ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

It sometimes helps to see things from another perspective.

Lord, thank thee for this sink of dirty dishes...We have plenty of food to eat.

Thank thee for this pile of dirty, stinky laundry... We have plenty of nice clothes to wear.

And I would like to thank thee, Lord, for those unmade beds in there... They were so warm and so comfortable last night... I know that many have no bed.

My thanks to thee, Lord, for this bathroom complete with all the splattered mirrors, soggy, grimy towels and dirty lavatory... They are so convenient.

Thank thee for this finger smudged refrigerator that needs defrosting so badly... It has served us faithfully for many years... It is full of cold drinks and enough leftovers for two or three meals.

Thank thee Lord, for this oven that absolutely must be cleaned today... It has baked so many things over the years.

The whole family is grateful for that tall grass that needs mowing....The lawn that needs raking... We all enjoy the yard.

Thank thee, Lord, even for that slamming screen door… My kids are healthy and able to run and play.

Lord, the presence of all these chores awaiting me says Thou hast richly blessed my family... I shall do them all cheerfully and I shall do them gratefully.

And all God's people say... AMEN!

SEALED UNTO REDEMPTION

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Like, I used to work for the railroad company, and we’d load box cars with cans and different things from the canning factory. But then, before that car could be sealed, the inspector come around to see if that car was properly loaded. If not, the first time it rammed together or something, it’d scatter the stuff and break it, and the railroad company was responsible. And that inspector would test everything to see if it was properly in place. If it wasn’t, he condemned the car. Then we had to do it all over again until the inspector was satisfied. Then, when the inspector was satisfied, he shut the door. The inspector shut the door. And the inspector places a seal upon it, and then no one can break this seal until it reaches its destination.
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That’s what the Holy Spirit’s been doing, see. He goes, and He inspects. That’s the reason you can’t have these things and. . . You say, “I spoke in tongues, and I shouted, and I danced in the Spirit.” That don’t have nothing to do with it, see. The Holy Spirit inspects that person until He’s thoroughly satisfied and knows that they are. . . Then they are sealed unto their eternal destination. There’s not nothing can ever break that seal.

THE BREACH BETWEEN THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES AND THE SEVEN SEALS

THE REAL HOLY GHOST.

A woman just called up another woman, said, “You know, I’m
Episcopalian.” Said, “I spoke in tongues the other day. I believe I received the Holy Ghost, but shhh, don’t tell nobody.” I doubt that very much. You might have spoke with tongues, but you set a man on fire, how is he going to sit still? Can’t do it.
Could you imagine Peter, and James, and John, and them up in the upper room saying, “Oh, we got the Holy Ghost now. But maybe we better keep still.” Brother, through windows, doors, and everything, they went, out into the street, acting like a bunch of drunks. That’s the real Holy Ghost.
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But you see, that sleeping virgin ain’t receiving nothing anyhow. That’s right. And remember, while they went to try to buy oil (remember the Scriptures doesn’t say they got it), but while they were out trying to buy it, there come a sound. What happened? All those virgins that slept rose, and trimmed their lamps and went into the supper. (Is that right?) And the rest was
left for the tribulation period. Right-weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. That’s the church. Not the bride; the church. The bride went in. There’s a whole difference between the church and the bride. Yes, sir, went into the wedding supper. Oh, notice, boy.
BRO. BRANHAM: THE BREACH BETWEEN THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES AND THE SEVEN SEALS

