<TITLE>09. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 So I put my hands upon the boy and prayed just a few words of prayer. And I said, "Father God, I do not understand, but this poor old man is crying out. And he asked me to come here. And only thing I know to do is ask You." And I said, "I pray that You'll spare the boy's life in the Name of the Lord Jesus," and got up.
And the old father turned around to the mother, put his arms around her neck, and they begin to hug one other, and wipe the tears from their eyes, and saying, "Isn't it wonderful, mother?" And I looked, and that little nurse turned her head and looked.
And said, "Think of it. He's... Bob's going to be well. Oh, we praise the Lord," they said.
And the little nurse... They reached across the boy, and shook my hand, and said, "Thank you, Brother Branham, for obeying the Lord to come pray the prayer of faith for our boy." I never said no more than the prayer.
And then the nurse said, "Sir, I don't believe you understand."
He said, "Oh, yes, I do."
Said, "You claim you love the boy."
Said, "Certainly we love the boy."

L-29 "Well," said, "you see..." He said... She said, "How can you act like that when the boy is dying?" Said, "Now, in all medical history when this certain thing, I don't know what it was, the instrument goes down that low, the boy cannot pump back again." And said, "You see, the boy could die at any minute. His heart's only beating..." I forget what his respiration; it was very bad, and his heart was so bad. He had open valves, and everything in it; and one of the valves was blocked or something. And said, "He's--he's unconscious now. He's even too weak to know anything." And said, "Then you can stand there and laugh and carry on like that (she didn't know what kind of carrying on that was) and say--act like that, and your son dying."
And the old gentleman (I'll never forget him.), he turned and put his hand as a father upon the little lady's shoulders of about eighteen years old, little snickle-fritz, you know that (you know, little Annie), and said, "Listen, honey." Said, "You know, you are looking at that instrument. See?" And said, "That's all you know about." But said, "I'm looking to a promise in the Word of God." Said, "My boy is going to live, for He said the prayer of faith shall save the sick. And that's been prayed over my boy."
Well, that's about fifteen years ago. The boy's married and got two children. See, the persistency, that he will believe no matter what instrument says anything. His faith wasn't in the instrument; it was in God's promise.

L-30 Noah, after he had heard the promise of God, he could be persistent, be perseverant.
Moses, he'd knowed intellectually by his godly mother, our beloved sister Jochebed... He had heard her teaching in the intellectual manner, how that his life had been spared from the crocodiles, and how that God had made him a proper child, and he was born for a deliverer; and how that Miriam, his sister, the prophetess, had followed him down to the bathing beach, where Pharaoh's daughter was bathing; and how that God had brought him right up and--and nurtured him right in the palace of Pharaoh; and how he was going to deliver the children. Now, intellectually he knew that. But, you see, the first little mistake...
Oh, don't miss it, church. You might know it from a Word standpoint. You might know that the Bible said the prayer of faith shall save the sick. But you pray until God says the prayer of faith saves you. That's the difference.


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