The Principles Of Divine Healing
51-0923, The Principles Of Divine Healing, Jeffersonville High School, Jeffersonville, IN, 123 min




I come home the other day from Kansas City, and there was signs over the streets, and people passing circulars in the--the city, and I thought, "Well, they're going to have a meeting here." Then I thank them.
I thank the principal of this school for this splendid cooperation he's given to us, and these men here. They let us have this gymnasium tonight to have this farewell service. My little church is not quite large enough. I thank them, and all the janitors, all that's had anything to do in--with this service, I want to thank you. And it's--it's kinda warm in here tonight. We got a real warm reception, haven't we?

And I was talking to the principal of the school a few weeks ago, which told me that when I return, that we could have the big gym over there for a real meeting sometime. Would you appreciate that? Let's give him a hand. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you very much...?... Thank you. I've always wanted to have one of our meetings here at home. There's something about home that, be it ever so humble, there's no place like it, is there? Home is... I'm always been more or less a rolling stone, as they call it, stalking around over the country. But some of the happiest times of my life when I hear them call on the plane, "Fasten your seatbelt; we're over Louisville." My, that's--that's nice then. I like that. I think anyone does, come back home.


And we're sorry now, and I see they're standing in the halls and up and down the streets outside, so we--we thought maybe that--maybe it wouldn't be quite so many come out; that this little gym would take care of it. But the next time, we'll have the big one over on the other side. And I'd like to really, when I come back, maybe, to have five or six nights here in the city for a campaign, and then... [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Thank you. Thank you very much...?... Makes me feel real good to be home and see people applaud for you--they come in for our services.

Last time when we was in Finland, Sweden, England, all through the Scandinavian countries, and down into France, and Belgium, Scotland, Ireland, there was literally hundreds, hundreds and thousands of people attended the meetings, sometime as many as forty thousand at a time, one single gathering. And they was so many healings and things taking place, till it would be almost numerous to--to speak of them.


I wonder if Georgie's in the building tonight, could testify or just stand up. Just raise your hand, Miss Carter, if you're here. Usually, she's near. I guess that she isn't inside. Oh, here she is, yes. Let's say, "Praise the Lord" in this a way, just with our hands like this. That's right. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] Nine years and eight months without raising from the bed; she weighed practically thirty-five pounds.

And can you hear me out there? I think the microphone has gone off somewhere. All right, now that's better. I can hear the... Maybe I got something crossed up here. All right.
And this Mrs. Weaver was just merely bones. Her doctor had given her until the next day to live. And she was so thin that she couldn't raise her hand hardly for me to shake her hand. While praying for her, the Holy Spirit spoke and told her she was going to be a well person.
And I wonder if Mrs. Weaver is setting present now? Mrs. Weaver, would you stand up, the one that was healed with cancer in such a awful condition? Are you present now? If she could stand inside... Wave your hand to wherever you are. I can't see; so many fans, perhaps, waving. If Mrs. Weaver is near... Here's her sister setting here. Yes. Now, are--could she... Where is she at? Is she... She's at home. You're a witness of the case that... Let's say, "Thank the Lord," for--for that. [The congregation applauds--Ed.]


And so this--this Mrs. Nightingale, when my wife saw her picture, she started weeping. We laid the picture on the floor and begin praying. And I said, "Heavenly Father, if You will heal this dear person, it'll be a "go light" for me to go to Africa. And I just committed it to the Lord.
And I was called to King George of England, to pray for him with those multiple sclerosis. I understand by the radio today, that he's got some kind of a lung trouble now.
And on my road over, when we stopped at the International Airport just out of London, I heard them page me, and I seen all the guard out, and when I went up there, some of the--the church men from the high church there, came and told me, said, "Miss Florence Nightingale is just come in ahead of you here in a plane from South Africa." And said, "We think she's dying. We can't get her out of the plane." Said, "Would you come, pray for her."
And I said, "Well, I couldn't wind my way through that crowd of people there," where probably, I think they judged around twenty-six thousand people. I said, "I--how could I ever get to her?" I said, "You take her to your house and we're going down to Buckingham Palace. We're due at the Westminster Abbey, and then back up to Piccadilly Hotel." I said, "You call me, and I'll go over, and pray with her."


And the nurse knowed she wanted something else, and I got down close. And so I couldn't understand her. And the nurse told me; she said, "Tell Brother Branham to ask God to let me die. I--I can't go like this." And she just withered away. And I couldn't ask for her to die after she'd prayed so hard, and she'd told God, she said, "If I can--if--if I can just..." Wanted Him to let me come down, pray for her. And she said if I'd ever pray for her, she knowed she'd get well.
And such gallant faith like that. And then when I met her, to ask her to--God to let her die, that was more than what I thought would be right. And I said to her; I said, "Sister, I can't ask God to let you die. Let us kneel and pray."

Those ministers raised up and said, "Did you notice?" And before I could say anything, the Spirit of the Lord came and told her that she'd be well.
And I got her pictures now, after eight months. I just happened to bring it tonight, because that was my "go light" to Africa, and she's really got the country on fire. They claim there'd be a hundred thousand people at the first meeting.
Here's her picture just before I prayed for her. Can you see it back there? I guess it's kindly hard. I might've had one of the ushers, if they will, to walk over here, and take this picture, and just make a little round down through there.
Now, I... When I seen her; it was eight weeks after this: they was feeding her glucose and so forth. And then here's her picture at today. Miracle... Now, that's Mrs. Florence Nightingale. Her great grandmother was the founder of the Red Cross, and a--a really a noted woman that a...
Teddy, son, would you come get this one also, if you will, and take it right along with you? Just walk down the aisles and turn sideways to show it if you can.

