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55-0121  The Water Of  Separation, Chicago, IL    
E-31 Now, it wasn't Jesus that healed the woman that touched His garment. She said, "That's what I want to do." She said in her heart... There was no Scripture for it. She said, "But if I just touch His garment, I'll be made well." So she slipped around and touched His garment and run back in the congregation, just stand there looking around. Someone said, "What makes you give out so quick brother?" Jesus said, "Who touched Me?"
He said, "Well, a whole... All the audience, everybody's trying to touch You." the apostles said.
He said, "But strength went from Me." See? Now, that strength had went out somewhere. Somebody touched with a real faith. Jesus... Now, that wasn't... What--what operated that? Now, watch what Jesus said. He looked around over the audience to see where it was, that strength that was a pulled from Him. He seen the woman. He said, "Thy faith has saved you now. That blood issue's gone." See? 
E-32 Now, what? "Thy faith has required..." See? Your own power of faith has pulled from the supernatural God the desire of your heart. See? It's your faith that does it, not my faith. If my faith is doing it, I'd pull every little child out of that audience tonight, and bring them up here, and make them well, little children anyhow. See? I would do it. But it's not my faith that does it; it's your faith that does it. It's not me that knows it; I'm just a man. But it's the gift of God. See? It's Him that does it. It's not me you're pulling at. It's Him you're pulling at. And He is in the supernatural, and your faith pulls like that. I just become a mouthpiece to Him. When He breaks forth something, shows a vision, then that's just something; and I'm in another, to the scientists, another dimension. It's the sixth sense, the fourth dimension, or whatever you want to call it, to me, the Holy Spirit. That's right. Surrendered... 
E-33 Now, here stands a woman. I'm an Anglo-Saxon. She's an Ethiopian in origin, almost exactly the same picture that when Jesus talked to a woman at the well. He was a Jew and she was a Samaritan. Is that right?
I don't know you, do I, lady? I've never seen you, know nothing about you, never seen you in my life. Is that right? This is our first time ever meeting, or knowing anything of one another. Is that right? Here it is.
Now, what could I do? We're the same blood. She being Ethiopian, and me Anglo-Saxon, and the Chinese, the yellow man, we're all one blood if each one can transfuse the blood for the plasma. But you can't transfuse your blood by an animal; has to be by human. See? All right. Then the same Blood that was bursted at Calvary to make the waters of separation to separate me from my sins, bursted for her to separate her. The same Blood that separated me from my sickness is here to separate her. The same Blood that give me the desire of my heart for things that I needed for the Kingdom of God, can do the same for her. 
E-34 Now, there's only one thing can happen now. Something has to happen beyond the senses of human beings to declare to this woman what's wrong or what she's here for, if He will. I don't say that He will, but I believe He will 'cause it's... That anointing is on me. He--He's on me now, this very Angel of God that you see this Light. I just... My... Even my faith is feeling like it's that thick. It's just that taking over. See? That's the reason I can feel faith pulling in the audience. Just where's it at, I don't know, but it's faith. As soon as you catch that, it's just something happens. 
E-35 Now, lady, if you just walk right up here, I'll just talk to you just a moment. Now, you and I, being total strangers to each other, and if you've heard me on the--talking to the people, then therefore there has to be something happen. Isn't that right? If I was... If I'd say, "Well..." Just guess something, that, "Well, you're here to ask me whether you should join this church or that," or something like that. Or whatever--whatever you're here for, I don't know. See? And you know that I don't know it, 'cause I have no way of knowing it. But if God will reveal to me by His Son, Jesus Christ, according to His Word, that what you're here to ask me, or what I can do for you; if He will reveal it, would you accept that I have told you the truth, and this here Being, being the Angel of the Lord, would reward you for it? 
E-36 Now, I want to... You see that, look like a milling fire. See? That's what the scientists said that--that tested it and so forth, that It is. It's an emerald light. Well, now, I just want to say something to you now.
You're conscious that there's something going on. It's not by man. Isn't that right? It's some... Now, what it is, that feeling that you feel. It's not me; I'm just a man. But It's... That's what it is right there. It's in another world. Just like coming through here is--is radio, television pictures, coming right through us too. But it can't capture it (You see?), because we're not made for that. But we are made to hold the Holy Spirit. See? And in there It begins to draw a picture, like the--the tube in the television. Then it breaks forth to the human eye. And then I see by God's television, God's vision of what your trouble is. Then it's Him that's a doing it. You believe that? 
E-37 Now, if He will reveal it, you'll accept Him to give you your desire. Between you and I, I see something bleeding, blood. And I see the examination shows that that's--that's a tumor, a bleeding tumor. Very serious. That is true.
See how our heavenly Father knows things? Now, you--you understand now what that feeling is here? That's Him.
Being that you're looking this way again, you're a married woman. And your husband is not well either. You believe that God can reveal to me what's wrong with your husband? You do. Sure. He has piles. Is that right? And here's another thing. You're trying to get your husband to become a real Christian. Isn't that right? Does that satisfy you He's here? Now, go and receive what you've asked for. 
E-38 Do you believe? Just be reverent. Just believe. Now, before I get too caught away, I want to ask you something. There should be every person in here should receive it right now. If man comes and says anything and God doesn't back it up, it's wrong. But if He--God backs it up, you--you're doubting God then. See, you're doubting me no longer. You could doubt me ten minutes ago, but you can't doubt me now. Next, the person you're doubting now is God. The scientifically proved... The scientific proving of it and the supernatural working of the Holy Spirit... 
E-39 Is this... Come here, lady. We are strangers to each other, are we, lady? We are. We both be the Anglo-Saxon tonight, the white race. Did you see what the Lord Jesus did for this Ethiopian woman? Well, that's... He can do the same for you if He so desires to do. You believe that, do you? Now, He's no respect of persons. He'd be to you just like He was to her. He loves you just like He loves her. He can do the same for you that He did for her.
