Listening in, in Jeffersonville now, there's a family named
Wright. Brother Wood and I went down to see them. They make the
communion wine for the church. Little Edith was setting there in
the room, a little crippled girl, that she had been sick all of
her life, and so we had always looked to God to heal her. Her
sister, a widow, her husband had been killed, her name was
Hattie, very humble little woman. And while Brother Banks and I
went out to get her a rabbit, they had cooked a big cherry
cobbler; and made me set down and eat.We was all setting around the table, we were talking about this, it just happened a few days before. And while I was setting around the table, talking about this, all at once I said, "What could have happened?" I said, "Brother Wright, you're an old man, hunted squirrels all your life. Brother Shelby, you're an expert squirrel hunter. Brother Wood, so are you. I've hunted them since a kid. Did you ever see a squirrel in a sycamore and locust thicket?"
"No, sir."
I said, "They just wasn't there." I said, "The only thing I know, It's just the same God. When Abraham needed a ram, He was Jehovah-jireh, He could 'provide for Himself.`" I said, "I believe it's the same thing."
And little old Hattie setting back there, said, "Brother Branham, that's nothing but the Truth!"
She said the right thing! When she said that, the Holy Spirit dropped over in that channel again, every one of them felt It. I raised up, I said, "Sister Hattie, THUS SAITH THE LORD, you said the right word like the Syrophenician woman said. The Holy Spirit's speaking to me now, and said for me to give you the desire of your heart." I said, "Now, if I be God's servant, if it is, it'll happen. If I ain't God's servant, then I'm a liar, and it won't happen, I'm a deceiver." I said, "Now try and see, it's the Spirit of God or not."
She said, "Brother Branham," (everybody was crying), said, "what shall I ask?"
I said, "You got a crippled sister setting there."
I had twenty dollars in my pocket, to give to her, that she had put in a donation. The woman don't make a capital of about two hundred dollars a year, on that little, old, poor farm, her and two of the boys. Her boys had got to be regular 'Ricky's,' school days, you know, and just sassing their mother; and fifteen, sixteen years old. And, oh, they were standing over there laughing at what I was saying.
And I said, "You've got a father and mother setting here that's old. You haven't got any money. Ask for the money, and see if it comes in your lap. Ask for your sister, and see if she don't get up and walk." I knew then, like Job, there's just something you know when you strike it. Said, "I know! Here I stand before about ten people," I said, "if this doesn't happen, then I'm a false prophet."
Said, "What shall I ask?"
I said, "It's up to you to make your decision. I cannot make your decision."
She looked around, the little woman. And all at once, she said, "Brother Branham, the greatest desire in my heart is the salvation of my two boys."
I said, "I give you your boys, in the Name of Jesus Christ."
And them snickering, laughing, fun-making boys fell across their
mother's lap, and surrendered their life to God, and was filled
with the Holy Ghost right then. Right then!
Why? That is Truth! God has the authority to kill me, before these people across the nation. Many of you here and in Jeffersonville, I can hear the Tabernacle ring out now, "Amen!" because they're setting right there listening at it. See, because it's the Truth! What is it? It's when the God, by His sovereign grace; it happens! Outside of that, it won't happen.
In that crucial moment... Think of the man and the people that
I'm acquainted with. God bypassing all the celebrities, and
everything, to give a poor, little old humble woman, can't hardly
sign her own name; and He knowed that what she'd ask for. And
that was the greatest thing; for her sister is now dead, and her
mother and father has to die, the money would've perished, but
the souls of her boy is Eternal! And that was the hour for them
to catch It. And just as soon as I said, "I give you your boys,
in the Name of Jesus Christ," there they fell across their
mother's lap. How many in here knows that to be Truth, you know
it? See, there it is. Yes. Why? Inspiration!
Now, "I have heard of Thee, that Thou could create squirrels.
I've heard of Thee, that Thou could create a ram. But now I see
Thee with mine own eye!" The manifestation, the vision made
visible. When God promised anything, that's what He will do.
I Have Heard But Now I See, November 27, 1965
