<TITLE>07. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Now, no prophet and no... No one, even the Lord Jesus never, at any time, ever performed a miracle or done anything without first God showing or advising them to do it.
Look at the great prophet Elijah. Someone come not long ago... Someone had criticized me in the paper. And that... A man that was with me said, "Brother Branham, I'd go out there and put a curse on that paper."
I said, "Oh, Brother." Jesus said, "I never come to destroy people. I come to save people." They criticize, but that's all right. That don't hurt me. That's the best drawing card I got. That's right.
I get all that publicity free, and we don't have to pay for it. For what money we'd pay for that, we take it over to the missionaries overseas. So, see, that don't hurt. That's good. Everybody come out to see what all the trouble's about. Then we get it free. So they just do a favor not knowing it. See?

L-24 But he said, "We need another ELijah who will come out on Mount Carmel and said, 'Now, I dare you to come out here.'"
I said, "Whoa. Wait just a minute, brother."
Said, "Elijah never waited for no vision. Only thing he did is go there and do it."
I said, "I beg your pardon, brother. You're a scholar, but you're a long ways off the track right there."
When Elijah called out there on the day at Mount Carmel, he laid those things together, and walked out there, and he said, "Lord, I have did all this at Your Word." Is that right? Sure, all of you. See? "At Your Word..."

L-25 Jesus said, "I can do nothing of Myself, but what I see the Father doing. I do the same thing He shows Me." Is that right? Saint John 5:19: "So the Father worketh, I worketh hitherto."
In other word, always in the supernatural. And no flesh can glory in the Presence of God. So we just wait. Now, some men don't see visions. Some goes by inspiration of presentment. The Holy Spirit say to a pastor, "Move to this other church over here," though he don't get the money over there, but they're in need. "I want you over there." He don't wait for a vision, because that's not his ministry. He just goes over there, and God gets as much as it being a vision. Think. All right. Others go by something else. But all together is the working of the Holy Spirit. The Lord bless you.

L-26 Now, look Christian, my dear little children in Christ, my lovely ones, I hate to leave you tonight. Honest, I do. I don't have to say that, but I really wish that I had a couple more weeks in Phoenix. But I--I just got my meetings so set, just pushing a day here and a day there, a day... like that.
So I've just got to hurry, just as quick as I can get home, and start right off. When I get in, if nothing happens, on one morning and start right off that afternoon. See? So at the beginning of the very next day... So, you pray for me, will you? And, perhaps, I won't see you no more, I guess, until I come back from overseas. But now maybe it's in order maybe to tell that vision, I promised you I would. I've got it written here in the Bible.


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