<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>62-0117, Presuming, Gospel Echoes, Phoenix, AZ, 173 min
L-1 ... have this time of fellowship with you people, far away from that frozen north that I just come out of. I said to your pastor up in his study this afternoon, "This is going to be one of the greatest meetings I ever seen, or either I missed the will of the Lord." I have never had Satan to fight me so hard as he did coming out here. When Brother Williams invited me some time ago, I just kind of hesitated a little. I said, "I'll let you know a little later, because I believe in praying over things before we--we make our choice. Let it be God's choice."

L-2 And I just kept feeling led to come, because it was a time... I always appreciate the Full Gospel Business Men's fellowship. And then... And this was a little extra, because I would get to meet the different churches, the different brethren of the different denominations. I love to do that, and kind of have fellowship together in different churches of all the churches of God. So then, when...
I said, "I will be sure now that it's the Lord calling me." I said, "I'm going to give Brother Williams quite a bit of time to get somebody else, you know, to go out there. They... Be sure that... If he's still waiting on me, then I know it's the Lord, and if all the brethren say they want me to come out." I said, "Heavenly Father, I'll just take that for granted that it--that You want me to go out to Phoenix."
Well, then, I waited several days. And I thought, "Now, I better let him know right away, because they--they've got to advertise it in--in the 'Business Men's Voice.'"
So after waiting a few days, then I called him up, and he said, "Oh, Brother Branham, all the brethren want you to come out." So I said--just felt that little nudge I should do it. So this would be a grand opportunity.

L-3 Well, I thought I would come just a little early. And I wanted to go over in Mexico and get me a suitcase I was badly needing. And someone give me the money at Christmas time to get it, and I could get it for about half the price I get it here for, and about twice as good, across the border. I thought, "Well, I'll go down around Texas, so I'm going to allow myself about three extra days so I can shop out and get a good one, so, rest a little along the road." And I was going to start on a Thursday.
And we got all ready to start, and there come a blizzard across the country. And they even blocked the highways everywhere, and the south was impassable altogether; and they wouldn't let us go through the north part over 66.
I waited two days, and finally they opened the roads, said, "You can take your chance." So I started off.
I thought, "Well, it'll be nice weather." Ha. I don't believe I was ever in a worse blizzard in all my life: and ice and jams, and all along the road, and everything.

L-4 Finally one of the recording boys here, Brother Maguire, his car backslid on him coming out. We was going on. And so we was having an awful... I think it just give out. I don't think it backslid; it just give out. See? And so he got an old generator, and the thing wouldn't work right, and he tried it again, and it wouldn't work right. He put it in another shop; it wouldn't work right. He tried three--up till about eleven o'clock one night, and still the thing...
The next morning started up... Fred would (he slipped over), now he's somewhere listening to me. I've never mentioned it even to his father-in-law and them, but he touched me on the shoulder coming out of the restaurant, said, "Brother Branham, you just ask God and it'll work right."
I said, "You really believe that?"
He said, "I do." It worked right and we come on down.
So when I got to Phoenix, I thought, "Now my trouble's over." And if I didn't get up this morning with the flu: headache and feel... Well, I said, "Satan, it's a fight." So here I am. So we're here enjoying this fellowship. And I got to meet the pastor this afternoon in his study up here, and we had a wonderful time.


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