<TITLE>01. Par 1-11</TITLE>63-0117, Awakening Jesus, Full Gospel Church, Tempe AZ, 111 min
L-1      Good evening. As always, a privilege to be in the house of the Lord.

L-2 How surprised I was to see this boy here from Arkansas, friend of mine. A long time, I believe the last time I seen you was up in California, wasn't it? My, my! You still in California? Here? My! Think I'll have to move out. All the east is coming west.

L-3 And, well, everybody happy? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] That's right.

L-4 Well, I think this is about our sixth service now. We got to go on through next week, and--and up until next Monday night. Now, don't forget Monday night at Tucson, the banquet, and we're expecting a great time down there this coming Monday night.

L-5   I was talking to Brother Williams and Brother Rose, today. And so I said, "You know, I'm going to start praying for the sick." I said, "I keep them poor people there every night till about ten or eleven o'clock." I said, "I feel real ashamed of myself, of doing it like that." And I do apologize for holding you so long, but I don't get to see you too often.

L-6 And I can't make that excuse, 'cause I do worse than that at home. See? Sometimes start in of a morning, early, and preach till that afternoon and some time, or just whenever we get ready to go home. And we just set around, like, just as thick as we can be, so just have a good time.

L-7   Nice to be here, Brother Groomer. Where... [Someone speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Yeah. Yeah. It was kind of hid from me. Was not... I was here last year when we come on, wasn't we? ["Yes."] I thought so. Remember the place and the church. So happy to be here tonight! God bless all of you.

L-8   And now we're expecting the Lord to--to--to heal the sick tonight. We're kind of changed the program a little, and I get into the Message, of preaching the Gospel, or what I try to think, my very best of my knowledge. And then I--I get started, I just don't know when to stop. I just keep on going, and I keep you too long. Then, I thought it would be a good time tonight, after so many nights of preaching, just to try now and pray for the sick. So today we've kind of prepared for it and waited on the Lord. And I begin to notice last night, the way. You have to kind of go the way He leads you to go, you know. You--you feel something move you, and directly visions will break, and you know that it's something coming near then.

L-9   Then, today I was going out, too, in the... I was in the... my motel, and the Holy Spirit said go a certain way. And there was a swimming pool out there. I thought maybe some little child might have got drowned. I went across there, happened to look over, and I seen some people. They're setting here in front tonight. They know how that was the Lord Who got there, and just what He said is just exactly the thing. So I knew then it was time to start praying for the sick.

L-10 And now we are going to approach Him now, by prayer, before we approach His Word. And you're such a nice audience. You been so attentive each night. I know some of you have to get up and go sometime, before. I know that's not because you just want to walk out. You got to catch busses. You got to go to work. I--I realize that.
And now let's bow our heads just a moment now for prayer.

L-11 Now, I notice there's just about as many standing back there as there is setting out here. And we want... We know that God will answer their requests just the same as He does anywhere. Now do you have a request? Let it be known by an uplifted hand. God will hear.


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