, then, there—there was a little lady laying there in a cot. I said, “I see an automobile. One running this way, it crashes, there’s a young lady gets her back broke.” I said, “Here she lays here; your back is broke in three places.” She said, “That’s right.” I…She said, “Will I ever get…” I said, “I don’t know.” 15 And I stood there just a moment, looked, I seen her going, waving her hands and talking to her friends and back and forth. I said, “Stand up. Jesus Christ has healed you.” And her mother said, “No, no, no. She can’t stand up. She—she—she’d die.” 16 Remember, better be careful. With a broken back, one move and that’s all. Remember, a—a—a troop, a state troop can’t move you on the highway if you got a broken back. That’s right. You have to lay there. It’s the doctor’s business. 17 Now, but they…And the woman was laying there with her back broke in three places, and hadn’t moved for months, just laying like that. I said, “Jesus has healed you.” 18 And she raised up on her feet, and screamed, begin jumping up and down, and praising God. And her mother fainted and fell in the same bed that her daughter was laying on. So—so that started it. You see.

919 And then, course, they had a medical affair there that the medical association had had an awful time with them. Well, I give them my analysis of that, what it was, and what was…what I thought was truth. Though many times that some shut behind the door to me, but that don’t stop God’s Word from being true. 20 So I laid it just…And the next morning early, the medical association called up and wanted me to have breakfast with them. And they gave me the right hand of fellowship and said, “That’s true Divine healing. And we open our hospitals to anything that you want, while you’re here.” I said, “Thank you, sir.” Said, “You’ve already done more for us now than half the missionaries that come over here in fifty years.” I said, “Thank you, sir. I will to try to do all that the Lord will permit me to do.” Said, “Reverend Branham, we believe in Divine healing like that, in that way. That’s truth.” And I said, “Thank you, sir.”

1021 So then the next day, the Dutch Reformed paper, which was…Oh, my. The Dutch Reformed church, now, nothing against you Dutch Reform people here. But that’s the state church there, and they’re really horribly against Divine healing. And so…But here their paper was carrying the articles of it, everything; front pages, and one, two pages of it. 22 And the next day, there was one Dutch Reform minister who was for me, and another one said I was a spiritualist, a—a devil under disguisement as a Christian, and—and—and posing myself as a Christian man, working with the spirit of the devil, the reason I would know those things. Well, it kind of stirred his buddy. So he went to see him, and he said, “You’re wrong.” Said, “This is the day of our visitation.” The other fellow said, the one was against me, said, “That man is of the devil.” See? And he was…

1123 This other one said, “I’m going out and pray for your lost soul.” So he just turned around and walked out in the yard. And there was a little peach tree, and he knelt under the peach tree, and he said, “O God, I accept every word the man has said.” Said, “I believe it’s the truth. I know no one could do this, except it would be by You. And I believe it, and my friend in there is going to be lost.” And said, “It’s the day of our visitation, and have mercy on him.” 24 And he said about that time, before he’d ever heard about It, here come that Pillar of Fire moving down through that bush. And said, the Pillar of Fire opened up and the Angel of God stood there, and walked to him and laid His hand on his shoulder, said, “Return, and tell him.”

1225 And he jumped up real quick, and he run through the door, all excited. Said, “The—the Angel of the Lord met—met me right there. And said, come tell you.” And begin to telling his buddy about it. Said, “He put His hand on my back,” and said, “it just almost burnt plumb through me.” Said, “I—I do, I tell you!” Just going on like that. 26 And this Dutch Reform minister happened to look around, and there was a scorched place, the size of a man’s hand laying right across his white shirt, right across there. I got the shirt.

1327 There it was the next day in the paper, headlines. And this Dutch Reformed minister’s eyes bulged out like that, looked at the man’s back. And they took my hand and put it on the man’s back, and just exactly fit the fingers, right around exactly, of a—of a left hand where it used to be. See? Well, we had the favor of everything then. 28 And then, Mr. Baxter, my beloved brother, comes, tells me, said, “Brother Branham, we’ve got an itinerary. We got to go way down to Klerksdorp, Bloemfontein all the way down through that way, and back up, and then over to Durban.” Said, “Doesn’t matter to me; we’re over here for so long. Doesn’t matter. All right.”

1429 That night when we went in, about two o’clock in the morning, the Angel of the Lord came to me, and said, “Tomorrow you’re going to be down in the city, and you’re going to see an odd-dressed native standing by the side of a place, dressed in purple. Call Mr. Schoeman’s attention; and tomorrow morning, while you’re sitting at the table, when you get up, tell… There’s going to be something happen,” and said, “then you tell your manager, Mr. Baxter, that he’s going to point out to you a very odd-looking bird.” (See?) 30 And then said, “They’re going to try to take you up here to a doctor that’s got cancer, he thinks, cancer on his hip, but,” said, “it is not cancer. The doctor just made a mistake and cut something loose there and the man’s going to die.” 31 Said, “And don’t…” And said, “Now they’re going…And on your road up,” said, “you’ll see a native bead-seller. There’s lots of them sits along the road, but tomorrow there’ll only be one. And you all will turn and come to that native bead-seller—seller,” and said, “You’ll know her,” said, “she’s a young girl about fourteen years old. She’s got a big skinned place, way back, her scalp, like that .”

1532 And said, “By that, you shall not take…you’ll know that you shall not go down there with them men. You stay right here for two weeks, and go up to Mr. Jackson’s farm, as you were going up there hunting. And then go to Durban, and stay to Durban till I call you.” 33 Next morning, I got up, repeated it all over. Mr. Baxter, which is right here listening at me now, and Mr. Jackson, which is sitting close, or I believe, Brother… Are you here, Brother Jackson? Where you at? If you are, raise your hand up, so I’ll know. I been saying…Oh, yeah, here, certainly, right up here. All right. That’s right. Brother Jackson from South Africa, right there when the meeting was going on.

1634 The next day, setting at the table, the Lord spoke to me and told me about little Ambra, his little girl, about what was wrong with her tonsils, and what had taken place, and so forth. Mr. Schoeman, first, he didn’t kind of understand it too well, and he just dropped his fork. He knew that that…No one knew that except right there in their own family. And there the Holy Spirit was revealing all about his family, and what they had done, and all along like that. Brother Baxter setting there at the table, listening. 35 And I said, “Now, we shall not take this itinerary down this way. The Lord told me to stay here for two more weeks, and then go over to—to—to Mr. Jackson’s farm, and go hunting with him for a rest-up for about eight or ten days, and then go to Durban, and stay there until He called me, which would be about a month, I’m sure.” 36 Not knowing, then, that Durban was the only place there wasn’t segregation; all these others was segregation. You think about the South having trouble; you ought to see their trouble there.

1737 Now, well, I…So I told them. And the next day, Brother Baxter, which is present, and Brother Bosworth, and all of them. When they…Brother Baxter said, “Now, Brother Branham, to me,” said, “that’s all right.” Said, “It’s the national committee, you have to see them.” So I told Brother Schoeman, so he’d know. I said, “Now, today, that you know, Brother Schoeman, we’re going to the city and there will be a native dressed in purple.” “A what?” I said, “A native dressed in purple.” “Never seen one, yet,” he said. 38 “All right, you’ll see it today.” And I said, “He’ll be standing by a park.” I had never been in Johannesburg in my life. And I said, “He’ll be standing by a park, like this, where it’s cattycorner, it cuts this way, is a road goes this way, and a lot of benches setting along like this. There’s people above it, with flowers on the street, selling.” He said, “I know where the park is.” And I said, “Well, we’ll pass by that today.” Well, we… After a while, he said, “You want to go down?” Well, it went on, we got busy about things. Said, “You want to go down?” 39 I said, “Yes.” I went down with him with his office. And when we was coming around through his office, I said, “Brother Schoeman, you see your native standing there by the side of the park?” He said, “Well, what do you know about that!”

