<TITLE>01. Par 1-5</TITLE>54-0220, Expectation, East Alton -Wood River Community High School, Wood River, IL, 89 min
L-1 ... in doing so it makes us all kinda relax. And some people in the ministry of this type, they begin to think, maybe, you'd be some kind of a super person or something. I want you to know: I'm just your brother (See?), just a man (See?), just your brother. Just... Nothing but just a human, like we all are. And God just give me a little ministry to help somebody, so I just go do the best I can with it, and that's the best that I know.
So then, I thought last night, talking about...?... with horses and so forth, and riding, why, you'd realize that we're just--just mortal beings together, trying our best to do what we can for the Kingdom of God and for the glory of His dear Son, Jesus Christ.

L-2 And such a respond, though, my, that was marvelous. I thought I'd... Really the meetings was set up for, was for just Gospel preaching. I'm... And then when you get around where the... and mention the coming... the Lord has blessed so greatly in the praying for the sick, until people have just... Really, when they come, they expect the prayer meeting for the sick.
You can... Sometime I get off an airplane somewhere, or going somewhere traveling, here would be somebody over there motioning, got that ambulance setting out there with somebody sick to be prayed for, out at the airport. They know the plane's going to come down or something. So that's real nice, I... That's... I appreciate that. If people's got that much faith in God, to believe it. That's very, very nice. And so, I--I'm thankful for it, and I pray that God will bless.

L-3 I just shook hands with a young fellow coming in there, a young boy, if he's here, I don't mean to make him conspicuous. A very fine young fellow said, "Brother Branham, I was raised up in a Christian home." He said, "I'd taken the habit of smoking, and--and I use bad words." He said, "Brother Branham, I want to be right with God. Would you pray that..."
See, bring up a child in the way it should go. They get off amongst these children doesn't have that kind of teaching, they wander away, but don't worry, God will bring them back. I believe it.

L-4 A brother setting here, said, "Brother Branham, don't you remember down in Phoenix, at a basement in the auditorium one time, you prayed for my wife who was insane?" (I just remembered) Said, "She's here with us tonight." Said, "She's in her right mind."
Oh, I wonder if the woman's close, if she'd stand up. Is this the minister, I believe, or somewhere here? It's a... Yes, his--his wife, that was healed in Phoenix.
Reminds me of the time at--in Little Rock, Arkansas. I believe it was one of the worst cases of insanity that I ever seen in my life. And someone testified of it in the meeting.

L-5 I'd just been... (If you want confirmation of this, you might write the chairman of the committee, which was Rev. G. H. Brown, of Little Rock, Arkansas, 505 Victor Street; Rev. G. H. Brown.) And we were praying, and it was about... got late and I was so tired; that was just before I had my time where they just let me have, they just let me stay until... liked to kill me.
So I was amazed that night. There was an old fellow out in the meeting there, he was--had crutches about like the brother here that's...?... his feet sitting on. He'd had been crippled for a long time. And during time of the service, the Lord Jesus made him whole. And the next day he was walking around on the street, holding his crutches in front of him, saying, "The Lord took me off of this last night." So...?...
Oh, my. The papers give me really write up, said, "A self-styled Baptist preacher, jamming the streets with ambulances and cars: such fanaticism."


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