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
The summer schedule for the Branham Tabernacle is posted on the calendar.
Here is the schedule of Still Waters Camp and VGR:
June 5-9, camp #1. No service on Wednesday, June 7 or Sunday June 11.
June 19-23, camp #2. No service on Wednesday, June 21 or Sunday, June 25.
July 10-14, camp #3. No service on Wednesday, July 12 or Sunday July 16.
July 14-28 is VGR vacation. There will be no services during this time. The next service is Communion on July 30.
Aug 7-11, camp #4. There will be no service on Wednesday, Aug 9 or Sunday, Aug 13.
Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
I pray you had a wonderful home prayer meeting Wednesday night. Truly, there is something special about having that time with Him in prayer. I believe He has been pressing us to spend more time on our knees seeking Him and His Perfect Will, as well as to be in prayer for each other. There have been so many timely Messages the Lord has been bringing to us lately to encourage us and to let us know that we are HIS BRIDE. Since the playing of the Seals, this Message means more to me than ever before!
We have been listening to so many wonderful Messages in these last few months, where the Holy Spirit is letting us know we are doing the right thing by listening to His Stored Up Food on the tape as It is perfecting His Bride.
I have really been enjoying listening to the sermon: 63-0728, "Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed." The Holy Spirit says so many things to us through His prophet. Truly, this Message was spoken for us today:
Help, this morning, Lord, as we read the Word. May the Holy Spirit reveal It to us, that the Church might be fully established in "the Faith that was once delivered to the saints," to hold them. And may, as You gave the vision some two years ago, "to store up the Food," fine, healthy-looking vegetables that I saw in the vision, being stored here in this tabernacle, may we today receive a whole barrel full of That (Grant it, Lord.), or, a tape load: that It might reveal Jesus Christ to us in the hour that we live, to give us sustaining strength, the spiritual strength for the task that lays ahead. Grant it, Father.
Praise the Name of the Lord, I have Caught The Vision and we’re listening to a TAPE LOAD every day!
I would love for us to hear this Message together, but as you know it is quite a lengthy sermon. I have been praying, and I feel that the Lord put it on my heart to take this opportunity to listen to it and really study it from the comforts of our homes. May Father let every Word go deep into our hearts as we receive the meaning of everything He has for us.
I pray the Lord is with you wherever you might be and that He will draw you closer to Him. I am looking forward to being back together with each of you very soon. Until then, I’ll meet you before His throne both listening to His Word and in prayer.
Bro. Joseph
May the Lord bless you tonight as we have our family prayer meetings together. No matter where you are, let us meet at His Throne at 7 o'clock for prayer for one another.