Episode 349: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 315

Episode Summary:

Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. (Psalm 150:1-6)

19 They went on back down, and the Spirit departed from Saul. He’d backslid and went so far away from God until the Spirit had left him, and a evil spirit took His place, come on Saul. And Saul was all moody and in a bad humor, and—and kicking things around, all out of sorts like some people gets on Monday morning. So they—he was out of sorts all the time. Did you know that’s a evil spirit? That’s exactly.

So they didn’t… The doctors couldn’t do him any good. They had a lot of doctors around there, but they couldn’t help that, because it was a spiritual condition. So one of the men had passed around and seen a few places, they said, “Well, we know where there’s a Divine healer at.”

“Why, who would that be?”

Said, “Jesse’s got a son back out there, he…” Yeah, he’s a Divine healer. Sure he was. He healed by music. Amen. That’s what he did. He had a gift of casting out evil spirits. The Holy Ghost hadn’t come in those days, so he cast them out by music, playing the words of the Lord. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside still waters.” And it disturbed the evil spirits so much that they left Saul.

20 Shame on you people don’t believe in string music. No wonder, evil spirits never like it. They have to get away. David cast out devils by playing on his string instrument. That’s what the Scripture says. That’s right. And when David would begin to play, the evil spirit would leave Saul. Is that right? So this little boy was borned in the world for a purpose. You believe that?

And he knowed God was with him. Sure he did. Because he’d able to… He was a crack shot; he was a woodsman. And he had a little slingshot out there. And an old lion got a… And bear one day, run in and grabbed a little sheep and started out with it, and David took his sling, and knocked the lion down, and took the sheep out of his mouth. And when the lion rose up, come to himself and rose up, David just caught him by the beard and give his hunting knife to him, and that ended it. So he knowed God was with him. He killed the bear also. And he knew God was with him.

And now, the next thing he did, played and cast out devils. If that ain’t a Spirit filled man, I never seen one. He might be little and ruddy, but he was a Spirit filled man. God was with him.

55-0118 – “This Great Warrior, David”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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