Questions & Answers
Questions 75 (COD Page 366)
Now, the first one on top. Oh, yes, this is a little question. It’s not a question, it’s a... Well, it is a question. It’s someone who would like a private interview with me the first of the week.
30 Now, that interview, I’ll tell you how we do that. It used to be that we just at random caught catch can, who first, this, that, but we got a system to that. And therefore, there’s many people who come into the prayer lines, that maybe pass through a fast line, or have a proposition that don’t know what to do about it, and then, they want to hear from the Lord. Now, they have a perfect right to that; that’s what this prophetic gift was given for, is for that, that purpose alone.
31 In the Bible if they wanted to know anything, they went down to the prophets, and they prayed and sang hymns until God answered. Why, He’s not a God that would feed one group and starve another group to death. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. And therefore, that’s what It’s for.
32 On these private interviews, when we take a case, I never leave it until I hear from God one way or the other. They come slow. If it takes six months or a year, we stay right with it till we have THUS SAITH THE LORD. See? And therefore, they come slow, and there’s thousands calling. But we...
33 The other day I had a man in there for the-I believe it would been months after months this had sought for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, a Baptist. But we didn’t turn him loose, just let him come, and finally by the grace of God on a private interview... Just walked in-he’d always wanted to see a vision what was the matter-and the vision struck, and he received the Holy Ghost setting right in his chair.
34 Then a-a Catholic, recently converted, come down from Chicago the other day which has been on private interviews-trying to get in-for at least two years; but on his first interview, fifteen minutes in the room, the Lord showed a vision, the reason and all, revealed the whole thing, what he hadto do before he received the Holy Ghost. See, that’s what it’s for.
35 Now, if anyone at anytime... When calls come in and they want to see or have those interviews, if they’ll call, Butler 2-1519, the office can post you just exactly when the interview can be. [Telephone number has been changed.-Ed.] And then, state what your interview is for, so they’ll know how much time to allot it. Then that makes it just, and every person... Then if that amount of time doesn’t suffice, then we come back to that case again. It’s put right on record, and we keep it until we hear from God by a vision or some way that God speaks. So that’s how our interviews are kept.
36 Therefore, see, when I’m out, the people think sometimes, “Brother Branham, you don’t see the people enough.” You can’t see the people and be with God at the same time. See? I got somebody in view, and I’m-I’m in the cave or somewhere else praying, and-and...
37 I want to see what this says. [Brother Branham reads the quietly, to himself-Ed.] “In a couple of days... was up and out... he... ” What say? [A brother speaks to Brother Branham.] Oh, yes. Oh, yes, yes this was a man (Gene just put it up here) that... A man came down from Chicago the other day, that the doctor wanted to cut his heart out, and cut it open to see what was the matter on the inside. And the Holy Spirit revealed just exactly what it was, and he didn’t need to be cut open; he was healed. So you see, that means lots. And to show you how slow it comes, I waited myself for an answer from God, for a vision, for fifteen years. God... And then another come and won’t have to wait three minutes. See? It just... God answers in His own time. We don’t control It, It controls us.