1 Good morning, friends. We’re happy to be here this morning, in the tabernacle, again, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, to minister to His people, through the written Word and through prayer for the sick. I’m just a little late, myself, to—to appear.

22 And so happy to be here and see this beautiful day, all you people out to serve the Lord. I’m…Aren’t you happy you’ve got enough strength to be in the church, this morning? See, there’s many people who couldn’t come. They get on the phone up there at home, through the run of a day, and just listen to people. Tell them, say, “Well, Sunday morning we pray for the sick down at the tabernacle.” The people who come in, why, they haven’t moved for years. Just think, then, you are able to be here today. What a blessed thing it is to be able to be out! 3 You know, there was an old saying I read once, said, “I complained about having no shoes until I seen a man who had no feet.” So, that’s it. If you look around, there’s always someone who is worse off than you. So that’s… 4 But to think, this morning, above all things that we have a loving Saviour, who loves us and cares for us, and know that this great tremendous task that we’re going through, and the times and strains that we are, is just the negative part of this journey. And that some day we’re going to receive a body that’ll never be sick, or never be old. It’ll never be…And we’ll never have to separate from each other. We’ll always be together.

35 I like fellowship. Everyone, I believe, especially Christians, love fellowship. And to think of our wonderful fellowship! And, then, some day we’re going to be together, to never have to leave, just never have to leave. Never have to worry whether the children are going to get hurt or nothing, it’ll…There won’t be no such a thing. It’ll just be…Never have to worry about where our meals are coming from; they’re always prepared and ready for us. And just isn’t that wonderful? In that great age that’s to come. And that’s why we have churches, and—and the Holy Spirit is here today, a—a wooing people to the heart of God, to prepare them for that time. It’s those who make their decision now, for that side, is the ones who will enjoy those blessings Eternally. 6 And I trust that if there’s anyone here, today, that has never made that type of decision to serve the Lord Jesus, that this will be the day that when you will do it. And, from today on, you’ll join with this great host of believers, and march on towards the victory. Some day it’ll be over. 7 Brother Fleeman, I believe there’s a—a—a bench right here, if you’d like to take that now, maybe you could sit it. Here’s one chair here. We…Our tabernacle is so small here, we don’t have adequate room for people. But, yet, all from Friday nights on, we usually try to bring in, and bring them to where we can pray for them here at the tabernacle on—on Sunday mornings. 8 And the world, we’re certainly got a sick world, a lot of people, sickness, trouble, distress. But, as we say, there is one time where it won’t be no more. Won’t it be wonderful when we never pray for the sick no more, never pray for a sinner? It’s all over, all vanished away, in the great forgottens of the age, and then we’ll live with Him. 9 Now, we know that it’s a little bit congested in here. And we—we wish we could make you more comfortable, but we can’t. So we just pray that our kind, heavenly Father will make you so thrilled in your heart, of His Presence, that you won’t notice the cramped-up condition you have to sit in while the services are going on. May you be so comfortable in Him!

410 And now, today, we’re going to study from the Word for a few moments, and then pray for the sick and the needy. Mainly, my ministry…I’m not very much of a—of a teacher, from the Word of God, and I probably don’t know too much about His Book. But, as I’ve often said, I know the Author real well. And that’s the main thing. I—I want to know Him. 11 To know Him is Life. And I—I have Life through knowing Him; Eternal, everlasting Life that cannot perish. It’s forever. God gives His gift of Eternal Life, and It’s forever good. It never perishes, and never will get old and dwindle away. Your body will get old someday, if you live. But your soul, your spirit, will never get old. 12 I met an old person once, that was well past a hundred years old, and said they had been a Christian since they were seven years old. And I said, “Brother, how, how is it with you today?” 13 “Oh,” he said, “Brother Branham, He gets sweeter as the years go by.” About a hundred and four, or five, years old. 14 And I thought, “‘Still sweeter as the years goes by,’ around ninety-seven, ninety-eight years, of serving the Lord, and He still got sweeter.” I imagine, when the ages rolls on, He’ll just still be better all the time; when we look back and see what God has brought us through, and brought us out of, and brought us into. 15 Christian life is a—a journey. This is a pilgrimage here, and we’re just passing through this land. And we’re—we’re not going to stay here, you know it. Many times we build a house, we say, “Well, the family and I will anchor down here.” But, how, for how long? See? You don’t know. And we always would like to get a place where we could just say, “This is ours, for good.” But it isn’t here, on earth. We don’t have such a place here on earth. 16 But there is something in you that calls out for that place. And before there could be anything in you calling out for that place, that place has to be in existence, or there would be nothing in here calling out for it. The deep can’t call to the Deep unless there’s a Deep to respond to it. So there has to be something inside, calling to a place, before…There has to be a Place first, rather, to make this deep call out to It, and then when there is something in here that desires.

517 Now I see some of my friends that I’ve growed up together, too, we have together here. And I think, a few years ago, little boys playing marble out here out here on the street, and spinning top, riding horses, and today we’re come into middle-aged men. And then I notice their fathers, two or three, sitting here this morning, that’s, oh, when they were young, black-headed men, and today they’re sitting here shaky and old. And we got to meet that shaky and old experience. But just one by one, we’re revolving down, just pilgrims and strangers, traveling through. Now, the blessed thing in here, that… 18 Was talking to a young lady just a few moment ago, that was suffering from a nervous condition. And the nervous condition, I…she said how she had tried to overcome it. Now, I’m not much of a Christian Science or a Unitarian. I—I don’t believe there’s anything like mind over matter. I believe God is a healer. Now, I…The lady was born in that nervous condition. Her mother and father died when she was a child, baby, and raised up, just tossed about everywhere, and never had the proper love and care that a baby has. 19 You know, mother, I want to tell you something. I know I got a little boy back there, and he’s really rankly spoiled, but I would rather have him that way. I believe it’ll make a better man out of him, if God lets him live, than to let him scream and cry, and upset his little self. 20 Listen, a few years ago, some normal modern witch doctors said, that, “Let that baby cry. Don’t pick it up. In all—all these things like that, don’t let grandma touch it.” And you know what they hatched out? You see what it is? A juvenile delinquency, a bunch of neurotics. 21 God made a baby to be loved. That’s why He made a mother to love a baby. That’s why we’re—we’re—we’re supposed to be this a way. God made it that way. And any time that you upset God’s program, you must remember you’re wrong and will be wrong, as long as you’re upsetting God’s program. Follow God’s program. Do it the way God said do it. Now, the only way that that can be… 22 Just like, you were born a sinner. And the only way that you can ever become anything else but a sinner, it’s got to be another birth. You got to be born a Christian. If you were born a sinner, then you got to be born to be a Christian. And it’s got to be something that takes place inside of you. 23 And that’s the same thing has to take place in Divine healing. It has to be something take place, not just a work up or emotion. It’s got to be something that actually happens, and you know it happens. See? It’s not just, “Oh, well, I’ll just think it this way, and study it that way.” That doesn’t do it. It’s got to be something actually take place.

624 Now, today, and we’re expecting a couple ambulance loads of people to be pushed in, in a few moments, that’s coming by plane. And we want to get into a lesson this morning, for those who are here, that’s so sick and needy, upon the subject of Divine healing, so that your faith can be built up on Divine healing, to know what it really is, and know what to do, how to make arrangements to—to prepare yourself for your healing. 25 How many read Christian Life, this month? Did you get to read it, the Christian Life magazine? I believe…No, I beg your pardon. I got it this month, but it was sent to me. Of a famous doctor in Illinois, was asked the question, “What about Divine healing?” Wish I would have brought it along, this morning. And he said, “Is there such?” They asked him, “Is there such a thing as Divine healing?” 26 He said, “Certainly.” And if that doctor didn’t explain it exactly the way I have explained it! About my hand being cut, that it don’t build tissue, medicine. 27 We—we think medicine is wonderful. And we would not say, “Don’t use it.” Because, it’s something…Just like, I wouldn’t say, “Don’t use soap to wash your hands.” It’s a chemical. But, after all, medicine doesn’t heal. Medicine just keeps clean, while God does the healing. 28 You can’t set your arm, and Doctor can’t come in and set your arm, say, “Now it’s healed.” He just sets your arm, and go away and let God heal it for you. That’s the only way it can be done. 29 Well, now, that’s the same way it is by taking medicine. But, medicine is all right, it’s all right to get your arm set if you break it, but God has to do the healing. Well, now, this is… 30 This healing, you must have faith. It’s called faith healing. And this doctor said, “Well, there is such a thing as miracles.” He said, “And I’ve seen it, many times.” He was a noted surgeon. He said, “Many times…” He said, “Now, when you come to Bloodless cults, who say that some man does it, or—or something like Unitarians, and so forth,” said, “I simply wouldn’t put my hands on that. But,” said, “I do believe, and know, that the Blood of Jesus Christ is all-sufficient to heal any sickness.” See? Now, it comes through Christ. Healing comes from Christ, alone. And it all comes…If your conversion…

731 Now, I’ve seen people who pretended, say, “Well, now I’m going to turn a new page over. It’s a new year. I’m going to try to do a little better this year than I did last year.” But, you find out, it don’t work. And so is people who take their healing haphazardly like that; it doesn’t work. It doesn’t last. 32 But when a man or a woman comes to Christ, with a full surrendered heart, and believes, until (they’re) absolutely something changes inside of them, that person has Life Eternal. 33 And the same way it is by Divine healing. When a man comes to Christ, upon the basis of believing the shed Blood of Christ was for his healing, “By His stripes we are healed,” and accepts it, until something happens in his heart, that says, “It’s so. I’m going to be well.” I’m telling you, there’s no way at all to keep them from getting well. They’re going to be well. That’s right. 34 You don’t have to tell a person to quit sinning after he has been born again. It just absolutely stops, itself. 35 Well, the same thing it is, you don’t tell the people, “Now keep on holding on,” after they’re healed. They just…Something happens inside of them. And it’s not an outside in, it’s the inside out. It happens in here, first. You absolutely believe it. And then, from there out, it goes to work. 36 And, then, I’ve seen it happen so spontaneously, that caused outstanding miracles.

837 Now, before we approach God’s Word, on the subject, let’s bow our heads just a moment for prayer. And everyone, in your own way now, let’s meet the Lord. 38 Our kind, Heavenly Father, we come to Thee, most humbly, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy beloved Son. We come in His Name because He has bid us to do so, saying, “Whatever You ask the Father in My Name, I’ll do it.” Then, if we place His Name, we know that we’re bound to have a talk with God, and this prayer shall be carried straight to Him. 39 And, Father, we’re most desperately in need, today, of the answer of this prayer. And we come, after a night of prayer and consideration, studying the Word, asking just what You would have us to say this morning, to the dying, sick people. Knowing that it’s a most solemn obligation, and we are to answer, some day, for the loyalty of our stewardship over the heritage of God. 40 Then, we come humbly, believing, bowed hearts to Thee, saying, “God, be merciful to us here today. Forgive us of every sin, Lord.” May this heart, of these people here today, be so thoroughly purged, that the Holy Spirit will move in a marvelous way, taking His Word and delivering It to every heart. And may every unbeliever, today, become a real child of God, born again. And may every sick person become healed today. May the Holy Ghost give us that reach-up faith that’ll climb beyond every shadow and every cloud, take a hold of God and bring Him into our presence, or either bring us into His Presence. Lift us up above the shadows. May it not be a shadow left. May we all bring our souls into contact with God now. 41 Come to Your Word, Lord. You promised that You would bless Your Word wherever It was spoken. And You said It would not return to You void, but It would accomplish that which It was purposed for. And, Father, Thou Who sent the Word! Now, may the Holy Spirit take the Word now and go right straight into the hearts of the people, and establish an unmovable faith, Lord, that’ll heal the sick and the afflicted. Save the lost. Give an experience to those who are without it. Hide us now in behind Christ, Lord. And let us, all of our speaking, and preaching, and testifying, whatever may take place, may it all be through Christ, for we ask it in His Name. Amen.

