<TITLE>04. Par 11-13</TITLE>L-11 'Course, in India you can't spend a penny; you got to send the money ahead. They've got to have our money for everything. And none of those other countries, their money's no good here. You see? So we have to send the money.
And I said, "I think that'll, maybe, buy our tickets to go over."
And he said, "Well, let's set the meeting for February," he said, "the 23rd. I'll have Mr. Nehru to have a dinner for you that afternoon on the 23rd, that'll give me a chance to go into Africa and have this meeting and all over."
I said, "That's sounds good to me." Called Mr. Baxter, we got it set. And that night, my wife, which is present now, setting back here, I--there was people in the den room, and people in the other room, was ministering to the sick, and I'd had a long distant call, of emergency, a man was going to commit suicide.
He said, "I just want to call you preacher and tell you that I'm no good, and I'm fixing--you'll hear the gun fire, just in a minute."
And I said, "Now, just--just a moment. Lay the gun down; let the hammer down." I kept on till I hear--heard it lay down, and led him to Christ. And he got saved right there.

L-12 So I was on my road back to go in to minister to the people again, and standing in the door stood a odd dressed man. I never noticed how he was dressed down this way, but he had like a towel laying over his head. His nose was kinda pushed up, in that manner. And he said to me. I said, "How do you do, sir?" I thought he was just--some of them had just let him in. He was in there to be prayed for.
And he said, looked up like that, said, "Brother Branham, don't go overseas till September."
"Why," I said, "Why?" And the man was gone. And I went into the other room, and asked if they had seen anything like it; wife hadn't let him into the house; he... No one knowed nothing about him. And then that night, after the house was empty, I went in and was laying down along about one o'clock in the morning, and I dreamed that I shouldn't go over to Africa till--or India until September. I come in, woke up my wife, and told her. We set there a little while, I went back in again and dreamed the same dream again. And we said, "Maybe it's the Lord, don't want me to go over." And I went in, I said, "Lord, then I accept the vision as being You warning me, and the two dreams also not to go till September." I went to sleep and slept like a baby. So we go in September in the Name of Jesus Christ. Watch what happens. I know our Lord will be good to us. He promised it.

L-13 And I want to ask this tonight: when the winds are blowing hot in Africa and India, witch doctors, and don't think they're not here to challenge you... And in India they got the rope walkers, the fire eaters, everything else, and anything in the supernatural realm, they come and challenge it right now. When the ways are going hard over there, can I depend on this, that when I slip down to have a word of prayer, can I believe that there's people in Des Moines praying for me? Will you do that...?...? Thank you.
Brother Mitchell just told me that they give me a little offering to kinda help me along. I appreciate that, friends, and I--I'm a poor man. I don't have anything of this world's goods. They just build me a little parsonage to live in. I could've been a rich man, but I'd rather my riches would be up there. And oh, I couldn't take money from poor people. I just couldn't do it. And I wouldn't now. I'd get out and work every time I'd come to a meeting, if I just could. But it's just a call for the sick. And I--what little money I get a hold of, why, I put it in foreign missions, all we don't just have to eat on, and we--we live poor. Come to my home and find out, or let the investigation find out anything you want to know. I come poor; I will return poor. My people are poor, and I--I'll desire to remain that way.


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