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This is the tesstimony of Sylvia Perkins: | This is the tesstimony of Sylvia Perkins: | ||
:''It was summer 1961, and my mother, Agnes Shippy, struggled to keep up with her household chores and gardening. She had contracted polio as a very young child, wore braces through high school and still had one foot and leg deformed and shorter than the other. Prayer for healing was her constant companion, and when she heard about a "faith healer" | :''It was summer 1961, and my mother, Agnes Shippy, struggled to keep up with her household chores and gardening. She had contracted polio as a very young child, wore braces through high school and still had one foot and leg deformed and shorter than the other. Prayer for healing was her constant companion, and when she heard about a "faith healer" based in Southern Indiana, she tearfully intreated my Dad to take her to be prayed for. We got a pickup camper and traveled the country, eagerly awaiting the time when she could get to "Brother Branham", be prayed for and receive her healing. She just knew that when she was healed all her large family would believe and follow this wonderful self-proclaimed prophet she had found. | ||
:''Finally, about a year later the longed for moment arrived. She and I stood before "the prophet". She grabbed his arm, as he began to pray a generic prayer. "Brother Branham, I have suffered all my life with polio and have a deformed foot." The healer looked heavenward briefly, then proclaimed, "Thus Saith the Lord, she shall have it" (her request). | :''Finally, about a year later, the longed for moment arrived. She and I stood before "the prophet". She grabbed his arm, as he began to pray a generic prayer. "Brother Branham, I have suffered all my life with polio and have a deformed foot." The healer looked heavenward briefly, then proclaimed, "Thus Saith the Lord, she shall have it" (her request). | ||
:''Fast forward 32 years. My mother constantly proclaimed her healing, after all, it was 'Thus Saith the Lord', it could not fail ! And when all her family saw this wondrous miracle they would all be "saved",as she now had been taught that the only true way to true salvation was by believing every word this now long dead prophet had spoken. | :''Fast forward 32 years. My mother constantly proclaimed her healing, after all, it was 'Thus Saith the Lord', it could not fail ! And when all her family saw this wondrous miracle they would all be "saved",as she now had been taught that the only true way to true salvation was by believing every word this now long dead prophet had spoken. | ||