942 When I think of His goodness! Now, this is a familiar text. All night, I just seemed like…Even after I had gone to bed, I couldn’t get this text off my mind. I just had to—to keep it on my mind. Yet, I have approached it in many times. And I just kept it on my mind. And today, by God’s help, I want to speak a little bit, not knowing what, or not one word prepared, or nothing. We don’t preach from any notes. Just what the Lord says do, and start and stop, and trying to, when…at His command. 43 Over in the Book of Genesis, the 22nd chapter and the 7th verse, we read this. The 7th and 8th verse, just for by way of text. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt-offering: so they went both of them together. 44 Now, in reading the Word, a very familiar text, but I want to take for a subject, if God willing, for a little while on: God Hath A Provided Way. 45 Now, highways, the highway department, has a provided highway for you to come to Jeffersonville, wherever you come from, for the service this morning. You had…He has a highway provided. You just follow the highway. Get a map, follow the highway. It’s very easy. Go anywhere in the United States, just by getting a highway map. 46 God has a map marked for our healing, for salvation, and a map marked for Glory. It all leads that way. And while we’re traveling this grand, old highway, if we need a—a place for healing… You’ll notice, on the map, there’s a little stations all along the side of the road, where the Lord has provided for us a healing place. He has ministers all down along the road, that has…believes in Divine healing, and they pray for the sick and the needy.

1047 Like the traveler that fell, coming from Jericho, from Jerusalem to Jericho, and they took him to the inn, the little provided place. And they poured some oil in, and give some money, and he got well. And the Lord said, or the man said, rather, “If there’s anything more than this, when I come by, I’ll—I’ll make it right, when I come by again, on my next journey.” So, we know that God has a provided way. 48 In the character of Abraham, this morning, speaking, or taking him as a basic thought. He, to my opinion, is one of the most outstanding of all the characters of the Bible, and one of my favorite characters to bring to the people for an example. 49 Now in Hebrews the 11th chapter, or 12th chapter, the 1st verse, it said: … seeing we…are compassed about with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every sin, and the—the…weight, and the sin…doth so easily beset us,… 50 Now, we realize that sin is only one thing, that’s, unbelief. Sin is in the singular. Sins…You are a sinner because you are an unbeliever. You are a Christian because you are a believer. It doesn’t mean, now, one time, or…Many times I’ve said, that, smoking, drinking, gambling, and committing adultery, lying, that isn’t sin. That’s the attributes of unbelief. That’s what unbelief produces. That’s the reason you do it, is because you’re an unbeliever. But when you become a believer, then all these things shed off, and it’s a new life of belief, and it produces righteousness, peace, joy, love, longsuffering, goodness, patience, gentleness. That’s the attributes, because you are a believer. Now, God…Did you ever stop to think… 51 Now, just for a little bit, let’s just look straight to the Scripture. And I love It, because It’s God’s pathway. It’s God’s righteousness.

1152 And all these things that happened back in the Old Testament was an example of what we can be if we take the same thing, and the road that they did. The Bible said they escaped the edge of the sword, they done all these different things, their dead was raised up. And you said, “But that was in the Bible time.” That’s happening right today. This is Bible time. Since the Holy Spirit has come, it’s constantly Bible time. We never go out of it. Though, you know we have persecutions on these matters, and people who doesn’t believe it will make fun, ridicule. They had it back there, also. 53 But some day, when life is all over, the story will be told up yonder in Glory, when the song of redemption is sung. Oh, I can almost see the time when Jesus comes to earth, and the redeemed stands in His Presence, with uplifted hands, a singing the story, “Redeemed by grace!” When Angels will stand a circle around the earth, with bowed heads, not knowing what we’re talking about. They never had to be redeemed. It’s you and I that need redeeming. It was you and I that Christ died for. That’s the reason we can sing “Redeeming grace!” The Angel knows nothing about it; he never fell. What a time that’ll be! Oh, my! 54 When I think, of all the old wrinkles of this body will be ironed out; all the gray hairs vanish; the stooped shoulders straight; “Hey, looky what He done for me.” Talk about redeeming grace, you’ll hear my voice, I know you will. Not only mine, but every one, you’ll hear their voice when they sing the story, “Redeeming grace,” how He redeemed us. And now we only have the attributes of it. We’re only got the down payment, the earnest of it. Someday we’ll have it in full payment.

1255 Jesus never come to the earth and died just in vain. Jesus never taken a chance, to come to earth, Jesus wouldn’t have did that. God don’t run his office business in Heaven like that, loosely. Jesus came to the earth to die for a purpose, and not just to see if there would be somebody. God, before the foundation of the world, set the…foresaw the whole thing. You believe it? Foresaw it! By foreknowledge He foreknew it. 56 Therefore, He knew that there was going to be a Church called out, without spot or wrinkle. And there had to be preparations made to save that Church, so He sent Jesus. Not just “perhaps somebody might be saved,” but He knew who was going to do it. He would have a people called out, and you are they. He would have a people that would believe in Divine healing, would accept the stripes for their healing, and you are they. God knew it. He knew there would be unbelievers. There was then. He knew they would be. He foreknew it, so therefore He could fore-say it would be that way. 57 And He foreknew that there would be somebody who would believe it, so He sent Jesus for those who would believe it. And here they are today, gathered here, one spot, to accept what God foreknew would take place. God made a preparation for those who would believe, and you are part of that preparation. God foreknew, before the world ever was formed, that these days would be here, that’s the reason He could foretell it. He foreknew it, and He made a preparation for those who would accept it. 58 And you are the people, this morning, that’s come here to be prayed for, that the preparation was made for. God foreknew it. Oh, my! That rouses the emotions of our souls. 59 As you notice the Holy Spirit, when He takes the Word and sets It across the congregation, watch the emotions of the audience. You know what I do then? I know that God’s Presence is in the building. When you see the way, the effect, It’s a moving the people, when you see just the Word; God making preparations and providing.

1360 The very thing that you come to this tabernacle for, this morning, God foreknew it and set in order, that you could receive the very thing that you come to receive this morning. Amen. You see it? See, everything is already set in order. The only thing that we have to do is to receive it now. God has already sent it. It’s here. Now, the only thing we have to do is raise up and receive it. 61 Now you have to be showed how to receive it, how to reach up and get a hold of it. And then when you get it, then you know it’s there. Nothing is going to rub it out; it’s indelible. It can’t never be changed. 62 Notice, God giving us an example here, Abraham and his little boy Isaac. I was thinking of back yonder when Abraham was just an ordinary man. He wasn’t any more than any other man. He perhaps… 63 His father was an idol-worshipper, come down to the land of Chaldea, and the city of Ur, coming out of Babylon, where they had worshipped roots of trees. And they had some woman up there, and she was supposed to be some goddess and everything, built by—by Nimrod. And there is where idol-worship first was established, in Babylon. And the people were scattered. And Babylon brought them all into one group, like one great head, or one great organization. 64 But Abraham come out of the group that pulled away; his father. He had married his half sister, and come down, but…and lived in the—the valleys, in Shinar valley. And there God spoke to him, at the age of sixty-…or seventy-five years old, and promised him a case of Divine healing. And his wife, Sarah, was sixty-five years old. And promised that through his faith, in Him, that He would perform Divine healing for Sarah. Amen. 65 What a beautiful picture! How outstanding! How, that that, if you notice, it was always Abraham’s faith! Even Sarah doubted it, and even laughed, and disputed with God Himself, that something, that she laughed at Him. But God, through His sovereignty, could not back up on His promise. 66 Oh, if you can see that, sick folks, that’s when something is going to take place. It just has to. It’s based upon your faith in God.

1467 Now, God told Abraham He was going to do, and provide some way, for this to happen. Anyone here that’s a-passed, or anywhere in their teen age would know, that that was had to be an outstanding…something had to take place. But before God did it, or promised it, He made a preparation for it before He made the promise. And it’ll have to be. 68 To people setting here this morning, with cancer, heart trouble, blind; it’ll have to be some moving of a Supernatural that would do it. 69 It had to be the moving of a supernatural, Sunday morning, last Sunday morning, to take that lady from the stretcher laying here. Broken ankles, and sclerosis, till she couldn’t even get a robe around her; in fifteen minutes, she could lap it around her. Preparations was made. You see it? Oh, what a glorious thing! 70 Preparations was made. God foreknew that He would send Abraham, and He just let him go right on down till he got seventy-five years old, to show it would be a miracle, to let Sarah travel right on. And He could have spoke to them when they were eighteen or twenty years old, but He just let it get to a place where it would be a miracle. 71 God likes to show His Power. Not that He has to; but He loves to do it. It’s, pleases Him, in His omnipotence, to let His subjects know Who He is. I’m so happy of it, because He showed me His power. Usually, when God shows His power, regardless of what people think about it, people will clatter to it every time. It prepares their hearts. It makes them ready. It makes them brace up and ready to take a new hold. 72 The people who doesn’t believe in Divine healing, and the performing of miracles, how no wonder our churches are dying. No wonder they’re withering up to a Bloodless cults. No wonder a social Gospel is so predominating today, is because in our seminaries, and everything, we’re taking all the phenomenal away from God. 73 And God Himself is a phenomenal. He is the Creator Being. He is Jehovah. He is the great Reality. He is the great Substance of everything that was made on the earth, was made by Him. And He displays His Power by raising the sun every morning, by sending forth His rain, by setting His rainbows. Comes down to His subjects, and healing their sickness and saving their sins. Amen.

1574 The very word, “God,” Himself, the word God means “an object of worship.” And we worship Him because He…In His majesty, that He set these things before us, and we see them visible before our eyes. How glorious it is to serve Him! How that He foreknows these things and sets them in order! 75 Maybe, today, you say, “Brother Branham, I’m a Christian. How did this thing come to me? Why did I get in this kind of a state?” 76 Well, maybe God did it just like He did to Abraham and Sarah. Why, Sarah was married, probably, to Abraham when she was just a teenage girl. Abraham, probably a young man in his twenties. There was ten years difference in their age. Maybe her sixteen and him twenty-six. Why He could have spoke to them, said, “Now, you’re going to have a child now in your youth. You can love your baby now while you’re young, and can enjoy it lots. And you’re going to raise it up, and it’s going to be a type of the Saviour that’s coming,” and so forth. He could have did it then. But God likes to do miracles. Oh! Excuse me. But to know that what He has done! 77 Looking over the face of the people, I see a woman sitting here who was dying with cancer and was—was nothing but a shadow of a woman, and she was just at the point of going over. Here she sits, this morning, healthy, strong, rosy-cheeked. 78 Here sits a young lady on the front seat. I was just talking to her, a while ago, one of the worst stages of an alcoholic. And here she is, not a neurotic look about her; sweetly and humbly. 79 I look out yonder and see a woman back there who was blind, and here she is this morning, not even glasses over her eyes. 80 Oh, it’s God making a way, and He made it at Calvary. In there, our hopes is built on nothing less than Jesus’ Blood with righteousness. Oh, how He does it! It’s beyond finding out, but He does it. And He does it for His Glory. And He has made preparations for it. 81 If you were going to take your child to a party of some sort, would not you prepare it and get its dress ready, and so forth, or its little suit, whatever the child might be, boy or girl? You would make arrangements for that. 82 If you were going to entertain company, would not…for dinner, would not you first get your dinner made ready? For, you make ready for these things. You make ready for these great blessings that comes, that you can give to people. Don’t you like to entertain people? Do not you like to go out and take people to your home and entertain them? You clean up everything, you fix everything. You—you put a little flower over here, “This is just the way they would like it.” And you fix a little thing here, “Now, I see, they are…They like this,” and so you would fix it, just making arrangements. “And I know that they like this kind of a meat,” so you prepare that meat real spicy and nice. Because, and if you can’t feel that you do it, you get somebody else come do it, who can do it better. You are making arrangements, preparations for something, because you want your guest to be highly entertained.

