06/02/2024
THE WIND FROM HEAVEN
School had just ended for the day, and Branham’s friends were going to the pond to fish. Branham wanted to go with them, but his father had told him to draw water for that evening.
Branham cried as he drew the water, upset that he had to work instead of going fishing. As he carried the heavy bucket of water from the barn to the house, he sat down under an old poplar tree to rest.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of wind blowing in the top of the tree. He jumped up to look, and he noticed that the wind was not blowing in any other place. Stepping back, he looked up into the tree, and a voice came, saying, “Never drink, smoke, or defile your body in any way, for I have a work for you to do when you get older.”
Startled by the voice and shaking, the little boy ran home crying into the arms of his mother. Wondering if he had been bitten by a snake, she tried to calm him.
Failing to soothe him, she put him to bed and called the doctor, fearful that he was suffering from some strange sort of nervous disorder.
For the rest of his childhood, Branham did everything he could to avoid passing by that tree.
As strange as that experience may have been to Branham, he found that he could never smoke, drink, or defile his body. Several times, as a result of peer pressure, he tried. But as soon as he would lift a cigarette or drink to his lips, he would hear the familiar sound of wind blowing in the top of the tree. Immediately, he would look around to see, but everything else was calm and still as before. The same awesome fear would sweep over him and he would drop the cigarette or the bottle and run away.
As a result of his strange behavior, Branham had very few friends as he was growing up. Branham said of himself, “It seemed all through my life I was just a black sheep knowing no one who understood me, and not even understanding myself.” He often commented that he had a peculiar feeling, “like someone standing near me, trying to say something to me, especially when I was alone.”
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