<TITLE>11. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 You pray like everything for a revival to come to Shreveport. Then Jesus can come to Shreveport, and a great revival starts, and somebody; and my, my, instead of talking and trying to get people in, the bigger part of them says it's fanaticism.
The churches... Here in the country, not Shreveport, all over the country, pray for a revival. The first thing you know, a little revival spirit breaks out in some old sister's heart, and say, "Well, praise the Lord."
"Hrmph." [Brother Branham clears his throat--Ed.] Put her out, say, "How it interrupts me when I'm preaching? Why, you're making...?..." Oh, you might talk to Him once in a while down in the cellar, or--or up in the other room or something like that. When you go to have a prayer meeting, you'd rather go shopping than to have a prayer meeting. No sacrifice, that's the reason we don't enjoy what we get.

L-34 I found out in my children. Billy Paul... I was working for forty cents an hour, and I knowed how I had to be treated when I was a boy, just pulled up, with nothing at all, not even clothes to wear to school or nothing. I said if I had to work till I dropped dead, I mean to have the best.
I went out, and I'd buy him little...?... I'd buy him little bows and arrows and everything that I couldn't do when I had... or did... Had when I was a child. You know what I found out one time. Ever... Every week I'd try to get... Save out a little money and buy him something.
First thing you know I found him in the back yard with all of his play things in the house with a teaspoon digging in the yard. See? You got so much you don't appreciate it. The rest of them, I had better do with the best they could. So that makes better. Oh, it's better.

L-35 How many will have to sacrifice? But He's never too tired. You know what I want to do? When I get to glory, I want to go over and find how much pressure that legion's testimony had on the hog raisers around Gadara when he got over it.
I imagine he burnt that country up with them hog raisers, don't you imagine so, with his testimony, clothed and in his right mind? See?
I don't mean to hurt you, sister, if you that strip off yourself out here in these little old clothes. You see, you ain't got your right mind yet. If you ever meet the Lord Jesus, you'll get your right mind, and put on your clothes, and not act like that. So you... When you meet Jesus, you put on your clothes, not take them off.
And preacher, I hope that goes in below your heart so that you'll know that that's the truth. Why do you let your people do that? Tell them the truth about it. All right.

L-36 Now, here He is crossing the sea and on although tossed banks up by the sea. When He first hit the...?... and begin to come back over to the other side again. Oh, great tired--how tired He was when He hit the bank. There was a little woman up there that had made up in her mind if she ever got close to Him that she was going to ask Him to give her of His grace.
But she found out she couldn't get close to Him. She had a blood issue. So she just touched the border of His garment and was healed.
Now, there was a little man over there by the name of Jairus. I always kinda felt sorry for Jairus, 'cause I believe that he was a secret believer. And you know Jairus is setting under this tent tonight? That's right. Oh, if it wasn't for social prestige. That old dirty thing of social prestige. What is social prestige, anyhow? "Oh, it's culture. Our preachers has got culture. How they can present themselves." You know what I think culture is? Culture is this: a man that hasn't got nerve enough to kill a chicken, but can eat a belly full of it when somebody else kills it. And that's what I think, my estimation of culture. Yes.


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