1683 God, hid in sundry times, He wanted His children to have the best, so He made the preparations. He foreshowed it through the prophets. He revealed it in Christ. And the table is set today. And every man and woman that’s invited, has a welcome to come to this Table, “For He was wounded for our transgressions, and with His stripes we were healed.” It’s all foreseen! It’s provided, and prepared. The meal is ready. The call is given. He foresaw it. He made preparations. It’s God’s provided way for you, when your souls are hungry. 84 A lady said to me, just this morning, said, “I walked into one of the meetings, I seen the people so happy.” Said, “I wasn’t happy. And then I looked at them, and I said, ‘Surely they had something. I wish I had that.’” Sure, the Table was set for that poor, hungry soul. And before the service was over, she was eating from the same Table. Oh! Why? [The sister says, “Brother Branham, that was me.”—Ed.] That’s—that’s right. [“And now—now I’m happy today.”] Amen. 85 Drunken, wall-eyed drunk, alcoholic to the limits, their doctors had give her up; here she is, happy, rejoicing. And that’s been about two years ago, I guess. [The sister says, “Three years.”—Ed.] Three years ago. And, look, it’s still holding out. 86 If you ever come to that Table, once, and set your feet under it, you’ll never leave again. It’s so great! The world has nothing to compare with it. It’s so wonderful to know His love for you. God, making preparations! 87 Now He said, “I’ll let Abraham…And instead of calling him now, at twenty-six, and Sarah at sixteen, I’ll wait till they are old. I’ll let it get past menopause for Sarah. Oh, it usually happens about forty, and then…forty, fifty, sixty. About twenty-five years past, then I’ll call her. And then I’ll let Abraham get seventy-five, then I’ll call him.” 88 Now, He said, “Abraham, I am going to do something for you.” That’s good enough, as long as God said He was going to do it.

1789 Abraham said, “Well, Lord, I’m sure glad to get it.” And he went along acting like he already had it. Amen. That’s the way it is. If God has, He wouldn’t…He wouldn’t say it ’less He prepared it. If He’s prepared it, you be good as got it. 90 If I told you I would give you an oak tree, and you said, “All right, Brother Branham,” here I come around with a little acorn and give it to you. You’ve got the oak tree. Sure, it is. It’s in seed form. But just let it alone, plant it in the ground, it’ll produce an acorn tree. Certainly. That’s the way it is by the Word. The Word is a seed. 91 The Word came to Abraham. The Word of God came to him, and said, “Abraham, I have chosen thee.” You get it? Oh, I just love that! Not, “You chose Me,” but, “I chose you.” 92 And why are you here, this morning, that’s sick? God chose you. Today is your day for healing. “I have chose you. I have made my supper ready. I have called you in. Now, each one of you is a guest, and you’ve come in. And I’ve got everything prepared, and all the dainties setting on the table, and every one of you can have it now.” What an invitation! Now, God says now, sometimes… 93 Abraham, Abraham would no doubt said, “Thank You, Lord. I am so happy to get this, this promise that You’ve give me. Because, here I am, I’m old, and I’ve always wanted children. So, I’m—I’m old, and I—I would like to have that promise.” 94 Well, Abraham went along, as if to believe that the baby was going to be born in that same year. But, you know, day by day, there was no change. And then it went, day by day, then weeks by week, and year by year, and no change. But the Bible said… 95 Now, if that would be you and I, well, maybe…I don’t say you and I. But some peoples, they would say, “Oh, my! God, God let me down. He didn’t keep His promise.” But He did keep His promise. 96 “And Abraham,” the Bible said, “grew strong in God.” All the time, it got greater. Now, he is seventy-five. Now ten years has passed, he is eighty-five. 97 Ten years! Just think, that’s when I started preaching these meetings, and ten years passed; and still nothing happened, the first person I ever prayed for, but would still be giving God praise because it was going to happen. Why? God prepared it.

1898 God will never give you a promise unless first there is a deposit for it. A good man wouldn’t give you a check, with no money in the bank, an honest man wouldn’t. Well, God wouldn’t give you His check for your salvation, or healing, ’less there was a deposit for it. God has prepared it. 99 He told Abraham that he was going to have the child. That settled it. 100 He told Noah. He said, “Noah, I want you to build Me an ark. Build to the saving of your house; an ark.” And Noah…Isn’t it good, in God? Before these great disasters happen, God always gives a warning and makes a way of escape. He prepares it. He said, “Now, a…Noah,” look at it, “I want you to build an ark.” Why, they had had no water on the earth; just little springs. It never did rain. There was no rain up in the skies. 101 And how foolish sometimes it seems, to the carnal mind, when God gives a person a promise, how the world can’t understand it. There’s no doubt but what when you received God’s blessing and was born again, you, the people thought you were crazy. They said, “That person is just a little bit off.” 102 You see, you are moving by faith. Oh, my! You are making preparation for something that the world knows nothing about. They only live just as far as they can see. But we live by things we don’t see, that we believe, that God said was true. Faith doesn’t look at a thing that you can see. Faith looks at things you don’t see.

19103 How happy we should be this morning, then, every person in here getting ready for your healing. Sure. “How am I going to do it? I don’t know. But, God prepared it for me, I’m coming to get it. That’s all. I’m going to be just exactly what He said to do, and I’m going to receive it.” See? For it’s God’s provided way of doing it. He makes the preparation. 104 Now, Noah went out there and begin to build away on an ark. God’s goodness to him; He said, “Now, Noah, there is fixing to come some trouble. And all that’s not in this ark is going to drown, so you get ready and get in this ark, and get your family in there. Tell everybody. Everybody is welcome to come, but I’m sure they won’t do it. But you just—you just make—make a preparation for them, anyhow. And here is the ark, and you make this ark. And everybody that wants to come in, can come in and be saved.” So Noah went away, building away.

20105 Like you are, today, building away on your testimony. You are building a spiritual ark, for the saving of your own soul, for your testimony, and for God’s glory. 106 Now they’re building away on the ark, and people come by and laugh and made fun of him. And they say, “Hey, did you hear about that fellow saying there is going to be some water come down? Where is it going to come from? Why, there can’t be no water up there. Look, can you see any water? It’s just as blue as it can be. Well, we’ve lived here all these years, there never been no water. How could it come? There’s no water up there, and this fellow says, ‘The whole earth is going to be covered with water.’ Well, that man must be just a little bit funny up here. There is something wrong in his head.” 107 But why did he do it? Why did he make preparations? To meet God’s preparation! God was going to prepare to destroy the enemies of the world, and Noah had to build a way to prepare something to ride through it. 108 And that’s the way it is today. God has made a way to destroy that cancer. God has made a way to take the blindness out of them eyes. God has made a way. And what are we trying to do with this Word, this morning? Is, build something for you to ride through on, your victory. God’s Word, THUS SAITH THE LORD, see, ride through on His Word. “God said so!” 109 After a while, when God got ready for it to happen, the rain was up there. And when God gets ready for it to happen, it’ll always be there. See? God makes His way, after He has made a preparation. All right.

21110 He did the same thing, He was going to glorify Himself in the Hebrew children. He made a preparation. When did He make it? The Hebrew children didn’t have any promise. They couldn’t get back here and read in the Bible, and say, “Lord, You promised in Your Word that any of Your children ever went into a fiery furnace, You would deliver them. All right, Lord, we’re coming right there upon that.” Well, that wouldn’t have been so hard to do; just their faith, because God had already promised it. But God hadn’t promised them no such a thing.

22111 But, here is the words they had. God was so real to them; they said, “Our God is able.” How about that, the fellow that don’t believe in Divine healing? “God is able to deliver us, come these fiery furnace, but we’ll not bow down to your images.” And when they walked into the fiery furnace, upon bare, sheer faith, that God was able; not promised, but He was able, God sent Christ in the fiery furnace, and fanned the fire away from them, and protected them and brought them out. Sure. But, I’m saying, God is able. 112 Now you don’t come, saying, “God is able.” You don’t have to come that. 113 “God, You promised! Amen! You prepared it at Calvary, and I’ve come to receive it. It’s Your preparation. You provided it. And You promised it, and I see others receiving it, so I come, too, Lord, to get my part of it.” You’ll go away a different person. You’ll go away with such an anchor inside your soul, that nothing can upset you. You know that you’re healed. You know that God has taken care of this matter for you, because He has promised. 114 He gives testings and trials with these promises. He, many times, He did. 115 And let the Hebrew children feel all the weight of the fire coming onto them.

23116 He let Daniel hear the roar of the lion, and maybe its hot breath right against him. That lions, with their mouth open, hungry, down in this pit. And the lions rushed right to him, and with a great roar and blast, till they was ready to seize onto Daniel. All at once, he was covered with an Angel. Amen! Light swirled around Daniel. No doubt but It was the Pillar of Fire that led the children of Israel. 117 Animals are scared of fire, you know that, they’re scared of light, you can shine a light in any animal’s face, and he’ll run. 118 And maybe God shined forth, ’cause God lives in brightness. God is a consuming Fire. And maybe, all of a sudden, not knowing, he said, what would happen. But they threw him into the lions’ den. And then the Holy Spirit was there, and the lions backed off and laid down. How was that?

24119 No wonder, Saint Agnamus, when he was dying, when he come to the cross and they was going to kill him. And he run to that, embraced the cross and kissed it, that they were going to tar and feather him. And he said, “Oh cross of Christ, I’m only sorry that I had just one life that I can give for Thee. Just sorry that I only had one life I can give for Thee.” They said, “Are you afraid?” 120 He said, “Afraid?” And they wrapped his hands to the cross, they drenched him in tar, and throwed feathers over him, put a barrel of pitch at the bottom. And rode by, in a chariot, and throwed a lighted torch into the flame, and it went up around him. And after the people made their rejoicing and passed their stones, one to another, that they had got rid of this pest, a preacher of righteousness, what happened? The fire burnt down, and the saint was hanging on the cross, praising and blessing God. God had prepared a way of escape for him, right in the midst of the fire. He had prepared a way. Why? He come bravely, boldly. 121 That’s the way we come to God’s promises. We come boldly to accept them. We don’t come, shuddering, saying, “Maybe I will. Maybe I…Next Sunday, maybe this will be that .” No. We come with the assurance in our heart, say, “God, through Christ, has prepared a way, and I come to accept it.” It’s a easy thing when you look and see what the promise was made by, if you see that it was God made the promise. If God made the promise, God is able to keep His promise.

