Godly Correction
My six-year-old boy loves listening to Brother Branham stories. He listens every night as he goes to sleep. One day we were camping out bush when a couple of big wasps flew around. “Watch out for them!” He said.
“Don't worry, they won't hurt much!” We replied.
“Oh, yeah, well they can kill you, just one sting!” He said, “You know, you should really be listening to Brother Branham stories!”
Australia
That’s Little
Now, don't that make you feel about so little that you could crawl under a concrete block with a ten gallon hat on and never touch it. That's pretty small, you know. Oh, my.
Brother Branham
A Good Answer
The neighbor kids asked my 11-year-old daughter what religion she is because she always wears skirts and never cuts her hair. My daughter promptly replied, “We are Christians.” They replied, “Oh, we’re Baptist.”
Brother Daniel, USA
That’s Got Nothing To Do With It
“Are you a Christian?”
“Well, I'm Presbyterian.” Oh!
That's no more to do with It than to say “a hog with a sidesaddle on was a racehorse.”
Brother Branham
Where Exactly?
When I came home from school where I was in grade 1 or maybe grade 2, I asked mom a question. I asked, where does God live? Mom said, “He lives in heaven.” I said, “Then why do we pray at school, ‘Our father, who aren't in heaven...’?”
Brother Glen, Canada
Those Are Some Good Questions
The testimony about listening to the right thing reminds me of my five year old son when my husband was telling him about the story of Moses. When my husband said Moses was told to take off his shoes, immediately my son asked, “Did he have socks on when he took off his shoes?” We had good chuckle about it.
Last night I was telling my five year old again the story of Elizabeth and Zachariah, so I said Zachariah was a high priest, and again the question came, “Was he a high priest because he was tall?”
UK
Why Did You Preach So Long?
A man said one day, said, "A minister came up, he had been a pastor at the church for twenty years. And he always preached just exactly thirty minutes each Sunday morning at his church." And he said, "This Sunday morning, he preached three hours."
And so the deacon board called him in, and said, "Pastor, we really appreciate you." Said, "We always know that--that you stand for the Bible and Its rights." And said then, "And you always correct us so we can be feel pure and clean before God. And we really appreciate you, and we believe you're God's servant. And we certainly did appreciate that message this morning. But," said, "there is just one thing that we want to ask you about." Said, "We timed you, as a deacon board." Said, "Every Sunday morning you're just exactly thirty minutes, and today you were three hours." Said, "Now, remember, we appreciate every bit of it. It was all right." Making the old fellow feel good, you know.
He said, "Well, brethren, I'll tell you how it is." Said, "Every morning when I go to... I'm called to the pulpit," said, "I put one of those little Life Savers in my mouth," he said, "and I just suck on it." And said, "When the Life Saver is done," said, "it takes just thirty minutes," and said, "then I quit preaching." He said, "You know, this morning, I thought I was a little overtime. I spit it out, I had a button in my mouth."
Brother Branham
Your Testimony Is Speaking So Loud I Can’t Hear What You Are Saying
I was helping my little ones take off their shoes in an indoor playground recently and there was a little girl not over seven years old in there alone, and she was looking us over.
Then she said so sweetly, “Are you one of those skirt girls that wear skirts all the time?”
I said, “Yes, I am.” (I thought to myself “Oh no, I wonder what’s she going to say next without her mom here?”)
To my astonishment she said, “I like you guys.”
I said, “Well, I like you too. I like your beautiful hair.” (because she had beautiful hair).
She said, “Thanks,” then she said, “I wish I could wear skirts all the time like you.”
I was about to say, “You can if you want too,” when she said, “When I grow up, I am going to be just like you guys because you get to be pretty ALL the time!”
I thought, “Wow, Praise the Lord!”
We just never know who we are influencing.
Sister Joanna, USA
Pretty Is As Pretty Does
But the lily, in its beauty, is life that's making it beautiful, not some artificial smear on, paint on. Just like our women, I don't think you have to have all this green, you know, and eye winkers, you know, out like that, and all that manicure or--or not, I get that stuff mixed up, all on your face, to make you pretty. Pretty is as pretty does. If you'll add a little Acts 2:4, mix it all up together, a little John 3:16, it'll beat anything that Max Factor ever did try to fix. See? Your husband will love you more; everybody else will; and I'm sure God will.
Brother Branham