Awakening Jesus (63-0117)
 

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Good evening. As always, a privilege to be in the house of the Lord.
How surprised I was to see this boy here from–this Arkansas friend of
mine. A long time, I believe the last time I seen you was up in
California, wasn't it? My. You still in California? Here? Think I'll
have to move out. All the east is coming west. And well, everybody
happy? That's right. Well, I think this is about our sixth service now,
and we got to go on through next week, and–and up until next Monday
night. Now, don't forget Monday night at Tucson, the banquet, and we're
expecting a great time down there this coming Monday night.

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I was talking to Brother Williams and Brother Rose today, and so I
said, "You know, I'm going to start praying for the sick." I said, "I
keep them poor people there every night till about ten or eleven
o'clock." I said, "I feel real ashamed of myself of doing it like
that." And I do apologize for holding you so long, but I don't get to
see you too often, and… I can't make that excuse, 'cause I do worse
than that at home. See? Sometimes start in of a morning early and
preach till that afternoon, and some time, or just whenever we get
ready to go home. And we just set around like, just as thick as we can
be, so just have a good time.

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Nice to be here, Brother Groomer, where… Right…?… Yeah, I–I did.
He was kind of hid from me. Wasn't I? I was here last year when we come
on, wasn't I? I thought so. Remember the place and the church. So happy
to be here tonight. God bless all of you.

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And now we're expecting the Lord to–to–to heal the sick tonight.
We're… Kinda changed the program a little, and I'm… Get into the
message of preaching the Gospel, or what I try to think, my very best
of my knowledge, and then I–I get started and I just don't know when
to stop. I just keep on going, and I keep you too long. And then I
thought it would be a good time tonight, after so many nights of
preaching, just to try now and pray for the sick. So today we've kind
of prepared for it and waited on the Lord. And I begin to notice last
night the way… You have to kinda go the way He leads you to go, you
know. You–you feel something move you, and directly visions will
break, and you know that it's something coming near then.

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Then today I was going out through, in the… I was in the–my motel,
and the Holy Spirit said go a certain way. And there was a swimming
pool out there, and I thought maybe some little child might've got
drowned. I went across there, happened to look over, and I seen some
people; they're setting here in front tonight. They know how that was
the Lord Who got there, and just what He said is just exactly the
thing. So I knew then it was time to start praying for the sick.
And now, we are going to approach Him now by prayer before we approach
His Word. And you're such a nice audience. You've been so attentive
each night. I know some of you have to get up and go sometimes
before… Now, I know that's not because you just want to walk out. You
got to catch busses, and you've got to go to work. I–I realize that.
And now, let's bow our heads just a moment now for prayer.
Now, I notice there's just about as many standing back there as there
is setting out here. And we want… We know that God will answer their
requests just the same as He does anywhere. Now, do you have a request?
Let it be known by an uplifted hand. God will hear.

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Our heavenly Father, we are now coming into the Presence of Jesus, in
the–in His Name. And we're going to the throne of grace to ask for
pardoning of our sins, 'cause knowing day by day we do fail Thee. Every
hour of our life, seldom one passes without we have to stop, say,
"Lord, forgive me. I–I didn't mean to do it just that way. I should've
done it this–this other way." Then, we know, Lord, that You're always
so full of mercy and ready to forgive Your children. You listen to
their faintest cry. We're so glad that we have an advocate.
And we pray, Father, tonight for this church, for our beloved brother.
All these years around here knowing him, and finding him, his
character, a wonderful servant of Christ, how we thank You for a man
like that. I… It's such a privilege, Lord, to be among he and his
people, and to associate with them, and coming together to fellowship
with them around the Word of God. We pray, Lord, that You'll move in on
the high tide tonight and will–and will give these blessings. So glad
to meet old friends that I knowed years ago in the beginning of the
ministry.
And now, Lord, we pray together that You'll bless us as we assembled
ourselves together tonight in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. We've
assembled for that purpose, Lord, and we pray that–that You'll meet
our needs tonight, and answer our requests to Thee to heal the sick,
save the lost, and encourage those who are discouraged. We ask in Jesus
Christ's Name. Amen.

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Now, we want you that want–wishes to tonight, to turn in the blessed
old Word in the book of St. Matthew's Gospel the 8th chapter. And we
want to start reading from–setting today from Matthew the 8th chapter,
beginning with the 23rd verse.
After leaving today from Brother… or Brother Williams and Brother
Jewel Rose leaving from where we were at, I–my mind fell upon an
occasion. And so I just reached over… Because we had been speaking
and the Holy Spirit had drawed real near to us. So just as they left
out, I thought, "Oh, my. Now, He'll surely speak." And I picked up in
my mind an incident in the Bible that taken place, quickly turning to
it. And I got some little Scriptures to go with it, and drew from it a
text and wrote down a few notes on it. I'd like to pass these to you.

^E-8 First let us read now in St. Matthew the 8th chapter and begin with the 23rd verse.

That's quite a striking little text, or Scripture. And I'm going to take a odd text from it: "Awakening Jesus," Awakening Jesus.

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It must have been a–a hard day for Him. He was tired. His body was
worn out. You know, as He went along the people drew God out of Him.
They drew their desires from Him, and when they did… We won't try to
go into details to explain that, because there's no one can do it. How
can we explain things that we don't know?
That's the reason there's no way at all of ever being saved until
you're ready to accept what you cannot explain. See? You've got to
believe. "He that cometh to God must believe that He is." Now, there's
no way of scientifically proving that, but you must believe it anyhow.
And if you could prove it, then it would no more be an act of faith.
And faith… God has so hid Himself until you have to believe that He
is, without seeing and know that He's there anyhow. Whether you see it
or not, you believe it. Surely you believe it anyhow.

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Now, I think that's marvelous, and that gives illiterate people like me
a chance–everybody, to believe it, because we hear it, and faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God. Then we accept that,
and believe that. And upon the basis of our faith in that we are saved,
healed; and whatevermore we draw from God comes from an unseen
resource. Christians…
The whole armor of Christianity is faith. Everything that we have is
unseen. The only things that's real is unseen, unexplained. The things
that can be explained are not real. They're superficial and die. But
the things that cannot be explained are immortal, the whole realm. Look
at the armor of Christianity. Love, what part of you is love? Love,
joy, faith, long-suffering, meekness, patience. See? None of those
things… You can't see them. They're unseen, but yet we believe them.
Love never dies. Faith is a–is the victory. We believe things that we
don't see.

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Now, in Jesus was God. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to
Himself, and these people believed His testimony. And them that did
truly believe it could draw God's blessings from Him. And when they did
so, He said virtue went from Him. Virtue is strength. He… In other
words, if we'd say it today, he got weak when the people drawed off of
Him. Well, if it worked that way in that human body, it'll work in
another human body.
And we create a–our atmosphere around us, each one of us. You've been
with people that were nice people, but you just couldn't hardly be
around them. Then you've been with other people that you just loved to
be around them. You create that atmosphere. And, oh, wouldn't you have
loved to have been around Jesus just a… Wonderful. See what that
atmosphere He created would've been. I imagine it was just one great
big bundle of love, and respects, and godly fear.

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Now, I have often heard people say… Many of you, I guess, has already
played the tape of that last vision up there. Why, I'm right here in
Arizona now. And that was… Oh, my. If you get it, it's "What Time Is
It, Sirs?" And if–if you get it–ever bought a tape from us, get that
one. Now, they're not mine. They belong to another company that's with
us, with the tapes. And they're not mine, so… But I know the boy has
them.

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And I never had anything like that to happen. Some of them say, "When
you're in the Presence of God, why don't you ask Him this or that?"
It's–it's different than what you… See, what many people calls the
power of God is only the blessings of God. The power of God's
altogether different from the blessings of God. The power of God… In
His Presence you just don't know what to do. You just… You're–you're
so–you're so scared till you're numb all over. There's two days, even
in my back and the back of my head, and up and down my body, I couldn't
feel at all. And so, it just perfectly numbed with such a fear, when
that constellation of angels… Standing right here, not… Just
standing looking at them like I am now. And if–if you think that would
be, "Oh, well…" No, if you're actually there and see it, it's
different.

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And now, the Lord Jesus, being Emmanuel, must've been tired, virtue had
gone out of Him. And He had a big job ahead of Him the day before, when
He landed over on the other side, as we all know, 'cause He was going
over into Gadara. And there's where He found this maniac. He thought,
perhaps, when the ship was crossing the Galilee, which probably taken
quite a little while, He just took the advantage of the opportunity to
take a little rest. That's no more than–than natural, what anybody
would do.
They'd entered the ship with Him and brought Him aboard. And they had
went across the sea to preach over on the other side, and Jesus saw
this glorious opportunity, being tired and weak, because He was human.
And now, He wasn't immortal then. He was a man, and He had to die.
That's the reason God had to be made a man in order to die.

