<TITLE>18. Par 75-78</TITLE>L-75 And just then... Now you, I don't know what you're going to think about this; that's up to you. I heard a Voice, said, "You used her yesterday for a sermon and said she was a real mother."
I said, "That's right I did." I said, "She is a real mother."
Said, "Like a lady, she's laid at your house, right at your door for twenty four hours, nearly now, waiting for her turn to be prayed for. She wants to live to raise her babies. And you've never said a word to Me about her."
I said, "Well, I didn't know she was, that she come..."
I thought, "What's the matter? Am I talking to myself?" I thought, "What's the matter with me?" And I raised up; I thought, "Wonder if that--that must have been the Holy Spirit." And I... and Becky was standing at the other door looking out, and I went out. Said, "Where you going, daddy?"
I said, "Just a minute, honey."

L-76 And I went out there where this old opossum, God in heaven knows it's the truth. I stood by the old opossum; I said, "Dear heavenly Father, if Your poor servant is so stupid till I didn't realize that, and You the loving God, that would lead an ignorant animal, because of the love of her babies and want to raise them, and would lead them here, and I neglected to pray for her. I ask You, forgive me. And I ask dear heavenly Father that in the Name of Jesus Christ that You'll let her live then."
And friends, as God in heaven knows this is the truth, that old opossum turned over and looked at me, raised up, put her babies in her pocket, looked around to me, as if to say, "Thank you, kind sir." Stuck that tail up in the air, walked right down to the gate, and turned back, just like, "good bye." and walked right on to the woods, not even a limp in her leg. That's right... went right on down...

L-77 Oh, He leads. If God can leave a--lead a dumb opossum, who hasn't even got a soul, how much more can He lead a man or woman that's borned of the Holy Spirit?
That give me encouragement, God telling me to pray for the sick people, not only that time, but many times He sent animals and so forth, send some right to me in the woods and things like that. And that's the truth. God knows that.
Here not ago, I've got hundred of letters. Mr. Boze and lot of them has published it their paper. You might've read the story. And I was in California not long ago, and there was a fellow standing up in a great big banquet of a place, standing on a little chair hollering, "This a way to the opossum story. This a way to the opossum story."
And people write to me from all over world saying, "Brother Branham, pray for me like you did that opossum."

L-78 Now, look. The opossum doesn't have a soul; it had to travel instinct. And the Holy Spirit had to lead it from the woods, up through the road, across through there, and bring it into the gate. And if instinct will lead a opossum, what ought the Holy Spirit to do to us tonight? We are led by the Spirit of God. The Lord bless you while we bow our heads.
Heavenly Father, my mind goes now to many instances of how You have dealt with Your people through many different signs and wonders. Sure, You knowed where the sparrows was. You said not one could fall, even though two of them only cost a half--fourth of a penny, but how insignificant that was. But yet You knowed the sparrow. You said even the hairs of the heads of the apostles was numbered. You knowed every animal, every... You're just all--all Life, Lord. And nothing can be done, except You know it. You're omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent. You're the... You're infinite.
O God, and our little finite mind sometimes can't comprehend what You are, but we believe You anyhow, Lord, if we can't, discern it and know it, just right.


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