<TITLE>12. Par 93-101</TITLE>L-93 And so this woman, she said, "I'll just share my water. We're going to die, so I'll sacrifice my drink of water, and give it to the kind old gentleman standing there, 'cause he looks thirsty and tired." She said, "I will bring it." And she started walking on.
And again she heard a voice, said, "And in your other hand, would you fetch me a little morsel of bread?" Oh, my, now, now what? Her last hope of the life of her child, the last hope that they had, and the bread would be gone, the oil gone, everything would be gone now.
But she looked back, and she wondered; she said, "I just have a little bit of meal left in a barrel. I've got just enough oil that I've dampened it, and I've already dressed it, or, I've mixed it. (I've got the Word and the Spirit mixed together in there. I've got the cross here to lay it upon, to make it into a cake to give Life.)" And that's when the Spirit and the Word gets together on the cross, it makes a Life loaf for you. That's right. "And I've got it together, and I'm going in now to bake it, and give my little dying boy in there, that's cried all night for something to eat, I've--I've got to give it to him. I'm going to sacrifice mine, and I--I'm going to give it to him. And then I'll take him up in my arms, and we'll both wait for death."

L-96 He said, "But you make me a little one first." Isn't that strange that a man would ask a widow woman, dying, for the last bit of meal she had in the house, with a dying child? God does things so strange. Said, "Make me a little one first."
She studied, "You know, the Bible says that we have entertained strangers. We've entertained strangers; they were angels, not knowing what we were doing. Well," she said, "I'll do it."
And as she turned, he said, "For..." Oh, my. There it was, the greatest consolation that any believer ever listened to, "For, THUS SAITH THE LORD..." That's the Word she was waiting for. "THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'The barrel will not go empty; neither will the cruse go dry, until the day that God sends rain on the earth.'"

L-99 What do we get there? "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, all other things will be added." "How do I know, Brother Branham? How do I know?" Only thing I know, put God first and move all. Sacrifice; mix the oil, mix the--the Word and the Spirit together, and lay yourself upon the Cross, and say, "Here I am, Lord." Put God first in everything.
"For, THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'The cruse will not run dry; neither will the barrel go empty, until the day that the Lord God sends rain upon the earth.'" She knowed, then, that was the prophet of God speaking to her. Oh, how her heart must've jumped. She ran in and made that little cake and brought it to him with the water, trembling hand over that old sunk-in cheeks; she knew that God had come to the rescue, over a little piece of bread.

L-101 Oh, you just take that one little promise of God, and get everything right, and out of the way, watch what takes place. Get that heart, the unbelief away from it. Just take that little belief that you've got, and lay it onto the cross, and say, "This is all I got, Lord. Take it"; watch the turn, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." Oh, He's just the same today as He ever was. That's what she was waiting for.
Maybe it looks awful dark now, but, you know, sometimes we're taught (And I preached on it the other night.) it's always darkest before day. It's at the darkest hour of the night when the morning star shines; it's reflecting the coming of the sun.


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