<TITLE>06. Par 66-83</TITLE>L-66 I said, "Sure, he is. But I tell you what. Don't say I'm a minister. Just let me go over as a friend, just going with you."

L-67   So we went in the institution. You know, they lock the doors behind you, and take you up on the elevator, then lock the elevator. So... And this sister was taking us up.

L-68 And we got into the room, and set down on the side of the bed. And there that real pretty little lady, about sixteen something, setting there, completely gone. You... She, just staring. You could wave your hands, and she wouldn't even notice it.

L-69 And I said to her, "Ruthie, do--do you remember me?" I said, "I--I--I'm Brother Branham." I said, "You used to call me Bro'der Bill." I said, "I--I presented you to Christ, on the cradle roll. Don't you remember me?"

L-70 She just stand and look. Oh, a beautiful girl; and the three of them, it was a trio, three sisters. And I tried to get her attention, and I--I couldn't do it. She was staring. She was just gone.

L-71   And I set there. And I... They didn't have no post on the bed in them places, you know, 'cause keep from getting hurt. And I set across, the foot of the bed. The mother set, the other side of the little bed, this little, single bed in this little room. And the girl was setting on a little, like a little seat built in the wall. And the sister standing up, and the father was standing by the girl.

L-72 And the mother was standing there, and the tears running down from her cheeks. She said, "You see, Billy? What--what can we do?"
I said, "Well, listen, Norma. Christ still is Christ." See?

L-73 She said, "This was our last chance." Said, "If they take her up there, you know what's going to happen." Said, "We'll never see her, I guess, again. And if we do, you know how, the--the treatment they get there."

L-74 And I said, "Well, Norma, let's not be excited." I said, "We just--just wait a few minutes." And then, no more than said that, there stood the girl before me, in a vision, normally well, smiling. And she was looking towards a young man. And I looked at the young man.

L-75 I looked back. Vision left me. I said, "Norma, does she have a boyfriend, kind of tall and dark hair?"
"Yes."
I said, "Does he do something with them in singing?"
Said, "Yes. That's right."

L-76 I said, "Don't you worry. I have THUS SAITH THE LORD. She is coming out of it."

L-77 Norma threw her hands and caught me by the knee, looked up to her husband, said, "Honey, it's never wrong." Said, "It's never wrong."

L-78   The girl never changed a bit. I said, "All right, Norma. You know that I wouldn't have told you that now unless I had seen it. And God can't lie." See? I went on out of the hospital and got in my own car. They stayed.

L-79 And about two hours from then, the phone was just ringing, when I come up from Mr. Woods, down below. And it was her father. He was on the phone. He said, "Brother Branham, I got something to tell you." Said, "You hadn't been gone twenty minutes, until she come to herself, normally. And she's been examined by the whole staff of doctors. We're taking her home in the morning."

L-80 And now, see, now she sings at the tabernacle now. Now, there is men and women here, from--from Jeffersonville there, that knows that story is true. If you're in here this afternoon, raise up your hands, how many knows that story? Yes. See? All around, that know that it's true, absolutely true.

L-81 Now, what was it? That little lady used that vision as an--as an absolute, an ultimate. See?

L-82 You've got, in everything, you got to have somewhere you could tie down to. And I've always used the Word of God, because there's no other tie-post that I know of, as great as that, because "Both heavens and earth will pass away," said Jesus, "but My Word shall never fail." What a tie-post!

L-83   Now, Paul had a Christ-centered life. He... That was, Christ, was Paul's absolute.


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