Brothers and Sisters,
I have been hearing wonderful reports about the prayer meetings, and how each one is drawing closer to the Lord. Praise His wonderful Name!
This truly should be a time of Desperation for the Bride of Christ around the world. As Brother Branham said,
Or, otherwise, the days that we're living in should cause the Church to go completely into desperation. I believe, since the message this morning from God, not me, I believe it ought to throw this entire congregation into desperation, that we have played long enough. We've went to church long enough. We got to do something.
That quote is for us, TODAY, and I know you feel as I do, I want that sense of desperation to be within me ALL THE TIME…constantly watching and waiting for His Coming. If the Bride could get Herself to that place, then the Millennium would be on. Lord help us to be more sincere, and more desperate for You.
As you may already know, I have been waiting until after the Still Waters Camps to announce the final vacation time for VGR. We will be closed next week, September 11 – 17, and thus we will not be having services this Sunday, September 10th, or Wednesday, September 13th. Our next service is scheduled for Sunday, September 17th.
I will certainly look forward to the next time we can assemble ourselves together again to feast on the Spiritual Food for our day. Until then may God richly bless you, and keep us consecrated in the Word, on our knees, and desperate before Him.
Bro. Joseph
Brothers and Sisters,
Once again, Father’s timing is perfect. It was another wonderful afternoon with Him Sunday evening as we heard Spiritual Food in due season, and then gathered around His Table. Communion is such a special time for us at the Tabernacle. You can just feel His presence, and feel such love for Him, and one another. How thankful we are to have His prophet conduct the Communion Service for us.
We are in Desperation like never before…
You can't be desperate till God speaks to you. Oh, Church, rise and shake yourself! Pinch your conscience, wake yourself up, in this hour! We must be desperate, or perish! There is coming forth something from the Lord!
I know it as THUS SAITH THE LORD. There is coming forth something, and we better get desperate. It's between Life and death. It'll pass through us and we won't see it.
What a Message from God to us, His Bride! Lord, let us get desperate like never before. Let it not be words only, but may it become a reality, and let’s pray like never before. Let nothing hinder us from placing You first in all things, praying, and always seeking Your Perfect will in our lives.
What another confirmation we had last Thursday that we are in His Will, with our Wednesday night home prayer meeting:
“Yes. I’ve been watching them all night long.” Amen. His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. Amen. Yes.
I’ve watched them all night long. I heard them in the prayer meeting last night. I heard them when they prayed through and they struck heaven here, with their prayers. I’m watching them. I know when they got one more step to go. I been watching them all night long. I can’t let you go because it’s a man-size job. I’m going Myself.” Amen. Hallelujah.
I pray you have been enjoying these times with Him, and it is drawing you more closer to Him than you have ever been in your life.
I also pray that He is showing you this is His will for us at this time!
Once again, I feel upon my heart to have another home prayer meeting tonight. Remember to pray for one another. Not only the ones you are close to and love, but even more so for the ones you might have differences with, maybe those you don’t see eye to eye with, or maybe have hurt you. When Love projects, GRACE takes over.
The desire of our hearts is to have the Spirit of CHRIST. If we don’t put these things into action, apply that Token, and that love doesn’t enter our hearts, we’re going to be wandering in the wilderness for another 40 years. We can see the promise Land, let’s enter in.
Bro. Joseph
Praise the Lord for another wonderful camp with both our younger youth and their parents. The Lord truly was with us, and His Presence was felt by all.
As you can hear in the testimonies posted on the Still Waters website, Sunday was the capstone when we played the Message, “Teaching On Moses.” What a Message to both young and old. Other stories we hear might not be true, but we heard the REAL TRUE STORY of Amram’s all-night prayer meetings, praying for God’s people, prayers that changed the whole world. How his faithful prayers brought God Himself from His Throne and then called His great Angel Gabriel and all His other Angels to look upon His servant:
Gabriel say, "Here I am, Lord."
"Come here; going to show you something." Said, "All you Angels come around here a minute; I want to show you something. I got people that believes Me. Yes, I got people who trust Me. Come here now. It's good for all you Angels, take a look at this. Look."
"Where is it at?"
"Right down there. Where abouts."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see it."
"Look right down there. See the edge of them--them--them bulrushes there, them flags and things?"
"Yeah."
"See there."
"What is it?"
