Topic: Divine healing & miracles

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Where do sickness and disease come from?

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Diseases and afflictions are all the results of sin, maybe not in your life, but in somebody’s life before you. The devil is the author of sickness and afflictions. Before we had any devil, we had no sickness or afflictions. But, when Satan came, he brought with him sickness and afflictions.

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Can sickness be a blessing from God?

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There is so many times that we refer to them as blessings. I never could think that God could get a blessing out of a sick person; unless it was a sinner, driving him to God; or a disobedient child, bringing him back to be reconciled to his Father. But sicknesses are the results of the devil and of...

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Can someone who has been healed lose their healing?

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They last as long as faith lasts. But when faith fails, then your healing will fail. Would you say every person came to the altar and got converted would be a Christian all their days? He could be tonight a child of God, and tomorrow be a child of the devil. It’s when he loses faith in God, what sen...

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Where does the life in a cancer or tumor come from?

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Well, then, what does that? The devil. The—the germ is a life. First, the germ is a teeny little cell with a life in it. And that life only can come from two resources, either from God or the devil. And you came from the germ of life, by God. The cancer, tumor, or so forth, come from the germ of lif...

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Should medical science and ministers work together?

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But some woman here not long ago trusted God out in California for her baby that died, and every newspaper and magazine packed it across the country. And the same time where one didn’t have faith enough for deliverance, everybody criticized that, all the magazines and papers, and God healed thousand...

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Does having a gift of healing make a person a Divine healer?

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And now, many people on account of the—the newspapers and so forth, I’ve noticed that here, call me a Divine healer. Why, Christian friends, you know that’s wrong. I’m no Divine healer; I’m your brother. Now, there’s only One Healer, and that’s God. He’s the only One that heals. A gift of healing do...

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What did the brass serpent on the pole in the wilderness foreshadow?

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Jesus said, “I can, if you believe.” Now, in order to believe God, most people have to have something to look at, some visible, something to look at to represent God. I believe one of the hardest things that God has ever had to do, was to get one mortal to believe another mortal. We won’t believe on...

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Was it the water that healed people at the pool of Bethesda?

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Later on after the days of the serpent, God sent a Angel down from heaven and troubled the water on a pool called Bethesda, and ever who stepped in that water first, having faith, was healed of whatsoever disease they had. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] Into the waters… Now, the brass serpent done no heal...

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Why were the sick healed when handkerchiefs from Paul's body were laid on them?

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Another one, they taken handkerchiefs from his body and aprons, and laid upon the sick people, and evil spirits went out of people. Not because it was Saint Paul; he was a man who lived in flesh like you and I. And he died. He had to be redeemed by the Blood of Christ just like we do. It wasn’t the...

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How did shepherds use honey and a limestone rock to help sick sheep?

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I think of David of old. Hallelujah! Yes, sir. When he said there is…Where he talked about…He said, “Taste and see the Lord is good. It tastes like honey in the rock.” A little old description I used to use, thinking about an old scrip they used to carry on their side here, a little sack that they p...

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When were we healed by Jesus Christ's stripes?

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Now, remember. Remember me now and believe this. Every person in here was healed when Jesus Christ died at Calvary. His stripes healed you nineteen hundred years ago. And the only thing that I, or any other minister could do, would be point you to that.

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Why did Jesus heal only one man at the pool of Bethesda?

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In Saint John the 5th chapter, perhaps you’re acquainted with it, the Scripture, Jesus passed through this famous pool of Bethesda. He find many crippled people there, blind, halt, lame, waiting for the moving of the water. It was strange that He just ministered to one, but if you’ll notice, He knew...

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Can every son of God be so anointed till he can do miracles, signs, wonders, or is this just…is this at the directions of the Holy Ghost?

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Yes, it is at the directions of the Holy Ghost. If you are a son of God, or a daughter of God, whatever you are, when you have received the Holy Spirit, then the Holy Spirit directs you to do things. I don’t have time. I just wish I could tell you little stories. Every time I think of it, just have...

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Dear prophet of God, Saint Mark 16:18, I…part of laying hands on the sick…I’m around snake handlers. What about it?

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Well, that’s a good question. If you’re around snake handlers, and they say Mark 16…Certainly! I believe that the Bible means just what It says. I believe if we try to tempt the Lord into something, we’re in for it. But I don’t think that God means for you to bring me a bottle of arsenic and see if...

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Brother Branham, I love the Lord, but for the past year I have been—I have been faced with a problem. Seems sometimes I’ve almost been out of my mind. What is it? Please pray for me and my husband.

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Well, if there is no…If this person was on private interview, like you people been in there this morning, it would pull that out what it is, whatever it is. See? The Lord would reveal what it is. But now, that I don’t know who you are, and you’re not setting here; it just said, “A sister in Christ.”...

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Dear Brother Branham, is it possible for one to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost and not to have the signs following, at—at least not until the…some future time and conditions appointed by the Spirit?

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Now, that might sound like a mixed-up question, but that’s a good one, very good. See? Now, here gives me a little chance, that I find that’s working with my—my family here now (see?), I mean you, my family, and the family out in the world where we…where our tapes go. Now, a great part of my congre...

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Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will She have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we, or, are we just waiting for the coming?

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Yes. See, friend, I—I—I am not a theologian. I am not a theologian; therefore, I have to teach all that I know about the Bible from shadows and types. You kind of call me a typologist. But if I can look on that wall, and I’ve never seen myself; and I look, and I can see that I got a head, and ears,...

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Dear Brother Branham: Do you believe that signs should follow all who have the Holy Spirit? Jesus said so, Mark 16. If so, what about the people who believe the Message with all that is in them, yet they have not these signs? Are they unbelievers or do they need the Holy Spirit? If so, please instruct us today, how to receive the Holy Ghost. We believe you are God’s mouthpiece for our day. Your brother.

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Thank you, my brother, for regarding me as your—your brother, and I think that that’s a very good question. Friends, yes, it is a little slack. I’d like to deal a little bit longer on that if I could. See? It is slack. Look! Some of you…See? When, you cannot receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost wit...

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Could it be that the reason many are sick, because we did not discern the Lord’s Body? (Correct!) …but now revealed by the opening of the Sixth Seal?

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Now, let’s see. Let me just see if I can get that now. It’s not you; it’s me. You didn’t…You wrote it all right; it’s just me. Could it be that the reason many are sick, because we do not discern the Lord’s Body? (That’s got a question mark, the end of that.) Well, the Scripture says, that, “Many a...

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What did Jesus mean in Saint Matthew 16:9 and 10? What do the twelve baskets and the seven baskets represent? Question for Sunday morning.

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Let’s see—let’s see, Matthew 16:10. I’m not too sure just now. Let me get where it’s at, Matthew 16:9 and 10—16:9 and 10. Here we are. Do you not…understand, neither remember the five loaves or the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Neither the seven loaves or the four thousand, and ho...