The Queen Of Sheba

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Lord, I believe, All things are possible, Lord, I believe. 2 Let us remain standing just a moment, were going to bow for prayer. Is there any here would like to be remembered in prayer before God, beforewhen we take you to the Throne of grace, now? The Lord grant your request, while we pray. 3 Our H

The Queen Of Sheba

60-0401EEveningTulsa OK85 min1960-04-01

The Queen Of Sheba

60-0401EEveningTulsa OK85 min1960-04-01

1 …Lord, I believe, All things are possible, Lord, I believe. 2 Let us remain standing just a moment, we’re going to bow for prayer. Is there any here would like to be remembered in prayer before God, before…when we take you to the Throne of grace, now? The Lord grant your request, while we pray. 3 Our Heavenly Father, we are approaching Thy throne of mercy in the all sufficient Name of the Lord Jesus, Thy Son. We confess that we are weak, Lord, and need Thy help, our great adversary and Thy adversary, the enemy is going about like a roaring lion, devouring what he can, but Thou has promised, “I’ll never leave thee nor forsake thee.” And we so solemnly believe that, Lord, knowing that “Wherever two or three are gathered in My Name, there I’ll be in the midst of them.” And we believe that with all of our hearts.

24 People has sent in letters, here, Father, and in these letters are handkerchiefs and pieces of cloth, that goes to the sick and needy. And O Father God, we are taught in the Scriptures that they taken from the body of Saint Paul handkerchiefs or aprons, evil spirits left the people, and diseases was healed. Now, as we have said before, we know we are not Saint Paul, but You still remain Jesus, the Son of God. And we do not believe that It was Paul that did this, It was Your Spirit, Lord, answering the faith of the people. 5 And today there is the same need, and the same cry, and You’re the same God, may the same results come, for we commit them to Thee for that purpose. Thou did see the hands of this audience, and you know the heart of every one, may they receive just what they’ve ask for. Grant it, Lord. Hear us now.

36 And as we read the Word, impart the Word to us by Thy Holy Spirit. And when service is finished tonight, and we start to our different homes, may we be able to say like those coming from Emmaus, “Did not our hearts burn within us?” Do something tonight among us, just like You did before the crucifixion, that the world might know that You have risen from the dead, and You’re no longer dead, but a living Lord for evermore. In Jesus’ Name, we ask it. Amen.

47 You may be seated. I have been thinking today, that they misnamed Chicago being Windy City, I think it should have been Tulsa. I could hardly sleep last night, the wind was so hard. And I thought, “Many times have I been in Chicago, but never such a wind, as I…we had last evening.” And then the service, it was so hard, the wind blowing and making a noise, it was rather a bit of confusion. 8 But it all paid up today, to get to meet some precious people. I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Lamsa, today, the translator of the Lamsa translation of the Bible. And such a privilege! You know, I would rather you would give me a little rosebud right now, than a whole wreath after I’m gone; I think maybe he would think the same thing. I certainly can prescribe to his translation, for meeting him and finding such a lovely spirit of a real, true Christian believer. God bless his gallant soul. I don’t know as I’ve ever met any more spiritual man than Dr. Lamsa. May the Lord richly bless him.

59 Then I had the privilege, today, of, in the private interviews, and so forth, meeting many other fine people. You got lovely people here in Oklahoma, I certainly appreciate them. 10 I have just a—a little bit of kindred of Oklahoma, my, I think my mother lived here for a few years, right near Tulsa, here. And so, I’m…Then they moved on down to a place in Texas called Paris, Texas, then from that, they went to Kentucky, moved out to Indiana, and then back to the West. And my father was a rider. And mother and dad were married then. 11 So then they kind of settled down in Kentucky, and moved then, after my birth, to Indiana, and there we have been since. So, it’s a great people in this United States, a great world, a great people everywhere. Where you find God’s people, no matter what color, or where, what country they’re from, they’re always the same. 12 Way down in Ceylon, and many different places, you take those people which hardly know right hand from left, when they receive the Holy Spirit, they act just the same as you do when you receive It, not knowing what is right or left hand, some of them. And they act the same way you do when you receive the Holy Spirit. So, we are thankful for that.

613 Now we must get right along, because, tonight, we promised to run a—a little line of prayer for the sick. I do not claim to heal people, I don’t believe there’s anybody would do that, we just claim that we pray for them. And someone said, “Are you a Divine Healer, Brother Branham?” 14 I said, “No, sir, I’m not a Divine healer, but I certainly had some great answers to prayer. So, I thank the Lord for that.” 15 But anything that we can do to help, some… What I’m here for, is to try to make the burdens of life just a little bit lighter for you. That’s…It’s kind of a struggle any way you take it, we all know that. And if we can lighten up each other’s load, just a little bit, I think it shows such a real brotherly love and care for each other.

716 Now, I want to read from the Scriptures tonight, in Saint Matthew the 12th chapter, if anyone is keeping the Scriptures down, and the 42nd verse of the 12th chapter: The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. 17 Jesus had been kind of upbraiding the cities and the people, because they had not believed on Him. And He had showed to them all the works of God, but they had become so ecclesiastically like, until they had their own ways and their own ideas. 18 Just like today, many of us has got drawed up, just how the Lord will come, and sometimes they break off and make a denomination out of it, because one believes He will come on a white horse, the other on a white cloud. What difference does it make, as long as He comes? That’s the main thing, be ready. So, I—I believe that when He comes, it will probably be altogether different than what we’ve got figured out, anyhow. So I haven’t got any set way, I’m just wanting to see Him come, that’s all, and just be ready when He gets here.

819 And so, they had their ways fixed, and their theology had been upset a little bit, and they had denied Him, even had called Him that low name of Beelzebub, which was the prince of the devils. 20 When Jesus came to the earth, He was given the lowest name that could be given, He went to the lowest city that could be, had no place to lay His head; and when God exalted Him, He taken Him higher than the Heavens, till Heavens, He has to look down to see It. He give Him a Name above every name, that everything in Heaven and earth is named Jesus Christ. What God did for Him, and what we did for Him: we mistreated Him, but God exalted Him.

921 And now, He had been telling them how He had done, and what the miracles and signs that He had done, and said, “If these things would have been done in other generations, why, it would have been yet standing,” the cities. And it’s strange, some good theologian could tell you the cities that He cursed is not there today; the cities that He blessed, remains till this day. It’s very striking, and I’ve heard real good Bible scholars speak of it. 22 But Jesus had come in every form of the Messiah that the Bible predicted Him to come in. He had come as the God-Prophet, He had come just exactly the way the Bible said He would come, and yet they missed seeing Him. Oh, may that not be our attitude when He comes the second time.

1023 Now, they was failing to see His supernatural work. The people, the churches, had gotten so far away from the supernatural, until they could not give a answer to their congregation for the supernatural that was being done, so they just had to class it something, instead of figuring it out, laying aside their thoughts, and—and going to the Scriptures, why, instead of doing that, they just answered their congregation, said, “Why, he’s the devil, that’s all. He’s just a fortuneteller, or something, there’s nothing to him.” 24 But then, when He did that supernatural, it usually blinds those who are blinded to those things, it makes them worse. But in every generation, God has always had His agents. It’s got down sometime to merely one, but God always had somebody in every generation that He could lay His finger on, some people that He could put His finger on, and say, “This is My people, and they’ll do as I tell them to do.”

