Continue in Prayer

Col. 4:2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; 3 Withal (together with) praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: 4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Continue without discontinuing; to last, endure, to be held, adhered to!

So the next morning I got up, and I went to the chair there were we always, me and my family, kneel together when I go out on the meeting. And we always pray right there in the front of that picture of Jesus, the Hoffman's head of Christ at thirty-three. And I knelt there to pray. 64-0500

THIRSTING.FOR.LIFE 60-0304 Now, you take, I went to a party one time, where... It wasn't a party; it's where that we had sold lamps… I'd sold more lamps than any of the rest of them. So they give a little time over there; we had a little dinner. And then after it was all over, they …had some dancing. Some girls come out to dance. When they did that, my boss said to me, said, "Billy, go stand back there at the door; we going to have a little clean fun." I said, "What kind of clean fun?" Said, "Would you mind stand at the door?" Said, "I know you don't believe in dancing, but these people are going to dance."

"Well," I said, "can't I wait outside?" Said, "Suit yourself." I said, "All right." And it's when I started back, …little old girl run out like that, and run out on the floor begin to doing kind of crazy looking acts …going on, her little old skirt flying around. I thought, "That's some mother's girl." I stood there at the door just a minute and looked out. I thought, "Oh, God. Really a pretty little girl. Isn't it a shame... Maybe her mother might have been a Christian."

E-46 And she started running around, grabbing each man. And she run back to me. And said, "You want to dance?" I said, "Yes ma'am. I sure do." And she said, "Come on."

Started out in the floor, I said, "Just a minute." And I held her; she was too little to get away from me. I held by her hand, I said, "There's one thing that I always make a practice of." I said, "Before I always do anything, I always pray. Will you pray with me? Bow down." I held her hand. She couldn't help it. We broke that thing up there in a few minutes. The old jazz band stopped, and they picked up their instruments and left. I said, "Mr. Hanson, you could fire me if you want to." He said, "No, Billy, you done the right thing."

CHOOSING.OF.A.BRIDE 65-0429E 8-6 And if we would study what we were doing when we were going to get married, when we choose our wife or husband, if we'd study it over... A man should pray earnestly, for he could ruin his entire life. Remember the vow is "Until death do we part." And he could ruin his life by making the wrong choice. But if he knows what he's making the wrong choice and is marrying a woman that isn't fit to be his wife, and he does it anyhow, then it's his fault. If the woman takes a husband and knows that he's not fit to be a husband to you, then that's your own fault after you know what's right and wrong. So you shouldn't do it until you thoroughly pray through.

JUDE 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Rev. 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

EXODUS 30:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy 36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy 37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

Stacte: An anointing for the dead, speaks of respect, found in a resin tree in Gilead, flowed spontaneously, no piercing, no pushing, no force!

Onchya: perfume from crab only found in Red Sea. Like prayer, it came from the depths.

Galbanum: White (purity) shrub the Syrian highlands, Your prayers can be hindered by im-purity: unconfessed sin, treatment of your wife, etc.

I PETER 3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife

as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

CHRIST.REVEALED.IN.HIS.OWN.WORD 65-0822M 33 Now, Christ and the Word is the same... I was riding with a man not long ago. He said, "Think of it. We here on this earth, the way we are, and we only know or can only say that we're saved by some Jewish fable called the Bible." I said, "Sir, I don't know how you say that, but I don't believe it's a Jewish fable." ...He said, "... What do you pray to? I asked for so-and-so and certain things; I didn't get it." I said, "You pray wrong. We should never pray to change God's mind; we should pray to change our mind. God's mind don't need any changing.

