<TITLE>08. Par 39-42</TITLE>L-39 Now, I've never seen him before: say I've never seen him. I'm in New York City. And he goes today out here to a doctor, and he's wearing this pretty light suit and tie. And he goes to the doctor. And the doctor says, "Reverend, I'm very sorry to tell you, but you're suffering with TB. There's nothing that can help you now. You're--you're in a stage where it's too late to retire, so it's--it's--it's going to--it's going to kill you."
Well, he begins to wonder. Somebody... His faith catches. "Believe I'll have Brother Branham to pray for me." He hears about it. He comes to New York. I'm in New York. And now he's wearing a black suit with a red tie, and he has his glasses off. And he walks up on the platform. I'm standing there. I've never seen him in my life, and he's never seen me. I say, "How do you do, sir?" What am I doing? Contacting his spirit (See?) just to see what kind of a feeling it... Sometimes we hit impostors; we hit critics. We had one in the meeting last night, just like would've tore me to pieces, and so that's the reason I couldn't call that prayer line. And... just terribly.

L-40 And so then I stand there and I say, "How do you do?"
He says, "How do you do?"
I carry a conversation. After while I see something before me. I said, "You are suffering with..." I'm going to take a good, long discernment. Say there's nobody else on the platform but him (See?), to be there that night. I say, "You are suffering with tubercular."
"That's right."
"Now, you was at a doctor. The doctor had a mustache, and wore glasses, and gray head, and he examined you and said... And you're not from here. You're from a country where there's a lot of sand and--and so forth. You... It's California."
"Yes, that's right."
"You are a minister of the Gospel."

L-41 See, I'm watching just what he's doing. And maybe I come to this very meeting, and may meet somebody else now. And recently he was wearing a white suit, light-colored suit with a light tie. "You were setting at a table listening to someone speak. You was wearing glasses. A lady set next to you, was kinda--kinda heavy set, and wore a pink dress." You know it was right this time here. See? And it just leaves me. I don't know what I said. See? I was standing right here watching that.
Well, maybe he's all thrilled then. "Praise God. That's right. I--I was listening to Brother Branham talk (See?), like... That's exactly. I was wearing that suit. Hallelujah." Here he goes off the platform.

L-42 Now, he hasn't waited long enough. See? He's just... That's him doing it. That's what his own faith did. Now, wait and see what God says about it. See? Now, if nothing else happens... I stand there a minute and nothing happens... I keep watching. If nothing happens, I look back. And if he isn't shadowed yet, I'll say, "I'll pray for you, sir," and then send him off.
But if you hear it speak back and say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD." See? Now, your faith is what pulled that from God; but now, here's God speaking back to you. See? I don't know what's going to happen yet, 'cause I...
That was his own faith that did that. That didn't say he was healed. See? That was only his faith moving God to do that. It foretold. And now, wait till it forthtells. See? Then it comes back... And I see him maybe years later, an aged man. See? And I say, "Sir, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you are healed. By this, to increase your faith, tomorrow you're in a strange city. You'll be walking down the street, and somebody's going to hit you on the arm. You'll turn around. It'll be a little newsboy. And you look up at a clock, and it'll be striking twelve o'clock, just exactly. By this you'll know." See? Now, one is what he pulled from God; the next is what God's given to him. He did the first. Now, it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? That--that's the next. You see?


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