1125 And Jesus had been referring back, the 41st verse of this same chapter, He had spoke about the days of Jonah and Nineveh. Many people…I like to speak just a moment before I get to my text, on Jonah. So many people condemn that prophet. He should not be condemned, he…“The—the steps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord.” And He makes everything work just exactly right. 26 Now, I believe God had a purpose in sending Jonah to Tarshish instead of Nineveh. I believe that was God’s purpose to confirm His Word to the Ninevites. Then when Jonah, on his road to Tarshish, a great storm came up, as we know, and he told the captain of the ship that he was in fault. And they tied his hands and feet, throwed him over the—the ship sides into the water. The Scripture says that this great fish swallowed him.

1227 I never forget, some time ago, a man said to me, who knowed a lot about science he said, said, “That story cannot be true, Brother Branham.” I said, “Why?” He said, “The swallow of a whale isn’t big enough to swallow a man.” 28 I said, “But sir, you just don’t read the Scriptures right, this was a special, prepared fish. God fixed this one just right, God had a fish prepared for it. He enlarged his swallow so Jonah could get in. God can do whatever He wants to. The Bible said that God had a fish prepared for him, and, that could swallow him, he was a special one.”

1329 And then when the fish, prowling through the water, hunting something to eat… And when a fish has fed, if you’ll feed your little goldfish, watch them, they’ll go right down to the bottom of the bowl, and rest their little swimmers on the bottom, after they have fed. 30 Then after, perhaps, this big fish had swallowed Jonah, and had went down then to the bottom of the sea, I wouldn’t know how many fathoms deep it would be out there from Nineveh, but could you imagine the condition this poor prophet being in?

1431 You know, I think, if anybody had a right to claim symptoms, it would have been Jonah. You know, look at him, we want to think he was backslid, though he wasn’t, and he was on a stormy sea in the belly of a whale, hands and feet tied, seaweeds all around his head, in the vomit of the whale, laying in the bottom of the sea. Now, there’s nobody here, that bad off, I’m just sure of that. But just to show that you can’t hide a real believer from God. 32 Now, I can just imagine seeing Jonah turn over on his back, and talk about a good case of symptoms: He looked this way, it was whale’s belly, back this way was whale’s belly, everywhere he looked was whale’s belly, he was in an awful condition, lot of symptoms. But you know what he said? “They are lying vanities.” He said, “Once more will I look towards Your holy temple, Lord.” 33 For Jonah remembered that when Solomon dedicated that temple, he prayed and said something like this in his prayer: “Lord, if Thy people be in trouble anywhere, and then look towards this holy temple, and pray, then hear from Heaven.” And Jonah had faith in God, and faith in the prayer of Solomon, and God delivered him from the whale’s belly.

1534 Now, there’s no one here in that bad of condition, we’re not in a whale’s belly, and we’re here seeing the hand of God move every night. And if Jonah could place that kind of faith, in the condition that he was in, in the belly of a whale in the bottom of the sea, and refuse to see anything contrary to the answer to his prayer when he looked to a temple where a earthly man prayed, and a earthly people built the temple, how much more ought we to have faith to look to Heaven where Jesus sets at the right hand of God to make intercessions upon our confessions? Why, certainly. Nothing should be able to stand in our way.

1635 Jesus, the Son of God, Who was crucified, dead, rose again on the third day, ascended into Heaven, sent back the Holy Spirit that bears record night after night, that He’s here, then how much… 36 We keep looking, saying, “Oh, look at my hand. Look at my finger. I’m still sick at my stomach.” Oh, my, that’s terrible. 37 “Once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord,” where He’s setting there tonight, with His Own bloody garments wrapped around Him, making intercessions upon our confession. 38 Oh, how it would…Depends on what you’re looking at. If you’re looking at your symptom, you can’t get well; but refuse to see your symptom, look at what God said. It depends on what you’re looking at; and the Christian always looks at the unseen.

1739 That’s the only way you can be saved, is by faith, you got to look at the unseen. And the whole armor of Christianity is supernatural. The people…How that a man can say that he believes in God, and preaches in a church, and says he does not believe in the supernatural, when the full armor of God, the full armor of Christianity, is supernatural! 40 What is the armor of Christianity? Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, patience, faith, Holy Spirit, all those things are supernatural. What is love? What is joy? Go down at the drugstore and buy me a quarter’s worth of it, I need it right now. See? You can’t buy love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, patience, gentleness, faith. You can’t buy it, it’s supernatural. And the whole armor of the Christian is supernatural, and we’re bidden by the Scriptures to put on the whole armor of God, be girded about, the whole armor.

1841 Jonah turned over in that whale’s belly, looked away towards the temple, the best that he knowed, towards the top of the whale, and begin to pray. And God turned that big fish around, took him right straight to Nineveh for a purpose. 42 Now, we believe that most of the Ninevites must have been backslidden, and had went off… I read a story one time, where many of them had turned to heathenism, and they were worshipping idols, and they believed that the whale was the god of the sea. And while their occupation was fishing, here comes the whale swimming into the shore, the god of the sea, opens up his mouth and spits the prophet out on the bank. No wonder they heard him! God knows how to work things, He knows how to make things. You could take that version of it if you like, that might be all right.

1943 But watch, the main thing was this: that they asked Jesus, “Show us a sign.” 44 And Jesus said, “A weak and an adulterous generation seeks after a sign. And they’ll get a sign.” What kind of a sign? A resurrection sign. And I believe that we are now living in the time of a weak and an evil generation of mixed-up, confused theologians and churches all bundled together, till people don’t know what to believe. But Jesus said that that weak generation would receive a sign of the resurrection, and I believe we receive it now. Jesus Christ is not dead, He’s alive, and here tonight, to live in us, and perform, and do just exactly what He promised to do. 45 “Oh,” He said, “if Nineveh, if the generation then would have been like Nineveh…” Then He goes on to the days of Solomon. And He said, “In the days of Solomon…”

2046 Now anyone knows, that any time that God sends a gift to the earth, and the people turns that gift down, it’s always chaos to that nation and that people, that turns down the gift of God. 47 Jesus was the greatest Gift God ever give to the world. And the Jewish people turned It down, and scattered throughout the world from that time since. And when God sends a gift, and the people refuses to see it, and refuses to take it, then it’s scattered, the people is, and they, like sheep having no shepherd.

2148 And I think if we, tonight, would only do as they did in the days of Solomon! God sent a gift of discernment to Israel, and He put it upon Solomon. And as soon as the people saw that this great power of God of discernment was upon Solomon, they cherished the gift, honored the man, made him king. And any Bible scholar knows that that was the golden age for Israel, the days of Solomon. It was called the golden age. Israel prospered, they built the temple. Hardly any wars at all, all nations feared them because that they had honored what God sent to them. 49 Oh, if tonight…You talk about a bomb shelter, they’re trying to dig so many hundred feet beneath the earth to find a place to make steel places, so that you can escape the atomic bomb. Well, anyone knows that that bomb would hit the earth and blow a hundred feet deep, if you were five hundred foot below it, it would break every bone in your body. But there is no shelter here on earth, but one, there is a shelter, and it’s not made out of steel, it’s made out of feathers, under His wings, is the place to stay, is the best shelter that I know of, is beneath His protecting wings.

