<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>56-0428, God's Covenant With Abraham, Abundant Life Center, Charlotte, NC, 100 min
L-1 Thank you, sir. Shall we pray just a moment before we set down? Our heavenly Father, as the song calls again, "Only Believe," we pray, heavenly Father, that tonight will be an outstanding night, that many will believe on Thee. Grant it. May Thy richest of blessings rest upon us all. We're unworthy of what we ask, but we're asking because that You bid us to ask, and give us the promise that You would grant to us anything that we ask. So we pray that You will save every lost soul tonight. Bring back every one that has wandered from the straight, narrow way. Heal all the sick and afflicted, and rejoice the hearts of the saints. We ask it for God's glory in the Name of His Child. Amen.

L-2 [Brother Branham coughs--Ed.] Very happy to be here. Sorry that so many are standing, but we--something that we just can't help.
Tomorrow, being the closing service of the little get-together, why, we are hoping someday to be back, if God willing, with a tent, big tent, so we can just stay a long time and be with you.
This morning, I had a lovely time meeting your Christian Business Men, here, the Full-Gospel Christian Business Men's Fellowship, a lovely time we had in the Lord. And I met with my good brother, Brother Arganbright; he's here somewhere, maybe, tonight. And Brother Gardner, and--and some more of our friends. Brother Lee Baxton and--Braxton I believe his name was, Brother Oral Roberts' associate. And certainly had a fine time of fellowship through the day meeting these wonderful people, trusting that someday, in God's great appointed time, that we'll meet in His Kingdom where we'll never have to part again.

L-3 And now, I see there's handkerchiefs setting here. I'm so happy that you have faith to believe this, the anointing... Or now, many people anoint handkerchiefs, and they say to me, "Brother Branham, will you anoint my handkerchief?"
Now, that's--that's all right; that's fine. Anything the Lord does, why, and blesses, why, I--I'm really for it. But if you'll just bear me record, I believe you're--you're taking the Scriptural part of it from the 19th chapter of the Book of Acts. Now, Paul never anointed the handkerchiefs; they taken from the body of Paul handkerchiefs and aprons.
Now, how many like to think, or would like to have me to express where I think Paul got this Scripturally? Would like to do it? All right, I'll tell you where I think he got it.

L-4 When the Shunammite woman, in the Bible when Elijah had told her she was going to bear a son, and she did, and when the son was about twelve years old, one day out along up in the day, he was with his father in the harvest field, perhaps had a sunstroke, begin to holler, "My head."...
A servant taken him to the house and put him on the lap of his mother, and along noontime he died. And she'd built a little place on the side of her house to entertain this prophet. So she took him and laid him on the bed of the prophet, and had a servant to saddle a mule and go right straight to Mount Carmel.
And I just love the way that woman acted, a woman in a crisis, but yet her faith was unmoved in God. She knew if she could get to this man of God, she'd find out what her trouble was. So she got over there, and when she saw Elijah, Elijah saw her coming... Now, God don't always tell His servants everything He's going to do. He just tells them in portion what He wants to do. So Elijah had never heard from God about this matter.
So he here--says, "Here comes that Shunammite and she's troubled, and God has kept it a secret from me." Said, "Go, ask her."


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