Branham Stories
The Magic Flower and Prospector
Little story one time I heard of a man who was... Oh, he was poor, and he--he always wanted to... It's a little fairy story like. It always stuck with me though. And one day he picked a flower. And the flower was magic, and the flower answered to him, and said, "You've been poor all your life." He said, "Now ask what you will and it'll be given to you."
He said, "That yonders mountain would open up, and I could go therein and find the gold in the mountain."
"Well, the..." he said, "you'll have to take me with you wherever you go." See? "You'll have to take me with you, so wherever I am, then you can ask what you will."
He walked to the mountain, and the mountain opened up, and he went in. And the shelves was full of gold and diamonds, as the little fairy story goes. He laid the flower down on a--on a table, or a rock. And he run and grabbed a great big gem. And he said, "I must go show this to my friends. And now I'm a rich man. I have everything now. I must show this."
And so the flower spoke and said, "You have forgot the main thing."
So he runs back and picks up... said, "Well, maybe I'll--I'll get a piece of gold. I'll get a piece of silver." And so he said, "I'll--I'll hurry out to tell the people how rich I am, what all I've got."
And he got to the door, and the flower said, "But you forgot the main thing." So he runs back again. He said, "In here we find all kinds of materials." So he picked up a stone. He said, "I'll go take this stone and show the people what kind of a stone this mountain's made out of so I can find my way back to it." See?
And he started out the door and the flower said, for the--its final time, "You have forgot the main thing."
"Oh," he said, "oh, shut up."
See, he didn't want to hear it any more, "Forgot the main thing." And he ran out the door. And when he did, the door closed behind him with the flower on the inside. The main thing was the flower. See? The main thing was the flower.
Years ago as a kid, as you all are, here, cattle ranch above here, above Phoenix, I was reading a piece of prospect--a paper about a prospector. Then there was no roads through here then, just little sand paths. They still do a lot of prospecting in here, you know.
But this prospector had come in, and he'd found a lot of money. And he struck a lot of gold. And on his road in he stayed in a cabin he'd found. And he had a dog with him, and the--the dog tied up on the outside. And that night there'd been an outlaw following him to get this gold. He'd picked it up in old Spanish mines, and he was coming in with it. And the dog started barking. And the man didn't want to be bothered with that dog. He said, "Shut up." He said, "Tomorrow I'll take this in to--to the city." And the morals of the story was this. "And I'll have it weighed up. And I'll be a rich man. And I'll buy great cars. And I'll have all kinds of women and big parties. And I'll be a rich man, because I've already struck the claim. I've got the gold here, much of it." And said, "I'll..."
And while he was trying to go to sleep the dog kept barking, because the dog seen the outlaw coming up, slipping up, waiting for the prospector to go to sleep. And he raised up again and screamed at the dog again, said, "Shut up." And the poor dog whined and tried to warn his master that danger was lurking.
And when he... The next time when the dog started barking... The prospector had a shotgun. He didn't want to be bothered, so he just raised up and shot the dog. And the prospector was killed that night by the outlaw. All of his fancy dreams done him no good. Why? He stilled the voice that was warning him.
There's nobody can try to do anything... You kids would never be able to do anything wrong, after being raised the way you are, unless you'd feel something tell you not to do it. Now, don't never still that voice that's warning you. And always remember, accept that Voice that said, "Follow Me." And you'll always come out right. I believe you will. I got confidence in you."