2250 Now, in the days of Solomon, all gathered around, and rallied around that great gift of God that was sent to the Church and to the people. Now, what if America today, would rally around the Gift that’s been sent them? What if we would all of the American people, where this great Gift has been poured out in these last days, the Gift of the Holy Ghost, what if all the ministers, all the laity, all the churches together, would rally around the Holy Ghost, the Gift of God, that’s been sent to us to guide us, and direct us, and set us in order? But we got so many bishops, and archbishops, and men. 51 God intends the Holy Spirit to lead the Church, that’s our Leader, that’s the One that was sent to us, and we’re to be dominated by Him and Him alone, that directs us. Then we stay in the Word, level in the Word. The Holy Spirit feeds you sheep Food, and sheep Food is the Bible. And it feeds on the Holy Spirit. The soul that’s hungering for God, feeds on the Word of God. Now, if we would all rally around that, it…we wouldn’t have to dig one foot under the ground, we wouldn’t have to fear any atomic attack, because we would already be in the safety, there wouldn’t be any confusion among us, we would all be rallying around.

2352 And nations, Russia, oh, Russia is just as hungry for it as we are. And Finland, when that little boy was raised from the dead that night, been killed in that automobile accident, as you all know, and, in the books it’s printed, and the little boy, I’d seen him two or three years before, in a vision, wrote, I had the people to write it in their Bibles, that it would come to pass, when that little boy was raised from the dead that afternoon, that night when I went down to the Messuhalli, there were thousands of Russians standing there, and them soldiers standing there with that Russian salute, the tears running off their cheeks, said, “We will receive a God like that.” Sure. They come to find God, and you give them a bunch of creeds. They want something real that they can take a hold of. I don’t blame them.

2453 That’s what started communism, when the church let down and let people feed out of trash cans. A hungry child will eat from a garbage can, the only reason he does it, because he’s not invited to a clean table. It’s the church’s fault. Absolutely, it’s the church’s fault. God didn’t intend such as that. But they find the weakness, and just no more than belonging to a lodge, when you belong to the church. Shame on us! When people come to the church, we ought to have all the spiritual gifts, and the power of God operating that would make them people thirst. 54 Did not Jesus say, “Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its savour, it’s henceforth good for nothing, but to be trod under the foot of man”? That’s exactly what they’ve done with it. When the salt lost its contact of strength, when the church lost its power, it becomes no more than any other lodge. It’s true.

2555 But salt is the savour if it contacts, if it’s got any strength in it. If you got meat here , and salt here , you got to get them together, it’s exactly right, to save the meat. It’s…Salt saves if it contacts, but if the salt has lost its strength, you could pour it all over the meat, and it would ruin, anyhow. 56 That’s what’s been the matter, people joining church, putting their name on the book, without knowing Christ as their Saviour, without being filled with the Holy Spirit. Men hungering for God, coming into the church, and finding nothing, just the bare, a little intellectual talk about some star, moon, or something like that, or who’s going to be the next president. Those things are all right, but not in the pulpit, the pulpit is the judgment seat, it’s where God’s power ought to be preached in His power and His…It’s exactly right.

2657 But, in the days of Solomon, how different! They all rallied around. Oh, that was just wonderful! And when they all rallied around this gift, what happened? His fame, and the fame of God begin to spread out through all different nations. 58 Now, them days they didn’t have televisions, and—and telegrams, and—and telephones, and so forth, the only way they sent message was from lip to ear. And everybody passing through, all Israel, could you just imagine? Israel’s heart burning, when some stranger would pass through, “Oh, you should go up to the temple. The Lord our God has sent a gift, it’s abiding upon our Brother Solomon. God has made him a king before us, and that gift is upon him. You should come and see the wisdom of discernment that that man has.” 59 Why the people would pass by, their hearts would be happy, they would go tell somebody else. And the fame of Israel spread worldwide until it come to the utmost parts of the earth, way down in Sheba. Now, that at that time, I suppose, was the far ends of the earth, of the civilized, known world at that time.

2760 There was a little queen down there, and let’s think that she was a pagan. And every time a camel caravan would come through, somebody would, coming from up around in Palestine, that’s all the way across the Sahara Desert, now, would come down in there, and say, “Say, you know what? You should go up into Palestine. Those people up there has got a God, they call Him Jehovah, and He’s not a dead God, He’s a living God. He isn’t an idol, why, He’s living right in a man called Solomon. Why, you never seen such in your life! Why, his power of discernment is far beyond anything a human could think of. They got something that you can lay a hold of and say that their God lives.” 61 You know, “Faith cometh by hearing.” So many people testifying, it come to a place that the little queen’s heart begin to come alarmed. Well, after while she, hearing so many testimonies, and faith cometh by hearing, no discord about it at all, “You should go see, one hundred percent right, every person comes up. You should look at it, it’s a wonderful gift from God. And they got a great God.”

2862 Well, this little queen, let’s just think it this way, one day she set down and she read her pagan scriptures. Well, it was promising about a great god that lived in this idol, or something another ; and grandmother had knowed it, and grandfather had thought of it, and so forth. But after while she come to hear these testimonies, it wasn’t some written theology, it was a living reality. 63 And I’ll tell you, if…there’s not a person in the world that ever come from behind the curtain into this light that we live in, called life, but what wonders where he goes when he goes beyond here. It’s just a instinct in a man to do that. We all seek, we want to know what’s beyond the curtain, we’re searching for that. 64 The little queen begin to hunger, thought, “Oh, if I…I believe I’ll go. And after while she made up her mind, “I’m getting tired of listening to others telling me about that, I don’t know whether it’s right or not, but I’m going to see for myself.” That’s the way to do it. Go, find out for yourself, don’t stand home and criticize.

2965 When Philip found Nathanael he said, “Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” He said, “Now, could there be any good thing come from Nazareth?” 66 He said, “Come, see.” That’s the best thing to convince yourself. “Come, find out.” Philip give Nathanael the best answer any man could give, “Come, be convinced yourself.”

3067 Well, the little woman thought she would go and be convinced whether it was right or not. But now, she had a lot of things to face her, a lot more than you and I have, to try to find out truth. 68 First thing, before she could go, she was a queen, and she was in great authority, and no doubt that her name on the great church book there, was pretty heavy, so the first thing she ought to do, would be go talk to her pagan priest, and ask him permission if she could leave the church and go up and find out about this other religion.

3169 Why, you could just imagine what kind of an answer she got. Why, I can just see that pagan priest, you know, standing there, and say, “Now, wait a minute, daughter, you know, you don’t want to follow vain philosophies like that, because I tell you, if there was any god alive, it would be our god.” 70 You know, we may not have pagan, but we’ve got the same kind of priests, all right. Yes, sir. “If God was going to do anything supernatural, He would do it here in our church. He wouldn’t go over there and do it, He would do it here.” But, you know, the thing of it is, God does it where He wants to, and how He wants to, and it’s not up to us to question God.

3271 Then we find out, I can see the priest say, “Now, look, daughter, your grandmother, your great-grandmother, and way behind her, all worshipped this great idol here, it’s a great god.” 72 She said, “Yes, sir, that’s probably true. I’ve got all the scrolls on it, but I’ve heard all this scroll over, and over, and over, and over, what he would do, what he would do, but I haven’t seen him make one move.” That’s a good answer. “I haven’t seen one thing. All I see is a chunk of stone setting there.” 73 And if that’s all you got, brother, you’re just as, about as bad off as she was. That’s right. Some big chunk of stone of a building, or something another , that’s called, “This is my church, this is my denomination.” Them are all right, but that’s not what I’m talking about, I’m talking about a living God, One that’s not dead, One that’s alive right now, One that’s here, just as real as He ever was real. He promised it.