And today I am very happy to be in my hometown with a Divine vindication of the truth, that's universally known, that the statement that I have made concerning our Lord Jesus it's the truth, that God has testified it to be the truth.
Don't never be weary in well-doing, for you will certainly reap in due season if you faint not. Always do that which is right. And whatever that God has said in His Book, you believe that; for you can hang your soul on any phase of the Word of God. You believe that, don't you? Now, whatever He has promised in the Word, that God will do; for God is under obligation to His Word.

But now, if I never return from Africa... I have no assurance of it. But if I never return back, my Christian friends, I have been truthful and been faithful. And I have served God, and I've done the best that I know how. And I appreciate your all's prayers. Many of you here has prayed day and night for me; and because that I have been able to do these things for my Lord, by His grace, has been because you have held me up before the throne of God in prayer. That's the cause of it. I appreciate it, my dear mothers and dads, with all my heart. I'll never forget you.
And now, if I should never return, the statements that I have made is certainly a vindicated by God to be the truth, universally, everywhere throughout the--the world.

Now, when I was a little lad, I didn't have too many friends. But I always loved people. I wanted friends. And now, that I'm trying to serve God and do all I know to do, tonight I guess I have somewhere, six or eight million friends around the world. It just shows what God will do for you if you'll trust Him. Is that right? I'm glad to hear that, "Amen." The word, "Amen," means "so be it."

Now--now I want to say this: I am happy. The people of Jeffersonville, I'm happy to know this, that the principal of our school here is a devout Christian. God bless him. He never returned a word when we ask him for this auditorium. And he also told us we could have the large one. And I certainly appreciate that. To all the staff, may God bless them.

After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, ... called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
In these lay ... great multitudes of impotent folk, ... blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever ... first after the troubling of the water stepping in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
And when Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had now been a long time in this case, he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
Listen closely.
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me in the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.
Jesus said unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and ... the same ... was the sabbath.
[John 5:1-9]Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, ... called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
In these lay ... great multitudes of impotent folk, ... blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever ... first after the troubling of the water stepping in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
And when Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had now been a long time in this case, he said unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
Listen closely.
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me in the pool: but while I am coming, another steps down before me.
Jesus said unto him, Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and ... the same ... was the sabbath.

And now, how many people in here are sick and needy tonight of prayer? Let's see your hand: just go up everywhere. My, just look. My friends, this is a sick world, isn't it? And look at the day that when we got the best medicine we ever practiced with; we got the best doctors we ever had (Do you believe that?), got the best institution hospitals, best drugs we ever practiced with; and we got more sickness than the world ever knowed. You want my analysis of it? We got more sin and unbelief than the world ever knowed. That's just exactly the reason. Sure. [John 5:19-20]

Now, God always had a provided way for the people to be healed. He give it in the days of the--Israel's journey; He had the brass serpent. After the going away of the brass serpent, when people make an idol out of it, then the prophet broke up the serpent, and tore it up, threw it away.
And God sent an Angel down upon a pool of water, called in the Hebrew tongue, Bethesda, at the sheep market, where they brought in the sheeps in the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. If the good Lord willing, in a few weeks be visiting this very spot where we're speaking of.

Then people believed that it was an Angel, which God testified that it was, that came down; because there was no current in the water, but it just chopped the water, made a choppy condition. And the people lay there, great multitudes. Now, listen what the Scripture says: lame, halt, blind, withered. What a sight of suffering humanity, waiting for the moving of the water. And then ever who got into the water first, when the water was troubled, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had, because the--all the virtue of the Angel on the water, went to the individual and healed him of its disease. Now, you believe that's the truth? I believe it is, because it's in the Scripture. And that's why I believe it's the truth. I believe that it was an Angel, not a superstition, not somebody's theology; it was an Angel that God sent down from heaven to minister to the sick and the needy.
Now, if God made a provision in the--every age, would it not be no more than just that God would make a provision in this age for the sick? Well, He has.

Just think, this little audience tonight wouldn't be a handful up beside of what that great multitude was that laid there. A multitude consists of over two thousand people, and a great multitude. Hard tell how many thousand was there of lame, blind, withered; and He healed one man, and walked away, and left the rest of them there.
Now, that doesn't... If you would look at it in the right sense, now... Note, that was strange that the Son of God would just heal one person and leave all that multitude lay there. Doesn't it seem strange? Looked like He would've heal them all. And I believe that if He would've said, "All of you is healed," I believe they'd all been well. Do you believe that?

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew greater works than this, that ye may marvel. [John 5:19-20]
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew greater works than this, that ye may marvel. [John 5:19-20]
Now, Jesus said that in Himself He could do nothing; He could only do what the Father showed Him to do. That's the Scripture. Jesus said, "It's not Me that doeth the works; it's My Father that dwelleth in Me; He doeth the works." Is that right? God... [John 14:10]

Now, in Psalms 103:3, He said:
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all of His benefits: Who forgiveth all thy iniquities; Who healeth all of thy diseases. [Psalms 103:2-3]
Now, I have never... I've had some very rank criticism. Some people practicing Divine healing don't believe in a doctor. You have--you can have your own ideas about it, but I believe in doctors. I believe God put them here on earth, and they're His helpers; but there's none of them that can heal you. They can set a bone, pull a tooth. But if they--if they pull a tooth, who's going to heal the socket it come out of? If they set a bone, they can put it together; look under x-rays, see if they got it right; set the bone. But who's going to heal you? Who's going to produce the calcium and stuff that heals you?




