<TITLE>07. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 Now, Elisabeth, it was six months with her as mother. And she was pretty well wearied about it. The little baby that had been promised in her old age, six months and there was no life to the little baby yet. That's altogether subnormal, for about three to four months life appears. But it was six months and there was no life. And Elisabeth had hid herself.
Somehow down in her heart she believed, though in her fearful condition, that if God had give this promise to Zacharias, her husband a just man, and she'd prayed for this baby, and the signs was a showing it, she'd knit little booties and get ready.
That's it, make ready for it. Oh, you tonight, get your blanket off your body; get your foot on the floor; get ready; come out of the wheelchair; come off the bed; make ready for it. God Who made the promise keeps the promise if you'll water it with the praises of "Thank You, Lord," positive that you know what you're doing, for you're standing on His promises.

L-30 South Africa recently, a man who had never had a pair of shoes on his feet in his life, been way back in the jungles as a--born back there years ago by missionary parents... He was born with deformed feet.
When he come walking up through there, clubbing his feet along, had a shoe box under his arm. And someone said to him, "What you got in there?"
He said, "A pair of shoes."
Said, "What do you expect to do with them? Do they... Are they going to be your father's?"
He said, "I'm going to wear them."
And when the service was over, he had those shoes on, running down through that lot just as hard as he could go, praising God. What did he do? He took God at His Word. He said so much, when he was asked, he said, "I seen others coming that was crippled, was healed. And I seen those who were blind could see again, and God would not turn me down." That's the way to believe it. "God won't turn me down."

L-31 Mary knew that God wouldn't turn her down. And so up in the mountains she went, and I can see Elisabeth setting back in a little room in the little adobe shack. And she brings back the curtain, and she said, "It seems like that I ought to know that young woman coming there." And she looks again, and she said, "It's my cousin, Mary. I've never seen her so beautiful in my life. Look how happy she looks." So out of the room she went, and she grabbed Mary around the neck and begin to embrace her and hug her.
You know, people used to have a feeling for each other. But today they don't seem to care for each other. It seems like all that brotherly feeling has gone away from people. That's a shame.

L-32 I know my wife isn't in tonight, but here sometime ago she and I were downtown, riding down the street. And a fine lady that I knew in New Albany, she said, "Hello there, Sister Branham."
And I never heard her say a word. And I said, "Honey, the lady spoke to you."
And she said, "I spoke to her."
I--I said, "I didn't hear you do it."
And she said, "I--I--I smiled."
Oh, my, I don't like that little old silly grin. I--I--I like a real good old fashion pump-handle handshake. I--I like a feeling in it.
What's the trouble tonight with people. They got so dry and starchy. That's what's the matter with the Pentecostal church. You got too starchy, friends. That's what's the matter with the Baptist church, the Methodist church, the people in general.


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