07.02.08
EXPLOITS OF FAITH
TESTIMONIES OF HEALING IN THE BRANHAM MEETINGS

Removed Vocal Cords Restored

Our daughter Judith, when five years old, became hoarse very gradually, and soon she was unable to speak above a whisper. We took her to a throat specialist, then to a diagnostician and associate doctors. They removed a paploma (growth on her vocal cords), but they thought it might come back. It did grow back three times in nine months, and each time it was removed it would come back. Each of the first two times, she could speak after the operation, but the last time the growth was so large that difficulty was encountered in removing it.

When we found the growth coming back again, my husband and I decided that if the Lord wanted to take her home, it would be agreeable with us, but we wanted to give Him the chance to heal her first. Judith, by this time, was gasping for breath and we knew if the Lord didn't heal her soon she would finally choke.

I placed the handkerchief you sent on her sleeping garment as instructed. Judith gradually improved, her breathing became more normal, and she did not gasp. Still she could not talk above a whisper.

We went through the prayer line in your meeting at Saskatoon and the Lord revealed to you that she needed a new pair of vocal chords. And that is just what happened, for Judith started to sing "Only Believe" out loud for the first time in a year and a half. She began talking more and more and even sing in a "Sunshine Choir" at church. She finds it easier to whisper, but we are encouraging her to use her voice more and more.

MRS. PAUL PHILLIPS
901 9th Avenue North
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
November 10, 1947.


EDITOR'S NOTE—Later reports received from Mrs. Philips state that Judith is perfectly well and has gained weight so that she is now six pounds overweight for her height. She can skate, run, or do any strenuous exercise which she could never have done before. All of the symptoms of a growth are gone and her breathing is normal.


Healed of Cataracts

All last winter I had been to the Doctor regularly for my eyes. In April he said I would have to have an operation (cataract in both eyes, also a blood clot). In February Bro. Branham was here. I did not get to see him but I prayed every day he would return. Easter he came hack, next day he prayed for me, told me to keep the faith which I have, and the praises are God's. For six months through faith and believing I have been seeing. May God keep me just and faithful so that I may show His power to the world.

God bless him and his forever.

MRS. LUCY R. JACKSON,
1006 E. Taylor Street
Phoenix, Ariz.


Tonsil Trouble Healed

I am the little girl that was healed of tonsil trouble. February 20, 1948, when you were praying for me I felt a strange feeling come over my throat. It sure was the power of the Lord healing me. I was touching the hem of His garment. I got healed right then.

JESSIE MAE JENNINGS
2842 NW 40th Street
Miami 37, Fla.


Minister's Wife Healed Of Cancer

That we all might believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever, I give this word of testimony. The Lord delivered me from cancer in the extreme part of the lower colon, blessed he His wonderful name. I first took fever and was forced to go to bed April 1, 1947, although I had been sick for weeks before this.

There was to be a healing service at San Carlos Indian Church April 8, where Brother William Branham was to pray for the sick. I heard Brother Branham in Phoenix about a month before and saw many miracles of healing. San Carlos is about 50 miles from Superior, and kind Christian friends took me to the service. I was on a stretcher, being unable to stand in line. As there were many hundreds to be prayed for, it was 1 a. m. before Brother Branham reached me. After he prayed, he told us the cancer was killed by the power of God and would pass from my body after 72 hours. The following Sunday morning about 3 a. m. the cancer passed off—about two quarts or more of disintegrated and dead cancer tissue. I was very weak and sore, so that my husband, Brother Mitchell, despaired of my life. Some thought that I should go to a hospital, but we knew the cancer was gone and God who had given deliverance was able to give health again. Jesus has done all this in a very short time. Now I am able to be up to walk about the house some and even out into the yard. Also went to church last night. All honor and praise to our Lord.

MRS. R. W. MITCHELL
Box 603
Superior, Arizona
May 24, 1947.
NOTE—A further report of this healing ten months later:

Ten months later, I am still well and doing my housework and laundry.
Mrs. R. W. M.


Crutch Left at Church

Praise God for healing my injured leg. I came to Winnipeg using a crutch and I left the crutch at the church.

WESLEY A. HART
Fisher River
Koostatak, Manitoba
July 16, 1947


Arches and Crossed Eyes Healed in Miami, Fla.

Bro. Branham, you said for us to write in our testimonies. I'm going to try, but I can't praise the Lord enough for you and I'm going to write about myself.

