<TITLE>04. Par 9-12</TITLE>L-9 Now, you just drive down the stob tonight. Say, "Satan, from right here's where I'm going to stay at this stob until--till God gives me the Holy Ghost. You ain't going to take it away from me any more, and... Or take my thoughts away from me, make me think I'm too tired or I ought to do something else."
As long as you got those thoughts, you'll never receive It. You've got to go in there saying, "This is the time I'm going to receive It. This is my hour." And--and you'll get It.
You real--real business with God, and God will be real business with you. That's right. "Draw nigh unto Me, and I'll draw nigh unto you, saith the Lord."

L-10 Well, tomorrow night, the Lord willing, I'll have Billy Paul (my son) out here to--to give out prayer cards for you people that wants to be prayed for. And how many's here from out of state now, that's to be prayed for? or out of town, that's on the grounds? Let's see your hands. Oh, there's enough for plenty prayer cards, so he will give them out early, so it won't interfere with the rest of the meeting. What time you usually--they start gathering in, Brother Sullivan?
[Brother Sullivan answers, "Anywhere from five o'clock on, Brother Branham."--Ed.]
All right, from five o'clock on till about six-thirty then, you get here and--and we'll give out the prayer cards tomorrow night, and call up the line, and pray for them as they pass the platform.

L-11 Now, this text tonight is a very odd text. And yet, it's a very good text for... and a very familiar text. But it's found in Isaiah, the 1st chapter and the 18th verse. And I believe, let's read a few verses before that, and just make a con--see if we can get a context from it. Let's begin at the 15th verse, or the 16th, maybe be better.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
 Come now... let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, yet they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
And now, if I would call it a text for this, to draw a context from it, I would call what I want to speak on tonight is "Having Conferences." And let us bow our heads now for a conference with God before we go farther.

L-12 Our most gracious and loving Father, the God of all life, that sent to us Thy loving Son, the Lord Jesus; that He might be the propitiation of our--for our sins; took upon Himself the form of sinful flesh, and was made sin for us that we unworthy people might be drawn nigh unto God, through the shedding of His Blood once for all. And we have gathered here in this conference, Lord, in these nights, not just to be seen of others, or to so much as to associate with each other. Lord, we pray that if that has been the attitude of the people up to this time (and myself) that You will forgive us for our sin.
We have come, Lord, in the age of the dying. We've come in the time that when we feel we don't have much time left. And we have gathered here for one purpose, and that's to get close to You. We want our sins under the blood; we want close fellowship; we want to talk it over with You, Lord, before You come. For on that day, it'll be too late then.


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