<TITLE>18. Par 204-220</TITLE>L-204 No matter what others say, "Oh, you're a back number. You ought to... I don't care what they say.

L-205 I still believe God. I focused in on the Word and know that Truth. Nobody has ever been able to shake me from it yet. As long as God holds my heart right straight on that Word, I'll stay there. Amen.

L-206   Elijah, he, one day when he was looking for something to come, to bring help to the people, he looked. And he looked till the old man, eighty-something years old, was too tired to climb the mountain, after been fasting, praying. But God told him, if they would repent, something would happen. What was he looking? He sent his servant up, said, "Go up and look. Look. Something is going to happen." Three years and a half, and no rain, not a cloud, not even dew falling. But said, "Go, look." And Elijah or...

L-207 Gehazi stood and looked, and looked and looked. He didn't see nothing. He come back down. He said, "I didn't see nothing."
"Go back again." Amen. "Go back and stay till it happens."

L-208   And Elijah goes back... or, I mean, Gehazi, and he looks and looks and looks.

L-209 And Elijah, that little bald head setting there in the sun, and his whiskers and his beard, white beard, and them little bony-looking arms across his bony knees. He said, "Lord God," as he begin to pray.

L-210 Said, "Go back again now." Amen. What was he doing? He was looking for God to take care of His promise, no matter how brassy she looked, how much judgment is upon it. That's right.

L-211 Someone said, other day, he said, "Brother Branham, you believe That, and you speak so much against the organizations of religions. What makes you do that?"

L-212 I said, "Nothing against the brethren in that organization, but it's the system is what I'm against."

L-213 Like the disciples going to embalm the body of Jesus. That body was nearly ready to rot, that's right, was an awful smell. But they stayed right with it.

L-214   That's the same thing today, although the church has got itself all scrupled up. It's in all kinds of conditions. It's broke off in isms and formalities and everything, but I've got to stay with it. We must stay there. We got to stay there because we love it. There's something in us, compulsing us. The pulsations from our heart says, "Stay with it, because there's going to be a resurrection one day, and God will take from that." Amen. Yes. Wonderful Lord Jesus! All right.

L-215   We find, Elijah kept looking until he seen just the size of a man's hand.

L-216 Now, unbelief would have caught that right quick. "If that's the best you can do?" See? "If that's all you can do, well, take it back."

L-217 But what was it? He was looking for the supernatural. Oh, he knowed only the hand of God could do it. And when he saw that hand, J-e-s-u-s, he had f-a-i-t-h. Yes. And when he saw it, he said, "I hear the sound of abundance of rain." What was it? He accepted the first move.

L-218   Oh, unbeliever, this morning, you who have been all scrupled up in your water baptisms and everything else, let the Spirit of God open your eyes and show you just a little something, then you start from there. "I hear the sound of abundance of rain." You who believe creeds instead of the Word, come back to the Word, just see the first little move. Faith accepted it. "There is what I'm looking for."

L-219 We're looking for the Coming of the Lord. We look at the Holy Ghost falling in the last days. We look at signs and wonders. We watch what's taking place. See? Don't you see? What you looking at? That's exactly what God said would take place. Let faith grab it, say, "I want it, too."

L-220   Watch Elijah. When he accepted it, you know his life must have been renewed. He outrun Ahab's chariot. He run before the chariot, when he couldn't even climb the hill. He run before those swift horses. "Get the rain barrels out. I hear the sound of abundance of rain." The first little move, "Glory!"


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