<TITLE>25. Par 76-79</TITLE>L-76 May the Lord bless you when we bow our heads just a moment for prayer. While you have your heads bowed and your eyes closed, I'd like to ask you one sincere question, just ask you one thing. Are you a Christian? If you're not, would you raise up your hands, say, "Brother Branham, I've fallen by the wayside; I would like to come back to God. I'd like to--I would like to renew my fellowship. I've went down in Egypt. I--I'm--I want to be renewed, I want to come back in the promised land. Pray for me, Brother Branham, tonight as you're closing." Would you raise your hands? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. In the balcony? Is somebody up in the balcony would say, "Brother Branham, I once had the victory. I once was a godly person, but somehow another the weeds and the thorns and things has choked me down. I'm not where I ought to be; I know I'm not. Pray for me, Brother Branham."?

L-77 All right. God bless you, sir. God bless you. Would there be another?
Is there one here that's never made a stand for Christ, don't know nothing about being born again, never received the Holy Spirit? You're not a child of God and you know if God would come tonight, send Jesus to the earth, that you certainly would not go with Him in the rapture, and you want to be remembered in prayer as a sinner? Would you raise your hands and say, "Pray for me, brother?" God bless you, young fellow. God bless you. That's good, that's fine. God bless you. Would there be another would raise your hand, say, "Pray for me, Brother Branham, I don't want to leave this world like this?" Now, look, no matter what you ever do in life, you've got to leave it right here on earth. It's only what you send ahead of you in glory that counts.

L-78 And if you're not a Christian, why not just do as much as raise your hand? I seen a teen-age boy, right in this time where the crossroads of life, raise their hand, "I want to know Jesus as my Saviour." Pray God will make a preacher out of the boy. Seen a young lady back there raise her hand, just a teen-age girl. Right when everything... right here in the mess of this conglomeration of sin and folly of the world, and yet a young man and a young woman raising their hands, "I want to know Jesus as my Saviour." The Holy Spirit knows His own. Now, you couldn't do that, brother, neither could you do it, sister, without God spoke to you. There's something there.
Now, remember, when you raised your hand you broke every scientific rule that science ever had. Science says that your hands has to hang down. Gravitation holds your hands down like it holds you down on the earth. So when you raised your hand, that showed that there was a spirit in you that could defy gravitation. There's a spirit in you that made a decision, "I want to know Christ." And up went your hand towards your Maker. You could not do that without Him standing by you. "No man can come to Me, except My Father draws him first. And all that the Father has given Me will come to Me; and he that comes to Me I'll in no wise cast out. I'll give him Everlasting Life and raise him up at the last day." What a promise! What you did when you raised your hand, it was for God.

L-79 Now, while we bow our heads for prayer, if you feel led to come a little closer to God, if you'd like for us to pray with you, if you watch and you'll see in the healing services while... He knows the hearts of the people, makes the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, gives salvation. He's the same God tonight. Will you walk up here at the altar? Could you walk up here and say, "Brother Branham, I now accept Him, the greatest thing that could be done. I want to accept Christ as my Saviour," while we pray.


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