1840 And so, then, after we got back up there… What was that duPlessis’ name? Not David. [A brother says, “Justus.”—Ed.] Justus. Justus duPlessis, which is one of the smartest men there is in South Africa, to my opinion, and a real Christian gentleman. He was one of the sponsors of the meeting on the internat-…on the national committee. He taken me and a bunch, and we went up to Pretoria, and on the road up, Brother Baxter was along. And they were driving about sixty miles an hour up the road, like that, talking real quick. And he said, “Well, there ought to be some salesmens along here somewhere.” I punched Brother Baxter.

19And so we went on, and said, “We’ll buy some beef, some curios, and so forth.” Went on up, and we just passed by. 41 I looked and there set the little native sitting on the side of the road, little colored girl with her—with her skinned place on her head. I thought, “That’s the girl. I’ll just see what they’re going to do now.” 42 He went way on up the road, and he said…happened to look, he was just about half a square above it. Said, “Say, there’s one of the salesman.” Squeaked on his brakes, come back. I looked at Brother Baxter. He never…He just looked like he didn’t think of it at that time. Turned back around, when we got down there, I said, “Brother Baxter, don’t you remember this?” Said, “Yes, there it is. There’s the little bead. Only one on the road in that twenty-nine miles.”

2043 You know, brother, they set on the road everywhere there for those, selling those… the only one on the road, just like He told me. Never been in the country, just been there about twenty-four hours. And so he said, “Now…” And there she was setting there with that. And we went back, and Brother Baxter taken his camera and took a picture of the native. We drove on up, sure enough, there was the doctor with that in his hip, just exactly like was said. 44 And then the following day, we—we was out on a—a place there where Brother Baxter…the odd bird that He told me he would look at. There it was just the same way. Then they come, said, “We’re going…got to go down there.”

2145 Well, Brother Baxter said, “Now, Brother Branham, if it was in America, I’d have the jurisdiction and I would say, ‘No!’” Said, “But we’re over here at the mercy of these people. They don’t understand.” Said, “I’m with you, hundred percent.” But said, “Now to make these men understand it, that’ll be something different.” I said, “Well, whether they understand it or not, I know what the Lord told me to do. I must do what He said do.” 46 So next morning, here come the cars up, got to go down to Klerksdorp, a little place of about four thousand, five thousand, or something like that, something on that order; leaving Johannesburg of about three hundred and fifty, or four hundred thousand, to leave that, this is a hundred miles difference… But as I’ve always said, “If you want to get muddled up, just fool with preachers.” And that’s where you sure get fixed up. Not all of them, but I mean, just to get a bunch of men. “They promised Brother So-and-so that they’d have us over to his place, and Brother So-and-so , they had to come down there.” Now that’s all right, but brother, when it comes to leading of the Spirit of God, you follow God. See, see.

2247 And so, they said, “Oh, we—we must go. That’s—that’s all.” So they loaded up the cars. I was still setting in there. I wouldn’t go. I wasn’t going. No, sir. So they said, “You’ve got to go. You must go.” So I, “Well, all right.” I got…went out, started down the road. And as I kept going down the Holy Spirit kept condemning me, saying, “You better not do that.” 48 I said, “God, if I ever knowed of crossing Your line like this; but I’m down here, what am I going do? I’m at the mercy of these men.” It kept getting worse.

2349 I said, “Stop the car!” Stopped the car, up come the different cars, the men, and—and Billy Paul, my son, and—and Mr. Stadsklev. And oh, Mr. Bosworth, and a bunch of the committee men and all of them come up. And I was with Mr. Schoeman. There he is. And Brother Baxter was in another car. So they went over and told him, said, “He refuses to go.” Said, “You have to go talk to him.” I said, “I ain’t going no farther than right here. This is…The Lord done told me to go back. And I can’t do it.” 50 And they said, “Well, Brother Branham,” said, “look…” They kind of got a little huffy about it. And I said…Said, “Don’t you think God speaks to somebody besides you?” one the committeemen said.

2451 I said, “Korah had that idea one day and told Moses that. But the earth opened up and swallowed him out.” I said, “I don’t know what He’s told you. I can’t judge that. I know what He’s told me.” Well, he said, “He told us to make that itinerary.” I said, “He told me not to take it. Well now, you, if He told you to make the itinerary, go ahead. But He told me not to do it.” 52 Well, the argument got worse and worse. Finally, Brother Baxter come over. Brother Baxter said, “Brother Branham, we’re kind of in a spot here.” He said, “I wish that—that you would not say about going up on that hunting trip.”

2553 Said, “But…” Now, Brother Baxter is a sensible, sound man. And he’s looking at it from as sensible standpoint as it could be. He said, “Look, if you keep saying, ‘Going hunting,’ those ministers are thinking that you’ve come down here to go hunting, and half of them down here don’t even believing in going hunting.” And said, “Thousands of people laying yonder, sick, ready to die, and you talk about going hunting.” 54 I said, “Brother Baxter, if I never fire another gun in my life, if I never walk into a—a—a field again in my life,” I said, “That’s not pro nor con to me.” I said, “I am only doing what God said do.” See? I said, “That is…I’m—I’m just following out orders.” And I said, “You’ve been with me enough, Brother Baxter, to know that when I tell you what God is going to do, in the Name of the Lord, and tell you it’s a vision…” He said, “Brother Branham is that truly a vision from God?” I said, “Yes, Brother Baxter.” 55 He said, “Then from henceforth, I take my hands away from it.” Said, “I—I won’t have no more to do with it,” said, “If it’s a vision from God.” Said, “We’re plugged up here,” but said, “now you make your move; I’ll stand by you.” Said, “All right, Brother Baxter.” 56 Well, I fussed with them there for a while, “No.” Well, finally, it was getting one o’clock, people’s waiting. And we went down to that little…I’m mispronouncing it, I’m sure, Klerksdorp, but something on that order, close enough that you know what it was.

2657 But when we got down there, there was enough people, the city was swamped, and there was no place for them to sleep, there was nothing. Beautiful day, they taken me out to a minister’s house, a Brother Fourie, a very fine Christian brother. As soon as we set down at the table by his wife, the Lord told me what was wrong with his wife, and how she suffered, and healed her right there, and she’s never been bothered since. See. See? God in His sovereignty, yet, me out of His will, God will bless. His gifts and callings are without repentance. See? And so, then, we stayed there a little bit.

2758 And that night, they got the meeting all ready to go, and when it come time to take me to the meeting, there come a tropical storm and like to have drowned the whole bunch. And at ten o’clock in the night, they couldn’t even get me near the place, just… You haven’t seen a storm, yet, till you see one of those tropical storms. Lightning, it’s just as light as this room almost, the constant flashes of lightning and roaring. And there it was. All right. No service that night. 59 Well, the brethren…I come back, I said, “I told you. The Lord said don’t come down here. I’m out of His will. I’ve got to go back to Johannesburg.” “Well, we just can’t do it. Now, we promised brothers, these brothers, that we’re going down here, and we got to do it.”

