Sons And Daughters Of God Are Led By The Spirit Of God
November 1998
It was the summer of 1960. Brother Branham’s meeting in the high school auditorium in Yakima, Washington was the last of a series of meetings in Klamath Falls, Oregon; Lakeport, California; and then back to Washington.
How this one family heard about the meetings in Yakima, we do not know. They may have learned of it from someone in the Full Gospel church they attended in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle. The could have read the announcement in The Herald Of Faith. As the owner-operator of a service station in Everett, the husband likely was associated with the Full Gospel Business Men’s International and may have heard of it there.
They were devout Christian people, whose lives seemed normal. His business was doing well. Their daughter had finished nursing school and had moved to Vancouver, B.C., where she was working as an R.N. Then a terrible tragedy struck. His wife was diagnosed with cancer.
The disease traveled quickly throughout her body, and by early summer she knew she was dying. If her time was up, that was all right with her, because she was a Christian and knew she would go to be with the Lord. But the pain from the cancer was unbearable. By the end of July, she was receiving morphine shots every three hours.
Her last hope was to be prayed for by Brother Branham. She had heard so many testimonies of healings in his meetings.
When they heard Brother Branham was going to have a ten-day meeting in Yakima, some 200 miles to the east, her husband found someone to run the station for a few days, and made arrangements to go. Their daughter took time off from her job in Vancouver to go with them and administer the morphine shots to her mother.
There were two roads over the Cascade Range of mountains in the days before I-90 was built. One, to the north, went over Stevens Pass. The more southern road was the Snoqualmie route. They decided to take one route going to Yakima, and return home the other way.
The little family had great faith as they drove over the mountains to Yakima. Though riddled with cancer, the sister believed with all her heart that she would not die of that disease if Brother Branham prayed for her.
Once in Yakima, she received a prayer card from Brother Billy Paul before service, but her number was not called during the days they were there. As was his custom, Brother Branham would pray for all the people with remaining prayer cards on Sunday afternoon. Because of their commitments, however, they could not stay for the weekend, and would have to return home to Everett on Thursday morning.
They desperately tried to find Brother Branham before they left, to ask him to pray for the sister, but it was to no avail. Disappointed, they returned to their motel and prepared to make their journey back to Everett.
While her father went to fill the car with gas, and her mother rested in the motel room, the daughter stepped out onto the motel’s lawn for a breath of air. She struck up a conversation with another woman there, who was also staying at the motel, and learned she was the wife of Brother Branham’s manager.
She told her their story, and how they had hoped to find Brother Branham. She asked what kind of car he drove, so they might be on the lookout for it, and was told it was a 1960 green and white Ford station wagon.
As they left Yakima that day, they planned to return to Everett by the alternate route, but when they reached the junction, they somehow felt that they should change their plans and return the same way they came.
From this point on, let’s let Brother Branham tell what happened next, just as he did later that night when he preached As The Eagle Stirreth Up Her Nest:
This morning early, I got up, and I never slept too well last evening. And I got up early this morning, and the Holy Spirit was speaking to me. And He said to me, ”Get out; I‘ll use you.“ And so, only thing I know to do is just get out. That was all.
And I thought, ”Well, my car needs the grease changed in it, so I‘ll just...“--or the oil, rather, so I went up the filling station. I thought, ”Lord, maybe some of these fellow here...“ And I talked to a fine Presbyterian boy, hauling gasoline, and different ones. Seemed like nothing urgent. And a accident happened on the corner. I said, ”Here it is!“ Walked out there, but nobody hurt, so they--that wasn‘t it. So I got my car, I thought, ”I‘ll go back down home.“
Started down home, and well, something said, ”Just keep on driving.“ So, I’ve been making my prayer grounds up around Mount Rainier, up here, going back into the bush. And there‘s something about getting out where nature is, you find God. Get--get alone by yourself. And I had little Joseph with me, my little boy, and something said, ”Pull off the side of the road here and stop, because it‘s a... Why don‘t you let the little boy watch the fishermen?“
Well, they fished for about ten minutes and left, so Joseph, I was setting there. Well, I thought, ”Well, we‘ll drive on up then to the prayer grounds, and then I‘ll let Joseph play around while I read and pray, then we’ll come back down.“ I eat that, once a day, so...
Something wouldn‘t let me go. And I thought, ”Well, Joseph, I got a rag beneath the seat, let‘s just wash the--the mats in the church‘s car.“ I’m driving their car, so I thought, I‘d just want to take care of it, and I--washing the floor mats, and I thought, ”That‘s fine.“
And I had the door open. Joseph, he was doing his on the wheel down there, you know, that little fellow kind of entertaining hisself. And all at once, a car stopped, started backing up. Someone thought that somebody in need. And then, when I come to find out, in this car was a woman dying with cancer, a minister‘s wife. And they had been led very strangely. They had went to the place where I stay, and I was gone. They left a handkerchief to be prayed for, and started over another pass that they was supposed to go, and something told them, ”Turn and go back.“
And they went around this a way, was going down, said, ”Isn‘t this strange why we would be coming this a way?“ And just then, said, ”Wonder if them people‘s--something‘s wrong with them, there in the car?“
And the same time, I was on the inside of the car, head down, scrubbing up-and-down, like that, and I was going to leave. Within a couple of more minutes, I‘d been pulling on out to the prayer place.
And the same time, I was on the inside of the car, head down, scrubbing up-and-down, like that, and I was going to leave. Within a couple of more minutes, I‘d been pulling on out to the prayer place.
And there laid a woman in the back of the car, dying with cancer. How God poured His Spirit out in there.
Isn‘t it wonderful how He works? How mysteriously He‘ll lead us from place to place, just make every corner meet just as... It... That‘s just not coincidental; that‘s spiritually led. You believe that, don‘t you? Sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God.
60-0804 As The Eagle Stirreth Up Her Nest
And now, for the rest of the story!
Brother Branham prayed for the lady in her car, right there, alongside the Yakima River. How she rejoiced! “I believe I’m healed!” she said. “Now, I’m not going to die of cancer!”
On the long drive home, when the time came when the daughter would ordinarily give her mother another shot of morphine, her mother refused it. “I don’t need that! I’m not in pain. I’m healed!” She never needed another shot of morphine or a pain killer again.
About a month after Brother Branham prayed for this sister, he said,
“If it’s your time to go, you’re going to go some way. That’s right. But first, before He tells you, if you’ll be sincere and don’t doubt it, you’ll get well. That’s exactly right.”
60-0911M As I Was With Moses, So Will I Be With Thee
The cancer had taken a terrible toll on her body, which was little more than a skeleton. As the days passed, she seemed to grow weaker, but there was not one bit of pain in her body!
A few weeks later, this sister received the call, “It’s homecoming time,” and went to be with the Lord. The examining doctor found that her heart, weakened greatly by the pain she had suffered and the drugs given to alleviate it, had just given out. When her death certificate was issued, there was no mention of cancer, only heart failure.
Yes, this sister’s life on earth came to an end, but God had honored her faith in the prayers of His prophet and healed her of cancer.
“Course we know Christians don’t die. There’s no such a Scripture in the Bible. See? Christians don’t die; they just go to be with the Lord.”
54-0307E Do You Now Believe?
I trust you enjoyed reading this testimony as much as I enjoyed sharing it with you.
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Brother Joseph M. Branham