Standing in a conference or gathering of ministers of my own church, after coming back, some of the Doctors of Divinity said, “Brother Branham, we’d like for you to speak tonight.” Oh, how it made me feel to get to stand and say, “Brethren,” (The minister that ordained me was present.) I said, “What you said that I had a nightmare…” I said, “We sent missionaries to Africa the—for the past hundred years. And when I got over there, I found them packing mud idols, calling themselves Christians.” But I said, “What you call fanaticism, what you call the devil’s work, won more souls to Christ in five minutes, than all the missionaries we’ve sent in a hundred years, and the millions of dollars that we spent.” Brother, sister, the church ought to get in God’s program, then the church will move all right. Just like suppers and dinners and so forth to appropriate money, that’s not God’s way of doing it. Pay your tithes; that’s what God wants you to do. See? Just keep in God’s program, and He’ll bless the giver and so forth. He promised it. So if we substitute something else, just like we’ve substituted theology today to take the place of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it’ll never work. It can’t. We’ve substituted multitudes instead of power. It’ll never take the place of power. God is power. He’s the Almighty God. The power of all powers is God.

The Beginning of Jesus' Fame, 1953-06-05, Connersville, IN, §7