3374 And then, she say, “Why, look, sir, I’ve never seen him move, I’ve never seen him do anything, my grandmother never saw him do anything, and neither did her mother. And I’ve lived up till this time, and I hear that there is One that is alive, I’m going to see Him. No matter what you think, I’m going, anyhow.” I like that courage. Find out for yourself. She said, “Now, if it isn’t right, I’ll come back and tell you it isn’t right, but I’ll know in my heart whether it’s right or not.” 75 Now, I can imagine before she started, that she had some thoughts in her mind like this: “What if it isn’t right? Or what if it is right? Now, if it is right, and there is a living God, that’s moving, alive among people, and showing Himself alive, not a stone, but a living God, if it is, I’m going to support it with everything I got, it’s worthwhile.”

3476 She saddled up her camels, and—and took great loads of silver, gold, myrrh, frankincense, she’s got ready to make her start. Now, she might have thought this: “If it’s true, I’ll support it. But if it isn’t true, I’ll bring my money back home.” 77 That’s a good thought for America. Maybe I oughtn’t to have said that. I’ll just wait a minute, let it soak way down. If it’s God, support it with prayer, with all that you got. Do everything that you can to press it forward, not so much with money, little money now and then helps it, of course, but, when it’s needed, help, but the main thing is keep the money as far out of it as you can, put yourself in there instead of your money. God wants you on the altar, not your money. It’s better for you to…And this…I… 78 This Easter coming on always just makes me kind of halfway, spiritually sick, my spiritual gastronomics can’t dissolve that when they go up and put a big pot of lilies on the altar. God don’t want lilies on the altar, He wants you on the altar, altars wasn’t built for lilies. Cain thought so, and you see what happened. The altar was built for you, you are the gift that wants to be on the altar.

3579 And she said, “If it’s not so, I’ll return back with my money.” Now, when she got her camels all ready…And of course there’s none of those people down there wanted to go, perhaps. And remember, she had a long journey, and she had to cross the Sahara Desert, and she didn’t have an air-conditioned Cadillac, she had a camel to ride on, and that hot, boiling sand. 80 No wonder Jesus said, “She’ll stand in the Day of the Judgment and condemn this generation.” She come plumb across that desert, taken her three months to do it, and some people won’t walk three minutes across the street to see the manifestation of the living God, living among His people, but will class them as a bunch of holy-rollers …?… No wonder this nation is due for judgment.

3681 There, she had to cross that desert. And remember, the sons of Ishmael was in the desert in that day, them fleet riders and great robbers. What a easy prey for that little army that she had with her, and a few maids along, the little lady setting upon a camel. Perhaps had to travel by night, the—the direct rays of that sun would burn her up, nearly, in the daytime. Hunting and seeing if they could follow a star by night to a certain water hole out in the Sahara, coming across. Oh, she had a lot of things to think about. 82 But listen, let me say this: When God ever speaks in a human heart and begins to draw them, there isn’t enough devils out of hell to stop them from getting to it, they’ll go to it. “My sheep hear My Voice.” Something begins to dig in a man’s heart. “There’s a God somewhere, I’m in search for Him.” He will search, and move, and hunt, and turn over until he finds It.

3783 And as David said in the days gone by, “When the deep calleth to the deep.” If there’s a deep calling, there’s got to be a deep to respond to it. Listen, if there no Scripture telling me that there was Divine healing, you people setting here tonight, I’d still believe that there was. Look, before there can be a—a creation, there has to be a Creator to create the creation. 84 Maybe that’s Greek to you, but listen, here—here some time ago, I read in a paper, a city below us, where a little boy was eating the erasers off of pencils, and the teacher was all disturbed about it and sent word to the mother. The mother found the little fellow out on the porch, eating the pedal off of a bicycle, rubber. So she taken him down to the clinic, and they examined the little fellow, and they found out that his little body needed sulfur, and sulfur was in the rubber. But before he could desire sulfur, there had to be some kind of a sulfur out there to respond to that desire, or he would have never desired it.

3885 And as long as human beings search, and hunger, and thirst, calling for the power of God, there’s got to be a power of God somewhere to respond to it. Before there can be a creation, there has to be a Creator in there creating that creation. 86 When a man longs to see God, there’s got to be a God somewhere that created that desire in him. If the deep is calling to a deep, there’s got to be a deep to respond to that, because the deep had to be first there to create the call that’s in you.

3987 Now, that little woman was on her road, everything against her. But when once, she got a feeling that God was a real God, God was real, she begin to thirst. Another one come in, said, “Oh, I seen him stand…One of the most mysterious things I ever seen, but he solved it right out under the power of his God, and told them exactly the answer.” Oh, it just shook the little queen. 88 She said, “Oh, I must see it! I must see it! I’m a human being, my life, my Eternal destination is before me, I must see it.” Nothing was going to stop her. You don’t think of dangers, you don’t think of criticism, you don’t think of what somebody else is going to say.

4089 When that Angel of the Lord met me up there that night…All my brethren in my church told me, said, “Them visions are, that’s the devil. You—you’re a spiritualist.” But when…I just couldn’t see why it could be, and me loving Him the way I did. When I met Him up there that night, oh brother, the deep was calling to the deep, and there was Something responded to it. 90 I went to the overseer of the church, he said, “Billy, you had a nightmare.” I said, “If that’s the—if that’s the way this church feels about it, here is my fellowship card.” Said, “Oh, I didn’t mean it that way. But, you know, such-and-such can’t happen.” 91 I said, “All right. I might as well give up the fellowship now, ’cause you’re going to kick me out after while, anyhow. So I might as well get started free and clean and get going.” So there it was. When the deep was calling, there’s something to respond to it.

4192 Now, some of them said, “This great big Goliath out here, medical science, and all this fine, cultured churches…” 93 I said, “I can’t help how much Goliath it is, God is still God. The God of David still lives, the God of Abraham still lives, the God of Jacob lives, the God that was in Christ is living tonight, He’s raised, and I know He’s real.” 94 There’s something that, no matter what the difficult is, you want to go, anyhow, because there’s…you got an objective. And if you’ll take the right motive towards that objective, you’ll get there. You’ve got to have the right motive towards your objective. That’s the way I always find the will of God, first, think if it’s the will of God, then my motive and my objective to it. If it’s the right motive, then the objective, I have.

4295 If God would say, “Go over here and preach at this group.” 96 I’d say, “Well, how much will I get in a—a love offering?” Course that’s all cut out, I get a hundred dollars a week no matter whether I preach or don’t. That settles it. So, but even before that, before I was on a salary, don’t make any difference where it was, the right objective is see what you could do for the Kingdom of God. Go where He leads you to go, no matter where it is, whether it’s little or small. 97 I’ve never permitted my meetings to grow or get any size. I don’t need much money, I have one little end of a trailer with two typewriters in it, two boys I’m paying, that’s all. Cause why? God might call me to a little place over here . 98 Just recently I held a revival in a church that held twenty. Then, if He wants me go overseas and preach to a hundred thousand, or two hundred thousand, whatever it is, He puts it upon somebody’s heart to send me over there the same time He gives me the call. Oh, it’s nothing like it! Live for Him, trust Him day by day, lead, where the deep calling.