35 I know a young Catholic boy one time had a prayer book saying prayers for his mother to live. And she died, and he throwed the prayer book in the fire. Well... I don't go for the prayer book, but anyhow... See, you take the wrong attitude. You're trying to tell God what to do. Prayer should be, "Lord, change me to fit Your Word," not change, not, "Let me change Your mind; You change my mind. You change my mind to Your will, and Your will's written here in the Book. And Lord, don't let me go till You got my mind set just like Your mind. And then when my mind is set like Your mind, then I'll believe every Word You wrote. And You said in there You'd make everything work together for good to them that loves You, and I love You, Lord. It's all working together for the good."

CONFERENCES 61-0410 E-31 Just set your faith in the Word of God. And when that Old and New Testament gets spread out there that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, and when the power of God rides in, ride with it. Just go right on up, up, up, up, up, all the way. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He cannot fail. Oh, these conferences, it should be a prayerful consideration for all of us. We shouldn't just let one happen and then not pray for it, both national and church and whatever it may be. We should always pray.

LIFE.STORY 54-0314 E-13 We just had something that to happen in Louisiana a few nights back. It was a big auditorium. …a lady got a prayer card, and she had a little baby, and she was rocking the little baby. And another poor, little mother setting down there, and she felt so sorry for the little mother with a baby on her arm. Something just told her, "Go, pray for that baby." "Oh," she said, "I couldn't do that. Brother Branham will pray for that baby. They got a prayer card." And so... It just kept going, pushing her to go pray for the little baby.

E-14 After while, the lady come back around again. She seen the baby again. The Holy Spirit said again, "Go, pray for the baby." So the timid, little mother, you know, walked up to the lady and said, "Sister, I see you have a prayer card. Perhaps Brother Branham will pray for your baby tonight."

And she said, "We're hoping that the number will be called, sister." And she said, "Would you excuse me if I said something to you?" Said, "Certainly, sister." She said, "I'm a Christian too." And said, "I'm a mother. And just to relieve my conscience," she said, "for the last thirty minutes, since you been standing there," said, "I feel that God wanted me to pray for the baby. Would you mind if I just prayed for it before you took it up? She said, "Why, certainly." And she let the little baby out. And the mother prayed for it, and said, "Thank you." Walked back, very timid, little southern mother, set down. And when she went back to set down, someone had got the seat. So she had to go way up in the balcony.

E-15 And so, that night on the platform, sure enough... She was in the prayer line, when the prayer was called. Now of course, in praying for the sick, all of you know how it happens. I don't know what I'm doing, just a subconscious condition. And looking back over the recordings that was being taken, the lady was told by the Holy Spirit, said, "Your baby had a certain-certain disease." "Yes." But said, "There was a woman today dressed a certain way, prayed for the baby, and it's been healed." And there was the little lady, setting up there in the balcony, just screaming. See? Now, God had ordained that that woman should pray for that baby. You see how it was?

2 Kings 3:1-14 (Read)

PROPHET.ELISHA 54-0723 E-10 Now, they went off in such a hurry, without even considering God. And when they found out the seven days was up, well, their water supply was cut off. They didn't have any water to drink. And there they was out there with their cattle, and with their animals, and their water supply was cut off. And looks like that it was just about the end for them.

Now, that's what we do. Sometimes we go off on a tantrum somewhere and not think about God, not pray over it, ask the Lord whether we should do it or not, and we find out that our supply of blessings is cut off. Then we wonder sometime, "Well, wonder why I can't have no more blessings." You don't watch, you let down in your prayer life. You say, "Well, I'm a Christian." Well, that's the more sign you should pray, more than ever. Read the Bible every day. Pray every day. Don't make any decisions too harshly or too quickly, without first considering God about it. Ask Him, "Shall I do this, Father?" Ask Him, "Is it Your will for me to do this?" Then see what the Holy Spirit will speak to you. He might not give you a vision, but He will speak in some way to you, to let you know, if you'll be sincere and ask Him.

HAVE.FAITH.IN.GOD 58-0105 E-7 Now, it's not something that you just kindly push yourself to. I've noticed so much of that in my meetings, that people try to work themself up into something, to make them believe. Now, you can't do that. You're just beating the air. But faith is something that's just as calm and settled as it can be. It's taking God at His Word and having the assurance in your heart, that God is able to keep what He has said that He would do and will perform everything that He said He would do.

