<TITLE>11. Par 44-48</TITLE>L-44 You say, "Brother Branham..." I don't see any wheelchairs or cots or maybe someone here that's sick. I don't know no one here hardly. But say somebody setting here that's got a visible something made their hands turned down. And you're prayed for. You say, "Well, my hand's not any better." That's--that's not faith. Faith calls those things which are not as though they were because God said so. See? It--It don't look at your crippled. We look at the unseen. We look at things we don't see at all because God's promised.
Abraham didn't look and say, "Well, Sarah, you're sixty-five years old. He told me we'd have the baby. So this month's there's nothing different, and so I guess we're not going to have it. I guess it was a mistake. God didn't speak to me. The vision wasn't right." No, no. He got stronger and stronger all the time and claimed the victory for twenty-five years until the baby come. I believe if it'd been forty-five years, he'd still been claiming it. He--he believed God. And he counted those things which were not as though they were because God said so. Now, that's good.

L-45 Now, why do--why do... You say, "Brother Branham, why do you have such faith standing there? Ain't you afraid there'd be a mistake?" No, sir.
"Aren't you afraid you'll say something wrong?" No, sir. God said so. That settles it. That's just all there is to it.
"Are you afraid now you making this, concerning this new ministry that you're entering, do you think that's going to be... You say greater?" Yes. "How do you know?" God said so. Oh, I haven't got one bit of doubt, my heart's just leaping and jumping to get to it. See? Because God said so, that settles it. That's just--that's just all there is to it. It's going to be that way. God said so, and that settles it.

L-46 And then I hear that it's in your prayer... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Yes, sir, because God told me I was wrong doing what I did, so I--I'm sorry for that. What God says is truth. Whether it's for me or against me, it's still right because it's God. So we have to take God at His Word.
And then we find out that Mary went right along through the country telling everybody that she was going to have a baby, and went up into Judaea because the Angel of the Lord had told her that Zechariah... Elisabeth her cousin was going to have a baby being an old age. And when Elisabeth had hid herself for six months. It was six... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Mary and--and--and Elisabeth were first cousins.

L-47 So could you imagine this little woman running up into the country, and it was in a hilly country of Judaea from down in Nazareth, run up in the woods and mountains up there and said... Oh, she seen... Her cousin had hid herself, Elisabeth, she had hid herself. And she was kind of afraid, because the baby hadn't never moved. It didn't have any life yet. And it was six months past. So that's--that's altogether subnormal.
And then she run up there to see her, and she'd hid herself, so when she peeked out the window and saw little Mary coming up through there, oh, her little face just a shining... She was about eighteen years old, just so happy.

L-48 I imagine Elisabeth said, "You know, I... Maybe Mary and Joseph really got married." But you know how she had to tell Joseph? She was engaged to him, you know. And Joseph was a carpenter, and he was building a house. And oh, he could build good houses. And so then he was building one special, because he was going to live in this with his little sweetheart Mary.
And one day little Mary walks up to the door and said, "Joseph, I guess we'll have to break our engagement, because I'm going to have a baby,"  and walked away.
Could you imagine Joseph's heart? How it sunk within him. He didn't know what to do. "What's happened? Oh, I can't believe that in Mary. Oh, God, You got to help me."


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