4399 The little woman said, “I’m going, anyhow.” And across the desert, regardless of any of the things that people said, no matter, she pressed on. 100 Well, finally she arrived at the gate. I can see her take all the camel’s weights off of them, and put the gold in the tent. And now, she didn’t come just to say, “I’ll go in, I heard of this evangelist, I’ll go in and set down, but if he says one thing against my church doctrine, I’ll get right up and go out.” 101 That’s the 1960 version of it, people knowed better in that day. I think that shows poor raising in the first place. That’s right. “If it’s anything contrary to me, if he says one word, I’ll get right up and go out, I won’t listen to him no more. No, sir. I won’t listen to him.” 102 See, you don’t come with the right kind of a motive, you don’t come with the right objective of trying to find God, you’re just trying to get your knowledge all twisted up, you haven’t got a hunger of God yet. You get hungering for God, you’ll stay till it’s over, like she did.

44103 She put down her tent and everything, and got ready and camped out there in the palace court somewhere, and said, “I’m going to stay here till I see it through. If it’s right, it’s right; if it’s wrong, it’s wrong.” 104 So I can imagine seeing her go down in Jerusalem and buy all the Hebrew Scrolls there was, to find out just what kind of a nature this God was that they were talking about. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] 105 “…you think you have Eternal Life, and They testify of Me.” If the things you see did is not Scriptural, then don’t believe it. 106 That’s the way she was going to do, take the Scroll, and say, “Now let’s see what kind of a God this Jehovah is.” And she got all read up, she said, “I know just what He’s going to be now.”

45107 Now, if you would just do that, if the people of America would just have that much docity, if they would just absolutely have…give that much consideration to—to God! “Did He promise to do this? Is it His will? Did He promise He would? Is It the Holy Spirit? What kind of a nature is It? How does It act?” That’s what you ought to do. Find out if the Holy Spirit is… 108 Walk up and say, “I—I believe God Almighty, I believe Jesus is His Son. I take…” and be confirmed? Never was such a thing. You’re not confirmed, it’s being borned of the Holy Ghost, borned of the Spirit. 109 See if the thing is right. Search it over, and see if you’re supposed to be sprinkled, or baptized by immersing. See if you’re supposed to join the church, or be, or, receive the Holy Ghost. I’ve been with the Branham family, next Wednesday, fifty-one years, they never did ask me to join the family, I was borned a Branham, that’s the reason. And, I—I…You’re borned in the Church of the living God. It’s an experience. You become a new creature, you’re a child of God, a son of God.

46110 And if the Spirit of God dwells in you, It’ll bear record with His Own Word. If one say, “Well, that was for another day.” Remember, you ain’t got the Spirit of God in you. If the Bible said, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and forever,” you say, “In a certain way.” Then remember, that’s the devil in you. That’s right. It’s not God. God say, “Yes, sir, every Word, that’s amen. Amen, I wrote It. Amen.” Men of old, when they were moved by the Holy Ghost, wrote the Bible. How can the Holy Ghost ever deny It? 111 I’m not yelling at you. I been used to preaching outside, so, I’m…I know you’re not hard of hearing, but I—I’m not…I just feel religious, that’s all, I just—I just feel real good. It’s the Holy Spirit, ’cause I know the thing that I’m talking about is the truth, it’s God’s truth.

47112 That little woman moved up there. And I can imagine her, seeing the first day, comb her hair right quick, and wash her face, and get over there, she said, “I’ll see what all the congregation…” Here was people from everywhere, gathered into the big courts. And after while, after they would sing some of the Psalms, I can see Pastor Solomon come out, walk out, up to his seat, set down on his throne. 113 And the first thing, here come a case up. And as soon as it come up, she said, “Now, I’ll just see about this and see how this works, I heard there was so much wisdom. Now look at that poor little woman, or whoever it is, standing there, we’ll see about it.” 114 When it come up to Solomon, he told her exactly the right thing. Her little heart begin to beat, “My, that must be true. Let’s see these Scrolls, just exactly right, that must be right.”

48115 Day after day passed, she set, she would go in, maybe at nighttime, set by the candlelight, read, read, read the Scriptures, read Isaiah, read all the prophets, getting ready, wondering just what was going to take place. Go back the next day, and see that same God she had read about, living in one of His human, mortal creations, declaring Himself through that man. That man, so submitted to God, that God worked through him. Not the man, the man was just a man, like you or I. 116 This ain’t the Church today. It ain’t the…Peter called the Mount Transfiguration, once, “the holy mountain.” I don’t believe the apostle meant holy mountain, ’cause the mountain wasn’t holy, It was a Holy God on the mountain. It ain’t the holy Church, It’s the Holy Ghost in the Church that makes it holy. It ain’t a holy people, a holy man, there’s no such as holy man, holy church, or holy this , or that , It’s the Holy Spirit in the Church, in the people, the Holy God, moving Himself through the people. That’s it. 117 The Fountain, the inexhaustible Fountain of Life is Christ. You cannot exhaust His great love, and power, and willingness to do for you. His goodness and mercy, it’s beyond human understanding. We just lay in there and bathe in it, that’s all, in His mercies.

49118 Then she watched, day after day. Finally, it come a time to her prayer card was called, or whatever it might have been, might not have been a prayer card, but whatever it was, her time come to walk up before him. “Now,” she said, “I’ve got some things…” But the Bible said that there was nothing hid from Solomon, but what he knowed about her. Amen. Nothing hid, he told her all things. If that… 119 What kind of a Spirit was that on Solomon? Solomon? No, sir. It was the same Spirit that spoke to a woman at the well and told her where her… why she was living in adultery. And she went and—and told the people, “Come, see a Man Who told me all the things that I did!” She knowed if He could tell her that one thing, He could tell her all things. And there was nothing hid that Solomon didn’t tell her.

50120 What did she say? You know what she did? She stood publicly, before the audience of the people, and she said, “All that I have heard of you, all the good things that I had heard about you, they were true, and more than what I ever heard about you.” She had the experience herself. 121 And if you don’t believe the Holy Ghost is real, what you’ve heard about It, just get the experience yourself and see what happens. See if you won’t say, “More than what…” 122 I used to watch people enjoy the blessings of God, I thought it was all right, so I wanted it. But when you get it, then you’ll say, “It’s more than what I ever saw,” because it’s something that happened to you , when Christ reveals Hisself to you, not in a intellectual form, but in a new birth form.

51123 She stood up there, not only that, she recognized that that man had God in him, and that was a gift of God, she said, “All I heard is true, and even more than I’ve heard.” And she said, “Even blessed is the men that’s with you, blessed is the men that sets here with you daily, that sees this great gift of God performing. Blessed is the people that’s with you, that stand…” 124 Now, think about a pagan saying that. She witnessed that That was the true God. And Jesus said, “She’ll stand up in the Day of the Judgment, and will condemn this generation,” that’ll not walk across the street, or will walk in and set down, look around a little bit, and say, “Oh, nothing to that,” walk away.

52125 In the Day of the Judgment, if she will condemn that generation, just a few generations after Solomon, and Jesus said, “A greater than Solomon is here,” and it’s greater now than what it was when Jesus was here, for they told Him that He was a Beelzebub, called the acting of the Spirit of God as a spiritualist, or something, and called Him Beelzebub, because He did that, and Jesus said, “I’ll forgive you, but when the Holy Ghost is come, to speak a word against It, will never be forgiven in this world, nor the world to come,” so One of the greatest gifts that God has ever given was His Son, to sanctify a people that the Holy Spirit might show Itself, and still, that little woman, if she would condemn that, this is two thousand years later, what will she do when she stands in the presence of Tulsa, at that Day?

