<TITLE>36. Par 145-149</TITLE>L-145 One time when I'd preached. I worked all day and preach every night. And I'd come in, and I wanted a place to rest. And I got an old Morris chair. I paid fifteen dollars for it. And I paid a dollar down and a dollar every other week. And I got five or six dollars paid, and I couldn't make the payments. And one day when I come home, she told me that... I had a dun there. And we just couldn't make the payment. I just had to let it go back. I... It was the only piece of furniture we had in the house was worth anything. And we had it about one-third paid for.
And that evening when I come in... She was a sweetheart. She--she know... She'd baked me a cherry pie; she knowed how I liked it. And she'd baked me a cherry pie. And she said she'd some of the little boys to dig some fishing worms. And we was going down to the river fishing and she was telling me all... And I knowed there was something wrong. And after supper she said, "Now, let's go down to the river right away, Bill." And she didn't like fishing but she knew I did. So she said, "Let's go to the river."
And I said, "Honey, what's happened today?"
She said, "Nothing."

L-146 And I could see the tears in them big eyes. I knowed there was something wrong. I said, "Let's go into the front room." I thought something wrong.
And they'd... I'd already sent them word to come, get it. So they had took my chair. When I went to the door. She looked over, and she put her arms around me; she said, "Bill, I tried hard, honey. I--I--I tried. It isn't..."
I said, "No, sweetheart, it isn't your fault. But some of these days things will be different, and--and someday God will make a way, and we'll have a--a nice chair. And don't you believe that?"
And she said, "I--I hope we do, Bill."

L-147 And just then, in this dream she pointed to a big chair. And then she looked at me; I said, "You remember that chair?"
Said, "Yes." She said, "But honey, they'll never come and get this one. This one's already paid for. They'll never come after this." Said...
I know, my Christian friend, somewhere beyond the skies yonder, when this mortal life of mine shall fade out into a tomorrow... I know that there's rest for me beyond the river. I have a chair over there, a home, a place. I love them with all my heart. It's truly with all my heart. And my sad mistakes that I made back through life, you let them be stepping stones.

L-148 My time is past. Would you just do this: if you have never made your peace with God and you realize that someday... Maybe your experience wasn't as mine. I hope it wasn't. But remember, with every mortal in here has got to face God someday yonder. And I remember the last kiss I put on her lips. Someday I'll meet her yonder beyond that just as sure as I'm standing here. The grace of God saved me. It keeps me day by day. And I live so your...
One woman said to me not long ago, about a year ago or two, she said, "Brother Branham, when in the world when you're home, the sick people pouring in, when you are out here in the meetings, when do you ever have any rest?"

L-149 A few years ago, you look in the book back there, and you wouldn't know I was the same man. When I returned home after my first great meeting, even my baby was scared of me and run from me. I'd lost most of my hair, had come out. My shoulders had slumped down. Something had happened. What's the matter? It's by the revelation of the vision of God that moves down, and I know it's sapping my life daily.
I looked the other day, when I was standing, using my razor. I thought, "Oh, how can it be that these few years has made such in you, boy?" But one of these days when I cross over on the other side, things will be different then.


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