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01/03/2025

01/01/2025

64 And now beginning a new year, I want to say, not “Happy New Year” to you, I want to say this to you, “God bless you.” And if He does that, that’s all you’ll have need of for the coming year. And I trust that He will.
62-1231 - The Contest
Rev. William Marrion Branham

11/10/2024

The Family Altar : Volume 1

Day 285October 11

Bible Reading :
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:1-4)

Message Reading :
You want to belong in heaven. That's where your affections ought to be, on things above. Jesus said, "Set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth. They're going to fail." Stay with God. Stay with realities. God is a God of reality. He's always been in all ages. Any time that man ever walked with God, God become a reality that performed signs and wonders and miracles with His people. It's God's purpose to do so. Surrender all.

Right here in Louisville, Kentucky, not long ago, there was a very nice family of people. They had a sick baby; called to pray for it. The doctor walked out of the hospital. "And what about the baby?"

He said, "That baby's dying. There's nothing else can be done for it." Said, "It's got leukemia." Said, "The baby has to die."

Thought, "O God, You ain't said that yet. You never witnessed that." I went and talked to the parents, and the parents was crying and sobbing. Their baby was gone, as far as they knowed. But what did they do?

The doctor was right. Everything that he knowed to do, he'd done. Leukemia's a killer, and nothing can stop it. Said, "The baby's going to die."

You all know the case. And the old grandfather of that baby come along. When he heard me speak about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he said, "I used to remember years ago, when an old preacher said there'd come a time that people would receive the Holy Ghost again, and signs and wonders would be done." He went off in a little room to himself. He wouldn't stay with his son or his daughter-in-law no more. He stayed in there, crying and praying. When the old fellow walked out of there, the sweat hanging across his bald forehead, his eyes glistening, said, "That baby will live."

Said, "What?"

He said, "Doctor, I respect you as a man of science. I respect you and your intelligence that you've learned through medical research." But said, "I prayed and I prayed, and I prayed until I surrendered everything I had to surrender, and the Holy Spirit said, 'The baby will live.'" It did. Why? He surrendered everything he had. God got ahold of him and could talk to him, when he was willing to surrender everything.

( The Unfailing Realities of the Living God
June 26, 1960 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 27, Psalm 120, Daniel 7:1-14, Colossians 3

06/10/2024

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Day 280October 6

Bible Reading :
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philipians 2:5-11)

Message Reading :
Sometimes when God does things, He does it in such a funny way, an odd way, peculiar way to the people of this world, it seems foolish to the carnal mind. How that God does things so simple, it just confuses the carnal mind. For instance, the virgin birth, and many things that's yet got the carnal mind all broke up. They don't know what to think about it. But God does it.

Sometimes when God does things, He does it in such a funny way, an odd Just like when John the Baptist came. Why, the Scripture said, when the inauguration of Jesus down there, at the river that day, that "All the high places would be made low and the low places brought high. And the leaves all clapped their hands, and the mountains skipped like little lambs." Just think of it. And what was it? An old woodsman type of a preacher, with the beard out over his face, like a fuzzy worm, and a big piece of sheepskin wrapped around him, standing on the muddy banks of Jordan, preaching repentance. Amen. (No fine, dressed lace, silks, and satins and whatever it was.)

Sometimes when God does things, He does it in such a funny way, an odd And there's where God spoke from the heaven, and he saw the Spirit of God coming like a dove, falling upon a Man Who'd been born in a manger. See, what the world call great, God calls foolish. And what the world calls foolish, God calls great. That's right. So don't mind to be called foolish. 'Cause remember. You can't have the mind of Christ and the mind of the world at the same time. You can't be in your way and God's way at the same time. You have to get out of your own way to let God have His way. That's the only way you're ever going to do anything. You got to get away from your own thoughts, your own reasons. Don't try to reason; just believe. What if Mary tried to reason about the virgin birth. What if she tried to say, "Now, wait a minute. Now, look. I don't know no man. There's never been anyone like that. How would I ever have a child? Oh, you can't tell me that." She never waited for anything. She just took God at His Word and started thanking God for the baby. Before she felt any life, before she felt anything, before one sign was given to her, she just took the Angel's Word and went rejoicing and praising God, telling everybody she was going to have a baby, knowing no man. God give us some more Marys.

( Witnesses
March 3, 1954 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 22, Psalm 119:25-48, Daniel 4:19.., Philippians 2

01/10/2024

The Family Altar : Volume 1

Day 275October 1

Bible Reading :
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. (1 Samuel 17:34-36)

Message Reading :
David was a hunter and a shepherd, and in the Psalms he wrote of green pastures and still waters, because there he was alone by himself. He wasn't contaminated with the things of the world. God has to get a man away from the things of the world, so He can get him quiet, so he can listen to God, that still small voice. Then once in contact with God, he becomes fearless then. Notice that he don't care what anyone says; he's been in the Presence of God. He knows God in the power of His resurrection.