53126 What will she do, when she stands in the presence of the whole United States in this generation? She’ll condemn it, for she had no limitations. Her heart was hungry and she recognized it, she sought God, she looked over the Scrolls, she seen it was right, and then she accepted it, and stood and blessed him, blessed the people, and was so happy that she come. 127 I’m so glad, that one day I found it to be the truth. Oh, it’s been: Thou, the Stream of all my comfort, More than life to me, Whom have I on earth beside Thee? Or whom in Heaven but Thee. 128 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let’s embrace Him, the true Gift of God, the Son of God in the form of the Holy Spirit.

54129 Let us bow our heads. Before praying, with your heads bowed and your eyes closed, how many would like to be remembered in prayer tonight, saying, “Brother Branham, remember me before God. I recognize that the Holy Spirit is here on earth today, that the great powers of God still works through believers as Jesus promised, ‘The works that I do, shall you do also. He that believeth on Me,’” Saint John 14, “he that believeth on Me, the works that I do, shall he also”? 130 How did He make Hisself known Messiah? By knowing the secrets of their hearts. That’s always been a sign of God through the age. Would you like to be remembered? Raise your hands. God bless you, everywhere.

55131 As Thou has said in Thy Word, Lord, “Blessed are the eyes that can see, and the ears that can hear.” And truly, no man can come, except You draw Him. We thank Thee for the Holy Spirit. We thank Thee for these people that’s here tonight, that’s has received the Holy Spirit. We pray, Heavenly Father, that all here that has not received It, will receive It tonight. Cleanse their hearts from unbelief, and may they just, simple and childlike faith believe it, confessing, open up their heart, and He will certainly come to their—their abode. Grant it, Lord. 132 The services are drawing close now, Lord, to a prayer line, where Your servant, I’ll pray for the sick if it be Your will. I pray, Lord, that if there be sinners here, unbelievers, oh, they may be theologians, they may be staunch church members, but if they still haven’t received the Holy Spirit, or believe on Him, they’re still unbelievers.

56133 Truly, Lord, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and then God give him the seal of circumcision as a confirmation of his faith. So is it today, Lord. We might say that we believe, but until we receive the Holy Ghost, it’s never been confirmed, for it is written in the Book of Ephesians, 4th chapter and 30th verse, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the Day of your redemption.” Let it be tonight, Lord, that You’ll seal many away into the Kingdom of God, until the Day of redemption, may they become full believers tonight, and You confirm it by giving them the Holy Spirit. 134 O Lord, I would pray Thee, God, let Him come now and just humble our hearts, and bring us to a spot to where that He could work through us and in us to will His will, and to do His will. For we ask it, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

57[A sister speaks in tongues and a brother interprets—Ed.]

58135 Almighty One! Praise unto the Lord! Now, if you understand, friend, that’s the Spirit of the Lord speaking. Now, the Bible said, “If one speaks, another one interprets.” Now, the Lord said He was ready to unveil your eyes and show Himself to you. Oh, how wonderful! Aren’t you happy for it? Wonderful. 136 What prayer cards was given out? G. My son said they gave out fifty prayer cards: G, one to fifty. We will call those cards, just a moment. And now, usually, for the last few nights, we haven’t been giving prayer cards, we been having discernments, just the people praying. Do you like that? Oh, I—I just love that. But many people wants to have hands laid on them, and we’re right here to do that. Yes, sir.

59137 Now, G number one, who has it? Prayer card number one. Now… [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] …if He’s the High Priest, and does the Bible say, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever?” You believe that, sister dear? All right. You believe that He is? Do you believe it, little lady, setting here in the chair? You believe that He’s the High Priest? Okay. Now, He can be touched by the feeling of our—our infirmities. 138 If I could, my precious people, if I could, I’d come right down there and go around through the building and heal everybody here. I—I would just love to do that. I believe you believe that. I would do it, but I can’t, I can’t do it, it’s already done, Jesus has did that. He can’t forgive your sins, He’s already forgive them. But now, it won’t do you any good until you accept it, you believe it, you say, “Yes, Lord, I accept what You did for me,” then you’re saved.

60139 And then you say, “I want You to heal me, Lord.” He’s already done it, then you just have to accept what He’s done. Now, He’s the High Priest, setting at the right hand of Almighty God, making intercessions upon our confession, or profession, it’s the same word. So, whatever… 140 Now, He can’t do nothing for us till we already say that He’s done it. We have to confess it, or profess it, that He’s done it, then He can go to work on it and make intercessions. Is that right, brethren? Is that the Scripture? Making intercessions on our profession.

61141 Now, and the Bible said, in the Book of Hebrews, now, we have some of the best scholars in the world tonight, setting here, in the Book of Hebrews, that it’s written that He is a High Priest now, ever living, make intercessions upon our confessions, and He’s also a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. He…We can touch Him with our infirmity. 142 Then, if He is a High Priest, and He is, that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, then, if He’s the same…Hebrews 13:8 said, “He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever.” 143 Now, and He said, “The works that I do, shall you also.” Now, what works did He do to make people to understand that He was the Messiah? See? Because He showed them the sign of a prophet, that He was Messiah. They knew it, ’cause Moses said that He would be a Prophet. How many understands that? 144 How many knows that Jesus said in Saint John 5:19, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing”? Then Jesus Himself, that Word is true, He never did one miracle until God showed Him a vision on what to do. How about it? That’s right, a vision on what to do.

62145 Talk about visions! This brother, translator here, was telling me today that about forty percent of the Bible is visions. And we just…As he said, he made a beautiful illustration, said, “Pin your arm up and don’t use it for a few months, and find out what happens. It gets so weak it can’t be used.” 146 That’s what the church has done with these things, with all the gifts of God, you just pin them up, they’re not usable. See? Let them loose. Exercise faith, get some muscles in it. Let me tell you, faith has got hair on the chest. When faith speaks, everything else sets down. That’s right. That’s right. When it speaks, everything else shuts up. 147 Now, if Jesus is a High Priest that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, then do you figure, you out there that doesn’t have a prayer card, do you believe you could touch His garment tonight? Do you believe you could?

63148 Now, if you get real hysterical, and say, “Oh, I…Let—let me hurry, let me try.” No, you’re going to lose it right there. See? Faith is so simple, you don’t know you have it. That’s right. It’s just a gift. It’s just say, “Well, can you touch that Bible?” “Sure.” “How do you know you can?” “Only by faith, because it’s just become so common to me, I just reach out and get it.” 149 Well, that’s the way faith is, it’s just so simple, you just reach out and get it. Now you believe.

64150 You’re all strangers. How many in this prayer line is strangers? Raise up your hands, strangers to me, I mean. All right. How many out there is strangers to me? Raise up your hands. 151 Now, we’re not in some ouija board, like the devil. We’re out here before these floodlights and before the people, in the Presence of God to ask God to do what He said He would do. Now, this line here is not a line of discernment. We know we just pray for these people. Discernment comes from out there. See? These people…if…How many knows that when you would…? [A sister prophesies—Ed.] Amen.

65152 Have faith. Sweetly, have faith. Now just, I want you in the prayer line, now, watch the audience. See? And you pray, and just ask the Father, “Father God, Thou knowest my need, and You know that I have need of healing. Will You help me?” Just humbly, just come like that poor little woman with that blood issue, and she touched the border of His garment and was made whole. 153 Over here in the corner, did you raise your hand a while ago? You want—you want to be healed? You think your heart is going to be all right now, you’re going to be healed? You had heart trouble, didn’t you? Wasn’t you praying, “Lord, let it be me”? Raise up your hand it that’s right. All right. Your heart trouble is finished now. 154 Now, I do not know the man, but watch. What? Did he touch me? He’s thirty feet away from me. See? He touched Something, and Something spoke through me, that was all. Wasn’t me. I’m just like…This here microphone is a complete mute without there is something to speak through it, and that’s the way we are. How do I know that man? I never knowed what…How would I know was wrong with him? I don’t.

