<TITLE>01. Par 1-8</TITLE>57-0728, Thirsting For Life, Memorial Field House, Tacoma, WA, 110 min
L-1 Thank you. I certainly thank you for this wonderful welcome and appreciation. I want to say with all my heart to Brother Rasmusson, to these cooperating minister, Brother Southwick, and everyone here, and everyone that's been at the meetings. It's been one of the best meetings I've been in in many a day, because of your full-hearted cooperation, your support and prayers. And I appreciate all the finances that you have given to support the meeting. And I understood they taken a love offering for me. That's all appreciated. With the best of my ability, I will spend it to the glory of God. I hope that God will repay you a thousand fold. God bless you. You can be seated.

L-2 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... Rasmusson. And a great heartedly thanks to everyone in the meeting, everyone that's had a part. I am very grateful for this meeting. And there's only one sad part about it; that is, it could only be five days. I mean that from my heart. I wish we were here for a month, so we could just come in.

L-3 And now to... if there happens to be some of the people here, the custodian, or some of the--the--of the groups that lets us have this--this auditorium. I want to express my thanks to you, also. A wonderful place, fine acoustics, and as Brother Rasmusson was telling us, we received it at a real reasonable price. And we do thank you, sir, and pray that God will bless every move you make.

L-4 I come this time, after many times of trial to come to Tacoma. But I felt like this time I could come in the Name of the Lord. And that's the way I like to come. Many of my Christian brethren here tonight ask me many times, "Brother Branham, will you come to our place?" I ask them to just write me their name and address. I put it in a file, and then when the Lord is leading me anywhere, no matter where it is or how small, I go. And then I feel like I can come in the Name of the Lord. And I think that's better.

L-5 My heart has been stirred too by hearing testimonies that's held out ten years of healing, since I was here the other time. I just met a gentlemen at the door that shook my hand and told me, said, "Brother Branham, I was laying, dying with a cancer, eat up, when you had come to Bellingham the last time." And said, "I'm perfectly normal and well, and been ever since." The man is in this meeting somewhere now.

L-6 Then I met a man this afternoon who said... up in Lima, Ohio, he drove all the way from here to Lima, Ohio, to a meeting in the last stages of cancer. The Presbyterian, Baptist, and the--I believe it was the Christian church, the Salvation Army, who sponsored that meeting. And he come there just in the last stages of cancer, and God healed him, and he's here living tonight as a testimony to the Lord and to His grace.

L-7 And now, we're leaving early in the morning for Alberta. That's up in Edmonton, Alberta, where your pastor here, Brother Rasmusson used to pastor. I was there in the big arena, which I suppose seats right on ten thousand, and was there about ten years ago. Then we was down to Calgary at the stampede grounds, but this time we're going to Alberta again be--up into Edmonton, rather.

L-8 I was going to bring my little boy, Joseph, up here. But I seen he's probably got to shouting too loud in his way, so his mother had to take him out, the little boy the Lord gave to me by promise. Six years before he was born, we had one child, and the doctor said wife could have no more children. They have to be caesarean, and said she could not stand to have another child.
And one day I was taking the life of Joseph in the Bible, and I got to weeping... All of you, when you read the Word, you just get to living in it, why, you--you--your rejoice. And I went into a little closet where I had my clothes hanging at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and I was weeping and praying. And a voice came into the closet, and said, "You shall have a son. And you shall call his name Joseph."


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