Questions & Answers
Questions 154 (COD Page 663)
Brother Branham, as I went through the prayer line a short time ago, anointed hands were laid on me and prayer was made for my unsaved husband. I was slain by the power of the Lord! Is this a definite sign that he will be saved?
87 Well, a...It’s bound to be a woman. Sister, I wouldn’t–I wouldn’t think that it was a definite sign that he was to be saved, though I believe if–that God, it...I believe he will be saved, certainly, but to say... “Now, could you say that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD?” Be careful about that (see?), ’cause, see, it might be the Holy Spirit blessing you, because you have taken a place of Christ. See?
88 You come here to stand for your sinful husband as Christ went to the cross to stand for the sinful church. You see? It was a great thing that you did. But what I would do...If you’re present this morning, if you that wrote this question, what I’d do, I’d believe with all my heart that God was going to do it (see?)–that God was going to do it, because whether He give you the blessing or whether He did not, that was something extra God give you. But I believe it would–it would make you feel good, because He blessed you.
89 It’s just like if you speak with tongues, and there’s no interpreter in the church, why, you’re not supposed to speak in the church ’less there’s somebody to interpret the tongues. But if you speak in tongues, and there’s no interpreter...Why, use...you...Wherever you’re in prayer, at your home or wherever you are, speak then, because “He that speaketh in unknown tongues edifieth himself.” It gives him consolation. See? He feels good, because he is standing there praying and the first thing you know, the Holy Spirit come upon he or she and they begin to speak in tongues. And their soul was rejoicing and happy, because they–they spoke in tongues. See?
90 Why, that was–that was–wasn’t just a sign that God was going to answer the prayer that you was praying for, but it was a sign that the Holy Spirit’s hearing you. It’s a–it’s...He knows you; He’s with you. That’s the same thing I would apply to this. The Holy Spirit giving you a–a blessing.
91 Here some time ago. The last time I spoke with tongues, as I can remember, was...I was...It’s been about three or four years ago. I was in Illinois, and Billy come after me for–to go to a–the prayer line up at Zion City. And I was burdened on my heart, and I knelt down and started to pray. And while I was praying, I–I heard Billy come up and knock at the door. And I said, “Billy I–Ican’t go now.” And he went out there and set down.
92 And I was praying, my heart so burdened; I–I couldn’t go to church like that. And see, usually sometimes He gives me a vision show me something’s going to happen, but He didn’t do it then. And I was just praying away in the room there, and I heard someone talking. I quit praying. I listened, and there’s somebody at the door, they was...Sounded like a foreign language, like German or Low Dutch, or something; it was so fast, chattery. I listened again, and I thought, “Well, somebody’s come up there talking to that motel man in
German; maybe he’ll answer him back.”
93 And I just quit praying, leaning over a chair like this, listening, and he just kept on talking. I thought, “Well, wonder why there’s somebody don’t answer back.” And I listened; I thought, “Well now, isn’t that strange.”
94 There was a weight scales down the road, and I heared that fellow down there hollering, “Drive off!” you know, and, “Drive on!” I turned around, looked out that way, and I did, I felt my mouth. Come to find out, I was the one doing the talking. It was me. And I just kept real still, not knowing not one thing. I had no more control of what I was saying than nothing, knowed not one thing I was saying, not a thing. I just...My mouth was moving, I was speaking some kind of a language. I just held real still. After while it quit. And when it quit, oh my, I felt like I could scream out, I just–just so happy. I don’t know why, but the burden all left me.
95 So I went on to the church then, called Billy. And when I got to the church...Mr. Baxter then was the manager of the meeting. And he was a–been singing, waiting. I was over half-hour late. And I told him that I was just late. And–and he seen I’d been weeping, and he said, “What’s the matter?”
96 And I said, “Nothing.” And I went on and just about ten minutes, a woman come in at the back of the auditorium, and she was about to take the place back there. And when we checked up with the woman, to find out, she was on her road from Twin Cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis, somewhere, one of those cities), the...She was so bad with T.B. to the–the ambulance would not dare to bring her, her lungs were in such a condition, just gel. And so a couple of brethren got an old Chevrolet car, and took the back seat out, and fixed her a cot in there someway, or bed, and laid her on it, and was bringing her to the meeting. She wanted to come.
97 The doctors had give her up. And on the road over...They told her the least little bump, she’ll go into a hemorrhage, and that’s it. And she went into a hemorrhage. And they had taken her out and had laid her on a grass flat. And the saints were standing there praying over the woman. And she was just...Every time she’d breathe, it just gurgling; the blood would blow out of her mouth, like that.
98 And all of a sudden, she was instantly healed! And she jumped up from there and started rejoicing, come on to the church. And there she was back there testifying, back in the back.
99 I said, “What time was that?” And when she gave the time, of what time it was, it was the very same time that that speaking was going through me. Well, what was it? It was the Holy Spirit making intercession for that woman there! See what I mean?
100 Now, the Bible says that. Sometimes we mutter words; we don’t know what we’re talking about. But it’s the Holy Spirit in there moving out, making intercession for things that we do not understand. See?
101 And the women was instantly healed. We heared from her for a long time from there. She’s perfectly well, got all right.
102 Now, you see God knows where those things are, and He has a way of doing it. See? He has His own way of doing it. We must just submit ourselves to what He does. And then–then the hard thing to do when you get there is hold yourself from that one little knife edge of fanaticism to a Truth.
103 Now, if you don’t watch, the devil will throw you right over into a bunch of fanaticism and you’ll lose all your experience and everything else. (See?), when you do that. But if you can just hold to solid Truth, watch the Bible, and stay with It, and stay meek and humble, God will just keep taking you on towards Calvary, just on down the road like that, if you’ll just stay with that.
104 And that’s something like yours was, Sister. God was just giving you a blessing. It might be a definite witness that you’re going to...But I wouldn’t rely just on that (you see?), say, “The Lord told me!” Cause I said that experience because that it might encourage you to continue to believe on. Whatever it was that God did there, brought the Spirit upon you like that, it was for some purpose. It might’ve been something else; but if it was for your husband, he’ll sure come right into the Kingdom of God. I believe that.