1st May 2011 Issue 37

=Testimonies from the Saints in Japan’s Monster Earthquake=

God's grace and mercy !! has been extended yet again!

Praise the Lord !! Testimony from Sister Grace Yang: Dear brothers and sisters, You must have seen the terrible scene when Japan suffered this fourfold calamity-earthquake, Tsunami, energy shortage, and nuclear radiation pollution. We are Chinese sisters in Japan and we experienced the earthquake. I’d like to share my own experience through the disaster. My personal experience of the quake is this:- I was working in front of the computer when the shake started. At the begin-ning it felt like an earthquake. Because earthquakes are quite normal in the Kanto region, very often my colleagues and I would just say ‘Earthquake!’ and then continue our work. But this time, it was different, the quake was longer and stronger. I walked out of the office raising my hand saying ‘Hallelujah’! and persuaded one colleague of mine to evacuate downstairs. When we reached the ground floor and went out of the building, all the staff, employees and students were gathered. Everyone trembled while they watched the building shake, which went on for quite a while. In the nightfall, I returned to my office and then returned to my home. In my house there was NO DAMAGE, not one dish or bowl touched in the earthquake. Praise the Lord !! In the night of the 11th, the cell phone kept sending out alarm signals and waking me up, so I turned it off. But still, I got woken up by the quake at times during the night. It’s still shaking almost every day.

If you read the testimonies from my niece Sister Kate and my daughter Sister Rebekah,

you will see how our dear God protects His children in disaster!

Ed: Amen ! Glory to God! Remember, Saints, Psalm 91:7…?

Sister Grace Sister Rebekah Sister Kate

Since the moment I believed in the Lord Jesus, I’ve never had any worry. I know God holds my life, He watches over me and takes care of me. I can live in peace and rest. This big earthquake brings to me a wonderful experience with the Lord.

I'm living and studying in the Tohoku University in Sendai, which is very close to the earthquake source. I was doing

my experiment in the chemistry lab as usual, on Mar 11 in the afternoon. When I felt the shake I thought it would stop

soon. But it just went harder and harder, so I said to the rest of the people in the room that I would go out to the cor-

ridor. Three people also came out with me. Standing in the corridor, I first thought of God. I knelt down and prayed

'Lo, Lord, I surrender all to you. I don't mind what is still coming...' The building was shaking so hard that I felt it could

just collapse, but in my heart I didn't fear anything. I walked out of the building to a shelter when the quake stopped.

When I looked back afterwards, I thanked the Lord for His keeping.

Normally, instead of being in the lab, I would be in another place for a rest about the time of the earthquake. That

resting room is further away from the corridor than the lab and there isn't any place to hide myself in that room. It

was much more dangerous than the lab. Thank the Lord, He knows all things!

Later, I came to my flat. Except that the rice cooker fell and broke, there wasn't anything else broken. The rice

cooker was already a bit used-up. I had already planned to buy a new one. Thank the Lord that He reminded me to go

and buy a new one. Under that kind of strong quake that causes houses to collapse, my flat was just as clean and neat

as it had been. Seeing all these things, I can't explain my thanks to the Lord. He takes care of His people with His pow-

erful hands.

After the earthquake, I didn't expect to get out of Sendai. So I went back home and brought some food I had

stored, as well as my Bible. Those people that were in the same shelter as I was, know that I'm a Christian, and they

asked me to tell them some biblical stories. Since then I haven't gone back to the flat, and the Bible is with me all the

time.

There is another thing I also want to thank the Lord for. I had bought a lot of food, cooked and stored them in the

fridge one week before the earthquake. Actually I had had enough food that week and needn't have bought that

much. I wouldn't prepare myself so much food for just one week. Thank the Lord that He lets me have such storage of

food. With this storage, I didn't have any shortage in food when I was in the shelter. I could even keep sharing the

food to my friends and comfort them.

Then under the guidance of the Lord, my friends and I took a taxi, bus and then train to Gifu. Another sister and my

cousin are living in that region. We several people all got to know this End Time Message and Gospel of Jesus Christ

from my aunt Grace Yang here.

Now when I look back, indeed, it's the power of God. His amazing love and care. The location of my room (so close

to the source), nothing fell in my room, including the prepared food and the Bible I brought..... Praise God!

Sister Kate, Mar 22, 2011.

Testimony from Sister Rebekah Yang: I was going out from the lab to submit my assignment when the earthquake took place on the afternoon of March

11. In the beginning, it felt just a bit shaky. I thought, well, maybe a small earthquake. But the shaking became

stronger and stronger, four of my fellow students and I ran out to the corridor. Most of the staff and students were

outside the city for a conference that day, so only five of us were in the lab. In the beginning I could stand still, but as

the quake got larger, I could barely keep standing. A girl and I crouched down, and two other students from last year

protected us. I knelt and prayed that God would settle the quake. Very soon the quake stopped. Thank the Lord! This

quake was measured as 6minus at my place [Japanese scale]. I took my jacket and cell phone and hurried toward a

grass field outside with the rest of the people. Shortly it began shaking again even on the grass. The quake source of

the 2nd one was very close to my lab. And measured as 6plus. Thank God , we were already outside.

Hallelujah! When the quake had ended, we went back to our lab. None of the glasses, neither experimental instru-

ments, or bottles were broken. Everybody was surprised by this miracle. I had put my laptop in the refresh room and

it was alright, while my fellow student's were hit and broken by a box falling from a shelf next to it. My lab is subdi-

vided by 4 rows with 3 passages in between. The other 2 passages were filled with things that fell from the cabinet,

while there wasn't anything that fell on the passage I used!

I left the lab and went to my cousin’s apartment quickly.

What amazed us were the tall bookcases in our rooms (they usually shake when used). They still stood. So were

the cups lying on them. A microwave we had put on top of the fridge, which was almost as high as an adult, fell on the

floor. The plate inside wasn't broken; (it's a normal plate because the microwave didn't come with a plate). The mi-

crowave functioned perfectly as it had been when we connected it to the outlet. [from editor* Sister Kate later re-

turned to Sendai to find that it is actually not damaged - it can be used -before she is able to buy a new one.]

Testimony from Sister Kate:

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Sister Grace Yang :- We have been praying that the predestined seed can be shaken and wake up from this earthquake. I know

four precious Japanese sisters who received the Message delivered by the Prophet, Brother Branham abroad.

So far, actually in Japan, almost no Japanese accepts the precious Message. Please do pray for them!

On March 9th, the earthquake [scale 7.2] in Miyagi on Wednesday afternoon, didn’t bring much disaster.

