<TITLE>09. Par 33-36</TITLE>L-33 There her papa was a deacon or something in the church, her mama and them great pillars in the church. And there they was rejected, all hopes was gone. The doctors give her up five years before. She only weighed about thirty-seven pounds, nothing but bones. Her little legs looked like broom sticks. And there she laid with nothing but just the skin over the bone.
One day going down there, and her mammy run; her daddy left home; they had nothing to do with that fanatic. And one day walked in to pray for her, I said, "Little girl, would you be willing to rise and be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus to wash away your sins and would serve Him?"
I had to get close to hear what she said. She said, "I'll do anything."

L-34 I looked laying on my--her bed, and there laid my little book called "Jesus The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever." I prayed for her; it seemed like it didn't do any good. Two weeks I held a meeting. I went up to baptize, up at the Totten's Ford. And that day the meeting was ending, that night. And while baptizing, there was another minister up there who made fun and ridiculed the very thoughts of water baptism and using the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, "If any of my people that's setting under this tent, was ever around the man, get out of here now. I want nothing to do with them."

L-35 And Mr. Wright happened to be setting there, and he got right up and went out. And the very following Sunday, I never opened my mouth and said a word about the man. And I went on up there to the place to be--to baptize up there at Totten's Ford. And when I walked out in the water, there stood the people from his revival standing on the banks to make fun at me baptizing in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And when I walked out into the water, about that time Jesus came along. Here come his entire congregation with their good clothes on, wading out in that muddy water screaming, "God, be merciful to me." And I baptized every one of them in the Name of Jesus Christ right there in that hole of water. Goes on up to Brother George's, and Brother George said, "Brother Branham, come on to supper in a few minutes."
And I said, "I must pray."

L-36 I went over in the woods, and I couldn't pray here and there. And all of a sudden when it got almost dark, I looked, and there was a Light shining down through a little dogwood tree. And said, "Rise from your... Be on your feet and go by the way of Carter's."
Little Georgie laying there crying, and saying, "Oh, Mama, I'm going to be left out. He's going to leave today, and I won't be able to see him any more."
And that was the closing service that night of the great revival. There she was with all hopes gone, looked like. And about that time Jesus came along. And that little woman, laying there, only thirty something pounds in weight, when I walked in there and laid her by the hand, I said, "Sister, the Lord Jesus appeared to me awhile ago over on the side of the hill there and said, 'Come here and lay my hands on you, that you might be healed.'"
That little bony frame that hadn't raised from the bed for nine years and eight months, stood on her feet and rushed to the piano and begin to play,
Jesus, keep me near the cross,
There's a precious fountain,
Free to all, a healing stream,
That flows from Calvary's mountain.
It was the darkest hour that Georgie ever seen, then Jesus come along.


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