<TITLE>10. Par 66-74</TITLE>L-66 Then I started to pray for this baby. And when I started to lay my hands on it, the Lord rebuked me and said, "You told a lie, and you ain't fit to pray for that baby."
I turned away from the man; I said, "Sir, you just wait here. I've got something to make right."
I called up the attorney and went down to the office, called him in, and I said, "Look, sir, I told a lie. I had my wife to lie; she said I wasn't in there. And I run out behind the house." And I confessed it and told him about it.
Walked up, put his hands on my shoulder, he said, "Brother Branham, I've always had confidence in you, but I got more than ever now. A man," he said, "that's willing to make right his wrongs..."
And I told him, I said, "I started to pray for a baby and the Lord would just condemning my heart, because I knowed I'd done wrong."
Then the next day, wife said, "Where you going?"
I said, "To my cave."

L-72 And I went up to my cave up above Charlestown, where I've been going for years, and I got in there and I prayed all that day, "O God, don't never let me do a thing like that again. You forgive me, Lord, for when I start to put my hands on the sick people to pray, then I was condemned." Along about three o'clock in the evening I come out, and there's a big rock lays out there, and I got on that rock and was looking up towards the east, with my hands up, praising the Lord. And it was just so quiet in there, and I said, "Lord, if You'll just... One time You passed by Moses, and he said it was when You had him in the cleft of the rock, and it looked like the back part of a man." I said, "Could You do it again, Lord, let me know I'm forgiven?" And I said, "If You'll help me and come on my mind," I said, "Lord, I--I'm not very strong mentally, 'cause I've no education." I said, "And I--I'm trying to serve You. You know my heart, and I didn't... I oughtn't to have done that. I didn't mean to do that. My head just felt like it was coming off, I was so nervous, and I done it in a catch of a moment when Satan caught me." I said, "If You'd forgive me, let me see You then, Lord."

L-73 God being my Judge, just right over to my side, a little place the bushes begin to whirl like a Wind, and It come right along the side of the cave where I was at, and went down through the woods. Oh, brother, a peace that passes all understanding swept over me, and I cried, I wept, I shouted. I know my sins were forgiven me. See, I was disunified with God; I couldn't have deliverance for the baby.

L-74 I... And the very next day there was a man from Chicago, who is a great man, a Catholic just converted, the valves in his heart was swelled out like an inflated inner tube, and they'd been trying to cut them out for a long time, was going to; he wouldn't let them. Finally he found an interview. Them interviews, we stay right with it till we find out what's wrong. And the man had no more than come in till the Holy Spirit went back down through his life and called out something he done when he was an altar boy in the Catholic church. He said, "That's the truth. That's the honest truth." Said, "Do you mean that was against me?"
I said, "That's the only shadow that I can see in your life."
Went back up and told the doctor, said, "All right, get things together now; we'll have the operation."
The doctor said, "We'll check that old ticker again." And when he looked into it, he said, "You don't need the operation."


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