22-0606P_LOOKING AT THE PROMISE_REGULAR WEEKLY PRAYER MEETING
LOOKING AT THE PROMISE
131 Watch, they sent someone
out, twelve of them, to find out what they’d say. Ten of them come back,
said, “Oh, we can’t do it! It’s impossible. We just can’t do it.”
132 But
little old Caleb and Joshua, climbed on a stump, they said, “We can do it.
We’re able to do it.”
133 Why?
It depends on what you’re looking at. If you’re looking on the outside,
“Does it look this way? Does it look…” Don’t look what them people says,
or what anything else says. If it’s contrary to God’s Word, stay with the Word.
134 God promised them that
land. That’s what Caleb and them was putting their hopes on.
135 Read the Book of
Deuteronomy, see how Moses corrected them. Said, “I’ve did this,
and I’ve did that. And God did this, and said this.
But you would not.” God stays with His promise.
136 Oh, sometimes it seems like
it’s hard. Now, I want you to listen to this. It’s a hard…It’s a battle.
137 Way down in Egypt, God
said, “I have given you that
land, and all that’s in it.” Now, He never just said, “I’m going to pick
you up, take you up there and sit you down.” They had to fight for every
inch of ground they had.
138 God,
when He commanded Joshua there, He said, “Be of a good courage; be not afraid,
neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee wheresoever
thou goest.” [Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit two times—Ed.]
139 “The Lord thy God
is with thee wheresoever thou goest.” No matter what it is, how hard it
is, how great the obstacle is, that doesn’t matter. If it’s down through
the valley of the shadow of death, “The Lord thy God is with thee wheresoever
thou goest.”
57-0407M - God Keeps His
Word
Rev. William Marrion
Branham
46 Oh, if that isn’t
a lesson to the church: Don’t look what’s going on here, watch the end, and
keep steady. Stay with God’s Word. God keeps His Word.
47 Now,
the difference between Caleb and Joshua, and the others: they were looking at
the circumstances; and Caleb and Joshua was looking to what God said. God
said, “It’s yours.” He gave the promise. God is obligated to His promise
to keep His Word. Now, what do you look at? If you’re looking today to
find God to keep His Word, He’ll keep It. But, keep your eye on the Word,
just move with the Word, don’t leave It. Stay right with the Word. That’s
the main thing.
57-0613A - God Keeps His
Word
Rev. William Marrion
Branham
28 Now, look at Jonah. Many
people think that Jonah was a terrible person. Jonah was a prophet of the
Lord, walking in all the will of the Lord. You say, “Why did he do what he
did?” He never done anything contrary to God’s will. You can’t, if
you’re in Christ, do anything contrary, if you’re walking humbly, and—and
upright. It may seem like you do, but you don’t do it. Nothing happens
providential. The footsteps of a righteous man is ordered of the
Lord, and all things work together for the good, to them that love Him.
How can you take those Scriptures, and compare them with any other, and
then break them. The Scriptures cannot be broken.
Oh,
you say, “He took a ship and went to Tarshish, instead of Nineveh, when
God sent him to Nineveh, and he went to Tarshish.” Let’s just look at it a few
minutes, find out. It’s the way you look at it. You run over the top of
them and say, “Oh, you’re a Jonah.” I’d like to be one. Certainly, he was
a man of God.
29 Notice him, when he went to
go to Nineveh, there was no ship, so he took a ship to Tarshish. When he
got on the sea, the sea got angry, because the preacher was
backslidden. And they tied his feet and hands, and threw him out of the
ship. And God had a big fish to swallow him.
Now, anyone knows that a fish prowls through the water till it finds
its food, then it goes to the bottom of the sea, or the lake, or wherever
you’re fishing, and puts its little swimmers on the bottom and rests. Feed
your goldfish and watch them. They’ll go right to the bottom of the bowl, put
their little fins down here and rest.
