<TITLE>15. Par 158-164</TITLE>L-158   Zacchaeus, are you ready this morning? Why don't you come down now out of the tree? Why don't you come on. He is passing this way now, passing through your heart, talking to you. Would there be, while you have your head bowed, praying, is there anyone here would say, "Brother Branham, really I've been a little skeptic all along"? Remember, he was a religious man, himself. "I've been just a little bit skeptic, but now I believe. Help my unbelief, God. Not to Brother Branham," 'cause no one looking but just myself and God, "so I'm going to raise up my hand and say, 'Pass me not, O gentle Saviour. Hear my humble cry. Make me a true believer, Lord. Come, go home with me today and abide at my house.' 'Today I must abide at your house.'"

L-159 Will you raise your hand, say, "Remember me, God"? The Lord bless you, bless you, and you. "Remember me, God. Go home with me, this morning. I know You're here. I know You know my heart. You're speaking to me now. You know the things that I've done is wrong. You know even I belong to a full Gospel church, but yet I have been negligent, I haven't done that what's right. I've neglected prayer meeting. I've put everything else... I have did things, really, that our--our belief don't stand for."

L-160   "I--I'm--I'm a woman, and I know I've dressed wrong. And I've cut my hair off. I've wore make-up. And I'm supposed to be a full Gospel woman, sister. Have mercy on me, Lord. I--I want You to go home with me today, and I--I--I'll be a--a living example of Christ, from now on." Will you just feel that Presence of God, that you'd raise your hand, and say, "Pray for me." God bless you, and God bless you, you. God bless you, sisters. Yes.

L-161   Heavenly Father, some of the Zacchaeus-ettes and Zacchaeuses has raised up the leaf and has looked out. They have recognized that Jesus has found where they live and where they're at, has revealed to them they're wrong. Many, many hands in here has went up. May You go home with them today, Father, go to their house, live in their hearts. May they never forget this morning. Yet, in its... the ridiculous things that I... and to try to accumulate a--a--a feeling of a sense of humor among mixed crowd. And now in this moment when the point has come out, that it's--it's only to--to get the people to realize what is standing with us this morning here, the Word manifested in our city, among us, the Lord Jesus Himself, the Word made flesh, operating Himself through human flesh. O God, may our beloved friends see this and be brought closer to You.

L-162 Go home with them, I ask again, Father, with every Zacchaeus and every woman, every Rebekah. May she know her prayers is answered. We commit them to Thee now. And may they, without any hesitation, accept You into their heart, as this Hebrew did that morning, though they had been wrong. Said, "Ought not He also, being a son of Abraham." So You're ready to go home with us, Father. We pray that You'll never leave us. Go with us, from the breakfast, as we sit here this morning; and have looked across the table at one another, happy, sense of humor, shaking each other's hands, and in love with each other, like only Christians can be.

L-163   And I think I--I--I may never be here again. I--I may never meet this group again like this, at another breakfast. But I'm sure, Father, if they'll just let You go home with them, today, and abide with them, I'll meet them at a Supper, when the battle is all won and the great table is spread across the canopies of the sky, and we sit and look across.

L-164 And I look this morning at ministers sitting here, gray-headed, that was preaching when I was a boy. I think they only cut the stumps out, blasted up the roads, and made it smooth-running for these gifts that they prophesied that would come. God, bless them, bless them all. Bless these fine women who has sacrificed for their husbands to preach, and the sacrifices that all Christians really make. Be with them, Father.


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