<TITLE>31. Par 106-109</TITLE>L-106 She laid in that hot boiling sun all afternoon. There she laid there. That night we went out, and we was riding on the road. Mr. Wood said, "Well, now you've ministered enough today, Brother Branham, we better get you out to rest your mind a little." And we was riding around on the road.
And I seen a little old dog, laying there. My wife saw it first. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
The dew was on the ground and there she was laying there. I said, "Well, I guess she's gone." I punched her a few times, and shook her foot like that. And that old leg laying back like that, and green flies all over it, and everything. I said, "My, my."
My little girl, Rebekah, the one that's just begin to see visions, just about that high. She come out. And she said, "Daddy, what are you going to do with that opossum?"
And I said, "Honey, I don't know."
And she said, "Oh, that poor old mother, trying to live for those babies. Why..."
I said, "Yes, honey, that's--that's pitiful."
Said, "Is she dead?"
And I said, "No, she isn't dead? I--I still believe she's got life in your, 'cause you watch real close, you can see her side quivering once and while, where she catches her breath, kind of like that: never moving but just in her side. And so, I said, "I believe she's still alive." I said, "Honey, you better go back to bed. It's too early for you to get up."

L-107 And I went in and set down in the room. And I was setting there, like this, rubbing my head. And I said, "Well, I don't know what to do."
And a Voice, spoke to me. I don't know; it's up to you to believe it, if you want to. It's up to you. But a Voice, audible Voice spoke and said, "She's laid at your gate for twenty-four hours like a lady, waiting for her turn to be prayed for."
I said, "I didn't know that."
And said, "Well, she come up there, and she has laid, and you haven't prayed for her yet. And she's waited and waited."
I said, "Well, I didn't know." I thought, "Where am I... Am I talking to myself?" I thought, "Where's that Voice?"
And I went out to where the opossum was. I said, "Dear Jesus, if You with Your omnipotent power, I know that You're concerned about even a sparrow that couldn't fall to the street without You know it. And this opossum don't even a soul; it's an animal. And if You directed that old mother opossum up here..."
And He said in there, also, "You used her yesterday for a sermon and told what a real mother she was. And here she wants to live for her babies. And you haven't prayed for her."

L-108 And I said, "God, if--if that's You speaking, I'm sorry, the ignorance of Your servant. I didn't know the--the opossum laying there for that." I said, "Lord, if it's... for You--for me to do this, I pray then in Jesus' Name, Father, that You'll give the opossum back her life." And I no more than said that, and here's truth. That opossum raised up and looked at me, gathered up her babies, back in her little... The opossum and the kangaroo is the only two animals that has a--a pocket they pack their young. Gathered up her opossums, walked out there just as good as any--any opossum could walk, turned around to me, as if to say, "Thank you, sir." Right down the road she went, right over to the woods, happily to live with her babies.
If God Almighty... And that's the truth, the Bible's laying before me, and witness after witness. The local papers packed it and everything else. Look. If God is concerned enough to take pity on an ignorant opossum, how much more does He think about a a son or daughter of God who's in need.
Do you see, my brother, sister. God still lives and reigns. Don't you believe that? If you're without Him tonight accept Him.

L-109 Is there any sick here that wants to be prayed for? Oh, about six, eight, six, eight hands. All right. Now, bow your head. And you who want to be prayed for, lay your hands over on somebody next to you, and believe now with all your heart, as you lay your hands on someone.


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