SEE WHAT U CALL LAW OF NATURE; I CALL IT LAW OF GOD. GOD'S IN NATURE

E-34 And in there was a woman. I'd never been in the country before. And there was a woman setting back in the audience, and the Holy Spirit got among the people and begin to call this one, that one, telling them. It was our Lord Jesus, His Word made manifest in the body of His church. And then when He begin to speak, Jesus stood on the grounds, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, spoke to them, told the people about different things, as you all Bible readers know: promised the same thing again to repeat in the last days, promised it by His Scripture that it would do so.
E-35 Now, I want you to notice. Now, when that was taking place, way back in the back a lady was weeping somewhere on the big campground. Many, many hundreds and hundreds of people were seated, and there was a lady crying. Notice, the Holy Spirit went to the lady and said, "You're crying about your sister. Her name is such-and-such. She lives at a certain place. You have a handkerchief in your pocketbook that you put in there before leaving home. It's this and this a-way, a handkerchief. You take this handkerchief and go lay it on your sister. She's dying with cancer. And THUS SAITH THE LORD, she shall live."
The woman took from the building, went and laid her handkerchief on the lady that night. And the next morning she was well.
E-36 Now. So I was... The season was very hot. Squirrel hunting... As many of my fellow squirrel hunters know, they're--they--the cracking of the leaves scares the squirrels, and we... It was so dry, we had to go to a place where there was some hollows that we could get into--little ditches, to walk through the woods. My friend's name was Mr. Wood. He's setting over here to my right.
And he said, "I know a man that's got a ground of many acres." But said, "He's so hard to deal with." Said, "He's a infidel," and said, "he don't believe in God." And he said, "He makes fun of it." And he said, "But he knows me, he knows my father." And he said, "If I go ask him if we can hunt on his place..."
I said, "Let's go."
E-37 We drove way back in the country, way back on a side road, and two old men were setting under the shade of an apple tree. He said, "There he is, the one to the right."
I said, "Being a minister, I better set in the car."
So he goes out, and he said, "How do you do?"
And the man said, "Come up, set down."
He said, "My name is Wood." He said, "I wonder if you would care if we hunted awhile on your place."
He said, "What Wood are you?"
He said, "I'm Jim Wood's son."
He said, "Jim Wood is a friend of mine, and any one of his children can hunt anywhere they want to."
He said, "Thank you."
He said, "I wonder now," he said, "which one are you?"
He said, "I'm Banks." He talked to him a few moments, and Mr. Wood said, "I wonder if it'd be all right for me to take my pastor with us."
He said, "You don't mean you got so low down till you have to carry a preacher with you wherever you go?"
He said, "My pastor's out there."
E-38 I thought I'd better get out of the car. And I got out of the car, and walked over there, and I said, "How do you do?"
He said, "How do you do? So you're a preacher."
I said, "Yes, sir."
And he said, "Well," he said, "I'm supposed to be an infidel."
I said, "Well, not much to brag about, is it?"
He said, "I guess it isn't." He said, "But what I've got against you people, you're talking about something you don't know about."
"Oh," I said, "is that so?"
He said, "Yes, sir. I hear them always blowing off about this, about a God, and everything." Said, "There is no such a thing."
I said, "Uh-huh." I said, "Well, 'course you know how it is, sir," I said, "Everyone to his own thought." I was thinking in my heart, "Now, Lord, You give me something to help that man, no doubt sincere."
And he said, "I only seen one preacher in all my life I--I'd like to hear--heard of him."
And I said, "Who was that, sir?"
He said, "Here about two years ago, there was a preacher over here at a town called Acton." He said, "And old lady So-and-so up here on the hill had been laying there for two years with cancer." Said, "Me and my wife... They couldn't put her on the bedpan no more. They had to use a draw sheet." And said, "We was up there that morning," and said, "the doctor had said the day before that she wouldn't make it through the night."
E-39 "She had cancer in her stomach. She was eat up. She couldn't even drink barley water, and hadn't for weeks. They'd fed her glucose through her veins, until her veins was collapsed, and said there was nothing could be done for her."
And said, "Her sister was setting over listening to that preacher preach, and that preacher didn't know anybody here, had never been here, and told her who she was, and what her sister was, and thought about a handkerchief she had, and said put it on that woman." And said, "That night I thought they had the Salvation Army up there somewhere, of all the screaming." And said, "The next morning we went over to see if she was dead." And said, "When we got over there, she was up, cooking fried apple pies and eating them." And said, "She even does the neighbor's work." He said, "Now..."
I said, "What's so strange about that?"
E-40 He said, "Well, here's what I want to know. If ever see that preacher, I'm going to ask him, what was it told him about that woman, and whether she'd be healed."
"Oh," I said, "yes, sir." Squirrel blood all over me, and dirty whiskers about that long, you know. And I said, "Don't look very much like a preacher now."
He said, "Well, looks more human."
And I said, "Yes, sir." So I said, "Can I have one of those apples?" Little yellow jackets was all over them.
And he said, "Yes." I picked up one, and I bit it. And he said, "Help yourself. The yellow jackets are eating them up."
And I said, "Thank you." I took a bite of it. I said, "That's a fine apple."
He said, "Yep." He said, "That old tree's produced a lot of them for me."
And I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "How old is the tree?"
He said, "About forty years old." Said, "I planted it there, just a switch."
E-41 And I said, "Uh-huh." I said, "I notice all the apples are dropping off of it, and the leaves are leaving."
He said, "Yep. That's the way she does."
And I said, "I want to ask you a question."
He said, "Yes, sir. Go ahead and ask." He said.
I said, "What causes... Now, we haven't had no frost," I said. "It's only the middle of August. We won't have no frost till about October or November." I said, "But here in the middle of August them leaves are falling off the tree." I said, "What's making them leaves fall?"
"Why," he said, "the sap's leaving it."
I said, "What if the sap doesn't leave it?"
He said, "Why, it would--the tree would get killed in the wintertime. The germ of life's in the sap." Said, "If it would... It would it would kill the tree. It would die."
I said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Therefore, the sap goes back down into the roots where it's warm, stays there through the winter, then comes back in the summer, bringing more leaves and more apples."
Said, "That's it."
E-42 I said, "I want to ask you something." I said, "What intelligence... Now, the tree has none. What intelligence says to that tree, 'It's coming wintertime. Get down into the root and stay there until spring of the year.'?" I said, "Put water in a bucket, and set it on a post, and see if it'll go down when fall of the year comes. It won't do it." I said, "You have to admit there's some kind of an Intelligence that makes that sap leave the tree and go down into the roots. If it doesn't, it dies. It hides it away to protect its life. Now, the tree has no intelligence. There's a law of God that does that."
And he said, "Well, I never thought of it just like that."
I said, "Mister, the same Intelligence that tells that tree up there--the sap in that tree to go to the roots, that same Intelligence is what told me who that woman was, and tell her what was going to happen."
He said, "You're not that preacher?"
I said, "Yes, sir." And there he was led to Christ, and died a Christian a year later about eighty-five years old.

