<TITLE>16. Par 54-56</TITLE>L-54 How many in here will raise your hand, with your heads bowed in prayer, the church praying, say, "Brother Branham, please, in Christ's Name, pray for me right now that I will receive God's Spirit in my spirit to make me live a victorious life. I'm up and down. I just have the awfullest time trying to be a Christian, and I want you to pray for me right now." Will you raise your hand? God bless you, sonny. God bless you. God bless you, lady, you, sir, and you brother. Someone else? God bless you, sir. God bless you. God bless you, sir, you, you lady. I... God knows every one of you. Raise your hand. Don't you think the infinite God Who knew every flea, every fly that would be on the earth before the earth was ever created, knows you? Can two sparrows be sold for a farthing, a fourth of a penny, and not one of them can fall without your Father... How much more are you than the sparrow?

L-55 If you just say to God, "Here's my hand, God, I truly want You to come into my heart. I've belonged to church for years. I believe something happened to me, but I've never been able to live that type of life that the preacher's speaking of. I am living a life of ups-and-downs, and I'm up-and-down and in-and-out and I can't get nowhere. God, maybe I just received a new spirit. Your Word said so. Your prophet said that You said You'd give them a new spirit, then put Your Spirit in the new spirit; and maybe I just got the new spirit. My life is... Oh, I got an awful temper. I got all of this, and I--I--I don't to be..." Sure, your new spirit will make you that way.
But, brother, "Except a man be borned again."
"Oh, but Brother Branham, I spoke with tongues. I shouted; I--I--I spoke in tongues; I prophesied;, I..."
That don't make any difference what you've done. "Many will come to Me that day and say, Lord, Lord, have not I done this and done that?"

L-56 But right down in the depths of your heart, has all the world died and Christ just took over, and now, something just moves you every day in love. No matter how things come, you're still in love. The skies are blue always to you. No matter what happens, God is on the throne; He's answering prayer, working everything for you. Neighbors talk about you, somebody ridicule you, the church tell you you have to do this or do that, and you don't want to do it. Do you just pick up the cross with a sweet little smile and go on towards Calvary? Or do you stand off and sulk, say, "I'll not going back any more; I'm through with that old bunch of people anyhow." That the spirit that's in you? That isn't the Holy Spirit.
Will you raise your hand and say, "God, right in the spirit that I have, my new spirit, give me Your Holy Spirit. Make me live a victorious life." God bless you, sir. God bless you, lady, you lady, you, you, you back there in the back, little lady there up in the balcony. All right. God bless you, you, you. All right.
Now, let's bow our heads quietly.


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