I said, "That's right. I'll agree that a hundred percent." And one of the things that thrilled my heart the other day, after being a patient there, and the Mayo Clinic told me I was a--hopeless of ever being well... I never did weigh over a hundred and thirty pounds in all my life, a hundred and thirty-five, I guess, one time, and now I weigh a hundred and fifty-five pounds and in perfect health. Prayer changes things.
The best doctors there was in South Africa and England told Mrs. Florence Nightingale that she was hopeless. But there she is. Prayer changes things.

Now, Jesus, when He was here on earth, He ministered to the sick and the needy. About seventy percent of His ministry, or more, was on Divine healing; it attracts the attention of the people. Fascinates them to the thought of...
The devil once told Job the right thing, said, "What would a man do for his skin?" That's right. A man will do anything to get well when he's sick. Maybe you've never hit that spot yet. But there may be sometime when you will hit that spot, like Mrs. Morgan, or some of these others in here that's been healed by Divine healing. [John 5:19-20], [John 14:10], [Job 2:4]

Now, notice. And never forget this, you people laying here sick and needy: The right mental attitude toward any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. When you believe, and take God at His Word, say It's so, believe It's so, God will bring it to pass.
I hope I'm not yelling at you; this thing's really got some voice now. Right.
The right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. If you're a sinner, confess your sins. Believe that God saved you, and then go testifying of it, telling people that you're saved. It'll work righteousness. After while you'll be a Christian. You believe that? [Hebrews 11:6]

Look [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit--Ed.], my dear friends, this is not some fanaticism, not some little worked up something in a corner. About seven or eight years ago, people said the program can't go over; it'll never be. But when the Angel of the Lord appeared to me out there on Green's Mill bank, out there in that little cabin that night, He told me to go, and I'd be praying for statesmen, and great men, and kings, and monarchs. It would sweep around the world, and now, there's a revival sweeping the world, originating in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Amen. Oh, how wonderful.

And that's the same thing on Divine healing. There's people go around with a bunch of work up and fanaticism, calling it Divine healing. That don't take away the value of God's Word and His death at the cross. It only makes it more conspicuous that it is right. For as long as there's a bogus something, there's bound to be a real one for it to be made off of. It's only a vindication that there is a real one.

Now, then He put in Calvary those great things and every... Here it is; I hope you see it. Look. Every Christian believer has a right to any of those redemptive blessings that Christ Jesus died for. There you go. But it's out of practice. People's afraid to take God at His Word. Do not be afraid. God's under obligation to make it so. [Isaiah 53:5]

Look, laying in here in front of me. 'Course it's just a little one night meeting. Sometimes they lay by thousands. But I guess if I would collect the testimonies that I've seen take place, infallible proofs, doctors witnessed it, in the past six years I've been on the field, would make over a hundred thousand. And I've seen sarcomas cancer healed by the right mental attitude towards God's Divine Word (That's right.), if you'll believe It, accept It.

Here they are setting right here tonight: infallible proofs; not something that happened across the street, but something happened here. [Hebrews 3:1]

If you would realize that you're sons and daughters of God by the death of Christ, and you have a checkbook in your hand to draw any dividends out of Calvary that Christ died for. Amen. That's right. Don't be afraid. Put it to work. Let your faith get started one time; turn it loose. [Psalms 103:1-3]


Now, the critics on the outside say, "Oh, John, there's no difference in you. Why, you look just the same as you al--..." But, you might look the same; you might not feel any different; but in your heart you believe you're different. See? Then you confess that you're different. "He that will confess Me before men, I'll confess him before the Father and the holy angels." [Hebrews 3:1]

Now, what if you come to the altar, say, "Well, I don't know." But in your heart you believe you're saved and don't say nothing about it? You'll never be saved until you believe it, accept it, and confess it. [Isaiah 55:3]



When Satan comes in and said, "If thou be the Son of God, turn these stones to bread," He said, "It is written: man shall not live by bread alone." He taken Him up on the pinnacle of the temple. Jesus said, "It is written." He took Him up on a high mountain, showed Him the kingdoms of the world, said, "I'll give them all to you, if you'll fall down and worship me." Jesus said, "It is written." See? Always, "It's written," the Word. [Matthew 4:1-11], [Luke 4:1-13]
The Word of God is a Seed. Accept It in your heart: believe It; water It; testify of It; take It as your own personal need and God will bring it to pass. [Luke 8:11]

When I was a little boy, I was borned up here in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in a little log cabin. My dear old mother sets here tonight in this auditorium. She was fifteen years old when I was born. My father was about eighteen.
The morning when I was born, he was standing with his (They tell me.)--with his hands in the bibs of his overalls. And a little old window in the side of the hut, after I was borned, a Light came into that window, settled down where I was. It's been with me from that day to this.

Right here at Mr. Wathen's on Utica Pike when I was packing water in two little syrup buckets, out of the bush come a sound of "Whew." [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] I didn't see no leaves blowing nowhere, and looked up in the tree, looked like a barrel-size, going back and forth in the tree. And out of there come an audible voice and it said, "Don't you never smoke or drink or defile your body in any way. There'll be a work for you to do when you get older."
I'm at home. I'm among people. I'm among young ladies that I went with in my young days. I'm amongst boys here, boyfriends that I played together. I ask you today if you ever seen me smoke, drink, or be drunk, or--or defile myself in--in that way? No, sir. I did not. Not for my goodness, but it's by His mercy, His foreordained will for me to do this.

And a man can come through this country, tell you anything, minister can speak of anything. Man is subject to making mistakes and telling stories. Man's word's just a man's word. But when God speaks that it's so, then you believe it, because it is so. God's Word will be worth more in the next few minutes than all the words that I could say.


