<TITLE>21. Par 132-136</TITLE>L-132 And little old things--little old tempers and everything else that keeps you down. Say, "God, I don't want that thing no more. I'm sick and tired of it. I'm ready today to discard it. I'm coming now, Lord, and I want to get away from all my selfishness. If my brother doesn't treat me right, I'll pray for him anyhow. If my daddy doesn't treat me right, I'll love him anyhow. If my wife doesn't treat me right, or my husband, I'll go about humble before God. Lord, I look only to Your Kingdom. I want my mind straight. I want my heart full of joys. I want to go about... When trouble is really buzzing around me, I still want to stay with my hands up and my heart pure before You, Lord, knowing this: that someday I'll meet You. I want that kind of experience. Lord, make me that from this day."
Would you raise your hand, somebody that didn't raise their hand awhile ago. God bless you. God bless you. Sister, give us a little chord while we have our heads bowed.
How much do you really mean it? Don't play now. This is not a playing time. This is a receiving time. This is the time that you must get it. Come, dump it out right now, will you? Come, give all you got to God. Say, "God, I ain't got very much. I'm just a little housewife. I can't do very much, Lord, but I can read Your Bible. I can pray every day. I could throw out all the trash that's in my mind. I can throw all of that stuff out. I'm guilty of a lot of things that preacher said this morning. So I--I'm dumping out today. I don't want it. But, God, fill me with love. Fill me with the thing that'll make me love the bitterest enemy I got. I really want it Lord."

L-134 While she's playing here, won't you come now and stand at the altar just a moment while we gather with a word of prayer. If you really mean that now, if you're really ready to forsake it, you will never leave this altar today with that on your heart, if you will come sincere and say, "I'm coming up here just to stand just a minute, Brother Branham. There's where you will have a word of prayer with me personally." I--I want you to come and pray. Will you come now? With your heads bowed, who will rise and come to the altar, stand around the altar?
Pass me not, O gentle Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Oh, do not pass me by.
Saviour, Saviour,
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Oh, do not pass me by.

L-135 No matter how long you've been a Christian, do you still got those little old spirits that talk to you, makes you fly loose, makes you talk about somebody? When somebody comes up and goes to speaking about somebody else, you join right in with them and oh, just run them down? That's wrong, brother; don't do that. That'll finally keep you out of the promised land. If you just got that little old things that you oughtn't to have, if the love of God really isn't in your heart, won't you be lady and men, walk up and say, "God, right here I'm going to dump it out this morning, right here. I'm going away from this altar a different person." Would you come?

L-136 Is there a sinner that has never accepted Jesus, and you know you're a sinner. You don't know Him as your Saviour. You say, "Brother Branham, yes, I thought I had a lot of pleasure; I go to dances and parties and all those things. I've watched the wrong kind of shows, and I--I read the wrong kind of literature. I read those books that's got vulgar stories in it. I kinda enjoy reading it." Brother, it's something wrong with you. That's your appetite. See? You let me see what a man reads. Let me see what he watches. Listen to the music he listens at.
The other day, coming along in the car, a certain person reached over and turned on my radio, some kind of old vulgar music. I said, "Turn that thing off; I don't want to hear that," some old boogie-woogie stuff.
Said, "Well, I like to hear that."
I said, "Your nature's wrong; you're wrong."


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