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Now, there He was, and sleepy and tired. His disciples took up the oars
and set the sail. In those days, they had… If they had any wind they
could tack the ship and–and it could blow by sail. And sometimes if it
was too slow, yet it helped out a little on the pulling of the oars,
they'd take the oars and go along with it. And with the sail also they
could really make pretty good time. One set in the back. Usually on a
big ship like that, about eight or ten men to oar it, why, they had
a–a rudder, one man taking care of this rudder in the back if it was
sailing. Then if it was oaring, of course, they could tie down the
rudder and pull with their oars.

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Now, let's just think they had the sail up, 'cause there must've been a
little wind blowing, from what taken place after a bit. And anyone
knows that part of Galilee, or down in there… Oh, my. Anything can
happen at any time. And so they were on the road sailing across. And
Jesus must've went back in the back of the little boat, and curled up,
and laid down in a little pile back there so He could just take some
rest, and be recuperating from His loss of strength, for His service
that laid ahead.
And the disciples must've been rejoicing with one another over what
they had been seeing Him do. It must've been a wonderful time for them,
'cause they were–they were having a time testifying, maybe, with one
another. And maybe they were discussing some things that they had seen
Him do. And now, let's stop here just a minute and listen to their
discussion.
They might've discussed the–the place when He had said something like this, "I AM THAT I AM."

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When He said… They said, "Our fathers eat manna in the wilderness and
was under Moses," and Jesus said, "And they're every one dead." There's
only two made the promised land (See?): Joshua and Caleb. "They're all
dead, but I am the bread of Life that come from God out of heaven. A
man may eat this Bread and not die." Changed, it was different. How
could He be the Bread? They might've went through that.
And they might've went through… Being that there's perhaps strangers
here for the healing service, I might say this. They might've said…
Now, that would be one thing that He claimed, that He was that I AM
that was in the burning bush. 'Cause they said, "You're a man not over
fifty and you say you seen Abraham. Now we know you're crazy." See,
"mad" means "crazy." "And you're not over fifty years old" when He was
only thirty. But said, "You're just about fifty years old, and you–you
said you seen Abraham? Now we know you're crazy." See?
But He said, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Oh, my. Not only had seen
Abraham, but "before Abraham was, I AM." And He's just as much I AM now
as He was then. Now, you remember, I AM is not I was, or I will be. I
AM is constantly, all the time, same yesterday, today, and forever: I
AM.

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And then they might've said, "Well, now, here's one reason that we know
that He was Messiah, because he–we know…" Now, He'd done went to
sleep now. "And we know that He's bound to be Messiah, because we are
told by the Scriptures what this Messiah will do when He comes." Now,
that is good philosophy for anyone in good, sound, orthodox doctrine.
That's what I was trying to get to last night, up at the other–Mesa.
Always judge not after emotion; judge after the Word. It's got to be
the Word. Now, watch the Word and what the Word says, then know that's
right, because God said that. That makes it right. Now, and they were
judging Him now after the Word.

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Now to find out whether He was Messiah, you could go back to the man
who gave them the law. God gave it to them, of course, but Moses
brought it off the mountain from God. And he told them that he'd leave
them someday, but the Lord God would raise up a prophet like him, liken
unto him, a lawgiver, a–a king-prophet, and–and it would come to pass
that every one that refused to hear this Prophet would be taken from
among the people.
And now, they noticed that when Jesus come… And all down through the
Scriptures they had a commandment, the Jews did, that "If there be one
among you who is spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord, will make myself
known unto him in visions. And what he says comes to pass, then hear
that prophet, for I'm with him. But if it doesn't come to pass, then
don't hear him." Now, that's just logical. That's just sensible.

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Like when there was a man stood up one time, Jeremiah, a major prophet.
The Lord told him that–that Judah was going to be down in Babylon for
seventy years. Said, "Don't you listen to a dreamer, to a prophet, or
anything that says contrary to that; he put a yoke on his neck." And
Hananiah… Now, Hananiah was a prophet. And not only that, but he was
the son of a prophet, his father was a prophet. And he came up under
inspiration and took that yoke off of his neck, and broke it, and said,
"THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'In two years they're coming back.'" The people
could clap their hands on that. My, that was good. They wanted to
listen to Hananiah, but it was contrary to the Word. It wasn't with the
Word. You see?
Therefore Jeremiah, he said, "Hananiah, amen. The Lord grant your words
to come to pass. But wait a minute; let us remember there's been
prophets before us. And when the prophet prophesies, and he is
known…" The prophet is known when his prophecy comes to pass.

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I see some Indian friends setting here. I was reading on their history
some time ago in early Christian days of the Indians, and they had to
follow the game to live. And if there come a prophet among them, and he
prophesied and told them where the game was, he become chief. But if he
prophesied a lie, that was the end of his road. They got rid of him
right now. He didn't live no longer.

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Well, that was the same basis that God did. God told Jeremiah,
"Hananiah has lied. I never told him that." See, it's contrary to his
Word. "And he'll be off the earth within a year." In the seventh month
he died. He took him off the earth. Now, you see, although he was
inspired, but it was contrary to the Word… No matter how forceful a
preacher can preach, how well he can make it look, if it's contrary to
the Word, leave away from it. Stay away from it, clear.
It's the Word; that's God's program, the complete revelation of what He
was, what He is, and what He will be. It's a continual revelation of
Jesus Christ. And the complete revelation of Jesus Christ is this
Bible. Anything revealed contrary of Him, telling what He would do,
what He is now… "Oh, that was in days past." Don't you believe it.
It's got to be the same Jesus (See?), and that's the Word.

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Now. Now we find out that these disciples might've talked of the case.
Maybe Peter might've said, "You know, I was thinking myself, that I
remember my father telling me that there'll come a great commotion
someday. They've always had little up-spurts. That there'd be… Before
the coming Messiah there'd probably be false messiahs rise. But he told
me, 'Son, remember this one thing. We are Jews. We are God's chosen,
and we have a commandment from our heavenly Father that–and know that
that Messiah will be a prophet. And if the prophet is only known when
he speaks and what he says comes to pass, so he will know then that
that is Messiah.'"

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And when Peter walked up into His Presence by the invitation, perhaps,
of Andrew, his brother, who had heard Him, and seen the day that when
John announced Him, and that was Him. And John, he saw the Spirit, he
heard the Voice. Nobody else heard It or saw It, just him. All the
thousands standing there, nobody saw It but John, It was sent for him.
"John bare record, seeing the Spirit of God descending, and a voice
from heaven."
When Paul was stricken down by a Light that blinded him, none of the
rest of them saw the Light. It was so real to Paul till it blinded his
eyes. The wise men followed the star from Babylon all the way down. And
they kept time by the stars, crossed over every observatory, and not
one saw it. It was showed to the wise men. God chooses who He will
choose, does what He wants to do. He's God. And He'll never go contrary
to His Word, always with His Word.

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Now… And Simon might've said this, "You know," while he was
roaring–oaring across the–this lake and Him asleep in the back of the
boat. He said, "When I walked up in His Presence and He said to me,
'Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas,' that settled it for
me. I knowed then that that was truly the Messiah, because He told me
exactly the truth, never seeing me."
Philip could've had the testimony of getting Nathanael, and He told him
where he was at before he come. They could've talked about the woman at
the well. They could've talked about blind Bartimaeus, who touched His
garment by–standing a hundred yards from Him, perhaps, and his–his
faith in God touched Him. The woman who touched the border of His
garment, all these things proved that He was Messiah. What a great
time.

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Now, then they might've discussed the attitude of the people towards
Him (Now, we're… They're crossing the lake all the time.)–towards
Him. Some said… Some believed, some didn't believe. That's the same
as it is today. Some people believe it. No, you could… No matter how
plain it would be vindicated, some won't believe it. And there's some
of them so spiritual that the first little nod, they get it, and others
can be pounded day and night and they never get it.

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Let me stop a minute on this and explain something. Seeds that fall in
the earth, if they're germitized, they grow when the sun strikes it,
moisture, conditions. But if they're not germitized, the sun could
shine on them, they'd just rot away the same. There's nothing happens.
We are germitized. Our names were called, put on the Lamb's Book of
Life before the foundation of the world. No matter how religious we
are, that has not one thing to do with it. Sometimes it's against us.

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And I feel at home with such a fine brother as Brother Groomer here,
and these other brothers here. I–I feel just to say this. Notice
Jesus. We know now He was Messiah. And when He come and showed Himself
Messiah upon religious people: Pharisees, Sadducees, all from, priests
from the lineage of Aaron. For hundreds times hundreds of years their
great-great-great-great-great-great-great (way back) grandfathers were
priests, studying the Word, studying the prophets. And the prophets
plainly spoke of this. But when Jesus come and performed that, they was
as blind as a bat.
Religious to the dot, smart, intelligent, intellectual as they could
be, far beyond one of us today, trained in the Word, raised from a
child, and when the real truth splashed across in front of them and
that Light shone, they said, "This man… We can't figure that out, so
he must be a devil, Beelzebub. He has a great powerful mind. He can
read the mind of the people." A telepathist we'd call it today. They
didn't understand.