Someone said to me, God really has mercy on Japan and Japan’s anti-earthquake technique is great, even

such a strong quake can’t cause any damage to it. I said, “If God will hit Japan, there must be another larger

earthquake coming.” As I said it, I felt a little strange as to why I said that, as my family are living here. Japan’s

prosperity is important to us. Furthermore, we know so many good people here who work as hard as they can,

and do as kindly as they can. I do not want to see any disaster come…

Later on when I talked to another sister by cellphone, she told me of a special dream that she had dreamed

about, relating to a tsunami. I thank the Lord that He lets us see things before they come. He loves us and re-

veals things to us.

After reading the testimony of my daughter Rebekah, we recalled together about our wonderful experience twelve

years ago. One day after we were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we were sitting before the old unit furni-

ture to sort out our belongings, when suddenly, a piece of glass fell down from the unit furniture, but it disobey the princi-

ple of gravity physics, and turned left to our left

hand and landed on the floor lightly without being broken. This whole process moved like it was a piece of paper instead

of the piece of glass. If God was not on the scene, the glass would have hit our faces directly! Since that time, God has

always continued to express His love and care for us.

Many foreign people fear the nuclear radiation and have left Japan. We saints are staying here to believe

and pray for Japan. We believe that God will change the nuclear radiation Chemistry principle for us, just as a

brother from Holland quoted from:- quote of the day, March 19 in http://branham.org/, to encourage us:

56-0405 THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS

God don't want you to be frowning. God wants you to be happy. The human heart was made to be happy. Worry will cause cancer.

Temper will cause cancer. Don't never be upset. Just walk in His love. Amen. Knowing that you're walking in Him, and nothing can

harm you. There's nothing can harm you. There's neither powers, things present, things future, nothing can separate us from Him.

We're in Him. And we never come in by our own will. He, by choice, elected us and brought us in to Him. Amen. So it's His business

to take care of what He's took Hisself. "No man can pluck them from My Father's hands, 'cause He's the greatest of all of them."

Amen. It's the Father Who takes care of it. Who's got any more power than God? So what kind of a power have you got over you to

take care of you? The whole powers that created the universes. Amen.

Thus, I don't know what's still coming. However, before God leads us to leave Japan, we believe that

Jesus Christ is our only absolute refuge. Hallelujah! Amen!

Please pray for any predestined seed in Japan and the believers here!

May God bless you! Sister Grace Yang Early morning, March 14, 2011

Compared to what had happened to my colleagues, it was really a miracle! My colleague's microwave fell also

but broke into two pieces. The PC in my room fell but nothing was broken. The dishes, plates and bowls in the

kitchen all remained where they had been placed. While we were surprised by the scene in our rooms, we heard our

neighbours screaming and complaining that their rooms were full of broken plates and glasses!

In the evening, many aftershocks took place. Other people hid themselves in the dorm canteen, and ran outside as

long as the quake came. A person ran out more than 10 times that night and got exhausted. My cousin and I just

cooked and enjoyed our food as usual. When sleeping at night, I raised my hand and prayed as soon as a quake woke

me up, and fell into sleep again. I'm a Christian, I trust in God! My cousin isn't a Christian yet, but surprisingly, God

also gave her peace. I slept very well. Praise the Lord. Mar 15, in the evening I came home by train.

Hallelujah! Glory, praise and blessed be our God Almighty! Sister Rebekah, Mar 21st 2011

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Greetings to you precious Saints in our Lord’s mighty Name.

We apologise to you all for the break in transmission of the Believers Newsletter’s Web site for the past three weeks. Normally it would have been rectified by our Technical Coor-

dinator immediately, but he was on the Mission Field and we could do nothing but wait for his return to mend the problem. And this has been successfully accom-plished, praise the Lord.

It was lovely to receive the beautiful testimonies of our Lord’s goodness and we are sure they will feed and uplift your spirits and refresh the Body of Christ in faith as we realise afresh that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.

Let us pray for our Brothers, who are currently minister-ing on the mission fields. May the Lord Jesus draw His Bride to hear His Word. I’m sure that if we saw how the devil tries to destroy the Work of God, we would be very diligent in praying for God’s servants. Our brothers, Bro. Derrick Donaldson, Bro. Adrian Gray and another Brother from Taranaki, are in P.N.G., while our young brother Matthan Gray is ministering in the Philippines.

The Committee members, Brothers Bruce, Adrian and Malcolm join me in wishing you all God’s richest bless-ings ..’ For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace;’

Brother Charles

Editor

From the Editor’s Desk

Oh the Cornerstone, precious Cornerstone;

The Redeemer Who came unto Zion;

He came to make His claims of the

Gentiles;

And present Himself alive to the Jews.

Oh the Cornerstone, the stumbling Stone;

It had come with a loud noise of thunder;

And seven snow-white mighty angels;

In a moment from eternity came.

Oh the Capstone, of God’s building;

Seven angels in shape of that pyramid.

And the Lord God’s servant and prophet,

Was caught up to meet them in the air.

Lo the Cornerstone, the smiting stone;

That the Lord God did show unto

Daniel;

It came without hands from the mountain;

To smite the image smack in the feet.

He’s rejected now, the precious Cornerstone;

By the builders who build on the sand;

Yet He is the Head of the Corner;

It’s fulfilled and so marv’lous to behold.

It’s fulfilled and so marv’lous to behold.

~BEHOLD THE CORNERSTONE~

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We love You, our Heavenly Bridegroom! Your Bride – all robed in Purest White Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven!

Who like us, His praise should sing? Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise the everlasting King!

We ‘Only Believe’ and we receive It! Your last Message sounding forth! Taking us to the Marriage Supper

Where death and hell have passed away Praise Him! Praise Him!

You have given Your Love to us!

We don’t see an earthly Palace You’ve prepared our heavenly Home !

And while mortals rise and perish, We stand upon Your Promised Word!

Praise Him! Praise Him! Praise Your Glorious Faithfulness!