OUR PURPOSE IS SERVING GOD

E-30 Look at your flowers. I was noticing today, coming down, the flowers, how pretty they are. They're here for a purpose. They're spoken words of God. God spoke them into existence. And when He did, look what happens. They're pretty standing in your yard.
After while, frost hits them. Young ones, old ones, middle age, as soon as frost hits them; it's death. They bow their little heads, and what happens? A little black seed of some sort drops out of them. Believe it or not, God has a funeral procession for them. The fall rains come, and tears, as it was, drops from the skies and buries the seed.
The winter comes on. The petal's gone, the stalk's gone, the bulb's gone; the seed freezes, bursts open, the pulp runs out. Is that the end of the seed? No, sir. Let that warm sun shine, which brings forth resurrection of all botany life. As soon as that sun begins to light the earth and get warm, there's a germ of life somewhere in that seed, and it lives again. Why? It served a purpose of God, and God makes a way for it to live again.
Now, we were put here for a purpose, but we must serve that purpose: choose either death or life. So we're put here for a purpose, but we must serve that purpose. That's serving God, because we're sons and daughters of God.
Bro. Branham: The End-Time Sign Seed (62-0319)

HOW MUCH D'YA OWN UP THERE??

E-26 Here some time ago I was out west, and I was standing in a man's house that invited me out for--for dinner. And he said, "Mr. Branham, I see you admiring that sculpture, painting, or not painting, but it was kind of carved out of wood--plaque-like, over the fireplace.
I said, "Yes, sir. I am." And it was an old ox cart, or covered wagon with oxes: a man in front, a little boy setting on the seat with his mother, and they were traveling.
And he said, "That was my father and mother, and the little boy on the seat was myself." He said, "We come here in this ox cart." He said, "But since then, we have so prospered." He said, "I want you to step out here in the yard." He said... I forget how many thousands of acres that he owned there of a ranch. He said, "I bought that in my young days."
And he said, "Then after that, the adjoining ranch to the west I own; the adjoining ranch to the south I own." Said, "You see the smoke over there?"
"Yes, sir."
Said, "That's a city." I forget how much property he owned there.
He said, "I'm the president in that bank there," and telling me what all he had.
E-27 I listened for a little while, and I said, "I would like to ask you one question, sir. You have pointed to the east, and to the west, showing the ranches, and to the city. I would like to have you look up this a-way, and see--and tell me how much you own up there." That's the main thing, because someday you're going to leave every bit of this down here. And then, where do you go from there? That's the main thing.

