<TITLE>02. Par 4-6</TITLE>L-4 Now, I am trusting the Lord will bless you. Now, the minister would not stand, Brother Littlefield, would not stand still for that. He said, "Brother Branham, you're under expense. And we appreciate that, but it must go to you." Then I accepted it in the Name of the Lord. What it was, I don't know, yet. I could tell you soon as I find out. And we'll let the pastor know when he counts the offering. And I will assure you, by the best of my knowledge, every cent will be spent for the right thing, because I know it come a portion of your living.
Now, I have three children, and a wife, and a office to run, where I send thousands of letters a month around the world. And my expenses runs me close to a hundred dollars a day, whether I'm in the services or not. And so... And now, I've said I'd try... I don't have no radio, television programs, and things to cost a lot of money. I kept it real little, so I could visit little churches. Where the brethren who has the bigger ministry, they couldn't do it. They couldn't afford it.

L-5 After this next meeting, I am going to... I go to now to... I go up in northern Indiana to Westbend--or Southbend, Indiana, and from there I go to Sturgis, Michigan, in a tabernacle for two nights meeting that seats about thirty people. That's correct. Thirty people. My next meeting after that is with the Baptist people in Lima, Ohio, in an auditorium seating many thousands. After that, I go to Madison Square Garden, Phoenix. And then from there, I go to the ministerial association in California in the big O... Oakland Auditorium. I don't know how many thousand that seats. But you see, if you don't have no big outlets, no big program, you don't have to have very much. And if God wants you to go to a big place, He supplies the money. So that's just the way I like to live, is just by faith.

L-6 And I--I thank you, and God's rich blessings to you all. It's so good to... I oughtn't to preach tonight, 'cause it's getting late, but you're such a wonderful audience, and any minister... It wouldn't take very much of a preacher or I couldn't do the preaching, but of an audience like you who are praying and support the Word with your prayers, it's easy for anybody to preach in a place like this. I really believe that Billy Paul could preach right here. Ha. Where you at, son? Ha-ha-ha. And he's so bashful, he keeps his head down when he's talking to me, almost. But it's a... I believe he could do it. It's very easy, because it's the Holy Spirit.
Brother Hall, I certainly appreciate you and all your kindness and I pray that God will bless you. This is Brother Hall, the evangelist here, I believe, and he's a wonderful brother. I love him more as I meet him. And Brother Littlefield and to the rest of the ministers, God be with you.


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