<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>58-0127, Jehovah-Jireh, The Hippodrome, Waterloo, IA, 82 min
L-1 To give thanks to Thy great Name for the privilege of being here tonight... We thank Thee for all Thou has done for us. Truly we are unworthy creatures to receive of Thy manifold blessings, but we pray that You will forgive us of our shortcomings, and help us to be Thy dear children. We ask that the Holy Spirit will visit us tonight, and speak to us, and through us in a marvelous way, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. You may be seated.
I was just talking to my wife in Indiana a few moments ago, and when I told her how much snow there was, and my little boy come to the phone, little Joseph, and Joseph said... He's just two years old; he said, "Daddy, come home; I'll go up and pray for the sick." I thought it was cute.

L-2 The little boy, many of you know the story of little Joseph. The Lord showed him to me six years before he was--come to the earth. And He promised me a boy, because I like Joseph so well. I could sympathize with him, because he was born, saw visions, could interpret dreams, and he was hated by his brethren without a cause. I always felt sorry for Joseph, and I was weeping one day over at Minneapolis, back in a little closet, and the Lord said, "You shall have a son; you'll call his name Joseph."
Well, I couldn't hardly know about that, 'cause the--my wife cannot have children normally; she has to have them caesarean. And the doctor said she will never have no other child but that one she had had. Four years past, two years, a pardon, and we knew she was to be mother again, and someone said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know."
And then, when it was borned, it was a girl. They said, "You meant Josephine."
I said, "No, I meant Joseph."
And the doctor said, "Mr. Branham," said, "they'll have to have an operation on your wife; she can have no more children."
I said, "Oh, no." I said, "I've got a boy coming."
He said, "It can't be, Mr. Branham."
I said, "It will be (See?), for the Lord has said so."
Well, he said, "All right." So he let her go. And then, four years later, she was to be mother again.
So someone said, "Is this Joseph?"
I said, "I don't know, but Joseph is coming."
So when the nurse came down out of the maternity room, she said, "Reverend Branham?" I said... I was out there with the waiting fathers, and so...
I said, "Yes, ma'am."
Said, "You got a fine, seven pound boy."
I said, "Joseph, you've been a long time coming, but daddy's glad to see you." So... Well, he--he's sure a fine boy. I pray the Lord let me raise him.

L-3 And now tonight, as we go straight into the service, and try not to keep you too long tonight... I pray that the Lord will give us a message, that will do our hearts good. And I'm trying now... I'm going to try, if the Lord willing, to veil the--the church around some faith, that it... Later, when if it be possible...
My wife said, "How is the service?"
I said, "Lovely people, but the smallest crowds I've ever had." But it's the weather. Now, when the--the meeting goes to building up, well then, I imagine, if we can get this little group taught into how to receive Christ, then it'll be a great help to those who are coming in then. And we're...

L-4 One of the great things that I find in the church, is they're afraid. And I want to try, with the Scriptures, to show you have no right to be afraid.
So I wish you to turn tonight, for a Scripture reading, over in the book of Genesis, 22nd chapter, begin at the 7th verse:
And Isaac spake to Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
And in the 14th verse:
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.


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