2860 “Well, there you are. The sin be on you.” I said, “Remember I’m…” I was there with no—no money, nothing. I was in awful condition. No money to carry my meeting on myself. And I was just kind of up against it. 61 So then, I said, “Well…” We waited that night. The next day broke all pretty and nice. And just about the time for the service, there come a blizzard, like to froze everybody to death. 62 Come on back in the building, I said, “Didn’t I tell you?” I said, “Now, tomorrow night, we’ll have an earthquake.” See? I said, “We’re out of the will of God, brethren.” They said, “Do you mean we’ll have an earthquake?” 63 I said, “I don’t know whether we will, or not. I just said that. There’ll be something happen. We’re out of the will of God.” Two o’clock in the morning, we was still going heavy at it. I said, finally said, “Now look. God has told me to go back to Johannesburg, and stay there for two weeks, go up to Brother Jackson’s, and then from there to Durban, and from there I go home.” They, “Oh, no!”

2964 I said, “Well, we got the favor with the newspapers, with the medical association, with everything, and thousands of people where they could eat and everything and a place to stay. And here they’re laying out on the prairies, no place, nothing to eat, and drowned, and everything else, and us out of the will of the Lord.” I said, “Can’t you see it, brethren?” “Well, we promised to do this though.” Well, course, they were men of honor trying to keep their promise to their brethren. 65 But, brother, that’s the reason my meetings, tonight, can’t be set like Oral Roberts and the rest of these fellows. They know where they’re going two years from now, if they don’t die. They can set their…Mine must be led day by day, meeting by meeting. Wherever He says go, I got to go. If He’d tell me right tonight not be here tomorrow, I wouldn’t be here tomorrow. And if He told me tonight to stay here a—a year, I’d be right here a year, if I had to stand on the outskirts of Zion. See. Wherever He says go that’s just where I go. That’s where I stay till He says go. It’s got to be that way. I can’t set itinerary. I can’t tell you where I’ll be the next day. I don’t know. I make no promises. See.

3066 We’re supposed to go down to Chicago next week, if the Lord willing. If the Lord doesn’t permit it, if He’d speak to me tonight and say, “Stay in Zion.” I’d stay at Zion. If He met with me tonight, and said… 67 One day I was down yonder in St. Louis, Missouri, just left Zion, and I was having a good meeting. And that very night the Holy Spirit come in and said, “Leave St. Louis and go back to Zion.” And I left St. Louis the next day, and begin the following day at Zion again. You remember it. You see what the Lord did? See? Follow. So then, on into the night we went arguing, arguing, arguing. I said, “Nope! Going back tomorrow, right back to Johannesburg.”

3168 Well, what will we do when we got to Johannesburg? I didn’t have money to come home. I didn’t…and it…coming home would be wrong. I was supposed to stay there in that meeting. Who’s going back it up? What are we going to do? Oh, I was in an awful fix. And it just seemed like… 69 I said, “All right, as Paul said of long ago, ‘You should have listened and not have loosed from Crete and caused this trouble.’” So I said, “Now, God has a permissive will. But I never like to work God’s permissive will. I want His perfect will.” See, always. If…I don’t want to work secondarily. I want to know what He wants me to do, and I’ll go do it. And so we went…Then when they heard about permissive will, oh, my, that settled the thing, altogether.

3270 Well, I went into the room. And we all went to our different rooms. I went to my room to pray. Billy, my boy back there, was sleeping with me. We had a couple little beds off to one side. Brother Jackson, I guess you been to Brother Fourie’s, you know where the beds are; sets next out to the road. 71 And Billy and I went in. We went to praying. When we went in, Billy, my boy, put his hand on my shoulder. He said, “Daddy, don’t you listen to that bunch of preachers. You listen to what God is telling you, and not that bunch of preachers.” If I ever got wisdom from my son, was then, or good…That’s right. And I said, “Honey, I’m all tore up.” He said, “Look, Daddy,” said, “We’ll get home some way.”

33I said, “Honey, the thing of it is, isn’t going home; it’s the idea I’ve got to go back to Johannesburg and take this meeting that way.” He said, “Daddy, I’ll stay by you, and I know Brother Baxter will.” So he said, “You just remember we’re with you.” 72 And so I said, “You pray with me, Billy.” Course he got sleepy, just being a kid, and he crawled into bed about one or two o’clock. About three o’clock in the morning, He came into the room. I felt Him. He moved over to the side of the bed. I said, “Who are these men and what do they mean?”

3473 He said, “Go on.” Said, “Go on.” Said, “They got you tied into it.” Said, “Go on. But remember, you’ll pay for it.” He said, “You’ll know.” And He said, “Now, that you might know that you have My permission to go, tomorrow morning you go wake up your boy.” God honored Billy. He said, “You go wake up your boy and tell him that tomorrow morning at Sunday school, when they have their Sunday school meeting in the morning, it’s going to be a pretty day.” And it, rainy and cloudy and bad then. He said, “But it’s going be pretty. The sun will be shining. It’ll be warm again.” 74 Said, “You…They’re going to send. And Brother Baxter is going to send for you to come pray for the sick, being that meeting’s so delayed.” It’s to be there three days, anyhow. Said, “The meeting is so delayed, you…He’s going to send your boy back to get you to come pray for the sick. So be ready and go.” And said, “Then when—when you do,” said, “your son is going to come after you with a young man in a little black car. And on the road back, on the road to get you, he’s going to pick up another young man. That’s contrary to the rules, but he’s going to pick up another young man. And on the road going back,” said, “he’s going to call your attention, there’ll be a native in a white safari suit, standing near a Eucalyptus tree by a bridge, with a stick, fixing to strike another native.” And said, “By that, you’ll know that I give you permission to go. But remember, you’ll suffer for it.”

3575 So when I come out of the vision, I went over and I woke Billy up. And I said, “Billy, the Angel of the Lord has just visit me,” and told him what He said. I walked into the room. Now, Brother Baxter is right in the back of the building now, listening. And I walked into the room, and here is where it proves, friend. Listen. Don’t miss this. 76 Now, He may never deal with you like that in that manner. I was born to this end, as a different person. I guess I’ve been odd and misunderstood. Your life might not be like that, but this one thing I do know. You do what God tells you to do. Don’t pay any attention to what anybody else says; you do what God says. And then, be sure that you know it’s God, not some imagination or some feeling. You be sure it’s God, then follow God’s route. He’ll take you where He wants you to go.

3677 So we walked into the room, Brother Baxter, Brother Bosworth, Mr. Stadsklev, which is, I believe is present tonight. And those men were setting there. There’s at least two of those men present now. They were all sleeping in a room over to theirself, the four of them in a room, or, the three of them, rather. 78 And I walked into the room, I said, “Brethren, I have THUS SAITH THE LORD.” I said, “We are doing wrong when we’re going down to Kimberley, Klerksdorp, and Bloemfontein, and Cape Town. We’re doing wrong. The will of the Lord is for us to go back here, and come down, or go back to Johannesburg, and go from there over to Brother Jackson’s and from there over to this Durban.”

3779 And I said, “But He gave me His permissive will this morning, and gave me these signs.” And I told them what He told me. And I said, “It’s—it’s daylight outside now. It’s a pretty day.” And I said, “These things shall come to pass. But remember, it’s not the will of the Lord.” 80 How many knows Fred Bosworth? Let’s see your hand. Do you believe him to be a good man? He is. And he’s as close to me as my daddy. But yet, in that, Brother Bosworth, who stood by my side, who stood in the pulpit, who’s preached of this gift, who’s built platform, who constantly speaks of it, said, “I’m—I’m seventy-something years old. I never seen it, and never read of anything like it, since the days of the apostles.” Believes in me with all of his heart.