Thank you, Teddy. [Brother Branham speaks to Brother Teddy--Ed.]
He said, "The things that I do, shall you do also, and greater than this shall you do, for I go to My Father." Is that right? Do you believe so?
Now, you sick people, look here for a minute now. Do you believe that that is the truth, that Jesus said in Saint John 14:7--or--or I mean 14:12, "The things that I do, shall you also; and greater than this shall you do, for I go to My Father"? And Jesus plainly stated... Now, listen, and outside, I hope you hear. Jesus plainly stated that He could do nothing of Himself, but what God showed Him to do in a vision, that's what He done. Is that right? [John 14:12]

And what did Nathanael say? Now, you Bible teachers here, so what'd he say? He said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?" A mean city, wicked, bad, worse than Jeffersonville. And then...?... So then he said, "Could any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said "Come and see."
And when He came up to where Jesus was, Jesus was in the prayer line. And when Nathanael came up, Jesus said, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there's no guile." In other words--in other words, "You're a good Christian man, a truthful man."
And Nathanael was surprised, and he said, "When did You know me, Rabbi?" or teacher, reverend.
He said, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the tree, I saw you." Is that Scripture?
Now, what if Philip would've said--or Nathanael would've said then like many people say today, "It's reading your mind; it's mental telepathy"? Well then, the Script--would've--the thing would never been done. But he said, "Thou art the Son of God." Is that right? [John 1:43-50]

Now, if I come, my brother and sister tonight, and told you that the spirit of some great artist was in me, you'd expect me to put a canvas out here on this place and paint a picture like the artist would paint it. Is that right? If the spirit of the artist was in me...
And if I told you the spirit of some criminal, John Dillinger, was in me, then you'd expect me to have big guns and be an outlaw like John Dillinger was. If his spirit is in me, I'll act like him. And if we are Christians and the Spirit of Christ is in us, we do the works of Christ. [John 4:1-21]


I was in Los Angeles, California, having meetings. Now, listen here just the way the meeting takes place, before we start. I pray; I fast. I just come out of a meeting: I've been gone now for two days; I've been home, been back to the house a couple times. Go off to myself and pray, not eating, fasting, waiting. And there's something comes down, takes over my life, my body, and I'm not myself. No more...
That light can't say, "See what a light I am?" That bulb isn't making light; it's the current going through the bulb that makes light. And before there can be any light in there, there would have to be a switch to make a contact, and then the light comes forth.

Someone come to me and said, "You know who that was?" one of my managers.
I said, "No."
Said, "That's Congressman Upshaw. Did you ever hear of him?"
I said, "No, sir."
He said, "He run for President."
I said, "It... I don't remember him."
And he said, "He's been an invalid, crippled for sixty-six years."
I said, "Yes, sir."
And said--he said, "Well, what's going to happen?"
I said, "I don't know."

And I turned back around, and I said to my brother, "Bring me your patient." And then way down, way in, I heard someone crying, and I looked; and here was a hospital stretcher like these along here, and an old colored woman crawling on her knees, coming behind, screaming, "God be merciful to me." And I looked, and there was the little colored girl that I seen in the vision. She said, "Lordy, mercy." She said, "Parson, you told just exactly the kind of doctor that was. Is God going to let my baby live?"
I said, "Auntie, I don't know." I said, "I can only speak what I see."
And she said, "O God, have mercy, have mercy," kept crying. The little thing's paralyzed. She's...
I said, "It's been about two years, hasn't it, Auntie?"
She said, "That's what it's been, sir."
And I turned around to call the patient. I looked, and I seen something in front of me. And I seen a--something materializing, it looked like a road. But it was a street, and going down that street, went that little colored girl with a doll on her arm, walking like this. Brother, sister, all those devils in hell couldn't stop it then. I said, "Auntie, your faith has saved the child; it's whole."

Then, notice, she said, "Is my baby healed?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am." And she caught the little thing by the hand, and the little baby raised up, threw it's arms around mother, got up and walked out of the building, perfectly whole. People begin fainting.

Come here, Mr. Upshaw, my brother. Here's a man that was a cripple for sixty-six years. God bless you, Brother Willie. [The congregation applauds--Ed.] ... Say anything you wish to say to the people.

You don't how happy I am to put my arms of fellowship around this dear man of God, and what he means--has meant to me. I know he doesn't mind if I say this word to you. The night the meeting closed, in which my healing came, he authorized, he knew that I wanted to cover the six states that I have not yet covered since I got off the bed where I stayed seven years. He authorized and offered me to buy a car, and he knew I had given away all that I'd ever made, helping people in distress. I think he'd be happy now, as he started it, to know that that car just lacks two hundred and twenty dollars of having enough to complete it, and start out on our--some of these trips. And that everybody that shakes hands with Mrs. Upshaw and me tonight, will have a dollar in it, or something else, and...?... and you far more than covered, 'cause you put gasoline money besides; or if you can't do that, send it to a--a Hotel Times Square, New York, we...
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Remember this, you who are stretched out here and want to be healed; step out as God helped me to do. I said, "God voice has spoke with me, though I asked Brother...] "Branham" [Branham said, "The Congressman is healed." I said, "It's the voice of God." And I've been the happiest man since I threw away my crutches and started out to witness to His healing as well as His saving power. The happiest man that's ever been in Jeffersonville since Columbus discovered America--Ed.]

Abraham was a hundred and twenty-five years old. Before Isaac was born to him, God gave him a promise and Abraham testified of it for twenty-five years before Isaac ever come on earth. Is that right? He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever. His promises are still true.

