God's Provided Way
53-0513, God's Provided Way, Bible Hour Tabernacle, Jonesboro, AR, 48 min





And so we didn't advertise the meetings because that we were, you know, for a few days where we could teach and preach a little while, and--and kind of get the things lined up. We hope to be back with you again soon, if the Lord tarries.

So we're going right back to the same place again, where the Lord has promised me by a vision... Many of you wants to hear about if a vision speaks and what it will come to pass. Now, you write this in your Bible, like you did the--the little boys to be resurrected from the dead in Finland. You remember that? You seen it in "The Voice of Healing" and so forth after two years it had been predicted.
We're going to have a meeting there, which will--will be three times the size of the other one. There will be three hundred thousand people in the meeting. See if that isn't true.

There's going to somewhere, I don't know. There's a little baby, got a little white shock of hair, set in front of its head here, just about eight, ten months old, something like that. I... very poor judge of age. It's going to die. Something is in its throat or chest that'll kill it. It'll be carried out on a canvas stretcher, colored green, to an undertaker wagon to take it away. I will be coming by at that time, and will recognize the vision. God will give the baby back its life. It'll go back into the house again, and be well. Now, just see if that isn't true.
I'm watching for a little boy, red-headed. His mother will have one of those things that women wear around their heads, what is... scarfs, you know. And she's tall thin woman, the little boy is about so high with polio, very badly crippled. He's going to be made instantly whole. When I see him, I will know him, the vision. Now, he... And see... You'll watch, and you'll see those things that'll come to pass.

I was talking to Brother Reed; I'd like to bring that right outside of Jonesboro and pitch it for about a month, somewhere out there, have a good old fashioned meeting. We get all the churches everywhere to cooperate, no matter who they are, let them cooperate. Now, 'course, we know there'll be many that won't, and many that would not cooperate. But there's some that doesn't believe in Divine healing. They've never had a touch of God; they can't believe. They just can't believe. There's nothing there to believe with. See? There's just... If there's no life, there's just no life. That's--that's just it. So you, well, you don't want to argue with the people. The Bible said just let them alone. We've had them all through the ages, started back there with Cain. They come all down through the age, and now the whole vine is going to seed, and we're... Sure, it'll be these days, so, be very, very ecclesiastical, very orthodox too, in belief: but just simple, strictly, unbelievers, born in the world for that purpose, and couldn't believe if they had to; the Bible said so. And that's the Word of God: borned in the world, foreordained to this condemnation. So we just have to have that. But where the carcass is the eagles will be gathered. Where God is moving people come to worship God. It's always been. [Jude 1:4], [Matthew 24:28]





I will say, "Oh, brother, I'm so glad to see you." Just think of that long supper table. Then the King will come out in His beautiful garments and wipe all tears from our eyes, saying, "Don't cry no more; we're all here now. It's all over. Last prayer meeting is over now: no more fasting, no more praying. We're all Home. Now, enter into the joys of the Lord." That's what I want to hear. That's what I'm working hard, day and night, all the time that I can to do. [Matthew 25:20-23]


I want to read some Scripture out of Saint John the 3rd chapter. And I will make it quick so that we can go right into the line. Now, first verse beginning at the 8th, or 9th verse of the 3rd chapter.
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Verily, I say unto you, We speak that what we know, testify of that what we see; and you receive not our witness.
If I've told you earthly things, and you've not believed, how shall you believe, if I tell you heavenly things?
And no man ascended up to heaven, but he that come down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: [John 3:9-14]
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Verily, I say unto you, We speak that what we know, testify of that what we see; and you receive not our witness.
If I've told you earthly things, and you've not believed, how shall you believe, if I tell you heavenly things?
And no man ascended up to heaven, but he that come down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: [John 3:9-14]

We've often thought of how, if we were looking for Jesus, what we would have to look for. If He promised He'd be with us to the end of the world, then surely, though our faith failed, yet He's here. If our faith failed, yet He is faithful: He cannot disown Himself. He's here. And if I... [Hebrews 13:8]

And when faith comes in, no matter how much unbelief stands around, the light is greater than the darkness. And I believe God is just as real in this room tonight, as that light is, as the light on my hand, and just as close as the light is on my hands.