38He raised up, and he said, “Brother Branham, you’re wrong. It’s the will of God for you to go that way.” I said, “Brother Bosworth, it is not.” He said, “Well, Brother Branham,” he said, “I read one time where Satan give Adam a false vision.” 81 I said, “Brother Bosworth, you’re a daddy to me.” But I said, “Look. This is not a false vision. This is from God. My honor, and my ministry, my reputation, not only mine, but the Name of the Lord rests upon it.” I said, “It’s wrong.” He said, “No.” Said, “If you go that way, you’ll see the exceedingly, abundantly above all that you could ask or think.”

3982 And I turned around. I looked at Brother Baxter, he was rubbing his eyes. I looked over at Brother Stadsklev. I thought then, “There it is. No matter how close an individual is to you, you can’t trust the arm of flesh.” I don’t care if it’s your mother. 83 You remember one time where there was a—a prophet in the land, and another one went down and prophesied, and God told him what to do. And He said, “Don’t eat or drink, nor it…” First Kings 13. And this prophet sent and told him, “The Lord said to come back here.” And he minded the prophet in the stead of God. You know what happened? He lost his life; both of them prophets. No matter who they are, you do what God tells you to do.

4084 Before I left, while preaching in Shreveport one day, the Holy Spirit fell upon me and said, “THUS SAITH THE LORD, there is a snare set for you in—in South Africa.” Was anybody at the Shreveport meeting? Let’s see your—let’s see your hand. If there’s anybody at the Shreveport meeting, just before I left, that heard, did hear that prophecy? All right. I guess there’s not up in this meeting, in this little group anyhow. But there, I didn’t know it was among my brethren. Now, the thing was… 85 We went on. And as soon as we got to Kimberley, there was, or the next stop, there was an elderly man there, an old man, good man. But there was thousands of people, and that old brother said, “No, sir, you’re not going to have it out anywhere but in my church.” His church would hold about four hundred people, and about ten to twelve, fourteen thousand people there. But yet it had to be in that church. Brother Bosworth blew up, and took his hat, and said, “Ridiculous! Ridiculous, that’s a shame.” I said, “That’s the exceedingly, abundantly, above all.” (See?) I said, “You understand?” He said, “Oh, I never heard of such.”

4186 And so, Brother Baxter, the same way. And both of them went out and rented a big place. All right. That shows, you see? And went on down along the trip, like that, trouble set in everywhere. And never had the meeting until we got up there to…Anyone knows, that knows…Brother Jackson, you know. The meeting was at Durban where we had a, nearly, a hundred thousand gathered out, and thirty thousand converts in a day. And that was the only place there was. Down along the road, we all got sick. Every one of us got sick. 87 And when I come home, I almost died. I had ameba. Ameba, it’s a parasite, a little animal, gets into the intestinal tract, in the stomach, like little barnacles; sticks there and sucks till it…Well, it takes its course in about so many hours. After it gets into the bloodstream, if it comes on the liver, and bursts, you live. It goes to brain and bursts, or heart, you die. There’s nothing you can do about it. And I walked the floor, and prayed and cried, and prayed and cried, and prayed and cried till my eyes was swelled, literally, till my wife would have to lead me to breakfast. No answer from God at all. 88 One morning, I…laying there, my hand behind my head, saying, “God, what can I do?” Falling off weight, getting thinner and thinner, worse and worse all the time, nothing… Getting worse, worse, nothing could be done: worse all the time.

4289 One morning, I was laying there, I thought, “O God, what does my future hold? I guess I’ll…This is the end of the road. I’m perishing. I’m sorry.” I repented. I said, “God, I’ll never, no more, knowingly step across Your line, never again. If there’s kindness in Your heart, Lord, towards me, please forgive me.” I’d get my Bible and walk up and down the floor in the daytime. And my wife say, “Honey, what’s the matter?” 90 I’d say, “Oh, sweetheart, if you only knew how I felt.” I said, “I’ve went against God’s will.” I said, “And here I am broken here. And my ministry…” 91 I told Brother Baxter. I said, “The Lord has spoke to me…” Well, he’s witness right now, and can when he comes to the platform. I said, “If I take that itinerary, THUS SAITH THE LORD, I’ll not even be able to have a meeting between six months and a year.” 92 It was…this is the seventh month, or the eighth month. See? I asked Him. When He says anything, it’s the truth. I’ll lay my life to it that it’s the truth.

4393 Then, coming back to my place. I was walking the floor, about three months ago or hardly so much, walking the floor one night, crying. I laid down went to sleep. I woke up about three o’clock in the morning. And I said, “O God, what’s going to be my future? What will happen to me?” Laying there, I said, “Oh, if I only…” About five months nothing but pacing the floor and crying, wondering. People sending everywhere…Well, I couldn’t even leave the house, hardly. And there it was. I said, “Oh, what will I do?” 94 Then…I got a little buddy by the name of Dr. Adair, lives just across from me, went to school together. When he heard about that, he said, “Billy Branham, mercy, boy. God be merciful to you.” So he said, “There ain’t nothing I know to do.” And I said, “Doc, the only thing I want to do is find my favor back with God again.” I said, “I’ve stepped across His line.”

4495 One morning laying there, as I said, about three o’clock, I was rubbing my head. I thought, “What does my future hold?” And about that time, I felt Something move into the room. 96 Get your memories ready now. Going to tell you something that’s going to happen. He come into the room. I knew it was Him. I laid real still, come moving; I could hear Him coming, going, “Whew! Whew! Whew!” Like laps of fire, like that, moved down into the room, come where I was. 97 Just then, I seen One come walking to me. He had paper, something like typewriter paper. It was folded like this in His hand. He walked up to me, said, “As you were meditating upon your bed, ‘what would be your future?’” I said, “Yes, Lord. I have wondered what my future held.”

4598 He took the paper like this, and creased it. He said, “Looky there.” There it was scribbled all over, some of it laying, but a great stack of it. He swung it like that and it went plumb out sight, up into the heavens. He said, “It is clear.” 99 I came to myself. I was setting on the side of the bed, and I said, “O God, oh, please speak. Oh, if I’ve found favor with You, Lord, please, what about these ameba? What’s going to happen, Lord?” I said, “Please, if in Your great heart, if my sins are forgiven, will You speak to me? What about it, Lord?” I said, “I’m laying here. I’m just about to die.” I said, “I’ve trusted You. I’ve believed in You. I’ve taught others.” I said, “Won’t You have mercy?” 100 About that time, I felt Something coming again, “Whew!” Come back into the room, moved down over me, said, “As thou was thinking about that, it shall be no more.” That settled it.

46I came to. I don’t care what anybody said then, that was all. And I said, “Father.” 101 I never did have it just usually one at a time. This time there were five. He said…Lasted from three until about six in the morning. And He said…He come back again, and He said to me, He said, “You’ve been wondering and people’s been telling you about…criticizing you about your meetings.” 102 And I said, “Yes, Lord. They tell me that Oral Roberts and these other men pray for five hundred while I’m ministering to three.” And I said, “You told me to do this, what shall I do, Lord, shall I pray for the people in the line?” He said, “Just as you’re led.” And It left me again. And I walked up and down the floor a few moments, and I said, “O God, I’m so thankful to You. I appreciate You.”

47103 Here It come again. I felt Him coming in the room again, “Whew! Whew!” And He taken me in the Spirit, set me down out there in the middle of that racetrack, right in Durban, where I was standing. And I seen that Durban meeting going, fading off into history to my right. Geographically, I was facing the south, just like I was in Durban. And it was going, fading to the west, going away, turning blue, that group of people. And right front of me was sections, just like this is set tonight, but looked like streets. And there was great crowds of people. 104 And then He came and He turned my head like this, back over to the east, towards the east, towards India. And there were tens of thousands with clouts on, dark-looking men. They had their hands up in the air. They were praising God. They were jumping up and down, and screaming, and praising God. Thousands of them was receiving Christ. And I said, “Wonderful.”

