<TITLE>02. Par 9-19</TITLE>L-9 And I--I know no one would want to be anything but what you are. Only thing that we all can desire... After we have been saved and become the children of God, the only thing we want is just a little closer walk each day. That's what we long for, for that great fellowship. How wonderful it is! Would you ever stop to think just what would we do if we didn't have that? What--what... If that great hope didn't rest in us, what would we do?

L-10   I was saying, in one of the churches, may I... First, one place, another, and around the country I make a remark sometime, think I might repeat it in the same church. But I was going out of the building where I'd been kind of laying pretty heavy, about these people today doing this here new dance they got, they call the twist, or something. And I said, "I just don't know, what the world, people want to break their legs and--and act like that for."

L-11 So, there was a fellow, about twenty-six, twenty-seven years old, met me at the back, said, "Just a moment, Mr. Branham."
I said, "Yes, sir?"
He said, "You know, you just don't understand."
I said, "I hope I never do."

L-12 So he said, "You see," he said, "I can see your point." Said, "You're a man fifty years old. But if you was my age, it would be different."

L-13 I said, "Wait a minute." I said, "I was preaching the Gospel when I was ten years younger than you. I still believe that same Gospel. I found something that takes the place, and more joy in serving the Lord than all the things that the Devil could manufacture anywhere." It's a... It gives a satisfaction.

L-14   You know, David said, one time, "As the hart thirsts for the water brook, my soul thirsts after Thee, O God."

L-15 And if you ever seen one of the little fellows, when he's--he's been hurt; maybe the dogs has got a hold of him, and jerked a big piece out of his side, or something. He's bleeding. And, he, the dog can trail him. He's not like a man. And he can hunt that deer whether he's bleeding or not. And so the only way... If that deer is a bleeding, the only way he can ever live is to get to where there's water. And if he can ever get where there's water, he'll drink that water. It'll stop the bleeding, and--and he can get away. He's pretty smart.

L-16   But now you can imagine, seeing one of the little fellows wounded and bleeding, and just how his little head up, and all the sense that he has of detecting where the water is, with his nose. Just, he must find the water, or perish. And now it's just life and death, to him. He, just every--every--every bit of the scent that he has, he's trying, longing. He must find it.

L-17 Now, that's the way we ought to be thirsting for God. See? "As the hart thirsts for the water brook, my soul thirsts for thee, O God." Be hid away with Him somewhere, is my heart's desire. And I trust that that is the desire of all that's in here tonight.

L-18   And now, night after night, and I like to see this. Faces you see at one place, you see them at another. I--I like that. You showing your fellowship, and expressing what we're here for.

L-19 And, oh, I'd sure love to see an old-fashion revival in Phoenix. Oh, my! That word Phoenix has thrilled me since the very first time I read it, of it: Phoenix, Arizona. My, little boy, I thought, "If I could ever get to that spot! If I could ever get there, to Phoenix!" And now seeing it, and when we're here we find it grossed in deepness of sin, like all the rest the places, tourists falling in; and drinking, carousing, immorality, everything on hand.


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