You've just come out of the hospital. And it was in your... Up here in your lungs is your trouble. You've been in there several days. To be exact, about thirteen days is how long you've been in the hospital. You're Mrs. Bishop, aren't you? I hear the doctor call you that, when he come to your bedside. Now, you're going to get well Mrs. Bishop. Go in the Lord Jesus Christ's Name.
Do you believe? Have faith. Be reverent. Just believe with all your heart, Jesus Christ do the same for you. Amen. 
E-40 Little lady sitting there with that high blood pressure, setting right on the end there praying to be relieved of it, you believe it, lady? Setting right there, looking at me, you believe that God will take the high blood? Do you believe that He healed you now of high blood? All right, stand up on your feet to accept it. That's it. God bless you now. Go believing.
What did that? What did that? The Holy Spirit, her faith pulling, believing. See? That's what did it. That's what do it for you. You believe it? 
E-41 How do you do, lady? You believe with all your heart? All right. I'm going to try not to be in any hurry, just talk to the people a little while. And if you believe with all your heart... I'm only your brother, lady. I am just a man--just your brother. I have nothing at all that I can do to help you, for just being no more than what maybe your own child, or your husband, or your brother, or your loved one, or whatever it might be, anything. That's the only thing that I could do would be come here just as a man. But I would be to you a point of contact to find the Lord Jesus Christ. Is that true? [Sister says, "That's true, and I brought you a handkerchief for my son-in-law."--Ed.] Yes. All right, sir. You--you can give that to Billy. ["I gave that to him...?...--Ed.] Oh, you give it to him. All right.
Now, I want to talk to you just a moment. And you're--you're suffering. It's a--it's a condition, a lady's condition. And just be about your age to have this. But one of the main things you're here for is for somebody else. And that's a brother. A son-in-law. And he... I see it was young fellow like. And you believe he's going to get well? You believe he's going to be healed? With all your heart? Well, come here.
Father God, I bless her and bless her loved one and may she go from here tonight a normal, well woman. Grant it, in Jesus Christ's Name I ask this. Amen.
God bless you, go on your road. Have two friends you were standing for. Yes sir. That's right, that's right. 
E-42 Thanks be to God Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. If... Jesus said, "If you can believe, all things are possible." If you can believe it... Do you believe it with all your heart? You believe that--that God is here to heal you and to--to make you well?
You have someone you're standing for too. That's a polio case, bad, a sickness, it shot up right behind you there. See? Just a minute. Hold that little fellow out, that little boy. No. 
E-43 Just a minute. Something come before me then. It's right down in here. It's that lady that's setting there with arthritis; that's what it is, setting right down there. God bless. And the other one's setting there next with sinus trouble. Do you believe with all your heart the Lord Jesus makes you well? All right, stand up. You're both healed. Amen.
Let's say, "Praise be to God."
And your diabetes is gone too. You can go on your road and rejoice, and just--just believe with all your heart, you can have what you ask for. God bless you, lady. That's the way to believe. All right. Come with reverence. Come believing with all your heart. 
E-44 How do you do, sir? Do you believe with all your heart? Oh, now I see the vision. I knowed our heavenly Father would grant it. You've got a leg that's been broken. Isn't that right? And you got a little grandson, or something of a little child or something that's deaf and dumb, or something like that. Isn't that right? That's exactly. Now, you go on your road rejoicing, you're going to get what you ask for. Amen.
Let's say, "Praise the Lord." The Spirit all around you, it's hard sometime, but just give the Holy Spirit the chance, It'll... 
E-45 All right. Come here, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? Now, it's setting up all over the building, just everywhere. It's--it's just coming everywhere. You suffer with nervous trouble. You have neuritis, arthritis, both. There's something connected to you about a minister. Must be a minister's wife. You are a preacher's wife. The Holy Spirit just... [Someone in the audience says, "Glory to God. Hallelujah."--Ed.] God bless you brother. That's that spirit of man.
Now, just a minute. I see a pulpit. I see a man again. It's a--it's a minister. He's setting right down in here, and he's suffering with a rupture, setting right down there, a minister of the Gospel that has a rupture. Believe, my dear brother. Do you believe with all your heart? And you can get well also.
Do you believe with all your heart? Then you can be healed. Now, you go on your road rejoicing. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Have faith. 
E-46 The lady with her hand up there with the high blood pressure, you don't have to worry about it no more. Jesus Christ makes you whole. Amen. God bless you.
There's a lady setting right back there with a--a gall bladder trouble. You don't have to worry about that no more, sister, the Lord Jesus Christ makes you whole. 
E-47 Why, He's here to make everyone of you whole if you'll believe it right... Do you believe it? Do you believe the waters of separation is now upon you? Brother, sister, I'm not a hypocrite, I'm your brother. This whole building's become illuminated just now with the power of Almighty God. Do you believe with all your heart? Let's stand to our feet right now, way you get in while the waters are troubled. Let's pray. Everybody raise up our hands everywhere. Raise up your hands, little fellow. Raise up your hands down in the prayer line here just a minute. Oh, what a time. This is it, friends. This is it. I believe everyone of you is healed. The whole thing's just a fading away and turning all kinds of colors, out over the audience.
O Jesus, Son of God, I rebuke every spirit of sickness. Take it away from them, Lord. In Jesus Christ's Name come out, Satan.
Give God praise. Raise up your hands. Praise Him and rejoice, and be healed everyone of you, for God's glory. 
55-0123A  The Approach To God, Chicago, IL       
 And she said, "Well, help yourself." And I went into the room knelt down there and begin to pray. And I prayed till about one o'clock. And I raised up and I thought, "Well, I believe I'll wonder on up home." And then, I looked in the corner, and I thought I seen mothers chair of clothes, something white, but instead of it being there, it was that Light, moving, coming towards me.
And when It got on me, I looked, and I seen a little old house, what we call "shotgun" house, little two or three rooms straight in a row. And so... And I walked up to it, going from the south to the north. And when I got into the place, it had red paper on the wall, a little old poster bed, and a little boy laying there. He had a little, bitty, tiny lips, and he had little, blue overalls on like. And his little body was twisted around, and around, and around. His little arms wound up against his side. Each leg twisted around, and his body twisted, till it looked like something had been holding from right here and twisted his body up to here. 