25122 When that godly old mother, last Sunday, laying there, and I said, “Mother, do you believe that God will keep His promise?” 123 She said, “With all my heart.” Oh, my! That was it. That’s what did it. 124 That’s what did it, here not long ago, standing in Karlsruhe, Germany, when my boy and some man was sending people up to the prayer line. There come a little, blind, German girl. She was totally blind. And I didn’t know what was the matter with the child. They just sent her up. The little thing was walking off the platform; someone grabbed her. And she had little curls, strings of hair hanging down, platted; just typical, little, German girl; never seen, in all her life. And when they brought her over there, she just didn’t know where to go. And she put her arms around me. By the way, with this same suit on, I have. Put her little arms around me. She mumbled off something in German; I didn’t know what it was. The interpreter said…I said, “What’d she say?” 125 Said, “She said, ‘Are you the brother that’s going to pray for me?’” Oh, my! Little thing about like this, about like my little Rebekah. 126 And I said, “Yes, sweetheart. I come all the way from the United States, to pray for you.” She put her little…wrapped her little arms around me, laid her little head over on my shoulder. Just the assurance, child simplicity, God of Heaven was going to move, some way. 127 A few moments, she opened her little eyes. She said, “Is…What do you call them things?” “Lights.” 128 Her mother jumped and screamed, and run out of her shoes, run to the platform. She said, “Darling!” She said, “Mother, oh, you’re so beautiful.” 129 Why? Calvary prepared, made a preparation for the healing of her eyes. Certainly. She come to accept what God had provided. 130 God has provided for each one. God gives the assurance. Maybe your sickness has been a lingering one. Maybe you’ve had it for years, and you’ve tried and tried. You tried. 131 Abraham tried. When he was up, a hundred years old, nearly, God appeared to him one day. And He said, “Abraham, I am Almighty God. Walk before me and be perfect.” A hundred years old, right on a hundred. “Walk before Me and be perfect. I’m Almighty God.” And if you would break those words down…

26132 Sometime, maybe, I’d like to have a revival at the tabernacle, or here in Jeffersonville, when we get our tent and things set up somewhere, where we can take those words and break them down, see what they mean, just the meanings of those words. 133 The Almighty, in the Hebrew, is El Shaddai, which means, “the breast,” like a woman. “Abraham, I’m coming to you in the name of the Breasted-One, the Nurse, the—the Life-Giver.” 134 Like a little baby when it’s sick, you know, the mother holds it to her breast and she nurses it. And the little baby is fretting and crying, and skinny, but it just lays there and nurses, and gets strong. Where is it nursing its life from? From the mother. 135 And God appears to us today, as El Shaddai, the Breasted-One; both of them, the New and Old Testament, just as full of promises as they can be. Not a breast; but, “breasted,” two. Why? He died for a compound purpose. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes, God provided a way for our healing. See? One for our salvation; one for our healing. “I am the Breasted-One. I have two witnesses. In the mouth of two witnesses let every word be established.”

27136 In the Old Testament, He was Jehovah-jireh, “the Lord’s provided sacrifice.” He was Jehovah-rapha, “the Lord that healeth thee.” In the Old Testament, in His compound names, He was the healer, of Jehovah-rapha. 137 In the New Testament, He is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. The preparation. We could take it from both Old or New Testament, pad them together. That’s the reason, mostly, I go to the Old Testament, to pick out a text, because I bring it over in the New Testament, and pull it together and show you, it’s the same breasted-God. 138 The same One that escaped Daniel from death, by sending an Angel, is the same God that’s in here this morning. Is the same God, that gave blind Bartimaeus his sight, that healed that little, German girl. He never fails. He is God, Jehovah. He can’t. He makes a preparation. And He has provided a way for every one of us. He has provided an escape. 139 And He told Abraham, “I am the Breasted-One. Now, Abraham, the only thing you have to do is just keep nursing, nursing.”

28140 And you notice a little baby, if he’s sick, no matter how sick he is, now to mothers, know this, no matter how sick the little one is, as long as he is nursing, he is satisfied. And sometimes you fix his little milk, if he’s by a—a bottle, and you fix his little milk and put the vitamins in it. 141 Oh, how lovely! You know, maybe we’re all God’s bottle babies, maybe we’d say. And God had just provided two bottles, the New and Old Testament, and He just dropped vitamins all in them. And while we get a hold of Him, go to nursing, we’re not only satisfied, but we’re being healed, all the same time. We got spiritual vitamins. It just keeps building us up, making us stronger, stronger. It’s good. It’s got calcium for the bones. Yeah. It’s got vitamin B complex for the nerves. Oh, it’s got everything in it. God’s whole medicine cabinet was dropped into it. It was all in a bottle, put in a bottle, and He opened it at Calvary. 142 So, through Calvary, we can nourish back any redeemed blessings that Jesus died for. A spear, representing sin for our place, speared His side, His feet, His hands, His head. And, through the bleeding forth of His life, we nourish back to Life, again, all that we lost in the fall back yonder. God has provided a way for us. God has provided a way of an escape.

29143 Now, here little Isaac was, when he was born, after Abraham was a hundred, and Sarah was nearly a hundred, about ninety years old. And God brought little Isaac into existence. And little Isaac was born. And when he was born, well, how happy the family was! They made a feast the day he was weaned. Abraham circumcised him after eight days. And here he becomes a young man now, of about sixteen. God said, “Now, Abraham, I want to see just how much faith you really got. I’m going to give you a backset in your Divine healing, see how far you’ll trust Me.” 144 You know, sometimes you have backsets. Did you ever know that? I’ve had a lot of them. Yes, been preaching the Gospel for years; turn right around, I get so sick, I don’t know what to do sometime, but my anchor holds. Amen. Just anchor it around Calvary, and say, “God! Oh, I can’t see Calvary. The waves are so heavy! My people are saying all this. The doctor says I can’t live. But, Something in here, the Life line is still holding.” Holding!

30145 Did you ever see a ship with a drag net, sea…the sea net, rather? It’ll go through the waves. 146 Sometime we’re under the waves; you can’t see around you, or nowhere. But just let your anchor hold there. It’ll keep you, as the anchor begin to hold. And in the sickness and things, God then brings it all out all right. The skies finally clear up. Everything gets all right. It’s holding within the veil. 147 He said, “Now I’m going to give you a trial, Abraham.” He said, “I want you to take this sixteen-year-old lad of yours. I want you to take him out here, and I want you to kill him now.” 148 “How am I going to be a father of nations? How, from this boy, is going to spring Christ? And how is it going to be if I kill him?” Well, now, he thinks, “If God made the promise, it’s up to God to take care of the rest of it.” 149 So, he takes the little boy. He wouldn’t tell the mother. And goes a—a three-days journey back into the desert. Now, a man can walk about twenty-five, thirty miles a day, so he must have been a hundred miles from civilization. And then he saw the mountain far off. He said to the—the ones that was holding the mules, he said, “You stay here.” Now, I want you to notice this, you people that’s sick. Said, “You stay here while the lad and I go yonder to that mountain and worship, and we will return. We will return.” How are…

31150 “How is he going to return, if you’re going to take him up there and kill him? And God told you to kill him, the flat words of ‘take his life,’ and you’re going to take his life, how are you going to return?” That’s up to God. Oh, my! Can you see it? Maybe it’s just me, emotionally this morning. See? How is he going to get back? But, God said to Abraham, “You go do it.” 151 Abraham said, “I received him as one from the dead. And if I kill him, God is able to raise him up again. God gave the promise that he, through him, the Saviour would come, and somehow God will do it.”

32152 Moses. The father and mother of Moses had to do something similar to that. How is Moses going to be, deliver the people, when they seen he was a fair child, if they shoved him out there in the midst of a bunch of crocodiles? How is he going to be a—a deliverer? How is he going to do it? Well, they received him in that manner, so they pushed him back out into the crocodiles, knowing that God could take care of it. And God did take care of it. 153 God got His hand on His Church. God got His hand on His man, on His woman. God is able to take care of the situation. So, Abraham said, “We will return.” 154 When you left home this morning, did you tell husband, “When I come back, I’ll be feeling different”? Yes, sir. “How you going to know it?” “I don’t know; but I will.” Oh! Amen! 155 “I’ll be different when I come back. You just watch and see.” “How you going to do it?” “God will provide.” 156 There, when this great, crucial hour come, and they went up to the top of the mountain. And Abraham took his knife out, and took the little boy. And he said this question to him, he said, “Father, here is the—the wood, and here is the altar, but where is the burnt-offering?” He said, “God will provide an offering.” 157 Isn’t that a lesson to us? God will provide. There is no need of us getting all upset about anything. God will provide it.

33158 I’m staring out on something right now, but it could wreck and ruin me. Now, you heard me come in, out of the services; went to work with Brother Wood back there. But God came down, a few nights ago, in a vision, and told me and showed me what to do. If you just trust Him, He is marvelous. He knows all. He’s going to give you the best there is. 159 I looked at my old Pontiac the other day, it was all getting beat up now. The hydromatic is going out, on it. And I got two little girls that bounces around a whole lot, in the seats, and they about broke the seats down, out of it. And I went and had it prepared. And the man said, “Billy, I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” said, “I’ll give you a good swap for that.” I said, “How can I swap that?” I said, “I can’t do it.” 160 He said, “Well, are you…Oh, your credit is good around here, as long as you want it. I’ll hold your note.” I said, “That’s mighty nice, but I can’t do it.” 161 Said, “I’ll give you a real good deal on it.” Said, “Being a preacher, I’ll give it to you wholesale.” I said, “That’s nice, but, see, I—I can’t do it.” See? 162 And he said, “Well, if you ever take a notion to swap, let me know.” And I said, “All right.” 163 So then I thought, “Well, God, I’m…This old thing is all right for me. It’s fine and dandy, that and my old truck.” I said, “We can beat around, over the country, with it. It’s okay. Been doing it all these years; I can continue on.” 164 And the other night, a phone call came from California. And a man called me up, a man that’s a multimillionaire. He said, “Brother Branham, what kind of a car have you got?” And I said, “I got a four-year-old Pontiac.” 165 He said, “On the thirty-first of this month, there will be one of the biggest Cadillacs, that’s made, will be brought and set at your door, for service to you.”

34166 I said, “No. Don’t, brother. Please.” I said, “Don’t do it.” I said, “If…Don’t.” I said, “My neighbors wouldn’t understand that, and people. I don’t need no Cadillac.” I said, “Take the difference and give it to somebody. And if you want to help me, get me a Ford, all right, or a Chevy,” I said. 167 He said, “No, this is already bought, and it’s setting here.” I don’t know what I’ll do with it. 168 But, you see what it is, it’s God. God, in His mercy, providing. Sometimes a thing gets real low, where we wonder how is it going to be, but God has already provided. He just holds it up here, drawing interest on it, you see, to give it to you. 169 And by a vision, now I’m staggering out yonder. Here come a letter, coming in from over there, to a man, the other day. It was sent, sending to me now, of the king of a nation, over—overseas. And said, “Oh, the miracles and things, has happened down in Germany!” The king of Denmark, he said, “Come over, Brother Branham, and minister to my people, in the Name of the Lord Jesus.” And right at the time where I thought God had washed me up, and I was all over, He is setting a new. Hallelujah! 170 And then, when, I used to have to take the people by discernments, by one by one, He has placed in my heart now something that I would be daresn’t to speak of at this time. And I am not a fanatic, and you know that; you surely know me well enough. But watch what takes place now. Oh, my! It’ll be far beyond. See? 171 Sometime just at the darkest of the moment, then God comes riding in. Hallelujah! That’s the way God does it.

35172 That’s the way God did it for the woman with a blood issue. Her darkest hour, then along came Jesus. 173 It was the Hebrew children’s darkest hour, then God rode in on the winds of time, and fanned the fire away from the Hebrew children. 174 It was in Abraham’s darkest hour, when he drew back the knife, and laid his own little boy back, and pulled his head back; and his heart in his mouth, as it was. His own son, and he pulled the knife, to cut his throat, because God had said so. It was the darkest moment, when God, Jehovah, appeared on the scene. Said, “Abraham, stay your hand. I have provided, already.” “You done what?” “I have provided, already, a sacrifice.” 175 Abraham said, “I’ll call this place Jehovah-jireh, for the Lord has provided.” 176 And about that time, a ram begin to bleat in the wilderness, hooked up, with his horns all wound up in some vines. Where did that ram come from? He is a hundred miles from civilization. The animals, the lions, and the wolves, and things, and the hyenas, that rove in the prairies there, would have killed it. And besides that, he’s plumb up on top of a mountain, where there’s no water, no springs, nothing for it to eat. In the spare of a moment, here was this ram hooked in the wilderness, by his horns.