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But now look. One day over at Sychar, a little city of Samaria, and
Jesus passed through and set on the side of the wall. And a little
woman, ill-famed, bad name, she had a lot of husbands she oughtn't to
had. And here she come up to get some water, and Jesus said to her,
"Give Me a drink. And bring a drink." And she told Him that they–they
couldn't do that. It wasn't right. See, it was an insult for her
to–for Him to ask a Samaritan woman such a thing. And He quickly told
her, "If you knew Who you were talking to…" Now, she didn't know it.
Said, "If you knew Who that it was talking to you, you'd ask Me for a
drink."
The subject went on for a moment. After while, Jesus, being sent up there to the well, said to her, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any." Still she was blinded (See?), because any
man could teach a theology (See?), or he can make any kind of a
statement. He can say whatever he wants to, that still don't make it
right.
He said, "Go get your husband."
She said, "I don't have any husband."
He said, "You've told the truth, for you've had five, and the one
you're now living with is not yours. You told the truth." Watch that
light, struck that germ of life. The plant went to growing. Quickly,
magic, quickly, this prostitute, out-scourged, kicked-out, not a
trained priest, a woman in bad life, but she was predestinated to
Eternal Life, and when that Light struck it, quickly she recognized it.
She said, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Now, we haven't had
one for four hundred years, but yet we know that there's coming a
Messiah. And that Messiah will be a prophet, and He'll tell us these
things." See, she knowed a Man that told her that wouldn't tell her a
lie.
And He knew it, and He said, "I'm He that speaks with you."
She never asked another question, but into the city, and said, "Come,
see a Man…" Look at the difference. See, when that Light strikes,
it'll either blind or bring to life. See? It's got to, life, Bible,
Scripture.

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Now, there could've been many things that people could've talked about.
Some of them said like this, "Never a man spake like this Man." Some of
them believed. Said, "This Man seems to have an authority. He seems to
be so positive in what He talks about. We never seen a man that could
stand up and just speak things like that. We've heard priests talk.
We've heard rabbis, priests, and all, everything, and lectures, and so
forth. But this man talks with authority. He knows what He's talking
about. Never a man spake like that."
Some said, "He's Beelzebub."

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It must've been John, a young fellow, you know, thinking fast. Must've
been him that said, "Just think of it. The One that could take five
biscuits and two fish and feed five thousand (Amen.), the One that
knows the secret of the heart. He's with us in the ship. We've got Him
right here. Brethren, you're testifying," he might've said, "But the
One that we're thinking about, He's right here with us."
That's the same thing right now, the One that we preach about, the One
that we talk about… What good is a God of Moses if He isn't the same
God today? The One that we talk about is here with us. Oh, what a thing
to think about.

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And then (You see?), also they were on a dangerous lake. And what a–a
feeling of security, while sailing the–the tornadoed lake, to know
that One laid with them on the ship. How secure you can be. When the
seas are troubled, when they're not troubled, just don't make a bit of
difference. As long as you know He's laying right there, what
difference does it make? Let come, let go what may, doesn't make a bit
of difference. It's there, I know it. You say, "I… Bless the Lord."
Doctors say you're going to die with a cancer, just say, "Glory to God.
Quick trip home, maybe." See, and they don't mind.

^E-33 Talking to a group of doctors the other day. He said, "I read your book on Divine healing."
I said, "I guess you criticized it."
Said, "No, sir. I admit that you're right."
I said, "Thank you, Dr. Schoen."
He
said–he said, "Brother Branham, we have record that when we tell a
person that's got a malignancy, or–or something's going to kill him,
ulcer ready to burst, or tubercular, it depends on what attitude they
take. If they get all tore up," said, "they die right away." But said,
"If they take the attitude, 'Well, dying's just part of living. It's
all right when I die,'" said, "You know, it almost retards that case?"
Now, I just thought, "If that mental attitude, taken like that, what
will it do when the Holy Spirit strikes that inner man? There it is."
It's… I asked him that.
He said, "Certainly, that's right. If you can move into a spot, move up
into that…" One of the best surgeons and doctors there is in the
southland. He said, "If it's… Mr. Branham, it can be proved. If a man
will move–can move up into that spot until even his own mind don't
even know he's got it, to think he's got it, and don't even pay any
attention to it," said, "it would do it. See, if he can believe that."

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That's true. See, the mental attitude you take towards it will bring…
Now, the mind won't do it, but if you give that attitude towards
something's got life in it, then that life comes down and does it. Not
your mental attitude that only brings you in the Presence of Him.
That's what you do. Your mind… The five senses is all right as long
as they don't deny God. But when they go to denying God, then you leave
them alone. God controls them. That's the Creator.
Now, what a security, as I said, sailing this treacherous sea, knowing
that He's laying right in the boat. There's something them disciples
was that night like we are tonight, they were enjoying the effects of a
meeting, after the revival, feasting on the results of the revival.

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Now, Brother Groomer and Brother here, and many others, about fifteen
years ago we come through this country and there was a revival. My. And
you know what we're doing today? Just talking about it. The revival's
over. It's been over a long time. We're just living on the results of
it, waiting.

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And those disciples were doing the same thing, rejoicing, living on
what they had seen done, probably the day before, and the week before,
and a year before. They were testifying about it, giving, oh, great
testimony of it.
How do we know that… As Jesus in their day was resting between
revivals. How do we know, maybe He's resting now between the revivals.
Yeah. Oh, you say, "Now, wait a minute, Brother Branham, getting a
little off the line now. Jesus don't have to rest." Yes, He did. The
Bible said that God made the heavens and earth in six days, and the
seventh He rested. Certainly did. He rested. Jesus, being tired, laying
on the boat, He was asleep and resting. And maybe after the toil of the
revival that's just past, maybe He's resting now like He was then. I
hope that's it. And the disciples was rejoicing on what they had seen
Him do (See?) and knowing that He was with them.

^E-37
That's kinda like the man–mind of a man. A mind of a man is always
talking about and rejoicing what God has done, and they're saying what
He will do, and ignoring what He's doing. He wasn't asleep exactly;
we'll get to that in a few minutes. See? They'll believe what He has
done, and shout about it. They'll talk about what He's going to do and
glorify God. But what He's doing right now, they ignore it. That's just
the nature of a man. That's just the way he does it.

^E-38
Then while they were enjoying the blessings of their fellowship one
with another, and, oh, counting it all up, what they'd seen done, all
of a sudden there rose trouble. And that's just about like Satan to do
that (See?) right when you're having a testimony meeting or something.
Many times I…
Here not long ago I was in a meeting, just getting ready to make an
altar call, and an old fellow pitched right over in the floor, dead as
he could be (See?) in a heart attack. And all the place was disturbed.
And I forget… It was at Shawano, Wisconsin. And I thought, "God, what
can I do?" I looked over here, and I seen the old man in a vision, go
walking out the door. I knowed what to do then.

^E-39
Not long ago, with this great sponsor of Oral Roberts, Dr… (up there
in Philadelphia, what is that? He's a… Forget his name now. He's a
dentist; he's a great sponsor of his television program. I can't think
of his name.) And we–(Barten)–we were having a meeting, and I was
just getting ready to make the altar call. And I noticed a woman acted
real funny, and her daughter run over there, begin to rub her face. And
I thought, "Well, she's subject to fainting." And all at once her feet
went right out straight, and her hands went back like this.
Dr. Barton run over to where she was, took her pulse. She had none. He
looked up at me and shook his head. Well, I tried to keep the people's
mind, (that was setting out in that great crowd), keep it off of it
like that, just going ahead talking. And so he said, "Go get little
Branham." That was Billy. And Billy seen that dead woman. He had
nothing to do with that. See? He didn't want that.

^E-40
Well, just as I started to speak again (Now, Dr. Barton, as you know
him, you might ask him.)–started to speak again. I said, "Now,
everyone, do not be excited. Keep quiet." Sometimes when you see a
demon try to come out of a person, they get so irreverent, the crowd
gets tore up. That's the wrong thing to do. "Set still. Don't get
excited. He's here." And while I was speaking like that, I don't know
how it ever happened, but turned over to her and called her name.
"Mary, looky here." And when she did, she come to herself, come to.
See, it's that troubled time. Suddenly there rises trouble, right in
the time.

^E-41
Now, now, you might ask Dr. Barton about that. I met him the next day,
and he said, "Brother Branham," said, "that woman had no heart. I
checked her down here on her bosom, and I'd taken her heart and in her
neck, everywhere." Said, "She was gone." And then, her–they was a real
wealthy family, and it was the first time she was ever in a meeting
like that, and she… I went… He'd taken me up to her house, and she
said, "I heard you call my name," and I'd never seen the woman in my
life. But it was the Holy Spirit. See?

^E-42
Now, suddenly, there rose trouble. The ship begin to rock, the waves
got high, and the sail… Probably the wind just come down with a angry
gush and whipped it right off the mast pole. And the ship rocked over,
and the big waves white-capped and throwed the water in on the boat,
and the boat begin to fill up with water: trouble. All hopes of
survival seemed to be gone. Though they had seen Him do so many things.
They'd seen it, but when trouble set in all was forgotten.
And I wonder if that's just not about the case tonight. We know what we
have seen God do in this revival. You ministers know that. You see
His–His power, His–how He raised the dead, doctor's statements. He
foretold the things that happened on the dot. He's healed the sick.
Thousands times thousands has been healed around the world. But now,
while the little lull comes, and then when trouble strikes, do we
forget that so quick?

