Peter, after he was out there fishing, he was... His occupation was fishing. I kind of like his occupation. And so he was out there fishing, all discouraged, know that he had denied Christ. Heard that prophet stand there and tell him, "Peter, do you say you love Me?"
He said, "O Lord, You know I love You." He said, "I love You. I'm ready to die for You."
He said, "Peter, you think you mean that, but you'll deny Me three times before... You'll deny Me before the cock crows the third time. See, you'll deny Me thrice before the cock crows."
And then seeing that come to pass, when he stood there and said, "I don't know Him. No, I don't know nothing about them there Pentecostals."

It ain't time to quit preaching; it's just my watch having a spell. See? I know I'm supposed to stop now, but I can't stop right at this time, so I got to finish this up here just...?...
Said, "I know I denied Him. I denied Him in the presence of Pilate. I denied Him in the presence when that little woman come around me, said, 'Aren't you one of them?' 'No.' And even cursed." Oh, he was in a terrible shape. Said, "I..." She denied... He had denied Him. And he'd seen Jesus stand and look over, then is when the cock crowed, looked over at Peter. He went out. Oh, he was discouraged with himself, said, "Why do I live any longer?"
And then, besides that, he said, "I think I'll go back and go fishing again. I can't preach anymore, so I'll just go back and start fishing." He'd throwed his nets in and cast all night long, didn't have no fish. And he was at a weak spot; he didn't have nothing, discouraged with himself, come to the end of his ability.

When he thought he was a great man, chopped the high priest's son's ears off like that, well, he thought he was a great fellow, you know, he'd learned something. But he knowed nothing. He had to forget all about it.
And there he was out there, said, "Well, I know one thing; I'm a fisherman. I can still make a living fishing." He cast all night and didn't get nothing. Oh, what a discourage. Every time he pulled it up: an empty net. And he was so discouraged. He was at the weakest point, said, "I just might as well feel like jumping off this boat. I ain't worth nothing, anyhow."
He said, "Have you got any fish, children?"
Looked out on the bank, and there stood a Man. He said, "No, we've toiled all night and taken nothing. I thought I was a fisherman."
"Is that you, Simon?"
"Yeah. Well, I toiled all night and taken nothing. We ain't got no fish out here."
He said, "Well, cast your net on the other side."
"We've done... What?" Said, "On the other side? We've been doing that."
"Cast it on the other side."
He throwed his nets out, and he pulled. Then he become strong. Oh, my. He grabbed up his old fish coat and put it around him, said, "Brethren, that's Who It is." And he beat the rest of them to the bank 'fore they could, oar them boats just as fast as they could. He outswam them, with a fish coat on, got to the bank. Why? When he was strong. When he was strong he couldn't do nothing, but when he got weak then he got strong. Yes, sir.

Oh, God's strategy is to take empty human vessels and shake the world with them. like at Pentecost. At Pentecost what did He do? It taken them ten days to get all emptied up. But they was all standing there with their vessels turned up, and God took Himself and filled them up. That's all. They shook the world. Poured Himself into them...
That's the need of today. That's what we need today, is the empty vessels so God can fill them up. And you cannot take them... God cannot use them as long as they're already filled up. If you're full of theological training, God can't use you. God's got to have empty vessels so He can fill them.

William Branham, sermon «Perfect Strength By Perfect Weakness»
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/61-1119