<TITLE>06. Par 20-22</TITLE>L-20 So next morning we were fishing, Mr. Wood there, and his brother and I. We pulled into a little cove. And we were catching nice size Bream, you call them here, I think, Blue Gill, we call them down there in Kentucky, on the mountains and breeze blowing in. It was a beautiful morning.
And Lyle was setting there with not a fly line, but the hook looked to me like he was going to catch whales on it. And he had a worm all wormed on it. He dropped over there, instead of catching the fish, he just let it... He swallowed the hook plumb down in his little belly. And--and when he got out, he said, "Now, looky here what I got," a little fellow about that long. So he just caught it with his hand, pulled stomach, gills and all... only thing he could do. 'Cause the hook was plumb down in his little belly, instead of catching him, you know. And I said, and he pulled his little stomach out, and throwed him out on the water like that. He said... And he quivered four or five times, and his little fins stretched out. He said, "You shot your last wad, little fellow." And he's kind of a tall country boy, like, anyhow.
And I said, "Now, Brother Lyle (You see?), you never let a fish swallow the hook." I said, "Take just a tip of bait, and just as soon as he hits it, hook him like that. See?" And we was setting there talking, the little fellow laid around there on the water for about a half hour, and a little breeze got up and blowed him back against the bank. We were setting there talking and catching these fish and unhooking them; not to kill the fish, 'cause I had at least two hundred or more, I guess, Brother Banks, on the line, out on the trout lines. So we caught the day before, and cut them, put them on the line. But just show you what God does, how He's concerned about everything.

L-21 All of sudden, Something come sweeping down those hills, like a wind, raised up in the boat. He said, "Stand on your feet." I raised up. He said, "Speak and it'll be so."
I said, "What?"
"There lays that dead fish!"
I said, "Little fishy, I give you your life in the Name of Jesus Christ." Little fishy turned over like that and went swimming out through the water. Laying there and its stomach, pulled out of its mouth, and its gills...

L-22 Now, this Bible is open before me. Is that true, Brother Wood? Mr. Lyle Wood just pitched over at the boat. He said, "That meant me, because I said to that little fish," had been dead about an half hour, said, "I said, 'You shot your last wad.'"
I said, "No."
He said, "Brother Branham, why would God use His power to bring that little fish to life, and I seen on that book of dozens of spastic children? I don't get that."
I said, "One time He came out of the city of Jerusalem, where there were people that were laying there with leprosy, and dying, and all conditions, moved out. And He seen a tree, didn't have no food on it, and He said, 'Curse that tree.' And the tree wilted. Used His power on cursing a tree, and people laying up there dying by the hundreds with leprosy and all kinds of diseases."
It just goes to show that God is interested, no matter, insignificant, how little, how big, He's interested in all. His nature... So if our churches are little, whether they're large, whether you're a lay member, whether you're a housewife, whether you're... Whatever you are, God knows and He's interested in you, and in what you're doing for Him. That is true. So we are happy this morning, to know that we serve a God like that.


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