Now, I've noticed it many times, people think they must be prayed for. That's all right. We should pray for each other. Or that their hands might be... or some evangelist's hands, must be ministered. That's all right. That'll bring contacts and so forth of faith. But real, unadulterated faith is taking God at His Word. That's the main thing.

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E-2 And I remember in South Africa, where we was having a great meeting at a big airfield; they'd let it--let us have it for the meetings. The people... It was in Capetown; there was so many, we had no building to put them in. We had it out on the airfield. And there was a... I think they had... It was around... I forget how many sacks of just these great big burlap sacks full of mail, and--to be prayed over. And I went along praying over this mail.

And one of the reporters said, "Brother Branham is very superstitious." Said, "He was praying over letters to send out to sick people." Well, you see, the--the brother just didn't understand that that's a commission that's been left us of the Scriptures, that we should pray over those things.

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23-4 Notice, making ready the people. How perfect then the Seventh Trumpet and the Seventh Seal is. Perfectly together the persecution of the Jews... Note, in Revelations the 9th chapter and the 13th verse (Now notice real close.), under the Sixth Trumpet (Revelations 9:13), under the Sixth Trumpet, note, there was two hundred thousand horsemen that had been bound in the river of Euphrates was turned loose under the Sixth Trumpet. Now, there's not two hundred thousand horsemen in the world, but there was two hundred thousand horsemen.

Notice it. (I want you just jot it down, so you can read it.) They wasn't natural horses. They breathed fire, and they had breastplates of jasper, and--and they had tails, and the end of the tail looked like a serpent, a snake's head on the end of it, stinging. See? It was spiritual horses, spiritual devils, chargers, that had been bound in Euphrates all these years, supernatural devils. What was it? The old Roman Empire being revived, the persecution of the Jews. And they'd been bound for nearly two thousand years at the river Euphrates, can't cross to the promise, a religious sect that was trying to get to the other side. Euphrates, you know, come through Eden. But they were bound there, two hundred thousand devils of persecution.

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24-1 And notice what happens under that Sixth Trumpet. They were turned loose on the Jews, the persecution of the Jews. Supernatural devils, nearly two thousand years, then loosed by Stalin, Hitler, upon the Jews.

You say, "Well, that isn't Roman." It's the same spirit that done the same things it did to the Christians in the old pagan Roman days (Now, watch the natural Israel and the spiritual Church now, as we separate it here.) turned loose on the Jews.

You remember, under the Sixth Seal how every one of those martyrs are calling--according to the Word of God receive robes? It was given to them by the grace, because they're blinded that they can't see the Gospel, that this people might be called out of the Gentiles for the--the Bride. They were given robes; the Bible said so under that trumpet, them Jews, who absolutely is against Christ and everything. The reason they are, is because the Bible said they're blinded; and they were blinded for your sake. And the just God knows that they would receive It, but they were made blind for your sake. The Bible said so.

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24-4 There's that Roman empire bound there by what? The ecclesiastical powers, which Rome, pagan Rome become papal Rome, and was bound there in its traditions of Christian, what part of Christian and--and superstitions it had of Rome, putting together all these worship of women, and all these other kind of stuff, and Christmas days, and holidays, and holy days, and things. It's been bound by that tradition that it cannot let loose, because it's against Christian principles. Still the same ungodly, pagan spirit... And that spirit caught into the nations of the world, according to the prophecies of Ezekiel, and the rest of them. And they were loosed upon the Jew, who knowed nothing of the spirit. There's your mysteries that's hid under that seal there. See?

Notice that we went through it. And that'll show you this trumpet here, this last trumpet, what takes place. There they are; these trumpets are let loose on the Jews (Don't you see?), not on the Gentiles. The Gentile, when them Seals was opened is sealed away. Time has ended; the Church is called.