E-73 And I thought, "Oh, mercy. This must be one of them... I didn't even know it was visions." I had just been taught that it wasn't and it happened, and I couldn't help it. And there I was, standing there looking at the little fellow. And I thought, "Oh, my, that poor little fellow."
And the father went and got it and brought it over to me. And I heard a Voice standing here. I never seen the Angel before. And never seen It for years after that, but I'd always hear the Voice. And He was standing here, said, "Now, lay your hands on the baby." When I laid my hands on the baby, and I seen it hit down in the corner, drop out of his fathers arms, and just one... hit on one leg and it unwound. Hit on the other and it unwound. Then the rest of his body unwound. And then he come walking across to me and put his hands up in mine. And he looked like he had a little a... like a little mustache of buttermilk, or chocolate milk on his lips, like this. He said, "Brother Branham, I'm perfectly whole." 
E-74 And so I--I come to, out of the vision, 'cause it was early in the morning, and somebody was knocking at the door. [ Brother Branham knocks--Ed.] And when it was, it was a man hollering, "Mrs. Branham, is Brother Branham here?" And I... Mother, she didn't, couldn't wake up. And I was kind of coming out of it, you know, and I was sitting there. And I heard her say, "Billy?" 
E-75 And I said, "Yes."
She said, "Someone at the door." And I went to the door and opened it up, and it was Mr. Emil.
He said, "Hello, Billy."
And I said, "Why, hello there, John," I said, "I haven't seen you for so long." I said, "Come in." And he set down; I kept rubbing my face, 'cause my face gets real numb when those things happen.
And some people's asked, and I got a letter today, said, "What makes you always rubbing your face?" It feels numb, feels real thick. And I... So I--I was setting there rubbing my face. And this has been about sixteen years ago, I guess.
And so, he said, "Well, look, Billy." He said, "The first thing I want to say, that I am sorry that I have did what I have." 
E-76 And I said, "What is the matter, Mr. Emil?"
And he said, "You remember over on the banks of the river that day, when you were cutting corn down there in a bottom, and we were down there fishing, and you talked to us about the Lord Jesus Christ?"
And I said, "Yes."
"And you took me with your overalls on, me and my family, and went out to the river and baptized us."
I said, "Yep, done it, them things many time." When I was a game warden, walked around in my uniform over in the water, and baptize, and get up and dry off a little bit, and run around, get in my car and take off again on patrol. See, it don't matter... You don't have to have so much pomp and stuff. And when a believer's ready, baptize him. It's time to be baptized. God ain't no ritualistic affair anyhow. It's, "He that believeth and is baptized." 
E-77 He said, "Well, Brother Branham," he said, "I had two little children then, two little boys."
And I said, "Yes, I remember." It'd been four, five, six years before.
He said, "Well, I'm sorry. I took the road that's wrong. He said, "I was been working up here in one of these powder plants," said, "I killed a man." And he said, "I hit him with a hammer; we was in a fight. And he hit me first, and he was going to kick me into a big vat there, where they had some of that boiling cottons, ever what it was." And said, "And he hit me, and I grabbed a hammer and hit the man, and it killed him." He said, "I--I served a year for it," but said, "'cause it was self-defense." 
E-78 He said, "And I come home, instead of going to God, I started drinking and doing wrong." Said, "I lost my oldest child." He said, "Brother Branham," said, "just a hour ago, the doctor, here of the city, Doctor Bruner, just left my house. My other little boy is dying with pneumonia." He said, "Doctor says he can't make it till daylight." He said, "I thought I'd come ask you if you'd forgive me for what I done, and would come and ask prayer for my baby?"
"Why," I said, sure, brother." I said... 
E-79 He said, "I'm going down to get my cousin," which afterwards become one of my associates, Graham Snelling. He said, "He's a Christian; I thought we'd all get to pray." Mother come in.
And I said. "I'll make ready and you come on back and pick me up." Mother made ready, or I made myself ready, rather, and went out. And mother said, "Billy, what was the matter," said, "in there?"
I said, "Mother, it's a vision." I said, "This man's got a little boy, I believe it's going to be healed." She didn't know him. And I said, "Well, I believe he's going to be healed this morning."
And she said, "You going... are... You're not going now?"
And I said, "Yes, I'm leaving now. He's coming back after me." In a few moments he picked me up. We started up the road, and he said... Going along up there by the old shipyard, over on the side of the river going up... 
E-80 And I said, "Mr. Emil," I said, "You... Where you live at?"
He said, "I live in above Utica, up in the country."
I said, "I haven't heard from you for years." I said, "Don't you live in a little long, like a shotgun house, like that?"
He said, "Yes."
And I said, "You come up through a little gate like this, and go up some rocks, up, and there's some big sycamore tree standing."
He said, "Yes."
I said, "You got--you got red paper on the walls."
He said, "That's right."
I said, "Your little boy is laying in a bed, at the right hand side of the door, when you go in, little, iron, poster bed."
He said, "Was you ever there?" 
E-81 And I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Well, when was you, Billy," said, "I have only been living there about two weeks." Said, "We come down from Ohio."
And I said, "I was there about an hour and a half ago."
And he said, "Why, Billy, I--I--I don't understand."
And I said, "Don't your little boy wear a pair of blue corduroy overalls?"
He said, "He has them on now."
I said, "That's what I thought." And I said, "Isn't your wife kind of a black-headed woman, kinda thin?"
He said, "Yes."
Said, "When... you was at my house a hour..."
I said, "Yes, Mr. Emil, I was at your house a hour, or hour and a half ago in vision, or some kind of a spirit that taken me up there." I said, "The Lord's going to heal your baby." And he pulled the brake up on that old model A Ford, fell over his wheel, and screamed out with his hands up, said, "God, be merciful to me. I'll serve You, God." And there I put my arms around him and led him back to the Lord Jesus Christ. 