 The End-Time Sign Seed (62-0319)

The End-Time Sign Seed (62-0319)

E-25 Ancient bones they're digging up, and--and staglites, and so forth, can prove nothing. God's Word's got the answer. It's got the answer to everything that we ask. It's in God's Book. Man has often wondered. We go down sometimes, and read the Scriptures, and wonder over them. But we're not supposed to wonder. You can't explain Them; you've got to believe Them.
No man can--can scientifically prove God. If you could prove God scientifically, then it's no more of faith. We're supposed to believe God, and faith is not scientific.
What if Moses would've pulled some of the leaves off the trees and said, "I believe I'll take it to the laboratory to find out what chemical is on them that won't let them burn." See, God would've never talked to him. He did not know that. The only thing he done was take off his shoes and set down in reverence, and God talked back to him.
We cannot scientifically prove these promises of God, but we look back and find out where in season every one of them happened just as God said they would. So in reverence and respects to His Word tonight let's just set down for a while and look at it, and see where we're going, what's the purpose. What are we here for? What's it all about?

I TELL YOU ELIJAH HAS ALREADY COME...

21-4 043 Then consider. Now, I ask you at this hour, you people here at Jeffersonville, in 1933 the supernatural Light that fell down yonder on the river that day when I was baptizing five hundred in the Name of Jesus Christ (I was about a twenty year old boy.), what did It say, Jeffersonville? What was it at the foot of Spring Street there, when the "Courier Journal" (I think it was the "Louisville Herald") packed the article, and it went plumb across the Associated Press, plumb into Canada. Dr. Lee Vayle cut it out of the paper way up in Canada in 1933. When I was baptizing my seventeenth person under this Witness (and you know the rest of the story), and when I was standing there baptizing that seventeenth person, a Light come down from heaven, a shining down above there like a star falling from heaven. A Voice said, "As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, your Message shall forerun His second coming into all the world." This day this Scripture is fulfilled. Thank You, Lord. 

 THIS.DAY.THIS.SCRIPTURE.title JEFF.IN V-3 N-8 65-0219

OH WHAT GRACE...

[If] God ever sends His power to the church, it'll be His grace; it won't be the obedience of the people. And Isaiah said in the 40th chapter, how to cry to Jerusalem, that her warfare was over, yet she was guilty of idolatry, but it was God's grace that was sending it. [If] God sends anything to us, it'll be His grace and not our merits.

So it may mean something. I predict that there will be a change. I don't know what it'll be, but I believe it's fixing to happen. We're right on the eve of it now. And if any man hungers, let him come to Christ. If any man is thirsty, let him come to Christ; He quenches the thirst. He is the Satisfier of all of our thirst and hunger" 

(Communion, p. 14:74-75).

Don't just marry anything...

BY https://www.facebook.com/pamkilemi?group_id=0

 Don't just marry anything (I mean anybody)! Many young people are so particular about the clothes they wear, the food they eat, the career that they want to follow, etc, but they are so reckless when it comes to choosing a life partner.

Who you will marry will not only have a major impact in your marriage but will have a major impact in your happiness in this life. There is nothing that can bring so much distress, depression and unhappiness in someone's life like marriage. Even if you decide to end the marriage(divorce) you might still end up with permanent wounds or scars in your life.

Marriage has many challenges; bringing together people from different backgrounds, different personalities and with different expectations is not easy. We are bound to have some conflicts and challenges in marriage. Even if you marry an angel (unfortunately angels don't marry) you'll still have some challenges, but if you marry the devil you must know that your physical address will be hell. There are many devils that are out there and some are in the church, they can preach, teach, sing and pray and then prey on innocent victims. As a results there are many who are living in hell (marriages). The Bible says to young people: Be sober, be vigilant!

