<TITLE>08. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 And now, here's some handkerchiefs laying here to be prayed over. I wish to do this now. Now, many are--people think that's superstition, but it's the Scripture. Yes. It--it's the Scripture. Now, you might wonder why would a handkerchief... Now, many of you brethren, anoint the handkerchiefs. Now, that's all right. That's just fine. See? Anything that God will bless, we're all for it, aren't we? Anything that God will do... But in the Scripture, if you notice... Now, let's got right down to little bitty hair's point. If you say, "I don't believe that, Brother Branham," that'll be all right anyhow. See? And we'll make the... We won't think one bit less of you.
But if you'll watch the Scripture, Paul never anointed those handkerchiefs, he took them off of his body: Acts 19. Now, where I think he got that, when the Shunammite woman lost her baby, and she went over to the prophet, Elijah, Elijah sent Gehazi with a staff in his hand to lay the staff on the baby. He realized that what he touched was blessed of God. See? And they did...
Now, there's anointing. If I had just a little time to go into that... See? But now, I... We have pray over the handkerchiefs and send them as memorials. I send hundreds and hundreds a week, and I guess--I guess I send more than a thousand handkerchiefs a week from one office, Jeffersonville. And testimonies, we got a little house built there, a little shed just banked up full of testimonies and things.

L-20 Here some time ago, I was just thinking, one--one come to a woman in Germany who was crippled of arthritis, and they went and brought the--brought the pin, put in on her underneath garment. She confessed all of her sins and things. She said, "Now, devil you get out of the house of the Lord," and jumped up and went walking on. This was over. See? Her testimony has been so forceful at Luxembourg, till I'm going into Luxembourg now for a meeting, in Luxembourg, Germany on the fifth, then up to Frankfurt. Then...
Now, there's just... Don't give up. Just keep believing.
And now, before we start the rest of the service. Can we bow our heads just a moment for prayer for these handkerchiefs? I want every Christian in here to center your heart on the sick and needy of these handkerchiefs. Come right ahead, brother...?...

L-21 Most kind, lovingly Father, we are thinking now of the great Saint Paul in the Bible, that took from his body handkerchiefs and aprons, and they put them on the sick, and evil spirits went out of them, and they were healed of diseases. Now, we realize that we're not Saint Paul, but we know that You're still Jesus, the One Who did the healing. And now, Father, these handkerchiefs, perhaps, means that some poor, old mother or dad, some little child somewhere sick and afflicted, they're waiting for these to return. Great, heavenly Father look down in mercy tonight, and heal every one of these. You're looking at them. And we pray that You'll grant these blessing to us. We don't know how to ask You, how to rhyme our prayer; we know that that has nothing to do with it. It's Your Divine order of doing things. It's whether we can believe it in our heart, and I do.
And now, we are told in the Bible, that one of the writer's have said, that when Israel come out of Egypt, and was on the road to the promised land, the Red Sea had them cut off. And God looked down through that Pillar of Fire with angered eyes, and the Red Sea got scared and moved back, and Israel went across on dry land.
And now, Father, may You look tonight, to these handkerchiefs, and follow them to the sick and needy. And when they're placed upon the needy, and sick, and afflicted, may You look down upon that disease with angered eyes, thundering out of Calvary; and may that disease get scared and move back. May the patients pass into good health and the promise of God. Grant it, Father. We send these handkerchiefs to them, in the Name of Thy dear Son, Jesus Christ, for this purpose. Amen.


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