<TITLE>10. Par 47-50</TITLE>L-47 It might be something, God put a curse upon that person to make them do a certain thing, and you come around and take it off, like Moses did smiting the rock, or Elijah because he was called bald-headed, and cursed those little children and so forth. You have to watch with gifts of God. You've got to watch what you're doing (See?), when you go to cursing and stomping devils, and things like that, when you don't know what you're talking about; you get in trouble with God (See?), 'cause you have to realize what's happened. This... Something's down there's causing this to happen, then you'd better wait and tell that person about it, and make that right first.
So the thing to do is wait till you find the cause. Then you--the cure's already perfect, if you--you can find the cause. Get rid of the cause and they... Like, if a clod is laying over something another... Like a piece of corn, and a stick is laying over it making it grow crooked, just move the stick and it'll grow straight. That's the same thing it is. See? You've got to find the cause first. But find out what's making it do this.

L-48 Now. And Mr. Evans come in, and he said, "Brother Branham," he said--told me the story.
I said, "Let's go to God." And we knelt down to pray. And while in prayer I...
You have to go out. That's the way the raising of the dead... You've heard of the meetings; you've seen it, know it's wrote up: Doctors' signed statements of people being dead. I've seen five of them in my own humble ministry. You've got to find that soul that's out yonder somewhere, return it, bring it back. And on the Spirit going out, He sent His Word, sent His Word. See?

L-49 And going out, I seen a young fellow wearing a yellow shirt (had once been a Christian and raised in a Christian home) was in Brother Evans' car going down to Bowling Green, Kentucky, a hundred and eighteen miles below Louisville. And the Spirit (while praying) convicted him, that he was doing wrong. He was working for this ring; he was doing wrong. And then the Spirit, the Word, holding over him in this prayer, he turned, come back.
I seen him bring the car back and park it on a certain place. I raised up and told Brother Evans about it; it'd be all right. And on his road home there from... Now, the car was stolen across the river, Louisville, Kentucky, a mile across the river, and then up at Miller's Cafeteria. It was stolen from there. And here it was brought back from Bowling Green. He had a tank of gas, half of it gone, just where the boy had drove down, drove it back around, and set it right there in the road where... On his road right out to the trailer camp there he met it, setting right there on the road the same way. See? Now, that's the Spirit of God going out catching that.

L-50 Another case right on there, just to show you the opposite, then I will quit, sure enough, so then They... This is the same man, on a man that bought a car from him and would not--did not pay him. Run off. And the Spirit of the Lord, when we prayed, went after that man, but he was a rough, ungodly sinner. See, the Word wouldn't have no effect on him. Then God had to work it another way, and sent him around.
And one day when he was up at my house, I told him, "We're going by Bowling Green." Going down to his house, was going down to go fishing, he and his wife and I in the car. He caught it right quick.
Now, as he said, "Shall I... I better turn off down here?"
I said, "If you want your money, you'd better go now." And he went over; he got paid off in full. See?


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