<TITLE>06. Par 19-21</TITLE>L-19 Now, Lord, I realize the tremendous weight of the meeting, and how that it must have poured from You, this virtue, as You looked upon the multitude of sick, lame, halt, blind; as You stood at the Pool of Bethesda and seen that great multitude. Yet, there was just one man that You were led to, and You said You knew he'd been that way a long time, and You healed him, or asked him to accept it.
And then being questioned, You said, "Verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." Lord, won't You show us the will of God tonight for this sick, waiting multitude? We are waiting the moving of the water that the sick might get in and be made whole.

L-20 I pray thee, God, forgive our sin of unbelief, long as we have been following Thee. And we confess, Lord, that we're a way short of the requirements as ministers and as Christians. So be merciful to us, O merciful God.
And as a man cried one day with a boy with epilepsy, said, "Lord, help my unbelief," we cry to Thee tonight, Lord. After we read the promises of this precious Bible and see what could be done, then we cry, "Help our unbelief." Send the Presence of the Lord Jesus in our midst tonight as we speak on the Word. And may the Word become flesh, and our spirit catch it, believe it.
May we see the returning approaching of the Lord Jesus, as He promised, as the days are drawing out now into minutes and hours, or maybe hours and minutes. And we don't know just how close we are, Lord, but we see things are getting--looking ripe. So help us tonight.
We present the Word to You tonight, Father, that You'll bless it. Get honor to Thy Name, to which Name we ask it in, the Lord Jesus, and for His glory. Amen.

L-21 I would try to draw from this little text tonight or this Scripture, for just a few moments on the subject, or a word called "Perseverance." I draw that from the verses that I have just read. "Perseverance," "it's--it's to make a goal, be persistent." I like the word, and it very fitly to the church of this day, or it should be that the church should be perseverant.
Men of all ages that has faith in what they're trying to achieve has been perseverant. No matter what you're trying to do, you've got to believe in what you're doing.
A man once said to me, a doctor; he said, "Oh, I believe, Brother Branham, if--if the people would believe that they could go out and touch that tree and would be healed, I believe it would happen."
I said, "But my precious brother, men can't have faith in touching that tree. Faith has got to be based on something. And therefore, when a person can base their faith upon the Word of God, then you can be perseverant because it's the Word of God."


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