Then he reveals to us, “When the squeeze comes, watch the third pull then”. He’s not saying we don’t have the Third Pull now; he’s talking about that part of the Third Pull – the Spoken Word and the preaching to the lost. “It will be the thing

that will start the rapturing faith to the going away of the Church, and it will go to the lost. It will do great things for us in our midst”. Sister Hattie Wright was in our midst; Sister Branham with the tumour was in our midst. And then it will go to the lost as a witness; a ministry of testi-mony to the lost. The Token on display when no more could be saved. Noah shut in the ark, and then the rain fell after, when nobody else could come in. Glory! So watch that. So I’m giving you that continuity because I want to place something to show you from 1946 to 1965 we have come through healing – 1st Pull; Discernment. 2nd Pull; Spoken Word. Five manifestations, opening of the Word. And the preaching to the lost has been foretold, has been revealed. So from 1965 we have had the opening of the Word; the revealing of the mysteries. What for? To show us our position, to give us perfect faith; to bring us into the true baptism of the Holy Ghost; to grow us into the Word Image. Because it’s only after you come into the Image that you could get dominion. God made man in His Image and then gave him dominion. That’s why the prophet said that we have super-dupers. The Word could only speak when it became in the Image. Michelangelo, when he reproduced the image of Moses, then he said, “Speak!” Then it could speak. He wasn’t trying to say, “Speak!” when it was a big piece of rock. After he chipped it out, and the invisible vision be-came visible, he said, “Speak!” It could speak then. Amen. See? That’s why people run helter-skelter, trying to pull things out of God, and everything else. They don’t know what they’re doing. They miss the trail, they miss their continuity. That’s why people come with all kind of reve-lation; “See, if you see the Seven Thunders here; see, if you see the Seven Seals here; see, if you see these things here.” And then they wiggle off into some strange busi-ness. It’s a straight line of the Word. From 1946 to 1955, was the First and Second Pull. Then 1956: Inner Veil, he starts; he’s going now into the Third Pull. The Vision comes: “I’ll meet you in the room now; this will not be impersonated”. See? Oh my! Now

the signs attracted their attention – the Voice of the sign will start to speak, but it will start with the written mysteries, because “This angel will start from Gene-sis and go all the way to Revelation. He will sow the seed of the entire Bible”. …He said, “Brother Branham, you were around the mountain and you were interpreting the writing on the rock.” He said, “Yes, that represented the Bible in the brother’s dream.” And then in 1962, *from ’56 to ‘62+ now, he’s in Revelation now, opening up the rock beneath the rock: “Look in on this, no light ever shone on this yet.” He wasn’t starting on serpent seed now, nor water baptism now; no, he was coming to Seven Thunders; opening a mystery to

bring a power in the church to change these bodies. Hal-lelujah! “I went west for the blast, came back east to interpret the unwritten Word.” I know I’m leaving out some of you, but don’t get frightened – the ministers are getting it. Amen. It’s im-portant. Too much foreign invasion. Glory! I don’t mean national invasion…foreign to the Word. Oh my, foreign to the Holy Spirit. We don’t want nothing foreign to this Message. Amen. It must say what he said. Glory. What he already said. Well then, brother, where are we at? What’s hap-pening? We are between the opening of the Word and the preaching to the lost. That is why the battles, all these years, false anointed ones had to come. Because this Bride had to be put to the same test like the first two Brides, to prove she’ll hold her virtues sacred. The same way the Serpent came and beguiled Eve, the same way the Nicolaitans came and beguiled Eve also – spiritual Eve – so this Bride had to be put to the test under false anointed ones. And if it is false anointed ones, they could only come after the Seals are open, be-cause the Seals proved who the true prophet was. That was his Message. When He opened the Seven Seals and the Word came, then watch them start to come and misplace, mis-locate and misinterpret the Word. And they want to take “the man out of Galilee and put him over in the desert fishing. And they want to take the cow out of the pasture and put it up on the house eating grass.”. But those who know ‘the jigsaw puzzle’, those who know ‘the picture in the box, could say, “No, you have this in the wrong place; that don’t fit there, that fits over here. That don’t fit over there, that fits over here.” You see? You have to work with the pattern. “Look, you end up with spare parts. If that fits, why do you have those spare parts over there?”

~And, lo, there was a great Earthquake~

Brother Vin Dayal – Pt 9

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~Testimony for the Glory of God~

I had lost my bag. I was going with a brother to a school where we listen to Brother Branham tapes, with young people that we invite and tell them that God sent us a Prophet. In the cab, I had my bag on me, but when we arrived at the school, I had to unload all the material that was in the car. When I did so, however, I forgot my bag in the back seat of the car. In it were all my travel docu-ments; Passport, and other important papers, also my old Cell phone, IPOD, the one Sister Helen had offered me, my Bible and other books of the prophet. I was troubled, I said, “but what is this again? Have I not been in jail al-ready and suffered there?” (For not having the correct immigration papers -Ed) Now again this is happening. Without my documents, if the police get me, they will chuck me in jail again. I was troubled. The brother who was with me, said with faith: “Jose this is the devil, both-ering you, so that we won’t go after the Father’s busi-ness”. Now I had to conduct the songs in the service. I did not know how to do it. I was weak, thinking about my passport, mainly. I had said “now I have many visas in my passport, which will make it easier if I want to travel again. Now without it, how can I travel again?” and if the police catch me, since at times they don’t understand when you are telling the truth, they will not believe I lost all my papers. I am finished now! Brethren, in that moment, I don’t know, what happened, I just started leading the worship, I forgot about every-thing and started praying. I went home, Brother Aristide - a man of faith - who was with me said,” Brother, let’s believe!” I was doubting, at first because I said: “the way of life is hard in Africa, the poor taxi driver, maybe will say, ’Oh, God ‘s blessed me – we’ll sell the IPOD and the cell phone and chuck the bag and Bible and other stuff in the garbage bin”. I was not sure I would get it back, but I knew God was able to perform a miracle in his own way. We prayed the first day, nothing happened; second day, nothing; third day, I got a phone call. Somebody asking me, “Is this Jose with a funny Na-mibian English accent?” I said “yes it’s me.” He said “I have your passport.” I couldn’t believe it... I was wonder-ing, where did he get my number? God just touched him, so that he went through all my papers and found a phone number there and just rang that one, and it turned out to

be my cell phone num-ber. Glory to God! One of these things God does and we don’t understand. I went to meet him. He looked so poor, I gave him 100 Namibian Dollars to compensate for his honesty and I came home and prayed for him. God is always good. This world only exists because we- the believers - are here. Otherwise God would’ve allowed chaos to happen, because people have rejected Him. Praise be to God that we are safe in His arms. Let’s believe God, brethren. He can do anything! All things are possible to them that be-lieve! Glory to God! That’s our national anthem! I wish you all the best. I am very optimistic great things are fixing to happen this year. May God bless you all. ‘Till we meet again.

Bro Jose (Namibia)

A lego set…anybody could build anything out of their imagination – one build a truck, one build a house, one build a dog, one build a crane. But a jigsaw puzzle, one piece has one place. Everything fits together and it makes the whole picture plain. He said the Message is a jigsaw puzzle…the Bible is a jigsaw puzzle. He didn’t say lego set, jigsaw puzzle. You don’t get spare pieces in a jigsaw puz-zle. Amen! Glory! See, you could tell if it is an uncertain sound or a true sound. See? Now watch. So we want to come to this earth-quake here, bring it to this place and close. We’ve cov-

ered quite a lot of territory here and we covered it kinda fast too. But… I’m thankful that you have the type of character…I was commenting on that yesterday. I said, “The people here have a very fine character in their attitude and be-haviour during service.” You know, I watch the way you sit and you listen, and you do things. You have good ma-terial here. Amen. You’re a fine church. At least I can feel that this morning.