^E-43
Just like Israel when He had done all the plagues in Egypt, and done
the great things He did. Then when they got to the Red Sea Moses had to
scream out, "You've seen ten miracles, and still you doubt God?" When
they found no water at the old watering hole, they were murmuring,
complaining. That's just human beings. They forgot all the miracles
that He did. See? We do it too. Perhaps these disciples had got it all
'cause–time of trouble…
Now when we get a… They'd got into a trouble that they couldn't find
any remedy for it. As long as we can find a remedy, we hold right on to
it. But they'd got into a trouble that they could not find the remedy,
and they got scared. They cried out. They were scared when they had no
remedy. I promised myself I'm going to get the church out of here at
nine o'clock, so… I could stay on that a long time, but I–I'm trying
to just hit the high places where you can see.
Brother, there's a lot of trouble tonight that we ain't got no remedy
for. I have a string of–list down here, national troubles. They can't
solve no remedy. They don't know how to do it. U.N.'s, Leagues of
Nations, and all this talk, it gets worse and worse all the time.

^E-44
That night in Finland, when that little boy had been killed on the
street that day… The mayor of the city's got it wrote up, and I got
it signed by his seal. Seen a vision of it years before when I come
through Arizona here, telling you about it. There'd be a little boy
raised from the dead, and what he'd look like. You all remember it,
many of you. Now, it happened just that way. I told you it would appear
in "The Voice of Healing." It did it, about two years later, or three.
See? Now, all of them disturbed, and all that carrying on, and there
was a remedy. God had the remedy, and He healed the little boy.

^E-45
That night, going down the street in Kuopio. And when we was going down
the street, about six of these little Finnish boys… They'd just had
that war. And the little fellows hadn't never shaved. It was–it was…
There's little boys they had to take in the army. Them Russians killed
them off. And they were going down there with these big, old, long,
sabre knives, holding the crowds, while I was going down to the, what
they called Messuhalli where they let about thirty-five thousand in,
and they make them go out, and then they let me speak to another
thirty-five thousand or forty.
And along the street there stood Russian soldiers (and when I walked
by) with a Russian salute, the tears running down their cheeks. And
when I'd passed by, they grabbed them Finnish soldiers and hugged them.
Brother, anything that'll make a Russian hug a Finn, or a Finn hug a
Russian, will settle wars. They've passed over the thing that settles
wars, but they'll never be able to achieve the remedy by manmade
achievement. It's already been made. A Man died for that purpose.

^E-46
The church has troubles that they haven't got any remedy for. How's all
the Methodists going to get all the Baptists to be Methodist? I just
wonder. How's all the Assemblies going to make all the Oneness be
Assemblies, or the–then go vice versa? How's all the Pentecostals
going to win all the Presbyterian, Lutherans? And how's the Catholic
going to take the whole thing? See? They just can't figure it out,
which one of them's going to rule. See? They don't know. They haven't
got the remedy. All right.
But did you know, they didn't have the remedy how to stop that storm,
but the remedy was laying there. And let me say this, brother. Tonight,
in all of our troubles, we've still got the Remedy. Here it is, for He
is the Word. It's laying right here, and His Spirit's right here to
manifest it. So we've got the remedy, but we try to find other things.
or start another organization. That's us. See? We can't master it. It's
already been mastered. We just fail to walk in the way that's been
mastered for us. But they were troubled.

^E-47
"If they're going to have a healing service down at Groomer's, well,
you know there's something about them people I don't like. They're
holy-rollers. I ain't going down there." Well, there you are. See?
That's it. That's just the way it is. See? Yes. But Christ is that
Remedy. He's the thing that can make it. His disciples today get in a
lot of trouble and don't know the remedy. That's right. And let me say
this. Many times His precious saints get in trouble too, physical
trouble. But here we got the remedy. Amen. We got the cure.

^E-48
Thinking of this woman setting here with lung trouble, this oxygen,
hear her breathing in it. I think of how that poor thing sleeps at
night. Think of the expense that is. Sister, there, I know the remedy.
It's here. You don't have to do that. But you have to use it. Now, the
disciples get in physical trouble, trouble that the doctors hasn't got
the remedy.
Just like those disciples, they had trouble. They were disciples, and
they had–they had trouble that the navigators couldn't remedy. They…
No one could remedy it, but the Remedy was laying right there. And you
may have a trouble tonight that the doctor can't remedy, but we got Him
right here now, right here. He's right here. That's right. We, like
those people, we've forgot who this is in the ship. It's just not a
church. It's just not a rules that we go by. But it's the Creator of
heavens and earth.

^E-49
He may be resting right now from a revival. He sent one. May be
resting. He had another one ahead of Him the next day, a maniac had to
be healed, but at that time He was resting. And trouble set in, and He
was asleep, resting. But they forgot Who It was (See?) in the turmoil.
"Well, oh, pull on that oar, Simon."
"Andrew, harder on that oar. What are we going to do?"
See, there it is. What you all flusterated about? "Doctor said this,
doctor said that." Well, maybe he did. Maybe the man's right. That's
what he said. But what does This say? That's the next thing. See?

^E-50
And another thing. After they knowed Him the way they did, they should
have known that a Man that could tell the thoughts that a man was
thinking, and knowed the end from the beginning, knowed it was going to
happen anyhow. Amen. Now, don't–don't miss this. He knew it was going
to happen. I doubt very much He was asleep. But He knowed it was going
to happen. He was God and God is infinite, so He knowed it was going to
happen. And He knowed when it was going to happen, and it only happened
to test their faith. Didn't He say so later?
And that's why you're sick tonight, maybe. That's why the lull of the
revival is to see what you're going to do about what you've seen done.
Are you going to pick it up and make another organization out of it?

^E-51
The God that moved on the scene when this sister setting here… They
brought her into the line down here at that little Mexican church that
day, cancer in the heart. Her doctor has the x-ray. Her husband's
setting there. They said, "There's a dead woman in the line."
I said, "Bring her on." I was sure that He was there. Sister Waldrop,
that's been a long time ago, sixteen years. See, dying with a cancer.
Remember, that same God's still in the ship; don't get flusterated.
There's a testimony that could turn Phoenix, the Maricopa Valley, or
the world, upside-down, one, out of the tens of thousands.

^E-52
He's still here, but we get all flusterated (See?) like they did. "Oh,
my. Pull on this oar. What we going to do next?" Now, don't think about
that. Long as He's in the ship, forget about it. Certainly. Now, He
only did it to test their faith, and does not our Scripture tell us
that these trials are put upon us and more precious to us than gold? We
don't think so, but the Bible's right.
Could you imagine Job enjoying being broke out with boils, and all
these things gone, losing all of his wealth and his children and
everything? It wasn't very easy. But God was proving to Satan that He
had somebody He could put confidence in. Maybe He's trying to do the
same thing in your case, and the rest of you. "Oh, they'll forsake you.
They'll…" Oh, no. Job… They couldn't make Job do that. No sir.

^E-53
See, He's only trying to prove them. You remember, in a few minutes He
said, "Oh, ye of little faith. Couldn't you understand about breaking
the bread and feeding five thousand? Don't you know I'm the same
Jehovah that fed them for forty years out there in the wilderness out
of ovens out of heaven, when I poured it out every night? What you so
scared about? Don't you know I dried up the Red Sea one day? Don't you
know I opened up the earth and swallowed the unbeliever? One day I
measured the earth and spurted it off out into space yonder."
And He's in the ship. Now that's not mythical, that's truth. Same now.
He tries to prove us and see whether we'll stand or not. Take a revival
away and start a argument in the church, just to see what you'll do.
Turn Satan loose among you, see how you'll stand. Let him strike you
with something, see what kind of a stand you'll take. Job said, "Though
He slay me, yet I'll trust Him." Amen. That's it.

^E-54 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego said, "Our God is able to deliver us from that fire; but nevertheless we're not giving up."
Sure,
but we get all flusterated, you know, like they did, the disciples.
They… We're human, just like they were. And He had proven Who He was.
And then, still, after He had proved to be the God of creation… He
was the Creator. How did He… Well, tell me what He turned loose to
cook that bread and cook them fish. Well, if–He–He not only created
the fish, but He cooked the fish the same time. That's the truth. Where
did that manna come from out of heaven? Literal food that kept people
alive for forty years, bread, fell down from heaven. Where did He get
it at?

^E-55
Where did those crows get that meat and bread to feed Elijah? The
intelligence of a crow, to cook some meat, and kill a cow and butcher
it, and cook it up and make steaks, and put it on bread and bake it,
and bring it to Elijah…
He's God. We don't believe it, then we're unbelievers, that's all.
We've got to believe. That's what Abraham done: called anything
contrary to it as though it didn't even happen. No matter how old he
got or how much… He just kept praising God for the promise, went on
with it.

