<TITLE>02. Par 5-6</TITLE>L-5  Now, you meet me on the street and say, "Brother Branham, what about..." I probably know nothing about that. But now, on the platform when someone meets me, then I--it's not me that's speaking. When you hear my voice speaking when that inspiration is on, I--I have no more control of that than you know what you're going to say next New Year's day. I--I do not have no control of that; It speaks Itself. It's my voice, and I'm listening to myself talk just as you're listening to me now talk. I hear myself, what It says to the people. And--and then I know then... Sometimes take ahold of their hand, I'll wait there, and after while I'll hear what It speaks, just hear myself speak, talking to the people. It's a very strange feeling. And under that anointing, being that my services are so close together, that it's best for me not to be too much under it at a time in one service.
And Moses of old was committed--the Lord committed to him two signs to do before the people. And he performed those signs one time and that's was all he did it. Israel believed from then on and--and followed the leader. Why, these signs, is not for you to follow me, but to follow what I tell you. And that sign is this: that you are to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will lead you.
And then when you're told something up here at the platform, you must believe that with all your heart. And the purpose of this is that the people... There may be somebody in the prayer line tonight that I'll know, have met somewhere else. Probably when that anointing was on I would not recognize them: sometimes I do and sometimes I do not. But if--if I would, well, er... Now, I've met... Two or three times I've met people like that, but very seldom. Then I have no way of knowing what's wrong with that patient or what they've done in their life. And many things that--that they do not wish to be told out here at the platform, but I can't help it, It--It speaks Itself.

L-6  Now... And if It tells you exactly what has been in your life, and you know that, you--you--you're aware of that, and you're aware... The first thing when the patient comes, if you'll watch then when they come reverent, when they get real near, watch the expression on their face change. It'll change me, and I... Some of them...
There's a picture back there when the Angel of the Lord was up over me when they had the picture taken. Said, "Brother Branham, that don't look like you." No, it set... When It's just that close to you It just changes you; you're--there's something different, you're... Something happens. Then when the patient's coming, they will... If they're a believer... Now, if you're not a believer, if you're just coming just for curiosity, or maybe you're a little skeptic about the Angel of the Lord, you'll never notice it. See, only those who are looking for God are the ones who find God. Only those... When the woman touched the hem of His garment, why, she said, "If I may but touch Him, I'll be made well." Why, she thought the virtue went out; she got what she wanted.
But those who put a rag over His face and--and smote Him on the face and said, "Now if you're a prophet prophesy and tell us who hit you." they didn't feel any virtue at all. They wasn't feeling for it. They didn't believe it. But the ones who believed it was the ones who received it. And that's the way it is with salvation. Those who believe God...
If someone said, "I do not believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit." He'll never be able to receive it until you believe it. That's right. You got to believe it. For all things of God are by faith.


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