Topic: Prayer

Question

Brother Branham, what seems to be wrong in the day when we are living, of being a believer and following the Message and messenger of today, when you cannot seem to pray like you would like to? That’s a good question.

Answer

I believe brother, sister, ever who asked it, it’s a cause of the conditions of time. The revival is over. The revival has lasted some fifteen years, and never did last before over about three years. I believe it’s received its last revival. And I believe that’s why you can’t pray and feel in the Sp...

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It seems among the ministers of the Word, that we have little or no burden to pray, to preach, to fast, or for lost souls that might still be out there somewhere in the world. Would you please tell us what to do about this condition? Thank you very much, Brother Branham, for this. That must be a minister. He didn’t sign any name for these word.

Answer

Brother…I’ve had to answer them when I was tired, wore out, and kind of, you know, don’t feel too good, so I—I trust that it answer the questions. I—I thank you very much and I—I forgot what that I was going to answer him. Preachers, a minister, why we have these burden…don’t have burdens for lost...

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We see…Why can’t we sell our house? Thank you. We…P.S. We have prayed and fasted—and—to sell it, yet no results.

Answer

Well now, Brother or Sister (they don’t sign their name), but ever who it is, now, if you’re trying to sell your property and you’ve done what you…You want to sell it and probably for to buy some more or whatever you want to do, I don’t know. If your objective is right, you’re trying buy a home…If y...

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How do you feel is the best way to find the Lord…How do you—how do you feel is the best way to find the Lord’s will in some important matters? Now, let…I don’t believe I…Let me see if I can get the continuity to it. “How do you feel is the best way (I see it should be a comma there, I suppose)…How do you feel is the best way to find the Lord’s will in some important matters?”

Answer

I tell you, dear friend, the best way to find the will of God in some important matters is prayer. See? Now, let me…Here’s a wonderful little thing here. If you—if—if you have a matter that’s very important…Now, here’s the way I do it. I take it before the Lord. And it’s always been my strength; I...

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At what point do people usually get desperate enough to really pray and get right with God?

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And that’s the way it is, if they don’t…If you’re not interested in God, you can’t talk God to people; but whenever they get hungering and thirsting after righteousness, God said “They shall be filled.” But first there has to be a hunger and thirst. You have to really want it. Just like healing, if...

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Can prayer change a death that God has already pronounced?

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Now, many times it turns dark around the patient. I know death’s laying there. And I just say, “The Lord bless you.” Or, “I pray that God will heal you.” And—and send them on off the platform. For I don’t know what it will be. ’Cause sometimes God could pronounce death on a person, and then their pr...

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Can prayer change what God has already said will happen?

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Now, looky here. The greatest military and a—one of the greatest Christians that we’d call it today in the nation…Now, here it is. I want you to get it. The king, not an unbeliever, a true believer, a worshipper of God, in prayer, sincere weeping with his face to the wall on his deathbed…Looked like...

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Why did Jonah look toward the temple while he was in the whale's belly?

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Jonah said, “They are lying vanities.” He said, “Once more will I look to Your holy temple,” told God. Because when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, “If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look to this holy place and pray, then You hear from heaven.” And he believed, Jonah believed that God...

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What is the strongest weapon a Christian has?

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Now, along this journey He’s promised to supply everything that we have need of, “Whatsoever you will ask the Father in My Name, that will I do. Whatsoever things…” Mark 11:24 “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, you shall have it.” Now, He gave us the strongest weap...

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Why did God tell Job's friends to go to Job and have him pray for them?

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Now, these men who had scorned, and had kinda made fun of Job, God said to them, “You go take an offering and go down to Job, my righteous servant. I won’t hear you, because you got too much folly. You haven’t stood for truth. You haven’t did what’s right. Therefore, you take a burnt offering, and g...

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In James 5, what is meant by the 'righteous man' whose effectual fervent prayer availeth much?

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Now, I wish to read something about prayer over here in the good Book, in James the 5th chapter, beginning with the 14th verse. Everyone listen closely now. Is any sick among you? let him call the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing with oil in the name of the Lord: The praye...

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Why did God reconsider His sentence of death on Hezekiah?

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Look at Hezekiah when…?…and the prophet went up and said, “All right, Hezekiah, you’re not coming off the bed. God’s done said you was going to die right there where you’re at.” And Hezekiah studied it over, if he just had fifteen years longer…Now remember, you’ve got to give God a cause, a reason....

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When a person prays, is God brought down to man, or is man brought up to God?

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Now, see what prayer does? Prayer is not exactly bringing God down to man. It’s bringing man up to God. See? As you pray, you lose—you lose sight of these earthly things. You sway out into somewhere else, way beyond, and on and on and on, till you be come into His Presence. And then a—a faith that y...

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Can a person come to know God through theological degrees and scholarship?

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I know people that’s got D.D.’s, and D.D.’s and everything else, and know no more about God than a rabbit could know how to put on snowshoes. I ain’t saying that for a joke either. But that’s right. Don’t know no more about God, than a Hottentot knows about Egyptian night. But they don’t know God. T...

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What should you do when discomforts make it hard to keep on praying?

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And I went over there, and I knelt down. Did you ever feel like, you know, the briers stuck you, and the floor was too hard? Did you ever have that? That’s the time to press on. That’s the devil trying to keep you from it. Move right on. As long as you’re doing right, you can’t be doing wrong. See?...

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Why does God sometimes hold off answering a prayer until the last moment?

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Now, I could think of when Zacharias…God setting Hisself in order, getting His church ready…Zacharias, the great high priest—or great priest, rather, he was to burn incense. He had a home that was consecrated to God. God give us some more homes like that. Yes, sir. They believe God and waited on God...

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Can prayer change something God has already pronounced over a person?

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And—and as far as I know, the best of my knowledge, to all of the people that I—have come before me to be prayed for, there has never been one time in all my life that I can remember praying for the sick when I absolutely saw the vision and told them that the Lord Jesus had healed them but what was...

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Can prayer change God's mind?

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And if you ever want to do anything for me that’ll please me, you pray for me. That’s the…That’s one thing that I—I want you to do, pray for me, ’cause I know prayer changes things. It even changes God’s mind about things, changes God’s program. Do you believe that? God can pronounce a certain thing...

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What did Brother Branham say is America's best defense in a time of crisis?

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You know, the best armor that America has in this present crisis is God-fearing, praying people. That’s the best. It’s worth more than all the bombs and tanks that we could produce. God will always fight for His people. Let us… If this whole nation with one accord would throw themselves to God in sa...

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Why did Brother Branham say he had to keep fasting while ministering on the platform?

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If your—if you keep your stomach empty, the blood is at your brain, and you must be ready. And if you’re all full when you’re…That’s the power of fasting. When you’re—when you’re full, the blood goes into your stomach to digest your food. You see? And then when you’re empty, it’s in your—in your bra...