^E-56
Now, He proved what He was by His Word and the signs vindicated. He
said, "If I do not the works that's written of Me, then don't believe
Me." See? Now, there's how you catch it. I trust that you get to
thinking real deep here. See? Always watch that Word.
That's what–that's what Satan attacked Eve by in the garden of Eden,
and got–reasoned her out of it, by reason. But when he come back and
attacked Christ, He throwed the things right back at him again. He
said, "If thou be the Son of God, now I'd like to see a miracle. You
know I never seen one. I'd like you to turn these… You're hungry.
Make these stones bread."
He said, "It's written…" Oh, my. There you are. Upon the pinnacle of
the temple, "It's written…" Upon a high mountain, "It's written…"
Stayed right with that Word, and put the old fellow right in the place
where he belonged.

^E-57
Now, He said to them guys that didn't believe Him–thought He was a
soothsayer, or some kind of a–a Beelzebub, a devil, under spiritualism
that He knowed the thoughts of the people's hearts and things, trying
to do that–He said, "Which one of you can accuse Me of sin?" Said
again, "If you don't believe Me," said, "search the Scriptures. For in
Them you think you have Eternal Life, and they are the thing… They
are They that testify of Me. They are the thing that makes My ministry
what it is." See what I mean? "They are they that testify of Me." See,
referring what? Right back to the Scriptures again. "They are they that
testify of Me. They tell you Who I am." Amen. Glory to God.
The Scriptures tells you whether you're a believer or not. The
Scriptures tell you whether you're lining up or not. That's how you
know a man, by his testimony. Not what he says with this, but how he
lines with the Scripture. True. That's how you know it.

^E-58
Jesus invited them to do it. "If I didn't meet every qualification of
Messiah, then you tell Me where I missed it." Oh, my. That's good,
isn't it? "Tell Me where I missed it if I didn't meet the
qualifications, if I have done exactly what the Scriptures said that I
would do." Oh, Christian, if we could line ourselves up in there, do
what the Scripture says that Christians should do.
They should've known He was the God of creation and could… He was the
very one that created the water and the wind. They should've known
that. And if they knowed that He was that, did they not understand that
this creation of the creator would have to obey His Word? Oh, my. If He
created it… Who's the greatest, the creation or the Creator? Like
Jesus said, "Who is the greatest, he that is sent, or He that sent
him?" See, see? Which is the greatest, the creation or the Creator? The
Creator. And they seen, and He proved, that He was that Creator. And
then if He was that Creator could–would not His creation obey Him?

^E-59
Let us remember also that He created our bodies. Won't our bodies obey
His command? "Spit out that cancer," He says to the body, and away it
goes. You just take that Word and plant It in here and see what
happens. Sure. Yes, sir, our bodies has to obey His command. You say
you're a Christian; I believe you are. You believe… What are you
resting in? Someday He'll raise our bodies up after they've absolutely,
completely, perished.
If you don't believe that, why do you go to church? If there's no
resurrection aren't we amongst men most miserable? But His Word of
promise, "He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live. (Amen.) I am the Resurrection and Life. (Amen.) He that eats My
flesh and drinks My Blood has Eternal Life, and I'll raise him up at
the last days." My. Why? The body, the ashes, the volcanic ashes that
we're made out of, obey His command because He's the Creator of it.
The life that's within us is not only a creative Life, but it's part of
His own Life. That's the reason we have the authority to speak to a
devil, 'cause it's God's own creative Life, if you're anointed. See?
Correctly. Not you, it's not you that speaketh, but the Father that
dwelleth in you. "Take no thought what you'll say 'cause it'll be added
at that time." Just go on. Stay with it. Oh, I love that.

^E-60
After the disciples found themselves at the end of their road, it
must've dawned on some of them that He was still with them. After
they'd come to the end of the road, it must've dawned on somebody,
"Well, here, after all, we was here giving this testimony. There He
lays, right there. (See?) He's just taking a rest between the revivals.
And here we are fussing and stewing, and all worried, and tore up, and
doubting, and–and scared, and everything else, and the Creator is
laying right here in the boat." Oh, my. O God, let it dawn on some of
us again. Let it come to pass, Lord, that it can be, it can dawn on us.
That's the very God that took you–separated you from your mother, the
very God that give you the Holy Spirit. He's just as much God right now
as He was when–when He–when He gave you the Holy Spirit. He's just as
close to you as He was right then. Just exactly. You must remember,
He's always there, always. That's right. It dawned on some of them that
the Creator was with them in the boat.

^E-61
I wonder tonight if the sick people, being I'm going to talk to the
sick in a moment, if it can dawn on you that the very God that you
trust in, the Creator of heavens and earth Who made your body, is right
here. He's just as great tonight as He ever was. He's God. He cannot
get any less and ever remain God, as long as He's God. You say, "Is
that true, Brother Branham? Is that the Scripture?" Hebrews 13:8, Jesus
Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's the same.
So what ought to be our plea tonight, Brother Groomer? Brother Noel?
What is our plea? Wake Jesus. If there's trouble around, let's–let's
get Him on the scene. Amen. Wake Jesus, for we have Him with us. He's
with us. Sure He is. Just the same as He ever was. They'd just seen the
Scripture Word, that God spoke of Him, vindicated by Him. So have we.

^E-62
You know, on the day of Pentecost, Peter, inspired with the Holy Ghost,
stood up there. And the people was all laughing and making fun of that
little handful of Jews out there, stammering, and spitting, and
slobbering, and acting like a bunch of drunk people and those big
religious people standing there saying, "Why, these men are full of new
wine."
And Peter stood up, and they was pricked at their heart when they heard
that sermon that preacher preached. He really laid the Gospel down. He
said, "You men of Judaea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be
known unto you, and hearken unto my words. These are not drunk, like
you suppose, seeing this is the third hour of the day. But this…"
Perhaps? No. "This is that that was spoke of by the prophet Joel. 'It
shall come to pass in the last days,' saith God, 'I'll pour out My
Spirit upon all flesh: upon my sons and my handmaids and maidservants
will I pour out My Spirit; and I'll show wonders in the heaven above
and fire and smoke; and–and upon my maidservants and they shall
prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall
see visions.'" Right?

^E-63 And they said, "What can we do? How can we get this?"
He
said, "Repent, every one of you, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost." And we be told by others that that ended it, but
they… That's… If you'd stop there, that would end it, but go on,
what He said. "For the promise is unto you, your children, them that's
far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." In the face of a
cold denominational world we've proved that's the truth. Amen. If that
part of the Word is truth, the rest of It's true. Yeah. They'd seen the
Scripture vindicated by Him. We have too.

^E-64
He was not hard to call on the scene of action. It's very easy to call
Him. Watch Him when He comes on action though. That's what I like, to
see Him when He comes in to the crowd of the people. Watch Him when
He… They said, "Master, we perish!"
He rubbed his eyes, said, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?
Haven't you seen all that I've done? Haven't… Hasn't the Scripture
been proved by Me? All the Scriptures pointed to Me, and you've said
all along you believed Me. 'Yes, Lord, we believe You. We'll do this,
that, or the other.' And when the little trouble comes up, then away
you go."
Isn't that us today? Sure is. Right. Yeah. "You said you believed Me, but why didn't you? What did you doubt for?"

^E-65
A woman said to me some time ago… I might've said that here some
time. It'll bear repeating. She was a Christian Science. And she said,
"Brother Branham, I–I appreciate your remarks that you say of the
Scripture," but said, "there's just one fault you have."
I said, "Thank you. Just one? My." I said, "I'm… certainly got grace in your sight."
And she said, "This fault is that you brag too much about Jesus."
I said, "Oh, my." I said, "If that's the only fault I got… I hope God
feels that–sees I only got one fault when I get there. And if that's
the only one, I'm sure I'm going in." I said, "If I had ten thousand
tongues I couldn't brag on Him enough. No matter what I'd say I
couldn't brag on Him enough."
She said, "But Brother Branham, you make Him Divine. You make Him God."
I said, "He was, and He is. And if He wasn't, He was the greatest deceiver the world ever had." That's right.
She said, "Oh…"
"Don't…" I said, "don't you believe that?"
She said, "Oh, Mr. Branham, I believe He was a teacher," and said, "I
believe He was a prophet, but He was just a plain prophet like the rest
of them."
I said, "Oh, my. Oh. You're so mistaken."
She said, "I'll prove it to you."
I said, "How?"
She said, "In the Scriptures, when Lazarus, St. John the 11th chapter,
when Lazarus died, the Bible said that Jesus wept." And she said, "How
could He be Divine and weep?"
I said, "That was the man part weeping, that was the man. The immortal part was inside. That was God in Him."
She said, "Aw, nonsense."

