<TITLE>03. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 The poor, little, hungry fellow, wiping the dirt out of his eyes and crying like that wanting to hear about Jesus Christ one time. He's got just as much right to hear as my little girl setting there who hears it every day. Is that right? Somebody's got to take it. That's right. Somebody's got to take it, and it's on my heart to do it.
And I pray that God will bless each one that give in that offering, and everything that I can do outside of my own... what I just... And we live like common people, friends. If I'd have been money, I'd been a millionaire. I had give to me in one offering one million five hundred thousand dollars. FBI agents brought it to me, and I refused even to look at it.

L-11 He said, "Rev. Brother Branham, this... You don't know what this is."
I said, "It don't makes any difference, sir. I don't take people's money." I come into this world poor. I'll go out poor. How could I be rich and the people setting here... Not long ago they were going to give me a big Cadillac. My little, old Chevrolet truck out there was just about backslid so I... That's a big word for a Baptist, isn't it? Backsliding, but you can do it.
So it was... He said, "Are you... Is that--what you're riding?"
I said, "Yes, sir. It's a dandy."
And he said, "Well," he said, "I tell you, Brother Branham," said, "We give Avak a Cadillac," said, "we'll just give you a new one to ride home in."
I said, "I--I appreciate it, brother." I said, "I--I appreciate it with all my heart," but I said, "I--I couldn't ride in a Cadillac." I said, "I appreciate anybody can ride in one," but I said, "I couldn't do it."

L-12 What if I'd be going down through Arkansas now (See?), where all them poor little cotton pickers out there and them little mammies out there in the field with a cotton sack on her back about fifty or a hundred pounds of cotton dragging of a morning, her poor, little, old hand stuck up with cotton burrs like that, eating fat bacon and some corn bread for breakfast and there--there's Brother Branham going down through there with a big Cadillac?
Not me. No, sir. No, sir. That don't run in my blood. If I got what I deserved, I'd be walking, riding a bicycle or something. Yes, sir. I mean that from my heart, and I'd rather have favor with God than to have the best beautiful home you got in Chicago and be out of commission of God. My main thing is to be in favor with God.

L-13 Now, I do appreciate every man that God... I like to see poor people when they haven't got nothing and see them come up and get a nice little home and a automobile. And oh, you don't know how good that makes me feel just to see poor people... I know what it means to be poor. I'm poor yet, will die poor, but I'm... What it means to me to see people when they've come up, God has blessed them. It just shakes my heart.
Some brother setting here now that I was in their home, stayed in their home last time I was here, and a lovely home and oh, I... They told me they come here to the Chicago without a scratch hardly, and then they got a lovely home, and lovely children, and lovely wives, and sweet brothers who's right in the ministry and the work of the Lord. Oh, my. That just--that just makes me kneel on me knees and thank our heavenly Father for people like that. It does.


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