48105 And about that time, I heard Something coming right above me, and here come down a great Light out of Heaven. And It was like an oscillating Light, and It went way back over the fields, for about a half a mile or more. And there was nothing but a solid mass of people, just standing, packed in. I said, “O Lord, are all those black men?” 106 And then He turned me back to this group here in front of me again. There were beautiful, white people, standing with their hands up in the air like this , praising God. 107 Then He turned me back again like that . And then the Angel come real near; I could tell He was getting near. And I heard the number that He called. Remember this: He said, “There’s three hundred thousand of those in that Branham meeting.”

49108 And I came to myself. I heard His number. Remember, I’m going to hold a meeting somewhere east of Durban, I believe in India, that’ll consist of three hundred thousand people. That’s before it comes to pass, that you might know. 109 Just as I have said about the little boy being raised in Finland; many of you heard that testimony before it was ever, before I even left the United States, a year before, that little boy would be raised from the dead, and so forth.

50110 Now remember this. Then I raised up my hands to bless God, and when I did, look, come here, here come my Bible. And It was turned over to, about Paul in the storm. And then the leaves begin to turn back, back, back, back, back, this Bible, and it went back to Joshua the 1st chapter. And Something begin to read the chapter, like this: “My servant Moses is dead; now arise, and go over this Jordan, and these people. No man shall stand before you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with you. Only be of a good courage: and very—and very… Be strong and very courageous, for the Lord thy God is with thee wheresoever thou goest.” And I raised up, and I reached for my Bible. It was in the air, I reached, and it was…I—I—I said, “Where did it go?”

51111 And about that time, I heard my wife knocking at the door. [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit—Ed.] She come through the room. She said, “Bill has something been wrong?” She said, “At three o’clock this morning, the baby was fretting, and I come in to wake you up.” And said, “When I come there to the door…” Now, my wife is a very spiritual woman, but this is the first time it ever happened in our home. She is very quiet, pious-like person. And she—she said, “I started to go in the room, and Something said to me, ‘Don’t go in there, there is a vision going on.’” And she said, “For three hours, I set in the chair and rocked the baby, waiting.” 112 I said, “Yes, honey.” I grabbed my Bible, the big Bible there, and wrote out the vision right quick on the flyleaf in there, which many’s come by the house, has read it.

52113 We went out for breakfast. My mother-in-law, a very saintly, godly woman, lives just below me. Here she come, running up to the house. She said, “Has anything happened up here this morning?” She said, “This morning when I got up, I went to the sink to wash my dishes from last night, to get ready for breakfast, and Something said, ‘Go up to the other house. Something has happened.’” I told her the vision.

53114 I turned around. I had…Soon as breakfast over I went down to get my check stubs to…that was used for meetings last year about the income things. And I went down to the bank, went on back, they had them ready for me. And I was going by, and all the tellers saying, “Hello, Brother Branham.” I said, “Hello! Hello! Hello!” Went on back, picked up the…my stubs and started out. And I started walking out like this, and Something said, “Stop.” 115 And I thought that was just—just…you know how you get an impression sometimes. “Stop.” I waited and I looked at the people. Nobody was looking at me, and I said, “Lord God, what would You have me do?” And I backed up in a corner like this, kind of waiting a minute with those stubs, my little briefcase under my arm. I thought, “What would You have me do?” He said, “Look at Bob Denison.”

54116 I thought, “Now, that was just Bob Denison.” I—I looked over, and he was standing there with his head down like this. I know Bob real well. He’s a teller there. And I said, “Well, that was just…” But it wasn’t. It was God. I stopped a minute. I walked over. I said, “Good morning, Bobby.” He said, “Hello, Brother Branham!” He said, “Say, Margie Morgan was—was in here the other day.” That was the lady was healed of cancer. I said, “Yes.” I said, “How you feeling, Bobby?” Tears rolled down his cheeks. He said, “Brother Branham, I—I got something to tell you. I don’t know how you’re going take it.” I said, “Well, go ahead, Bobby. Tell me.” 117 He said, “All, most all of my people’s died with cancer.” He said, that, “I’ve got every symptom of what they had.” Said, “I’ve been worried to death for the last few days.” Said, “Billy, I don’t mean to cause you any trouble,” but said, “this morning at three o’clock, I woke up in the room, and I dreamed a dream that I should tell you about it.” I said, “This morning at three o’clock He had me up.” 118 He took hold of my hand, that was the last of the cancer. Never had any more symptoms of it at all. I met him just…Well, when I was down home (what?) two or three days ago, I said, “How you feeling, Bobby?” He said, “Brother Branham, I’m telling you, I’m a different person.” God still rules and reigns. He’s Jehovah, and there is none liken unto Him. You believe that?

55119 Let us read some Scripture. I love you. Could testify all night, but I must read quickly out of 4th chapter of Saint John. So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. And when he had heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would go down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe. The nobleman said unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. And as he was now going down, his servant met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. Then inquired he…the hour…he begin to amend. (Begin to get better, in other words.) And they said…Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. So the father knew that it was at the same hour…which Jesus said… Thy son liveth: and himself believed, with his whole household. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he… came out of Judaea into Galilee.

56120 Jesus spoke the Word. The father wanted Him to come lay hands on him and pray for him. Jesus said, “Go on, your son’s going to live.” And the father believed what Jesus said. 121 Now, what if he had not have believed? It would not have happened. He believed. And let us believe tonight, what Jesus said. Will you? Listen. Here’s the Words He said in Mark 11:24, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive it, it shall be given unto you.” You believe that?

57122 Watch the order of the Scripture. Believe now, you receive it. Now is when you believe you got it. You have no evidence; there’s nothing there to show that you got it, but you believe you’ve got it. And just keep believing it, and it’ll be given to you. You believe that? 123 Let’s ask Him for a glorious meeting; let’s, together, as all you believers with me. See, no matter who you are if you step across God’s line, He’ll punish you. David was a man after His heart, but David reaped what he sowed. Let’s bow our heads.

58124 Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee tonight, that we know this one thing: that the Holy Spirit is in here tonight, confirming the Word of our Lord Jesus Christ and bringing to pass those things which He said would be. Dear God, I cannot be responsible for the faith of the people. I’m responsible for preaching Your Word, and for testifying and telling those things which I know to be true. Thou knowest. You know about the African affair. 125 And, Father, I believe tonight, just as sure as I’m standing in the pulpit here tonight on this platform, that there is soon a time, when You will be with me and will help me in Africa, or, in India. Be near me now. Stand by me tonight. And bless me, and keep Thy loving wings of mercy over us, making an atonement for our sins and trespasses, forgiving us of all things, and helping us to live for You. 126 And forgive every sinner in the building tonight. Take all skepticism away, and may the power of God have preeminence tonight, and be predominant over all unbelief, and drive back the enemy; and pour out Your Spirit, and heal the sick, and save the lost, in Jesus’ Name, I ask it. Amen.

