<TITLE>26. Par 244-251</TITLE>L-244 Our heavenly Father, now we bring to You these that's raised their hands. Somehow another, the Holy Spirit has made Its way down into their hearts, there telling them, "You are not here just to eat and drink, and--and to sleep, and to get up and work; and then go back, eat and drink and sleep again. You are here to be sons and daughters of God. You are here to take your position and place in Christ. And I am here this morning to call you," would say the Holy Spirit to their life.
Father, with prayer, the only weapon that I know of, I present them to You. And I--I defy the enemy that would keep them from You. I place, by faith, the Blood of Jesus Christ between the enemy and them, that would keep them from this glorious experience of this great paradox of receiving the Holy Spirit, having Eternal Life. For we realize that's the only--only thing that there is, the only solution that's given to us for Eternal Life is to have God's Life in us, then it's Eternal Life in us. Grant it, Lord, that it will happen to every one who raised their hands. And perhaps those who did not have the courage to raise their hands, grant it to them also. Now, Father, they are Yours. I present them to You, in the Name of Jesus Christ.
And now as the prayer line is to be formed, Father, I don't know who will be coming up here. But give us another paradox this morning, Lord. May some great mysterious power of God move down and do something as You've promised. And this will be my first time, Lord, since meeting with You the other day. I pray now that You will grant the requests of the people, through Jesus' Name. Amen.

L-247 Now, I wish that everyone would just be seated if you can for just a moment.
Now, anyone that has a prayer card... Billy come down this morning, as he promised he would, and gave out prayer cards to some people here. He said there wasn't very many. Would you raise up your hands, the ones that's got a prayer cards. All right. I wonder if you'd just take your place and stand right along here, those who have prayer cards. Where... Billy, where you at? Oh, all right. Stand right along here.

L-249 Now, everyone in prayer now. We're coming before our Lord God. Now, let's sing that song with the music, if you will, as Sister Arnold plays there. All together now, just quietly...
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.
[Brother Branham begins humming "Only Believe"--Ed.]
... only believe,
All things are possible, only believe;
Only believe, only believe,
All things are possible, only believe.

L-250 [Brother Branham begins humming "Only Believe," and then reads Mark 11:21-24--Ed.]
Peter calling to remembrance said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which Thou cursed is withered away.
Jesus answering said unto him, Have faith in God.
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed,... be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, that, What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

L-251 Jesus said, once when they couldn't understand that He was Who He was, He said, "If you can't believe Me, believe the works that I do. And if I don't do the works of My Father, then don't believe Me. But if I do the works of My Father, then you believe the works."
I've got just through, this morning, bringing the message of--of a Paradox. "A paradox' is "something that it's unreasonable, but it's--it's really incredible, says Webster, but is true." Something that's incredible, that you can't understand it, it's just a mystery.


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