[ to be continued]

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Lakes Ranch Rotorua was a beautiful scenic location for the New Zealand National Convention held early in April.

The organising brothers; Bro Ray Thomson and Bro Bruce McKee – May the Lord bless them for all their labours, for it was certainly a refreshing time for the saints.

Ministry was by Pastors from around NZ. Those attend-ing represented the all regions: from Moerewa in the north, Canterbury in the south, Gisborne in the east, and Taranaki in the west. There were also some visit-ing saints from Australia and Trinidad. About 180 stayed on site and others, staying locally, attended dur-ing the day. Sunday morning’s service saw nearly 300 gathering in the Chapel on the hill above the camp. The atmosphere in the camp and in the meetings was a real blessing – likened by “old-timers” to the days of the Gisborne conventions in the 1970s. In fact seeing Sister Shirley Cowley and Sister Merle Gilchrist singing, ac-companied by Bro Howard Searle, one could be ex-cused for thinking they were having a “flashback” to those memorable days. (See photo below)

Seven services were held, one of which was a delightful praise and worship service where saints blessed musi-cally shared their gifting with the body. Pleasant times of fellowship were enjoyed in the lovely grounds and both around the meal tables and while doing the tasks required such as helping in the kitchen. - Bro Bruce McCorkindale

Bro Ray Thomson commented— “After a very successful National Convention the Pastors present suggested that we should do it again next year, possibly in the month of May. I believe that we achieved the fulfilment of the scripture, " Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace." there was total harmony amongst the Breth-ren. According to the camp manager, the clean-up was very good and he has never seen such a large group rotate through the Dining process so quickly. From servery to the clean up after the meal the time factor was quite incredible”.

Convention Report

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Lakes Ranch Lakes Ranch

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Saints in service in the Chapel Bro Jeremy—Eltham

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The Convention Ministry

By Richard Oliver

Due to work commitments we couldn’t leave Taranaki until 2 PM so we missed Brother Howard Searle’s sermon on confessing our faith. [Ed. A key verse, which was repeated in other services was, Phil 3:14 “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” The theme being, to possess it we must profess it.] This had obviously had a good effect

for several people talked about it during the convention.

Friday evening saw Brother Tony Murray (at left) take us on an aircraft cockpit ride. Tony used a PowerPoint photo to point out the instruments on the Air New Zealand Bombadier aircraft he flies. One tells him where he has come from, where he is, and where he is going to! He likened that to the having the seven seals opened which with the Bible and the prophet’s mes-sage showed us the spiritual flight path we are on. A Power Point illustra-tion of the church ages, the seals and the Rapture was particularly effective.

I fell down the steps after the meeting, and it is wonderful how people came quickly to help. Thank you, whoever you were. If there is anything wrong with the convention site it was the lack of signage and the lack of light. We arrived Friday evening a little late, parked, and found everywhere empty. Fortunately Brother Dean Gilchrist came out of a building and led us through the tennis courts, the camping sites and up the windy hill road to the chapel. We would never have found it in the dark.

‘Walking on Water’ was Brother Greg Alford’s Saturday morning sermon. Having had his church building de-stroyed by earthquake and having to deal with aftershocks, allowed Bro Greg to speak with experience and conviction, that now is the time to look to Christ. We are at the beginning of sorrows. It isn’t going to get better politically, eco-nomically, or environmentally, in fact it is going to get worse! We must ignore the waves around us, and like the woman who fed Elijah from a bowl and cruse that never ran dry, we must look to Jesus for the faith to walk on the water of life as the world turns to chaos, until He calls us up.

Saturday afternoon was centred on music, ably led by Brother Cyril from Moerewa. Throughout the services there were song items from all over New Zealand, and even Australia and Trinidad. Musicians from Tauranga and Moerewa churches provided the music. My, what incredible skills there are in the body of Christ in Aotearoa.

Saturday evening Brother Paul Moffitt preached. I had preached from the same scriptures the Sunday before but Paul took us far deeper into those scriptures than I have ever been. Wonderful Word! Adam could not let Eve die because she was part of him. Adam was the image of God. If we were in God’s thoughts in eternity, then we are a part of God. And if God allows us

to fail, then He allows a part of Himself to disappear for eternity. That ain’t going to happen! We are one flesh with Him.

Sunday morning Brother Malcolm Wano preached on opening of the dimensions. Again it was deeper, the seventh seal experience of Jesus Christ making known to His Bride who He is, drawing her into a personal relationship with Him. We heard about the addictive stimulants transmitted through the fourth realm of ether waves of television and music as the devil tries to bring the fifth realm of the lost into our third realm of time and space. It’s the addictive spices in McDonalds that draws us back to food that is “no good” for us, (Brother Paul was able to supply the names of some burgers) and it’s the same with music, video, and TV. It’s the spice that draws people back again and again. But as hell is being brought up into our third realm, so heaven is coming down. As devils are now becoming flesh so is Jesus Christ becoming flesh in His Bride.

How was Brother Albert Ruegg going to windup what had been a fantastic display of preaching? Brother Tony had commented on Howard’s sermon, Greg on Tony’s, Paul on Greg, and Malcolm on Paul. Not to be outdone Albert commented on all the preachers! But in doing so he brought the whole convention to a point where it was easy for us all to commit to a deeper walk, a closer and more personal walk in unity with Christ revealed in flesh in these last days.

Brother Howard Searle, Bro Greg and Sister Nancy Alford

Bro Paul Moffitt

Bro Malcolm Wano

Bro Albert Ruegg

Bro Cyril Heta

Bro Tony Murray

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Sister Wendy, Sister Leonna, Sister Dawn and Husband

Bro Gerald Thomas from Trinidad ,with Bro Howard

Searle (second from right)

Bro Ron and Sister Frances from Wanganui, at left — Bro Ray and Sister

Joyce Thomson at right.

A mighty vote of thanks to you Brother Ray and Sister Joyce!

Sister Diane Warrington at left - and at right the saints from Moerewa bring an item

Fellowship behind the kitchen servery Sister Barbara, Bro Steven, Bro Tony and Sister Vicky— Centre—Sister Beatrice enjoys

playing ,(and later presents an item), - Right—Sister Leonna, Sister Dawn and Sister Belinda sing on Sunday morning.

