<TITLE>08. Par 25-28</TITLE>L-25 Then, Elijah had passed by there and Elisha going down, but the poor blind man had been taught that the days of miracles were passed. Then he remembered after Joshua had crossed over the Jordan, that about five hundred yards from where he was setting, Israel camped, made their camp.
And one day, that great mighty warrior, Joshua, who took Moses place to lead the children into the promised land, and when he was out one day, walking around, looking at the walls of Jericho, which was his first objective to take that city... They was all in, the doors closed, and their big rocks hanging on top to throw off at them when come up. And he was wondering just how that he'd be able to take that city, because it was given to them, and just what would be the way that God had planned to do it. And he happened to look, standing before him there stood a mighty Warrior with His sword drawed. And Joshua drew his sword and went out to meet Him. He said, "Are You for us, or are You for our enemies?"
And the sword glistened over His head, He said, "Nay, I'm the Captain of the Host of the Lord."
The mighty Joshua throwed his sword on the ground, took off his shield, laid it down, his helmet, and fell to his feet in front of Him.

L-26 And then blind Bartimaeus thought, "You know what? That happened just right out here. That great Captain of the Lord's Host was standing on the ground, right out there, but the days of the miracles is passed." Little did he know, that less than a hundred yards from him, stood that same Captain of the Host of the Lord, making His way out.
It's when we think of God, when we begin to dream dreams of being well, when we dream dreams of being saved, when we get to thinking about our sins and how cruel it is before God, that's when He draws near. That's when these disciples, brokenhearted, going on the road to Emmaus, that Jesus stepped out of the bush and begin to talk to them, while they were thinking of Him.

L-27 You see, the trouble today, we got so much money and stuff on our mind, God can't have a place to get in our thinking. We want to go downtown, shop for new dresses, or new hats, or something another; and we got to see Suzy and John. We're going to play cards tonight; we can't go to church tonight, because "We Love Susie" on, or something like that, the television programs. We got everything else on our mind.
The churches has got so many orders and things to keep us so busy, prayer meetings is left out. We need to draw nigh unto God, so He will draw nigh unto us, friend. That's right. But everything else has took the place of the prayer meeting. Everything else has took the place of the real spiritual worship. Oh, maybe two or three minutes in church. But I just love to lay and bathe before Him in His... Don't you love that? Oh, just lift up your hands and drink from the fountain, until you just can't drink no more, just bubbling over in His sweetness and His goodness.

L-28 I was talking to a noted evangelist, my brother, T. L. Osborn. He said, "I was thinking, Brother Branham, of how that--that my whole objective is to save souls and give all my time to save souls to Christ." Said, "Then I happen to think, what a--what about my own love and devotion to Christ?" Christ loves him too. He loves us. We put a lot of time and things, but God wants us to come apart, and just set down, and worship Him, and talk with Him, talk it over. I love that. Oh, that sweetness. That's the greatest time of anybody's life, is just to set down and meditate, take everything off your mind. If you would do that, there wouldn't be so much nervousness around the country, if we would just think on God. "Draw nigh unto me, and I'll draw nigh unto you."


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