<TITLE>08. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 You see. God answers on both ends of the line. About two hours before that, the brook had dried up on top of the mountain where Elijah was. He said, "Elijah, go down to the city and keep walking until you find a woman with two sticks in her hand. She's going to feed you." God does things real. "I've sent you down there and she's going to feed you. She hasn't got nothing in the house, but I'm going to feed you."
And he walked down the street till he seen that woman packing those two sticks, and that must be her. So he had to catch her attention. He said, "Would you fetch me a little water?"
And she said, "I will."
And as she turned and started, he said, "And just bring me a little morsel of bread in your hand." Elijah seeing that vision already knowed what the conditions was.
And she said, "As the Lord liveth..." Elijah knew she was a Christian then, a believer. "As the Lord liveth, I've only got just a handful of meal and a spoonful of oil, that I've already prepared; I've dressed it, got it ready. And I'm taking these two sticks to make a little cake for my son and I. And we're going to eat it and die."

L-32 See, now, here comes a great lesson. But Elijah said, "Bake me one first." Oh, what is it there? What lesson do we learn? "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness."
"Bake me one first."
And she looked. She said, "I wonder who that is? There's something about the man that seems to be different."
And he said, "Make me one first and bring it."
And she started in to do what he said. Then she heard that comforting Word that always comforts, "For THUS SAITH THE LORD the barrel will not be empty nor the cruse run dry, until the day that God sends rain on the earth."

L-33 What was it? That very dark, crucial moment come, but God's always on the scene. If you're sure that it's God, if you repented of your sins, if you've met God's requirement, then be sure that God will keep His promise. Whew. If men and women could only realize that. God's obligated to His promise. And if you've met His requirements, if you confessed your sins, and you've made your wrongs right, and you've done everything God has required, then hold onto God. You've got to see daylight; He's got to bring it through. Just be certain that it's God, and He will take care of the rest of it if you're sure that it's God.

L-34 Sometime ago, I was over at a little city in Arkansas. About fifteen years ago, not quite that long, I'd say twelve years ago. They have a terrible segregation in Arkansas. And I'd been into a little church, and the policeman helped me in and out. And I was coming out of the church, and I could hear someone saying, "Mercy, mercy."
I thought, "Where is that coming from?"
And I looked over to my left. Standing over to one side stood a--a Negro man, way out from the white people. He had his little old cap in his hand, hollering, "Mercy, mercy."
And something struck me, "That man wants to talk to me."
And I said to the policeman; I said, "I want to go over and see that man."
"Oh," he said, "Mr. Branham, you can't do that; you'd start trouble here in Arkansas." Said, "You can't do that." He said, "We just can't let you do that."
I said, "But the Holy Spirit's telling me to go."
He said, "Well, Brother Branham, you'll start a race riot." Said, "All these white people here to be prayed for, and you go over there to that colored man..."
I said, "I can't help what kind of laws you got. I follow a law and that law is a law of the Spirit."
And he said, "Go to that man."


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