Bro Joseph on guitar, Bro Nathan, Bro Joseph, and Bro Daniel, Bro Wiebe, The Laforteza family of Tauranga

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CONVENTION CANDIDS

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, With an eye on modern events, focused through the Word of God, we view with great interest how things in the Middle East continue to unravel with unprecedented speed and consequences. The caption “…playing with fire...”, was part of an incendiary statement made by Iran in reference to tensions with Saudi Arabia over events in Bahrain. A response to this was made not just by Saudi Arabia, but from the G.C.C. (Gulf Cooperation Council) representing all other Arabian Persian Gulf countries who unanimously “…condemned Iranian interference in the internal affairs of Bahrain”. By this we see several significant things in motion. For one, language this blunt has never before been heard from the GCC leaders – indicating the widening rift be-tween Muslims. One must consider that these are Mus-lims speaking against Muslims. Another is that it clearly indicates the adamant resolve to challenge the radical Shiite Muslims in Iran head-on, concerning issues affect-ing the Gulf region's security. This becomes particularly interesting in light of biblical prophecy concerning the unifying of all world religions. What is so outstanding in the Middle East today is that we are witnessing nations under Islam giving way to Laodicea – “people’s rights”. The calls for freedom of expression and democracy are virtues embodied by the West – and ultimately Rome. Are we seeing the stage set for a possible showdown where extreme factions of Islam will succumb to moderates, re-sulting in a season of temporary, or “false” peace? This scenario is further augmented by events play-ing out in the aftermath of other Middle East revolutions, which has now spread to Syria. During the interim, things will of course be very unsettled and dangerous. Things must get worse before the man of “sin” can come in “peaceably” and take his position of dominance with “flatteries”. The repercussions are multiple, both for Is-rael and our work as well. On the weekend of April 9th the Hamas terrorist group, emboldened by recent events, launched an unprecedented three day attack against Is-rael from Gaza. This included firing 24 heavy Grad missiles never before seen in use. This caused nearly 1 million Is-raelis in southern Israel to seek refuge in bomb shelters until the Israeli military could stop the barrage. On three separate occasions I too have had travel plans to Syria cancelled at the last minute.

Syria: Reports from those with whom we have ministered, indicate that they are under stricter surveillance. They have been visited by authori-

ties regarding their connection with foreigners. The mili-tary has recently sealed off most of the main cities in Syria. Mass arrests of thousands are reported to take place nightly and the Army has cut off main roads linking the north to southern and central Syria, as well as tele-phone and internet services. Even food deliveries in many places are unable to be made. For obvious reasons, our

contacts have requested us not to come again until they can assure us that things are “safe” – for both them and us.

Egypt: Reports out of Egypt indicate that the Army is in places siding with Islamic extremists. What at first seemed to be isolated incidents of

anti-Christian hatred are now proving to be staged inci-dents designed to falsely accuse Christians and create civil disorder. These orchestrated riots all too often turn deadly. Contacts I have with those in Egypt with whom we have shared the Message, thankfully report them as being safe. Conditions however for return ministry are not yet stable enough in the aftermath of the uprisings. If you follow a prayer list I would humbly request that you remember the following needs as well;

Turkey: Prayer for those with whom we have shared the Message in Laodicea, Smyrna and Tarsus, that the Holy Spirit would grant revela-

tion of His Word. Lebanon: With travel to neighbouring countries temporarily suspended, Brother XXX has been refocusing his efforts to share the Message in

Lebanon. Pray for divine anointing and leadership. He and Brother XXXXX also continue with translating the Church Age book into Arabic.

Syria: With the country disintegrating into politi-cal chaos, it is important to pray for the protec-tion of those with whom we have shared the

Message and leadership for when we are to return. Iran: The five who are awaiting the results of their appeal to their one year sentence for “Crimes Against The Islamic Order” were in court

yet again April 2nd. This time facing another more serious charge of “Blasphemy Against Islam”. We thank God for the partial victory achieved during this last court, that due to insufficient evidence, the judge deferred his ruling. He set another court date for April 12th of which there has been no update as to the outcome. There is still no change in Brother Youcef’s situa-tion. He waits in prison a favourable ruling to the appeal of his death sentence. Let us not languish in our fervency of prayer for these ones who are being persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ. In conclusion, Sister Rebekah and I also humbly re-quest your fervent prayers as we seek to move under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in these tremendous times. Our confidence is that the Word of God must be heard here in the Middle East in these closing days of time and that we will be directed to those who are ordained to eternal life. For this we sincerely thank you for your prayers and support that enable this to be done.

Your Brother and Sister in Christ,

Brother Tony & Sister Rebekah

MIDDLE EAST UPDATE—PLAYING WITH FIRE

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The above Missions Opportunity was forwarded by our Middle East correspondent Bro Tony who writes:

Brother Roshan is not only well known to me – but has captured the confidence of Believers Christian Fellowship, Lima, too as they will be sponsoring his upcoming Missions trip to the country of Cambodia. Brother Nestor Espanola has been several times to minister for Brother Roshan as has Brother Gerd Rodewald (Germany), Klaas DeJong (Netherlands), Tim Dodd's (AB, Canada) along with numerous others from within India.

End Time Message Punjab, India

Mission update — March 2011 [Extract]

Printing of Message Books

We are proclaiming the Gospel through various means to various parts of the country. Since we are fighting against the evil forces of this world, we face a lot of spiritual warfare. So we need Prayer Partners who could pray every day sincerely for our Ministry and the country of India. Since William Branham Good News Society has stopped the printing of the Message Books and closed the press in India, Lord put the burden on my heart to print the Message Books by our own in the na-tive language. Therefore we are printing Message books into Punjabi language now. Also we have prepared a DVDs containing 115 translated Message with a vision to provide a DVD absolutely free of cost to every family who believes the Message. Now by the help of God we are printing 1000 cop-ies of each title which is not enough. We have more than 50 Message Church in Punjab. We need to print at least 2000 books to equip every believer with the mes-sage books. Two brothers have come forward to do the translation work voluntarily. Earnestly we are praying for 2 Computers to provide to them and if God touch you in this area please, don’t hesitate to contact with us. [See contacts at foot of article] Lord God is adding more believers in our local church too; we are going to have a baptismal service on the 20th of this month and expecting to baptize 5 believ-ers. As our vision states, we are proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ to people in every village and town of the country. It is our desire to do this as quickly as possible, as clearly as possible, as irresistibly as possible to the

glory of God and in the power of the Holy Spirit. All credit and acclaim for success is rightly given to God. We duly recognize that this is His work and we are vessels of His power and purpose. “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” (Philippians 2:3) I hope this update will help you to pray more in-telligently, as you become aware of current needs as well as blessings. I appreciate sincerely all your sacrifi-cial contribution to spread the Message. We pray for you and solicit your prayers. God bless you abundantly. Your fellow labourer in His Vineyard Bro. Roshan Masih