I said, "Well, then the Bible's all wrong."
And he said, "Oh, you can't... Do you preach Divine healing by the Bible, by the atonement?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Brother Branham," 'course he knowed I didn't have any education. And he said, "Brother Branham, if I will prove to you that you're wrong by the Bible, will you accept it?"
I said, "Yes, brother. Certainly, anybody can show me wrong by the Scripture, then I will--I will accept it. I don't want to be wrong."
And he said, "All right. And you preach Divine healing by the atonement?"
I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "Isaiah's prophecy there about..."
I said, "Yes, sir."
And I... He said, "Brother Branham, if Divine healing..." Now listen close everyone, he said, "If Divine healing was in the atonement, there wouldn't be any more pain. A man couldn't even have a pain if Divine healing's in the atonement, 'cause the atonement makes it so covered, that there wouldn't be even pain."
I said, "Brother, do you believe there is salvation in the atonement for the soul?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Is there temptation?"
And he said, "You apply it to Isaiah?"
I said, "Yes, sir." 'Course, without education, I have to depend on the Holy Spirit for His wisdom.
He said, "Don't take no thought what you will say, it'll be given to you at that minute."
I've been twisted around, crossed the world three times now, and He's never failed yet. He won't. [Isaiah 53:5]

And I said, "Yes, sir."
He said, "All right, Matthew 8 said, that when evening was come, they brought to Him the multitudes of people, that He might heal them, and He healed them all, which was to fulfill which Isaiah the prophet said, "Himself took our infirmities.'"
I said... He said, "You see Brother Branham, that proved that it was fulfilled right there, because the Bible said that it was fulfilled."
I said, "Brother, would you mean to say that you believe that--that Isaiah's prophecy, 'He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for iniquities,' and so forth, 'and with His stripes we're healed,' the healing taken place there that fulfilled it?"
He said, "That's what the Bible said."
I said, "Then the atonement had more power before it was made, than after it was made, after it come in effect, 'cause that was a year and six months before Jesus even died. The atonement hadn't even been made. So how could it be?"
And he said, "Then..."
18 "Well," I said, "I want to ask you something, brother." He got to using great big words, and I said, "Now, don't go to speaking in unknown tongues to me, because I can't understand it. See? I said, "You just talk plain every day English, just like used here in the King James version," and I said, "we'll understand each other." And I said, "I want to ask you something. Will you admit that Divine healing is in the Word? In the Word?" I just wanted him to say that. See, be it knowed.
He said, "Yes, it's in the Word, but the atonement is over the Word. See?" And he said, "Cause I... In Mark 11, some of them said, "Mark 16, is not inspired," but Mark 11:24 said, "Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive it." See? Whatsoever!
He said, "Yes, it's in the Word, but it's not in the atonement."
I said, "You mean God put it in the Word, without putting it in the atonement?"
Said, "The atonement is over the Word; that's where you make your failure, Brother Branham." [Isaiah 53:5]

"And the slave said, 'Get me a glass of water.' And so they brought him a glass of water. And the poor fellow knowed he was going to die, so he was shaking so hard, he couldn't hold the glass in his hand. And he said, 'Now, wait a minute. Before you... 'Fore I take your life, I'm going to... You drink that water before I take your life. And I'm not going to take your life till you drink that glass of water.' And the slave throwed the water on the ground." [Isaiah 53:5]

"Well," he said, "of course, Brother Branham, that was a slip up on the king."
I said, "Then God is so loose, He let it slip up, and put it in His Word, and not put it in the atonement? No, no, don't tell that to me. No, He can't do it. No."
You can't deny but what it's in the Word, and if it's in the Word, the atonement's to back the Word up for every Word of God is inspired.
Said, "Do you believe Mark 16 inspired?"
I said, "Yes, sir. Every..."
"All from 9th verse on?" [Mark 16:9-20]