I had an awful cramping in my foot and they told me it was fallen arches. I had to wear an artificial arch; my heel and the ball of my foot would draw almost together; seemed like the way it would hurt I would have to jump out of bed and press my foot on the floor to get the bow out. One night during your visit to Miami I was sitting on the front seat; I wanted you to pray for my foot for I knew you could heal it, but there were so many people there on stretchers, in wheel chairs, etc., I didn't get in line. I took my shoe off right where I sat and let the poor sick and suffering people go in line; I believed as you prayed for them and my foot was healed as a cool feeling went over my foot. I can't explain like it was, so I praised the Lord for healing my foot; I reached in my shoe, pulled the metal arch I had been wearing out, and I can walk barefooted now. I know Jesus can heal.

Last night I wanted to take Richard Turpin, a neighbor boy about 10 years of age, who was cross-eyed. I kept begging until they said he could go. He was instantly touched and his eyes were straight. I know without a doubt you have the gift of healing.

Thank the Lord for a servant like you. How can people doubt when they can see the blind begin to see, the deaf hear and the dumb speak. To the benefit of those who read my testimony, I can say I have seen this with my own eyes and I know it is true. RUE HANNAH DRAKE Apostolic Church

1301 NW 23rd Street
Miami, Fla.
February, 1948


Walking Without Crutches

I wish to thank you and yours for your prayers. I wrote you sometime ago to pray for my healing. I was given up by the doctors as uncurable. I was drawn down by affliction, unable to straighten up. I could not walk without crutches. My body was in pain day and night. My left breast was hard and swollen and in great pain. Now I am walking without crutches, the pain has left my body, my back is straight. I can wash, cook, clean my house, eat without being in misery, lie on my back, also my stomach and my breast are much better, thanks to you and God, I am on the road to a complete recovery.

Yours in Christ,
EMMA LEWIS Simonton, Texas


Deaf and Dumb Boy Healed In Pensacola

Praise the Lord for healing my body and for healing my six-year-old boy, who never had spoken in his life, until Jesus sent Bro. Branham to our rescue with the angel of Christ.

I only went in prayer line with my little boy and Jesus healed my body and his.

RUTH STRICKLAND
Route 3, Box 368
Pensacola, Fla.

P.S.— My little boy is both speaking and hearing.


Jawbone Healed

I was prayed for on November 21, in your meeting in Salem, Oregon, and I thank the Lord that my face is healed. I was born with a deformity of my jaws and mouth and was, unable to bite any- thing. I went to the Doctor to see if he could help me and he said he could. The doctor said that the bone in my left jaw never developed. I have had four operations which did help some, but I still could not open my mouth to bite an apple. But on November 23, after being prayed for, I opened my mouth wide and ate a large apple for the first time in my life, and I am 20 years old. So I am praising God and giving Him all the glory for my healing, through your prayers.

Your sister in Christ,
LILA KNEALE
P. 0. Box 183 Gervais, Oregon


Healed of Sinus—Female Trouble

Dear Brother Branham:

Tonight I am thankfully praising God for His wonderful healing power. I have suffered for seven or eight years with female trouble, sinus trouble and low blood pressure, and have spent hundreds of dollars trying to be healed, with no success. I have been praying for God to undertake for me and, praise His name, He sent our dear Brother Branham with the Gift of Divine Healing, and he prayed for me last night, and I was instantly healed. Praise God forever. I am a child of God and desire your prayers that I will ever be found in the center of His will.

MRS. SHURMAN R. PARKER
Rt. 1,
c/o Bessie Patterson
Robertsdale, Alabama


Hernia Gone

I was prayed for by you in your Healing service February 1, in Miami, and was healed of a hernia, also for my eyes and I praise and thank God for my healing.

Yours truly,
MRS. J. W. BUSH
Miami, Florida
February 7, 1948


EVANGELIST HEALED

Greetings in Christ!

On the second night at your Fresno meetings, I was completely healed and wanted you to know about it.

Since last July I have been very ill, that is until about two and a half weeks ago, as a result of having more zeal than wisdom, mainly. This was the third nervous breakdown that I've had and I'm only 21 years old. I believe I've learned my lesson now, but it was so hard to see work to be done and no one to do it.