36177 What was it? Jehovah, God, spoke that ram into existence. Sure, He did. It wasn’t a vision. He killed the ram. Blood came out of it. It was a real ram. Sure, it was. And the blood poured out of it. And the—the ram come into existence, one minute, and went out in the next minute. It was God’s provided way to give a blessing to His child that had trusted Him to the end of the road. 178 God is able, at this minute, to speak every cancer out of this building, open up every blinded eye, could set everybody free, that believe Him. God has provided a way. He has made a way. He sent His Son, Christ Jesus, and the Holy Ghost is brooding over us today. The Holy Ghost is over us. It’s blessing us. It brings an atmosphere. 179 Why is it you can take a hen egg and put it in a brooder house? The mother hen don’t have to be over the egg, to hatch it. Just so it’s got some warmth over it, it’ll hatch.

37180 Oh, God, He sent His Word. And that’s what I’m trying to give you, His Word, His promise. He prepared at Calvary. He prepared the sacrifice for your healing this morning. He has got It here. And He watches over It. And you’re getting It in your heart, and the Holy Ghost is brooding over It. It’ll take Life and produce just exactly what God said It would produce. Every Word will produce just exactly what It promised, ’cause God has provided It. 181 Look at the preparation. When a person is getting ready to put their…to set their chickens and things, how they select their eggs and put them under the brooder, and put them in a brooder house, and how the heat is regulated. That heat is kept over that egg until it’s hatched. 182 And God has so set in order, that one day…Through all the types, back through Adam, through Eve, on down through the prophets, down through Abraham, He set in order. He put it all in the Old Testament, showing what He was going to do. 183 And He finished it at Calvary, when He sent Jesus, “Who was wounded for our transgressions; bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace upon Him; with His stripes we were healed.” He finished it at Calvary.

38184 Then He anointed preachers and sent It out, now, to bring the Word, and put the eggs in the right position, place. Then He takes this same Word and anchors It out there, and then comes and hovers over It, by the Holy Ghost, until that Word becomes Life in the human heart, and all devils out of hell couldn’t keep Life out of it. Yes, sir. No, no. 185 Whatever the egg is! If it’s a duck egg, it’ll bring a duck. If it’s a chicken, it’ll bring a chicken. If it’s a bird, it’ll bring a bird. 186 If God promised salvation, take It in your heart. The Holy Ghost will brood over It till it comes to Life. If He promised healing, take It in your heart. It’s God’s provided way.

39187 He sent signs and wonders. He said, “In the last days, it shall come to pass, saith God. Oh, I’ll send My Holy Spirit into the world. And I’ll send ministers forth. And great signs and wonders will take place. In My Name they shall cast out evil spirits. And they’ll speak with new tongues; take up serpents, or drink deadly things, it wouldn’t harm them. If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” 188 And the Bible said, “In this last day, there will come a former and latter rain, together.” And, today, across the nations, from ones…east to the west, from north to south, it’s one constant, great revival of Divine healing, the Powers of God. And the man who is cast down, some man who’s picked up… God tried to get It into these big churches, and couldn’t find room. They rejected It and said it couldn’t be done, when it was thought of, here a few years ago. 189 But God reached down in the lowly walk of life, the humble, peasant people, raise them up, uneducated. Why did God do it? Oh, if it had come through big churches and things, they’d have had something to glorify about. “Our—our groups met together. We decided this.” But God got down to men and women who can’t read their own name sometime. God takes nothing, and He makes something out of it, and they yielded. And God taken men of that type, has raised them up in the world. And, today, a roar of blessing, even till the doctors are putting it in papers, that Divine healing is true. They have to recognize it. It’s before their face. Hallelujah!

40190 We’re living in the day of the Coming of the Lord, the night is fastly falling, ministers are sweating it out, praying out, God showing signs and wonders, there’s a storm coming. Oh, He, He is coming. There’s a storm on, and a great revival time; a time that this world has never seen, a time like it’s going through right now. There’s never been a time in the history of the world, at any age or any time, where the Gospel of the Power of God has ever been demonstrated like It is right now; through radio, through television, through faithful ministers; into the mission fields, to the Hottentots, to the Africans, too, into China, into different places. Great healing revivals, and powers, and works, and signs, and wonders, are coming everywhere. Never was, in all the world, like it! Friends, God has provided it. God has spoke it. God is performing it.

41191 God is here this morning. He has provided this morning for you. This day is your day. This time is your time. If you are willing and are ready, this morning, if you believe it with all your heart! If you’ll promise God, “God, I—I’ll never tinker with it no more. I’m coming solely…Something is happening in my heart. Some little something happened here this morning. While we were preaching and bringing the Word, this part of it meant me.” When I see the… 192 “He called those things, which were not, as though they were.” Abraham went about, saying, “We’ll going to be this way. It’s going to be this way. We’re going to have the baby.” “How you going to have it?” The… 193 “My wife is too old. The doctor says it’s impossible. Well, I’m…We’re going to have it, ’cause God has said so.” And when he met the last crucial moment of it, up there, he called the place, Jehovah-jireh, “the Lord will provide for Himself this sacrifice.”

42194 Some of you has come from a long distance, come in here, dying. Your phone calls are wrote up there on a little pad, little book, at the house. Some of it with cancer. Some, blind; some, deaf; some, dumb; some, fathers with little babies; and mothers, and so forth, with little children, that’s in all kinds of conditions. What’s happened? What caused you to do it? What makes the emotions of a human being like that? How did you ever do such a thing? 195 “Oh, we had them to the hospital. We had them everywhere.” 196 But why did you bring them here, this time? Because Something in your heart begin to move. What is it? God, making a way. God, preparing. God’s preparations. God will provide a way. 197 Many of you heard the little opossum story. It was in the books, here not long ago. If God was mindful enough to a poor, ignorant opossum; not only that, but other times was animals that I know of. You say, “Would you take time to pray for an animal?” If God sends it, yes, sure. God is Jehovah. He just works in His Own way, and we just serve Him. We’re His servants. 198 And now, my brother, sister, God has provided a perfect way for your healing this morning.

43199 Did you know that I was almost blind, once? I had to be led around by my arms. I wore great, big thick glasses over my eyes. And my head shook like this, and I couldn’t even get a haircut ’less somebody would hold my head. Fred Montgomery, down here on Sixth Street, to you people that has… Many of you has knowed Fred Montgomery, the barber down here. How many times that I’ve laid my glasses down; Fred hold my head with one hand, try to cut my hair with the other one; it shaking like that. I couldn’t see to get around. I’d come down through the streets of Louisville, sometimes get so blind, I’d just have to follow my way along the side of a fence, like this. And I’d stand and wait for a while, for my eyes to clear up; a nervous wreck. Oh, amazing grace! Today, how glorious He is to me!

44200 I know when Mayo Brothers up there said, “Why, Mr. Branham, you can’t live.” Said, “Why, it is impossible for you to get…ever to get over that.” Said, “The—the…You just can’t.” He said, “That’s, that there, deals into your soul.” And he said, “No man can find the operation of the energy that flows through the nerve, which is your soul, and creates in your mind.” Said, “It’s impossible.” Said, “We have thousands of those cases come here.” Said, “There ain’t a thing we can do for them.” Said, “You are hopeless, sir. I hate to tell you that.” Oh, my! When I walked out, I said, “My ministry is finished.” 201 And then Jesus came with a vision, said, “Don’t you worry. I’m with you. I’m with you.” 202 He said, “If you lived, you’d only be a little spindly thing of about a hundred and ten, fifteen pounds, about like you are now, maybe twenty.” 203 And here I am, this morning, a hundred and seventy, feel fine. What is it? Jesus Christ the Son of the living God, made a preparation yonder at Calvary, and I accepted it. Why did He do it? Not because of me, but because I could tell you, this morning, and you can accept the same thing and tell somebody else about it. It just keeps on. And that’s the way He has of preparing a way, to spread His Gospel. Do you believe it, today? God has provided. Shall we pray, just a moment now, with our heads bowed. 204 And if sister, pianist, if she’ll come here just a moment. I want you to chord slowly: The great Physician now is near, The sympathizing Jesus; He speaks the drooping hearts to cheer, No other name but Jesus. 205 Now you that’s here, that’s outside of Christ, and don’t know Him as personal Saviour, never have accepted. There is something another this morning, there’s been Something around your heart. While every head bowed. Something, a moving around your heart, saying, “You know, Something just tells me, I—I better get ready. That great Day is a coming pretty soon, and I—I’ve got to stand. And now, Lord, not to Brother Branham, but to You, I’m going to raise up my hand, and say, ‘By…If You’ll help me, from this day I—I’m going to—I—I’m going to serve You, from this day.’” 206 Is there a person would do that? Raise your hand, say, “By God’s grace, from this day, I’ll serve God.” Someone in the building, I don’t know. God bless you. God bless you. That’s right. That’s good. “From today on, I want to make my life count for the Lord.” 207 “I am a Christian, I’ve already accepted Christ, but I feel like I want to be a better Christian now. I want to raise my hand and say, ‘God, by this I want…’” God bless you. Oh, that’s wonderful. That’s wonderful. God be with you.

45208 Now how many, with your heads bowed, that’s sick? Say, “Dear God, now, I’m going to accept You right now. I—I have…I have a tumor. I have cancer. I have a sick child here. I have…” Whatever it is, no matter what’s wrong. “I have something wrong. You know it. And right now I’m accepting this Word, Your Word, just like I was coming by faith to be saved. I believe, in my heart. I really believe, God, that, right now Your Word is anchored in my heart and I’m going to get well. I don’t know, I didn’t think it a while ago, but I—I just—I just believed it right now. I’m going to get well right now. I’m going to raise up my hand, to let You know that I believe it with all my heart. I’m going to get well.” Would you raise your hand, you that’s sick? Oh, my! 209 Just look at the hands, Dear Heavenly Father! You see their hand. 210 It’s just like being converted. Now, if they was converted, Lord, and had raised their hands for salvation, we’d bring them up here to the pool and baptize them; that’s our next thing. Peter said, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Now, that’s what we would do, Lord. 211 Now these all raised their hands, and say, they believe that You have planted in their heart. They seen that You prepared for their healing, already. And they are ready to receive it, and they accept it in their heart. And, Father, there is one thing left for us to do, that’s, bring them up and pray the prayer of faith for them. Lay hands upon them, You said, “They shall recover.” Nothing can keep it from it. 212 And, Father, we believe, that by the grace of God, that You will send us a healing meeting now that will just be glorious. They’ve already accepted it. We’ll be thankful. We’ll give You the praise. And we’ll give all the glory to Thee. We’ll tell others. We’ll go to our homes, testifying. Some here dying, with cancer; some here that can’t see, to get around; others can’t walk. Oh, they’re in all kind of conditions, Lord. But, Thou art here to make every crooked path straight. You are here to take all the disaster out and put glory in.

46213 Lord, they’re emptying themselves, and I’m emptying myself. Fill us, Lord, with the Holy Ghost. Fill us with Your blessing, that this will be a new day. May You step into the fiery furnace just at this time, fan all the waves away from Your children, and deliver them safely. Grant it, Lord, through Your preparation of Jesus Christ at Calvary. We ask it in His Name. Amen. The great Physician now is near, The sympathizing Jesus; He speaks the drooping heart to cheer, Oh, hear the Voice of Jesus. 214 Friends, while they’re playing, and this music is going out. 215 Now, this is a great moment of my life. This is a great time for me. I just feel just confident, and as assured in my heart, that God is going to heal people this morning, as I’m standing right here at this platform. I just believe it. And this makes me feel…Really, I tell you, I think it’s already done. The only thing, I just go lay hands on them, ’cause He said do so; just like water baptism or anything else.

