<TITLE>02. Par 7-15</TITLE>L-7   And I guess Brother Julius had been introduced, the man who wrote the book of A Prophet Visits South Africa. I've... Sister Stadsklev, no doubt, is here somewhere. I--I can't place her just... yeah, yes, now I do, and the--the children. I remember, a few years ago, Minneapolis, they were little bitty fellows; now I have to look up to them, they're a great big boy and girl.

L-8 Sister Stadsklev here, not long ago, that really had my heart whirling around, a little mother, she lost her baby. And the Lord was... seen fit to take it away. And she had called me, and she wanted... They was going to fly me over to Germany. And the doctor was so kind to wait, let the baby lay there. The little fellow died suddenly, a sweet little, plumpy girl. And Sister Stadsklev had lost her mother, and she was pretty well broke up. This baby certainly had got the best of her. And she got on the phone, long distance from Germany, and wanted to fly over. And I said, "Sister Stadsklev..."

L-9   She confessed her faith, that she believed that the Lord Jesus had sent me for the work in the last days, and just a loyal testimony that no one could give, and she meant it with all of her heart. She had seen the Lord God do such things as that, raise up the dead after they were dead. But, you see, you really, as much as I... How, what a glory that would have been to God, in Germany and everything! If I could have done it, myself, I would have done it. But, the first thing, we mustn't go until we know what we're going for.

L-10 So I went out and prayed. And I think she stayed on the phone part of the time, through the night. And the next day I come in, there was nothing. Again Meda said, my wife, said, "Sister Stadsklev called twice. Any word from the Lord yet?"
I said, "Not a thing." And I said...

L-11 Well, I went out, pray again. I was in the woods that night. Then, of course, the little baby had to be taken care of. And then just as I was coming in, the Lord Jesus, a vision struck, standing in front of me. And I heard His voice say, "Don't rebuke that. That's the hand of the Lord." So I knew then that God, for some reason, had taken her baby to Glory, and it was certainly against the will of the Lord for me to say anything contrary to it.

L-12 And then I thought, "Well, that will be a big let down. But the one thing I did, I minded the Lord. I did what He told me."

L-13   Here not long ago, I got a letter from a minister over there, and he had made a statements by some more ministers. He said, "The one..." And he was, I think, he might have been a German Lutheran. I'm not sure. But he said, "There is one thing that I can admire about Brother Branham. When all the excitement was going on, he stayed steady till he got a clear-cut decision from God, then he knowed what he was doing."

L-14 And that's the only way you can do those things, is first hear from the Lord, when He tells. If He told me, tonight, that to go up there and raise out of that cemetery, President Kennedy, I would invite the whole world to come, watch it done, for I'd have THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? Now, but how can I say, "THUS SAITH THE LORD," until the Lord has said thus? See? See?

L-15   Many times, people gets all excited and go under impressions and things like that, and what the best of their mental can think. That ain't always true. Wait till He tells you, and you know it, then you've got exactly. You don't have to guess about it. He's done told you, it's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then He has told you, then you can go say what He said. Until then, you can go and do everything you can, do what you can yourself, but you can't be sure until God has said so. Then you're positive.


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