<TITLE>03. Par 17-25</TITLE>L-17 Now, this is going to be a great week for me, coming, tomorrow, the Lord willing. I've got to make decisions for the coming year of all the invitations. I want to go out to--to the office and pick up all my invitations and bring them home. And therefore, for the next few days, I go to prayer, to God, and pray for Him to guide me and show me which a way to go and what to do. We don't live in a time like it was when He was here, where God led Him from place to place, and He was in a town for a few hours and gone to another city. But today it's on a different system; it's a setup, ministerial groups and a lot of things has to be done.

L-18 And the way I do it, I bring in all my African invitations and lay them down, all the India invitations, and all the California, the Utah, and all different invitations, and put them separately in piles. I'll let them lay. And then I take to walking and praying, maybe get in my car and be gone a day or two: come back, praying. Something comes on my heart to go to a certain place, then I see if it's just a impression. Then, afterwards, then I... If it's impressed me so hard, I go to this pile where this certain place is, then pick me up a letter and read it, of invitation, to see where it's at. Then from there...

L-19 Here is the reason I do that. You think of riding about seventy-two hours on a plane in the storms, and up and down, and around the, if you ever rode overseas. Don't know sometimes you're--you're up, and sometimes it's down, and swinging, and rocking, and pitching, through them clouds and over that water, for three days and nights. And then you step off onto a land, and the first thing meets you is Satan, "Well, the ministerial group said this, some of them divided on the vote, and some for." See?
Then you might say this, "Well, maybe the Lord didn't want me to come."
But when you are sent of God, you're ready to meet the enemy. You say, "I step here, in the Name of Jesus Christ. I come in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and here I stay till His work's accomplished." See, then you're ready to meet the forces.

L-22 So, you love me; I know you do. So pray for me this week, that I'll make the right decisions by the inspiration of God will lead me.
Now, I'm going to have a few little, what I call, little jump meetings. I'm going down into Florida, the eighth, ninth, and tenth of this month; or Tifton, Georgia. Tifton, Georgia, the eighth, ninth and tenth of January, I meant to say, instead of this month. And then I've got to go to Glasgow, Kentucky, and perhaps Somerset, Kentucky, and one night's, and maybe Campbellsville, Kentucky. And--and Brother Rogers wanted me to come one night to his place, which we got--had to miss him the other time.

L-24 Now, pray for Brother Rogers. We were having fellowship, today, and I caught ahold of his hand and found him in a bad shape, physically. So pray for Brother Rogers over here. He's took a big lot onto his hands there, and it's got him nervous and upset, and he's--he's got in pretty bad health right now, and his wife is very bad. So pray for that little couple, fine children of God. And I told him that, the Lord willing, I'd get him a night.

L-25 And Brother Ruddell, our little--one of our little sister churches up here on 62, little old bashful boy, went along here and couldn't even look up. And he would come up to the house. And, oh, I guess people thought he was a regular pest, but there was something about the boy that seemed real. I just kept staying with him, and staying with him, say, "Brother Ruddell, you can."
He said, "Brother Branham, I get up before a crowd, my--my heart comes up in my throat, and I--I--I just can't say a word."
I said, "Stand there and swallow it back down, and speak in the Name of the Lord. See?" And now he's got a Tabernacle the size of this one up here on the highway, just doing something. Stay with it. The boy had a call of God. I knowed his father, his mother, they're very fine people.


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