<TITLE>06. Par 22-26</TITLE>L-22 The doctor met me at the door; he said, "Now, just a moment." He said, "You can't go in there; the--the boy has diphtheria, and it wouldn't do any good anyhow. Have your prayer out here, whatever it is, because you can't go..."
I said, "I want to lay my hands on him."
He said, "Well, you--you're a father; you have children." Said, "You--you pack that diphtheria; you--you can't go in there."
I said... I understood that he was a Catholic, and I said. "Sir, if the priest was here to give the last rites, if the boy was Catholic, would you let him go?"
And he said, "That's different."
And I said, "No, it's not, no it isn't." I said...
He said, "But the priest isn't a married man; he don't have children."

L-23 And I said, "I'm willing to bear the responsibility of that." I said, "Why would I go to be a praying for him if I'm afraid I'd pack it to my child? Wouldn't do me no good to go in and pray for him then." I said, "I... If you'll just let..."
And finally, we talked him out of it. And he dressed me up in a hood, and everything else, and made me wash my hands, and put something over my face, and all down a... My, I looked like I don't know what going down through there. And--and the old father and the mother was standing by the side of the bed, the little nurse taking us in, the doctor shook his head and let me go in.
And so, got down there, and--and the old father looked and he said, "Sonny, do you recognize me?"

L-24 And the little nurse said, "Why, sir," said, "he hasn't knowed nothing since yesterday." Said, "He's dying."
I said, "Well, let us pray." And I got down and started praying for the little lad, no vision or nothing, just prayed.
And I said, "Heavenly Father, You promised the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and I--I'm offering to You with all my heart, in sincerity, with the simplicity of my heart; all that I know how to do is ask for this boy's life. Why would You take a young lad like this? I--I don't understand it, Father, but if You want to show me anything concerning him, that I might console his father, why, behold, your servant stands here. But I--I pray that You'll spare the boy's life; he's got such a fine home to be raised up in, Christian father and mother pleading the promise. And I had no vision, raised up and I said, "Well, Lord, I--I--I ask it in the Name of the Lord Jesus."
Raised up, the old father looked across at the mother and said, "Oh, mother, isn't it wonderful?" It's done, done, you know, as far as he was concerned. And he said, "Oh, I'm so happy." Said, "Brother Branham, praise the Lord; I am so glad that you prayed the prayer of faith. My boy is healed now."

L-25 The little nurse had looked at him real funny, and he said, "Praise the Lord." And tears just rolling down his cheeks and the old mother, they got each other in their arms and begin to hug each other, and said, "O Lord, we thank You for healing our boy." And just barely his heart was moving.
And so the little nurse said, "Sir, how can you act like that and your child dying?"
"Why," he said, "madam, He's not dying; he's living." And he said, "Why," he said, "why, lady," said, "I'm... Oh, I--I--I... You don't understand."

L-26 She said, "Well, look, sir," she said, "this cardiogram..." ever what it... I don't know, but said, "when that drops all the way down, it's never been known in medical history for the heart to ever come back again." Said, "The boy is dying; a few more hours and he will be dead." Said, "He's just practically... He's unconscious now, since yesterday. And how can you act and be rejoicing, look like you'd--wouldn't take it so lightly?"
He said, "Look, my child," the old man put his arm around the little nurse; he said, "You're looking at that piece of machinery," said, "because that's all you know to look to, but I'm looking to a Divine promise." That's right.


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