We have been going to lots of doctors trying to find out the trouble, and just before we came to the Fresno meetings, we had started going to the University of California Hospital. Not knowing what the trouble was made me feel worse than before. Finally they told me that my womb had slipped out of place and I had done something to my back. They tried to put my womb in place, but I knew that it didn't stay because it bothered me so and my back felt awful. After you prayed for me, I walked down the aisle and I felt the whole thing move into place. Since then I've even lifted my accordian and it's still all right. When I left the building my nerves felt so calm, that I felt like a different person. Before this I couldn't eat well for I was bothered with nervous indigestion and an acid stomach and couldn't sleep well. Since then I've been able to eat fruit and all kinds of things nearly without trouble with my stomach. I nearly drop off to sleep riding in a car and that's unusual for me and I can sleep even with the light on. My back is all right, too, and also my mastoids and sinus. I know that God healed them even though my faith is tested at times.

FLORENCE CORYELL Evangelist
573 Ninth Street
Richmond, Calif.


Healed of Cancer

Dear Brother Branham:

I was healed of internal cancer and other things. Thank God forevermore. May God's blessings rest upon you.

MRS. H. M. COOPER Box 38
Century, Florida


PHOENIX RESIDENT HEALED OF CANCER

Last September I went to Dr. Weldon Baker, 713 North Second Street, Phoenix, Arizona, and he made two x-rays. He found that I had a bad case of colitis, that my heart was enlarged from poison, that only one-fifth of my liver was active, and that there were several stones as big as my thumbnail on the right side of my liver. I started on a six-week treatment, but became very sick. Dr. Anderson attended me and said I had cancer, but had waited too long before getting help. I became very sick and couldn't take any more treatments. My colon had to be opened up to permit the waste to pass through. I had a very bad spell. Dr. Baker came, and the saints were praying when he got there. He told me later that I had been dead two minutes, but that Jesus had heard the saints' cries.

I was in bed nine weeks and lost 40 pounds. At times I was so bad that I could not swallow water for five days. Then came the announcement that William Branham was coming to Phoenix the second of March to pray for the sick and afflicted. My husband was at church early that first Sunday night, but Brother Branham was unable to get to me. Nor was he able to get to me the following night, although I witnessed many miracles of the healing of others. The next day I was taken again, but when I reached the church I became very sick. They brought a cot for me, but I don't remember when I laid down.

The first I knew, Brother Branham was talking to me, saying: "Look at me, sister." At first it was just a faint whisper, but the third time he repeated it I tried to open my eyes. After a while I could see him and he asked me if I believed what he told me. I said, "Yes, because I could see the angel standing beside you." Brother Branham then said, "Sister, your faith has saved you. That cancer was all over your stomach, but God has healed you. Every root is cursed and you will be well if you continue to believe, although it will take a month or six weeks for this to rot away. In 72 hours from now you will be very sick and in great pain, but just believe through it all." Then the Lord spoke through Brother Branham, and a warm oil started through my head outside and inside and went to my feet. As it went down, the pain left entirely and I felt very strong. I got off the cot shouting and dancing and was able to attend five other services Brother Branham held in Phoenix.

When the 72 hours were up, I became very ill, and hurt so badly I couldn't even cry. I was terribly sick for a little over two weeks, then I began to eat anything I wanted, where before I had been living on fruit juices and soup.

Seven weeks after I had been prayed for, I had several more x-rays taken and these showed I was entirely healed. Dr. Baker told me that I might tell all of this, and he would gladly show the x-rays to anyone who would like to see them, or he would talk to them personally. I am praising Jesus for it!

MRS. HATTIE WALDROP
2912 E. Adams Street
Phoenix, Arizona

EDITOR'S NOTE—This testimony appeared in print sometime before. I personally visited and talked with this lady in Phoenix a few weeks ago and can confirm the facts of the healing and that she is still healed today.


Tumor Gone—Symptoms Gone

Dear Brother Branham:

I wish to add my testimony to the number. Brother Branham was here in Dallas last February a year ago. I had a large lump in my breast, which itched, burned and hurt me for a number of years. When I went up for prayer for eyes and kidney trouble, I forgot for a time about the tumor. Brother Branham took my hand and said, "What about the tumor in your breast?" It frightened me. He prayed and I came over to one side and sat down. About that time Satan told me, "Yes, it is a tumor and your faith won't help enough." About that time a deaf and dumb from birth said, "Mama" and "Jesus." The power came over me and faith took hold and I was healed. Hallelujah! In a few days the tumor was gone. But symptoms remained for a couple of months. I had Brother Branham send me an anointed handkerchief, which when applied in Jesus' name sent the power of God all through my body. All symptoms are now gone. Satan will hinder if he can, but if we hold on, healing is ours. Thank God!

MRS. H. A. TOWLES
1103 Elsbeth
Dallas 8, Texas
March 30, 1948