<TITLE>17. Par 56-59</TITLE>L-56 At the same time, over in the temple was an old prophetess, a woman, the virgin Ann. She was blind; she'd been blind for years. She was around eighty years old. And she stayed in the temple and prayed day and night. For she too, was looking for the consolation of Israel, the coming of the Lord. And there she is in the corner, blind. And the same time, her looking for the coming of Christ and blind and couldn't see, the Holy Spirit spoke to her, said, "Rise up, Ann."
And here comes the old blind woman, feeling around the crowd, going through the great host of the temple, till she got right to where He was, and lifted up her hands, and blessed God. If the Holy Ghost could lead that blind prophetess, because she was expecting to see the Lord Jesus when He comes, can He lead you to the fountain of His blessings and grace. Be expecting it. Look forward to it; it's here. God is here; He's moving by His Spirit, moving over all the earth, signs and wonders. When God moveth, "Move, O Lord, on me."

L-57 Everywhere God moves, any time through the Bible, you'll see healing, miracles, signs, and wonders. He leaves a track behind Him of the supernatural. I don't care what theologians say; the Bible is right. When God moves, the world shakes. And when He moves at every revival they've ever had, and the breaking out of the first reformation in Luther's day they had healings, in the days of Wesley they had healings, in the days of Calvin, Knox, Finney, Sankey, all the way down through; and today He's no less than He was then. If anything, He's greater today than He was then. Hallelujah. I'm not excited; I know what I'm speaking of: led of the Spirit.
Why did you come here tonight? Did you come to get healed? Let me show you how many thousands of times... Here not long ago I'd been over to Dallas, Texas, and I started back home, and the airplane got caught in a storm. We had to come down at Memphis, Tennessee. And they put me up in that famous hotel there that night, the Peabody Hotel. I couldn't stay in a place like that with my own money. But the air--airplane lines put me in there.

L-58 And I was staying there that night, and I prayed. And the next morning when I got up, they told me, said, "Now, you be ready Reverent Branham; they'll pick you up, the limousine, at seven o'clock.
And I said, "All right, Sir."
And about six-thirty I went out; I had some mail I wrote that night, and I was going to mail it. And I was going down the street a singing this little song:
 I'm people almost everywhere,
 Whose hearts are all on flame
 With the power that fell at Pentecost,
 That cleansed and made them clean;
 Oh, it's burning now within my heart,
 Oh, glory to His name!
 I'm so glad I can say I'm one of them.

L-59 Going along, I was just learning it. And I was going down the street sin--and something said, "Stop a minute." Well, I thought maybe it was just my thought. And it got a reality and I stopped. I thought, "What is it?"
I pulled up in a little corner; there was a policeman standing there, just right after break of day. And this policeman standing there. I looked like I was looking at some fishing reels and guns and things setting in the window like that. I got back behind a post, and I said, "Oh, heavenly Father, is that You stopped me?"
He said, "Turn and go right back the way you come."
I turned, started back down the street, like that, wondering where I was going. I walked, and I walked, went plumb over north Memphis, on down by the river, on out to the edge of the country, like that, and I thought, "Where am I going?"
Something just kept saying, "Walk on." I just kept walking, walking, down. Seven o'clock come, seven-thirty, eight o'clock; I just kept on walking, walking around through... I didn't know where I was going, just walking around; the Lord was a leading.


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