<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>60-0329, It Is I, Be Not Afraid, Municipal Auditorium, Tulsa, OK, 71 min
L-1 Gracious heavenly Father, we thank [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] tonight for Jesus Thy Son, Who came to the earth and was made sin, taking our place and dying at the cross, that we through His righteousness might be justified by our faith in His work.
We thank Thee for this. That we have this privilege in the hours when there's no hope in nothing else. When all hopes of national security, or all hopes of home life is broken, the nation honeycombed, nations against nations, kingdoms against kingdoms, nature itself crying out, the end is at hand, earthquakes in divers places, tidal waves, sea a roaring, we're so glad, that, "there is a Rock that's higher than I; a refuge in a time of [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]." We thank Thee for this. We would ask, Father, that He would continue to be with us as we journey on. Make it a special occasion tonight, Father.

L-2 We've given out many prayer cards this afternoon, that these people are to be prayed for, that's sick. May there not be a feeble person in our midst when the service is over. May every sinner... When our Brother David makes the altar call, as usual, at night, we pray, Father, that sinners, every man or woman that's in here that isn't a Christian, may they accept Thee as their personal Saviour. May backsliders come home to God, realizing that the hour is at hand. We ask this in Jesus' Name. Amen. May be seated. Thank you.
This has been an unusual day for me. I've had the grand privilege today to visit the Abundant Life and the Faith Digest Foundations. Oh, how fortunate you people here are to have such in your city. How that God has took boys that used to stand on the corner here at Sand Springs, with an accordion, the two together, and have a street meeting, and today has the world in their hands, almost, with this great Gospel. How I thank God from the depths of my heart, that He ever sent those men. May the Lord continue to bless Brother Oral Roberts and Brother Tommy Osborn.
Now, it always thrills my heart to see the Lord helping His people, doing something that's--that's a benefit.

L-3 Each night I find some handkerchiefs laying here and letters. Now, we believe in that, praying over those cloths.
Now, I have been reading some that said, "Would you anoint this handkerchief, Brother Branham?" Well, anointing a handkerchief is perfectly all right. And we believe that anything that God will bless, we're right for it.
But if you notice in the Scriptures, they wasn't anointed. "They had taken from the body of Paul handkerchiefs and aprons." I believe Paul was a fundamentalist, don't you? So I think where he got that was in the story of the Shunammite's baby being raised, or little boy raised from the dead.
Remember, he told Gehazi, "Take this staff and go lay it on the baby." He knowed that everything that he touched was blessed. But the Shunammite woman's faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. So she stayed with him until he went and laid his own body across the baby and it come to life.

L-4 Now, we have a great ministry of this, not a great ministry like the brethren here have, of course. I was noticing when I come home. I looked at Billy, I said, "You know, my office is going to look pretty little from now on." I got two typewriters sitting in the end of a trailer; that's extent of mine. But I said, "It's going to look pretty small from this on." But how that in there we pray over handkerchiefs, little pieces of cloth, and send them out all over the world, everywhere. And the Lord blesses our feeble efforts to help the people.
And now, if you do not get one in the meeting, and you would want one, well, I'd be glad to send it to you. Just write me. And I have... I'm do good to get enough to pay for what we have working, couple there at the desk. So we may be a little late, answering it, but we'll do everything we can to get it right to you without cost. So you send if you wish it.


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