One day God permitted a bear to come in and get one of his sheep. David just took after that bear. No doubt but what he prayed, because a little later on he confessed to it. And he prayed and asked God. He was caretaker over that sheep; he could not lose that sheep, and he must save that sheep at all price. And he grabbed his little slingshot and took after that bear and killed him. He must save that sheep. See what God was training him for?

God wants His shepherds to save the sheep, regardless what he has to be called and what he has to go through. Save them sheep. Then He seen that David was gallant over this bear, so He just raised the power of the animal a little greater, and He sent a lion in and took one of the lambs, and a lion is a fierce animal. And to think of a little boy (The Bible said he was ruddy; that means that he was just a little bitty fellow.) with a little slingshot (You know what it is: a little piece of leather with a string on each side.); and a hungry lion with already the taste of blood in his mouth, run in and grabbed a sheep. David looked up to God and said, "I can't lose that one, You help me, Lord." And he knocked the lion down with the slingshot, and when the lion rose up against him, that little boy (and the lion weighing about five hundred pounds, or better, and that little boy weighing maybe seventy or eighty), he pulled from his little belt the knife, and when the lion raised up (which would kill ten men in a couple of slaps), he grabbed the lion by the beard and killed him.

Courage: God don't want cowards. He can't use you if you're afraid to take His Word and believe Him; He wants gallant men, won't pay no attention to nothing but what the Lord says. That's the kind He has to move with. Regardless of what the church says, what the pastor says, what the church stands for, He stands for God and righteousness and His Word.

( God Called Man
October 5, 1958 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel17:32.., Psalm 114, Daniel 2:24-35, Ephesians 3

30/09/2024

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Day 274September 30

Bible Reading :
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? (1 Samuel 17:22-26)

Message Reading :
Every man, today, knows that he can take the Name of Jesus Christ and meet any foe at any place, any time, and he will be defeated. I've met witch-doctors. I've met demons of all sorts and never seen a time but what they'd bow to the Name of Jesus Christ. Tell you, friends, when the Church lost the Name and the power of the Name of Jesus Christ, they lost it. When Moses went down to Egypt, if they could ever got that stick out of his hand, they had him whipped. But in that stick was where the power laid. If they ever got the stick out of his hand, they had him whipped. Remember, it was the stick that smote the rock. It was the stick that they held to the air. It was the stick that held over the waters. It was God's judgment rod. And what the stick was in Moses' hand, the Name of Jesus Christ is to the borned again Church. Amen. Get it away from there, and it's gone. Yes, sir.

David said, "You meet me as a Philistine, with an armor and spear but I meet you in the Name of the Lord God of Israel." Watch. He had five stones. He had five fingers, the sling wrapped in: J-E-S-U-S, F-A-I-T-H, faith in Jesus. Here he comes. Something has to happen. I tell you, when he turned that stone loose, the Spirit of God caught into that stone and slew Goliath. Cut his head off, and all the others weakened down. And the armies of Israel took courage and they cut Philistines plumb to the walls. That's what it means tonight: somebody who's got an experience to stand up and to prove the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The rest of them will take courage and here they'll come. Some of you on cots, wheelchairs, try it once and watch the group follow you. Take courage.

( Witnesses
March 3, 1954 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel17:1-31, Psalm 113, Daniel 2:1-23, Ephesians 2

29/09/2024

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Day 273September 29

Bible Reading :
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him. But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. (1 Samuel 16:6-12)

Message Reading :
One time, when Israel chose a king, their first one, they made a terrible mistake. A great big seven foot head and shoulders: Saul! And he become a backslider and done disgrace to Israel. God then made Him a choice. And He said to Samuel, "Get some oil in the cruse and go up to Jesse's house, for I'll show you who I've chose." And when he goes up to Jesse's house, Jesse was very happy. So he had seven sons, and he called the biggest one, great big fine handsome looking fellow, said, "Won't he look nice with the kings robes on him, crown sitting on top of his head, look like the very image of the king?" But when Samuel took the cruse and went forth to anoint him king, the Lord said, "Don't do it. I've condemn it. I haven't chose him." And they brought another the next biggest one; God said, "I haven't chose him either." So he brought the sixth one, and God refused him.

Samuel said, "Haven't you got another one?"

He said,"Oh yes, but he's just a little old, scrawny, ruddy, knotty fellow, lives back out there on the back of the deserts, herding his sheep. He'd never make a king." "So go get him."

And when little old David come in, sheepskin coat on, little crook in his hand, shepherd's staff, the Holy Ghost said, "Go anoint him, for that's My choice." See? God does the choosing, because God looks on the heart.