Contact details: ROSHAN MASIH S/O SWARAN MASIH B-2/205, NEAR OLD POWER HOUSE VILLAGE-SHAM CHAURASI DISTT. HOSHIAR PUR PUNJAB(INDIA) PIN-144105 PHONE NO. 91-1882-263067

More Mission Opportunities

To view the full 14 page India update and for other BNL items go to the following website:

http://www.end-time-message.org/images/stories/asorted_pdf/missions/india_mission_update.01.pdf

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~GOD HAS A PROVIDED WAY~ Brother William Branham

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Did you ever notice a little chicken trying to get to this earth? What does he do? On the inside of that shell he stands there and beats away at that shell until he gets him-self free. What is it? God's provided way. He had a bill. Be-fore he was ever able to peek on the shell, he had a bill, 'cause God provided him a bill to work in God's provided way. See? Oh, He's a lovely Father. See, He makes everything just right. First He had to grow a bill on the bird, the fowl, that's born inside of an egg. He's got to make a way for him to follow the provided way to get out. See how God does? He makes a provided way. 10 The only thing we have to do is follow His instruc-tions and we come out just exactly right, always, every time. Yes, sir. He picks his way out, because he's coming God's pro-vided way. I've often wondered, when I come up here in the fall of the year on a hunting trip... And I admire going up in the high mountains here and watching the ducks, just about swarming time, and the geese. Now, they come from the south, come up here and get in these marshy, mucky, swamps, and make them a nest, lay their eggs, and hatch their little ones. Well, them little ducks that was raised on that pond, or lake, and he knows nothing else but that lake. He was born there last Spring. He's lived there all Summer long. He's got his live-lihood. And somehow or an-other, when the long... And last of August or September, when there comes a snow up in the mountains, and that cold wind breezes down across that prairie country there, where that little duck's at, he knows there's some-thing fixing to happen. Now, what does he do? They all begin to get together. And out in the middle of that pond will come a little drake that was born that spring on the pond. He will go right out in the middle of that pond, stick that little honker up in the air, and go, "Honk, honk, Honk, honk," and every duck on the pond will come right to him. See? 11 Now, God has provided an instinct--instinct in the duck to tell him that that thing's going to freeze over, and he will die there. So he cannot stay here; and he's never been nowhere but here. But God has another place for him to go to, so he... If he's got another place provided down in Louisi-ana and Texas in the rice fields, after he ate all the oats from you all he could, then he's going down now in the rice fields to live on the Texans, and down there. Well, now, he's born here on this lake. He knows nothing about it, but he's got a God-given instinct, God's provided way that tells him that trouble is near, and he begins to feel the air. And not only... If they have to swarm, one would go this way and one would

go that way. God provided them a leader. It's a shame that a human hasn't, with their Holy Spirit, got as much gumption as a duck has with instinct. I just can't tell... Of course, the duck be-lieves in his God's provision, but the man doesn't. See? We try to take some manmade achievement to get away from trouble, when God gives us the Holy Ghost to get away from trouble. See? That's right. And now, when we feel trouble in the air, there's only one thing to do: that's listen to the Leader. And the Holy Ghost is the Leader. He was sent to lead the church. 12 And now, remember, this little duck has never been off that pond, but every duck in the pond knows that he's the leader. And when that little fellow, one morning that instinct rises in him in such a way he lets out another honk,

leaves the pond, says, "good-bye," and every duck follows him. He's up in the air. He don't know which way to go up there, but in some kind of a God-provided way, he sets that little face towards Louisi-ana, and away he goes. And he gets there. Why? He trusts in God's provided way for him. That's the rea-son he can make it. He's trusted in God's provided way. Notice, how good it is. Watch them geese, how they come up off of there and swarm. I just love to hear them in the fall of the year. They pass over Indi-

ana just a honking away as they can go; one old leader right out there in front, with that nose struck right straight to-wards Louisiana, and away he goes: never been there before. He don't know what's down there. Like the children of Israel led by that Pillar of Fire. They rose up out of Egypt. They had never been out that way before. But they went just as straight to the promised land, because they were following a Pillar of Fire, God's provided Leader. They stayed right in God's provided way. Oh, it's too bad that we human beings miss it so much, because we don't know Who our Leader is. That's the only thing. We try to take some thought of our own. We always mire up somewhere and wreck up. 13 Now, ducks and geese go south, and they have a provided leader. God, if He's going to send you anywhere over a route, it's up to God to provide you a Leader to lead the way. Always. Yes, sir. God provides it. If you'll just watch nature; that was my first Bible, watching nature. If you'll no-tice it, you'll never miss God if you can watch nature.

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~The Treasure Map Pt 3~

Brother Owen Jorgensen Then it was April, 1993 and I had just finished the third Volume and in the end of the third volume I put a sum-mary in, that overviews all of Brother Branham’s life up to that part that kind of overshadows what’s going to come and the amazing things that are going to come and I used this symbol of these aeroplanes going in all these dif-ferent directions. And he’s up on these mountains – by the camp fire and one aeroplane goes east and he thinks on his youth. And the next aeroplane goes over and it’s heading west and he knew that someday his destiny lay some-where in the West and I thought any-way, it was tastefully done and I was really proud of it. And so for the first time in seven years, I said, ‘Marguerite, would you come in here? I would like to read you something’ and she came in and I read her that page. Just that page. And I said, ‘I just wanted you to hear that.’ She didn’t say anything and I actually got up and left the room because it was a little bit embarrassing. Pretty soon, about ten minutes went by and she said, ‘Owen, would you come in here?’ And I went back to where she was and she said, ‘Owen, do you know why I never talked to you about your book – never said any-thing about it?’ I said, ‘No. Why?’ ‘Because I was afraid.’ I said, ‘Afraid? What were you afraid of?’ She said, ‘I was afraid if I ever looked at it, I would believe it was the truth.’ And she said, ‘Owen, that is exactly what hap-pened. I know that that’s the truth. I want to give my life back to Jesus Christ.’ That Sunday, she went with me all the way, 130 miles, to a little group that we were going to in Kenne-wick, near Washington. It was Easter Sunday. She stood up in front of those people and said, ‘I want to apologise for the reproach I’ve brought upon you people in the message of the hour. I know it is the truth. I know Jesus Christ is alive. I know He has shown Himself in this hour, and I want to be identified with you people.’ Ah! It was just a tremendous blessing, you can imagine. It was just an amazing blessing. The story goes on now. My wife has medical prob-lems – nothing serious, although it bothered her a lot, but nothing life threatening. She had migraine headaches and low thyroid and low blood pressure, which she had pills for. She had migraines, at least three a month. So anyway, she had graduated as a nurse and then she had gone on to medical school and graduated as a nurse practitioner. She had not started her practise until she had a job waiting for her, but she just didn’t feel well

