<TITLE>09. Par 29-32</TITLE>L-29 So Jehoshaphat said, "Why, sure. After all, we're the same people." Said, "My chariots is your chariots, and--and my horses are your horses, and--and my soldiers are your soldiers. Why, sure, we're all together." Said, "Why can't we just got up there, (Pardon me.) and we'll run them out?" But said... And then he turned around. He must've thought, "Well, wait a minute. We ain't asked the Lord about this." See, a real believer, before he does anything, no matter what--how good it looks, he will always consult God first. Amen. Yes, sir.
You know, I've seen... A lot of times people come to me and say, "Oh, Brother Branham, if you'll come over here, we'll have so much sponsorship; we'll do so much; we'll guarantee there'll never be a penny left unpaid; and we'll--we'll give you so much each night." Real shiny, but you know, monkeys jump at things shiny. So let's just wait. Fools' gold outshines the real gold.

L-30 You know, the other night I said that Christ is a glow, not a glare. We will never be able to convert the world by trying to shine up our churches, and make them bigger, and polish up our ministers with better education. They--they already got all that stuff. They got all kinds of psychology and ball games and everything. The world's got that. But we got something they haven't got: that's Christ. See? That's right. Just stay in your own territory. We got Christ; they don't have Christ. They got all the psychology. Don't try to match with wits. You can't do it. They don't--they can out-match you.
You go to a Catholic priest one time, and try to out-match him with wits. He's got six hundred books, just as sacred as this Bible, he's got to learn. So, brother, don't never try to match him with wits; I will tell you that. But if you'll just stay with the with the Holy Spirit, He will do the rest of it (See?), if you'll stay with that. See? But we're not supposed to match wits; we're supposed to have Christ. That's what we have. We got something that they haven't got.

L-31 So you ought to always consult the Lord before you do anything. And when you say you're going to do a certain thing, "If it be the will of the Lord," you must say. "If it's the will of the Lord." The Bible tells us that.
Jehoshaphat remembered his good teaching that his father had give him. He said, "Don't you think we should consult the Lord?"
I can imagine bishop Ahab saying, "Oh, oh, why, why, certainly. Yes. sir. I--I--I believe we should do that. Well now, I've just got the group right down here, because I've got a--I've got a whole school of preachers down here, prophets." Now, remember they were prophets. "I got a whole school of them down here."
"All right. What kind of prophets are they?"
"Jehovah's prophets. We got them right here. And... Well, I'll go get them up."
"All right, that'll be fine."

L-32 So all of them come up, and Hezekiah and all of them. He was the chief of the--among them, the chief bishop. So when they all come up before the kings, and they set with their royal robes on, you know, to make--out in a kind of out-of-way place by the gate... And the prophets come up, four hundred of them. Think. Four hundred students, not students, they were ordained bishops, big fellows.
They said, "We have prayed; we have fasted; we've got the will of the Lord. THUS SAITH THE LORD God Jehovah, 'Go up and take it over,' for it belongs to us, and it's ours, and we rightly have a right to it. Let's go get it." They say, "Let's figure that out now. Now, mentally, that's right. It was given to us. Uh-huh. That's right." And now them prophets, "Let's see now. In our psychology, our thoughts, our psychic mind that belongs to us. God gave it to us. It belongs to us. A heathen nation owns it."
"See my prophets? They're every one saying, 'Go up and get it'"


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