<TITLE>06. Par -</TITLE>1L-197-47 Now, while the pastor comes to the platform. As the pastor comes to the platform, I would suggest, at the Branham Tabernacle here, that the pastor lead the congregation in at least one or two good songs. For we have found it so, that when too many are trying to operate in the church, it brings on only trouble. I would suggest, as I did while I was pastoring at the church; I led the songs, myself. And I feel that it would be a good thing if the pastor did so, himself.

1L-197-48 And in all prayer meetings, where they're gathered together, groups, a prayer meeting, the pastor must be at each one. It should never be left to any individual to go lead such meetings. For we have found it so, that they get off the track, on doctrine, and then they cause--bring it right back into the church, and, many time, bring heresies, and so forth, which doesn't belong in the Church of the living God. And the pastor should be at all prayer meetings, and so forth, where congregate--or gatherings are.

1L-198-49 And the pastor should never take sides in the meeting, by saying there is one group is this way and one that way. The pastor should stand between both of them, and go to them, and get them reconciled, immediately. And if he can't get them reconciled, let him take a deacon with him. And then if they're--they won't hear neither pastor nor deacon, then it should be told to the church, and, as Jesus said, "Let them be unto you as a heathen and a publican." "And whatever you bind on earth," said Jesus, "I will bind in Heaven, and what you loose on earth, I will loose in Heaven."

1L-198-50 Now, when the pastor comes to the platform, let the pastor then lead, at--at least, one or two songs, and go straight to the Word.
Not no time for these long testimony meetings, and everybody get up, and a word to say. That does not prosper in the Branham Tabernacle.
If any people, if you are listening to this tape, and, you, it has prospered in your church, well, that's perfectly all right. And we are very glad of that, that it does prosper in your church.
But in ours here, it does not, it only causes confusion. I've been pastoring here for twenty-some-odd years, and I have found that it only causes confusion. If you've got a testimony, give it before, in the congregation of the people, while the Spirit is a-blessing, and so forth.

1L-198-54 Or, the real way to testify, is not in the church, is out in dark places. Let your Light shine where it's dark. Go to roadhouses and different places, and where sin and thing is heaping, then let your Light shine. There is the place to do it.
But, however, if the Lord has blessed you and give you some great special blessing, or something that you have to tell the people, do it in time of the other service, the pre-service, the preliminary, or when the Spirit is blessing and giving testimonies and revelations, and tongues and interpretations, and so forth, in the worship, of the saints, before the Word of God is being brought forth.

1L-198-56 Then the pastor, after leading this hymn, shall immediately lead the church in prayer, and a congregational prayer, himself, as he stands at the platform, asking the rest of them to bow their heads in prayer.
This we have found to be a greater blessing, and a more ruly in operating in the church.
And then, the next thing the pastor should do then, after. If they had a real spiritual meeting, with the gifts making manifest many secrets of the people's hearts, and things which should be done by the gifts in the meeting; then the Spirit of God is in the meeting, and it's very easy then for the pastor to find the Spirit of God (which is already in the meeting) on the Word of God, as he reads and starts preaching. The pastor then preach anything that the Holy Spirit would put on his heart, whatever he wishes to do, standing there.


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