<TITLE>04. Par 29-39</TITLE>L-29   Now, look, my people was not religious. My father and mother did not go to church. Before that, they were Catholic.

L-30 My little nephew sitting in here somewhere tonight, I guess, I don't know. He's a soldier. I'm praying for him. He's Catholic himself, still Catholic. And last evening, when he was here and saw those things of God, he was standing right there at the platform. He said, standing there, and he said, "Uncle Bill?" He's been overseas for a long time, said, "When I seen that..." Said, "That--that don't happen in the Catholic church." He said, "That... I--I believe, Uncle Bill, you're right," he said.

L-31 And so I said, "Honey, it isn't me right, it's Him that's right. See, Him that's right." And so he said he... I said, "Now, I'm not asking you to do nothing, Melvin, but just serve the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart. You go anywhere you want to. But be sure that in your heart that Jesus Christ has been born anew, see, in your heart. Then you go to any church you want to after that."

L-32   Now, but the people before me were Catholic. My father's Irish and my mother was Irish. The only break there is in the Irish blood, my grandmother was a Cherokee Indian. My mother is just about a half-breed. And so then I... to me, it's my... our generation, after three it's done faded out. But that's the only break in being strictly Irish, Harvey and Branham was the name. And then behind that was Lyons, which is still Irish. And then they was all Catholic. But myself, we had no religious training or teaching at all, as children.

L-33 But those gifts, that visions, I saw visions right then just the same as I do now, that's right, because gifts and callings are without repentance. It's the foreknowledge of God, God doing something. Down through life I was afraid to say anything about it.

L-34   You've read my story in the little book called Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever. I think it's in some of the books, these others. Is that right, Gene? Is it in this, the regular--the regular book, in the--in the book we have now? Is it, Life Story? I think it is. Then when we had... Ain't that awful? My own books, and I have never read them, myself. But somebody else writes them, so then it's just something they've take in the meeting. I've been through that, so I'm looking for something else always to happen. So, then, they're fine, I've read parts of them now, here and there, just as I get a chance.

L-35   And now, anyhow, as a--as a little boy, you know the vision how it spoke to me, I was about seven years old, and said, "Don't drink or smoke or defile your body in any way, there'll be a work for you to do when you get older." And you've heard that told in the book. Well, that's right. All along it kept happening.

L-36 When I become a minister, well, then it--then it really started happening all the time.

L-37 And I one night saw our Lord Jesus. I'm saying this with permission, I believe, from the Holy Spirit. The Angel of the Lord that comes is not the Lord Jesus. It doesn't look like Him in the same vision. For, the vision I saw of the Lord Jesus, He was a little Man. He wasn't... I had been out in the field, praying for my dad. And I come back in and I went to the bed, and that night I looked at him and I--I said, "O God, save him!"

L-38   My mother has already been saved and I'd baptized her. Then I thought, "Oh, my dad drinks so." And I thought, "If I could just get him to accept the Lord Jesus!" I went out, laid down on a little old pallet out in the front room, near the door.

L-39 And Something said to me, "Rise up." And I raised up, went walking, and went back into the field behind me, an old broom sage field.


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