<TITLE>03. Par 8-11</TITLE>L-8 The other night, they brought in a... The mute school, they brought child from the mute school. And then, all at once, I never seen so many deaf and dumb people in--in all the days of my ministry. Everything in the line was deaf and dumb. And I--I stopped. I was praying for them. And I stopped and asked why so many mutes.
And then they had one little girl about twelve years old, and the spirit was cast from her. Very pathetic looking little thing and when the spirit was cast from her, she begin to speak and hear.
The next night, they brought her back, said she couldn't speak and hear. Her doctor came with her, so, and a nurse. So they said they'd heard her speak from the platform, heard that she did speak from the platform, rather. Well, they got behind her and [Brother Branham claps his hands.--Ed.] clapped their hands like that, and no hearing at all, snapped their fingers, tried to get her to say something, and she wouldn't. They--they talk on their fingers like that to her. She wouldn't. And then they [Brother Branham claps again--Ed.] clapped their hands like that, no hearing at all. And the child spoke and heard the night before from the platform. So then they tried to get her to say something. They'd say "Daddy," or "Mama," or something like that. She'd go... [Brother Branham illustrates.--Ed.] like that. And she couldn't say nothing.

L-9 I remembered the child. Well, then I said, "Well, bring her up here again." And they brought the little girl up, and then when the spirit was cast out of her, I was standing just beside of her, and I [Brother Branham snaps his fingers--Ed.] like that. She turned and jumped, and looked around like that. I had to... come and let him clap his hands... do His hands like that. And she turned around; she heard that. So then, I got her to say, "mama," and she'd say, "ma-ma."
I'd said, say, "da-dy" like that with my...?... with my tongue how to make it. She'd say, "da-dy."
Now, she could speak and hear there on the platform. And then I told them; I said, now, "It's just like conversion. You can be a Christian tonight and a sinner tomorrow. You can believe and hold on to God, and believe it with all your heart." Now, and I asked why there's so many deaf and dumb.

L-10 And they brought a little girl there about seven years old, that was been--was born deaf and dumb. And she was speaking and hearing, and there was a big deaf and dumb institution's right there in Oregon. I was right by it. And that's what it was; they was bringing all their deaf and dumb in because of that girl. And this one failed to keep hers, and they brought her back. So I guess there was somewhat twenty or twenty-five cases of deaf and dumb people healed this last week. Definitely on the platform speaking and hearing.
But now, all of them, I didn't pick them. Just as they come through, I could feel the pressure of faith. Now, whether that's my faith reaching out...

L-11 Now, friends, there's only one way in the world that you can be healed, and that's only faith in God. Now, no matter how much that God will permit me, by my own faith, to take the spirit from you, unless you go forth and believe God, and serve God, and trust God, it'll come right back to you again. Did not Jesus say, "Go and sin no more, or a worse thing than this will come upon you?"
Don't never come in a prayer line unless you expecting to serve God the rest of your days. That's right. Always, don't never live a sinful life, because you'll be worse, way worse. God has promised that you will be worse off than you was at the first time. Don't never try to come... And especially this afternoon, to you who shall come in this miracle line, don't you dare to come, 'less you promise God, with all your heart, that (and mean it), that you will serve Him the rest of your days.


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