Sometimes that we think is a great churches, with the great spires, and the million dollar organ setting in it, that's where God is. Not all the time, that isn't true. God chooses a humble heart. I don't care if he is so poor he has to wear overalls, or if he is beggar in the street, if he's humble and willing to believe God, God will take him. That's just all there is to it. Amen.

( Life is the Healer
June 12, 1957 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 16, Psalm 112, Daniel 1, Ephesians 1

28/09/2024

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Day 272September 28

Bible Reading :
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6:7-9)

Message Reading :
Remember setting right back where Sister Wright's at one night that a woman was going to throw me out the door for doing something like that. Yes, sir. I said, "You're not coming in my church with your old..." When they used to wear or cut their dresses way down like this, and with that funny looking stuff and about half of their body exposed, I said, "If they ever come in my church, I'll sure put them out." And some little old snicklefritz down here (She died after that, and she called on me, dying. She was a Catholic girl.) walked up there and set down with that like that. I looked back and spied her setting up here (They was singing.), took off my coat, walked back there, put it up around her shoulders. I said, "Madam, if you're going to listen to me preach, would you please wear this coat while you're in the church of God."

She stomped out of there, spread them little lips as she went out of the building; she said, "If he's got religion, I wouldn't let my cow have that kind of religion." I said, "Don't worry, she won't have it."

When we had the tent, they called for me when she was dying. She had a heart attack, and she was dying. Her husband come. He said, "Come quickly," (And I was right in the meeting), a big tall boy, standing at the door waiting for me. I got in my car and run up there. As I went up, I met that old nurse out there that lives down in Howard Park yet. She said, "Reverend, there is no need of coming." (That's been about twenty years ago, maybe a little better.) Said, "She's dead." Said, "She's been dead about three minutes." Said, "She screamed as hard as she could for you." Said, "I got a message for you." I said, "What?"

Said, "Tell that preacher that I said that about, please forgive me." I went down there to look at her: beautiful woman. And she had suffered so hard she had little freckles across her nose. A pretty woman. And the freckles looked like stood out. And her eyes had pushed completely out of the sockets and was halfway turned back. 'Course her bowels and kidneys had moved, and the steam coming up all over the bed like that. And her husband looked at me and said, "Brother Branham, say a prayer, 'cause she wanted to see you." I said, "A prayer for her now would do no good. The way the tree leans, that's the way it falls. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap."

( The Serpents Seed
September 28, 1958 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 15, Psalm 111, Ezekiel 48:15.., Galatians 6

27/09/2024

The Family Altar : Volume 1

Day 271September 27

Bible Reading :
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. (Galatians 5:22-24)

Message Reading :
Christians, oh, you must have a personal relationship to God. In order to be a son of God, you must become relation to God. He must be your Father in order for you to be a son. And only His sons and daughters are saved, not the members of a church, but sons and daughters. There's only one thing that will produce that; that's the new birth. The new birth is the only thing that will produce relationship to God. Is that right: sons and daughters.

Then when this takes place, then the man (Here's the question I want to get to you.)--the man said, "What do we do then after we've been born again?" So many ask me that question. "What should I do then, Brother Branham?" If you are borned again, your entire nature is changed. You are dead to the things you once thought.

"Well," you say, "Brother Branham, when I join church, I got that." Well, then when God said Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever; He still heals the sick. He still shows visions. "But, Brother Branham, my church..." Now, you're not born again. See? You can't be, for if the very God, if His Life is in you, like you're in the life of your father, and if the very Life of God is in you and the very Spirit that was in Christ in you, how can the Spirit live in Jesus Christ and write this and then come back down in you and deny that? See? Can't do it. It'll punctuate every word to be so.

Then if you say, "Well, I'm a good member of the church." That don't have one thing to do with it. I know the heathens, down in Africa amongst my dark brethren down there, I find the morals of them people higher than ninety percent of the American people. Never found one case of venereal in the whole trip through South Africa. They don't have such a thing. There you are. See, it's just our own dirty filthy ways as white people. That's right. Got away from God.

When this takes place, the thing you'll do then, you'll find out that the Spirit that comes in you from the new birth, you will believe and do everything that God says in His Word's for you to do. And everything that the Bible quotes for you to do, you'll punctuate it with a "Amen." And you'll not stop day and night until you receive it. That's right. That's right. And in all this time, you'll certainly above everything bear the fruit of the Spirit.

You say "Will I speak with tongues?" You might do that, and you might not. "Will I shout?" You might do that; you might not. But there's one sure thing you will do. You will bear the fruit of the Spirit; and the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, faith, long-suffering, meekness, gentleness, patience...

