<TITLE>04. Par 14-17</TITLE>L-14 Now, I said I would go across the country. I never get a chance to meet my friends. 'Cause just as soon you meet someone when the anointing is there, well, there it is again not the person. Now, then at nighttime I finished before night comes.
But I thought I would begin to...?... Ministers keep telling me, "Oh, Brother Branham don't." But in California in the Christian Businessman, after the Angelus Temple (I've got to be there a few nights.) Then at the Christian Businessmen God helping me. I aim to just preach the Gospel on basis of the shed Blood, and bring the people up, and just pray for them as they pass by.
I tried that in my tabernacle a few weeks ago. Out of about a hundred and something people that come through the prayer line being prayed for, sixteen outstanding miracles was performed before the people left the building (See?), just by laying on the hands and praying. Sixteen, that's polio, and crippled arms, and twisted. Everything was performed.

L-15 This way, once in a while I'll get a question like that. Cause I just... Wherever I feel, I just call a few up to people up and here...?... May I see a person there and he be... Here's something wrong with this one. I can see it. But there's no need of telling them; there's not faith there for their healing. So I just don't say nothing, just go ahead.
Here it is over here. And here it is here...?... But you... Until you see something that you're pretty sure that's going to be done, sometimes it'll speak to that person then. See? That's it. Now, for that...
Upon the basis of that, it's the purpose for the healing... Faith cometh by hearing and hearing of the Word of God. That's first. Then after that, God has set in the Church apostles, prophets, gifts of healing, miracles, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, and all those gifts He has placed in the Church for the, in other words, for the calling together for the edification of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God has set some teachers, evangelists, prophets, working of miracles, gifts of healing... All those things are for the perfecting of the Church. Just like the members all active in your body, not just at Pentecost, thirty-three years after Pentecost when the Christian Church was put in order. See? Those things which to continue then.

L-16 Now, come and pray with us. I love you. And I'm here with all my heart to try to help you, try to help you to make your home a better place to live, to make the community you live in a horrible place to do evil and an easier place to do right. That's the idea. That God would heal you, not just to show His power for healing. He doesn't have to do that. Look at the sunset; you can see His glory. Look at the trees growing. You can see His glory. Listen at His birds sing. They don't--they don't sow, neither do they--do they plant, but they... God feeds them. You can see the glory anywhere.
But that your testimony of healing might be to the glory, that you might tell someone about it, that they too might believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. That's what it's for.

L-17 Now, in this blessed Word, talking with Brother Ballard, one of the--the chairman, I suppose, of the committee that has us here... We were talking a little while ago, just before coming to the meeting. And I'm going to try to rearrange something for a few nights. And I want you to pray for me.
Now, this is the Word of God. I believe every word of It to be the truth. And now, before... We--we could open the pages like this, but it takes the Holy Spirit to open the Word to us. Because we're--we're--we're blind in a dark world, and only Christ can do these things for us.
And so before we approach Him, let's... Before we approach His Word, rather, let us approach the Author of this Word and ask Him if He'd just open it up to us, that we as children can look into It quietly, sanely, and fundamentally. Will you do it while we bow our heads just a moment in prayer?


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