<TITLE>03. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 And I know... and most all of you here know Brother Bosworth, a very fine Christian gentleman. And he was with us. He walked over to me, said, "Brother Branham, I think you're wrong in that."
I said, "Oh, Brother Bosworth," I said, "you'll see."
So..?... I was right there just a few nights, and then...?... a little place of about six thousand people, and probably two thousand there, no place to eat, sleep, or nothing. So it was laying out there. It was a nice fine warm day. And just before they got ready to take me to the meeting that night there come a tropical storm. You people in American don't know what a storm is till you seen one of those. It like to have drowned everybody out there. At ten o'clock it was still going: no service!

L-10 All the ministers came back to the place where I was. I said, "I told you." They were...?...and satisfied. "He was angry, because that we are doing out--out of His will."
"Why," they said, "the Lord told us to do this."
I said, "He might have. But He told me not to."
And he said, "Well, then," the next day, he said, "oh, [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... time, Brother Branham." So the next day, just about time they got ready to take me over here come a blizzard, like to froze everybody to death.
When they come back, I said, "Now, tomorrow night we'll have a earthquake, perhaps."
So they said, "Do you mean we'll have an earthquake?"

L-11 I said, "No, if He--if He told me we'd have a earthquake; but, brethren, we're out of the will of God. And we can't prosper doing this."
So two o'clock in the morning, there they was still going strong. And I said, "The Lord has told me to return to Johannesburg and stay there for two weeks, and then go to Durban, and stay there a month."
And they couldn't see that. Said, "We've promised the brethren."
I said, "It doesn't make any difference what you promised the brethren; God is speaking."

L-12 Men sometimes, we just get ourself so wrapped up till... Just the way it was, that's the way it is today (See?), same thing: so wrapped up, and they just simply has to be according to the way your association says so, or you're not in the running. You're wrong. God deals with individuals (That's right.), always has. And He does things that's very hard to understand; you have to know God to understand Him. And you know that. You know the Scriptures. If you know the Scriptures, you know it's true. So we just had an awful time.
Then I... about two o'clock in the morning, somewhere along there, it was getting late, I said, "Well, they all..." [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]...?... I said, "Oh, He has a permissive will, to permit something, but who wants to work God's permissive will? I'd rather do what He wants me to do (See?), not be in His permissive will.
Well, it went on. So they got... "Oh, my! His permissive will, go ask Him about that."

L-13 Well, I went in to pray. And Billy Paul went in with me, my boy, the little fellow that gives out the prayer cards here. And when we went in the room, I shall never forget. He put his arm around me, as we walked in the door, said, "Daddy, you listen to God. Don't you listen to them preachers out there." Said, "I'm with you." Said, "If we have to swim home." See? Said, "I will stay right with you, daddy. You better listen to God."
It might have been a million times better off if I'd have listen to the boy, too. Now, I say that with respect. He's just a kid, but he's certainly... God was with him.
And I got down to pray. He was going to pray with me. 'Course, just being a lad, and he got sleepy and went to bed. And I prayed on till long in the morning.


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