Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
34 And I wrote the vision immediately after I’d—I had the vision that morning. And then when the manager, as we call him that for the time being, had made an arrangements to go into India. And he—he didn’t kinda like Africa very much. So he said to me in Chicago; he said, “Brother Branham, let’s just bypass Africa and go on to India.”
I said, “That is up to you, brother; wherever the Lord wants me to labor, all right.”
I feel that, brethren, and like in here. Whether we have… I would rather be down here in this meeting with five people attending in that six thousand auditorium, and be in the will of God, than to have the place turning away five thousand every night, and be out of the will of God. See? The main thing is do the will of God, whether it’s small, or whether it’s great, whatever it is.
35 I just held a revival in a church that held twenty people, a revival. I don’t have any television; I don’t have any programs to sponsor or anything. People just pay the expense, and that’s all there is to it. See, see? And so I don’t want any of those things. If I do, I am obligated.
You think our dear Brother Oral Roberts, which is my bosom friend and a real man of God, do you think that Oral Roberts could come to a place and hold a meeting for two or three days in a church that held twenty people, when it takes about seven or eight thousand dollars a day for him to thrive? Certainly, he couldn’t. He would like to, but he can’t do it. He’s under such an obligation. Now, I haven’t got the brains to do what he’s doing, and God knows that, so He lets Oral do that. He just keeps me this way where I can… See, i—i—if we just—if we just realize what—what our—are limited what we can do. So then, I don’t have to have money, so that’s… There you are. See? I can go anywhere He sends me.
36 If He wants me to go to Africa and preach to a hundred thousand people, He will produce the money. He’s got all of it anyhow, so I don’t have to ask for it, so He just gives it to me. If He wants me to go down to—to the old saint of Timbuktu, Gravel Switch, or somewhere, you know, and preach to ten people, amen. I’ll just go and stay till He tells me it’s over. So that’s the way… I—I try to live that way. And I don’t not have nothing, no programs to support, nor nothing. See?
Now, I am not saying… See, now that is my part. Now, Brother Oral Roberts, God give him something else to do. And Brother A. A. Allen, and many of those other brethren, who has great radio broadcast and things, they’ve got to have money. I help support them myself. See? I do all that I can, because I realize that’s my brother. I couldn’t fwil—fill his place, and I—I’m kind of glad that I don’t not have to. See? Because I haven’t got the mental powers to work those things out, and so I just stay the way I am. You… As Congressman Upshaw used to say, “You can’t be nothing that you haint.” So that’s right. And the quicker we realize that, the better off we’ll be.
You just be what you are. God wants you the way He made you. And just keep that in mind, and be just what… If it’s a doormat, be a doormat. I want to be the best doormat He ever had, if—if I have to be the doormat. Or whatever it is in the House of God, let me serve my office the best that I can for Him.
58-0301b - "The Great Commission"
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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