<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 Could you imagine, I've had people to tell me, "Brother Branham, I would--I would ask God to heal me, but I--I know He's busy." My, could you imagine a little fish about that long, out in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, saying, "I'd better drink of this water sparingly; I may run out someday." Ha-ha-ha. That's just as intelligent of thinking that you could ever exhaust God's goodness to you.
Could you imagine a little mouse about that long under the great garners of Egypt saying, "I'd just better eat two grains a day; it may not last through the winter." Oh, my, you can't... He wants you to ask abundant, so that your joys could be full. Don't be afraid to ask God for anything, for He's willing, more willing to give it, then you are to receive it. If we just get that little shadow wiped away to know that He's willing to do it. You're His children; He loves you and He...
You know how you like to minister and to do good things to your children, how much... That very strain of fatherhood, of parent to your children comes from God (That's right.), 'cause He's the Father of us all; and He--He loves us, and He wants to do for us. If He can just get us lined up with the blessings and so forth, He can trust us, then there's just... The heavens is open to all of us.

L-8 Now, this morning I know, I... You've had so many good things, and I--I know we don't want to keep you too long; and I'm just a little hoarse from much speaking, and I don't want to take much of your time. But I would like to just go into this little subject this morning as a little drama. And then, it won't take too much voice, because I'm going to another eleven day meeting after, or a week, Sunday through Sunday after this. And I'd like to read a portion of God's Word this morning out of the Bible. And just about the 19th chapter of Saint Luke we read this:
And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was a chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
And he sought to see Jesus who He was; and could not because of the press, and he--because he was little of statue.
And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him: for He was to pass that way.
The Lord willing, I'd like to use my text...?... now for a few moments while you pray with me, that "He Was To Pass That Way."

L-9 It must have been an awful night; the little fellow was so weary; he was tossed about and... You know those sleepless nights... And his wife, Rebekah, said, "Zacchaeus, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh," he said, "nothing, perhaps maybe the business in the city was so bad today, and that's what's holding me, the way it is tonight; I can't sleep."
But you know, Rebekah knowed better then that. She had been a believer on the Lord Jesus, and she'd been praying for her husband, a businessman of the city, to become a follower of the Lord Jesus. And you know, conviction can make you very restless; it does that. And so, a good praying wife or mother, can do more for the Kingdom of God on her knees at home, than sometimes the preacher can do on the platform. That's right.


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