PERSISTENT, FOCUSED and CONFIDENT

       One day I walked along a National Park, doing reconnaissance for a hike we'd do some other day. I once watched a most incredible thing of something I'd heard about birds.. I watched a small bird trying to gather string, which I presumed would have gone into the building of a nest. It is amazing that this little creature acting on instinct alone would gather this kind of material for building. You see, a bird cannot reason, "A piece of string would be nice to use for building my nest, so I'll take it." God has given this little bird the natural instinct to function.

        You probably are thinking, "What's so incredible about watching a bird do what it naturally does?" I watched as the bird made several attempts to gather the string. She would pick up one end of the string in her beak and fly upward, but the string would fall, and she would try again. This activity went on for several minutes. What made this so incredible to me was that the other end of the string was attached to a boat sitting on a boat trailer at the edge of a dam, or is it fish pond?  (You know those things that tug boats, if you've ever done fishing you do.)

        I thought of the bird's PERSISTENCE in her efforts. No matter how many times she failed, the bird kept on trying. How often do you and I show this kind of persistence in our endeavors? Even though the odds of getting that particular piece of string were greatly against the bird, I found myself hoping that she would succeed.

        I thought of the bird's FOCUS on the string. She was oblivious to the fact that the string was attached to an immovable object. All she saw was the string, and she went after it. How often do we keep a singular focus on a particular goal? Too often we allow our focus to scatter to several objectives, and then we wonder why we don't succeed in achieving any of them.

        I thought the bird had great CONFIDENCE. Her intention was to get that string. The bird was not deterred by the fact that a large boat was in her way. Watching the scene unfold as time and again the bird would try to fly away with that string, I almost expected to see the boat lift off the ground. 

        We need to be PERSISTENT, FOCUSED, and CONFIDENT in our efforts as we serve the Lord. I am sure we will find more success in our endeavors.Haha, just a thought! God Bless You!

WILLIAM BRANHAM. LOS ANGELES WILL SINK

William Branham - The Spirit behind modern and contemporary christian Music

CHRIST & HIS BRIDE by WILLIAM BRANHAM

Protecting His Word

Up here near Chicago now, and a--a Bible lays on a pulpit of a church. Way back before the First World War, a missionary had it and a fellow was converted, and he wanted to give the missionary his Bible, said, "I can't give you this one, my mother had give me this one." Said, "I, when I get home, I'll send you one."
He started back across the sea and a German submarine blowed the--the ship up. They never found a piece of it. And two years later, way down on the coast, they seen a box floating. Some of them thought it might be something that drowned, so they got the box out and opened it up, two fellows walking along. And in there, the only thing that survived it, there was that Bible he was sending back to the missionary. It lays on a pulpit here near Chicago today, in a Methodist church. "Heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away."

61-0108 Revelation Chapter Four #3

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STAY WITH THE WORD

62-1223 THE.REPROACH.FOR.THE.CAUSE.OF.THE.WORD_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-2 N-16 SUNDAY_
180 Look, today. Now I'm going to say something. Look today at the children of the harlot. She has taken nations under the political rule of denomination, the harlot and her daughters. Look what a generation of denominations raised up, and how few are the righteous. Don't you worry. Stay with the Word. It's all right.
181 You may be scoffed at, called holy-roller. You might be called all, any kind of a bad name. But, stay right there, It's the Word, the reproach of the Word, the thing that they'll say about you.

HEBREWS 13
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Is This The Sign Of The End, Sir? 1962-1230E, Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A., (-)
54 And I went back in this vision, and there was a little long building, and then a voice said to me... And all of you remember this, or many of you. A voice said to me, "Bring in food. Store it in. That's the only way to keep them here, is give them food." And I brought in--had brought in great big barrels full of the prettiest carrots and the prettiest vegetables, and things I have ever seen. Do you remember now the vision? Now... And I told you later what the interpretation was. I was supposed to go to Zurich, Switzerland, with Brother Arganbright for a five night's meeting. I told the brethren before it happened, "I will not go."
And I was down with Brother Welch Evans, down there, when it--I give the interpretation.

The Reproach For The Cause Of The Word, 1962-1223, Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S, (-)
33 I guess the closest that ever come of being that strong again was when I was in Zurich, Switzerland, that time when He showed me that German Eagle watching that English horse rider come down through Africa. And He said, "All have sinned and come short of the glory."

 
Revelation 14:6
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Matthew 24:11
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

 
Matthew 24:12
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

 
Matthew 24:13
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

 
Matthew 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

 
Luke 11:49
49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

 
Luke 11:50
50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

 
Luke 11:51
51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. 

ACTS.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT

54-1219E ACTS.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-26 N-10 SUNDAY_

128 When I think of this failing world, and I look around and see the handwriting on the wall, on every nation, I see the atomic bombs got the people shaking, when great rulers and things... You ought to read what they say in the Pentagon about these things coming to pass. You ought to see what this nation... Brother, let me tell you something, we're putting a big, bold front up, but right down at the core of this nation they're frantically scared. You know it. Might as well admit the truth. And you've got a right to be scared.
There's only one person that has no right at all to be scared; that's a man or a woman that's born of the Spirit of God. The atomic bomb is a heaven-bound ticket to the believer. Hallelujah. Yes, sir. Death can't do nothing for you, but... A quick death is a quick glory. That's right.
This robe of flesh I'll drop,
And rise and seize the everlasting prize,
And shout while passing through the air,
"Farewell, farewell," sweet hour of prayer.

1 CORINTHIANS
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.