<TITLE>11. Par 120-133</TITLE>L-120   No wonder, Martha with this understanding, she was perseverant in the Presence of Jesus. Said, "If You had been here my brother would not have died. But even now, whatever You ask God, God will give it to You."

L-121 Oh, if we'd only get those words in our hearts tonight! "I know I'm sitting in a wheel chair. I know I got cancer, got heart trouble, whatever it is. I know the doctor says my last hour is close at hand. But even now, Lord!" Whatever you ask God, He'll do it. And He is sitting at the right hand of His Majesty, to make intercession upon our confession. Just be as persistent as Martha was.

L-122 Seemed like He had turned her down. Sent for Him, and He didn't go. Sent again, and He didn't go. Finally, after he was buried, four days, here He is. But she was still persistent. She had a hold of something. She had seen His works and she knew that was God. She knew it was. She was persistent. She had got what she asked for.

L-123   The Shunammite woman, in the presence of Elijah, was persistent. Oh, the baby was dead, and laying upon his bed. And Elijah tried to take an anointed stick and send, by Gehazi, to lay upon the child. But her faith wasn't in the stick, it was in the prophet. She knowed that God was in that prophet, for she had seen the words he said come to pass. He was a vindicated prophet, and she knew that what he said come from God. And she said, "As thy soul lives, I'll not leave you till I find out why." And she stayed with him. She was persistent until she got what she asked for.

L-124   It reminds me, here not long ago, a little woman coming from California, when I still lived in Jeffersonville. It's been about three or four years ago. She had a tumor, and the tumor alone weighed fifty pounds. They had to pack her into the building, set her back. They... She knowed I was to be there that night. She thought I was going to pray for the sick. But I just come to speak to the audience, maybe about what we got in here tonight. After getting through speaking... Some of them had told her, "He doesn't pray for the sick tonight."

L-125 But she wanted to be prayed for, she said in her heart, and believed. She had been in the meeting before, and said, "I believe if Brother Branham would pray for me, I would be healed." And that night, two or three of the deacons passed her around, and went out by the side the hou-... the building, come around to the back, laid her at the door.

L-126 And I started walking out with Billy Paul, through the back. She grabbed me by the trouser leg, like that. She said, "Brother Branham," she said, "I've always believed if you would ask God, God would heal me."

L-127 I put my hand over on her, I said, "Then, sister, according to your faith, be it unto you."

L-128   A few months after that, I meet her over in a--a meeting there. There she was, standing with a perfect waistline. The fifty-pound tumor was gone. She said, "I'll take any woman in here in the dressing room, and let her see if there is a mark on me anywhere. Here is my picture what I was."

L-129 What was it? Whether you was praying for the sick or not, she was persistent. She had come from California, to be healed, and she wasn't going back any other way but being healed. She was persistent.

L-130   I remember being called by the bedside of a boy dying, here a few years ago, with black diphtheria. And they wouldn't let me go in there, because I had children. The doctor said, "You can't go in there, you're a married man."

L-131 I knew he was Catholic, and I said, "If--if the boy was Catholic, would you let the priest go in?"
He said, "Yeah, but he's--he's not married."
I said, "He visits children, and so forth."
Said, "It's not the question, Mr. Branham."

L-132 I said, "You would let a priest go in and give him the last rites. This is the last rites. The boy is dying. Let me get to him."

L-133   Well, finally I persuaded him. And he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan, or something, all kinds of things over.


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