<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>54-0314, Why I'm Praying For The Sick, Southland Theater, Columbus, OH, 85 min
L-1 Thank you, very much, friends, and good evening. You may be seated, if you will. I'm happy to be here tonight, happy to greet you in the Name of our Lord Jesus. Been looking some time, to be here to minister to you, and I trust that this will be a great time for us all.
I was sorry to be late at the beginning, but I'm usually late, anyhow. Here some time ago, I come into a church, and the minister of the United Brethren church, in New Albany (I was to speak for them that night.), he said, "I'm going to introduce you to the late Mr. Branham."
I said, "I was late, but I didn't know I'd passed on."

L-2 Well, we're happy to be in this lovely city tonight. Looked forward to it for some time with great anticipations. Just a little tired. We drove all the way from Phoenix, and stayed home one day and come on up. Been very strenuous the last few months in the meetings, or at least--at least the last six weeks, I'd say... Because we was going to India. Supposed to be in Africa and India this month. And the--the Lord appeared to me and told me not to go until September. So I got this time off with... Kinda go around and speak to my friends and preach to them... And so, I'm happy to get to share the fellowship of you people here for the next few days in this lovely city, to meet your pastor here, Brother Collett, and 'course, I suppose, there be many more of the ministering brethren.

L-3 And I come in just for the cold weather, didn't I? Coming from Arizona here, I liked to froze coming over. My blood had done got thin. Yet I'm a southerner to begin with, so I guess I was just born with thin blood. But when I was born the second time, I got a different kind of blood. That's right. That's right. When I got the new birth, I got a new blood. And so He's taken away the old and gave the new. So you know, you... When He gives you new, He just makes you new all over, like putting wine in a--an old bottle, He said it would perish. So we got to get made over new.
And now, it's always a great privilege to get to come to a church for the first time. But usually you have to kinda get acquainted with one another and kinda get all the spooks away, you know, so we can--we can kinda get down to talking to each other.

L-4 I was talking to our Brother Collett when he came to my place awhile ago, when we come in. And we'd given out the meetings as "The Gospel Preaching Meeting." Brother had said that he'd... Been many people had come in to be prayed for, for a healing campaign or healing for the sick. I told him, maybe the first night we'd better have that then. So that we could get that over with in the beginning. And so he said they'd come down, give out some prayer cards, and the boy (my son with me), he come down and he said, "Daddy, they didn't have but just about three hundred give out." I would...
He had to take those up, I believe. Because that would last till... If we was to be here another month, and we'd never get them through the line, the way I have to pray for the sick. It's by vision. Many of you has been in the meetings. And that would deprive everybody else that come in. We'd be obligated to take care of them first. So it would... Anyone else would come in, emergency or something, we'd have cards out ahead of that, and the emergency would never be able to be prayed for during the time of the meetings.


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