And the things that I have said to you tonight, concerning Divine healing and His power, they are true. They are true with my Bible here at my heart. They're the truth. I can make no one well.

A seer... How many here ever dreamed a dream? Let's see your hand. All right. Most all normal people do. That's your subconscious, we'll call it. Now, listen to this. Your subconscious... Here's a nor--your conscious, and here's your subconscious. Where that you people didn't dream a dream at all, theirs is way back. Now, I believe God deals in dreams (That's right.): King Nebuchadnezzar, and Joseph, and many of them, and so forth, He dealt in dreams. But a seer isn't that way. [Daniel 2:1], [Genesis 37:5]


And while I was setting there, I happened to look standing in front of me, and there stood a very green worm-eaten apple, knotty. And I thought, "Well, where..." And it was just so real, just like you look here. I reached out, and I seen it move. And I seen; I said... I knew it was a vision. And here come another one, and another one, and another one: five of them came. Then a great big apple came down from heaven and eat up those five knotty apples. And the Angel of the Lord spoke inside the room and He said, "This is concerning your Brother Hall."
I said, "Brother Hall," went to him, said, "Don't you worry. You've had... How many--how many weeks you been sick, Brother Hall?"
He said, "Five."
I said, "But the time is coming for your deliverance." He was down to--wasn't it just like this picture here. And here he is setting in the building tonight, eating, going on his business, praising God. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Hold up your hand, Brother Hall. There he is right there; that's the man. A few weeks ago...
And, doctor, I seen you setting back there. There's a man who was going die the other day. Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Amen. He's quite worthy of all praises. Thank you, sir. That's a minister from Milltown, the same place where by vision...

"No," said, "there's some trouble come up and they hadn't used it for nothing."
I said, "Lord, if You want me to go in that church, open the door."
And the man came by in a few minutes and opened the door for me. Went in and started a meeting. Still I wondered. Mr. Hall came in that on the very first night and was converted. He's the pastor down there now.

Two weeks or three weeks later, I come back and had another service. She wanted to be baptized. She hadn't been out of the bed. And I went home with Mr. Wright setting here, for dinner, after I'd had a baptismal service. She cried all day. She seen this Nail girl here; she may be here in the building tonight, from the Methodist church up at--at--I forget the name of the place up here above Salem. Crippled in her right ha--right foot and left hand; arthritis had drawed her up. She was healed instantly by a vision.

I said, "Oh, I'm uneducated, Sir." He was a Man, not just a shadow. He was a Man, weighed about two hundred pounds, had dark hair to His shoulders, and had His arms folded like that. Said, "You were born for this purpose."
And I said, "Sir, they wouldn't believe me; I'm uneducated."
He said, "As it was with the prophet Moses, He gave him two signs to a vindicate his ministry, so will you be given two signs." And said, "One of them, you'll take hold of the person's hands, and not you speak, but I'll speak through you and tell you what's wrong with the patient. The next thing, you'll go like--like our Master did, and tell them the things that they've done in their life that's hindered and caused, like our Master did." Well, that was hard for me to stand here before my friends in Jeffersonville, and around, and make that first statement. [Exodus 4:1-8]

And down there at Milltown that day, I went on out to Mr. Wright's to eat supper. Here he sets, right here. And he... I said, "Brother Wright, I must go up on the hill to pray." And I went up--up there and knelt down in the bushes, and I was praying, and stickers sticking me. It seemed like I couldn't quit praying. I heard the dinner bell ring, and I know that Mother Wright wanted us to come. I just kept on praying and praying. I said, "Lord, what do You want me to do?" And all at once, here come that Light, came right down through a dogwood bush, shined right down on me; and I heard a voice say, "Go by the way of Carters." That was enough.

I said, "She'll be healed in the next thirty minutes. If it isn't so, then brand me a false prophet and say I don't know what I'm talking about." We got in the car. The same time, her mother had got so seriously. Her little girl had been crying. She'd laid there and set there by her daughter for nine years and eight months till she'd turned gray. And so she went in, was praying in the room and asking God what had happen, that I'd come through the country and made that statement to the girl, and--or the girl was all upset and so forth. And she claimed she seen a vision of somebody coming; she thought it was her daughter, next door, coming down.
She looked and it was Jesus standing there, a shadow on the wall. He said, "Who's this a coming?" And she seen me get out of the car with this same Bible over my heart, and she could see all my hair being thin there, and knew it was me coming, said, "Who's this?" And she jumped up to run and to tell Georgie about it, and no sooner she got in the room, the door closed, and I was walking out into the car. God's works on both ends of the line. He's always on time.

They couldn't even put a bedpan under the girl; they had to use a draw sheet for years. There's her mother. That's right. And she was in such a condition, and there they'd showed me her bed the other day when I was down there, all the paint rubbed off of it where she'd hold her hands and cry and pray like that holding it, rubbing it, that... And she couldn't even get her hands back down. When she'd go to cough, she'd go, "[Brother Branham illustrates--Ed.]" in the sputamin cup, when her mother would hold it up.

Is that testimony true, Mrs. Carter, wherever you are? If you'll raise your hand, wherever you are. That--that's it; raise your hand. That... Mr. Wright, is that testimony true? Yeah. Any where, friends? It could be the thousands.

All right come [The congregation sings "Only Believe."--Ed.]

We thank Thee for all that You've done for humanity; for hospitals, and for doctors, and nurses, and the many great aids that You've give us. Lord, we thank Thee. And, Father, may yonder in the laboratories and around, may soon find something to aid cancer and heart trouble and these great things that's taking so many of the people. We pray for them, Lord.