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25-1 You remember the vision the other day? Remember the--the preview of it? How many remembers Sunday 'fore last? How there it was exactly come by; we seen it exactly, seen that dirty, filthy thing come up called the church (vulgarity is to the extreme), and that little Bride of every nation, each one of them dressed like their nation they come from, just perfectly, walking before the Lord. You notice, there'll be a time some time when they'll say, "Well, I thought the Church was to go before the persecution. I thought there's a rapture."

"It's already passed and you knew it not." That's what He said about John one time, you know.

Said, "How--why say the prophets that a--the scribes that Elias must first come?"

He said, "He's already come." And even the disciples didn't know it. "They done to him what they listed." The rapture will be the same way. In--in a hour... He's promised to do that. He didn't promise to show Elias like that, but He promised to take the Bride like that--in a hour that you think not, just a change in a moment of a twinkling of an eye be caught away; then you're left. Then that's the time.

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25-3 Two thousand years, this spirit through the Roman people, the Roman church, could not move. But that same spirit, coming up first down there into Mussolini in Rome, the dictator...

You know the five--seven things He showed me in '33 would come to pass? Five of them's already passed. Doctor Lee Vayle's writing a book on it there now. See? Five things perfectly, and just two more things to happen. Said it'd happen just before the coming. Here we are right at the end now, and look like that sixth thing's moving right up. See? Perfectly, exactly, even the wars and how they'd happen exactly on the dot, and not one time did it miss.

Listen folks, we ought to take inventory every hour. We don't know where we're standing--real close.

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26-2 Now, now, he loosed upon... Under that Sixth Seal, these two hundred thousand spiritual demons, started in Rome, Germany--Hitler. Notice, over in the Bible where they received--never--they received power as kings, but wasn't crowned. A dictator's not a crowned king, just receive power as a king.

Oh, the Spirit of God is moving through me now (you know?) just saying something; I don't know how to say it, nor what to say and maybe I'd better not.

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26-4 Notice, two hundred thousand demons turned loose upon those Jews, when they burned them, they crucified them; they put bubbles in their veins; they killed them till they had no more gas to kill them with; and they shot them till they had no more bullets to shoot with; and they--and they done everything they could do. They cremated their bodies and everything, and hung them on fences, children and all, innocent people. Because they were Jews, they were done that way. But God said He give each one of them a robe, undeserving as they was, but His grace to blind them so that we could see...

That Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you know; that's His coming.

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26-6 So while they're still under there... But He shows us here in the preview as John. He took him up and... One time walking on the sea, you know... He said, "What about this man that leans on Your bosom?"

He said, "What is it to you if he stays till I come?" See, he never stayed, but He took him up and showed him the--the things that'd happen till He come. Just showed him, reviewed the whole plan to John.

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26-8 Notice, we find now, that that natural power under the natural, to a natural nation, Israel, was loosed there. And what did it? It went and made war, and how it murdered and persecuted.

Now in the ecclesiastical realm of it... I--are you... I hope that God opens your eyes to this now, 'cause I realize this is just not speaking to this church here; this tape goes worldwide. And I don't mean to hurt anybody's feelings, but just to tell the truth. Now the ecclesiastical realm has been opened from the natural revival of the old pagan Rome, went forth on those Jews, which has always been their enemy (the lion with teeth and everything, that stomped down and broke out the people, Rome), always been God's enemy. And it was turned loose in the same spirit by the dictators of the world, because the religious system was still holding; now it's been loosed.

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27-2 Well, what has it done? In the cunningness, as He said, he'd come in like flatteries. And what has he done? He's bringing the Protestant ecumenical council of the world churches, the spirit of antichrist, upon both of them, bringing them to the slaughter, just like they did the other in a hour to call the Bride. How? Loosed in the ecclesiastical church, spirit. Loosed upon what? Not upon the denominations, upon the Bride. But here you'd get it; the Bride will not go through that time. The Bible says not. The church will, but not the Bride. Can't you see? Ministers, can't you see that, brethren?

