<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 Now, a few days before that, a little woman went through a crowd of people and touched His garments, and He declared that He got weak. Now, which was the greatest miracle, that little woman being healed of a blood issue, or a man with--with skin worms crawling through his flesh, to come back to his normal flesh again, and a soul that had been gone four days, bring its flight right back and stand on his feet and live again?
Well, it was a thousands times greater miracle, than the woman healing. But that didn't bother Him. But the woman touching His garment bothered Him.
"Well, Brother Branham, can you explain that?" Yes. See, Christ was God's love gift to the world. You believe that? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] Greatest gift that God ever give was His only begotten Son. Is that right? That was God's greatest gift.
Now, God had His gift in His Son, and could use It any way He wanted to. Now, when God showed Him something to do, that was God doing it. Now, God hadn't showed Him this, and the woman done it; but her faith in God moved God through His Son, because that was her point of contact. You see what I mean?
Now, she pulled from God by her faith, what she desired as she touched the garment of the Son of God. Now, that was the woman doing something; the other was God doing something.
Now, this morning, or last night, when I left here, after I had been gone a few minutes, I thought I'd go get something to eat. See, I only do that after one of those meetings. Now, if I'm preaching, I always go eat. I went and got something to eat. And I come back. I went to my room. I set and talked to Billy awhile. We went to bed, prayed.

L-8 Just a few moments, Something come in, and a vision, that there's a great crash coming, and for me, real quickly, to be on my knees a praying, right at once, 'cause there's somebody in there that was praying, for me, to pray for them. And this morning in the paper, two big liners crashed together, one of them from Italy and one from Sweden. There it was. And some was killed. See? The Holy Spirit, going ahead, through prayer.
Mr. Ekberg, many of you all know him, don't you? Einar Ekberg, one of our singers from Sweden. He was making a forced landing after he'd flew over the world, and was going in, and the hydraulic wouldn't let the wheels down on the plane. They told him he was going to have to skip it in on the grass and try it. Take his glasses off, laid it on the floor, and he begin to pray. He said, "Lord Jesus, help me at this time. And I pray that somewhere that You'll let Brother Branham be praying for me." And at the same time, I was driving down the road.

L-9 And Something said, "Pray." And Brother Ekberg come in front of me with his hands up. I slipped off the side of the road, and prayed for Brother Ekberg. And just at the time the plane come down the pilot gave a great shout back, "The wheels has come down." And they landed safely.
I didn't... I stood and asked Brother Ekberg. We just got to California about two months after that, and standing in the tent meeting he said, spoke it. And I said, "Brother Ekberg, what day was that?" And I told somebody else, "Find me out," I said, "what--what day it was." I said, "What day was it?" Just exactly the same time. See? That's the Holy Spirit making intercessions. You see? And how marvelous. Oh, I've seen it done hundreds of times, the things. But that's... That's the sovereign grace of God.
Now, the pulling, the people, you people is the one who--that... I have not one thing to do with that. It's just the gift of God, that I yield myself to it, and you draw from it yourself, you out there in meetings. You can sit and begin to pray to God. Watch Him turn right around and say something to you, tell what you was praying about, and what you ask for. How many seen it done, let's see your hands. Why, sure. See? That's you doing that, not me.


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