<TITLE>16. Par 56-58</TITLE>L-56 Like an old colored woman, a Negro woman, sister, said down in the States, she said, "Dr. Branham," said, "I--I's want to give a testimony."
"Go ahead, sister. Testify."
She said, "I wants to say this, people. I hain't..." (That's a word they use in the south), said, "I hain't what I ought to be, and I hain't what I want to be. But then, another thing I know; I hain't what I used to be." So that--that's good. She knowed something had happened. Amen. So do I, every man that's borned of the Spirit of God knows you're not what you used to be. Amen.
I ain't what I want to be, and I ain't what I ought to be; I ain't what I used to be either. See? I have raised with Him. Now, I'm this high up, waiting for my change to come.

L-57 Now, Moses, Moses was God's servant. Now, Jesus speaking here, He said, "The men of Nineveh shall rise in the judgment because they repented at the preaching of Jonah." Jonah was a prophet.
Now, a lot of people just talk bad about poor old Jonah, and they said he was a--a backslider. I don't think so. I think the Bible says that the footsteps of the righteous is ordered of the Lord. Now, we do things that don't... We don't understand why we do it, but we just keep still. As long as you're led of the Spirit, go do it anyhow. It may be contrary to our thinking, but when the Holy Spirit said, "Go," we go.
For instance right now I've got a meeting, be set in New York; I'd have it this week, where there was three hundred Spanish-speaking people takes Madison Square Garden that seats nineteen thousand, and wanted this very week here that I'm in here, to be in New York. See? But the Holy Spirit led me over here. Seems like it'd be contrary. But I don't know why, but I'm here. You see, children of God are led by the Spirit of God. We don't understand. See?

L-58 Now, the other brethren can go to them people. Now, like Brother Roberts, he couldn't go there, he couldn't come here. He has to have around, I think, it's around fifteen to twenty thousand dollars every day: television programs, and all kinds of things, and--and a three million dollar building there to operate. That brother couldn't come here. You couldn't support nothing like that. You're not a--can't afford to do it. See? And neither could Tommy and his great program, with thousands of missionaries across the land, he couldn't do it.
So you see, the Lord never let me grow up like that. He just let me stay so I could go in any little corner, 'cause I don't need nothing but just His Presence. That's right. I was on the field before any of those brethren. But you see, the Lord has spoke to me, saying, "Don't get none of that. Don't get mixed up in money. Leave it alone."
I never took a offering in all my life. I've been preaching for thirty-one years and never took an offering in my life (See?), because... And I hold a... I held meetings as much as five hundred thousand in one congregation. Then I went and held a meeting where the church only seat twenty people, but the Lord said, "Go." See? It's wherever He says, "Go," go.


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