FOR THE DEAD IN CHRIST THERE'S PEACE

I want to be more humble, whatever it should take.

My pride completely shattered, I want to see it break.

I’m desperate, I don’t care, what methods God should use.

I want to see results, how He does it, God can choose.

I want to rest, relax, in the presence of the Light.

Trusting in His will, for my way was never right.

No competing voices, no ambitions of my own

No pressure from another; just me and God alone.

What a horrible thing to gain in years, just to be another fool

God let me completely die so You completely rule

I’ve seen the proud so lifted up, yet only they don’t know,

All others see it clearly; through the years they watch it grow.

When provoked it just wont matter, I’ll let it just pass by

For the dead in Christ there’s peace, there’s no reaction once you die

Let me bury this old girl, I’ll sing no songs of mourning

But rest easy in Your grace, with Your humility adorning.

... the very first step to successful Christianity, and to show that man has received the Holy Spirit, is humility, real God-given humility, that It must be given humbly. But, yet, a church without a doctrine is just like a jellyfish; it has no backbone. So, we've got to have backbone in it. And not also backbone, but teeth also, because the Church of God must eat the Bread of Life.

William Branham, Palmerworm. Locust. Caterpillar. 59-08-23

ELECTION WILL HOLD

Though loved ones may stray

Election will hold

Though they stumble in sin

And stray from the fold

God gave me this burden,

It wasn’t in vain,

Though watching them sin

Gives heartache and pain

Election will hold,

And His sheep hear His voice,

Though for now it just seems

That sin’s their first choice.

Not one will be lost,

He’ll turn every stone.

There’ll be great success

In the search for His own.

This is my comfort,

And this is my strength,

To know that He’ll search

For His own to great length.

Though it seem there’s no hope,

There’ll be a returning,

To the arms of the Saviour,

Safe from hell’s burning.

With rejoicing the sheep,

Will return to the fold.

It’s an unmovable promise,

For election will hold.

 Gifts and callings are without repentance. You absolutely receive them when you're borned in this world. The Bible says that. How many believes in predestination, foreordination, election, calling, so forth? If you believe the Bible, you have to.
... Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the very foundation of the world. He was a Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. You believe that? He was the woman's Seed that was to the bruise the serpents head. You believe that? Then He was predestinated, foreordained of God. Do you believe that?
When Moses was born, he was a proper child, and was borned a prophet. You believe that? Nothing nobody had to do with it. God made him a prophet before he was born to fulfill Abraham's prophecy.
How many believes that... Why, John the Baptist seven hundred and twelve years before he was ever born, Isaiah saw him. Said, "He is the voice of one crying in the wilderness." You believe that?
Look at this.

   When Jeremiah... The 1st chapter of Jeremiah, 4th verse, I believe it is, God said: "Before you was even formed in your mothers belly, I knew you, and called you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet over the nations," before he was ever borned. You believe in predestination, foreordination? We could go right on down through the Scripture. Yes, sir. It's altogether by grace. It's not by desire; it's by grace.
God called Abraham out of that whole world of people. Why? 'Cause Abraham was better? No, sir. It's grace. God's chosen, election, and call. You are what you are because the grace of God has made you what you are. Who taking thought can add one cubit to his statue? Is that right? It's by grace. These things are called. God has set in
William Braham, Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday 52-08-10

YOU'D LAY YOUR LIFE DOWN

Heavy heart and weeping tears

Minds unsettled thought

Burdened with another’s sin

When you know they’re falling short

You long to embrace and love them

And let them know you care

Say “sister there’s a better way”

God’s love and comfort share

Let them know that in the valley

You’ll hold on through thick and thin

That you’ll help pick up the pieces

When they pay their price for sin.

You’d lay your life down if you could

But it seems that on my knees

I pay the only price I can

As they go through stormy seas

I pray God sends a lifeboat

Lest the tempest all consuming

Drowns them in their own folly

Because of their presuming

WE BICKER OVER NOTHING

What narrow focused lives we live

With petty issues troubling

So on our selves take pity

Then we see the issues doubling

While our sisters backs are beaten

And brothers homes are burning

We bicker over nothing

Pick and choose who we are spurning

Our problems are illusions

They’re just troubles in the mind

They’re not real, though they’re entertained

They’d go if we declined

Look around, a wider view

Will give your problems a dilution

Then spend more time in prayer for those

Who really suffer persecution

FEAR GOD

Fearing God we’re taught, is wisdom’s starting place

And until you start to fear Him there’s no starting in the race

For a Holy God in justice with righteous indignation

Will require answers from you and for sin an explanation

All the pride that bolstered sin and demons entertaining

Will abandon you upon that day, leave you with the explaining

With all your filth more filthy still, and exposed before all men

You’ll wished you’d feared God now for you’ll certainly fear Him then

You’ve had answers and know the way that God from sin provided

He’s entreated softly to your heart, He’s provoked and pushed and chided

But stubbornly you carry on, enjoy the pleasures of your faults

And try to say you’re having fun, in spite of sin’s results

Like a child you play a game but this one plays for keeps

And while you sowed for Satan you’ll be the one who reaps

More tender love you’ll never know than God freely gave to all

But more frightening wrath you’ll never see if on His grace you didn’t fall

Over in Ecclesiastes the 12th chapter and the 13th verse, it's written like this. See? "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments, for this is the full duty of man."
The conclusion of the whole matter is to fear God. And when, you cannot have respects until you have fear. You've got to have fear of God. Solomon said also in the Proverbs that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom: the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
Now, that don't mean that you're afraid of Him, but that means that you're giving respects and reverence. And when you respect God, you fear God. You fear that you might displease Him in some way; you fear lest you would do something wrong.

William Branham, Respects 61-10-15

I'LL TRUST YOUR EVERY LEADING

I’ll serve You Lord in any way

I’ll trust Your every leading,

I’ll stand up tall and walk your will

Not fall down begging, pleading

Through the fire, through the flood

I know You’ll guide and keep

Though danger come You’ll lead me through

As a Shepherd guides his sheep

What tender hand with sweet caress

Your comfort I can feel

And when completely broken down

Your love is there to heal.

Through my life there’s never been a time

That this trust has been betrayed

Though to help to teach me patience

The reason’s been delayed

And when trials just get greater

My trust increases too

For I know that You’ll provide the grace

To help to get me through

THANK YOU FOR THIS TRIAL LORD

Thank You for this trial Lord

It’s really what I needed.

I can say it’s brought out character

That the Holy Ghost had seeded.

In this deep and shadowed valley

I found Your shining Light.

To lead me on this rugged path

And see me through the night.

I found that all the problems

That came from every side,

Had no affect up on my heart

And the Life I had inside.

But rather it just chipped away,

 At the weakness of my mind.

And helped me drop and leave some faults,

So very far behind.

God doesn't promise a flower bed of Eden. Don't falsify a Christian, and don't falsify the message by telling that everything's going to be all right, there nothing going to harm you, there's nothing going--ain't no trials or nothing. That's wrong. As a poet said, "Must I be carried home to heaven on a flower bed of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?" No, sir. God doesn't promise ease and prosperity. But He promises grace to endure in every trial. It's the grace that we look to.

William Branham "Junction of Time." 56-01-15