E-82 Two or three years ago, I was in Florida. And I heard someone holler, "Billy..." I looked around. It was... I always called him... We worked a little, or would together, we called him, "Sir, John."
I said... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... over there on the side of the street in by the post office, and I pulled in. He's living down there now.
So we went up to the house... Now, I'll show you just how perfect it is.
Now, and I seen in the--the vision, a scene, before the baby was given into my hands, the little mother was leaning against the wall like this. And an elderly lady... Now, there's a red duofold suite setting in the room also. And an old lady come in from the door, that way, and was wiping her glasses, setting in this chair over on this side. And a young, blond-headed boy, young man, was setting on the duofold here, and they looked out the window. 
E-83 So when I walked in... 'course not knowing about it then, how to take it, or what it was, 'cause I didn't know what it was. And so I walked into the room; and as I got in there, I looked and there laid that little boy laying there, and a mother with this here stuff over his nose, you know, trying, and crying and going on. He was just barely living.
I seen what the vision was. The pneumonia had choked him all out, but here he was going [Brother Branham describes the sound--Ed.] Little, bitty fellow... And I seen that little brown-haired, just a boy. I said, "Bring him here, Mr. Emil, you'll see the glory of God." 
E-84 So the little boy--man picked up the little boy in his arms, excitable, and run him over to me. Watch how I move there. See? I didn't come the provided approach. See? I said, "Bring him here." And I got in myself, because I seen the vision was going to make him well. But you have to come God's approach. See? And they brought him over there. I just laid my hands on him. I said, "God, I pray that You'll make this little fellow well. You said that You'd do it." And the little fellow gasped three or four times and passed completely out.
I looked at him. And his mother begin to scream, "Oh, he's dead, he's dead, he's dead."
And I thought, "Well, what's happened? Oh," I thought, "my, there it is. Oh, here's Graham Snelling standing here; he's the blond head that is supposed to be setting over there with the curly hair. But there's supposed to be an old woman setting in this chair here." There was the furniture and everything, but it wasn't right. I didn't come the right approach. 
E-85 And that woman wasn't supposed to be standing there by her husband. She was supposed to be leaning against the door. And I thought, "O God, I killed the baby. I... Oh, my."
And the father laid the baby down, and she started screaming and crying and everything. I just stood there. I thought, "Oh, my. What have I done? What have I done?" And I waited just a little while, and the baby, oh, just barely living, got worse right now.
And I thought, "Oh, if I killed that baby, oh, but not killed it myself, but been the cause, if I'd obeyed what He told me to do, but I just let it... And that's true, folks. God in heaven knows it's truth, here before this Bible. 
E-86 And I thought... Well now, I walked over and sat down there. And it come daylight, set there about an hour. And it come daylight. Mister Snelling said, "Well, I've got to go to work," he said, "I..."
I thought, "Oh, my. If they take him, that's the blond-headed man that was setting on that duofold at... If it does, the whole vision's ruined, and I--I've spoiled the whole picture." Me setting there, oh, I--My heart just a bleeding in me. And they'd say something to me, and I wouldn't even answer. I just set there. I couldn't tell them, because I thought, maybe God in some way would rectify it and fix the picture again. So I just set there, just--just looking.
And they said, "Brother Branham, do you want to pray again for the baby?"
I said, "Thanks." I set down... I thought, "Oh, where's that old woman, and oh..." Now... And Brother Graham went and put on his coat.
John said, "Brother Branham, do you want to go back to Jeffersonville with us?"
I said, "No, thanks." I had to stay there. I thought, "It'll will be night before, and that baby can't, I don't see how it can make it another hour." And there it was in that condition, daylight coming. And usually, you know what sick people, right about the break of day. I thought, "Oh, here it is, my, what I've done." 
E-87 And the first thing... Mr. Snelling put on his coat and started to go out. And Mr. Emil told his wife, said, "Well, good-bye, honey," said, "I'll be back, as soon as I take Graham on down so he can go to work." And said... He was working at one of those plants.
He said, "I'll--I'll be back after while, and I'm not going to work this morning."
And she said, "All right, dear."
And I was setting over there; I thought, "Oh..." And I happened to look up out the window, and here come the baby's grandmother, walking with a little satchel in her hand, with a pair of glasses on too, gray-headed, walking around, going into the back. Now, every time she witnessed before, she'd always come to the front door. But she went back to the little kitchen to come in. 
E-88 And I thought, "Oh, that's her; that's the woman." I didn't know it was the grandmother of the child then, but I knowed it was the woman that was in the vision. And so here she come walking right... And I thought, "Here it is. Here it is. The grace of God's going to over ride it." I thought it in my heart, you know, I was standing there, watching the old woman.
And she come around and went in the back door. And when she opened the door, said, I said, "Who is that?" And Brother Graham was standing at the door, him and Mr. Emil fixing to go out. 
E-89 So the mother went to open the kitchen door to look in to the kitchen, and the old... The mother of the baby, the young woman looked out there, and here--and said, "Oh, it's mother." And John and Graham just turned around. And when they did, I raised up from where I was setting, because Graham was supposed to be setting there.
So I--I raised up and looked back, and the mother come. She said (called the baby by name), she said, "Is the baby still living? Is it better?" 
E-90 And the wife said, "No, it's just about dead, mother." And she put her hands upon the wall and started crying, like that you know, just boo-hooing against the door like that, kissed her mother.
And the old woman... I thought, "Where you going?" Watched her, and she went over and set down in that chair, and took off those glasses, 'cause coming out of the cold weather... It had frosted on the outside and was rubbing her glasses, I thought, "Perfect. If Brother Graham will just go set down on that." And Brother Graham, being relation to them, started crying, 'cause the young woman was crying, and went and set down in the same place. Oh, my. 
E-91 Now, it's right. I stood there. I said, "Mr. Emil, will you forgive me?"
He said, "Why?"
I said, "Do you still have confidence?"
He said, "Yes, Billy, why?"