59127 (Huh? Say what?) [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Prayer card W, turn your prayer card, you that have cards, they have nothing to do with your healing. I believe if you’ll believe with me that God will manifest Hisself tonight in this group that’s grouped together here. Let people get healed. 128 There’s only one thing that keeps you from being healed, if I read the Bible right (I believe I have millions that’ll agree with me on the Scripture.), that the only thing that keeps us from being healed is a lack of faith, that is, if our heart’s right with God. Is that right? If…He was wounded for our transgressions, by His stripes we’re healed. 129 Look, I noticed one time, a fellow kept coming to my church. And he would say…I’d say, “All that wants to be remembered in prayer that they’ll become Christians, stand up.” Every night, he’d stand up. All right, next night, I’d say, “All that wants to be Christians wants to be remembered in prayer to be a Christian, stand up.” He’d stand up through that revival. And then after a while, it’d be months, and I’d have another revival, he’d stand up. This was when I was a Baptist minister there. He’d stand up, want to be remembered. I’d meet him out on the street, I’d say, “Are you a Christian, yet?” “No. No. Keep praying for me, Brother Branham.” “All right.” “Thank you.”

60130 Went on and on like that. One night while in the service, I said, “All that wants to become Christians, wants to be remembered in a word of prayer stand up.” There he stood up. I said, “Come here a minute.” He walked up. I said, “What’s the matter with you?” “I don’t know.” I said, “Do you want to be a Christian?” “Yes, sir.” I said, “Why don’t you become a Christian?” He said, “I don’t know.” 131 I said, “There’s just something, you, down in your heart, you want to be a Christian, but there’s something that won’t let you be a Christian. Is that right?” He said, “That’s it.” I said, “That’s the devil. And that’s unbelief.” And I said, “You believe that?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Do you believe if I’ll ask God to break that power of unbelief above you, that you’ll be a Christian?” He said, “Yes, sir.” 132 And just that time when we bowed our head, he let out a scream. He jumped up in the air like that . It was gone. And the man is a staunch Christian today.

61133 Watch: Just the devil, that unbelief, that little old snickering thing there, little shadow to keep him from breaking into it. And the same thing is by healing. You say, “Well, I been sick a long time or I been crippled a long time. I couldn’t improve from this condition.” 134 Oh, yes, you can. Jesus Christ said, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it; you shall have it.” I believe it. Don’t you? All right. 135 W, let’s get the prayer cards, now. Where did we call last night? Where was it? Fifty. Let’s get the last part of them tonight. Let’s get from eighty-five to a hundred in W. That’s coming right on up the line bringing them right on up. 136 All right. Who’s has got prayer card eighty…W, eighty-five? Raise your hand. W, eighty-five, eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight, eighty-nine, ninety, on up to a hundred. Prayer card W, eighty-five up to a hundred line up here to my right, while… 137 Now check, you ushers, and so forth, and see if everybody gets there and if they don’t, then let me know, and I’ll call the—the line again. All right.

62138 Now, if any of the people here in the wheelchairs have got cards, they don’t have to come to the prayer line, up here, just raise up your hand, or let someone hold it up, that’s got those numbers, and when that number is called, when you see your place lined up there, just move right up here in front of me. 139 And I can’t heal you, friends. But God, if He will, in His mercy, might let me know the reason why that you can’t get healed. See? All right. Now, if you have… 140 Only faith can heal you, your own individual faith. Don’t you see what a gift of healing is? A gift of healing isn’t something that’s in somebody to heal somebody else. The man that’s being prayed for has to have the—the healing. He has to have the faith. Is that right? (Excuse me.) All right.

63141 Now, what do you think, Dad? You think you’re going to be able to throw them old crutches away and walk home, tonight, normally? I hope you are. What about you, Mother, there in the chair? You believe you’re just going to be able to get up tonight, and walk away from there, and go on home, be well? 142 What about over there, sister, with the braces on your limb? And down along the line there, do you believe with all your heart? I tell what you do. If you’ll just look this way, and pray. Not—not look to me as…no, I don’t mean it in that way. I mean it in this way: Like Peter said, “Look on us.” They were men. “Look on us!” And the crippled man looked earnestly as if to receive a coin. He said, “Silver and gold have I none,” See? “but such as I have.” See? Now, “such as God will give me, I will give you.”

64143 Now, how many out there tonight that’s got…Well, I won’t call any certain diseases, but just got very bad diseases, that hasn’t got any prayer card, and you want God to heal you tonight? Raise your hands. Has got like all kinds of diseases… Just raise your hand, say, “I—I—I’m—I’m—I’m in the group. I—I—I’m—I’m one.” See? Got…All right. Looks like most of the sick people’s pinned right in these three rows right here, right in here. All right. All right, you start praying.

65144 And the rest of you people that’s well now and healthy, you pray for them. I believe if you were sick and held up your hand, they’d pray for you. So you all pray one for the other, confessing your faults one to another. Is that right? And pray one for another that you may be healed. 145 Is all the cards in, Billy? Huh? All right. He’s got a few out, yet, that hasn’t come in. Now, it’s eighty-five, W, eighty-five to one hundred. Check them over and see where you’re at. All right. No one, when we come in here… [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] 146 My, such a group! How…the same groups that’s been in other, been in my other meetings that’s here, you been in other meetings, let’s see you put your hands up. You understand just how…you understand the working of the—the Spirit of God. All right. That’s fine. 147 No matter who you are, where you’re from, how bad you are, just believe. It’s the only thing I ask you to do, is to believe. God will manifest Hisself. Do you believe that? All right. Let’s bow our head. 148 Our Heavenly Father, I come to Thee with love with all my heart asking You, now, this being the Saturday night just before the Sabbath tomorrow, that Your love and mercy will be manifested in this building tonight that we might see the exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think. 149 May there be a marvelous outpouring of Your Holy Spirit tonight. May sinners be saved, may backsliders be reclaimed and brought back to the loving arms of the Father. May sickness be healed, may the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, the cripples walk. We don’t have to have these things to believe You, Lord. We believe You anyhow. 150 But if it be Your great will tonight, that You’ll grant these privileges and blessings to us. Hear the prayer of Your servant, as I ask it, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

66151 I will ask this in the Name of the Lord: Everyone just as reverent as you can, and especially if some cases seems to be a little heavy, you keep your children near you. Don’t let your children get away, especially on epileptic cases. See? How many understands what I mean? 152 Now, remember, I will not be responsible for critics, unbelievers who set in this part of the meeting. See? I will not be responsible. It’s up to you. It’s your time to be away from the meeting at this time if you’re a critic or an unbeliever. For in the Name of the Lord I speak: I cannot assume the responsibility. I can to a believer, but not to an unbeliever. You understand. All right. Bring them to me. All right. Everybody just as reverent as you can be now.

67153 This is Saturday. Tomorrow’s Sunday, so let’s just take our time. There’s no rush about things. Don’t be nervous. Set quiet, be in prayer. Who knows but what God might visit you tonight. This might be your night. All right. 154 Now, my brother, I’m going to get this mike over here, so I can talk to you just a little bit. You being…Usually, the first patient, it’s sometime, that’s reason I start the prayer line is so that the—the first patient, if I can talk to them enough to get the anointing down to me, you see. And after speaking, that’s one anointing, then it—it’s another anointing. And I have to—to get that to me before I know what I’m speaking of. And it’s nothing in myself. It’s altogether by God. You see? 155 And now, you are a believer. You believe. I’m sure of that. See? I believe that you are sincere. And I believe that—that God will help you in your trouble.

68156 Now, I, not knowing you, and knowing nothing of you at all, and you just come in here this afternoon, and—and the boy give you a prayer card, and you looked on it; there’s number on there, and you put your name, and so forth, on it. And then tonight when your number was called, you just…That’s all there is, you just walk up here. That’s all there is to it. You’re just a stranger, and I’m a stranger. 157 Now, there’s—there’s a God in Heaven Who knows all things. And there’s no secrets to Him. And He makes His secrets known to His servants, His prophets (See?) that He reveals it.

