<TITLE>19. Par 208-220</TITLE>L-208   And Elijah. You know, God don't always tell His prophets everything that's going to happen. He looked up and he seen her coming, he said, "Here comes that Shunammite." And said, "She is full of sorrow, but God has hid it from me." He said, "Run, meet her." And she...

L-209 He said, "Is all well with thee? Is all well with thy husband? Is all well with the son?"

L-210 I like this, that persistency until she got into the presence of the messenger. And she said, "All is well." Hus-... her husband wringing his hands, and walking up-and-down the room, crying, and the baby lying on the bed, dead, but, "All is well." Amen. Why? She had come to her goal. She had made her goal. Her persistency, that she could get to the man of God, the man of God could tell her why. And then she fell down at his feet and revealed what was happened.

L-211   Now he reached over and got his staff, and said to his servant, "Take this, and go lay it on the baby." Now, I think that's where Paul got laying handkerchiefs on the people. See, because Elijah knew that everything he touched was blessed, but if he could get the woman to believe it!

L-212 But the woman's faith wasn't in the staff, it was in the prophet. See? And she said, "As the Lord God lives, and your soul never dies," see, she had witnessed there he had Eternal Life. Said, "And thy soul never dies, I'm not going to leave you." Oh, my, stay with it! That's it.

L-213   That's the way to get what you want. Like this Shunammite woman, like this Syrophenician woman, stay with it! Stay right there. Stay right with Christ. Take a hold of it, tonight, and hold there. Just don't move. Tomorrow, if somebody say, "That's just..." Just shut their ears up to them. You got faith: You stay there.
Said, "I won't leave you."

L-214 And Elijah said, "Well, can't get rid of her, I might as well go with her." So he girded up his loins, and away he went.

L-215 Watch when he got into the room. He didn't know what to do. He never prayed. He just walked back and forth, up-and-down the floor, until he felt the Spirit of God come on him. Then he went and laid himself over the baby, and he sneezed seven times, and come to life.

L-216   Martha knew, if God was in that prophet, surely He was in His Son, see, and that's the reason she could be persistent.

L-217 And if we have had thousands of years of experience since then, to know that God keeps His promise, how persistent ought we to be tonight when we can see the Presence of Jesus Christ, oh, my, and shine like the stars!

L-218   I remember one night, at home not long ago, there was a woman, and I didn't know the woman wanted to be prayed for. I didn't go down and pray for the sick that night. And it was so packed around the place! And some of my trustees are sitting in here somewhere, tonight, was there. And there was a woman come from California, had a fifty-pound tumor. She wouldn't go to a doctor; and then, when they made her go, it was too large to be operated on, a big water tumor. And she was way out like this, a great big tumor. And they had brought her there. They had. They couldn't bring her in the car. They had to put her in a trailer, like, to bring her. And they had brought her in. I didn't know it, and I just went ahead and spoke. And she said, "Well, isn't he going..." I made an altar call. Said, "Isn't he going to pray for the sick?"
Said, "No."

L-219 She said, "What door does he go out of?" Uh-huh. Now just think, her faith! And they took the woman around, and packed her around to the back door, where I go out through the pastor's study and went to my car.

L-220   And the woman laying there, caught me by the trouser leg, and she said, "Brother Branham!" Great, oh, my, she was out like that. Said, "If you will just lay your hands on me, God will make me well." And I did that.


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