<TITLE>04. Par 10-13</TITLE>L-10 And now, this meeting... striking that. Not your cost, but it just somehow... We may be out of section or something another; they didn't have the audience enough to take care of the expenses. I've missed it two times, and both of it was in California, one down at the other place, and one up here. And I promised the Lord that when my meetings got to a place they didn't financially support itself... And I never will let them beg. If anyone ever begs for money, or who's going to give fifty dollars, and so forth, that's the time that we stop. Yes, sir. I don't believe in that. No, sir. God is able. And I said, "Now, Lord, when You don't support me, then it's time for me to come in home."
So, now--now, I don't believe in begging money. But anyhow, we have a way, then God has made a way for us now, that through our efforts we--we can pay off everything, and it'll be taken care of fine. Now, this is not saying now... Remember, you dear people that just put in money and done all you could, if--if you--if you need something and--and there's not enough to make it up, and everybody, you--you can't do it, you know, I know what it is.
What if somebody come and ask me this afternoon and say, "Brother Branham, I wish you'd let me have five thousand dollars."
"Oh, brother. I wished I could." But I couldn't do it, so that's... you get the measure I'm talking in.

L-11 Now, we appreciate all your efforts. And God bless you. I hope someday, if God is willing and you'll let me, I'll get to come back and stay a little longer where we can maybe have a bigger meeting, sometime when we come back to San Fernando. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you, thank you kindly. Thank you kindly.

L-12 To keep my wife from completely fainting, when she knows she's going to have to walk up on the platform, she's... I come at the house where she was, just before they left. They brought me in and emptied up the place so I could study. She was the nervousest little thing I ever seen in my life. I felt sorry for her.
She said, "Billy, am I really going to have to get up there?"
And I said, "Just walk up on the platform, honey."
She said, "Oh, oh, I..." [Brother Branham laughs--Ed.]
"Don't think about that." She wants to come up before the Anointing strikes. My wife, as tender and bashful as she is, she's still a very spiritual person." And I say this, because she'll just probably walk up and walk back, but I hope and trust that every young man in this building and every young couples today... And when you get married, that your life will be just as happy together as she and I have been together the fifteen years nearly that we been married, been like heaven on earth. And if there's any credit to be given to the Branham family, give it to her. She's the one who deserves it. That's right. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] A real woman, a real...?... All right, honey, wherever you are... She's here somewhere.

L-13 And I want her and my little girl, Sarah... I got a little Rebekah, a little Sarah, and a Joseph. How many remembers when I first come to California several years ago, told you I was going to have a Joseph? Let's see your hands. And the strange thing was, the next child was born was a--a girl. But the Lord told me I'd have a Joseph. The doctor said, "She can't have no more children." Said, "That caesarean..." My wife has to have sectional birth, her and her people.
And so, the little Sarah was born, and she's tomboy enough to be a Joseph. But after all, after several years, along come little Joseph. He weighs eighteen pounds and six months old, and we love him with all of our heart. [Congregation applauds--Ed.] Brother and sister, my wife, Mrs. Branham. Thank you.


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