<TITLE>14. Par 20-20</TITLE>L-20 So I remember that night, she went over. And we all was all setting around there, and I said, "All right, now tonight, friends, I hate to ask you this." I seen her look up at me. And I was trying to keep my head turned from her. I said, "You know, it's just one of these times; I never did this before, it's you know, I can't hardly make ends meet, you know how it gets." I said, "You all got a nickel or a dime," I said, "you'd like to drop in my hat over here?" I said, "Brother Wisehart, would you come and take my hat and...
So Brother Wisehart, didn't hardly know what to do. He--he come over after my hat, I looked down at this little old mother setting down, reached down there with this little apron, you know, little checkered apron, pulled out this little pocketbook, had a snap on the top of it, and begin to reach down and get... Oh, me. I couldn't take that. I--I--I thought, "That poor old woman setting there with that money, reaching them nickels in there. Huh-uh! I don't want it."
I said, "I was just teasing you all to see what you'd do." So then--then Brother Wisehart already had my hat, you know."
He said, "Brother Branham, what am I to do?"
I said, "Just put my hat back. I was just going on, Brother Wisehart." And I seen my wife, shook her head and kind of laughed.
Brother Ryan give me an old bicycle. He had been down there, and I--and left give me an old bicycle, and I painted it up and sold it for ten dollars, didn't have to take an offering after all and so... That was the same bicycle I was on when that infidel met me on the corner and said, what he did, lived next door to me. I'm packing his Bible book here today. And how God worked there.
Oh, it's wonderful to see Him in His power. Then I... One day, coming home, I was... I'd been studying. Many of the ministers had been telling me not to listen to such stuff as that. I will have to hurry. Just got about twenty-seven minutes now. And I will hurry as quick as I can, 'cause I want to get in an African experience. And this brother setting here from Africa could get a hold of now.
And now, I remembered this, that I said, "I wasn't going to have no more to do with it." And one day I was going up the road to patrol up at the Henryville State Forestry. And I got on the bus. And now, listen every one of you, closely. The strange thing it was, that every time I meet a demon possessed person, like a fortuneteller, or something, they'd speak to me, and seem to know me. And then that would scare me to death.


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