One time there was woman, her boy went away to college. And he learned a whole lot, you know. And while he was gone away to some great college to learn all about God and everything, his poor old mother got sick; and the doctors about to give her up. She had pneumonia and was going to die.
So this little old woman lived down the street, went to a mission, the Full Gospel Mission. So it come back up, and told her, said, "Now, lady," said, "do you believe, your pastor, believe in praying for the sick?"
Said, "No, I don't believe we believe in Divine healing down there." [Mark 16:15-18]

She said, "Well, all right." And so the pastor come up, and anointed her with oil, and prayed for her. And the woman got well. So her--her boy came home from the cemetery, seminary, a little later on. So when... I--I get those two mixed up, and there are so close together anyhow. So I got... It got up there. [Mark 16:15-18]

Said, "Oh, honey, didn't you understand?"
Said, "No."
Said, "You know where that little mission is downtown there?"
"Yes."
Said, "That Full Gospel preacher come up and prayed for me, anointed me with oil, and the Lord healed me. Hallelujah!"
"Why," he said, "mother, the very idea. Why," said, "of course, those are illiterate people down there." Said, "They do not understand." Said, "We have learned at the seminary, that Mark 16..." [Mark 16:15-18]

"Why," she... he said, "mother," said, "Mark 16 from the 9th verse on is not inspired."
She stood there a little bit; she said, "Well, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord."
He said, "Mother, what's the matter with you?"
Said, "I was just a-thinking. If God could heal me with uninspired Word, what could He do with that really is inspired?"
If the uninspired Word would heal, what would that was really inspired? What Mark 11:24 do? What would others do? John 4, John 14:12, and so forth. See? It's all inspired. [Mark 16:15-18], [Mark 11:24], [John 14:12]

Now, in a moment we'll pray for the sick. God always had a provided way. He's got a provided way for nature. He's got a provided way for everything. [John 3:14]


What is it? You say, "It's instinct. The duck has instinct." Well, if God provided a way with a duck to have sense enough to escape the cold, what about a man led by the Holy Ghost? What would you call that? How to escape your sickness and your diseases and your troubles and your cold spells. God leads. The Holy Spirit leads man. But the trouble, duck know their leaders, but we don't. The Holy Spirit talk to us about something, you let Dr. So-and-so explain it all away for you. That's where it's at. [Romans 8:14]

You go rabbit hunting and watch them rabbits right down under the grass, a-sitting way back. Watch out for cold weather, no matter what the paper says. God's give them instinct. He made them with instinct.

He said, "Son, there's coming a storm."
And I said, "Storm? Why I don't see no storm."
He stopped. I will never forget the old fellow, he said, "But, son, you don't understand." Said, "God has given a horse an instinct. Now, he can smell that storm; it's way away."

I remember, hunting up one day in the mountains, how beautiful up there in Colorado. I know we go elk hunting, not to kill the beast, so much as it was just to be alone. Remember one day up there, I was walking around come a storm, early fall, about October. And I was way back, seventy miles from civilization, camping back there, and it come a real hard rain storm. And I got behind a tree; the rains blowed over. The elk hasn't come down yet. They was way high in the mountain. And as they... As the rains begin to blow, I got behind the tree, and it turned cold. After the rain was over, I looked out, and the evergreens was froze where the rain hit it. And a rainbow come out, like that, across the valley. Oh, my, you talk about deep calling to the deep. I got to feeling real good. You know what I mean.
And after while, I heard an old gray wolf howl up here, and a mate answer it down in the bottom. Oh, my. My mother's a half-breed. So you know I--I couldn't stand it much longer. Something crying out.