^E-66
I said, "I want to ask you something. When… That night on the ship,
He was a man laying there sleeping. That's true. He was sleep and tired
like a man. But when He could put His foot upon the brail of that boat
and say, 'Peace, be still,' and the winds and the waves obeyed Him…
He might've been a man crying, but when He said, 'Lazarus come forth.'
and a man had been dead four days come on…?… Yeah. He was a man
when He come down off the mountain hungering for something to eat,
looked on the tree. But when He took five biscuits and two–fed five
thousand, that was a Creator. That's right." Sure, in action, God in
action…
Oh, I love that. Not some idol, not some mythical thought of rubbing a
statue, not some totem pole, but a real living God in action. Amen.
Amen. Not something that was, something that is right now. See? Sounds
silly to the world, but, oh, how gracious to the saint who believes it.
How wonderful. Certainly. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

^E-67
You know, He was more than a prophet. And yet, He was a prophet. He was
a God-prophet (See?), because the prophets was the Word. The Bible said
the Word came to the prophet, and as long as the prophet was speaking
the Word, that He and God was… The man knowed not what he was doing.
He was just speaking the Word of God. See? Not knowing what he was
doing, he was prophesying under inspiration. See? Then it wasn't the
man's word; it was God speaking through lips.
Now, God chose to use man. Now, He could've chose to use the sun to
preach the Gospel. He could've chose to use the wind to preach the
Gospel. He could've chose the stars. He could chose anything He wanted
to, but He chose man, and somebody's going to do it. That's right.
Somebody…

^E-68
Now if He could just ever find Him a man, one man, that He could get in
his hand, He'll do it. See? He's had such a hard time finding one man.
I think of Samson. He found a man with plenty of strength. And Samson
dedicated his strength to God. But he wouldn't give his heart. He gave
that to Delilah. See? God wants your heart, strength, soul, body, mind,
all you got. It's the only way He can use you, use the whole man. Yes.
That's what Jesus was. In Him dwelt the Fullness of the Godhead bodily.
We have it by measure, because when that Pillar of Fire come down at
Pentecost… Do you notice the Bible said cloven tongues like fire sat
upon them. What was it? That Pillar of Fire separating Itself and
dividing Himself amongst His people. What a gracious thing. See? God in
you (See?), God in His people. Now, notice.

^E-69
Someone says now in the church tonight would say this. People today,
if–would say, "If we only could know He is here with us. Is there any
way?" You see, they could look at Him. Now, listen close now, 'fore we
call a prayer line. They could look at Him and say, "There He lays, on
the boat. Now, He's there."
Now, if we only had some way to do something like that. If we could
just look at Him somewhere, we could say, "There He is, right there."
Now, but He is that close. He's even closer, for, "I'll be with you,
even in you, to the end of the world." Isn't that right? He's closer
than He was to them, 'cause they had to go across the–the deck of the
boat, and back to the back and wake Him up. You don't have to do that.
Oh, my. Whew. Oh, I feel religious right now. I just begin to feel real
good right now. Oh. Hebrews 13:8 says He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. And He said again, "Lo, I am with you always, even to the
end," the evening time, preached on last night. "At the evening time
I'll still be there." Again, "I will never leave you. No matter what
the boat's a-doing, how much rockin' and rollin' they're doing, or
anything else, I'll be with you, be with you to the end-time, never
leave you."

^E-70
You say, "How can this be, Brother Branham?" St. John the 12th–the
14th chapter, 12th verse, said that He'd prove it. See, "He that
believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also."
You say, "I wish you could prove and show me that He is just as He always was. If you could prove it to me…"
Well, here's where He challenged the proof. "He that believeth on me,
the things that I do…" In other words, you will be an amateur
Messiah, Messiahette. That's exactly right. For if His life be in you;
it ain't you; it's Him. See? And you are ordained to carry His work on.
"He that believeth on Me, I'll prove that I am Messiah. And He that
believeth on me will do the same thing." Now, that… He can't lie and
be what you think He is, and what I know He is, and you believe He is
too. See?

^E-71
You know what He's doing? He's here tonight waiting to be proved.
That's right. You know what we ought to do? We ought to do like they:
wake Jesus that's in us. Wake Jesus in our own lives. The God that set
our souls afire with the Holy Ghost, the God that taken these blinded
eyes of mine and opened them up, the God that raised me off of a death
bed, the God that I seen bring the dead back after being dead for
hours: the doctor pronounced dead and write a statement to it: five
different times. Waken that God. Waken Him up. We ought to call on
Jesus, and wake Him, and call Him on the scene. We have need of Him.
Yes, sir. Then call Him to confirm His Word.

^E-72
If we wake Him up, get Him stirred up in us, till your own doubts and
flusterations have passed away, now call on Him and say, "Lord, You
promised a little while and the world would see You no more, and I'm
not of the world. You prayed that I'd not be of the world, and I'm not
of the world. I'm yours. And You said, 'The world will see Me no more,
yet you'll see Me, you'll see me.' Lord, I want to disturb You. I want
to arouse You out of my own sleeping body, my own sleeping heart of
these realities." Waken Jesus. "Come to me, then the doubts and fears
will cease."
All the flusterations, and worry about… "Oh, the doctor said this and
that he's going to do this, and I–I don't know what I'm going to do.
I–I… It'll just all cease, 'cause He's God. He speaks, and
everything else keeps still.

^E-73
Now, we could talk on with several more pages of notes, but let me ask
you something now, 'cause it's almost–about ten minutes to nine.
'Course that's two hours earlier than last night, you know too. But
look, let me say this, to stop right now, and I can finish this some
other time. Can God fail? Neither can His Word, because He is His Word.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word
was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Yet a little
while and the world won't see Me no more, yet you'll see Me, for I (And
'I' is a personal pronoun.)–I'll be with you, even in you, to the end
of the consummation, the end of time. At the end-time I'll be there."
The Light will be shining at the end-time.
He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8 is written.
Do you believe that? Hebrews 13:8, it's written. So if it's written,
now let it be done. Amen. Don't be afraid to put His Word to a test.
It's there. He's here. The only thing you need to do is wake Him.

^E-74
You… We breathe so much of the unfilterated spirit, so much to cause
us to try to remind of something else, and turn to, "I'm tired. I–I'm
too weary. I've seen this do." What do you point to some wreck for?
I'll take you to… Said, "I know somebody trusted God and died." I
know millions the same time died under doctor's care. See? Sure. Sure.
If the doctor's done all he can do, you haven't got nothing else but
trust God. And if you'll believe it…
Now, you just can't say, "Well, I–I'm going to trust Him." That isn't
it. That's really do it. That isn't it. You've got to disturb Him till
you can see Him come in.
Can't our prayers disturb Him? Can't our prayers waken Him from His
rest, bring Him on the scene? They did. They cried out, "Lord, we are
perishing." And He moved in on the scene. Now, we can do the same
thing. Now, you believe that? Then let us pray.

^E-75
O Lord, this simple little thought, awaken Jesus, Lord, we have–we
have not used His Spirit and His faith so long till it merely goes to
sleep, as it was, in our souls. Let us shake ourselves tonight. Let us
arouse ourselves, and get our own sleepiness away from us, that we can
see that He's still in the boat.
Oh, Lord, today I tried to shake my soul. I knowed I had to stand
before a little group of people up here tonight, and I shake myself.
Lord Jesus, waken, come forth. I've put Your Word out before the
people. It's brought to a test. Prove to this audience tonight, Lord,
that You still live, that You're still here with us. Your Words are
true, "I'm with you always, even to the end of the world." You're the
same yesterday, today, and forever.
You're still in the ship, Lord, the old ship of Zion that's carrying us
across the troubled seas. And when the devil sweeps a storm down upon
us, what difference does it make as long as He's in the ship? Be with
us now, Father, and may You walk right into the hearts of the people
tonight.

^E-76
May You walk into my heart, soul, body, mind, eyes, lips. Let this
dedication of myself be a confirmation of Your Word that You promised
in St. John 14:12, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall
you do also." Then may it go to the audience that they might believe it
this way, "A little while and the world seeth Me no more, yet ye shall
see Me." And when we're setting in this heavenly place tonight, in
Christ Jesus, manifest Yourself, Lord. It's Your promise. Your words
won't fail.
And then, 'course then let it be upon the basis of the faith of the
people, that they can receive You then. That's all we can do. I pray,
God, that You'll get glory to Yourself. I commit this audience, the
Message, the seed that's been sown. May the Holy Spirit come in, shine
Its light. Like I said on the seed of that little Samaritan woman, may
quickly, as soon as the light flashes, may the believer see it. May the
sick man see it, the sick woman, boy, or girl. And those who are
desiring for others, may they see it quickly, and be healed in Jesus'
Name. Amen.

^E-77
Do you believe now? Now, I believe… Well, I'll try. I can't bring but
just a few at a time, so let's start bringing them up, some people to
pray for them. And I know it's pretty crowded. You set still, minister
brothers. I'll back right up here against the… take your place here.
All right.
Now, don't doubt. Believe. Will you do that? All things are possible to
them that believe. That's right. All things are possible to them that
believe. All right. Now, you must believe. You've got to believe God's
Word to be the Truth. All right.