You say the Church has to go through the persecution for the--for the perfection of it. The Blood of Jesus Christ perfects the Bride. A man who chooses a wife don't put her through a lot of punishment; he's already found grace to--with her; she's found grace with him. He--he engages to her. And if there's anything, he'll keep her from every place to turn her hand. His grace is so great upon them, and so will it be upon the Bride, and so is it on the Bride.

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27-4 We unworthy creatures, deserving of hell, but His grace holds us through it. Looky how many lost and blind, how many--how many sinners was there in the world the hour I got saved. God saved me for a purpose, and I'm determined by His will to do that purpose. I don't care what anything else goes; I want to do it.

And in the hour when I see all the churches, their great glamor, and rich and have need of nothing, they say; and see them miserable, wretched, blind, and then patting you on the shoulders, want you to compromise with them, I was born for a purpose; that's to condemn that thing and to call out. Yes, I do.

Remember, when Jesus came on the earth, there wasn't one-hundredth of the people on the earth ever knowed He was here. He come to get that elected group. Said, "No man can come to Me, except My Father has drawed him. And all the Father hath (past tense) given Me, they'll come. They'll know it; they'll hear.

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28-2 Notice, the loosing of this ecclesiastical spirit. Now, twenty years later after that war, we see the loosing of the ecclesiastical spirit, what under? The Seventh Seal, the Seventh Trumpet to the Jew. Look at the moon darkening out. Where under? See it drawn out? The Son of man being drove from the church. What is it? Joining in with the ecclesiastical bunch. The--the ecumenical move, and with the World Council of Churches has drove every man... What does that thing stand for? Why, you have to surrender all your evangelical teachings and things. How can two walk together less they be agreed? They can't. Jesus said they can't. And how can a church of Methodists and Baptists walk together? How can the Church of Christ walk with the Presbyterians? How can the Catholic walk with the Protestants? How can Protestant walk with Protestant? But the Bride can walk with the Word, which is Christ; it must be in agreement, not the ecclesiastical system, but the Word. You have to agree with the Word to walk with the Word. Jesus said so; that makes it right.

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28-3 Notice, there she is. Now, she's loosed to call all these little loose ends. "Oh, well, it don't make any difference anyhow." That's what Satan said to Eve, "Don't make any difference. It's all right. Surely, God's a good God; He loves us all." He doesn't.

You hear so much about being a good God. He is a good God, but being good, He has to be just. There is no goodness without justice; there is no justice without no law, without punishment, penalty. So we're in that hour, that we're living.

Prayer & REVELATION 9:16

16 And the number of the army of the horsemen [were] two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

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28-5 Notice, quickly now, these supernatural demons. Then under the--under the auspices of a United Nations, united groups together, eastern and western... Just like the right and left foot of the image that Daniel saw, how they wouldn't agree and mix with one another; and the word "Eisenhower," during that time, "Eisenhower" means "iron"; "Khrushchev" means "clay". And he pulled off his shoe and beat it [Brother Branham knocks on pulpit--Ed.] on the desk at the--when the League of Nations--or the--at the U.N.--Khrushchev did. Dusting off the...

Oh, my, the hour that we're living, the church and it's condition. But thank God, the little Bride has made Herself ready. It ain't long, just hold on. I don't know how long, don't know when (nobody knows that), but we know it's close now. We...

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29-2 Watch the ecclesia--watch that natural, what it did to them Jews. That was a people that held to the laws of God. No matter how many churches raised up, what else, they was blinded to Christ and held to that law. And God gave them robes, every one of them, 'cause they went down in martyrdom. See? They--they--they were blinded for our sake.

Here now the Church that knows nothing but the Bible; regardless of the ecclesiastical system, denomination, they know nothing about it; it's all foreign to them. They know Him and Him alone.