<TITLE>17. Par 62-65</TITLE>L-62 Let us pray. Lord, no man can come except You draw him. How can a man understand unless God reveals himself to man? Now, Father, there is the Word; that's Your Word, and It shall not fail. Heavens and earth will pass away, but Your Word will never fail. Let it be known tonight, Lord, that You're God, and Your Spirit is here in Your Church dealing with Your people. In the Name of Jesus Christ, we submit ourselves to Thee for the service. Amen.
Now, it's immaterial to me... If the Holy Spirit would come into this meeting right now, and would say thus to me, say such a thing, give discernment out in there, to you people, it ought to convince you.

L-63 Now remember, it's not the hands of the preacher that heals the people; that's a Jewish tradition. The little man, Zacchaeus, that had his... Not Zacchaeus, but the... His--his daughter died. I can't think of his name right now. When his daughter died, he said to Jesus, "Come, lay Your hands on my daughter and she will live." He's a Jew. But when the Roman Centurion had his servant at the point of death, he said, "I'm not worthy that You come under my roof. Just speak the word; and my servant will live."
Jesus turned and said, "I don't find faith like that in Israel." That's what we Gentiles ought to be, but we have to fall back to our traditions, laying on of hands, and so forth. But that's what it takes.

L-64 All right. See? We're here to serve the Lord. Now, we don't have... We line up people and pray for them. Last night, we had a straight line of discernment. Every person coming through the line... Everybody that was here, raise up your hand, that knowed it was true, every whit, and people out through the audience without prayer cards, raise up your hand, was here last night and seen it? All right, there you are. Mouth of two or three witnesses, every word be established.
Tonight, we said, we would just line up the people that had left over prayer cards, and pray for them tonight, just pass them through the line. Now, it doesn't matter to me, either way. But remember, the same God that was here last night to give discernment, is the same God here tonight.
(Did you give out any prayer cards today? Z? How many? Fifty and fifty last night, that'd make a hundred.)

L-65 All right. Prayer cards Z. We'll have to call them in numbers? Prayer card Z number 1, raise up your hand. Prayer card... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] I surrender my will to the Lord. [The congregation repeats after Brother Branham--Ed.] Now, you that's... Is that all of the prayer cards? Is there any more prayer cards in the house? No more prayer cards. All right. [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]
This is our first meeting. This is our first meeting. We're born, maybe, miles apart, and first time we've ever met.
Now, here is a perfect picture of Saint John the 4th chapter: A man and a woman meets for the same--first time in life. How many knows that? Jesus begin to talk to the woman. And then He found where her trouble was. And He told her what her trouble was, and she said, "Sir..."
Now the Pharisees, the preachers and so forth, said, "That man's a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub, the devil." Anybody knows that fortunetelling is of the devil. All seance and fortunetelling is of the devil. But what is a fortuneteller? Something that the devil has perverted. He couldn't be a child of God, but the devil made a child of hell out of them. See? But the...


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