66155 Here, that you might know again, here sets a man setting right back here, suffering with heart trouble, little, blue-looking coat on with his shirt open. That’s right, isn’t it, sir? All right. He healed you right then. Your faith made you whole. See? 156 What did he do? He touched, not me, I don’t know the man, I’ve never seen him, but he was desperately, and he was praying, “O Lord, let Brother Branham speak to me.” Ask him if that’s right or not. Raise your hand if that’s right, sir. Raise up your hand if you was setting there praying for me …?… See? 157 Now, a God that can hear prayer, can answer prayer. Don’t you think so?

67158 This lady, setting right back here, got something wrong with her hands. You believe that God will heal you, lady, with something wrong with your hands, setting there? You want to be healed? All right. Your faith touched Him then, your hands will get well. 159 That lady setting right behind you there, she’s had an awful operation, and she’s praying, also, for get over that. Is that right, lady? Raise up your hand. All right. You’re going to get well. Where the doctors fail…Satan hid from the doctors, but he can’t hide from God, He knows right where he’s at, so he’s gone. Have faith in God. 160 This lady setting right over here close to where that baby is being rocked back and forth there, she’s praying about a foot trouble. But do you believe that God will heal the feet? If you believe it, all right, stand up, lady, so that they’ll know who I’m talking about. That’s it, you, right there, sister. Just tell God that you love Him. Do you love Him? All right, then you can go home and be well. The Lord bless you. That’s very fine.

68161 And by the way, when you set down, that lady right next to you was so thrilled, having that bladder trouble, but it’s gone, too, sister. You just stand up on to your feet and accept it, also. So, you’re healed. 162 You believe with all your heart? Now, you see, now we know His Presence is here. Now be reverent. Now, if… 163 Anyone knows that when a vision strikes, it weakens you. How many knows that? How many knows that the Son of God said, when a woman touched His garment, He said, “Who touched Me?” and He looked around, said, “I perceive that virtue,” that’s strength, has gone from Him. And that takes strength. What, would all these people here…? If the Son of God, one woman touching Him, and there’s seven or eight people across there, then…See? And you’re still touching, if I just speak, you see. It’s your—it’s your faith.

69164 But now, this line here, you believe. Now, Jesus said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” 165 Look, the other night, coming by, I laid hands on a little boy, blind, walked right out there and started down the steps, and received his sight. How many was here when that happened? Sure. Little boy, born blind, about sixteen, seventeen years old. Begin to scream back, “Oh, Brother Branham, I can see!” Sure. I can’t heal, I can just obey a commandment. See? That’s what I do here. When He told me that these things would come to pass… 166 And let me tell you something now. The new ministry that’s coming up, will be so far beyond this, till… It’s…I’ve already seen it working four or five times. They’s many of the people that’s with me knows that to be true. We’re facing ready for a great hour.

70167 But that you might know: Here’s a fine person standing here. We’re strangers to one another, are we, lady, you and I? Well, He don’t…But, I have no idea what’s…the woman. I…You said something, sister, I didn’t…Oh, I prayed for you before. Uh-huh. Of course, I wouldn’t know that. My! I don’t know what’s wrong with you now. God…Or if I…God knows that I don’t remember you, see. But just that the people might see that God is just as great here, out there…It’s just wherever your faith is. 168 Right now, just to settle down, see, I’m trying to throw myself off from you, to keep from your faith pulling this way. And the first thing you know, I’d just wilt right down, you just can’t stand too much. Pray for someone, then turn around, change the subject, and pray for someone again just to keep strength up, to keep my promise to lay hands on the American people.

71169 We never have to do it overseas, just one thing to be spoke out like that, the whole group just raises up, leaves wheelchairs, and everything else, and goes on home, it’s all over. See? 170 But there’s so many confusions of different teachings here in America, they don’t know what to believe. That’s right. One says, “Oh, telepathy.” Other one, “The devil.” One says, “Do this .” One…Poor people, listen, you…“Let every man’s word be a lie and God’s be true.” That’s just the only way to say it. He’s here, He’s already healed you, you just accept it.

72171 Now look, lady, if the Lord Jesus will reveal to me something of you, that, you know I don’t know nothing about you, and if the Lord Jesus will reveal something to me, that you know it has to come supernatural, would—would it make you believe better? It would? 172 Would it make the audience believe better? Now, she’s close to me, here, see, just real close. 173 Now, this is the same picture of Saint John 4, a man and a woman meeting for the first time, setting here, just a…Maybe the little well was a panoramic like this. Now, Jesus begin to talk to her. Now, you’re not the woman, and I’m not Him, but His Spirit still lives, see. In that time, It was in the flesh called the Son of God, and now we’re adopted sons of God, by His grace, so that His works can carry on, see, and still declare Him.

73174 The lady is very, very sick. She’s got a female trouble, lady’s trouble. That’s right. If that’s right, raise up your hand. 175 You believe now? 176 I keep feeling somebody saying, “He’s guessing that.” 177 Stop thinking that, you hurt the meeting. I’m not guessing that, that’s the power of God. 178 Here, stand still a minute. See now, just so as get that out of their mind. Let’s see, I don’t know what it was, but just a minute till I find it. Yes, you’ve been to a—a doctor. It’s a female…Yeah, not only that, you’re up for an operation. That’s right. And you have a kidney trouble, you have a bladder trouble. You’re not from this country, you’re from Missouri, your name is Ms. Hildreth. Now, go back up there and be—and be made well …?… you believe. God bless you, sister. Your faith has made you whole. Just believe with all your heart …?…

74179 You believe now as you come? If I don’t say one thing, will you believe if I lay hands on the sick? The rest of you going to believe it now? Come right on. 180 Everybody pray now for these people. 181 Father in Heaven, may the power of Almighty God rest upon the woman, and heal her. Amen. 182 All right, come. You believe, sister? What if I told you, you was healed while you was setting in the chair when That come upon you? It’s gone …?… 183 You believe now, sister? This whole church is praying for you. 184 Our Heavenly Father, I lay hands upon her and ask for her healing, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 185 Come. Now, you know that I know what’s wrong with you. But if I don’t say nothing, would you believe, anyhow? Then go eat your supper, your stomach trouble left you, you can go eat …?… You believe, sister? In the Name of the Lord Jesus, may she be healed.