Look beyond what is on the outside

There are some who decide to marry someone because he drives a nice car, yet I wonder if they think the marriage will be lived inside the car. Some marry guys because they are good soccer players, and I wonder if they think there is a need for pots and plates to be kicked around in the house. Some marry girls just because they have a pretty face, and I wonder if they think that just looking at the pretty face will automatically resolve conflicts and improve communications Some only look at the beautiful figures not knowing that nature and time has a way of destroying those figures. In Proverbs 31:30, the wise man says: "Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised."

Work on your own project.

Even in our churches it seems like everybody is always looking forward to marrying the church's celebrities, those who are smooth, well dressed and smart. Unfortunately many of them are not very serious with God. Yet in our churches they are some young people who are very serious with God, they might not be in the lime light, they might not even know how to dress properly, not as smooth as others. I call them projects. Instead of following the celebrities it is better to go and get your own project. For a person who is not serious with God there is not much you can do, even marriage cannot change that person. There is no salvation in marriage (it is only in Jesus). But if he /she loves the Lord, but just does not know latest style and romantic moves, there is much you can do. Pick that project and work on it in your own pace.

Don't be desperate.

Many of our young ladies are so desperate to get married such that they end up marrying anything that looks like a man. If you think being single is bad then you are ignorant of what is really going on in marriages. More than 50% of those who are married wish they were like you (single). There is definitely something worse than being single. I always say to young ladies that the most miserable women that I have come across are not single, but they are married, married to horrible men (or they themselves are horrible to those men). Many are so desperate to get married and soon thereafter they are so desperate to get out of marriage.

Be Mr or Mrs Right.

I grew up in the time when the topic for every youth gathering was, how to find a marriage partner. We used to leave those gatherings all set to go and look for a marriage partner, going to look for Mr Right and Mrs Right. Now, this thing never worked, it does not work because you can never find a marriage partner. In Proverbs 19: 14 the Bible says "Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD". Only the Lord can give you a prudent(sensible) wife. Therefore instead of looking for Mr and Mrs Right, be Mr. Right, Be Mrs. Right (as long as you don't think your first name is Always). Live the life, be the best young person you can ever be and God will give you what you deserve. But if you are a crook, dishonest, unfaithful and unreliable, guess what? There is a match waiting for you. 　You can't cheat God; you are definitely going to reap what you have sown.　 You will always get what you deserve.
Some young people have already made a mess of their lives. The good news is that it is not too late. If you come to Jesus today, He will rewrite you past, change your present and prepare a great tomorrow for you.

ASK...

"Whatsoever you ask the Father in My Name I'll do it." Every promise in the Book belongs to you. When you're saved, He gives you a check with His Name wrote at the bottom of it. Don't be afraid to fill it out, 'cause the Bank of Heaven will recognize it if it goes through the Pentecostal clearing house. See? That's right. See, if you got something here on deposit: yourself (See?), if you're recognized, if you got identification to show that the check belongs to you. It's only for believers now. If you got that identification, why, God will recognize your check. That's right. No matter what you ask for, any redemptive blessings belong to you. (Be not afraid)

thy word is sweet unto my ...

Thy word is sweet unto my taste,
Yea, sweeter more than honey.
It says to watch and pray that you
May not enter into temptation.

But flee youthful lusts and pursue righteousness,
faith, love, and peace.
Whatever you do,
do in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And pursue with those,
Those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Lord, today, keep my heart,

Lord, today, keep my heart,
Keep it all the day.
While I’m young, keep my heart
Soft, dear Lord, I pray;
Lord, I would keep my heart through everyday
Soft and open to You.

Jesus bids us shine...

1. Jesus bids us shine with a clear, pure light,
   Like a little candle burning in the night;
   In this world of darkness, we must shine,
   You in your small corner and I in mine.
2. Jesus bids us shine, then, for all around
   Many kinds of darkness in this world abound—
   Sin and want and sorrow; we must shine,
   You in your small corner, and I in mine.

Why were you and I made?

1. Why was a cup made?
   To have a drink inside it.
   Why was a shoe made?
   To have a foot inside it.
   Why was an envelope made?
   To have a letter inside it.
   Why were you and I made?
   To have God’s life in us.
2. Why was a glove made?
   To have a hand inside it.
   Why was a purse made?
   To have some coins inside it.
   Why was a flower vase made?
   To have some flowers inside it.
   Why were you and I made?
   To have God’s life in us.

HAVE A STAND...

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those 

who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.- JFK