I said, "I spoke out of turn awhile ago." I said, "I'm sorry, and I'm repenting before God. That's the reason I haven't said nothing for these two hours or more. I didn't wait for the vision. Brother Graham raised up, or the... what was revealed to me."
He said, "Well, what, what do you mean?"
I said, "Everything's in order. If you still believe me, bring the baby here now."
And the father picked up the baby, walked over there. I said, "Heavenly Father, forgive me for my stupidity, for my error. Now, fulfill what You said You would do."
Laid my hands on the baby. It threw it's arms around its daddy's neck, and said, "Daddy, daddy, daddy." 
E-92 And everybody begin screaming and shouting. They thought they had the Salvation Army up there on that hillside. Then when--when the little baby... After--after a few minutes, I said, "Now, let us go."
Said, "Brother Bill, is my baby well?"
I said, "According to what was showed me, the baby come out of the corner, and it twisted three times, one on this leg, this way. And one on this leg, back this way, then its body untwisted," three steps, meaning three days. I said, "For what told me, three days, this baby will be normal and well." 
E-93 So they laid it back on the bed and it was talking to its daddy, couldn't even breathe hardly before. We went and got the car, went home. And I told the church that Wednesday night. And I said, "How many wants to go up day after tomorrow, or tomorrow night, and watch when I go up to the door, and see if that little baby... They don't know nothing about it up at home now; I said see if that little baby don't come to me and put its hands in mine, and say, 'Brother Bill, I'm perfectly whole,' and have milk on its mouth." I said, "See, if it don't." See? And a whole truckload went up. 
E-94 And they gathered around the windows. And then I got out of the truck, went and knocked on the door, just poor people, no rug on the floor. The...?... begin to cross there, and the children--child was playing on the floor with another little kid, which had come up to visit from a neighbor, a little girl. And when I knocked on the door, Meda, my wife, which now is... We wasn't married yet. She was standing close to me, three or four people.
And Mrs. Emil said, "Oh, it's Brother Bill." She said, "Come in Brother Bill. I want to show you something." 
E-95 I looked at them, like that. We walked into the room. And when we stood there, the little boy was playing with some blocks over in the corner, raised up and looked at me, been drinking milk, and had the little mustache across his mouth, walked over and took a hold of my hand, and said, "Brother Bill, I'm perfectly whole now." What is it? Three days nursing on El Shaddai, God's Divine promise, coming God's Divine approach. He has an approach. Do you believe it? Shall we pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank Thee today. Oh, how our heart burns because we still have the Divine approach. We have every article of the Bible, vivid evidence, right here now, all-sufficient God to provide everything that we have need of. And, God, today I approach now, through the all supreme Sacrifice. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, the burnt offerings, just a shadow, as Job come through the shadow... But not the very image of the thing could never make the comer unto perfect. But this Man, Christ, died once for all and settled it forever. God's one and only approach to Himself, through Jesus Christ, His Son, through the shed Blood.
Through the wooing of the Holy Spirit, I ask today, that this road be opened to every person in Divine Presence. Grant it, Lord. The night's coming on, healing service is coming. 
E-96 And, Father, just now, if there be any here that's wayward and indifferent, doesn't know You, doesn't know just how to come, maybe they have just went along, and never tried really to come and get borned again, and then approach You. They're trying to approach You on the outside. May they come in through Christ just now, come to the breast of the El Shaddai, which was wounded for our transgressions. And then in return tonight, lay their head over on the bosom of the Mother God. The only One that could give us birth rightly is God, our Mother, and our Father, and our--our Redeemer, and our loved One, oh, all in all. God grant it, just now.
Sweetly, while the music's playing. May every wayward soul, just now, come to the entrance of the gate of the paradise of God, and say, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner, just now," or a backslider, "for I come Thy provided way through the Lord Jesus. Accept me, Father." 
E-97 While we have our heads bowed, I wonder if there'd be one, two, how many, anywhere in the building, raise up your hand and say, "Brother Branham, I've been just a little dilatory, kinda jumping around, kind of hoping to come to God through some kind of an experience, or maybe because I had a feeling, seen lights or... But just now I'm laying all that aside. I'm coming God's way. I'm coming by the way of the cross just now. I raise my hand to Almighty God," say, "God, be merciful to me." God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, you, you, you. God bless you. Keep praying everywhere. God bless you. God bless you, you. Oh, my.
Up in the balcony, somewhere up there, somebody say, "Brother Branham, just now, by faith I've moved up to the door. I see it. I see that none of my ways could do. My own thoughts is no good. My own thoughts about Divine healing is no good. I'm trying to beat against a iron wall. The more I come, the more I beat, the worst I get. I can't get nowhere, Brother Branham. So I'm going to accept what you said just now. I'm coming God's provided way. I'm coming just as simply, unconsciously to the--any surroundings around me. I'm coming to the Lord Jesus by the way of the cross, and accepting Him as the strong One, as the El Shaddai."
God bless you, dad. old, gray-headed man with his hand up, feebly shaking wants to be remembered. Shall we pray. 
E-98 Lord Jesus, look at them, dozen or more hands around. Maybe two dozen raised their hand. Some old fellows, poor brothers that's wandered along, maybe joining church, or trying to do good. That was all fine, Father. You seen them when they went up to the church and put their name at the church. You seen them, Father, when they done those good deeds to the people: Give their substance, fed the widows, hauled the coal for the poor, old woman didn't have any, chopped the wood for the neighbor, helped that man out on the side of the road, put the nickel in the--the parking meter to keep the cop from giving their brother a ticket. Maybe a man they'd never seen, but they just passed by and felt sorry for him. That was good. You seen it, Lord. You love them for it, and now You spoke to their heart. And they want to come through Thy provided way now, not by what they've done, but by surrendering their own will to Thine, and receiving Thee as their Saviour. Just now, receive them, Father. For we ask in Jesus' Name. 
E-99 With your heads bowed and in prayer, if you will, I'm going to ask Brother Joseph if he will come and finish the altar call, while I slip to pray, get ready for the healing service.