^E-78
Now, let's… How many can we stand up here at a time? About 8? 10? All
right. Let's start from number 1 and get number 1 to about 10 or 15. A,
A-number-1 to 15. Who has prayer card A-number-1? I see there's both
Spanish and Indian here tonight. They might not be able to understand
it. All right, here comes one woman, right over here. Number 2? Right
here. Uh-huh. Right out here. Yeah, right here. All right. Number 2? 3,
number 3? All right, right over here, if you will. Number 4, 5, 6, 7,
8? Somebody take the little boy there, so he won't get stepped on. 8,
9, 10. Now, it's about ten.
All right. We'll see how we… kind of… Oh, we're… I don't know, we
maybe have too many now. All right, 10. That's all right. Let them line
right like that. That's fine. How many believes now with all your
heart? Now, we haven't got too many here. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. All
right.

^E-79
Now, everyone, I want you real reverent. Now, I've been right on a
hour, or a little better, speaking. What I say means nothing unless God
backs it up. And if He doesn't back it up (See?) still the Word is
right, no matter whether He does or not. He's done it before (See?) and
He never has failed me. And I–I know He won't, because He said He
wouldn't. See? And I–I know that He'll do it. But we must believe it.
With all of our hearts we got to believe.
Now, so far as I know… I want you that's in the prayer line, look
this way, what all's going to be in the prayer line. I–I believe that
every one of them are strangers to me. I believe all of them are
strangers. If that's right you just raise up your hand. If I don't know
you all, just raise up your hands like that. All right. Now, I don't
know those people. They–there's not many here… I know some here in
these lines right out here. I'm not sure; I think this is Brother
Noel's wife. I'm not sure. It's been a long time, and so…

^E-80
How's Brother Johnson? I think he's got a stroke, hasn't he? Oh, my.
What say? Is that right? Bless her heart. Those people were like father
and mother to me when I first started in the meeting, this little group
of Arkansas people. I'll never forget Arkansas. No, sir. I've never
been in a meeting anywhere unless there's plenty of "Arkies." How
many's here tonight, raise up your hands, from Arkansas? Now, the rest
of them's from Oklahoma. So you can just depend on that. See? That's
the way it goes. But we're all heaven bound (See?), setting together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

^E-81
Sister Jones, and Brother Jones, years ago when I come to your
church… I believe it was Moark, wasn't it? And you remember when I
come there, the only way I'd knowed of finding the people's trouble was
by… You'd lead them up on the platform and they'd lay their hand on
mine. And then I'd wait there just a minute, and then, not try to use
my own voice, and It would speak, say, "tumor, cataract…" And I told
you that there would come a time, that He told me up there, if I'd be
sincere, then I'd know the very secret of their heart. See? That's
right. How many remembers that when I first come to Phoenix? All right.
Has it happened? See? Now, remember. Watch this tape. We're stepping
right up a little higher now (See?); it's going right on up a little
higher. Remember, it… Just–just remember.

^E-82
Now, we want to see Jesus. I want to see Him. Now, we know that His
body will not return to the earth until He comes for the church,
because it must remain there for a sacrifice. Is that right? It must be
on the altar. He sets on the throne of God tonight, and it must remain
there, for by His stripes… He is the Sacrifice, and the Sacrifice is
on the altar. See? And His body cannot come, but His life returned,
that was in Christ, come back upon the church in the form of the Holy
Spirit. And the Holy Spirit…
It wasn't that body that did it anyhow. He said, "It's not Me that
doeth the works. It's My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the
works." Now, we believe that, don't we? Now, if I told you the spirit
of a gangster is in me, you'd expect me to have big guns, and mean.
See? The spirit of an artist, you'd expect me to take a brush and
paint. If I tell you the Spirit of Christ, then it'll do the works of
Christ. "He that believes in Me, the works that I do…" Just like
putting the life out of one vine into another, it'll bear the–the
fruit of the life that's in the vine.

^E-83
Now I don't know that He will do this. I can't say it. But if I, by a
gift… Now, no need trying to explain it. I can't. But many of you
know that I've been around the world, been over it several times,
before a half-a-million people at one time, five hundred thousand
people, see with so many different languages I'd have to jot down what
I said, to wait till it went through fifteen more interpreters, then
come back to the thing I said, and see that Spirit of God go right down
there and do just the same thing it does here. See? All nations,
languages, they're without an excuse.

^E-84
Now, remember, it won't go to everybody. When Jesus was on the earth
not over one-third of the Jewish race ever knowed He was on the earth.
You know that. He come to the elected, and they received Him. That's
right. That's where the Spirit goes tonight, to the elected. Now, if
you can believe that Jesus died for your sins and have accepted Him as
your Saviour, and He's took your life and remolded it again, then
remember, by His stripes we were healed. See? Now, you was, you're
already healed. You believe that? Now, the Bible said we were. Is that
right? Not will be, we're already. We've already…

^E-85
The whole sin question was settled when Jesus died at Calvary. You
believe that, brother? See, He's the Lamb of God that takes away the
sins of the world. Now, it'll never do you no good until you accept
your pardon. See, you've got to accept it. And you've got to accept
your healing in the same way. If some man come by and say, "I'll heal
you," now, he's wrong. That's contrary to the Scripture. He can show
you here where Jesus done it for you, and it's based on your faith. God
never can do nothing… God cannot work against your faith. You've got
to believe it.

^E-86
Now Jesus, when He come to His own people, listen what the Bible said.
"Many mighty works He could not do because of their unbelief," after He
showed Himself to be Messiah. Now, He proved it in that day He was
Messiah. May God help me to humble my spirit in such a way that I can
prove that He's still Messiah, that the same God that was on the earth
can take a–a mortal body surrendered to Him, and work through it
exactly the way He promised to do. Would not that be convincing?
Wouldn't that be showing that He's… He's not asleep; He's awake. He's
ready for you to call Him in action.

^E-87
Now, what about me standing here tonight? What have I got to do?
There's hundred and fifty people here, I guess, something like that.
Whether it's a hundred and fifty, or whether it's one–one person, or
whether it's five hundred thousand, don't make any difference. Just the
same. See? Now, if anybody thinks that this is bogus, and not right, I
ask you to come up and take my place and do the same thing. See?
Uh-huh, see? You know better than to try that. Uh-huh, see, see?
Notice. But now, God has to prove whether He's right or not. Now, if
the Lord God…
Is this one of the… Give that boy your card there. Come here. Here's
a lady, lot younger than I am. I've never seen her in my life. I
suppose we're strangers to one another? That's right. We do not know
one another. Now, when you go home, you read St. John the 4th chapter,
and you find out if this isn't a–even a little round place.

^E-88
Anybody ever in Palestine, up there at–at Sychar? That little well's
still there where that woman was at, it's a little round place, vines
on it. And Jesus set over against or–the wall when the woman come up.
He was standing in the little panoramic when the woman come up from the
street down here, come up and got the water, the end of the street. And
she come up there, and now He carried a conversation with her until He
found where her trouble was. Then He told her what her trouble was.
And when He did that, she said quickly, "Sir, You must be a prophet
(See?), 'cause You'd…" He'd had to have… Then if He was a prophet,
that was the Word of God coming to Him. But she said, "We know we're
looking for the Messiah, and when He comes, that's what He'll do." How
many knows that's Scripture? That's the Scripture.

^E-89
Now, here's my hand over the Bible. Now, as far as I know I've never
seen the woman in my life, and she says we're perfect strangers to one
another. Now, the Word either has to be right or wrong. Right. It's
either right or wrong. We can't make it anything different. Now, lady,
just to speak with you a moment, like our Lord did to the woman… If
He can tell me… Now, if I'd say to you, "Oh, of course you had a
prayer card. You come up here. You're sick." See? Well, then if I'd
say, "Glory to God." Lay my hands upon you. "Glory to God, you're going
to get well," it's all right, not a thing wrong with that. That's
exactly what to do. See? That's right. The Bible said they lay hands on
the sick, they'll recover. That's true.
But now, you could scratch your head and study, "Did he tell me right?
Was… Am I going to get well?" Now, what if–if the Something that
knows your life, what you have been, what you have did, and–or what's
wrong with you, like He told that woman what was her trouble, and if He
could tell you them things, well, surely if He knowed what has been, He
knows what will be. Is that right? Sure.

^E-90
Now, if the woman is sick… She might be standing for somebody else.
It might be sickness; it might be financial trouble; it might be
domestic trouble. I don't know; I can't tell you. That's true. See? But
whatever it is, if He would say it, she'd know whether it was truth or
not. She'd know it. She'd know whether it was or not. And then, if it's
wrong, then that wasn't the Spirit of God, 'cause the prophet has said
so, and his prophecy was wrong. But if it is right, then that was the
Spirit of God. See? Now, wouldn't that comfort us, and make us feel
wonderful, if–if we knowed that Jesus was here with us tonight? Would
it give you faith? See? Certainly.
Now, to heal the woman, I couldn't do it. I–I can't do that. It's
already done. You see? See? It's done, and now based upon her faith to
believe it. Now, if He was standing here Himself with this suit on, He
couldn't heal her. He'd say He'd already done it. "If thou canst
believe (See?) that I've done it, it's all over." See? That's it. See?

