<TITLE>18. Par 84-88</TITLE>L-84 And she said, "Then somebody told me to change my religion. I went away to the Good Shepherd's Home in the Catholic church, changed my religion. They sent me up there for two or three years." Said, "I done fine. I got back out." Said, "When I got back out, I was right back at it again." And she said, "I went on like that for about a year. The law picked me up and sent me to the woman's penitentiary, and I served there two years" and said then, "for delinquency."
And said, "Then I... Then after I got out of there, I come back." And said, "I tell you, Brother Branham," said, "that's just been about two or three months ago." Said, "I'm back doing the same thing that I always did."
And I said, "Well, that's a shame." I said, "A pretty woman like you? Don't you think about having a husband sometime, and babies, and like any woman would do that's got any lady about her at all?"

L-85 She said, "Oh, yes, Brother Branham." She said, "Who would have me?" See? Said, "What could I offer a man?" Said, "I've nothing but a cruel life, get drunk and carry on and things." Said, "What could I do?"
And I said, "Well, God can straighten that out."
She said, "Mr. Branham, I've prayed and turned over new pages and everything else." Said, "I--I--I just don't know what's the matter with me."
Kept just catching her spirit to see what was wrong... You see? And just kept watching for a few minutes, and she said... I said, "Well, now, I'll tell you, perhaps maybe you and I'll pray."
She said, "All right, Brother Branham." She got down and we prayed.
And I said, "You pray now."
And she prayed, said, "God..." And she prayed and prayed. After while she got up and she looked at me; she said, "Well, Brother Branham..."

L-86 And I put my hand on her shoulder, and I said, "God bless you, sister."
And she raised up, said, "I believe it's all over now." She said, "I'm going to go out of here and try to live a different life."
I said, "Sister, you'll go out and live the same life you lived," See? I said, "You're just turning a page." I said, "It's not right yet." So I said, "Let's pray some more."
And we got down, and we kept praying. After while she struck something. My, It changed (Yes, sir.) from like a little kid pecking on a music till it went to making music. Yes, sir. It got some rhythm in it, you know. After while she got to really praying. After while she begin to scream, and the tears running down them painted cheeks up like that. Directly, when she raised up them great big brown eyes, looked at me, she said, "Brother Branham, something's happened."
I said, "Yes, sir." Yes, sir.

L-87 She's married and got three or four children now. What was it? She took God and stayed with it till actually something happened. That's it. Something had taken place. The living Word become a living reality to her.
And when God plants His promise in you and it becomes a living reality, then something is different. You just don't go and say, "Yes, I believe it." Now, that's all right. The devil believes it like that. But it's confirmed to you, and the--the Word becomes alive in you. Then you begin to see what it is. Yes.

L-88 John the Baptist, he was... Strange, John's father was a priest. We know that, that he was a priest. Instead of going out now when you... I guess it was kind of hard on him and his mother to--to find out that little John, being promised the way he was, and he was going to be a mighty man of God. But they knowed they'd never live to see it, 'cause they was getting too old. At about nine years old they say his father and mother died.
Instead of John going back to the--to study the priesthood, he knew... John knew, he was to announce the Messiah. So instead of going down and studying in the school, and get a Bachelor of Art and a Ph.D., and LL.D., and Q.U.S.D, and all the rest of it, you know, that goes with it... So then, instead of going getting all of that, he took out to the wilderness, 'cause the message must come from God. And God...


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