And now, as Thou has met in others countries and around, here they lay tonight, Lord, paralyzed, laying here on stretchers and cots, and setting in chairs. They're out there with heart trouble, cancer, TB, I guess, and all kinds of diseases. I do not know one of them. Thou knowest all of them.
Father, I realize that Jesus paid the great price at Calvary. Now, will You send the Angel of God upon Your servant, that I might be able through a vision to see these people that would encourage them to believe on the Lord and be healed. Grant it, Lord. Bless them altogether now.
And I'm going to wait on You. I know You're here. You said a sparrow can't fall without You know about it. And You're so sensitive to even know a sparrow that falls and every one that falls. How much more You're sensitive to these poor crippled suffering, bed-bound people laying here. Be merciful, Almighty God, and help me now. If I spoke of You, You speak of me, Lord, that I told the truth, will You, Father? And confirm it with signs and wonders; for we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Child, Jesus. Amen. May be seated. [Matthew 10:29]

But here's one thing that I do know: diseases are backed by demonology. If you don't know what I mean... Like Jesus, when a man was deaf and dumb, the doctors say, "Now, his vocal chords are dead." Said, "What killed it? Why didn't it kill all over his body?" Jesus said, "When the deaf and dumb spirit came out of the man, he could speak and hear." "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned; these signs shall follow them that believe." Is that right? "They lay your hands on the sick; they shall recover. In My Name they shall cast out devils." [Mark 16:15-19]

Look at Jesus, when they come up there, and they brought this boy had epilepsy. He said, "He has a devil, and oft time he falls in the fire and so forth like that," and Jesus rebuked the devil, and the boy's fainting fell away, raised up well.
Look at those boys who thought they seen Paul casting out devils, doing these kind of works, and they thought they could do it too. So they went down (Acts 19), and they told a man who had epilepsy, called that devil, said, "We adjure thee by Jesus, who Paul preaches, come out."
The devil said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" And they took epilepsy themselves. You have to know what you're talking about. See? And this is no way at all.[Matthew 17:14-19], [Acts 19:13-17]

I was trying to get the epilepsy to leave this little child; there's a minister setting back there with his group of people: twenty-eight of them, that wouldn't believe and didn't believe in Divine healing. And I couldn't get it to leave the child. I said, "Somebody isn't believing." I looked back; I said, "It's the man setting there with the gray suit on, and that bunch of people with him." And I said, "Keep your head down, sir."
And he said, "I don't have to."
I said, "You're a...?..." I said, "Father, don't hold this poor little innocent child guilty for that person. Satan, come out and you're at large." And twenty-eight people fell on the floor with epilepsy right there. That's true. See? It's not playing church, friends. If you don't understand, be reverent. Now, remember, you are wrong...?...

Now, when the anointing comes on, I want you to understand this. If you see me acting strange, I'm in a subconscious condition. It's when that anointing comes down, it's something else speaking, not me. Let every man know that assuredly. Now, be just as reverent. Keep your children close to you. Keep just as quiet as you can now, while we pray. [Acts 2:36]

Now, come, Lord. Take me away and put Yourself in, that the works of God might be done here in this city. Remember when You went to Your city, they said, "We heard Him do these things over somewhere else. Let us see Him do them here." And He marveled at their unbelief. They said, "Who is this, the carpenter's son?"
Then You said, "A prophet's not without honor except in His own country." But, Father, these people here love me. They believe. And help tonight, for I ask it in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus. Amen. [Matthew 13:53-58], [Mark 6:1-6]

Now, to you people out in this a way that's sick, bound, and afflicted, without your prayer cards or so forth, now, you look here. And you look this way and believe with all your heart, and accept the story I told you.
Pray to the Father like this: "Lord Jesus, I know that You promised these things in the last days. Here is our brother. We been raised with him. And we know he's just a man, just a poor illiterate boy, but we believe that You're dealing with him, and I believe he told the truth. Now, if he has told the truth, You speak to him and have him to call me and tell me what's wrong with me and what I--so forth, anything that might hinder." And ask that, and watch the Holy Spirit move out over the audience then, everywhere there is in the building. He'll do it. And then, if you're a doubter and unbeliever, watch It do you the same way.


And down--down through that line there, I don't recognize anyone. I know this lady setting here; she's a nurse...?... That's right. You're with her. All right. All right, sir. Now, I believe that's it.
Now, up in the galleries and balconies, rather, just have faith and believe. Now, believe with all your heart. Just let everything drop aside. Just say, "Now, I'm going to lay everything back, and I'm going to watch."

I'm just a little short, and now, the microphone to me. I don't know when I--where I'm at when I'm doing this so many times, when It comes upon me.
How many knows that that's Scriptural? Why, Daniel saw one vision; he was troubled at his head for many days. Is that right? And Jesus, when a woman touched His garment, He said, "I perceive that virtue has gone from Me." Got so weak, He laid in the back of a boat and didn't even know the storm was on. Now, be reverent. [Daniel 4:5], [Daniel 7:5]

Now, I believe you're a stranger to me, lady. I don't--don't know you. And I--I've never seen you in my life. Well then, we're perfect strangers tonight. Now, of course, you feeled a real odd feeling. Now, that's nothing to hurt you. That's just the anointing that's coming on me. And--and you're believing me. See? You believe me, because I can feel it welcoming (You see?), and I know that you are a believer. Now, that won't hurt you; It's to--It's to heal you, to make you well.
Now, if there's anything in your life, or concerning you, that--that I don't--I would know--have no way of knowing it, 'less it be revealed to me through the Spirit. Is that right? Has to be a supernatural One.
Now, if we are strangers, hold up your hand there, so the people will see. We don't know... And the only thing that you know now, that there's a real, kind of a sacred, calm feeling here: It--it--it--it kind of satisfied feeling. If that's true, so the people can see, rai...? Right.


