<TITLE>17. Par 54-57</TITLE>L-54 I like something that's got life, moving. I was a state game warden in Indiana. I used to pass by a spring. That was the prettiest spring I ever seen. Summer or winter, it always bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble. I thought, "Well, you know, that's the happiest thing I ever seen." I set down one day, and I said, "I want to ask you something, Mr. Spring. Why you so happy? What are you bubbling all the time about? Are you so happy because that rabbits drink from you?
"No," he'd say, if he could talk.
I said, "Well, then are you happy because maybe that the cattle drink from you?"
"Nope."
I said, "What makes you bubble then, because I drink from you?"
He'd say, "Nope, Brother Branham, not that."
I'd say, "What makes you bubble?"
He'd say, "It isn't me bubbling; it's something behind me a bubbling me." That--that's what it is. That's what the church needs today, is the Holy Ghost behind them to bubble a little bit, throw that unbelief out, and the trash, and the--the thinking that the days of miracles is past, and so forth. Let's get back to Jehovah's great power, Jehovah's great eagle food, and believe that we're children of Abraham, God's called eagles. Back to the Gospel, back to the Word, back to the truth, back to the food, Angel's food, sons of God's food. The eagle stirring her nest getting ready for a flight... Yes. Oh, it's grand to know these things.

L-55 Then the first thing you know, an old mother eagle gets up there, and she screams, and they know her voice. Then she goes down to where them little eagles are, and she gives them a lecture, "You're fixing to take a flight now. Something's fixing to happen, but don't you get scared, if you trust me."
Like Abraham, last night. "Come out here; take your own son; take him up here on top of the mountain, and cut his throat. Will you trust Me?"
"I trust you, Lord," said Abraham. Oh, my.

L-56 Something happened to you; you got sick. Something happened; this one happened. Somebody made fun of you. The boss said he'd fire you if he caught you praying again. He's going to give you trial to see what you are. Every son that cometh to God must be tried and chastened. That's it. If you cannot stand chastisement, you become illegitimate children, and not the children of God. When a man comes up, I don't care, he might shout, he might speak with tongues, he might prophesy, might do whatever he will, and if he comes into that trial and backs up, he's not a son of God. No, sir. If it takes his life, he stands there just the same, because he knows Who he has believed and persuaded He's able to keep that which is committed to Him against the day. Amen.

L-57 Now, mother eagle says, "Get ready, children, I'm going to give you you're solo flight this morning." So she bats her big wings up, and each one of these little eagles climbs upon them big wings. Oh, I love that. Upon the New and Old Testament both... Climb up on them like that, and say, "All right, fasten my hope right down." Reach over and take the mouth, catch on one of those great big feathers (that you couldn't pull out with a pair of pliers), put his little beak around there, and catch it in there, hook his little hooker around there, take these little claws, hook them down into the wings, and say, "All right, mommy, I'm ready." Oh, my.


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