<TITLE>09. Par 30-33</TITLE>L-30  You've heard it. It had a picture of a ship coming in a window open, the water, the sun going down, the star coming out. Now, I looked there, and I said, "Honey, think of it. A few years ago I'd go down on the street, be talking to somebody. Why, somebody else would come up to talk to them, why, they'd go away." And I said, "Now, I have to almost hide out somewhere in the woods, to get out. And stop on an airplane somewhere, and they know you're coming through; they'll have sick people laying right on the ramps to be prayed for." I said, "Think of it now." I said, "What did it? My education? I have none. My personality? I have none. What did it? The Blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God Who redeemed me. He was the One Who gave me friends.

L-31  I looked; I seen those little sand cranes going down, squawking. And I looked at two or three of them flying. I said, "Look, darling, they have been... God has provided for them all day long. They've eaten crawfish, and minnows, and so forth, out in the ponds, and it's coming night now; they're gathering down on the Ohio Falls there where all the cranes come and gather at night. And they set there and chatter together like they were on a picnic, just having a--and sleep together through the night. God provides for them."

L-32  Just then, two of my favorite birds... You might know what they were: robins. Oh, how I love a robin. Every since I heard that story, little fiction story, when Jesus was dying at the cross... Listen, little boys and girls; don't never shoot my little robin. Leave him alone. He's a fine little bird. And I think the little fiction story and the song, you know, of how that when Jesus was dying, no one would come to Him. And a little brown bird flew into the cross to try to save Him, to pull the nails from His hands. He got his little breast all red with blood, and he flew away. And from then he had a red breast. I--I think of it and I think, "God, let me seal my breast with Your Blood too, there when I come before You."
And that's just the little thing, that I like robins and... And two of them flew up in the tree and went to their nest, the little ones "Churrr" a little. I said, "Look, God has fed them all day long. They're tired and weary now. They've come into their nest to their little ones to gather in for the night. Now, O God, someday when life is all over and I've done the best that I can do, won't You let me gather in with the people I preached to?" As sure as God has a place for the birds to gather, He has a place for us to gather. Someday we'll gather together at the setting of the sun we're going to gather.

L-33  Well, I remember the days when a little boy, about... There was about four of us in family. I'm... My mother's the mother of ten children, nine boys and a girl. I was the oldest of the family. Then they come about a year and something different, all the way down to a little girl. And now, she's married, has a child.
But I can remember when we was just three or four in a group, and we used to live in a little old place, and they left mother Rush's place, I'm speaking of, a little two room cabin, slat, old clapboard shingles, you know, little old side down like that. And where we'd all had gathered around out there and--and little old... Before the--the door, I can just remember it, all the grass was wallowed down where these bunch of little Branhams wallowed out there like a bunch of little opossums around a den. Little old boys...


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