47216 Now here is what gives me confidence. I come with this type of confidence for you. See? I know that He sent me to do this. I—I…With my Bible over my heart, and if I would never live to go the door there, I know He sent me to pray for His people. I know that. I can’t heal His people, for He’s already done that; that’s provided. But He sent me to pray for His people and encourage them to believe that. 217 Now let me show you whether it’s right or not. See? Let’s first take God’s way of it. Let’s look across the world, of how many tens of thousands of crippled, blind, lame, halt, cancer-riddens, and everything, that’s been healed. Now, that’s first. After His Word said He would do it, then here He comes and proves it. 218 Next thing, there is people setting right here, that’s been healed, obviously. See? That’s next. 219 And then let’s look again, right at the time, of years ago. There’s a few left here in the tabernacle, maybe, this morning; some of them don’t come when we’re going to have healing service, because of the crowds pressing in like this. But, look. Right here, right here in Jeffersonville, to you outsiders, is where that Light, that Morning Star, appeared first. Right here it’s happened, at this platform, many times, right here. 220 Of course, the people thought It was fanatic, but the scientific world has took the picture of It and says, “It’s the truth.” Then, I have told you the truth. Is that right? And now it’s all over…

48221 Now they took it in Germany, here recently. You all seen the pictures of that. The big German camera wanted to see if they could take It, so they come, set up the picture. When It come down, and begin to roll this big thing here and take that picture, and there it showed It coming down from Heaven. 222 When the inspiration come on; showed who the man was standing there, told him about what he was, and what had happened, how he was leading a bunch of communists, and so forth. Said, “You’re not a German, anyhow. You’re an Italian.” Told him that. 223 And they, that German there, taking his picture like this, and snap, then turn his roller camera, snapping It like that. And here It come out; showing It coming down, showing when It was on anointing, and showing It moving away, going out of the building. That’s right. Proof, it’s the truth. See? What’s it for? It’s for you, for you.

49224 And, think, down in the animal world, how God will do, and the simplicity. Could you imagine someone…A lot of people laugh at that. Christians don’t. But do you know God knows every little sparrow there is? Do you know He has got every feather in their wing numbered? He knows all about it. He said, “Not one of them could fall to the earth without Father knowing about it.” He knows where every little animal is. He knows every little part about you. He knows all about it. And by doing that, you see, and insuring me… 225 And the cap of it all, come the other night, when He showed me, standing there by the side of this lake. I’ll never forget it. 226 You’ll see it in the papers. I’ll get them here for you. You’ll see it out in The Voice of Healing, the other magazines. 227 How I seen that, for that once pull, and He said, “That’s when you knew the diseases of the people, when they…by their hands.” 228 And then his second pull. Said, “Why did you pull it so hard? Why did you try to explain all of that?” Said, “See, you just caught a fish, but it was small.”

50229 He said, “Now cast your lure in, for this time.” Said, “Set your hook.” I seen that Light going, moving out like that, said, “I’ll meet you.” Oh, my! I know it. I just know it. When I…More than I know I’m…I—I know that I’m alive, standing in this pulpit this morning, I know it. 230 Just get your faith away from up here now, and put it down here, say, “Dear God, I come, knowing it, too. I come knowing it. I’m coming to You, and I’m going to be healed this morning.” As a man, I can pray for you. You say, “Does prayer do any? Will—will prayer help?” 231 Certainly, that’s what we’re supposed to do. The prayer…Prayer changes things. “Prayer of faith saves the sick.” Is that right? Some is set in the Church to pray for the sick. Some are set in the Church to prophesy. Some are set in the Church to preach, some to teach. Is that right? Certainly. We are set for these things.

51232 Therefore, I knew that I was brought into the world to pray for sick. I couldn’t pray for all God’s sick children, when I started out back there, when everything was dead, and a few years ago. But, God raised from the ministry, Oral Roberts and, oh, the hundreds of others, all around. Went into Africa, there they were having a big revival. Went into the other countries, there they had the big revival. God’s men everywhere, working together, not against one another. All together, for one big unit, for the glory of God, trying to make His children well, and to show them the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to His Word, He’s promised it. 233 They used to try to attack us and debate with us, the preachers that didn’t believe in Divine healing. You don’t hear much about it no more. Do you? That’s right. It just exposed them and showed how much they knowed about the Scripture. And then God just come around and confirmed the work, with signs following, and that just settles it. 234 Now, how many is here today, out-of-town people, that’s out of the state somewhere, wants to be prayed for, would you raise your hand. Let’s let them come first, the folks out of state, then, the folks that’s out of town; and then the—the folks, next, that’s from here at home.

52235 Now, the out-of-state folks come first, to the altar. We haven’t got much room here. But I believe if you’d just kind of, like this brother here, kind of line up, right like that. The out-of-state, and then we’ll try to get those. And then we’ll, next, we’ll—we’ll get the out of…out-of-town, and then the next is folks in the city. Just line up for prayer. Now… Now, Only Believe . 236 Now there is many standing. Some of you, of course, are coming, perhaps, maybe to see what our Lord will do. Watch and see what He does. We don’t fear. We know what He’s going to do. He is going to make that Word real as It can be. Yes, sir. You’ll see what He’ll do. He’ll heal the sick and the afflicted. He’ll make them well, through His Power and through His glory.

53237 Now I’m going to ask you if you’ll do something for me. The first thing, I want every one of you with full assurance, faith, that believes that God will heal these sick people along this line. 238 Now, they’re out-of-state. They don’t belong in Indiana. They’re from some other state. We’re happy to have them here, this morning, their faith in God. 239 Now, how many of you believes that God is going to make them…You people in-state now, believe that God is going to make them well, raise up your hands. Say, “I believe it, believe it with all of our heart.” Now we’re here to help you, dear friends. 240 [A brother says, “Brother Branham …?… state that they can’t get him on the platform.”—Ed.] I’ll pray for him. I’ll go down to him, then. 241 All right. I want you dear people here, that’s from out of—from out of the state, to believe this now. I want you to believe with all your heart, that I…That Jesus Christ is God’s preparation for your healing, that God brought Jesus to the world for your healing. 242 Now, remember, there’s nothing within me, that I could do to heal you. But only thing I’m doing, I’m following the command that God gave me, to do it. And know…You’ve heard the meetings, of how just everything has taken place. Course, He’ll do that. He’ll do it this morning for you, and you can go back to your own beloved state, just rejoicing and telling people what good things God has done. 243 Now, the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak, them things are just in God’s Power to do it. Now I want you all to believe with all your heart. Now, the only thing I’m to do, I’m to pray and lay hands on you, praying the prayer of faith. And you must accept it on them basis, of the shed Blood of Jesus Christ, and God will do the rest of it for you. You believe it now, with all of your heart? You’re ready to receive it. Believe it down in your heart. The Word, first, is in your heart, to do it. All right.

54244 Now I want everybody to be real quiet, or just kind of hum, whatever you want to, while we pray congregationally. Then, one by one, and Brother Neville will anoint them with oil, as they come to me to be prayed for. All right. 245 Now let’s bow our heads, everywhere. And every few minutes we’ll have you raise your head. 246 Now, our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee, this morning, for Jesus. And here stands, in this line here this morning, different ailments. Thou knowest what they are; I don’t. But, the best of my knowledge, Lord, I tried to tell them that Thou has provided their healing already. Some of them may be just a few days from death. But, Father, prayer changes things. Hezekiah prayed, after (God) You sent Your prophet up there and told him he was going to die; but he prayed, and You spared his life.

55247 Now, Lord, I’m praying with all my heart, for these people, that You will spare their life, for one purpose, Lord, for Your glory, that they’ll tell others, and others might tell others. The Day of the Lord is at hand, and we must hurry. And we know this Gospel must be preached everywhere. 248 And help us, today, now. And anoint Your servants here. Anoint this building freshly and deeply now. May that great Angel of God move in now with great power. Move down along the lines, unseen, yet know that He’s here. And I pray that You’ll heal everyone, through Jesus Christ’s Name. 249 Now with your heads bowed, everyone, slowly now, Only Believe , real slowly, while we…Brother Neville anoints the sick, and they bring to me. Only…

56250 [Someone speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] …?… Everyone be reverent now. Here is a man that stammers, stutters. And he wants to preach God’s Word. He wants to be delivered so he can preach the Word of God. I want you to be reverent, and believe that God will take this stammering spirit away from this man, for the glory of God. 251 Now, our Heavenly Father, standing here in this little, old crude-built tabernacle, yet, knowing that the Shekinah Glory of God Who dwelt under the interlocked wings of the Cherubims is standing present now. And as our souls can let loose of the filthy things of the world that moves into His Presence, and we can feel and know that He is standing here, we come boldly, knowing that we would…knowing this, that we would die if it wasn’t for Christ’s glory now, but His shed Blood makes a way. We could come, then, boldly up to Your Throne, under the interlocked wings of the cross.

57252 God, this man here, fine-looking, big, stout-looking man standing here, wanting to preach the Gospel. What a glorious thing! And yet, Satan has give him a stammering, stuttering voice. But he wants it to move, today, so that he can preach the Gospel. O Eternal God, we know that Thou has used, in times past, stammers and stutters. But this man wants to be free, for he feels embarrassed with it. So, today, by the merits of the Lord Jesus, by God’s provided program and way, by the witness of the Holy Ghost and the Presence of God, and as His servant, I lay hands upon him and I condemn this spirit. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it leave my brother. And may this evil thing leave, that would hinder the Gospel. And may he go forth and be able to preach the Gospel, with a true ringing, sounding voice, for God’s glory. 253 Lord, I lay these, my hands, upon him, because it’s Your commission. It’s Your bidding to do so. Through Jesus Christ, that You grant it, for God’s glory. 254 I want every head bowed, and no one to raise your heads until you hear me say so, please. 255 Holy Spirit, heal this brother here, in Jesus Christ’s Name, for God’s Glory and the Gospel. And I condemn you, thou evil one. Leave, in Jesus’ Name. 256 Now, my brother, I believe that you are going to preach the Gospel. I do. And I believe that you are going to do it without stammering, without stuttering. I want you to say, “Praise the Lord.” [The brother says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] “Hallelujah.” [“Hallelujah.”] There you are. “I love the Lord.” [“I love the Lord.”] “I give Him praise.” [“I give Him praise.”] 257 See, different now. [The brother speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Now I want…That’s the reason I want to talk to you awhile. You feel better now, feel different. Sure, because the Lord has—has granted this to you, thing’s gone, yes that’s right. [“Amen.”] Is it… 258 Say this, “I love Jesus.” [The brother says, “I love Jesus.”—Ed.] “Praise be to God.” [“Praise be to God.”] I don’t believe it will ever come again.

58Now just keep your heads bowed. Listen to this man. 259 “I love Jesus.” [The brother says, “I love Jesus.”—Ed.] “Praise be to God.” [“Praise be to God.”] “I’ll preach the Gospel.” [“I’ll preach the Gospel.”] 260 No stammering at all. He is healed. God bless you, brother. Go on your road now, rejoicing. 261 Now let’s raise our heads and give God praise, say, “Thank You, Lord Jesus.” [Congregation says, “Thank You, Lord Jesus.”—Ed.] There goes a man into the ministry, to preach the Gospel, that was once a stutterer. 262 What did Moses say? “I’m a man of slow speech. I have stammering of lips,” and so forth. God said, “Who made the lips of man?” 263 Do you believe now? Have faith now. 264 Will you bow your heads again, for another person. Everybody in prayer now. Be reverent. 265 Now, your trouble, sister? [The sister says, “I have trouble with my side; nervousness.”—Ed.] Where you from, sister? [“Hamilton.”] Hamilton, Ohio. You believe you’re going home well? [“Yes, I do.”] 266 Now, the lady has a trouble in her sides, and she has come from Hamilton, Ohio. And she is extremely nervous. There might not be nothing happen that you could see, but God will do it just the same. Pains will leave her, I believe; if you will, with me.

