Episode 173: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 139

Episode Summary:

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:37-39)

85 And Zipporah went and circumcised the baby. Said, “Moses, you’re so—so concerned about everything else and about your journey, that your own boy hasn’t been circumcised.”

I just wonder a lot of times if…Sometimes I’ve met people that said, “Oh, glory to God. The Lord wants me to do a certain thing. He wants me to go to Africa, to India.”

86 I said, “Have you ever asked the milkman if he was saved? Have you ever asked the paperboy if he’d been borned again yet? How about your neighbor, are they saved?” See? Now, that’s the question. See? If it’s in your heart…

87 Here some time ago a woman met me down here in Florida. And the little woman, I have no way…I’m not the judge. But there’s a little preacher had been right here and preached at this platform. And the little fellow in another country was married and had a wife, three or four children. And this woman was a widow woman. And they had come from Texas, together over here in a big Cadillac car. And the woman come in. And she has the right to dress anyway she wants to, didn’t make nothing to me; but as a Christian woman she didn’t dress just like it. She was (oh, my!), she was…had great big long…them ear bobs (ever what you call it) hanging down like this, and she had a real lot of—of stuff on her mouth; and—and—and her eyebrows had been cut off and she had other eyebrows, with a pencil, put on. And she said, “Brother Branham,” said, “the Lord’s calling me to a foreign country.”

I said, “He is?”

“Yes!” And she said, “I’m going over with this man.”

And I said, “Well, if the Lord’s calling you, well, all right.” (But by their fruit…Didn’t look very much to me like…See?)

And she said, “Don’t you believe the Lord…?”

88 I said, “Now, don’t ask me. If the Lord’s told you, you do what the Lord told you to do. But for me, I don’t think so, for myself. I’ll just be honest with you.”

She said, “Well, why do you think so?”

I said, “The first thing, as you as a married woman with this married man don’t look very good, you staying down here in the city together. If anything brings reproach is that. See?” And I said, “Now, the first thing…”

89 Now, what had happened to that woman? The same thing would have…She had kept messing around without receiving the Holy Ghost, just like that woman over yonder today that called me and wanted to marry that man, and leave her own husband, and marry the man. She had come in such a place, maybe one time being in contact with God, but had been lusting after the things of the world. And I asked her; I said, “Have you received the Holy Ghost?”

She said, “Not yet, but I’m seeking It.”

90 I said, “You get the Holy Ghost first, and He’ll tell you what husband to have.” That’s right. See?

You—you got…That’s what it is. If you don’t, you’ll die spiritually. God’s seeking a lot tonight, that He’s knocked [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit—Ed.] at their heart so many times. And one of these times He’s going to shut the door, and—and mercy’s gone. See?

54-0103E – “Questions And Answers #2”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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