"There's a man with his hands up in the air, on his knees, calling on Me. There's a crying mother, and two little crying children. They're trusting Me to the very end. Gabriel, you remember when you went in? You remember that man?"
"Yes, I met in the room that night and talked to him. Uh-huh."
"He still trusts Me. I got people that believe Me. I got people that'll trust Me to the end. See him? Look at him. Yes, oh isn't that gallant."
That is who we want to be with all of our hearts, and what we want Father to say about us to His Angels, “Come here, look, there is still a people that prays to Me whether they are busy, tired, or the enemy has their minds on so many other things. They keep pressing and praying. They are praying night and day, they are making themselves ready, they are wanting Me to come and get them for the Rapture.”
I have been seeking the Lord all week and this morning about tonight’s service. I had what I thought was the Message He wanted to play tonight, but for some reason, He has been pressing me all day in a different direction. I know I have announced that we will be having more home prayer services, as I have felt this is how He is leading. However, I had it upon my heart to have a service in the Tabernacle tonight because I haven’t seen you for some time. I just wanted to see you and fellowship with you. I was excited about the service tonight, but He is leading me in a different direction. He is telling me, “NO, PRAY.” Thus, obedience is better than sacrifice.
I know He has something great in store for us. He is truly leading us in a great way. I believe with all my heart that these home prayer meetings are so important. He is teaching us what we need to do. He is wanting us to keep before Him in prayer more and more, like our Brother Amram, “Someone has to do it.” I want that SOMEONE to be me. What did Amram do? Pray, Pray, Pray.
We must all get ourselves ready, placing Him FIRST in all things. Anything not like Him, must go. Any spirit not like Him, must go. We can’t say, “If you don’t come to our church, or see it my way, you’re OUT.” We must love one another, pray for one another. When we see someone struggling, don’t condemn them, LOVE THEM, PRAY FOR THEM, call their name before Father.
Listen to the Lord speak through our prophet, telling us what we MUST DO:
Oh, take this solemnly! We should love one another. Oh, my! We should be so in love! Don't never speak evil against one another. If somebody makes a mistake, pray for him right quick. We are together in this, with God. We are brothers and sisters. Oh, live godly. Live, live like daughters of God, live like sons of God. Live sweet, kind, humble.
Let no evil come in your mind, in your thinking. Just, just dismiss it. If it knocks on the door, take it away. Just say, just show your Token, just keep walking, "I am under the Blood!..."
…Now, you people that's listening to This, on tape, you women, you men, you listen a minute. If you ever believed me, you believe It now.
It's time for to quit fussing with one another. Believe the Message of the Bible! Believe Jesus Christ! And love, and honor, and respect one another. Man respect your wives. You respect your homes. Bring your home together, because, remember, this Lamb was for the home, not just one; for the whole home, too, had to be brought. Everything had to be brought in. We should love each other. And believers should separate themselves from the world.”
BRING YOUR HOME TOGETHER. I believe this is the way He is pressing me for us to have HOME PRAYER MEETINGS. This Token is for our home.
I know it may seem very untraditional to many outside people, and to them it is, but I must obey what I feel He is leading us to do and what I feel This Message is telling us we must do right now.
Let us also pray and prepare ourselves for Sunday night’s Communion service, where we will all gather at the Lord’s table.
I can’t wait to meet each of you tonight at His Throne in one mind and one accord.
Bro. Joseph
Brothers and Sisters,
What a red-letter day we had once again on Sunday. “The Token” is truly a capstone to the great series of Messages we have been listening to, and as Brother Branham so emphatically expressed at the closing of the tape, “This afternoon, stay right with It. Don't let this Message depart. Remember, never let this Message depart!” Lord, that is my prayer, NEVER let this Message depart from me, for the prophet knew the importance of presenting the Token with our prayers, applying it unto our family, and carrying It with us in our hearts wherever we go. May His ever-present Token, the Message of the hour, be the center of our lives forever, AMEN.
There were so many nuggets for us tape people to enjoy on Sunday. One of my favorites, which I know is one of yours too, is when Brother Branham said,
“But there must have been some tape boys slipped in somewhere, for the predestinated seed. They slipped over to her house and played some tapes. She made her--her own house a church, to receive the Message.
They still got them, you know. The Message got to the predestinated Seed, anyhow. We don't know how It got there, but It got there, so that the Just will not perish with the unjust. God is seeing to that, today. Yeah, some way It slips in. We don't know how. Though they won't sponsor It, but there is some Seed out there that's predestinated.”
