Leadership - Branham QuotesThat's the only way you can do a right kind of a job for the Lord, is put everything you've got right to the forefront for Christ: all your strength, all your soul, all your heart, all your mind, everything that you got." When you're doing anything, do it right or don't do it at all. See? Just leave it alone. If you're going to be a Christian, put everything that you've got to Christ. That's your time, your talent, your everything"
No matter what we do, how smart we are, we've got to humble ourselves and work according to God's program. Amen "
So the leadership of God is follow the vindicated Word of the hour by the Holy Ghost "
For leadership, we need a man that's filled with the Holy Ghost. That's what the church needs today; not a theologian, but a Spirit-filled, borned again man full of the Holy Ghost. I tell you, if we had more of that, the church would look a little different than it does in the present time "
Notice they complained about God's provided way, was the reason they died. (Now, closely, don't miss these last few remarks.) They complained. What made them die in the wilderness, they complained about God's provided way, by a one man message, a prophet, a leadership of one man "
They try to adopt education to take the place of the Holy Ghost. You'll never be able to do it. No matter how well your man is educated... I think it's a good thing for him to be educated, but if he hasn't got the Holy Spirit with that, his education will do him no good. Education will never take the place of the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Amen "
And that's all right, but they had united under the wrong leadership. They had united under the leadership of man. And God wants man to unite under the leadership of Himself. He wants us to be one. But He wants to be the one with us. But man wants his fellow man to be his leader and unite under the wisdom of his fellow man "
And how many times today have we heard it: "We are the great church"; "We are the Church of Christ"; "We are the Church of God"; "We are the--the so-and-so." It makes the people get a fear and think that that really is where God's a-working. And they don't want the leadership of the Holy Spirit; they'd rather follow men like that, because they like to live their own individual life "
We'll build an organization that'll put a million in, and do all this, that, and the other." But you're never willing to surrender your heart for Divine leadership of the Holy Spirit to lead us to the fountains of waters of Life "
Now, we wonder today, why we can't have a revival. Why can't we have a revival? What's the matter we can't have? Is because we follow the long--wrong leadership. We can have some manufactured conversions and protractive meetings, but when it comes to a real revival, what's the matter? We're letting too much world creep into our churches "
It was Christians, denominational Christians without the Holy Spirit. They were Christian by name; they were Christian by their gathering together; they taken communion; and they kept the orders, but rejected the leadership of the Holy Spirit. "
Many times God has to take His people out of them organizations and denominations, take them out in the wilderness alone to talk to them. And He's going to have a remnant; don't you worry about that. He did then; He will now. On and on they went through sin, wading through things. Why? Their leadership; there's nothing to stop it "
Brother Neville and Brother Roy Roberson, and all the precious brethren who stood by us in the times of trouble, and under the leadership of the Holy Spirit, made decisions in the best that they knowed how. And the decisions that they have made, has been proven to be in Your will, for You have blessed their decisions "
I really think that and believe and teach that men, God has made men leadership of His church, that's His people. See? And it's a... As I was preaching down to Brother "Junie" Jackson's last night about God fortified His--His people with His Word. And it was a woman that broke through that line and give vent to reason, and when it did, God forever has always placed it for His--for men to keep His church fortified by Word "
They knowed nothing of the land. But they had to act by faith to the promise, and they acted by faith. And they left Egypt under the leadership of God, and His prophet that was telling them of a better land "
They wouldn't accept the leadership of the Holy Spirit. They wouldn't accept the leadership of Moses. They tried to even raise up Korah and Dathan and so forth to--to lead them. They didn't want the leadership that God had provided for them. And today we don't want the leadership, or the church don't, that God has provided "
Let's not walk this flower bed of ease by joining some organization, and settling down, and saying, "Bless God, I'm Pentecost." Let's get the experience. Let's go back to God. Let's go back to the eagle food. Let's go back to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Let's go back to the Word of God. Let's go back to the fast and pray "
We adopted manmade leadership instead of the Holy Ghost. And that's exactly what Samson done "
When Brother Williams invited me some time ago, I just kind of hesitated a little. I said, "I'll let you know a little later, because I believe in praying over things before we--we make our choice. Let it be God's choice." And I just kept feeling led to come, because it was a time... "