59267 Now, dear Heavenly Father, realizing that here, somewhere present, stands the Lord Jesus. And our sister has come a long ways down here to be prayed for. She got trouble in her side, nervous. But, You, Lord, Who raised up Jesus, and made the preparation… 268 And back, years ago, as a little old boy, standing up yonder under the tree, You said, “Don’t you never smoke, or drink, or defile your body. There will be a work for you to do when you get older.” Here it is. You confirmed it by an Angel of Light. You sent animals in to be prayed for. You’ve swept around the world with a revival, as You promised down here on the river, that You would do it.

60269 And here this woman stands, today, to be delivered. And, Father, through the precious Blood of Jesus, through the preaching of the Word, I lay hands upon sister and deliver her according to God’s Word and her faith. I condemn this thing that’s bothering her, this old shadow of darkness that’s making her nervous. I cast it away from her, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, taking the initiative.

61270 Satan, you can’t hold her no longer. She come a long way. She is going back without you. You’re gone, through Jesus Christ the Son of God. 271 “Prayer of faith shall save the sick.” You said so, God, and she be well. We cast the enemy away now; plead the Blood of the righteous Lord Jesus, between her and the enemy, in Jesus’ Name. 272 Now, it could be nothing outwardly. But you—you feel that you’re healed, don’t you, sister? [The sister says, “Yes, I do.”—Ed.] The pains are not in your side. It’s gone. You feel calm and well. Now just right here. 273 Here is the lady. You may raise your head. From Ohio, with that trouble in her side. She says, “All pains are gone.” Her nerves are quietened. Just the same as the man…Is that right, sister? [The sister says, “That’s right.”—Ed.] Now you’re going home to be well. Jesus, the Son of God, Who is here this morning, has made you well. Be a gallant servant for Him. God bless you. 274 Now let’s say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] What if that was you suffering like that? All right. 275 Now shall we bow our heads again, just in a…for a word of prayer. All right. 276 Now we’re …?… Now, yeah, what is your request? Oh …?… Oh, I see it twitch. Oh, my! …?… Now, everyone real reverent, if you will.

62277 Now, our Heavenly Father, this little lady comes, helpless, from the doctors. They’ve done all they know how to do. Her face twitching, nerves, something went wrong. The doctors, trying to find, but they can’t find why that nerve won’t operate right. And, in that, she is sick all over. Truly, Lord, isn’t that the way of the world today! But, knowing that, she stands here, helpless, in Your Presence. Then, as Your servant, I bring her to You, with all the faith that I know how. And knowing that it’s Satan that’s broken that nerve, there’s an unseen something that the doctors can’t find, causing that nerve to twitch her eye and face. But Thou can make it leave, Lord, for You are Jehovah God. You’re the One that provided the sacrifice at Calvary, and we accept it now. 278 Go, thou spirit, you who twitches her face, you who has tormented her body. We come in the Name of Jesus, fresh from Calvary, from the Word, and we condemn thee. We claim that you can’t stay any longer. The woman has tried with the doctors, and they’ve done all they know how to do, but you’ve hid from the doctors. But you can’t hide from God. He knows who you are. So, as His servant and His representative, I say for you to leave my sister. Go out of her. God’s Word said, “If they lay hands on the sick, they’ll get well,” so you’re defeated now in Calvary’s atonement. Get away from this woman, in Jesus Christ’s Name. I liberate her from you, by Jesus Christ’s commission, that we should lay hands on the sick and cast out evil spirits. And you are evil, and you have to leave her. And she go home and be well, through Jesus Christ’s Name.

63Now with your heads bowed just a little longer. 279 Now, Mrs. Kinzer, I believe your name was. There would be nothing exactly, only just your faith, to stop the jerking, since we’ve prayed, down the side. But I believe, with all my heart, that you’re all right, and you’re well. It was this side in here, right along inside of your face. Now would you come here. Where you from now? [The sister says, “Boston, Kentucky.”—Ed.] Boston, Kentucky.

64Would you raise your head. 280 The lady, on this side of her face, had something from her throat down here twitching, jumping up-and-down, a nerve. What is that? It’s just like the Bible said, “The deaf spirit went out of a man.” The doctor couldn’t find it because it was a—a operation of a nerve. The nerve is still there, but there is something in that nerve, a making it jump and go on. The doctors couldn’t find that, of course, because… [The sister says, “I’ve been to thirteen.”—Ed.] She has been to thirteen different doctors. And now Jesus Christ has stopped it, and there she is before you. And she’ll get well. She’ll be all right now. 281 God bless you, Sister Kinzer. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] God bless you. 282 This happens to be her birthday, and said the happiest she ever had. Look at her as she goes down. Isn’t that marvelous? Let’s say, “Thanks be to God.” “Thanks be to God!” 283 Now, we love our dear Lord Jesus with all of our heart. Here at the tabernacle, we’ve learned to love Him, and trust Him for everything that we have need of. 284 Now, thank you for keeping your head bowed. And now they’ll bring the next patient, while you bow your head and be in prayer. It’s your prayers, too. 285 You are… [The sister says, “Mrs. Brown from Lima, Ohio.”—Ed.] Uh-huh. And what… [“ …?… ”] Sure. And what is your trouble? [“ …?… ”] Uh-huh. Is it, you’re—you’re deaf or something, in your …?… [“ …?… ”] Uh-huh. [“ …?… ”] Yes, ma’am. [“ …?… ”] Something like boils or something? All right. And you’re from Ohio? 286 This sister comes all the way from Ohio. Her trouble is in her ears. They’re…They burst and run, and it’s causing her a lot of trouble. And we believe that Jesus can defeat this, or has already defeated it. And we’re coming now to claim her victory in Calvary.

65287 Now, our kind, Heavenly Father, we bring to You our beloved sister who has come all the way from Ohio, here, today, to be healed. And with all my heart, and long prayers through the night, I’ve asked You, Lord, to do these things. And I know that it’s easy to ask You, when You said You would do it. And I—I’m just so thankful that You’ve done it. 288 And now we bring her to You, in the light of Calvary’s cross, where Jesus, standing there, that made the—the atonement. How You swung between the heavens and earth, reconciling the Heavenly to the earthly, by the shedding of Your Own Blood. How that You lifted up from the earth! You died in mid air. And there the Blood dripped upon the earth, to stain the old Calvary’s cross. There is where You spoiled principalities. There is where You robbed Satan of everything that he had. You took back, and give to the children of God, their rightful belonging. There is where You give us Eternal Life. There is where You give us the promise of the resurrection. O Heavenly Father, that paid the price!

66289 And, today, You’ve paid for her healing. And I stand as Your servant, along with these other hundreds of servants in this building. And we condemn this devil that’s tormenting our sister. And say, through the righteousness of Christ, through His command at Calvary, we cast you away from our sister. And send her to her home in Ohio, for these never to boil up there and burst out again, that she’ll be made completely whole. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we ask it. Amen.

67290 Now, sister, if…Course, just to show anything, you couldn’t do it, but you believe it, don’t you? [The sister says, “Yes. I believe it.”—Ed.] You believe it. I want you to walk over here. 291 Now, to you, you may raise your head. Our sister here couldn’t show anything, because it wasn’t running at the time, her ears. But we have, this morning, the assurance, in my heart and in her heart, and, I’m sure, in your heart, that God has healed our sister. Do you believe it? [The sister says, “Amen. Amen. Thank You, Jesus.”—Ed.] And it’ll be a testimony. And God bless you, sister. Amen. Thanks be to God! 292 Now shall we bow our heads again, while we pray for someone else.

68293 Well, sister, I see you on your crutch, so I know that much is that. 294 Now shall we pray. Bow your head, just a moment, while I talk with the sister. 295 Now, what is your trouble, sis? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Yes, ma’am. And this is—is that staggering, is that right? [“ …?… ”] …?… High blood pressure. Yes, ma’am. And you are a Christian? [“Yes, sir.”] Yes, ma’am. And you believe now that you’ve come to the Lord Jesus, sister? [“Yes.”] 296 Now, our sister has bad ankles. She is walking on a—a—a crutch support. And she has high blood pressure, and—and many things wrong with her. We are taking her to Jesus, at this time, for her healing. You be in prayer now, that your prayer may go through for her. 297 Now, our dear Heavenly Father, our beloved sister stands here, yet a young woman. But, Satan would give her a stroke if he could; he would lay her up yonder, on the bed of affliction. He’ll put her out of commission, if he can, for he don’t want her testimony. “Why did this happen to this Christian? Why?” We would question, or those who would not understand. But, Father, we know that it was for Your glory. 298 It was said one time, “Who sinned; this boy, or his mother, or his father?” 299 You said, “Neither, but that the works of God might be made manifest.”

69300 We believe that for our sister, this morning. We believe that’s the reason her ankles got in that condition. We believe that’s the reason the high blood pressure struck her, so that You could show her Your love and kindness to her, that You could prove to her that You’re Jehovah Who healeth our diseases. 301 God, we pray that this blood pressure will drop in such a way, till the doctor will say, “What happened to you?” Then, to the doctor, she’ll say, “Jesus healed me.”

70302 We pray, God, that You’ll make her to walk on these ankles without this support. That she’ll be able to walk and to live and—and to be like she wants to be. And, Father, the Word has went forward, yet in Its simplicity and chopped up way, but It sure has taken heart in…a place in the hearts of these Christians. And now she stands here. She is waiting for her healing. Thou does never lose a person. And I pray, Heavenly Father, that You’ll heal our sister and will make her well. 303 And now, as Your servant, as one who believes in You, along with these other servants of Yours, that’s bowed in prayer, we bring our sister up to Calvary; yonder hangs the Lord Jesus. Oh, how wonderful! Standing yonder, the earth beneath Him, the heavens above Him, reconciling God and man together. And we come in His Name. 304 And what’s keeping this woman from being a complete delivered servant, is the devil. And there, Jesus, You stripped him, and You’re…took every legal right he had, away from him. And today he’s only a bluff, and we won’t receive it. We won’t receive it, because Jesus Christ the Son of God give us the…proved it. He told us we could do it, and we believe it. And we take back that which he’s trying to rob our sister. We give her her health. We take this weakness from her ankles. We take this blood pressure back to its normal condition, and rebuke the devil that done it, in the Name of Jesus Christ, in the light of Calvary’s sacrifice.

71305 Come out from her, Satan. You are evil, and you can’t hold her no longer. 306 And Thou, Lord, Who gave the vision the other night, and said, “These things would be.” Thou art True, and cannot fail. And I ask now for our sister’s deliverance, through Jesus Christ’s Name, Who shall receive all praise and glory. And your heads bowed, everyone. 307 Now, sister, really, outwardly, I…only thing I can say, that your face, which was real red and flashy when you come up, it’s gone down. I don’t know whether you feel it. [The sister says, “Feel calmer.”—Ed.] You feel calm and cool. And now let’s see your crutch here, just a minute. I don’t believe you’re going to have to have it anymore, just walk around here without it. [The sister speaks to Brother Branham.] Just walk, see, just walk around here. Now that’s fine.