Yes, ma'am. Now, I see, standing before you, you're--just been under an operation, haven't you? You've had an operation some time ago. Been years ago; it was for a tumor. And that tumor was on the face, now I believe. Is that right? I see the surgeons when they're performing the operation. That tumor's come back again. Isn't that right? Is that true? All right, you're healed now; you can go off the platform and be made well. God bless you, sister.
Another thing, I noticed in there, you've been praying, haven't you? And you've never--and in your life, you haven't had a satisfaction to live just like you've always wanted to live. Is that right? That's going to be granted to you, sister. And you go on; you're going to be all right. I seen you praying, and I knew; you was praying by a chair, and that... God bless you, you go now.
Let's say, "Praise be to God." It's left her. You can look at her. She's all right then. She's well.

Almighty God, the Author of Life, and the Giver of every good gift, I bless this child in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, to in--firm the faith of this mother; may the child live and be well. In the Name of Jesus Christ, I ask this heart trouble to leave the baby. Amen.
Don't worry about your child. Your child will be all right. Take it off now. Let's say, "Thanks be to God Who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, brought Him again from the dead." Now, He's here to heal and to make well.

How many of you seen the picture of It, where they took it? Let's see your hands up like this. Where George J. Lacy, and the FBI, and all of them examined it. It's near us right here now. That's what's the matter with the lady. She feels that. Now, there's something wrong with her. I feel it moving against me (See?), just like a dark cloud going, "Whewww, whewww, whewww." [Brother Branham makes a blowing sound--Ed.] Now, what it is, I do not know. Now, I just want you to look this way, just a moment, lady. Now, try to be just as calm as you can. See? And... Now, we're strangers, I believe. I don't know you. I don't--I don't believe I ever seen you. Well, then we'd be--we'd be perfectly total strangers then. [The lady speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] Yes. Now, there's nothing here that will hurt you, lady. Now, you--I want you to look this way to me. Just look to me and believe with all your heart you're going to be healed. Do you believe? All right.

Our heavenly Father, we thank Thee for Thy mercy. And I pray Thee to bless this woman, who I bless in Thy Name. And may, now, Your Spirit come upon her. She wants to live. And I ask for this blessing. And may this hideous demon of cancer leave the woman; in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Amen. God bless you, sister. Now, go testifying of your healing, and praise Him with all your heart.

A few days ago, when you heard of this meeting, you told God that if you'd get--let you get up, you'd be prayed for, and you'd be healed. Isn't that right? And you're taking some kind of a shots for that, aren't you, sister? Yes, I see you're taking; I see them give it to you in the... Isn't that right? Come here. Do you believe me as God's prophet? Have I told you the truth? And you believe that comes from God? Well, if I told you what was truth, then by the Spirit of God, I tell you what's truth now. You go out of here; be real happy. You're going to be well, for Christ has blessed you, and you're going out to be well. God bless you, sister. Yes, ma'am.
Could we say, "Thanks be to God." That might not seem very much to you, but what if that was you? Have faith in God. Believe Him with all your heart and God will bring it to pass.

Let's say, "Praise be to our Lord." That might seem very strange to you, but that's the same thing that Congressman Upshaw, when he was an invalid for sixty-six years, was made whole. He's here. His Presence is here now. He knows all things, and He can do all things.

All right, lady, come. Now, every one real reverent. I trust to God, we could get down in this cripple line, just in a little bit.
Howdy do, lady? Do you believe with all your heart? You believe? You believe that God will make you well? You'd like to get over that asthma condition, wouldn't you? Yes. Wouldn't like... Go, as you have believed, it will be to you. And may God bless you. That was really...
Now, just a moment. Every one real reverent now. Every one reverent. Let the lady, come.

Howdy do, lady? I perceive that you're a believer. Now, that lovely feeling... If our Lord Jesus was here, He could tell you what was wrong with you. He could help you, could He? Well then, if He was--if He was standing here, He--only thing He could do would be to tell you what was wrong with you or--or your hindrance with something. Isn't that right? See? He could--He's already made the atonement for your healing. Now, look this a way, just a moment. Would you like to be free from that nervousness? You would? Raise up your hand like this, say, "Thank You, Lord." Now, go on your road and be well in the Name of the Lord Jesus. God bless you, sister.

All right, come, lady. Do you believe me to be God's servant? You do? Do you believe that the--Jesus that bore the cross of Calvary stands present now and here at the platform to make you well? You do? Been failing for a while, haven't you? Yes, ma'am. All right, you'd like to get over that asthma that you have. Come here just a moment. Father, I bless this woman in the Name of Thy Son, Jesus, that she's made well. Grant this kind blessing, in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right, lady, don't fear no more. Go on your road and be happy. Christ makes you whole.


You understand me all right now? Hear me do that? How long have you been that way? You're all right now? Can you hear all right. It's all gone. You're healed now. You can go on your road rejoicing. God bless you, sister. Let's say, "Thanks be to God." The little woman... Yes. All right. Everybody be reverent.