( Is Your Life Worthy of the Gospel
June 30, 1963 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 14:24.., Psalm 110, Ezekiel 48:1-14, Galatians 5

26/09/2024

The Family Altar : Volume 1

Day 270September 26

Bible Reading :
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. (Galatians 4:22-23)

Message Reading :
Here we are presented with a picture though. The seed started, the seed of promise started in a doubt of the original promise. See how it starts low in doubt in the original promise? God promised Abraham through Sarah to have this child. But now watch, the first seed of Abraham by the bondswoman come by Sarah doubting that this could happen, because she was old and passed the age of bearing.

Now, that's how the church starts. That's how it always starts. You start from the bottom. You don't start from the top. A man trying to climb a ladder tries to get on top first, he'll break his neck. You've got to start and build up to that. And here we find the beginning of the promise of God being made manifest through a slightly doubted, interrupted program of God. That's the same way sin begin in the garden of Eden. That's how death started by sin, was when one word of God was misconstrued or doubted. You can't doubt or misplace one word of God that's THUS SAITH THE LORD every Word be so.

And here Sarah being a woman (which is a type of the church) gave doubt to the original program of God's promised Word, and said, "You, Abraham, my husband, take unto you this beautiful maid, and live with her, and be a husband to her. And God will give this seed of promise through her; and I'll take the child." See? Just bypassing one little iota changed the whole program. Therefore, we've got to take every word of God as THUS SAITH THE LORD. Every word of God is true. Here the seed starts then in a promise slightly doubted. Isaac being the seed of the free and promised woman, brought forth (as Paul was trying to explain here in Galatians) he brought forth the natural, promised seed. And he goes on to say here that the bondswoman's children cannot be heir with the freewoman's children, because they are of two different categories. And that is true. The unbeliever cannot be heir with the believer. There's no way at all.

That's where the trouble is today. You can't make a denominational chicken believe with a eagle. You just can't do it. There's where the trouble comes. You've got to believe every word of God. You're not heirs together; neither will you join with it. You cannot do it. You've got to be eagle or a chicken.

It could not be heir with Ishmael, the seed of the bondswoman , because of the doubting. Sarah doubted God's Word, that God was able to keep it. Notice, Abraham did not doubt it. Sarah did doubt it. She was the one. It was not Adam that doubted; it was Eve that doubted. Neither can the natural be heir with the spiritual. No more can Ishmael's children be heir with Isaac's children, and no more than the carnal can be heir with the spiritual

( The Seed is Not Heir with the Shuck
February 18, 1965 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 14:1-23, Psalm 109, Ezekiel 47, Galatians 4:15..

20/09/2024

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Day 264September 20

Bible Reading :
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. (1 Samuel 8:4-5)

Message Reading :
It was during the time of the days of Samuel, the man of God, the prophet. And he'd been a just man and a good man: honorable, reputable, true, and honest with the people, never deceiving them, and telling them nothing but straight, THUS SAITH THE LORD.

But the people had come to a place where they wanted to change this program. They had looked upon the Philistines, and the Amalekites, Amorites, Hittites, and the other nations of the world, and they had seen that they had kings that ruled them, and governed them, and guided them, and fought their battles, and so forth. And this seemed to be that Israel wanted to pattern themselves like these kings and like these people.

But it has never been, in any age, God's intention for His people to act like the people of the world, or to be governed or controlled like the people of the world. God's people is, always has been, a peculiar people, a different people, a called out, a separated, an altogether different in their action, in their ways, in their manner of living, than what the peoples of the world has. Their appetites for things and all that their makeup is, has been always contrary to the things that the people of the world desire.

And the people of Israel came to Samuel and said, "Now, you're getting old, and your sons do not walk in your way. (Because they wasn't true like Samuel; they were bribers and takers of money.)" And they said, "Samuel, your boys is not like you, so we want you to go out and to find us a king, and anoint him, and make us a people like the rest of the peoples of the world.".

And Samuel tried to tell them that that would not work. He said, "If you do that, the first thing you know, you'll find that he will call all your sons from your home and make soldiers out of them to run before his chariots and bear armors and spears. Not only that, but he will call your daughters to make bakers of bread and take them away from you to feed the army." And said, "Besides all that, he will take a certain taxes off of you of your grain, and all your income. He will tax all of that to make certain government debts and so forth that'll have to be paid." He said, "I think you are altogether making a mistake.".

But when the people said, "But we still want to be like the rest of the people." There's something about men and women that they long to be like one another. And there's only been one Man ever lived on earth that was our Example, and that was the One that died for us all, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. He was the perfect example of what we should be: always about the Father's business and doing that which is right.

( Rejected King
May 15, 1960 )
~ Rev. William Marrion Branham

Year Bible Reading Plan | Daily Reading: 1 Samuel 8, Psalm 105:23.., Ezekiel 44:1-14, 2 Corinthians 12