<TITLE>20. Par 145-151</TITLE>L-145 Look here. Here stands Brother Kidd here. I liked to tore the tires off the car to get to him about a year or two ago to... He was dying with cancer, going to die that day. His wife told me, said, "Hurry." Said, "He's dying now." When I got there, the Lord healed him. And here he's still standing. I think he's gained so much weight and everything. An old veteran back you know, there's the kind of man I was talking about, years ago, that preached; and laid right on to that Word, and the people laughed at him. And him and his wife walking the railroad tracks and everything else, and way up in the mountains in coal mines, and run out, and throwed in jail, and everything else. That's the man who's fought to win the prize; that's the kind.

L-146 Now, brethren, I say to you, you probably would not have the spirit of discernment. That don't have to be (You see?), that--that ain't necessary. The first thing, you're a men of the Word. You're far better, a more preachers than I am, because I'm--I'm not much of a preacher. But I... But you're--you're anointed, any man that's called to preach the Gospel is called to heal the sick. The general orders is: "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. These signs shall follow them that believe. If they lay their hands on the sick, so forth, they shall recover." If you're called to be a minister, you're called to pray for the sick.

L-147 And the reason I do this is so this audience, that they might see that they don't have to wait for some special person, Oral Roberts, Tommy Hicks, Tommy Osborn, myself, somebody comes by for a healing service. I want them to see that you are men of God. See? You're men... Just as much right to lay hands on any of them as--as I or anybody else. After all, brethren, you all know, as--as ministers, it's their own faith in God that does the work. Is that right? We just offer a prayer for them.
Now, you say, "Brother Branham, is the Spirit, or the Holy Spirit there with you?" Certainly. Yes, sir.
Now, to you in the audience--in the line there, if you believe with all your heart that God's going to heal you, raise up your hand, say, "I accept it."

L-150 Now, come here, let this--let this lady come here. I don't know you; I've never seen you. If the Holy Spirit will tell me, so that my brethren here in the presence here like this, so they're all standing here around me... And not only that, my brethren are here, and my Lord is here. It's their Lord too. Now, if He will tell me something wrong with you, whatever's wrong with you, you'll know whether it's the truth or not. I want them... I want the audience... I want the people out there to see that the Holy Spirit's here at the platform to give discernment, but that don't heal anybody. But if He will tell me something about you, that you know I know nothing about, just like it was the woman at the well... Not the same kind of case, but I mean a man and woman meeting for the first time. Jesus, kind of a middle-aged Man, and this woman probably was a young woman, maybe like you.

L-151 And if He will, could tell me what you're here for, your trouble, would you believe that it'd have to be His Spirit that would do it? Do you brethren believe that, that the same Lord Jesus is standing here? You audience believe the same thing? Would you in the prayer line believe the same thing, and know that these man... Would I called them up here if I thought they wasn't... After preaching like this, and saying the things I have, and then call men up here that wasn't worthy? I wouldn't do that. I'd be defeating the very thing I was fighting about. You see? I believe in them; I believe they're men of God.


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