I want every one that raised their hand to come here and personally pray to the Lord Jesus while the music is playing and you in prayer. God be with you till I see you tonight. 
55-0123E  Contending For The Faith, Chicago, IL    
E-38 All right. Come here, lady. Now, I want to ask you; here stands a woman, standing here again tonight, I believe it was few nights ago, the same thing. The lady is a--a colored woman. And she from her beginning, her state, she's an Ethiopian, and I'm an Anglo-Saxon, or the white race. The same thing taken place at Samaria, when Jesus met the Samaritan woman. And she said, "It's not customary for You to have any dealings with us." 'Cause they had a racial affair in that day. But Jesus plainly let her know that there was no difference in people. That's right.
"For men neither worship in this mountain or at Jerusalem," He said, "but the men worship God in Spirit and truth, and the Father seeketh such to do so." See? Spirit and truth.
Now, this is an example. Here's the woman, I suppose we're strangers to each other, don't know one another. But God knows both of us. And He knows her as Ethiopian; He knows me as Anglo-Saxon. And we're both of the same blood. God made of one nation, one man, blood... Every human being has the same kind of blood. Can give trans... The Chinese, the Japanese, the yellow, the brown, the black, or white, they're all the same blood, just the color of their skin. So Jesus Christ died for both of us.
We stand here tonight, her a Christian; I know she's a Christian, 'cause... How do I know that? Just the same way that Jesus knowed that Philip was a--a believer. See? He said, "Behold, an Israelite in whom there is no guile (honest and truthful.)" I never seen her before, so how did I know she's a Christian? Because moving in is a welcome spirit. See? She's a Christian. She believes.
Now, she's here for some purpose. God knows that, I don't. But if He reveals it, then Christianity of A.D. 33 is in operation in 1955. Is that right? Then Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever, isn't He? As with the apostles... 
E-39 God bless you now, while we pray and I talk to the lady just a few moments. Now, I'm speaking to you, in the prayer line. Now, if you're standing there without sufficient faith, if you're there just a little skeptical, I don't know. But I'll tell you, if you are, have... In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, if you firmly don't believe this to be of God, step out of the line, because you'll probably get in more trouble than you are, where you're standing there. See? Just remember that. See? Because your prayer card brings you here (See?), that gives you a right to come here. But out yonder that's His selection. If the people out there without prayer cards, that's what He selects. This is the people that was just called by number. So I won't know who you are, and what you're coming here for. But when He shows visions out there, it'll be someone that He wants to know something about (You see?), or to say something. The Lord bless you.
Now, lady, as a believer, with you in the Lord Jesus, and His great love and omnipotence, and I'm just... You say, "Brother Branham, what are you... I'm just talking to you, to...
See, it's just like tuning an instrument. You see? I know that you're a believer. I know that, because your spirit feels welcome. But now, there's something that you've got on your mind, something they you want done, or a favor you want to ask God, or something. And now, to do that, I don't know. So, it's just like tuning an instrument. If you don't understand, you tune it, and tighten it and loosen it until it tunes right in. Then you've got the...?... you know, to make the melody (See?) same way. And that's the reason I talk to the people just first, and these here, there's so many out there, that's pulling through the balcony, and everywhere, just a weakening process, constantly, all the time. It's people, their faith. See? 
E-40 But then, if I'd look out there first, I wouldn't know where It was. I know It's all out through the audience, but I don't know who it is. But if I can get two or three here, till I can get in harmony with the Divine will of God, and the leading of the Holy Spirit, then It'll move to the audience. See what I mean, Christians? Now, that's it. But of course you have eye trouble. You got glasses on, and not only for your glasses, but you got bad eye trouble that's bothering you, recently more than ever. That's right. It's your eyes, that you're here wanting prayer for your eyes, for they seemingly like that they're--they're going out. But you've come to ask me to pray for you, that God would spare them. For I know that to be the truth.
And then, you... Let me have your hand just a moment. Yes, you've got a disease, not exactly a disease, but it's a growth. And it's a tumor, and that tumor is on the breast. And it's on your left breast. That's right. Now, do you believe that this is the faith that was once delivered to the saints? Do you believe that's the same spirit, that said to the--to the woman at the well, "You have five husbands"? He knowed you had your disease and what your trouble was, doesn't He? Now, do you believe? Come here just a minute.
Dear God in heaven, praying that Your Spirit rest upon our sister, and may she go and be made well for Your blessings being here, Your Spirit. And I... Your anointing upon Your servant, I lay hands on her at Your command, and say to the demon that's tormenting her, leave her in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. God bless you, lady. 
E-41 Now, would come, lady. I suppose that we be strangers ourselves to each other? You believe on the Lord Jesus with all your heart? There was a great pull that come from the lady that just passed. The reason of it, she had tumor, and you have too. That's what it is. You have a tumor, and that demon that just went out of her, was screaming to this one. You see? That's true. It's tumor what you want to be prayed for.
Now, if I should talk to you a minute, God would reveal other things. But do you believe now, if I'd pray, that--that it would take place, that you'd be healed? You do? I tell you; you've got somebody else you want prayed for. Oh, it keeps rolling over in your mind. You was wondering. I'm not reading your mind, but you were wondering if I was going to pass that request. Isn't that right? I'm not reading your mind. That's true. It's your daughter. Isn't that right? And she's suffering with a--a mental condition. She isn't here in the building with you tonight. But you want her to be healed, don't you?
Now, you feel Something all over you, don't you? If that's right, just wave your hand. That's the Angel of the Lord. Do you believe it now, sister? May your faith reach up now and it be over.
Father, I lay my hands upon her, in the Name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus, and ask that this be the cure, in Jesus Name, for His glory. Amen. God bless you, sister. 
E-42 Now, that ought to convince anybody in here. Jesus Christ raised from the dead. Is that true? Sure it is.
All right. Bring him here.
Oh, how lovely it is to trust the Lord Jesus. Now (You see?), really, now what the Holy Spirit would want me to do, right now (See?), right now, if I'd follow the perfect Divine leading of the Holy Spirit, it would be a committal right now. See? But may God share grace just a little longer, being that this is the last night, and we got so many lined up. May God grant it.
