If you listen to Brother Branham’s tapes, then you hear the sick called out and healed over and over again. These miracles are precious to us, because they further prove that God was with Brother Branham. As Brother Bosworth said, the healings are only the bait that is on the hook. The hook is the Word of God, just as it was in the Book of Acts when the disciples did miracle after miracle. But the more important thing was, and is, that the people received the Good News of Jesus Christ.

The following is a newspaper article originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press, July 15, 1947.

MIRACLE CLAIMED HERE

Minister Cured Deafness, Says 18-Year-Old Girl

A miracle has been wrought in Winnipeg.

That is the claim of slight, nattily-dressed 38-year-old minister of the Missionary Baptist Church, Jeffersonville, Ind. –Rev. William Branham. “This is not the only healing miracle I have performed,” he claims, “I have helped hundreds of thousands of people.”

Mr. Branham was conducting healing meetings at the Zion church Monday, when the reputed miracle took place. Eighteen-year-old Betty Lou Hughes, of Rockford, Ill., said that she had been deaf ever since she could remember. She had heard of Rev. M. Branham and friends brought her to Winnipeg for his meetings. “At the meeting I heard a big noise, as though someone had dropped something,” relates Betty Lou, in slow, halting words.

Mrs. S. Dry, of Rockford, Ill., who drove the girls down, claims Mr. Branham has brought to life two dead people, one at San Francisco and the other at Los Angeles.

His miracles are performed in this way, Mr. Branham said, “I receive vibrations caused by the germs in the person. I can usually tell what the disease is and when the devil leaves the person, the vibration stops.”

Winnipeg Free Press, July 15, 1947

Never forget, the God that healed Betty Lou Hughes has never changed His desire to heal. He said in the Book of Malachi, “For I am the LORD, I change not…” He also told us in the Book of Hebrews, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” He said in Psalm 103, “Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;” If you have a need to be healed, then God is still there to give you what you ask for.