<TITLE>27. Par -</TITLE>L-959-175 And the braid--but braid... The question was: Does "braided" mean--"broided" mean "braided"? Yes, that's right. And now, on the street...
Now, I looked that up to find out years ago what the "braided" hair meant. See? The women, actually, the women of old, they just pulled their hair back and tied it, more like in a ponytail today. And they went around... They had robes on like that, but the women of the street took their hair and braided it all across their heads, and wrapped it around like that, and put flowers in it and things like that, and that was kind of the--the flapper on the street; just like we would see the flapper today, the way she dresses. I'm saying flapper, 'cause you know I'm an old man; so that's what they's called them in my days. What is it they call them today? I... My, I don't know. Chicks or something or another. So... Ever what it is. Give them any kind of a name, they like it.

L-960-Q-252 252. Brother Branham, you said on one of the tapes that Noah saved his household. Does this mean a mother can have the same faith for her household? And does it mean every one of the family will be saved if we believe it?
Now, that's... Yeah, that's kind of a... You'd have to watch the way I answer this now. See? First, "You said... (Now, let me see right...) You said on one of your tapes that Noah saved his household." Why? Because they believed. That's it, because they believed his message.
"Does this mean that a mother can have the same faith for her household?" Yes, sister. I can see a little mother's heart crying for her people. "And does this mean every one of the family will be saved if we believe it?" Yes, if they will accept it. That's right.

L-960-179 Remember the Philippian jailer. Believe for both you... If you've got enough faith for your own salvation, can't you have that same faith that'll work upon your people? What is faith? It's an unseen force. See? What is--what is--it's a Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings faith. See? It's a unseen force.
Why would I lay hands upon the sick? See? If I can get that personal contact with that spirit in that person there, something's going to happen. See? Here stands the Holy Spirit; He'll reveals the secrets of the heart. He'll do just exactly what He said He'd do in the last day. The people believe that; they look at it, "Yes, sir, I believe that."
Now, if I just don't become too common to you (See?), becomes just a common thing. You tromp through one day and tromp through the next day. See? That's--that's just chance-taking. You don't believe it in the first place (See?), because just as soon as you really believe it... That woman said, "If I can touch His garment, I'll be made every whit whole," and she did it. See? She didn't say, "Let me try it again." See? She believed it. See? That's--that's...

L-961-182 Now, if you will just believe with all that's in you for your family...
Now, like here, what motivates me? What--what is this strength in my arm? It certainly is not my muscle; it's my spirit. Certainly, take that spirit out, and what's the muscle going to do? It's as dead as it can be. See? It'll rot, but it's... See, it's a spirit that strengths.
Look at little Samson. A lot of them seen doors looked like it'd be between these two posts here. Why, a man that big could take up a lion and tear him to pieces, Brother Jackson. A lion jump at a man like that with door--with shoulders like a barn door, why sure, that wouldn't be no mystery; but the mystery was, he was just a little curly-headed shrimp, little bitty, old guy, about--little sissy, little mama's boy, seven little sissy curls hanging down his back. But you noticed, he was just as helpless as anything until the Spirit of the Lord come upon him. And when the Spirit of the Lord come upon him, that lion run out and growled, he just tore him to pieces. It wasn't Samson; It was the Spirit of the Lord.


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