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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. ~ 63-0901E  DESPERATIONS

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I believe we are living in the hour of “there is coming forth something from the Lord.” What is happening is between Life and death, and “It’ll pass through us and we won’t see it”. This is much more than doctrinal understanding. It is the reality of the Token, the literal Life of Christ in you. We don’t do anything to make us the Life, but we must recognize Who we are and the potential of the Life in us.

I believe that the reason we don't have desperation is because it's a lack of love, God, the love of God. I think that the love of God causes desperation. If God is in you, the Token inside of you, and you see the conditions of times, and people wading in sin the way they are, it'll throw you into desperation. I believe it will. ~ 63-0901E  DESPERATIONS

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We get desperate, but for what reason. We may have physical or financial burdens, and we cry out to the Lord, but love doesn’t drive that desperation. It is self-driven desperation. The life of Christ in us wants to be manifested. There is a desperation for the creation that we walk among. They are groaning for Sons and we groan to answer that cry. I can promise that true Sonship is the answer to any need you have. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt 6:33).

11   For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.   12   Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.    13   And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. ~ JEREMIAH 29:11-13

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It is interesting that Bro Branham used this text in Desperation, the message that followed “Token”. The Token in the literal life of Christ revealed in you, and there must be a desperation for that condition. Many receive a Baptism of the Holy Ghost and believe that is all they need, but the prophet said that was just the beginning. I believe that seeking the reality of the life in you should drive us to our knees. The promise is “Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with ALL YOUR HEART”. There should be a desperation deep down within us for this condition. It is the perfection, or completion, of our Sonship.

19   What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?     20   For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. ~ I CORINTHIANS 6:19-20

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You are bought with a price. You are purchased for His use. So, why do we always ask Him to bless OUR path. We expect God to meet OUR demands like He paid the price for our sins so we can live the way we want. When Paul was converted he said, “What will you have me to do?” As Bride, He is the Husband and has prepared a path serving His purpose, not ours. Job said, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job 13:15). All things work together for the good to them that love God.

Someone said to me, not long ago, said, "Brother Branham, I would give anything if I could see a vision." I put my arm around him, a real brother; I said, “My beloved brother, every time you open the Bible, you see a vision, God revealing Himself. Here is God’s vision.” Just open it up and—open, say, “God, now open my eyes that I can see You.” The Word is God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us.” And here’s God, and every time you open the Bible, you see a vision of God, speaking forth to you. Set with a humble heart. ~ 55-1004  COME LET US REASON TOGETHER

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What kind of a vision do you see? Behind every word there is a thought. Behind God’s Word there is the thought that inspired the Word, and when we catch THAT vision, It interprets the Word and brings It alive. Without the vision it is just words on a page. Although it may help us and encourage us, it takes the vision in the Word to change us and focus our path.

21   Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.    22   And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:      23   Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. ~ JOHN 20:21-23

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“As the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” Was the Father a separate Person living in Jesus? Some believe that, but the Father is the source of all things to Jesus, and should be the same to us. The Father was the “thought” that originates the Words that came from Jesus’ Mouth. As the Father sent Him, we are sent with that same source, the Seed born in us, that produces a speaking from our lips. Song of Solomon 5:1 says, “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse”. He blows upon His garden, the Bride, and releases the fragrance of life to all creation. This great romantic story is the tale of God reuniting into the Logos that walked with Adam in the garden.

They stayed in bondage because they refused to respect the deliverer that come to deliver them. That put them back in bondage again, not because God wanted them to stay (The time was exactly right.), but they stayed forty years over because they refused to accept God's provided way of escape. How I believe that that's what's the matter tonight. Same thing. See? ~ 61-1015E  RESPECTS

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The Children of Israel wandered because they did not respect the deliverer. They had even seen the land but did not believe they could claim it. “I believe that that’s what’s the matter tonight.” How long have we wandered in the wilderness? We all understand doctrine. We believe the Message in a way, but has it penetrated our heart? Has it made us a literal new creature? The claiming of the Book of Redemption should explode on the inside of us because that is where the Lamb is sitting on the Throne revealing who we are. We continue to look to an intellectual answer when the rapture itself dwells in us now.

4   For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,     5   And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,      6   If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. ~ HEBREWS 6:4-6

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Friday we stopped at a visitor center and were asking about Zion National Park. The man told us that we could get souvenirs anywhere around the park without going to the actual park. It made me think of this scripture. There are those who have “tasted” but never really experienced the Spirit of God. You can have an interaction with the Spirit, maybe a feeling or some other manifestation, but unless that takes you all the way to your origin and gives you an experience deep in your heart that changes you, all you have is a souvenir. You can tell people you have been there, but you never really went.

17   And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.     18   For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~ ECCLESIASTES 1:17-18

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14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.     15   For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.     16   The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: ~ ROMANS 8:14-16

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“Ye have received the Spirit of adoption.” I think we are all familiar with the “Spirit of adoption” being speaking the Word, but what is the speaking for? Do we need squirrels or need to raise fish from the dead? Perhaps not, but creation is waiting for the Bride to come to this so there is something that will flow through the Bride. In the garden of Eden, it was fellowship with Adam that was a requirement and a desire of God Himself. Now, He dwells in a Bride. Creation is NOT groaning for the corporal Body of Christ, but they are groaning for Sons. Think about what is the potential of the Bride being the dwelling place of God (Psalm 132:13-14).