69158 Remember Daniel? How he made the king’s dream known. How Jesus, He seen Nathanael coming and told him He—He knew he’d been praying just before he come. You believe that same Jesus exists today? Sure, He does. Yes. You do, then. All right. And you believe that I be His prophet? Not by anything that I merited, but by His sovereign grace, He foresaw that before the world begin, and He ordained that I should do this work for Him. Now, if I don’t do it, woe unto me. All right. I’m just talking to you, in order, like He did the woman at the well, to see if I can get right straight to what your trouble is, you see.

70159 Now, I trust that He will do it and give mercy. He doesn’t, course I—I don’t know. But your—your trouble is in your side. Is that right? If that’s right, raise your hand. I see you holding your side a whole lot. Pain, your side, here; yes, sir. Pain. That was caused from an accident, a fall (Is that right?) off of a scaffold. Is that right? Is that right? Yes, sir. Um-hum. What that’s done is just shook you up, burst the tissue that’s in your side, won’t heal. Are those things so, sir? Was that so what I said? Now, if it is, just turn to the audience so they see. Is that true?

71160 Now the man, I don’t know him, but so he hear it on the microphone, so that he—he’ll know that’s true [The brother says, “That’s true.”—Ed.] Now, the vision has gone. See? Now, you heard my voice. Did you? But that wasn’t me; that was the One Who’s here now present, the One you seen the picture of, the One we spoke of last night, the One that knows all things, that’s sent from God. He’s the One. 161 Now, come here, brother. Now, when He met me out there, He told me… I told Him that I didn’t have enough education, or so forth and He said, “If you get the people to believe you.” And I said, “They won’t believe me ’cause I’m not enough, eloquent enough in my speech to make the people…” 162 He said, “There’ll be two signs given you.” One of them was what you remember in the first, I guess, if you remember my first ministry by taking the peo-… Said, “The next, you’ll know the very thoughts of their, things in their life. And they will believe that.” He said, “Now, be sincere when you pray, nothing shall stand before the prayer.” You believe that? All right, then, come near. 163 Heavenly Father, this Your servant, working honestly for a living. Satan tried to take his life, but You would not permit that. But now, You’ve made a way for him to come and have faith in You that it might, instead of being a curse to him, a blessing that he might testify now. 164 Satan, you’re a loser. You can’t hurt God’s children. Why they’ll take the very things that you try to put on them and—and there return with a blessing. Now, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the man and may he be healed. Amen. Now, sir, go on your road happy, rejoicing. You’re going to be well. God’s going to make you well. Believest thou this? Then you shall see greater things done.

72165 You’re the lady, patient? Excuse me for not recognizing. Now, are you a stranger to me? We…you are a stranger. You’re just, I perceive that you are a Christian woman. You believe. Yes, ma’am. Now, you’ve had a span of life here and God has knowed you since you were born. And He’s fed you all your days, everything that you ever got was any good, come from God. He knows you from the time you were born and before you were born to this hour. You believe that. 166 Now, this, what He does here will just merely be, well, just what He’ll let me know. That I don’t…I cannot tell you because I was born in this world just like you or anyone else. I’m just human flesh. But inside of here dwells the Holy Spirit and it was by the sovereignty of God that He fixed the way that I…to go minister to His people. See? It isn’t…wasn’t even my desire. It wasn’t my will or my desire; it was Him. You know what I wanted to be in life? A ranger. And I was a game warden of Indiana for years. But I wanted to be a ranger in the forest, trapper, something on that order. But God had a different idea. So it’s Him, and now with all joy, I serve Him. 167 I was speaking to you to find out what was wrong. Uh-huh. You, you’re very sick and you’ve been to a doctor. Is that right? I see Him stand and look. And isn’t the—the—the…isn’t it something by the—the bowels, or colon, is that right? In the colon? Isn’t that…It’s got tumors in there. Is that right? There are tumors in the colon, uh-huh, and you’re up for an operation. And you’ve been putting that off, holding. That operation’s past due, isn’t it? Yes, sir. And you’ve been putting it off, waiting till I prayed for you. Is that right? Come near. 168 Almighty God, You’re here. Beyond a shadow of doubt, Thou art near this platform just now. You know the condition of this woman. I lay hands upon her, Lord. The physician is trying to operate, but yet, she wanted Your blessings before any of this. And, God, I pray that You’ll heal the woman. May the tumors leave her and she be well. In the Name of Your beloved Child, Jesus Christ, I ask it. Amen. God bless you, my gallant sister. Go rejoicing and happy, believing with all your heart.

73Come, lady. 169 That poor little woman, such a faith, I don’t see how the Father can keep from answering prayer for her. God bless you, sister. I believe you’re a faithful Christian. 170 You’ve been in my meetings before. Isn’t that right? Recently, too, haven’t you? How do you do? Although I didn’t see you, but I see you now; you was standing in the prayer line, and you were almost near being called. Is that right? There’s no secrets before our Heavenly Father. 171 You feeling better, sir? I thought so. You’re going to get over that nervousness and be all right now. The blessings are still on you, so don’t worry.

74172 If the blessing’s placed on you, hold still. Sometimes it’s days before He can get to you. Daniel prayed one time, and the Angel didn’t get to him for twenty-one days. Is that right? I’ve seen the time where women and men would wait for weeks. And the first thing you know, all at once, it happened, the Angel passing through the neighborhood. He knows where it’s at. “Whatsoever you bind on earth, I’ll bind in Heaven. What you loose on earth, I’ll loose in Heaven.” Is that right? That’s His sovereignty.

75173 Excuse me, lady. I’m just so attracted to that woman …?… All right. You look very healthy. You believe? You believe that Jesus Christ will make you well? You believe that I be His prophet? With all your heart? Now look. There’s a kindred something between you and what that lady had. You have tumor, also. Is that right? Examination of that, but that tumor you have is in the head. Is that right? You believe? Come near, sister. 174 Our Heavenly Father, I ask for mercy for her, realizing that this demon would take her life. O God, may Your Spirit come near, now. Heal her, Lord, and may it go away, and may she be made completely whole. As Your servant, praying, in Jesus Christ’s Name.

76(All right. Bring the little one. Oh, I see. All right. Yeah.) 175 Dear Jesus, I pray that in Your precious, holy Name that You’ll heal this little child. Uncross those eyes, Lord, and let Your Spirit come upon it just now, tenderly, merciful God. And may this great operation that should be done, may the Holy Spirit do it now. God, this poor little child can’t have faith, so we have to have faith for it. And, O God, as I look to You with all my heart, thinking of my little baby that died yonder, many, many years ago, laying there. Will You be merciful and heal the child? 176 Thou demon that’s crossed the eyes of this child, it’s too young to have faith, but we believe for it. We challenge you in this duel of the faith, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave the child. Everyone remain with your heads bowed, just a moment. Thank You, Father.

77177 Baby born that way? All right. Your baby is perfectly normal. All right. Look around, audience. Look, look here, honey. You follow my eye…Look over this way. Look while I…look at my finger. Look over this way. What…see my finger? Now, watch here. Now watch my finger. You watch the end of my finger here. See. Now look back this way. Now turn your little eyes so they can see. Watch right straight. See? Look at its little eyes. Now look up that way. Just as perfectly and normal and straight as they can be. All right. No operation is needed, your baby’s healed. 178 Let us say, “Praise be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” God’s great Eternal mercy be extended to every one of us. You believe? All things are possible to them that believe.

