<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 I just suppose that many of you think, that a life of this type, is just a great glamour, and people patting you on the shoulders, and--and going along. "Well, everything's just roses," as we say, but very much contrary. It's the hardest, drug out life that a human ever lived. You not only have the individual. A lot of time fanatics coming and disagreeing and saying ugly things. I think the Lord permits that. It keeps you humble with them type people.
Just telling you that the Lord said, "If you don't do this, He's going to punish you. The Lord said, 'This and that.'" If the Lord wanted to talk to me, I'm on speaking terms with Him. He would tell me.

L-18 And many times they fix an auditorium, advertise in the paper, that I'm to be... I don't even know nothing about it, and then the people begin to call me and saying, "Well, Brother Branham, you're advertised in the paper." Oh, that hurts me. But here a few days ago, someone kept calling in home, and--and a meeting up in Pennsylvania somewhere, a lady having a meeting said, "I'm Brother Branham's co-worker; he will be here tomorrow night." And people gathered out, and ministers closed their churches. And said, "Well, I just got him on the telephone." Said, "He can't come until tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock." And then kept on day after day, stalling it off, and I don't even know the--never heard of her in my life. See? But that's the way it goes. So that hurts, but it's all right. It's all--God just makes me know, pray a little harder and keep a little closer to Him. It's a wonder I have a friend left, isn't it, under such as that? But my friends understand.

L-19 I tell this one thing, Christian people, don't worry about anything, just as long as God goes with you, everything else will just fall right into it's place, and just--it'll--it'll be--love. Just in your heart, pray till you love the Lord Jesus with all your heart, and you'll love every one of His people with all, and you'll love every sinner with all your heart. You'll love everybody, and the people will know that you love them. No matter how much you try to impersonate it, you can't do it. People knows better than that, especially spiritual minded people. They know better than that. And just love, that's the main thing. If I had one--one thing that I could say to the people tonight, any commandment to keep, just love one another; love the Lord Jesus, and everything will be all right. Just keep in love.

L-20 Now, inside life... It's no one but God alone, knows what you go through with. All hours of the night, I have prayed till I'd be so weak I couldn't hardly stand up, and unconscious, and walking the floor with a pillow in my hand, at night time, trying to sleep, thinking I was praying for the sick. Not only that, but inside of that, demons that's commanded... Sometimes, we hit hard places.
Here a few nights ago on the platform, after picking it up from my manager, and my boy and them, telling me of it, there was a blind man came to the platform. The man had sinned or something--something was wrong, and I just had prayer and started him away. Something said, "Stop the man." Well, I think if you ask for a miracle to be performed, sometimes like that, it hinders your prayer line. The rest of them are waiting then, as Brother Bosworth called it, "Spiritual hitchhikers." It's a--they expect... See? You must have your own faith. But when this man had did wrong, and you'll notice very careful, that in there...


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