“They try to draw fences around it, but it’s not so. Eagles will fly right over it. Sure they do!”
(Abridged) “You remember the first time God ever spoke to you? Oh, glory. Oh,my. He looked up, and said, “What was that?” She said, “Honey, you’re mine. You don’t belong in that place anyhow.” “Come out from among them. Be ye separated,” saith the Lord. “Touch not their unclean things, and I’ll be God to you. You’ll be son and daughter to Me.” See? “You don’t belong to that old organization says the days of miracles is past. You’re mine. You’re an eagle.” See? Yes, sir. Why, he was an eagle to begin with, just got in the wrong nest, that was all. I hope I don’t hurt you brethren, but I—I’m just telling you the truth. That’s right. Many of them today is in the wrong nest.
“Oh,” said, “in the wrong nest? Is that what happened? “Now, mama, what must I do?” Said, “I tell you, honey. You got to jump and get your feet off the ground. And then just go to flapping them little wings of yours. Just flap them as hard as you can. You can rise, ’cause you’re an eagle. Fly. Just jump off the ground, and start flapping your wings real hard. I’ll get you.” And he jumped up, this little eagle coming out of them denominations, and give a great big flap four or five times, and lit right on a barnyard post, right in the middle of a Pentecostal denomination. You can’t organize Pentecost. You can’t denominate. Pentecost is an experience, not an organization. It’s for you Methodists, you Baptists, you Presbyterians. They try to draw fences around it, but it’s not so. Eagles will fly right over it. Sure they do. Don’t pay no attention to it.
Rev William Branham · January 22, 1961
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