I heard a noise over here, a lot of fussing and going on. There was a little old what we call "pine jack," little old squirrel about that long, eats pine cones, fussy little fellow. Oh, my, he's like the Irishmen's owl, just all fuss and feathers. I looked at him. He was setting on a stump, just a chirping around. I thought, "What's he fussing about? Maybe he's scared of me." And I happened to look, coming up under an old blow down there, where some trees had blowed down years ago, and there was a big, great big eagle coming out from under there. Did you ever see a big white head eagle? Oh, he's a beautiful specie. He come pulling out of there. And that little old squirrel was barking at him.

And I thought, "Lord, what'd You got me standing here crying?" And I was having a spell. I would run around and around that tree, and scream to the top of my voice, and jump up-and-down, and throw my arms... You'd have thought I was a fanatic, sure enough, you'd seen me then. Wasn't nobody there to hear me, but the Lord, but I was shouting to Him. I set my gun down, and around and around and around the tree I went, hollering, "Hallelujah. Hallelujah," around and around and around the tree again. I guess that eagle thought I was a peculiar specie. So he looked over at me. [Romans 8:28]

I thought, "How brave he is." I thought, "What makes him so brave?" And I watched him. I thought, "Maybe he's scared of me." And I grabbed my gun like that. And he just batted those big eyes, looked at me. I thought, "He's not afraid of me."


And I watched him a few minutes. Finally he got tired of that little old pine squirrel just barking at him, and he just give one big jump, like that, flopped about twice, not run here, and run there, and run there, just give about two flops, and he set his wings. He never flopped his wings one more time. And I watched him. He just knowed how to ride them air currents, and he went on up. The air hit him again and he went up, up. I stood there crying with my hands up. Left that little old earthbound, "Chatter, chatter."

If I go out tonight, and look up through them clouds out yonder... You'd see setting out in the bush here... I was noticing where I have been staying, there's an old nightingale sets out there. Oh, my. If he don't sing these dark night. And I studied the nightingale. The reason he sings, he looks around; he can see one star. And as long as he can see one star, he will sing to the top of his voice. Why? He knows the sun is shining somewhere, shining on that star. So he sings. So oh, my, if I can hear one good old fashion amen. If I can hear something take place, I can sing to the top of my voice to know that Jesus Christ is still the same yesterday, today, and forever, as long as the light's a moving. If I should looked at that star, and say, "Little star, I sure think you're pretty and shining." [Isaiah 53:5], [Hebrews 13:8]

A doctor said to me a long time ago, he said, "Brother Branham, don't you think those people are just a little nervous and worked up?"
I said, "No, sir." I said, "I don't believe it."
Said, "They just get a little bit noisy and carry on."
I said, "No, it ain't. It's something, it's not them shining. It's something shining on them. That's what does it."
I stopped by an old pool, up in the mountains here not long, where I used to lay down and drink. And I wondered what makes that pool so happy, just bubbling, jumping, bubbling, jumping, bubbling, jumping. And I said, "What makes you so happy? Maybe deers drank out of you and that's what makes you happy?"
He'd say, "No!"
I'd say, "Maybe bears drank!"
"No, that ain't what makes me happy."
"Well, what makes you bubble? Because I come by every year and drink from you."



God's provided way for you tonight, no matter how many unbelievers, they could build big ecclesiastical troughs and run all the water off here, and all the water off there. But just the same the rain is a falling, "for whosoever will, let him come and drink." That's right. For Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever...
When you hear somebody say, "Brother Branham, a divine healer?" You know that man needs to go to the psychopathic cells, because he's not right here. Something's wrong. For anybody that would know a--think a man to be a healer, that's just a... The man is working under the inspiration of the devil. I could prove that by the Bible. That's exactly right. It was the devil who always put as question mark across the Word of God.
Looky here. When Jesus was on earth, He was a prophet. Do you believe it? [Congregation says, "Amen."--Ed.] He said, "I don't do nothing till the Father tells Me."
They said, "Come down here and heal this one. Come over here and heal this one, we'll believe You." That same old ecclesiastical devil still lives, live right on: people, unbelievers. That's exactly. [John 5:19]