75186 Come, sir. You believe the heart trouble left you when you come up step a few minutes ago? If I told you it did, would you believe it? Go on your road, just say, “Thank you, Lord Jesus.” 187 Come on. You believe with all your heart, sister, and that arthritis will go away, and you’ll be made well. Lord, I pray that You’ll grant it, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 188 Come, sister. Now, I…You know I know what’s wrong with you, don’t you? You want me to tell you? I believe you do. All right. Now, you’re awful young for that, but you got a nervousness. Now, that’s right, a mental nervousness, upset, and you’re, get real weary late of an afternoon and drop things, that’s exactly what you do. Got a mind that thinks, you’re always crossing bridges before you get to them. Forget it, go home, Jesus Christ makes you well. Believe with all your heart. Come. 189 Father God, in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I pray that You’ll heal and make well this woman. Amen. Go on …?…

76Father, I pray that, in Jesus’ Name that You’ll heal …?… You going to believe now, sister, for him? 190 Come, sonny boy …?… Don’t doubt. You going to believe for him with all your heart, sister? 191 Our Heavenly Father, You took the little boys and put Your hands upon them, and they were healed. I do this in, Jesus’ Name. Amen. 192 Believe now. The Holy Spirit is here, just the same Holy Spirit that knows all about things. Now, if you don’t doubt at all, he’ll get over it, and be all right. So just go believing. See? 193 Now, you people coming through, when you’re…you know, you keep thinking, you keep wondering, watching, see if I’m going to tell you. If I’m…They’ll come get me and take me out of the line, the rest of them won’t get through the line, see, so don’t do that. See, He’s still here. He knows—He knows all about it, He knows everything. Don’t you believe that?

77194 You believe that, lady? Are we strangers to one another? God knows us both doesn’t He? You believe God can tell me what your trouble is? If He will do it for this woman, will the rest of you believe for the rest of the night with all your heart? Raise up your hands if you say you will. Here’s my hands, I don’t know the woman, never seen her. All right. Just have faith. 195 Got broken ribs, that’s right, what’s wrong with you. Exactly right. You got a burden on your heart for somebody else you’re praying for. That’s your father-in-law, that’s right, and he’s blind, got cancer of the stomach. You mind if I say the rest of it? He was too poor to come to the meeting, he didn’t have money to come to the meeting. Here , put that on him in the Name of the Lord, take my handkerchief, and tell him he will get well …?… [Brother Branham prays for those in the prayer line, many of his words are indiscernible—Ed.] In the Name Jesus Christ …?… Father, I …?…

78196 Nervousness did it, made a peptic ulcer like, caused that acid in your mouth, and things, after eating. Go get you a hamburger, your faith makes you well …?… 197 Our Heavenly Father, I pray for this boy that the power of God will make him well. Amen. 198 And you’re passing under the cross for him, believe with all your heart. God bless you, sir. Have faith. 199 What do you think about the little baby? You, that’s what you want prayer for. You believe God could—could tell me what’s the matter? Would it help you? I see it’s a serious thing. It’s a brain trouble, kind of like mental retarded like. He’s had three operations of no good. You believe God can hear my prayer? 200 Then I cast the evil …?… 201 Don’t doubt, he will get all right …?…

79Lord, I pray that You’ll heal this woman, in Jesus’ Name …?… Come believing …?… In the Name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed. O God, I pray …?… Come, sister dear …?… In the Name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed. Don’t doubt. Go, believing. Come like you’re coming to the cross …?… Go—go believing with all that’s in you, now …?… [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] 202 Something happened in the audience. Somebody was healed in the audience. Just a moment, I’ll get it. 203 Are you the one to be prayed for? You believe God? Something wrong in your lungs, got trouble in your lungs. You just had a nervous breakdown. You’re not from here, you’re from California. You’re a minister, Mr. Alsup. Go home, be well. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.]

80O Lord, come, I pray, in Jesus’ Name, that You’ll grant it, Lord …?… Come, sister dear. 204 Everybody pray now. It’s weakness. Pray, pray, pray. In Jesus’ Name I pray, Father, that You’ll heal her. 205 Come, sir. Believe with all your heart and you can remove your trumpet, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Yes, I know you have, I know you have. Believe now. This little crippled boy? 206 O Lord, I pray that you’ll heal the little lad. May he return back, walking and rejoicing, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. Don’t doubt, now. You believe with all your heart. See? All right. Come sister, dear. Believe with all that’s in you. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, may she be healed. Amen. Come brother, with all the faith that you can, you believe. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may you be healed. Amen. Amen. Come, lady. O Father God, in the Name of Jesus Christ, may she be healed. 207 Pray, all the church, pray together now. Just, what if this is your children passing through here? Come …?… O God, I pray that You’ll heal the little lad and make him well, in Jesus’ Name. Amen …?…

81Come, sir. Lord, in the Name of Jesus Christ, grant his request Father. Amen. Come, sir. Heavenly Father, grant this request, and may she be healed for the glory of God. Amen. God bless you, sister, don’t doubt …?… God bless you …?… Father God, I pray that You will grant his request to him that he’s asking. In the Name of Jesus Christ, may it be so. Amen. Come now, believing with all your heart. Are you believe with all your heart? Come here just a minute. O Heavenly Father, I pray that, in Christ’s Name that You’ll grant this request, and may she be healed for the Kingdom of God’s sake. Amen. In the Name of Jesus Christ may He be healed, Father, for the Kingdom of God’s sake. Amen. Look how many people is praying for you out there, dad. You’ve got to make it, you’ve got to do it. Father God, in the Name of Jesus Christ grant her healing for Your glory. Grant it. 208 You believe for the little one? Bring him here. 209 O God… 210 Don’t doubt no more, see. Let…You—you try, but don’t do that. 211 Father, cursed be the devil that’s done this evil. May the child get well. 212 Do you believe that God heard that? I tell you, to be sure that you’ll know, you put a string around its head, and then you measure it tonight, cut the string off, then tomorrow morning, or, tomorrow night before you come back, measure it again, and then show me how much it’s shrank, lay it up here on the desk. And watch how much it shrinks between now and tomorrow …?… Have faith. 213 You going to believe, laying there? Going to believe, all of you? Have faith now, it’s just whatever you believe.

82214 Now, are you the…you to be prayed for? You believe the Lord Jesus? You believe me to be His prophet, or, His servant? You believe me to be His servant? Prophet staggers the people, see, I know somewhere they’re listening at me. Very weak, but do you believe that God will hear prayer? All right. 215 Listen, your trouble is in your side. That’s right. You got a loved one you’re praying for, and that loved one is in, kind of a mental case. That’s right. You believe they’ll get well? You believe that handkerchief you’ve got will catch it? Mrs. Hammer, that’s your name. You’re not from here, you’re from Oklahoma, Wagoner. Now, return back and take that handkerchief. Believe with all your heart, and Jesus …?…

83216 Do you believe, out there, with all your heart, each one of you? You believe, everybody? I’ll tell you what you do, if you can: Reach over and lay hands on somebody, lay hands on. Young man, lay your hands on little one, will you? Pray…That’s right, lay your hands right there on that little girl. All right. Someone walk over there and lay their hands on this lady on the cot. All of you, are you believers? Say, “Amen.” 217 Come here, brethren, take one of these mikes, each one of you. 218 Bow your heads. Jesus Christ the Son of God, Who is present now, knows your hearts. I am so weak I can’t hardly stand it now; you can realize the condition. Jesus said, “These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover.” If you’re a believer, just lay your hands on somebody, pray for them, and they’ll pray for you. Now, I’m going to pray for all of you, and God will hear my prayer, God will hear your prayer, and I don’t care what’s wrong with you, you just believe right now and you’re going to get well, everyone.

84219 A little girl that was crippled, setting in a wheelchair has raised up, in the Name of the Lord. 220 Now, Lord, I pray that Your power and grace will be sufficient at this time into the people’s hearts, like the queen of Sheba, may they stand today, proving God is in the midst of His people. 221 Satan, you who bound the people, I charge thee as a deceiver, I charge thee as having no power, you’re only a deceiver. Jesus Christ triumphed over all the powers you have, and stripped you from every power. You’re deceiving the people, and you’ve been exposed tonight. Come out of this audience, in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave them people! 