<TITLE>04. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 Here, some time ago, I went into the emergency room in a certain building, and there was supposed to be the insanity. When I walked in the door, there was a lovely, pretty young woman about twenty-five years old setting there looking at me. I said, "How do you do." And some of them in straight jackets, and beard over their faces, and cursing and oh, filled with demon power. And I looked at her, I said, "Well, it's kindly hard to tell where to start praying first."
She said, "If you don't mind, I wish you would start with me."
I said, "With you?"
Said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "You're not a patient?"
She said, "I am, sir."
I said, "Well, what's wrong with you?"
She said, "I suppose I'm insane."
I said, "You sure don't look it."
She said, "Could you listen to my story."
I said, "Certainly."

L-13 And she said, "When I was a young girl, Brother Branham, I was raised in a real Christian home. And I started going with a boy that smoked." And said, "First thing you know I was smoking. And one night he spiked a Coke with whiskey, and that started me drinking." She said, "I started from that to prostitution." And she said, "I've lived in the very gutters of the blackest of hell." She said, "I served four years in the Catholic institution, Good Shepherds Home." And said, "In there, I turned a new page, and I said, 'When I get out of here, I'm going to go straight.'" Said, "I meant it, but as soon as I got with the crowd again, it was all over. Then," said, "I did two years in a woman's state penitentiary, here in this state." And she said, "There I thought, truly I was reformed. I come home and joined another church. I told the pastor; we went down to the altar and talked it over, but," she said, "I just can't keep from it." She said, "It started one night."
I said, "Lady, don't you want to be a real lady and have a hubby and babies like a real woman was?"
She said, "Oh, with all my heart." She said, "But look at me now." I said--she said, "I've tried and I've tried."
I said, "But you haven't tried my Lord, yet."
She said, "Yes, I have too, Brother Branham." Said, "I've signed pledges and vows and made promises to God."
I said, "That's just not what I'm talking about." And I said, "As old fashion as it may seem to be, it's a devil."
She said, "I've always believed that."
And I said, "He drives you to do things that you don't want to do."
She said, "I believe that." And she said, "Would there be a hope for me?"
I said, "Certainly," and we knelt down to pray.
After while, she raised up--beautiful woman, great soft looking eyes--she looked up, and the tears running down her cheeks, and she said, "Now, Brother Branham, I--I believe I'm going to go out and make a new life."
I said, "Sister dear, you're just simply turning a page. It won't do any good." I said, "You've done that so many times." I said, "Just stay here until God speaks back to you."

L-14 We got down there together and prayed. And I left her praying, went on, pray with the other people. After while she rose up from there and looked around in the room, those big eyes looking at me. And she said, "Something happened to me."
I said, "Now you've got it. Now you've got it. You don't have to turn new pages now; it's happened. You've got it." And from that time she was a changed person. She's married, got a lovely home, and two children now. She can point her fingers to a time that something happened to her that was immortal.
Things happen and life change, but there is something that can happen to a person, that won't change. You cannot be the same after this happens: that's when a man meets God. He's changed; something happens to him. He's never the same after He once meets God, face to face, where he has to come to the fact to either receive Him or walk away from Him. He will go away...?... a worse person, or go away a new person. But when you meet God, something happen, immortally.


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