<TITLE>03. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 Usually it's in a line of discernment. I never try to cast out a spirit, unless first I realize what I'm doing, 'cause that's a dangerous thing. Did you know that? Very dangerous unless you understand what you're doing. If you'll notice on the platform after the anointing comes, you never hear me challenge a spirit 'less firstly I see where it's God's will to do it.
Now, you say, "Is it God's will?" Well, sometime people come to the platform who many times are even not Christians, and they--they want to be healed of diseases, and maybe they have been Christians, and done something in their life, or neglected to do something, and that's the reason they can't get healed. So under that power of discernment, when the prophetic utterance goes forth, it tells you just exactly where your trouble is. That--that... Then get that out of the way first. Then God's got to heal you.

L-10 Here not long ago, if you'll excuse me. Would you give me a time for a little testimony, just a little bitty one, if you will? I feel that I wasn't going to say nothing, but this comes on my mind.
Just a few months ago, I was having a meeting, and--and I coming back home. And there's a--a Methodist minister in New Albany, very fine man. It's a city just below us in Indiana, and he's a--has a very fine lively church.
He has got what they call the "Hour of Power" program, and the... Oh, it's a marvelous program. And in this program, he gets different ministers in to preach, and he said, "Brother Branham, it would just make me feel so good if you'd come preach one night for me." Said, "I won't ask you to pray for any sick people."
At home I try to relax and keep that off my mind, 'cause as soon as you go to talking to somebody, there it is again. You see? So I just kind of relax from it. He said, "If you just come down preach..."

L-11 I said, "All right, Brother Johnson, I'll do that." And we were both raised the same part of Kentucky, just across the hollow from each other. So he was a Methodist, and I was a Baptist, and we used to go on to each other all the time, you know, about different denominations of church.
And so I went down that night to... And we had the service and the Lord had blessed, and it was a great crowd of people come from the outside, way down the streets where they was lined up, holding up their hands they accepted Christ as their Saviour.

L-12 Going down at the back way where we had to go through, 'cause the basement and all was full and... Well, we started out the back way. He said, "Brother Branham, I promised you I wouldn't ask you to pray for anybody," but said, "we got a Sunday school teacher here." Said, "She's a lovely little woman, and she's a neurotic." Said, "I--I would that you would pray for her, Brother Branham. Just lay your hands on her and just say, 'God bless you or something.'" Said, "She's wanted you to pray for her so long." Said, "She's been everywhere that... Everybody comes through the country with praying for the sick," said, "we've had her everywhere. She's been going to the psychiatrist in Louisville for the past ten years," and said, "and she's just in a terrible condition."
I said, "All right."

L-13 Well, the way he'd explained her case, I expected to see somebody in a--in a straight jacket, but when I got down to the end of the steps, a lovely looking little lady of about twenty-eight, thirty years old, maybe a little older, standing there. She said, "How do you do, Brother Branham?"
I said, "Howdy do."
And she said... I said, "Are you the patient?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "Well, you don't look to be sick."
She said, "Well, I--I really not sick," but said, "I don't know what's the matter with me, Brother Branham," said, "I just can't get myself together."


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