<TITLE>07. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 A little woman, that's setting present now, she has been at this altar time after time, after time. A good woman, but she started smoking a long time ago, and she just couldn't overcome it. And she'd come up, and I would pray with her, and seem like, she just couldn't overcome it. And the--the first thing you know, I told her here; I said, "There'll be danger down the road."
She said, "Well, Brother Branham, I have cried; I have begged."
You see, just emotional, fighting the air. That won't do any good. And I'd get down and pray with her, and lay hands on her, and she'd go back and in a few days I'd meet her again, just knock you down with cigarette smoke, hands still brown.
And one night, down yonder, she went to a doctor, begin to get sick and wither away, till just a little spindly thing, and the doctor looked into her and he said, "Cancer, smoking cigarettes..." There she was laying there to die. Then she got down to business.

L-26 See, a drowning man will reach for a straw. Long as you can walk out of this church tonight and know that you can go join the Methodist or Baptist, as long as you can set in here, and say, "Now, I'll just... I'm a good person. There's nothing wrong with me." Yeah, you can't do nothing with you. That's right. But when you see your sins as God sees them in the light of His Bible, when you see, you'll repent or perish, something will take place. You'll get to business.
Walk out of here and a smothering around your heart, the doctor back there will maybe raise up come up and look and say, "It's a heart attack." You'll get to business. That's when she had to get to business. And the woman's setting looking at me now.

L-27 And Brother Roberson's back there, and Mr. Wood's here, Brother Wood setting here somewhere, and I were going down hunting, I believe, somewhere in the truck. And the Holy Spirit seemed to move us to go way to the Knobs to where she was. And when I got there, she'd had a dream, and when the Holy Spirit came into the room, and she got down to real business, she never smoked a cigarette from then on, and she's gained many pounds of weight, and they can't find a trace of the cancer. What is it? It's faith that overcome. Why didn't it overcome when I was praying for her here? She just fluttering around. But when the doctor says, "You've cancer, and going to die." She got to business. That's the way it has to get.
When you get to business, why wait that long? Why not get down to business now? Put your faith in God. What if the woman had had her faith in me? It'd failed, 'cause I'm a man. But when she changed her faith, not in the Branham Tabernacle, or in William Branham, or in anyone else, but placed her faith in Jesus Christ, then she got faith. She raised up above all the fears and doubts, and God healed her. And oh, she overcome. Faith is the victory that overcomes.

L-28 I've often wondered what does Christians want to flusterate themselves with them things, anyhow. Men and women comes to me many times, and says, in their confessions and so forth, when I have those private interviews, and they--we meet them move, make confessions of living immoral and all--all kinds, 'cause they can't deny it. The Holy Spirit's right there. If they try to cover it up, It brings it right out for them. So they might as well tell it. If they try to get out, Holy Spirit stops them, says, "Just a minute, here's a certain-certain thing."
So when they come, they begin to tell me about the little things of the world, and I notice it amongst--of believers. You're going somewhere. What you drifting for? Get some ambition about you. Set your goal on Christ and quit tallying with the world.


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