<TITLE>16. Par 58-61</TITLE>L-58 But said, "I left everything, and followed You. And when I needed You, You didn't come. When I sent, You ignored me and went on. I sent again, and You ignored me." Looked like she could've had an argument with Him, but she forgot all about it. She wanted to get to Him. That's the reason she got what she asked for.
Like the Shunammite woman before Elijah. She was persistent. She come up and fell down at his feet, and she said... Elijah said after he found out what her trouble was, he told Gehazi, he said, "Take my staff. Go, lay it upon the baby." And he girded up his loins and went on.
But she was persistent. Her faith wasn't in the staff; it was in the prophet. And she said, "As the Lord God lives, and your soul never dies, I'll not leave you." She was persistent. He couldn't get away from it. So he girded up his loins and took off. Amen. That's what it is.

L-59 If the Shunammite woman could have that much faith in a prophet, if Martha had that much faith in Jesus, how about today when we've got two thousand years of miracles constantly pouring? When around the world, and around the clock twenty-four hours, the people are being healed and filled with the Holy Ghost the world around; miracles of healing and raising the dead, and casting out devils; can't we be persistent to hold on to the Word of God, knowing He's no respect of person, hold there, persistent until He comes? Sure. Persistent... Certainly.

L-60 Like the woman... come down to the tabernacle about three years ago. I was in there for one night. A woman was in there had a tumor weighed fifty pounds. She was out like this. The woman may be here tonight. I come in through the back door, and went into the little old tabernacle there, and was preaching. And so I turned around and went back. She was from California, and she couldn't walk. And she was persistent though. They said... She said, "I come for Brother Branham to pray for me."
And some of the elders said, "He announced that he wouldn't be praying for the sick tonight."
She said, "Which way does he go out?" Not me; she had faith in God.

L-61 So two of the elders of the church, or three, got this big heavy lady, and packed her around to the little door where I go out the back of the tabernacle, not knowing myself she was there to be prayed for. And I got through preaching. I started out, and she caught me by the trouser leg, and she held there. She said, "Brother Branham, I won't take your time to pray for me, but just lay your hands on me." That's it. She was determined. About six or eight months later... The lady standing there that night was swollen out like that. The doctors wouldn't touch her for nothing.
She's been back in my meetings down through California; will be there again now. She's been to the Tabernacle since, just as flat as I am. And said, "Any of the women can come, examine me. There's no mark of knife upon me. The thing left me." Why? She was persistent. Amen. Her faith was set.
My faith is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' Blood with righteousness;
When all around my soul gives way,
Then He's all my hope and stay.
For on Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
Persistent. Their faith had a hold of His Word and it wouldn't let go.


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