Then they pinned Him on a cross. And here come the holy, renown scholars of the day. Let that soak in. Scholars, holy, renown, without a blemish, teachers, high-ups, come and said, before Him said, "Now, we'll give You a proposition in this wise, "You come down off the cross and we'll accept You as the Messiah."
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they don't even know what they're doing." There... He could've come off of there.
I believe that's an Angel setting in every bush, saying, "Lord just point Your finger; we'll change this scene here."
They said, "He saved others, but Himself He can't save." The greatest comment was ever give Him, if He save Hisself, He couldn't save others. He had to give Hisself to save others. But how little did they know it: blind leading the blind (See?), the same spirit. [Matthew 27:27-43], [Mark 15:15-32]

Took Him up on the temple, said, "Now, look. It's written in the Scripture here," like they point Mark 16 to us today, "it's written in the Scripture here, 'He give the Angels charge over Thee, lest any time they dash thy foot, they bear up. ' Jump down off of here, and then when you get to the ground, just bear Yourself back up, like that." See, give Him Scripture.
Jesus turned around to him, said, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God." That's right. "It is also written." That's right. He put the Scriptures right back to him.
God has a provided way. If the doctor... Sure it's your duty to go to your doctor. It's your duty to do whatever you can for yourself. But look, brother. When you get to a place where the doctor can't help you, you've got a right to call on God. That's exactly right. And you believe it. [Matthew 4:1-11], [Luke 4:1-13]

"He was wounded for our transgression and with His stripes we were healed," past tense. The only thing in the world you can do is look and believe. Look and live. That's not pointing towards the Pentecostal church, or the Baptist church, or any other church. It's pointing towards Jesus Christ. Look and live. [Isaiah 53:5]

God has a provided way if you're ready to walk in it. Are you ready? Are you ready to believe Him? If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He will do the same things today that He did yesterday, and will forever. Is that right?
Let's bow our heads inside and out, if you will now. [Hebrews 13:8]

Bless my Brother Reed, and Sister Reed. And the little fellow, that little guy, I pray that You'll bless him: give a vision of him five years before he arrived here on earth, that he was coming. Bless the church.
Here's handkerchiefs laying here, Father. I pray that You'll bless them for their intended purpose. May every sick person that wears these, be made well.
They say, "We taken from the body of Paul, handkerchiefs and aprons. We know we're not Saint Paul, but we know You're still Jesus. It wasn't Saint Paul; it was Jesus that was within him. And the Holy Spirit is still here tonight, the same as He was, doing the same--same critics from the outside, same believing from the inside. How we thank Thee. [Acts 19:12]

Now, Christian friends, Billy was telling me while I was setting back there in the room, listening to the preaching and so forth tonight, that he had give out prayer cards all along each night. He's give out, X, W, Q, Y, to everything else, of different prayer cards. People are holding them in here. We have call from somewhere in there. Have a few here at the platform, and are you all willing to wait a little while, are you? Raise your hand if you're not too hot, or tired, just to wait a few minutes. [Exodus 13:21-22]

Now, He would know your heart, but He couldn't heal you, because God's already done that. Isn't that right? He's already done that. All right.
Now, where would we call the prayer line?...?... there. Let's... I don't know just how... If you want her to come from there, maybe get that group... walk--walk across... Is them rooms all packed out in there too, are they? But maybe if they could move back a little bit and start a prayer line till they get the prayer line lined up, then they could come back in. You think that could be done? Or, what do you think? What say? No, right here. Maybe, this group right here by the door. What say? [A man speaks to Brother Branham--Ed.] [Isaiah 53:5]

Now, let those that are in the room, kind of back there, don't push in the door, if you will, brother, sister, so we can get a little place for a prayer line.
Now, let's see, give me--give me some of those numbers, Paul, some of those letters. [Billy Paul says, "V, W, X, Y, Z."--Ed.] Oh, my. Well...