<TITLE>06. Par 20-23</TITLE>L-20 He said, "I sent five hundred prayer cards out trying to get the people, or cards, rather, to get the people to come and promise that they'd come to Sunday school at least six months out of the year, of our of five hundred members. You know how many responded to it?"
I said, "I don't have any idea, Dr. Brown."
He said, "Two." See?
Well, I knew they were very formal and indifferent, so I said, "You know, Dr. Brown, the reason of it is, they don't have the right thing in their heart. If a man is right in his heart and the church bell rings, he just can't stand still. He just... He's got to go. That's all. It's life and death to him. He must move."

L-21 Now, man has always longed for this fellowship and the reason that he did... Did you ever stop to think how--what makes people long for this, what makes men and women long to associate with each other? And when you become a Christian, how you long to get in the Presence of God. There isn't a person in here that's ever had an experience with God, but what the greatest joy of your life is when you can get just alone a little while with God, just cut loose every shoreline, and get in the secret closet, and close the door, and lift up your hands and just come into that communion. Oh, there's something about it that's marvelous.
I've got in there and you have too, and just kneel down and weep and weep till you just couldn't stand it no more, just saying, "God, I--I just can't--I just can't stand no more of it."

L-22 I remember little Joseph, my little boy. You know where Joseph was promised to me, at? Right here in Minneapolis about six years before he was born. I was over here one day reading Joseph in the Bible, and I seen what a perfect man he was. We had one little girl at the time, been four years 'fore she come, and she was a caesarean, and then about four years had passed again. And they said they didn't think she'd ever--wife would ever have another child; and I went in and was weeping and the...?... just pouring down. I was in the closet where I had my clothes hanging up here in the hotel.
We had the tent meeting going on out here, and I was just weeping, and Something just like a voice spoke to me and said, "You'll have a son and call his name Joseph."

L-23 Well, I went out all elated and happy, and I begin to tell everybody about it. And about three or four months after this the mother, she knew that she was to be mother again. Some of them said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know."
So when it was borned, it was a girl. Then everybody laughed, said, "I thought the Lord never told you anything wrong."
I said, "He never does. Joseph will be here. Don't worry." Years passed on. He always keep His promise. Don't you believe that? The reason we can love Him and put our confidence because He is truthful to His promise.
Notice. Years passed on by. Four years or more passed again. No sign, no more. And one day we found out that she was to be mother again. Some said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know." But I said, "He will be here." And so when he was borned the nurse come down. There was a bunch of us men setting out in--in the room.
She said, "Reverend Branham?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
She said, "You have a fine, seven pound and three ounce boy."
I said, "Joseph, you been a long time coming, son, but I'm sure glad you're here." So, that's it.
She said, "Why did you call him Joseph?"
I said, "That is his name. That's his name: Joseph."


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