But right now, I just feel like Something's going [Brother Branham makes a whirling sound--Ed.], just a calling over the audience, calling, calling. Oh, I pray, God, open your eyes, tonight, like the servant yonder. I am not a hypocrite. I am your brother. Pray and believe. Have faith in God, you people out there.
How do you do, sir. Do you believe with all your heart that the Gospel that I am trying to preach of the Lord Jesus is the truth, sir? You do? You know it is. That's the way to say it. See? For by your words you're condemned, or by your word you're--you're saved. When you believe on the Lord Jesus, testify of Him before men, He will confess you before the Father and the holy Angels.
We are strangers to each other, I don't know you. You don't know me. We've never met in life. But God knows you since you were born, knows me since I was born. And our Eternal destination lays within His hands. If He then, will come and let me know what you're here for, or something, just anything that He desires to say, something that you know I know nothing about, will it make you believe with all your heart? 
E-43 Your trouble's in your chest. That's right. And here's the reason it's in there; you're a smoker; you smoke cigarettes, and that's exactly what's the cause of your chest being that way. Not only that, but I see you trying to give them up. You're trying to get rid of it. And seems like the thing's got such a hold on you till you can't. But your hopes is built, that now it'll leave. You won't be deceived. You'll get what you ask for. Now, go on your road. You're finished with cigarettes. In the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of God, this devil move from the man. Go, rejoicing...?...
How do you do, lady. Suppose we're strangers to each other also, aren't we? We don't know each other. Jesus knows us both, doesn't He? It was the music of the organ... "Jesus comes." That's all right. The tempter's power is broken, sure enough, that's right. His power is broken.
Lady, look this way. You are here for a condition; it's a growth. And it's on your arm, I believe. Is that right? A swelling, it's on your right arm, right beneath the arm in the pit of the arm; it's a growth, a swelling condition, isn't that right? That is true. You believe Jesus makes you well now? God bless you. Go on. In the Name of Jesus the Son of God, we cast out the evil from our sister. Amen.
That sounds very simple, and it is. But the power of God does it.
Come, would you, lady? Suppose that we are strangers one to the other, we don't know each other. Jesus knows us both, doesn't He? He knows both of us. Of course, you even look a Christian, lady, to look at you. And your spirit is welcome to know that you're a Christian. That's right. You haven't had a flowerbed of ease, either, in life. I see a dark streak, a trail, just as it moves in the spirit. You're here for me to pray, for you for you got a growth too, and that growth is on the foot. It's on the left foot. Isn't that right? It's the truth? You got a loved one, or a friend that you want me to pray for too. You didn't think I was going to say that, did you? But I--I... That's who you're thinking about. And that person has had a stroke; it's had two strokes, two strokes. And another thing about the person, it's not a Christian. Isn't that true? Now, you're healed and go lay that handkerchief on your person, your friend, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. 
E-44 You believe with all your heart? Be reverent. Just a moment, lady. That's all right. Go ahead. Just go ahead. There's a vision moving in the corner. I see some, like hills and waving timbers, and it's a... I believe I recognize the place. It's--it's, I believe, Pineville, Kentucky. And there's a lady, you're for your sister at Pineville, Kentucky, whose... You don't have... You have a prayer card, lady? You don't have a prayer card. You don't have a prayer card? Okay, that's all right then. Your sister suffers with TB at Pineville, Kentucky. Isn't that the truth? All right, God grant you your request. God bless you. Your faith has did it.
See, friends, you don't have to have prayer card. You have to have faith; that's what operates the gift of God, not a prayer card, your faith. That's what operates God's great tremendous gifts. Have faith in Him; don't doubt Him; believe Him with all your heart.
Praise be to God. You're standing for somebody too. And they're away from here. And I see it turn around; it's way down in the south; it's Atlanta, Georgia. Is that right? And it's a love one. And it's a young fellow, young folks, and it's a polio case. And I see them either calling or sending me a message to come pray for the person. Isn't that right? Take that handkerchief to them, and it'll be the same thing. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, be it so. Amen. God bless you.
Have faith. 
E-45 You believe God make you well? What do you say if I told you He healed you setting there in the chair? You believe it, Sister...?... You believe? You wonder how I knowed your name, didn't you? You live at 428 South Utica Street, over in Illinois here, Waukegan, Illinois. Go home; you got your request. Amen.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, He that Was, which Is, and shall come, the Root and Offspring of David, the Morning Star, the Avenue, the Gate, the God's provided Lamb, the Jehovah-jireh, Manasseh, Jehovah... Oh, all the redemption, and all the blessings, and all the power, all the might lays within Him, and in reach of every believer here tonight. Amen.
How do you do, lady. Do you believe me to be His servant with all your heart? You suffer with a condition of the arteries: the hardening of the arteries. You believe that Jesus will heal you? And you're packing a handkerchief in your hand to give to me, to go on your husband which has arthritis, and he's in Michigan. Isn't that right? Take to him in the Name of the Lord Jesus and...
Let's say, "Praise the Lord." [Congregation says, "Praise the Lord."--Ed.] If you can believe...
You believe God heals you of that female trouble? Well, just go on off the platform, say, "Thank the Lord."
Let's say, "Blessed be the Name of the Lord." Have faith in God. 
E-46 That lady setting right there with the little hat on, colored lady looking towards me, suffering with chest trouble, you believe Jesus heals you, sitting right over there, lady? If you believe it, well, you can have it. Say... Yes, you that turned your head and looked the other way there, just then. There it is. You was holding your chest; something was wrong. If you believe Jesus Christ healed you, you may have what you ask for. God bless you. All right. Go and receive it.