and was going to wait to go. And a couple of months went by and of course, since she had gone back to all the things she felt ashamed of now, the devil was pounding on her, ‘How could you be a Christian? How could you be saved? You went back to the world. You turned your

back on Christ – You can’t be saved.’ You know what the devil does. He just looks for every weak chain he can get, and gets his barb in gives it a twist. That’s what the devil likes to do. He’s just a big boy. Well, she had been both-ered about these and we’d had talks about it and I had tried to encourage her. It was one day in August and I was down working in the shop, getting ready for our harvest, and my daughter, Betsy, who is now sixteen years old, was going to drive her mother to the Doctor just for a check-up visit. It was early – 8 a.m. And my daughter came running down and says,’ Dad, Mother said to come

down. There’s something she needs to tell you before she goes to see the Doctor’. I said, ‘Okay’ and so came up to the house. My wife was getting ready to go, combing her hair, and she’s really excited. And she said, ‘Owen, I just saw the Angel of The Lord.’ Well, I’d lived with her for twenty years and she’d never said anything like this before, so I’m all ears – ‘Okay, tell me about it.’ I sit down and she starts saying, ‘Maybe it was a dream, but it was a dream that was different from any other dream I’ve ever had – it was so real.’ And she says, ‘I was laying on a bed in the operat-ing room and she says there was in the room, two devils. They were demons sitting there. Brother Branham was there and there was the Angel of the Lord and there was a nurse. And she says, I couldn’t talk, but I could motion and the nurse was doing the talking for me. And the An-gel of the Lord said, ‘Go tell Owen that he will get the money to print those books.’ Now, right at this time I was $80,000 in debt from my wife’s schooling and my wife’s hospital bills and the basic things of running a family, and the poor crops that we had at this time. I had no money at all to print the books. And so the Angel said, ‘Owen will get the money to print these books’. And she said that the Angel had said, ‘Tell Owen there will be two men that will help him from the West.’ She said, ‘the Angel looked over to the nurse and said, ‘Take good care of this woman because she is a daughter of God.’ And Marguerite was so excited about this. She said, ‘Owen, the Angel said I was a child of God’ and I said, ‘Well, I’ve been telling you that!

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Now, you have got to remember that for as long as you live!’ And she said, ‘I will never forget that as long as I live. And then she said, ‘The Angel said, you know, ‘Tell Owen he will get the money…’ and I saw thousands of people rejoicing because of your book.’ And she said, ‘They weren’t all message believers. Some of the women were wearing pants.’ I’m just telling you what she told me. So anyway, I went out to gas up the car, when about ten minutes later, my daughter came screaming out to me, ‘Come quick! Mother has fallen!’ What hap-pened, she had dropped dead, right there… They did an autopsy. They couldn’t find any rea-son for her to die. The Lord just took her. And I thought so much about that Vision, and I thought, obviously the Lord would give me that for my comfort, but many people have loved ones die and God doesn’t send an Angel to comfort them. And that’s why I put that little story at the front of -I believe it was - book No.3 because I thought it was for all of us. I thought it would be an encouragement to all of us. But the Lord took her and after my wife’s burial, that night Brother Pearry Green phoned me and said, ‘I would love to help. Is there anything I could do?’ One thing came after another and I began working with him. It was his idea to publish it in parts, which was a good thing. Otherwise, if I had waited until I was done, it would have been twenty years before anyone read it. For me, this has been a tremendous adventure and I’m so glad if it has been a blessing to you and to your children. It has been a blessing to my children and my children’s children. But it’s been a blessing to me also, because when I started, I told you I decided I wanted to write this book for the boy who had just come into the message and just wondered what it was all about. But what I found out was, now that I had gotten done, I also wrote the book that I wanted to be there when I had been in the message for 35 – 40 years, and as we finished up this year, putting them into three vol-umes, the funny thing was that I had never read it from end to end before, until this year. I had always worked on this part and then on that part. So I went back and started it from the beginning and I read it all the way through. And I cried and I laughed and then I got up and walked around and I said, ‘Praise God! I’m so glad to be part of Jesus Christ in this last day. There is NO treasure beyond the treasure of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, that’s in your heart. There is nothing greater. One time a man came up to Brother Branham. He was not a Christian. He was in the prayer line. Brother Branham said, ‘Before you ask for healing you need to become a Christian. Would you accept Jesus as your Sav-iour? And the man said, ‘I will’ and Brother Branham said, ‘You have just done the greatest thing you will ever do in your life. Nothing you will ever achieve in your life will surpass what you have just done right now. Amen!

[To be continued]

When we approached the idea of a website, our to-tal focus and desire was to see the message of the hour promoted and go out for the benefit of others, and not just to advertise our local church informa-tion. Our purpose was twofold, (1) to provide a central resource and link centre

for message believers and (2) for the promoting of the end-time-message

globally to others. We have tried to provide many links of interest from children’s Bible games and youth articles of various subjects, to some of the top shelf message teaching resources that are available. There’s also lots to download, as well as a great selection of photos of the prophet etc. and many related video links plus much more. We do have a section with our local church information in it, but that is secondary as we can get people to church (sometimes) but if we fail to get them to Christ, then we have achieved very little. Please bear with us as we will be endeavouring to add, improve, and develop this site as we go along. Our prayer is that you will be blessed and encour-aged from its content, and may your desire, relation-ship, and love for Christ and His Word, become the central theme of your life.

Brother Dean Gilchrist.

New Message Web Site: www.end-time-message.org

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-Dealing with Wrong Thoughts-

A conversation between Bro Pearry Green and Brother Branham

I was thinking of the day when I was reading Brother Branham the ‘Church Age’ book on the way to British Co-lumbia and I was reading how in ‘the sermon on the mount’ where Jesus talked about a man even looking on a woman to lust after her, has already committed adultery in his heart. And I said to Brother Branham “I’ve got something I need to talk to you about”. And he said “don’t do it now Brother Green - go and finish with that (reading the Church Ages), but I promise you be-fore the trips over I’ll tell you about your problem”. Well do you know what it is to have a problem and then have a prophet tell you he’ll tell you what to do about it, and you haven’t even told him about it ?

