Put God First
WITNESSES_ JEFF.IN V-25 N-6 SUNDAY_ 53-0405E
190 "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God." Have you ever witnessed that to be the truth? Put God first. Pay your tithes first. Pay everything first. Pay God. Pray first at morning. Pray all through the day. Give God the first place in everything. You'll be a witness.
She runs right in. She had two sticks. In the old oriental way, they use two sticks. It was two sticks crossed, like this, and the fire was in the middle. The Indians still use it, and they move the logs up as they burn. That was the cross, Christ, where the fire was in the middle.
They took a little of the meal offering, put that ground meal, all ground just the same: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," poured in the oil, which was the Holy Spirit, and mixed It together, the Holy Spirit and Christ; going to make some kind of a hoecake now, brother. Amen. Oh, don't think I'm crazy. I'm just religious tonight. All right.
Notice, "Make me a little cake, first."
ENTICING.SPIRITS_ JEFF.IN DE 79-112 SUNDAY_ 55-0724
51 Notice, when these kings, before they started out, they should've... Before Jehoshaphat ever made an alliance with Ahab, he ought to have first said, "Let us pray and see what the will of the Lord is."
Give me a preacher; give me a Christian; give me a housewife that's a Christian; give me a farmer or a factory worker that'll put God first in everything, I'll show you a man that'll be successful in the spite of all the devil can put on him. He seeks God first. We must have first...
But they didn't do it. They were all clouded over because Ahab had a great bright kingdom, and he'd done a whole lot of things, and had his great fineries, his gold and his silver, and been a great successful man; yet an unbeliever.
BLIND.BARTIMAEUS_ SHREVEPORT.LA SUNDAY_ 56-0311E
E-18 He began to think, setting in the warm sun. He'd gathered up his ragged coat around him, which he could not afford a new one. He was a provider for his family; he--he thought of his family first before himself. Any real true dad'll do that and husband.
Any Christian will think of others before himself. Every Christian tries to put God first, his family second; he's number three. I've tried to make that a practice in my own life.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.2.PART.2_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0825E
52-110 Now, friends, let's hear Him, the Holy Spirit speaking in our midst, showing divers miracles, and signs, and wonders. Let's just not pass over it as just common happenings. Let's remember that it's Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, confirming His Word. We must do it. Oh, please do it. Take heed. Let every other thing be secondarily. Even your home, your husband, your wife, your children, whatever it may be, put it second. Place God first. You say, "Brother Branham, over my children?" Over anything, place God first. Let Him be first.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.2.PART.2_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0825E
53-114 God must have first place in your heart, first place in your life, first place in everything that you do or what you are. God must be first. He doesn't want the second place. He doesn't deserve the second place. He deserves the best, and the first, and all that we got. He deserves it. Blessed be His holy Name.
For God also bearing... witness,... (He gave testimony.)... both with signs and wonders,... divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will... (Not what men say, what the church said; but what God's will was.)
Oh,we need to seek the will of God, not the favor of your neighbor, not the favor of your children, not the favor of your husband or your wife; but seek the will of God. You do that first. Then everything else, the will of the wife and the will of the children, will fall right in with it. But place God first.
190 "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God." Have you ever witnessed that to be the truth? Put God first. Pay your tithes first. Pay everything first. Pay God. Pray first at morning. Pray all through the day. Give God the first place in everything. You'll be a witness.
She runs right in. She had two sticks. In the old oriental way, they use two sticks. It was two sticks crossed, like this, and the fire was in the middle. The Indians still use it, and they move the logs up as they burn. That was the cross, Christ, where the fire was in the middle.
They took a little of the meal offering, put that ground meal, all ground just the same: "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever," poured in the oil, which was the Holy Spirit, and mixed It together, the Holy Spirit and Christ; going to make some kind of a hoecake now, brother. Amen. Oh, don't think I'm crazy. I'm just religious tonight. All right.
Notice, "Make me a little cake, first."
ENTICING.SPIRITS_ JEFF.IN DE 79-112 SUNDAY_ 55-0724
51 Notice, when these kings, before they started out, they should've... Before Jehoshaphat ever made an alliance with Ahab, he ought to have first said, "Let us pray and see what the will of the Lord is."
Give me a preacher; give me a Christian; give me a housewife that's a Christian; give me a farmer or a factory worker that'll put God first in everything, I'll show you a man that'll be successful in the spite of all the devil can put on him. He seeks God first. We must have first...
But they didn't do it. They were all clouded over because Ahab had a great bright kingdom, and he'd done a whole lot of things, and had his great fineries, his gold and his silver, and been a great successful man; yet an unbeliever.
BLIND.BARTIMAEUS_ SHREVEPORT.LA SUNDAY_ 56-0311E
E-18 He began to think, setting in the warm sun. He'd gathered up his ragged coat around him, which he could not afford a new one. He was a provider for his family; he--he thought of his family first before himself. Any real true dad'll do that and husband.
Any Christian will think of others before himself. Every Christian tries to put God first, his family second; he's number three. I've tried to make that a practice in my own life.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.2.PART.2_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0825E
52-110 Now, friends, let's hear Him, the Holy Spirit speaking in our midst, showing divers miracles, and signs, and wonders. Let's just not pass over it as just common happenings. Let's remember that it's Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, confirming His Word. We must do it. Oh, please do it. Take heed. Let every other thing be secondarily. Even your home, your husband, your wife, your children, whatever it may be, put it second. Place God first. You say, "Brother Branham, over my children?" Over anything, place God first. Let Him be first.
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.2.PART.2_ JEFF.IN HEB SUNDAY_ 57-0825E
53-114 God must have first place in your heart, first place in your life, first place in everything that you do or what you are. God must be first. He doesn't want the second place. He doesn't deserve the second place. He deserves the best, and the first, and all that we got. He deserves it. Blessed be His holy Name.
For God also bearing... witness,... (He gave testimony.)... both with signs and wonders,... divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will... (Not what men say, what the church said; but what God's will was.)
Oh,we need to seek the will of God, not the favor of your neighbor, not the favor of your children, not the favor of your husband or your wife; but seek the will of God. You do that first. Then everything else, the will of the wife and the will of the children, will fall right in with it. But place God first.