72308 Now I want you all to look. The lady who was all flushed up in her face, she feels calm. Look how looks now. You seen her face, how red she looked. And here she…And she feels normally, that God has healed her and made her well. And, her crutch, she won’t need that no more, don’t matter where she’s at. 309 Go ahead on down, sister, just—just take the thing and pack it along, just got…hang it up in your house for a souvenir, see, won’t have to have it. 310 Let’s say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] All right, shall we bow our heads again now for prayer. All right, would you bring the sister. 311 And what’s your trouble, sister? [The sister speaks to Brother Branham—Ed.] Oh. [“ …?… ”] Oh. Where you from? [“Madisonville, Kentucky.”] Madisonville, Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson. 312 This sister has arthritis, and some inward troubles that’s very bad. And I don’t know what will ever happen if God doesn’t make her well. She’ll probably have to have surgery, and that’s very dangerous at the time, so we pray that God will be merciful and heal her. 313 Our kind, Heavenly Father, we bring to Thee, today, our beloved sister, come all the way from Madisonville, Kentucky, down here to be prayed for. And Thou art the Healer, Divine. And I bring her into Your omnipotent, and into Your great Presence, her…Your Power and Your Presence, to rebuke this old arthritis that would put calcium deposit across these bones of her fingers, that would calcium deposit these ankles and knees. 314 There she lays, stretched out on the bed, someone feeding her through a tube. Oh, you evil spirit, you would cause her life to be took, from this other infirmity. But we bring her, today, to Jesus Christ.

73315 And, O God, to boost my own faith for her now, knowing that the prayer of faith has been prayed! I condemn the devil, cast him away from her, through Jesus Christ the Son of God; free her from arthritis and all these other diseases, that she can go home and be well, and give testimony all through that country, of the glory of God. 316 Satan, you have lost the victory, and Jesus Christ has won. And may she will be well, through Jesus Christ. Amen. 317 Sister, dear, there may not be nothing that the people could see, but I believe that you’re healed. Raise your feet, just see if you feel better, from your arthritis. You feel fine now? Now you all can see how she is moving her feet, nearly. Walk right on down now, just like a little, young lady, just that you don’t even you don’t… 318 We just praise the Lord Jesus for all His goodness and mercy!

74319 Now be reverent, everyone, as we pray. And now just a little bit, and we…soon as we pray for this baby, then we’ll give a little recess, then you can go. Just take us about three minutes now, then we’ll have a little recess, and then we’ll start with some more people. All right. Everyone just real reverent now. All right. 320 Is it the baby that wants to be prayed for? And you want to be prayed for, too? Brother Wilson, I am glad to get to shake your hand. And your baby is… [The sister speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] Oh, I see. Oh, yes, I see. It’s the one that has something like a convulsions. It falls. I see he smashed his little face, up there. Well, then, sister, will you believe, and you, Brother Wilson, today that Jesus will take this away from your baby, and—and let it get well? 321 Now, the little baby standing here, has something wrong. It had convulsions, that it falls. And its little face, its little eyes, are bruised and black, and so forth. And the father wants healing, too. Now, we pray that God will take this curse off of that little baby.

75322 Now, audience, do you believe that our kind, Heavenly Father, in His mercy, that will let this little baby get well, not have these convulsions, that they’ll leave it? Do you believe, if we ask our Heavenly Father, He’ll do it? All right. Let us pray. 323 And, Brother Wilson, what was your trouble? I forgot. [Brother Wilson speaks with Brother Branham—Ed.] Uh-huh. I see. Probably the same thing what was the matter with the baby, too. All right, now let’s all be real reverent. 324 Now, our kind Heavenly Father, we bring to Thee, first, as first come into the world, the father of the baby. And evil things has happened to him. The devil has conquered him in many great times. But, today, we are bringing him in the Presence of Jesus Christ, by the way of prayer. We’re bringing him to Calvary, where, there where Jesus died that He might have fully five senses. And we pray, God, that You’ll be merciful to him. That, we believe that these things that we do is according to Your Word. You said, “In My Name they shall cast out the evil spirit.” We believe that. Though, times, people…

76325 [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] …told me a certain thing to do, and some something to say. And I never could remember what it was He said, when I woke up. You remember that. The other night, in a vision, when He spoke to me, “And these things wasn’t to be done in public. It’s to be done in private.” And Brother Cox, which is standing close, we suggested, maybe it would be best to let the people come around this way, to let me have one individual at a time, in—in a prayer room here, for this to be done.

77326 Last Sunday, when I was here, I was doing this first in the tabernacle. I got everybody with their head bowed, so I could walk down there to this woman that was crippled up, laying on this stretcher. And she was completely delivered. 327 And this morning, I said, “God, if You’ll just help me a while, till the crowd gets restless. Well, help me, till, maybe if I can keep the people with their heads bowed, so they won’t see it done.” See? Everybody… 328 And when I put…begin to put my hands on people, then everybody begin to get, “Oh, I feel It in my hand.” See, like that. And when It come, then everybody begin…See how it become? Which was absolutely carnal impersonations. That’s exactly right. The same Holy Ghost that told me to do it, said it was. So I knowed it was wrong.

78329 So that’s when He told me the other night, said, “You caused a lot of carnal impersonations to rise, and to do that.” Said, “Now let no one ever see this.” 330 And that’s what I been doing this morning, just so that you all would know. You would see now that I’ve told you the truth. 331 And you just watch now what the Lord is going to do in these revivals that’s coming. It’s going to be exceedingly, abundantly above anything that’s ever been done yet. You just see now. Remember, I’m not a false prophet. I tell the truth. God wouldn’t lie. And see if it isn’t going to be greater than it’s ever has been at any time. 332 Now, you dear people, there is many of you lined up here to be prayed for. It’s getting late. I’ll…And—and I—I know you want to be prayed for. And I want to pray for these things. The lady has got a little girl standing here; and a mother holding a little baby; and—and all; and we want them prayed for. We want them delivered, don’t we? We want them to be made well, each one; these little boys knelt down here; and all back in there, people; and people here with cancer, and a bad shape, and going to die.

79333 Now, don’t we believe that Jesus is here now? Don’t we believe that He is here? And we believe, with all of our heart, that He is going to make every one of us well. Don’t you believe that? He loves us all. God is no respect of person. 334 He is going to heal the little girl, isn’t He, sister there with the girl? He… [The sister says, “He’s already started.”—Ed.] “Already started!” Bless your heart! Where you from, sister? [“Crestwood.”] Crestwood, Kentucky. [“ This man here prayed for her, one night, and she has been recovering ever since.”]

80335 Oh, let’s say, “Praise the Lord.” [Congregation says, “Praise the Lord.”—Ed.] Brother Neville come, prayed, this little girl. 336 Well, my buddy here, Brother Wood, is from Crestwood. And his…Do you know them, Brother Wood, do you? Huh? [Brother Wood says, “Yes.”—Ed.] Uh-huh! He’s a contractor out there. [The sister says, “I’ve seen him over there.”—Ed.] Yes. 337 And the little baby here, where is it from, sister? [The sister says, “Gary, Indiana.”—Ed.] Gary, Indiana. And you believe it’ll, go—go back to Gary and get well, don’t you? [“Oh, yes.”] Sure, you do. All right. 338 And where is the little boys from? [A brother says, “Austin, Indiana.”—Ed.] Austin, Indiana. You believe you’re going back and be well, today, too, don’t you? Sure, we do. 339 Is that little baby to be prayed for, sister? Where you from? [The sister says, “Indiana.”—Ed.] Indiana. Where? [“New Albany.”] New Albany. You believe the little baby is going to get well? Sure. 340 And you believe all these other people is going to get well around here, everyone? Now lets bind ourselves together, and say, “Jesus Christ, You live and reign!” 341 Oh, think of the supremacy of the Lord Jesus, Who could make that total blind baby’s eyes be opened; Who could make that stammering man that… [Brother Branham immitates a stutter—Ed.] …and stand here and talk boldly and normally, Who could make these other things to happen! God is God, isn’t He? 342 That’s the minor things, to what He is going to do. He is just going to do great, great things, and just keep doing them until He comes. That’s right.

81343 Now I’ll tell you the attitude to get into. Get into the attitude of this, “Jesus, You’re here. I’m now accepting the healing. I believe it with all my heart. And now it’s finished.” 344 And in your heart, just like you come to Him to get saved, you say, “Lord Jesus, I surrender my all, there is nothing more I can do, here is my heart, here is my life, I give myself to Thee.” That’s all that can be done. Then say, “I believe, Lord Jesus.” 345 And all at once, Something down here says, “Yes, you believe. Yes, you believe.”

82346 How long has your baby been sick, brother? [The mother says, “Since it was born.”—Ed.] Since it was born. What’s its trouble? [The father says, “She is retarded.”] Retarded? Look, you know the devil done that. That’s right. The devil did that. God can make that little baby well again. Just think, I have seen dozens of those cases, that’s perfectly normal and well now. And I want…I know. I got a little baby, too, and I know how you feel. And just be of a good courage. 347 Both of you Christians? Neither one of you Christians? Will you give your lives to Jesus, this morning, standing there, and promise to live for Him, if God will let your little baby get well and be normal? You will, will you, brother? You will. You will, will you, sister? God bless you. You now become Christians when you accept the Lord Jesus as your Saviour. Now we accept Him as healer for the baby.

83348 Now, Heavenly Father, while laying hands upon this blessed little child. That two new-born children has just come, father and mother. And it had to take this baby, to bring them to Eternal Life. Maybe, if it hadn’t have been for the baby being this way, they’d have been lost forever. But the baby has become a temporary, or a minor saviour to them, to bring them to the Lord Jesus, for their salvation. We thank You, Father. And now bless them. 349 They are Your children. They accept You. You said in Your Word, “He that heareth My Words, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has everlasting Life and shall never come into condemnation.” Looking over this young couple here, and seeing that Light hanging over them, as I started to go at the end of the line. And seeing that Light hanging over this young couple, I thought it good to speak to them, Father. Not that the audience hears, but You alone. And now what was it? It was You pulling at their heart, at that very crucial moment. O God, we are so thankful they are Christians.

84350 We bless their baby, in Jesus Christ’s Name. We come because God said, or Jesus said, in His Word, “Ask the Father whatever you will, in My Name, I’ll do it.” And so we ask the Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ, His Son, that He’ll bless this baby. And may there be such a change in this baby, in the next twenty-four hours, till the father and mother will be elated and know what has happened, to know that their new-found Lord Jesus is healing their baby. Grant it, Lord. I rebuke the works of the devil, the sins are confessed. The father and mother are Christians.

85351 Now, Satan, you have no more right. It’s all over. So, we defeat you through the Blood of Jesus Christ, Who bid us to do so, and we cast you away from this child. 352 And now may it start growing and developing, and—and getting normal and well, and make a fine young child that’ll make the father and mother proud of it. In Jesus’ Name we do this blessing. Amen. 353 You are Christians now, both of you, in Christ. Watch the difference of your baby. And where you live now? [The father and mother say, “Gary, Indiana.”—Ed.] Gary, Indiana. Write me, or call me, in the—in the next four or five days. And see what a difference you see in the baby, when you go back home! Let us thank God for this wonderful work. 354 I started to go down here to the end of the line, and start praying. I kept noticing the anointing is here greatly just now. You see it, notice the people, and so forth. But I’m kind of making that secondarily, cast it to one side, till I have to; like on the lady a while ago. But I seen It hanging over that couple, and I kept wondering where It was at. And I thought, “That’s where It was at, right at those people there.”

86355 So, now, we’re going to pray for every person. Every one of you is going to get prayed for, as long…God let me live. And we’re going to start and pray, so we can kind of move out. We get here to the end of the line. 356 Brother Fleeman, have you got the…fixed there so we can get through? 357 Now I’ll go down there and pray for each and every one. And I want you to come through, rejoicing, and thanking God for your healing. Amen. 358 To the people, near, watch Brother Neville’s broadcast, next Saturday, about—about…for this next Sunday’s service, if I get back in time for next Sunday. All right. 