<TITLE>18. Par 74-77</TITLE>L-74 And she said to me; she said, "Well, Brother Branham, I was raised up in good home. This is my father." And she said, "I was raised a Catholic." And she said, "I was taught to do right." She said, "But when I was a girl," she said, "I got out with a boy that drank," and said, "I started drinking, and smoking cigarettes, and so forth." And said, "I become a perpetual drunkard."
There's a little lady here somewhere, that usually takes recordings somewheres in here. She wrote me a letter the other day. A little lady was healed of that, right down here at Hammond, lovely little pers... There she is now, a complete alcoholic, and you go to Byery, up there, and ask any doctor if a complete alcoholic can ever be cured by any medicines. I--I tell you, they got all this Alcoholics Anonymous. And I've got dozens of them that go in there, and they come right back out, and in a year or two, they're drinking like they ever was. But there's a girl perfectly delivered by Jesus Christ. That's right. Let's reason things together. See? What doctors could not do...
And this--I will quit talking about her; I was saying lovely things, and now she's setting here (See?), so...

L-75 Anyhow, this--this young lady, she said, "And I started drinking, and said that led into prostitution." And she said, "Then I was sent up to the Good Shepherd's Home. I spent a time there." And said, "Course I was all right there." And said, "And just as soon as I come back out," said, "It wasn't out, but just a little bit," said, "I started drinking again, and prostitution set in again." And said, "I'm just a alcoholic, and I can't help it." Said, "I went to the Anonymous, and got a treatment of that, and stayed in there for awhile." And said, "That didn't do me one bit of good. When I smelt whiskey, I was ready to drink again."

L-76 And she said, "Then the next thing happened. Said they sent me to the woman's prison, after I got twenty-one, and I served a year and something up there." And said, "When I come back out, I just started drinking again." Said, "Somebody told me to change churches, that I should become a--a Christian in the Protestant church." And she said, "That I did," she said, "and it didn't do me a bit of good." Said, "I still drank just the same." She said, "I accepted Christ as my personal Saviour." Said, "It didn't do me one bit of good." She...
And I said, "I want to ask you something." I said, "Sister, down in your heart, you never did want to do that?"
She said, "No, sir, I never did."
Said--I said, "Something drives you to it."
Said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "It's the devil." And she said... I said, "It may be old fashion, but it's the devil." And she said, "I've always believed it, Mr. Branham." And I said... She said, "Would you advise me to join your church?"
I said, "I have none to join." But I said, "I want you to go to the same church that I go."
She said, "I will be glad to do that." Said, "How do I do it?"
I said, "Now, get down on your knees." See? And so, she got down on her knees. And I said, "Now, you really get sincere with God and pray."

L-77 Well, I listened to her pray. She raised up, and she promised God she'd never drink, if He'd help her, got back up, and she walked over. I set down and listened at her, kept my head down. She walked over and shook my hand, she said, "Brother Branham, I'm sure going out to make a start."
I said, "Sister dear, it isn't over; that's right, it isn't over."
And she said, "Well, I'm going to do the very best I can."
I said, "That's right. But it isn't over."
She said, "Well, what must I do?"
I said, "Let's pray again." We got down there, and she started praying; she got to crying. I laid my hands over on her, and I said, "Dear God, this poor mortal here, bound with this devil and this circumstances here. Look where she's at; she don't want to do that. Satan, come out of her in the Name of Jesus Christ."


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