51-0506A - Believest Thou This - William Branham

#WilliamBranham #MessageOfTheHour #BrotherBranham (Read Along Sermon) 51-0506A BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ LOS.ANGELES.CA SUNDAY_ « E-1 † ...?... Thank you. My, he shouldn't have said that. Now, to you dear strangers, he was just making--trying to make me feel a little more encouraged to stand up here; that was all. I don't even claim to be a preacher. I--I just like to get around where there is preachers and I... Mine is praying for the sick. And I'm happy to be here this afternoon to--to see this audience, and to feel the Spirit of the Lord here, and to enjoying those blessings since last evening. I was noticing in the last evening service, those cripples and setting in those wheelchairs, how that they got up, walked out of those wheelchairs. And I... Now, they're not here; I don't see a one of them this--this afternoon, not a one that was there as I see, knowingly. But I notice one thing: just the ones that was dealt with the longest was the first one'd got up (Did you notice that?), the very first ones that got up. And there's something about it that I don't understand. And since last night I been praying to wonder what that...Why? Why would that? So you pray with me that God will make it known. 51-0506A BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ LOS.ANGELES.CA SUNDAY_ « E-2 † Now, I thank you all so much for the missionary offering for this afternoon. If our Lord tarries and permits me, I want to go over to Africa, and then we come back to--to India, and from there to Jerusalem to--in this next missionary tour. And my heart is bleeding for all those countries. Sister Hall was saying; she said, "None of that for me, over way in there," said, "I don't think I..." I said, "Fleshly speaking, I--I don't desire it, but there's something back there that's making me go (See?), just--just making me go." And with the love for those who need Christ, I want to go. 51-0506A BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ LOS.ANGELES.CA SUNDAY_ « E-3 † I got a--a book from Africa not long ago and it's the colored man, old, he said, "White man, white man, where was your father?" He said, "Here, I'm old, and dull at mind, and I've just now learned of Jesus. If I would've knowed Him earlier, I could took Him to my tribes." And I thought, "Well, I won't have to answer for my father's generation, but I will have to answer for mine, for what I do." And under the difficults that I have to labor under, and so forth, I want to do all that I can for our Lord, all that I can. 51-0506A BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ LOS.ANGELES.CA SUNDAY_ « E-4 † As far as I know of in human life, I only have...Thanking God as far as health and everything, knowing that I was once a blind man and--and--or so blind they had to lead me around... And my eyes sight's 20/20 now. And so I--I was once real sick: I couldn't eat nothing and stomach trouble so bad. And I'm healthy and happy, can eat anything. There's only one thing that bothers me, as I know of. And there's none of us perfect; we know that. And that is, the meetings, when they carry a little long, it puts such a mental, nervous strain on me, because you're just on the point at any moment. See, in my meetings there's setting hundreds, sometimes in big meetings where is many thousands gather, of critics that would--just trying their best to find one thing to talk about. And I'm conscious of that when that's coming against me. Then the Holy Spirit moving down to be able to know what's wrong with the people... And I know that He knows all things. And that... Under a few minutes under that (Oh, my.), it'll take more off of you than you could hit with a sledge hammer and--and rock pile for two days straight without even laying down, resting. 51-0506A BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS_ LOS.ANGELES.CA SUNDAY_ « E-5 † You know, according to modern science that speaking, ministers, who just speaking to an audience of people, takes more strength for them in twenty minutes of speaking than eight hours in physical labor. That's what a--a tear down. Now, multiply that by about one hundred and you get some conception of what it is. And so that's the thing that I desire all you dear Christian people to pray for me that God will somehow... I don't know. I once wondered how He could--how He got tired, and being the Son of God, but I know now what it is. It's a... It isn't a--it isn't a physical stain. It's a more or less, I'd say, a mental strain: nerve and mental. See, it--it moves over you and you're just at the age, coming in the meeting... Not this afternoon, but at nighttime...