^E-91
But now, the only thing He could do, He could prove that He was Messiah
yet, that God-prophet was to come. And He promised that His disciples
would do the same thing. So there you are. See? It brings it right back
to the Scripture, and that's Scripture, brethren. I know it's all
contrary to the modern belief, but it's God's belief; it's God's way,
'cause He said so. There's the Scripture to read for yourself. They
just try to twist it up and make something else out of it.
Now, I want to ask you something. The woman is a believer. I want to…
Something will happen. You just remember, something will happen. Now,
if it does, then how many's going to accept and say, "That settles it
for me"? Would you believe that, lady? You believe it over there? Rest
of you believes it? Let God be the judge.

^E-92
Now, no more than I said that… Reason I said that… How many's ever
seen the Light, that picture of that Light that Angel of the Lord,
George J. Lacy, you know. See? All right. That Light's right between
she and I now. And it's welcoming, and I know she's a believer. That's
right. What you want me to pray for you about: sores, sores on your
body. Another thing, it's just complications. You have so many things.
But wait a minute. I'm in contact with your spirit. You're ready for an
operation (That's right.), up for an operation. Now, he said that was
in the gallbladder. That's right. Now, what do you think? God bless
you. Just believe. That's it. Isn't He Christ? Now, question the lady
if you wish to.
That's… See? Now, that's Him yesterday, today, and forever. See, your
faith has aroused Him now. See? He's on the scene to do things to help
you, to bless you, and to give you those things that you long to have.

^E-93
Now, that one vision has weakened me more than that hour and a half
sermon. See? And just feel yourself trembling, getting away. See?
Frankly this is the first time I've had a service… The other night
the Holy Spirit struck over in some church, I know, and It called three
or four people. And when it did, they didn't respond just quickly, and
then He was grieved. He went right away. See? It left me right there.
You have–you have to–you have to answer Him back. Yes, sir. Just
remember, He ain't obligated to you; you are to Him.
We are strangers to each other. You saw me once. Here in Arizona? Yes.
In a prayer line. How long ago has that been? Yes, it's a long time
ago…?…

^E-94
I remember the longest prayer line I ever had in my life was down here
at Phoenix one afternoon over at… I forget the name of that church,
there was a… Used to be a little short fellow had the church. I
forget what he… Great big church here in Phoenix. Was it Fuller? No.
Brother Fuller, I know him. What say? I remember Garcia, but this is a
great big church over there where Dr. Sutton used to pastor, or
something. What was the name of that big church over there? It's one of
the biggest full gospel churches in the country. Faulkner, that's it.
That's it. Faulkner, over at his church…
You remember that line? I started that afternoon, prayed on till
midnight that night, I believe it was. Just con–just laying hands on
the people. I got so weak I couldn't even move no more, hardly. See?
That before vision came. It would come, but just sparingly now and
then. And then, sometime when I'd be by myself He'd tell me something
was going to happen; and I'd come tell you all that He told me
something was going to happen. It always happened, didn't it? Now, what
does He say? Believe it, God confirms it. See?

^E-95
Now, the lady being many years ago… I guess I've prayed for two and a
half million people or maybe since then, you know, around the world:
maybe more than that. But I would never know who… about you, or
nothing for it. But now the Bible said that one time…
And by the way, I–I that darkness was over that woman has left her.
That's right. Uh-huh. I don't… You feel different, don't you? If you
just hold that faith, that's all it takes. Now, fill it with joy and
faith, 'cause it'll come back with five others, seven others worse.
See? Just stay right there, and say, "I believe, and that settles it."
Now, we being strangers to each other, I just would say for two
witness… The Bible said in the mouth of two witnesses, or three, I
believe it was, wasn't it? Two or three witnesses–three witnesses, let
every word be established. I aim to put the rest of my time down here,
if I can, on healing line, so I don't want to take too much on
discernment, just so you'd know.

^E-96
By the way, that lady sitting over there having dizzy spells, they
won't happen to you no more if you just believe it. Tell me what she
touched. I–I seen that Light circle here and go right over in that
corner, and I seen the woman holding her head like this in the vision
moving back and forth like that…?… What did she do? She touched His
garment, not… The Bible said that He's a High Priest (Is that right?)
that can be touched by the feeling of our infirmities. That's what she
did. See how quickly she responded. There it happened. See? Just
believe.
Now, that should settle it all. See? That makes it the truth. Now, you
see why I'm not running on down the line. Just try to hold myself back
as much, 'cause I want another line tomorrow night. But just that you'd
see that He's come on the scene. See? That's Him. It can't be me. I
never seen that woman in my life, don't know nothing about her. See?

^E-97
It's so simple, till the big intelligent people today stagger right
over the top of such simplicity. See? That's the reason they miss it.
They try to figure it out. You can't figure it out. You believe it. You
just believe it.
That Indian girl having headaches, if she'd just believe it, it'd leave
her too. I never seen her. She's not even… See, see? Touch Him. Just
touch Him once and find out if it's not right. See, those people are
strangers. Ask the lady. I never seen her in my life. That's true
before God, as I ever knowed. See? See, He's on the scene if you can
believe Him. But just don't stagger at it; believe it. It'll do
something for you if you'll believe it. He'll heal you. All of you can
be healed if you just believe it. You see, here stands a woman on the
platform, and the Holy Spirit moving out there through the audience
healing the people. Show that He's everywhere, omnipresent, omniscient,
and omnipotent. Amen. Glory. Wake Jesus inside of you. Let He that come
into you in the form of the Holy Spirit move through you.

^E-98
I don't know you, but God does know you. The Lord God can reveal to me
something you're here for, you'd believe me, wouldn't you? All right.
You look on me. I–I mean by that, like Peter and James, you know,
said, "Look on us." Just to get you from… It's just coming from
everywhere. I believe there's going to be a real healing service in a
few minutes. See, see, see?
One thing, your eyes are bothering you. You're almost going blind. Nerves in the eyes are dying.
The first time I caught that in a long time. Somebody said, "He guessed
that." I didn't. I didn't. Now, you remember, I'm catching your
thoughts here by the Holy Spirit. Let's see if I guessed it. Look here,
sister. You're a believer. You got trouble with your chest,
cancer–skin cancers on the back of the neck. Now, do you believe that
God will take it away? You want to go back over to New Mexico, where
you come from, believing God healed you? All right, Mrs. Watkins, go
back and when you get over there and be healed in the Name of the Lord
Jesus…?…

^E-99
Thou canst believe, just have faith. We're strangers to one another.
You've seen me in the meetings, but I mean to know you, I–just to say
I know you, I don't. Now, just a little bit. I'm way over my time
there, but surely you know He's here. This one woman standing here
again, then we'll–we'll pray for them. I think that's at least three,
isn't it? Oh, yes. That's all out through the audience. Yes.
I have no idea. You look healthy and strong to me. I don't know you,
but God does know you. But there's something on your heart. It's
something you're desiring, and it's for somebody else. I see a young
man, no, two young men. They're your sons. No, one of them's a son, and
the other one's a son-in-law. And they both have stomach trouble, and
they're both got black shadows over them. They're both sinners. That's
THUS SAITH THE LORD. You believe now? How many will believe with her?
Let us pray.
Lord Jesus, we believe You now for this request for our sister. I bless
her in Your Name. May she go and receive what she's asked for, for Your
glory. Amen.

^E-100
All of you believe now with all your heart? Now, come this way. You
believe He can tell me what's wrong? Wouldn't that be nice if that old
asthmatic trouble would clear up, and you could go home, be well? Well,
if you believe it, it will…?…
Speak English? Heart trouble, stomach trouble. Believe the Lord Jesus and it'll leave you. Amen.
Come, lady. Speak English? Hard to get your breath, asthma. Go believe. Breathe, and believe in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Come, sister. Speak English? You believe me to be God's prophet? Your
trouble's in your back. Believe, it won't bother you no more.
You believe me to be His servant? You're bothered with arthritis. I see
you trying to get out of the bed. You can't hardly do it of a morning.
Go, believe, and you won't have to do that no more, and you'll be made
well.
Do you believe? All your heart? Wake Jesus in you now. Christ is here.
He's on the scene. Do you all believe that? Now, put your hands over on
one another. Just lay your hands over on one another now.

^E-101
I'm going to quote a Scripture. Jesus said, "Go into all the world,"
Tempe, Arizona, "preach the Gospel. These signs shall follow them that
believe. In My Name they shall cast out devils, speak with new tongues.
Take up serpents or drink deadly things, it would not harm them. If
they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Now, with Jesus
present now… If you believe He's present, say, "Amen." The same
spirit that was in Jesus Christ is here in this church tonight. Now,
you pray for the person you got your hands on. Just pray right out.
Say, "Lord God, heal this person." They're praying for you.
Lord Jesus, I pray, God, that You'll send Your power and Spirit upon
this audience, upon this little woman here, Lord, with this mask over
her face. I pray that You'll heal them, Lord. May the devil, the storms
be quietened, and the power of God take over this audience and cast out
every evil power and unbelief.

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