<TITLE>22. Par 84-87</TITLE>L-84 Darkest hour the little family had ever seen. And then Jesus come along. He usually comes when it's the darkest hour.
I was laying yonder in Mayo's Hospital. Mayo Brothers looked at me, and they put me in examinations. Said, "Reverend Branham, we're sorry to inform you of this. But you're finished. Nothing can be done for you. You're finished."
And then Jesus come along. Oh, my. O mercy!
It may be your darkest hour now, brother, setting there shaking in the chair. I've watched you for two nights. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Jesus come along about this time?
What about you, setting there with cancer, the doctor says you can't live? Your darkest hour and then Jesus comes along.
He's always there just in the darkest hour.
When the Hebrew children was making their last step in the fiery furnace, then Jesus come along.
When the woman with the blood issue had...?... paid all of her money out for doctors, and none could do no good, then Jesus come along. He's right there. Don't be weary. If you love Him, stay right with Him. He will be there. Jesus come along.

L-85 Some of them said, "The Master's come."
Now, Mary had always been, or Martha a little dilatory. But her heart was burning. Here she pulled down her veil over her face and away she went.
I hear some of them say, "Where is that holy-roller preacher that preached Divine healing? Uh-huh. When the trial come, He run away. Didn't He? Where's He at now? Where is that Divine Healer?"
Martha and them had left the church, 'cause it was strictly said anybody that followed Jesus would be put out of the temple. So there they was. They couldn't have fellowship in their synagogue no more. Lost their church, lost their pastors, lost their friends, lost everything, and everything was gone. All hopes was gone. They was setting alone. And then Jesus come by.
Then Martha... I can see her pick up her garments, put it around her, start running out. I can hear some of them say, "Now, wonder where she's going?"
Now, I'd just always imagined that Martha knew down in her heart if she could ever get to Jesus, she'd find out all about what she wanted to know.

L-86 Now, back in the Bible there... Like the Shunammite woman, Martha probably read this. The Shunammite woman when she lost her baby... I think it had a sunstroke. God give her the baby. And it'd raised to be nine, ten, twelve years old. One day about out about eleven o'clock in the field with its daddy said, "My head. My head." Went in and had a sunstroke. And it died.
Now she said, "Saddle an ass and go forward. Don't stop, lest I bid you. Go to the man of God to Mount Carmel."
Now, she knew that God was in Elijah. Now, listen closely now just before my closing.
She knew that God was in Elijah. And if she could ever get to Elijah, she might not get her baby back, but she would know why that her baby was taken. And her husband said, "It's neither new moon or sabbath. He won't be there."
She said, "All is well. Go on." And they went a ride... "And don't slack, lest I bid you."

L-87 I can see her come up to the man of God. Now, he didn't know. God don't tell His prophets everything. He said, "Here comes that Shunammite, and there's something wrong with her. She's got grief in her heart, and God's hid it from me."
Is that right? He didn't know what it was. So he come up... she... He said, "Is all well with thee, with thy husband, and with the child?"
I love this. She said, "All is well." She'd got to the prophet. She knew everything was all right then. So she rode up by the side come off... She jumped down and fell down at his feet.
Gehazi pulled him back from around her master. What was that? Keeping her away. He said, "Let her alone." Said, "She has sorrow. God's hid it from me." And so she revealed it to him that the baby was dead.


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