78179 Bring the lady. How do you do? You believe? With all your heart? With all your…All right. Now, want you to look this way, lady. All right. I enjoy that pin you have there, “He is risen,” and He lives within our hearts. 180 On the road to Emmaus one day, some men were walking along, and they—they… A Man stepped out, just an ordinary Man, not dressed in any different, in priestly robes. He was a Man, just in ordinary clothes on like the men walked and worked in, in them days. Walked out, begin to talk to them, said, “Why you weary?” 181 And they said, “Are You a stranger?” Said, “Jesus of Nazareth Who we knew to be a Prophet of God, and—and expected Him to be the King of Israel, He…they killed Him. And He’s dead, and—and He’s buried and all this trouble has set in and everything.”

79182 Young lady with the baby, look this way. You’re having trouble with that baby, aren’t you? Look this way to me. Do you believe me to be God’s prophet? Aren’t you a sinner, young lady, yourself? If that’s right, raise up your hand. Do you accept Jesus as your Saviour, right there where you’re standing with your…with the fruit of your womb in your hand? You do? Your baby has a rash on it, don’t it? That’s what’s mak-…Is that right? Go ahead home, now, the baby’s going to get well. Join up with some good Holy Ghost church, be filled with the Spirit of God. God bless you, then. That means take it home, it’s going be all right, now. The baby will get well. Don’t worry. Little lady, you serve God the rest of your days. You love Him? Wave your hands to the people, as a testimony. I once was lost, but now I’m found, Was blind, but now I see.

80183 Lady, you suffer from convulsions. You’ve been having them for a long time. You’ve had a series of operations. And you have a lot of persecution at home from a husband that’s a great big, tall fellow. Is that right? [The sister says, “Six foot, seven.”—Ed.] All right. Go home and say, “Jesus Christ makes me well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, may He…” Let’s say, “Praise be to the Lord.” All right. 184 Come near, lady. You believe with all your heart? I see you trying to move from the bed of a morning, stiff in your back. Got back trouble. Is that right? You believe me as His prophet? Go home and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. All right. Anything can be done. Have faith.

81185 Come, sir. Do you believe me to be His prophet? With all your heart? You’re anemia. Isn’t that right? Now, go home and get well in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let’s say, “Praise the Lord.” All right. 186 Lady, do you believe me to be His prophet with all your heart? All right, your stomach trouble has left you. You can go home now and get well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you. Let’s say, “Praise be to God.” 187 All right, sir, you can get up, too. All right. Go ahead home, eat what you want to, if you want to. You’ve had stomach trouble for a long time. Isn’t that right? Is that true? Raise up your hand. It was an ulcer; it died setting there in the chair. Now go on home and eat what you want to and be made well. All right.

82188 Come, lady, come here. All right. You want to get over that cancer? You like to live from that cancer? Will you promise to serve God, and receive the Holy Ghost and live all your life for Him? Go home and Jesus Christ be merciful to you and make you well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Come, lady. You believe with all your heart? Everywhere? 189 All right, lady. You have—you have a female trouble for one thing. Then you’ve got a stomach trouble, which is a peptic ulcer in the bottom of your stomach, also. Isn’t that right? Is that right? You want to get well? You believe you’re healing, now? Go, as you have believed, so shall it be unto you. All right. Let’s say, “Praise be to God.”

83190 All right. Bring the man. All right, sir, what do you think about this? [The brother says, “Believe you’re a prophet of God.”—Ed.] Believe? Thank you, sir. Not because it’s an honor for myself; it is, to be serving our Lord Jesus Christ. Then if you believe me to be His prophet, then God can do something for you. Look to me like this , if you believe me to be His prophet. All right. You suffer with cancer, course you realize that. You’re sick, a man ready to die. And here’s another thing: you’re seeking for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Is that right? If it is, raise up your hand. Go, and receive your healing and the Holy Ghost, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, be made well. Come, lady. Your stomach trouble is gone. Move right along and believe with…Yes. God bless you. Let’s say, “Praise be to God.” He is here, ready, willing. 191 What do you think about it, sister, with them tumors? The big lady setting there on the end that’s got tumor. Would you like to get over that tumor and be healed? Yes. Wouldn’t you like to? Raise your hand up, and say, “I accept You, Jesus.” That’s right, there. God bless you. Go and be made well.

84192 All right, sir. Come, sir. Believe. Have faith in God. Do you believe me to be His prophet, sir? And you accept my Words to be the truth? All right, sir. If I tell you that you’re healed, and will tell you what’s wrong, or been wrong with you, will you accept it then? All right, raise up your hand. Stomp your feet up and down. Your rheumatism, your arthritis has done left you. You can go home and be made well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. 193 All right, sir. Sister, go home, now. When that lady hollered tumor down there, you believe the same thing and go home and be made well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. 194 Just a moment. I ask anybody in this building here, in the Name of the Lord Jesus to believe the Angel of the Lord. 195 Some in this row over here, somewhere in this line here, look this way to me. You believe? I see a lady setting right there, a reddish-looking dress on. There’s something, I seen just then something move above her, a white-looking object, and it seemed to be that it was in her back. Is that right, lady? Aren’t you having back trouble? And don’t you, also, have something wrong with your eyes? Yes. And aren’t you taking x-ray treatments? Aren’t you having some kind of an x-rays? Is that right? Is that right? Raise up your hand if that’s right. Stand on your feet and be made well, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Just a moment, now.

85Believe with all your heart, God shall bring it to pass. Have faith in God. Don’t doubt. Believe. 196 Mrs. Wood, setting there, I see It hanging over you. I know where it’s…I know you. But you know I don’t know what’s wrong with you. But I do now. You got tumor for one thing and you got something wrong in the intestinal tract. Is that right, Sister Wood? I know you. Well then, why don’t you accept your healing now, in the Name of Jesus Christ? Do you do it? Now, I know that woman. Just happened to be It hung to her. All right. I… 197 The woman next to her, all right, lady, what did you think? Setting there next to her. Do you believe with all your heart? You do? Stand up on your feet just a minute. Well, you got a bladder trouble. That right? Raise up your hand if that’s right. All right. You can go home, now, and get well. 198 The lady next to her had bladder trouble, too. Is that right, lady? Setting right next to her. That’s right. Stand up on your feet and be made well.

86199 What do you think about it, sir? You believe it’s the truth? You with the blue shirt and red tie, do you believe me to be God’s prophet? All right. Stand up a minute. There’s a lot of people moving in on there. Oh, yes. It’s rectal trouble. Isn’t that right? It is, raise up your hand. All right. Go home and get well. 200 What about the next woman? Do you want to be healed? Is something wrong with you? Stand on your feet, if you believe me to be God’s prophet. You believe me to be His prophet? You suffer with stomach trouble. Is that right? Raise up your hand. Then go home and get well. 201 What’s the matter? Jesus Christ is here to heal every one of you. That lady setting there with diabetes, if she wants to get up there, with the blue and white dress on, she also, you can stand up, and go home, and get well. Hallelujah. I challenge it.

87202 Just a moment. I see looking between the arms of a white man, a little colored woman setting here. You have a card, lady? You don’t have no prayer card. I don’t want anybody that’s got prayer cards. Stand up on your feet. You believe me to be His prophet? You believe me with all your heart? You have heart trouble, don’t you? Is that right? Raise up your hand. All right. Go home and be over it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you. 203 What do you think that’s setting there next to her? You have high blood pressure. Is that right? Stand up on your feet and be made well in the Name of Jesus Christ. 204 What’s the matter with you? Why don’t you receive your healing? Let’s stand to our feet, every one of you. In the Name of Jesus Christ, receive your healing. Raise up your hands and give God glory, and you shall be healed if you’ll believe Him. Stand out of your chairs; they’re getting up out of the wheelchairs and everything over here walking in the Name… 