All right, come here just a moment. I want to show you something. I want you to look at my hand. Looks just like an ordinary man's hand, doesn't it? I want to show you the effects of a cancer. Lay your hand in here on mine. Now, look at there. See those little white things running across my hand? I would call that a vibration of cancer. Want the audience to look at that.
Now, watch here. I'll take my hand off. Look at my hand now. See? I put my hand on it. Put this other hand over here on it, sister. Come here, Billy. I know there's nothing wrong with you. Touch my boy's hand here. I'm going to put--look at my hand now; just normal like any other man. Is that right? Now, watch here. I'll put my hand on. Now, put your left hand on it. Now, change your hands, sister. Now, put this hand on. Now, looky there. See what I mean? Now, there's something that you know that's there. Now, I believe in the vision told you what it was: cancer.

Now, I can't make it leave the woman. I know what she has. Now, there's a life in there; a growth, malignant. It's going to take her life, if something is... Now, the only thing could happen would be like, if you would take her life out of her, her body would drop down here dead. It'd still be here, but it would be--it wouldn't be active. But she'd finally decay and go away. Now, if that life goes out of the cancer, the cancer dies. The woman will be all right for about seventy-two hours, then when the cancer begins to decay, or rot, then corruption sets in, and the cancer's laying in her. The growth's dead, like a tumor or something, and a wad of flesh. And then the heart stream--or the bloodstream picks it up and makes her have fever and sick for about twenty-four hours, something like that, maybe a little longer. And then she gets all right.


Mental telepathy show something like this? You say, "You're reading the woman's mind." That's right, but I'm no mind reader. Jesus Christ read the people's minds. Is that right? He perceived their thoughts. But Jesus said... Did you ever see a mind reader preaching the Gospel? A doing any... You seen the little old sign setting out here on the street, charging people to deceive them; but Jesus said, "By their fruits you shall know them." A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, neither can a good tree bring forth corrupt fruit. Is that right? And it's not mental telepathy, certainly is not. See? [Luke 5:20-26], [Matthew 7:15-20]

But now, every one bow your head. And if anyone setting here is hard of hearing, you tell them to keep their head down during this time, and do not raise their head till I call you. I want you, lady, the patient, to watch. You're the one that has the cancer.
Our heavenly Father, Thou knowest all things and know that I'm not here trying to make a public show to display Your Divine gifts. But my heart is thrilled tonight to know that here in this city that Your--Your Spirit has anointed Your servant to see and to know of these things. And here sets my people, my brothers, my mother, many of my loved ones who's setting here. O God, how I thank Thee that Thou art ever near.
And now, this lady has come with a cancer, a hideous demon called in the medical name: cancer. You would call it a demon, which it is, a tormentor of her body. Knowing that life is just a little while for her, except Thou will help her. I pray Thee to be merciful. I've ask now that this woman here might see and show the physical results, and how my arm is stiffening and dying, feels like it's--it's asleep or something, of where the power of that enemy that's sent to take her life. God have mercy. Thou spirit of Satan, who's bound the woman, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, leave her. Come out from her.

Father, please, if I have did wrong, may You forgive me. And this enemy is trying to hold her life. And dear God, standing up yonder, You the Spirit Who came to me that night in that room and told me to go do these things, and You'd be with me, You have blessed it, Lord, and have proven it to be true. And now, Lord, I come humbly in Your Name to ask this blessing. And I just don't... Won't You, Father, please don't hold it against me to try like this would be a public show, but, Lord, bless this dear woman and give her this great witness, as she's watching my hand, reverently, knowing that her life is just a few days more unless Thou will help her. And she'll go home encouraged and be made well. Bless Thy servant, Lord. I testified of You. Now, You have said, "In My Name they shall cast out devils." Help me as I go forward in the duel of faith to challenge this great hideous demon that's taken her life. Thou demon called cancer, I come in the representative Name of Jesus Christ that died at Calvary. I charge thee by His death, claiming a gift of Divine healing that was ministered to me by an Angel, that you're aware of, come out of the woman; in the Name of Jesus Christ, leave her. Now, keep your head bowed everywhere.

Come here, sister. I want the audience here to see my hand now. Come right back around this way to see what's happened to you. Now, awhile ago when I'd take a hold of your hand, well, big white whelps would run across my hand. Look at it now. Do you see? Now, something's happened, hasn't it? What's happened? You're hea--you're healed. Go home; be well now, sister; your faith has made you whole.
Let's say, "Praise be to God." The Bible said, "The people praised God for such wonderful..." That's not me; that's the Lord Jesus, your Saviour. He's here at the platform. The very same act that was in the Scripture is being done right here. Believest thou this? All right. Have faith.

Let's say, "Praise the Lord." Let's hear this audience say, "Praise the Lord." Praise the Lord. That sounds good.

Let's say, "Thanks be to our Lord Jesus," every one now. Amen. Have faith in God; God will bring it to pass. You believe? Our Lord Jesus is here now.



Howdy do, lady? You're the one that's come here, the patient? I... Don't think it strange... I see a table coming before me. It's got food on it, and you're refusing it. You have stomach trouble which is caused by an acid condition, a peptic which is in the stomach caused from a nervous condition, causing your food to sour, and have acid in your stomach, and so forth. You believe me as God's prophet? Is that true? You... Is that right? You believe me as His prophet? Go home and eat what you want to; Jesus Christ makes you whole. Amen. Yes. God bless you, lady. Let's say, "Praise the Lord."




That's right; give her a hand there, some of you ushers. All right, believe. Look this way, every one of you. Here. All right, lady. Look right this way, every one of you. Be reverent while they're getting up. Looky here. Do you believe back there? Some of you pray.

Do all of you believe? Are you ready? Raise up your hands now.
Our heavenly Father, we ask You now, in the Name Your Son Jesus Christ, to heal every person that's in Divine Presence just now, that they'll be made altogether whole. Satan, leave this congregation. Come out of every person in here...?...