....It’s like the night he called me on the telephone. I’m in Beaumont (Texas) and he’s here in (Tucson). I was talking about him to my church and this is before I had a revelation of this message or Malachi 4, or about Elijah. And he’s coming to Beaumont, and I told my church of about 50 people, and I said “if you people will come to church tonight I will tell you everything I know about William Branham”. So you know how to invite peo-ple to the meeting. And I’m about 15 minutes deep, tell-ing them things about Brother Branham’s experiences, Houston and so forth, and some of the experiences I’d had when I met him with Billy, Howard and so forth. And I made this statement “Brother Branham is the longest windiest preacher I’ve ever been around, but his services are worth going to because there are always miracles at the end of it”. And about that time the phone rang in my church office, and a boy named Clyde Decker, who was living with us, then went and answered it. And when he came back to the door, he was as white as a white shirt. And he said, “Bro Green this is Brother Branham on the phone”. And I turned to that little con-gregation in Emanuel Gospel Church in Beaumont and said “I’m talking about the man, so let me go talk to the man, and when I come back maybe I’ll have something else to tell you”. Truer words were never spoken. I go to the phone. “Hello Brother Branham”, “Hello Brother Pearry”. “Brother Branham do you know what I’m do-ing?” and without hesitation, he said “Yes I do”. Well have you ever swallowed a golf ball? There weren’t any. “Oh Brother Branham you’re kidding”.... I knew that he

knew. I was just going to tell him, ‘I’m talking about you’, but when I got my composure, I said “Brother Branham, am I wrong?” He said “Brother Pearry, I just called to tell

you to do all that’s in your heart, and if you make a mistake, I’ll call you”. What do you think happened every time my telephone rang from then until the day he died? But I want you to know - that’ll change your life. You realise that whatever you’re doing God sees it, and He can reveal it.

Brother Branham said the gifts are what keeps the church clean. We don’t want to get caught. That’s one of the things that motivates me to admire Brother Branham so. Most men at some time or another they’ve seen a beautiful woman and been tempted or something but they’re afraid they’re going to get their face slapped, so they don’t approach her.

They don’t say anything, or she may scream or she may accuse them or something. But Brother Branham knew the secrets of their hearts. He could tell what kind of women they were, and yet he kept himself. You adults understand what I’m talking about. You men have a cer-tain amount of self respect, but what if you knew the se-crets of the heart and knew what she was thinking?

Now Brother Branham was a man and whenever I men-tioned to him I wanted to talk to him about a problem, he said “don’t talk to me about it now, but I promise you before

the trip is over I will talk to you about your problem.” Now my problem was that my mother had raised me to respect a girl the way I expected a boy to treat my sister, and you think about that. You wouldn’t appreciate any boy fondling your sister and slobbering around on her. It’d make you sick if you were a real brother. And mother instilled this in me. And also my parents; there was noth-ing that I couldn’t talk to my parents about. Anything. It didn’t matter if it was reproductive or anything, my par-ents explained that to me when I was 6,7,8 years old. I saw that in animals. ... As a result, when I did go with girls or had girl friends, I treated them like my sister. And after I married Janice and learnt the facts of life in greater de-tail by personal experience, I found myself remembering, when I did date that girl, she said this, and she did this, and if I’d have done this, or said that, then it might have

“Brother Green you’ll have to do the same thing about

your problem as I do about mine”. (Brother Branham)

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And I found myself as a married man, young, with pas-sion, enjoying those. And then the Holy Spirit in me would convict me, and I would repent of it and I’d feel alright and then a few days later or the next day here I am doing the same thing again. And it got to the place where I said “I’m not sincere, I don’t mean this repentance, if I really meant it I wouldn’t be doing it again”. And the devil was just beating me to death with it. ”You’re ungodly, you’re false, you’re lusting”, and it was a real burden on me. And when I read that scripture from ‘the sermon on the mount’, “if a man looketh on a woman to lust after her he has committed adultery”. And I’m sitting next to Brother Branham. I wanted to ask Brother Branham, what to do about it?” And he says not to tell him but before the trip’s over he’ll tell me what to do about it.

So that night we wound up in Dawson Creek in a two bed-room place. Brother Branham had already gone to bed, and I was going through the room to the bathroom and when I passed Brother Branham and he was laying on the chesterfield. He moved his feet aside and said “sit down here a minute Brother Green”. So I sat down at his feet looking at him, and he says “Now about your prob-lem” (Another golf ball appeared) Here’s a prophet going to tell me about a problem that I’m embarrassed over and here’s what he said, ‘And I’ll be honest with you’ That shocked me. Brother Branham admitted that he had a problem. You know [there is] the idea Brother Branham was sinless, but Brother Branham never taught that about himself. How many times does he say “Lord forgive me of my sins? I’m a sinner I’m unworthy”. But yet to hear him admit that he had a problem.... and here’s what he said

to me “Now Brother Green about your problem - you’ll have to do the same thing about it that I do. He said “You’re a red blooded man (that made me feel good) and you can’t stop the birds from flying over your head, but you wouldn’t let one build a nest in your hair”. He said “now just as soon as you find yourself thinking those thoughts, you need to say “Lord I’m sorry I don’t want to be like that. Forgive me of it”, and stand behind the Word.

He said, Adam and Eve, God gave them a 40 foot concrete wall, as long as they stood behind that wall God pro-tected them, but when they got out from behind that wall satan had a crack at them. As long as we stand behind the Word satan cant get to us, but if we get out from behind that, then satan can attack us. He said, “now that Word is 1 John 1:9” that’s why I call it the emergency number for all believers. “If we confess our sins He is faithful to for-give us”. The devil was trying to get me to say “God wont forgive you”, but the Word says if I’ll confess it, He will forgive me. The secret is confession. He does not forgive excused sin, “Well I made a mistake and I’m sorry. He made me do it”. No you’re a sinner, it’s unbelief, you did it. Say “God I don’t want to be that way”. And I want you to know folks, that delivered me, because satan knew that regardless of how many times I did that every day, I knew that God was faithful. He was gonna forgive me. So he stopped wasting his time on me.

Brother Pearry Green is Pastor of Tucson Tabernacle Ari-zona USA. (Article transcribed by Bro Bruce McCorkindale from the message “One in Seven Billion” 19/12/2010)

Winter Youth Camp

Melbourne Bible Believers

14-18 July at ADANAC Australia The Melbourne Bible Believers’ Winter Youth Camp is for unmarried young people 14 years and older, who are serious about meeting and serving the Lord Jesus. Several young people have

founded their faith on the Lord Jesus during previous meetings.

The cost is AU$232.00 for students, and $A290.00 for non-students.

Closing date for registrations is 31st May 2011.

Registration forms may be obtained from:

Br Conrad Sevenster Phone +61 (0) 418 359 285, or P.O. Box 73, Hampton Park, 3976, Vic., Australia. Email: conrad@sevenster.com

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