<TITLE>18. Par 142-149</TITLE>L-142 He Who knows will send him back to you. Don't worry. Believe now, don't doubt. Just have faith, all your heart. You believe, and God will grant the rest of it.

L-143   Now, just those three or four discernings, whatever it was, see, I--I just went till it gets blind to me. I can't explain that, there's no way to explain it. You say, "You mean, just that was worse than you preached there for forty-five minutes or more, you think?" Yes, sir. If it was three hours, it wouldn't be that much.

L-144 A woman touched the garment of our Lord Jesus. And them people are not touching me. Why, this woman here, just look here, she could... [Brother Branham tells the woman, "Put your hands on me, see."--Ed.] She just touched me all around, wouldn't do a thing, I'm just a man. But she has to touch Him. And I, by a gift, just--just... it just go, all my self goes away, and I just say what I see. See? And that's all. See, touching me doesn't mean a thing, but she touches Jesus through me. That's how that woman touched God through Jesus, when He didn't know what was the matter with her. She just touched His garment, went and sat down. And He said--and He said, "Who touched Me?"

L-145 And the apostles said, "Why, everyone is touching You. Why do You say that?"
He said, "But I preceive that virtue has gone from Me."

L-146 Now, you know what virtue is? Strength. He got weak on one woman touching Him, and He was the Son of God. What about me, a sinner saved by His grace. You know why it's more? Because He said, "These things that I do, shall you do also. More than this shall you do, for I go unto My Father." "Greater," It said there, but the right Greek interpretation is, "More than this shall you do."

L-147   Now, the lady I know not. I have known nothing about her. She's just as total stranger to me as the other people were. We're strangers to one another. Just so that the people know it, you might raise your hand, say "we are stranger." Now, the Son of God, if He one time met a woman in a little panoramic like this, by a well, and He talked to her just a moment, and He knowed where her trouble was, and He told her what her trouble was. And so she knew by that, that that was the Messiah. Now that--that I've... You've touched me, I've touched you, and nothing happened. But if my faith (by a gift) and your faith (by believing in it) can touch Him, and He can speak through us to... through me to you, then you know that He's here like He was at that--that well at Sychar. See? He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. You believe that?

L-148 You have so many troubles, so many afflictions, complications! One of the main things that you want to be prayed for is arthritis. That's right. That right? You're stiffening up by arthritis. When you see you raise your arm...

L-149   And you did walk out kind of slow, the best of my remembrance. Maybe just wait just a minute, maybe something else can be said that'll take the... Or, you know, you feel things; people, you know, like a breath coming against It. They say, "Why, he guessed that," or, you know, like that.


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