Day 7 The Family Altar January 7 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew 6:14-15) If theres one thing in my life thats helped me to understand that the Holy Spirit came into me down there that day, has been that. I was hotheaded, fiery, Irish on both sides. And I always could never eat hardly at all, my mouth was always mashed where somebody mashed it, jumping up where I shouldnt jump up.Ive got some of my teeth broke out now and filled where I spoke where I oughtnt to have spoke and said things. Always in trouble. [To] my teacher at school, I said, Lady, I cant help it. See, Id get in trouble all the time. And I said, I cant help it. Poor old Mother Temple, she just went to glory the other day. And she said, Well look, honey. She got me up on her lap, and she pulled me up in her arms and started crying. First time I had ever had love like that from somebody, an old woman. She just cried over the top of me. She said, Billy,I am going to do something for you, honey; Im going to give you a little piece of string. Was only about twelve years old, high tempered. And teacher said, You take this little string, Billy, and whenever you get mad, you just stop and tie nine knots in that string. Said, When you do that, then you bring that string to me. Ill bet your temper will be over.I said, Mrs. Temple, I sure think youre so nice. I said, Im going to try it. See? so I put the string in my pocket. And I hadnt been out in the yard five minutes till somebody popped me one. Well, I started on them, you know. I reached down and grabbed my string; and I started to tie one knot. I throwed the string down, and away I went. See? I just couldnt do it. And I said, I could never be a Christian. But let me tell you, that night down yonder on Ohio Avenue when the Holy Spirit came into me, that settled the temper. That was over. I said, I could never do it. I could never be a Christian, cause Id never get over that, I said, something thats borned in me. I said, Boy, my daddy was hotheaded; and my mother, half Indian, enough temper to fight a buzz saw. I said,Me? Oh, Boy, anybody that jumps on me is going to get it; thats all. If I have to climb up on a step ladder to hit them, Ill sure do it. But now you could drag me out there and wallow me and knock. See? Why? Not me. What am I trying to make a point here? Something happened. That old power,that old William Branham died, and Someone else come in. And it makes me feel sorry for my enemy. When anyone does anything wrong to me, I never pray against them; I pray for them. Thats where the Holy Spirit give that test the other night in New England, beforethis happened down here. When He gave power, said, Just speak what you will to them people. The way they had done. And I looked down there and I said, I forgive you. Thats exactly what He wanted. See, forgive your enemies. Daily Reading: Genesis 7, 1 Chronicles 4:21.., Isaiah 5:1-17, Matthew 6:1-18
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 23:26:00 +0000
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