<TITLE>11. Par 45-48</TITLE>L-45 Lord Jesus, we bring to You this morning this audience standing here waiting of sick, afflicted, tormented children. They are beyond any hope, many of them, Lord, of the doctor's cure, especially this man laying here on this cot. It's either Your grace or he comes out of the world in a few days. And no doubt there may be some standing along the altar here with heart attacks waiting them, and diseases, and afflictions that would tear them apart.
There's only one thing, Father, that can save them that's go beyond the five senses here of this body, where the doctors has tried faithfully no doubt to save their life: diseases, cancer, TB, heart trouble. And with all the patching, and tubes, and materials, and--and--and germ-fighting medicine, the enemy crowds right on in to take their life.
And I've expressed, Lord, I believe Your opinion to them. And I've heard the man speak in tongues this morning and gave that interpretation what would happen today. Some of them is going to receive it, Lord, surely. That's right. I believe it.

L-46 Now, it is written in the Bible that David, the little shepherd boy was watching his father's sheep out behind the desert. And one day a lion came in and got one of his father's lambs and run off with it. That little shepherd boy with faith, what did he have to come against this lion? Not a modern rifle or gun. But he had a little slingshot and he went after that lion. He killed that lion and brought that sheep back. A bear come in and got one. He went after that bear that could've crushed him to the earth. But he didn't think about the size of the bear, or the power of the lion, or his swiftness, or his inability with the slingshot.
But when he was standing before Saul the king, he said, "Thy servant herded his father's sheep, and a lion come in, and got one, and run out. And I went after him and brought the sheep back." He said, "The same God that delivered me from the hand of the paw of that bear, or the jaws of that lion, can also take this uncircumcised Philistine and hand him into my hand."

L-47 How we know the story goes that he did slay--slew a man that was many, many times bigger than he was, and a warrior. How it stumped Saul, the great king, great mighty man, how that that little boy could have such faith in a slingshot, no, not in a slingshot, but in God.
Now, Lord, standing around this altar and laying here on this cot is God's sheep, little lambs as it was to him. They have been caught up by a lion called cancer, a bear called TB, other diseases that's caught them, and jerking them out, and tearing them to pieces. Lord, I--I'm coming after them with a little slingshot called prayer of faith. It's not very much, but I know what it has done. And I know it's still the same God that I'm coming after them this morning to bring them back, Lord, to shady green pastures of good health, down by the still waters of peace, and away from their flusterations, to believe on You.
And I go after them with the armor that You gave to go in. "The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up. If they have did any sin, it shall be forgiven them."

L-48 Father, we go now to meet the enemy, to meet the lion, to meet the--the devil on every form that he's in called cancer, TB, Hodgkin's disease, heart trouble, any other disease. We come to bind him, and bring in this lamb back to the house of God again. In the Name of Jesus Christ we go to use this slingshot that You have given us. Be with us, Father, as we reverently approach Thee now in Jesus' Name.
I want you to keep your heads bowed. And we're coming to anoint with oil and lay hands on the sick, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick. Every Christian in here put your faith to this prayer line.
[Brother Branham begins praying for the sick while the pianist plays "Only Believe"--Ed.]


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