I seen another colored lady up here just at the same time; just a minute. But it was something different. May the Lord Jesus... Ever who you are out there, without a prayer card now, start looking this way, believing. I seen a colored lady doing something, but it was a different kind of an examination, than what was given to... Here she is. It's a fallen colon, a colon condition. Setting right there, isn't that right? Wave your hand if that's right. God bless you. Go and be well now in the Name of the Lord Jesus. What more should you have to have to believe? Lady, you're nervous aren't you, upset, because you have a female trouble, a lady's trouble. It's a little ulcer on the female, the womb. Now, just go on your road; you're healed. Jesus Christ makes you well. Go on.
Have faith in God. Are you believing? With all your heart? Oh, wonderful. 
E-47 Don't think I'm beside myself. I'm not. Now, be reverent. I see someone... I believe it's this man sitting right here. He's praying about... He--He--He's got a boy he's praying for, that had a cataract operation on the eye. God bless you, brother, go on your road. You're healed also, so may the Lord Jesus be with you. Amen.
Have faith. Don't doubt. Believe what God said is truth, and that's all you have to do.
You believe God will heal you of that rupture, setting right there? Huh? You believe He does? All right, go on your road rejoice there, that gentlemen there. Believe with all your heart. Go on rejoice.
Here's one setting right here has got a double rupture, setting right down here. You believe God's going to heal you of that double rupture? Huh? If you believe it, and can take faith, and believe with all your heart. You can have it.
How do you do, sister. You have many things wrong with you. One of your great things you want me to pray for, is for that stiffness, that arthritis that's bothering you. Isn't that right? You believe you have it now? You think your faith is sufficient? You want me to lay my hands on you, of course; I'm going to do that, as you pass by. But come on.
Father, let Thy Spirit come upon my sister. May this stiffening spirit that would cause her bones to run together, I rebuke it in the Name of Jesus Christ, may she go and be made well. Amen. God bless you, lady. Have faith. Believe with all your heart. 
E-48 Weakness and nervous heart bothering you, you believe Jesus Christ is going to make you well? He has made you well. Turns right around you, go on your road and be happy, for you are healed in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Come, lady. Do you believe with all your heart? You want to go eat your supper? Enjoy your food again, that old stomach trouble be gone from you? Well, go on, eat your supper, just rejoice in the Name of the Lord Jesus.
Have faith.
Young lady, you're very young to have female trouble, that you have. But do you believe that Jesus Christ is going to heal you of it? I'd like to talk to you away from the microphones, a minute, can I? Just a minute. Sure. [Brother Branham speaks to the young woman in private--Ed.] Just something you couldn't say before the public. The young lady knows. Only God alone seen this happen. The young lady that was just up here and healed, just then. Is that right? Wave your hand. Only God alone... Yes. What I told you there, is that right? Just God alone would--could have knew it. See?
Oh, He's here if you believe it. If you have faith.
Come, lady. My, it would be good to get over that old diabetes and be well again, wouldn't it? You believe you are going to be well? In the Name of Jesus, God's Son, I ask for your healing. Go now, in Jesus Christ's Name and be made well.
My brother, would you obey me as God's prophet? If you will, it's your only hope of ever getting over arthritis. Just walk off the platform like you was a young man, say, "I refuse to have it from this on. I've been standing in the Presence of His Majesty, Jesus Christ." God bless you. Go on your plat... Go off there now, walking. There's your faith. God bless you. Just go right on...?... Jesus Christ makes you whole. 
E-49 Praise the Lord. All right. Come now. You believe? Now, just a moment. There's something dark hanging at the lady, real dark, circling her. O God, be merciful. Oh, it's a cancer. All right. Do you believe God can heal you of it now? He is the Healer, isn't He? You believe it with all your heart? When the Angel of the Lord met me, He designated cancer would be healed.
Come here. Almighty God, this poor woman, knowing this condition exists in her body, I now, ask Lord, that my faith join with hers. And great Angel of God, Who met me that night, and designated, and said, "Not even cancer will stand, if you'll be sincere, get the people to believe." And Father, with all my heart, I believe that You'll heal her.
And I say to the Devil, leave her in Jesus Name, come out from her. God bless you. Go, believing with all your heart now.
You want to get over the high blood pressure, lady, setting there? You've been healed for about ten minutes now, setting there. Amen. I want you to do me a favor. Will you do it now? Your daughter's in the hospital, setting there next to her. That's right. Lady your hand over on him will you. Father, grant the deliverance of her, through Jesus Name I pray. Amen. Don't worry, brother, don't be scared of heart trouble. Go on your road rejoicing. Jesus Christ...?...
Have faith in God. Believe with all your heart. Don't move now. If you go to moving around, we're going have the close the service here. See? 'Cause it upsets me. See?
You got trouble in your side, setting right there, that second person setting in from the end, there. Don't you, lady? You was healed just then of it. Stand up, and just--just say, "Praise the Lord," for your healing. God bless you. Spleen trouble... 
E-50 Come. Have faith. Don't doubt. Believe. If you believe, you can have what you ask for.
How do you do, sir. I suppose we're strangers to each other, brother. You a Christian, believer? I see you are. You've got a request to ask me, sir; that's for a loved one, which is your father. He's got a stroke. He's had two strokes. And you, yourself have diabetes. And you're wanting... You're a doctor. That's right. And in your practice you pray for the sick.
O God, in Jesus' Name grant our brother his request. Amen. God bless you, brother.
Have faith. Do you believe?
You believe for your eyes, honey? You believe Jesus is going to make you well? Sure He is. 
E-51 I--I don't believe I can go much farther, friends, I'm just about... It's just, look like He's just--just wilting away now. Believe, will you just now? Everyone of you. Have faith just now. Put your hands over on one another. Let me make a committal prayer. Come here, Brother Wood, or something quickly. See? Put your hands on each other now. (Get me some water or something).
Put your hands on each other everywhere. Merciful God, as my strength is fleeting, O God, be merciful, Father. With the prayer of faith with all my heart I condemn every, sick, diseased persons body in here. And ask that You, the Holy Ghost, will represent to them the power of the resurrected Jesus Christ and heal them. Satan, you're defeated. You're no longer holding the people. You're exposed. In the Name of Jesus Christ come out of every person in here, that's in...?...