<TITLE>02. Par 4-8</TITLE>L-4 Here some time ago, a very famous evangelist in the nation who attracts literally tens of thousands to his meetings... One of my co-workers was standing, talking to him. He said, "Well," said that, "I won't go to a city 'less all the radius around and every church will close and have the meeting."
You take... The man would come to Louisville, Kentucky. There's four hundred Baptists churches alone in Louisville, four hundred churches, and it's not a Baptist town. Asbury College is just beyond me. It's a Methodist town. But there's four hundred big Baptist churches in the city of Louisville.
There'd probably be five or six hundred Methodist churches besides Presbyterian and all the rest of them. You get a group like that together, you got some people to start with. But no disregards, that's politics. I'd rather go just where God would tell me to go, if I just had to see one person. See?

L-5 Philip was having a big revival down to Samaria. And the Lord called him out of that and sent him over to the desert to find one man, and a colored man, an Ethiopian. And he obeyed the Lord. And that's--that's the way that I think we should do it, just wherever the Lord leads. Now, maybe the Lord leads people in other ways.

L-6 But now, I was here recently, right in a great revival where thousands of people were gathered in. Many of you... Maybe some of you was here, down here on your vacation now. It was the Kellogg auditorium in... Well, it's up in Michigan there some... Battle Creek, in Battle Creek, Michigan. Was anybody there at the meeting that time? Yes. Up at Battle Creek, Michigan where they... Yes, there was someone was at that meeting.
And right when the place was packed and jammed out with people... I was pulled out to a lake one afternoon, a little lake, about a half mile around it, and was back there praying, down in a bunch of bushes. I heard something going... [Brother Branham makes a noise at the pulpit--Ed.] I looked up, and I just went out, and I was setting on a--a boat going down along the seashore.

L-7 And the Angel of the Lord come near and said, "Close the meeting now (eight more days yet to go yet), but close the meeting now and turn aside to Minneapolis at once." Well, I went in and told the manager. He wouldn't believe it. He said, "You tell the ministers."
I said, "God knows how I love ministers. They're the shepherds of the flock. But there's a Master of all of us, and I must listen to Him."
I got in trouble over that one time in Africa. You're acquainted with the story, perhaps. I said, "No, I must go."
Brother Baxter said, "Brother Branham, you tell the ministers."
I said, "Well, you just get them up here." So I told them and they--they kinda felt ill towards me.
They said, "The Lord told us to make this for two weeks."
I said, "But the Lord told me to go somewhere else." See? And I said, "I... What the Lord told you, that's all right. But what He told me, I'll do." So I turned aside right there.

L-8 Mr. Baxter said, "What I'll do, we'll--we'll go at the end of this week."
I said, "We're going right now." And now, if you want to know the results and what come out, you just write Rev. Gordon Peterson at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and find out why it was.
If... When I took a hold of the phone, if it had been five minutes later, yes, two minutes later, there'd been something happened in Minneapolis would've changed the history of the Pentecostal church, Minneapolis.
And I knew nothing about it until I got over there, and then the Lord revealed it. Go first, He will tell you after you get there. Just rise and go. And so you must follow the leadings of the Lord.
So now, maybe the Lord tells people to go set their meetings and have these... That's--that's all right. If He does that, just so you're minding the Lord is the main thing. Everybody has things to do differently.


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