<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 And reminds me of one time down in the south, Brother Moore and I, we were going down to have a meeting down in, I believe it's Sweetsie, Louisiana, and we had about two or three hundred miles to go from Shreveport, and I had my suitcase laying on top of his big suburban car. And on the road down, I got there, and we'd lost the suitcase. All the clothes I had, Bible and everything, was in the suitcase. Well, Brother Moore said, "Oh, we probably lost it up there in the colored district." Said, "Brother Branham, you sure lost that suitcase."
Some friends had just give it to me in California, paid around a hundred dollars for it. Someone give me a new blue suit; it's seventy dollars, was in there. And I had the suit on; that was all I had. And so then, we--and everything was in there. Said, "Well," he said, "Brother Branham, you're--you're bound to lose." Said, "You--you--you've lost that." So, he said, "We'll report it to the police."

L-6 And a little policeman come up and said, "Say, preacher lost his suitcase up the road there."
He said, "I'll just tell it--wire right on back and watch--have the other boys to watch along the road." Down through the swamps...?... He said, "No, you never found it."
He said, "You're losing, Brother Branham." He said, "Because, first thing, if the Christian finds it," said, "they'll cut that suit all to pieces to send to one another for prayer cloths." He said, "If the--if some of those rough colored folks find it," said, "I tell you what," said, "you just... They'd just keep the suit and take what's in it (and little money I had in my pocket, about twenty dollars)," and said, "and everything. So you just--you can't win any way you go."
I said, "Oh, no. Now, that's all right."
So it went on, we on went back, preached the service there; they couldn't find it anywhere. About three days had passed and I'm still wearing that same shirt. So, Brother Moore said, "Brother Branham, you just got to get you some clothes."
And I said, "No, now, that's all right." I said, "It'll--it'll come in."
Said, "Oh, no, just can't."

L-7 So on the--that day he just kindy got, said, "You just can't do this any more, Brother Branham; we're going to get you some clothes; that's all. I lost it; I oughtened to have tied it down there... I ought to have tied it down." So we went over to Brother Brown's, and I was still arguing out of it. And he and Brother Brown was going to make me go anyhow. So just as they started to pull away, and me protesting it, someone called, said, "Wanted on the phone."
It was an old colored fellow down there; he said, "Is--is--is you Mr. Branham?"
I said, "Yes, yes, yes."
"Brother Branham, I sure got your suitcase; I done found it over the swamp," said, "I's was on my road with it."
So I got the suitcase after all, after all that time. So, you just have to have a little faith, don't you. that's right. It works any way. You just believe it. Jesus said, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible."


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