And they STILL got them today! Message homes around the world made into churches to reach that predestinated seed, JUST AS THE PROPHET SAID.
Through the course of the last series of Messages that we have been hearing, I hear confirmation after confirmation about something I have been in prayer about: My friends, we need to have more prayer meetings IN OUR HOMES. And not just for one minute like Brother Branham said on Be Certain Of God, “You find our prayer meetings are so weak, just about a minute of prayer, jump in the bed…”, but we need to get down to business with God, as we heard on Teaching On Moses:
And the next morning about three or four o'clock, he comes down the little steps, and he looks over there, and there was his lovely little wife, little Jochebed. She was there in the bed, asleep. And little Aaron and little Miriam had already been tucked in the bed, so they were just as sleepy as they could be, and sleeping away. All right. He said to her... She said, "It's getting late, and you're just getting?"
"Yeah, I prayed all night." His eyes were stained with tears, because he cried for the people.
And she said, "Looky, now, Amram, you shouldn't go too hard at it."
"Now," he said, "listen, dear. That's good. But now look, you've got two kiddies to raise here. And the burden is mine. If somebody don't pray for our poor people, what will become of them? What's going to happen if somebody don't have the people at--at heart? Somebody's got to pray."
Father, may we take on that same burden that Amram had for his people. “SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT, LET IT BE ME!”
My friends, the Lord has pressed upon my heart that we need to be in training, along with our families, in our homes. As I have expressed before, some of the greatest victories in prayer are when it’s late, and you don’t feel like praying, you’re tired, and just want to go to bed. THAT is the time to be an Amram, make that sacrifice, and call upon the Name of the Lord in desperation. That is when we really feel like we have accomplished something, and that is where the church needs to be!
As you probably know, it is very difficult for me to keep up with my schedule at work here at Voice Of God Recordings, AND have Sunday and Wednesday night services at church. I have brought this before the Lord and asked His Counsel with this, and I believe He has pointed me in this direction:
I feel led for the church to hold more Wednesday night prayer meetings in their homes, not for 15 minutes, not for 30 minutes, but like Rahab, to make our home a church. We do need to play the tapes in our homes, but we must also have that close personal relationship with Him which only prayer life can bring. We live such busy lives, going and going, and never have free time, but we must MAKE time to get alone with Him in prayer. And not just our quick prayer meetings before going to bed, but we need to designate a time that we can block all the voices out and just talk to Him. It will make us the sons and daughters of God we want to be.
“Lay aside everything. Just get as close to God as you can. Walk with Him, talk with Him. Let everything else be secondary but your prayer life. Stay right with Him all the time.
When he cuts your prayer life, brother, you're gone.”
We will not have our normal Wednesday night service at the Tabernacle this evening, but I would like to have a prayer meeting in our homes. Set our jobs aside, set our tiredness aside, enter in to His Presence, and get desperate before the Lord.
This does not mean that we will stop having Wednesday night services, however. In the future, we will notify you of the church schedule through texts and the Branham Tabernacle website, as usual.
As we know, the blood of the lamb was applied to the homes of Israel, just as was instructed by Moses, the prophet Messenger of that day. And we just heard the same words through our prophet: Believe the Lord Jesus Christ, for your house, apply the Token to your house. Blessed be the Name of the Lord! As it was in Moses’ day, the Token TODAY is to be applied at home.
I trust the Lord has been speaking to your heart about these things over past several services also. Friends, I believe it is an OPPORTUNITY for us to apply the Token, the Holy Spirit, fresh unto our own lives, and unto the lives of our families and loved ones as well.
Please remember me in your prayers, as I will be praying for you.
May God richly bless you,
Brother Joseph
Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Once again, I want to thank you for your prayers during the most recent Still Waters Camp. The Lord heard, and He blessed us with one of the greatest anointings of the Holy Spirit; it was so powerful. I wish each of you could have been there, but one day soon we will be gathered together at "that land beyond the river" and we will never worry about who got into camp and who didn't; the entire Bride will be there! I am looking forward to that day with all my heart.
For tomorrow, I have it on my heart for the church to hear the sermon, 63-1110M "Souls That Are In Prison Now." It is one of those deep tapes that takes a lot of study, so I think it is good that we hear it at home, at our Family Altar.
God bless you, my friends. I am looking forward to seeing you all once again on Wednesday evening.
Brother Joseph