Episode 294: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 260

Episode Summary:

But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:6-7)

56 And so then, I was talking like that. And I said, “Now, if the Lord would tell me a certain thing would happen like little—your little cripple sister setting here, little Edith… And they were poor people, but I was welcome. Had old—big old bowl of beans, pinto beans baked with corn bread, and sliced onions. And can I eat that. So I was raised on it. And I was just eating away and having a good time. And mother Wright had baked me a big cherry cobbler, you know, and out of the little tree that I used to help her pick it out of there. Mr. Wright’s in his eighties, and she’s seventy something with that afflicted girl. So I—I’d just do anything for those people I could. Poor…

57 And we was talking about building the new church up there, the tabernacle, and—and Mr. Wright said to me, “How’s the pledges coming on up at the Tabernacle?”

I said, “Brother Wright, I’m not there enough to know.”

And said, “You know what?” Said, “Hattie wanted to pluge—pledge fifty dollars towards that church, and Brother Roberson, the—the trustee of the church, one of them, the chairman, wouldn’t let her give it.” Said, “Because that’d take her about six months to dig fifty dollars out of them hills over there.” And said, “But she give twenty, and Brother Branham, she wants…”

I thought, “You know what? I—I got twenty dollars here in my pocket. Meda give it to me to pick up some eggs.” I said, “I’ll just give her that twenty ’fore I leave back. And just… She’s away from here, and you’ll never know it. So I’d—I’d bought her ice boxes and things, ’cause I felt so sorry for her up there, that little old mother trying to work away on that hill.” And so, I thought, “I’ll just give her these—this twenty dollars, is what I’ll do. When I leave I’ll just slip it so she’ll get it and that’s her twenty dollars she paid in on the church up there.” So I thought, “I’ll just give her that.”

So when I said… Something said to me, “But your Lord stood one day by the side of a—a wall and seen rich men putting thousands of dollars into a treasury. And a little widow come by and she only had three pennies, all her living. And now, what would you have done if you’d have stood there? You’d see that little widow put them three pennies in, you’d run, say, ‘Oh no, sister, don’t do that, don’t do that, because we got plenty in here; we don’t need that.’ But Jesus never told her not to do it. He let her go ahead and do it. Because He knowed He had something for her down the road (See?), little something better.” You see? So He just let her. God loves a cheerful giver.

So I said, “Well, I will just keep my money in my pocket then (See?), that’s all right then; I’ll just let it go ’cause maybe the Lord…”

59-1123 – “Speak To This Mountain”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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