<TITLE>01. Par 1-9</TITLE>64-0726M, Recognizing Your Day And Its Message, Branham Tabernacle, Jeffersonville, IN, 131 min
L-1      Good morning, friends. Let us remain standing just a moment.
Dear God, as we, in this hustle and bustle of life, have paused for these next few moments or hour, whatever it may be, that Thou has provided for us, to give praise and glory to Thee, to preach Thy Word, to know Thee better, that's why we have gathered this morning. We thank Thee, God, because that there is people who are ready and have prepared themselves to come listen. Regardless of the conditions and the time, and that we live in, they still believe. And we thank Thee for them.

L-2 God, we are grateful to Thee for Thy great healing power, the promises of Thy Word. How our hearts burn when we hear these testimonies! All kinds of afflictions that's been brought upon the sons of man! Thou, and Thy grace and power, and with Thy promise, has healed them. And they're here, testifying, giving praise to God. We thank Thee for this.
And now may we, today, hear the Message that Thou hast provided for us for this hour. As we read in Thy Word, may You give to us the context of that which we read. Let Thy will be done in all things, for we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
May be seated.

L-3   It's a privilege to be here this morning. I'm very happy for all of you. And Brother Woods, Brother Roy Roberson, many other brethren, has worked faithfully the last two days, to air-condition this building for this purpose, 'cause last Sunday they seen how you suffered. And they had a little money in the church treasure, and they went to work and put it to work to make you comfortable, with the money that you placed into the offering, to while you can set, listen at the Message. Much cooler today than it was then. So we're grateful to God, and to you people, for this opportunity.

L-4 Glad... Brother Roy Borders, he wanted to kind of stay back in the back this morning. And I told him to get his chair and set out here with these ministers, but he wouldn't do it. As all of you know, Brother Borders represents us in the field. So glad to have Brother Borders in, and many other ministers and friends.

L-5   Through the week I--I get to thinking, and say, "When I get down there, Sunday, I'm going to recognize every minister, every person." Then when you get here, you're so took up in the Message till you just forget everything, almost, so what it was.

L-6 Now I got to go back to Arizona. I got to go back next Monday, a week, back to Tucson, to get the children there for school. And I'm coming back then after that. And the wife has to be there early, to begin the... to register the children, two weeks before school starts. And I, then, I am going to return back for a while here.

L-7 And now this is my vacation time. As you know, I have preached since December; January, February, March, April, May, June, and July. Now, if God willing, and not any special call, this is the season that I--I--I take my rest, my vacation. I go hunting. And I...

L-8   Now if the Lord should call me to something else, them things are out of the picture. God is always first. And I want Him to be first, and you want Him to be first. But then if there is no certain call, and that be His will, that's what I'm to do now for the next couple months, is to go hunting now, to rest myself. I...

L-9 You don't realize, the world will never know, what I have to go through with. See? And it's just such a strain. No wonder the Lord told His disciples, when He was walking with them, "Come apart into the desert, rest a while." See? I realize that more, every day, and especially as my days get more upon the earth, you see. As I get older, you realize it. You hear our pastor saying "amen" to that, too. He, we, can realize that we're not boys after we pass fifty years old. Now we got to have a little time.


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