Now,
this fish, God prepared him, and he prepared a preacher for his dinner. And he
went up. And throwed him into the whale’s mouth, and he went down to
the bottom of the sea—with his hands behind him, tied—his feet tied.
I’ve often wondered, how that people
in this day and time, would ever look at their symptoms and read that
story. That’s what’s the matter, that people don’t get healed. You go to
looking at your symptoms. You can’t look at your symptoms and be healed.
You’ve got to look at the promise that God made.
30 Here, some time ago, I went
to a—a place where a boy was dying. It’s been about ten years ago. An old
sainted man come to me, and he said, “Brother Branham, will you go to my son;
he’s dying with black diphtheria.”
I
said, “Yes, sir, as soon as the service is over, I’ll go.” And I went to
the place where the young man was dying, and he’d been unconscious two days.
Why,
the doctor wouldn’t let me go in. He said, “Are you a married man?”
I
said, “Yes, sir. I have a couple of children.”
He
said, “Well, I can’t let you go in there; you’ll carry that disease.”
I
said, “Doctor, if I can’t trust God for that, I’ve got no business praying for
that boy.”
And
he said, “I can’t let you go in.”
I
said, “Let me go in, and then give him the communion or something.” I said,
“Are you Catholic?”
He
said, “I am.”
I
said, “If a priest come here to give him the last rites, if he was Catholic,
would you let him in?”
He
said, “That’s different, the priest hasn’t got children.”
I
said, “But I want to ask you something. This is just as sacred to us as that is
to you.” And I said, “Let me go in.”
He
said, “See to it. It’s upon your own hands.”
I
said, “God will.” And he dressed me up like a Ku Klux Klan.
And
I went in there to—to see—see this boy, and he was unconscious. A little
nurse, standing there, a very lovely, little lady, and I got down on one
side. The child was unconscious. And the nurse said, “Mrs…”
The
lady, said, “I…” I think the lady’s here tonight. I—I want to let—get
through this before I tell her, and then—who she is.
And
I said…The nurse said to her, said, “Will you…You know that your son is
dying? I think the little nurse just said that for my benefit.
And I said, “Well, if he is dying, God is a
Saviour.” And she just kinda turned her little painted-up lips, and looked
sideways, and I said, “Let us pray.” And the old father and mother got
down on one side of the child; I said, “Lord God, the God, Who made
heavens and earth, You said, ‘Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray,
believe that you receive them.’ And it is also written, ‘If thou shall say
to this mountain, be moved, and don’t doubt in your heart, but believe
that what you say shall come to pass, you can have what you say.’ That is
Your Word, and that’s what we’re doing, Lord.” And I say, “I lay hands
upon this boy, and condemn this death in the Name of Jesus Christ.” Raised
up; the old father raised up, wiped the tears out from under his glasses, and
he took mother in his arms, he said, “Mother, think of it; isn’t it
glorious? He’s going to live now.” The boy just as far gone, just barely
breathing. And the nurse said…
“Oh, she said, “It’s wonderful, Fred, it’s
wonderful. Said, “He’s going to live now. Thank you, Lord.”
31 And
the little nurse looked over, didn’t know what it was all about, and she
said, “Sir, do you understand, that the best doctors we got in this
country has said that that child will be dead within the next five
hours?” She said, “This cardiogram thing for his heart.” I don’t know nothing
about it. She said, “It’s went all the way down, and never in medical
history, when that ever drops, does it ever come back again.”
And the old father walked over, put his
arms around the little nurse, and he said, “Honey, see, I—I feel sorry for
you. You’re looking at that chart, that machine, because that’s all you’re
trained to look at.” Said, “You’re looking at that machine; I’m looking at
a divine promise, that was made by God.” The boy is married and got two
children now. Miss Bartell, if you’re here…All right. There you are. See,
that’s what makes things real. It depends on what you’re looking at.
32 Jonah, when he was in the belly of the whale, if
anybody would have symptoms, Jonah would’ve had. Well, if he look this a
way, it was a whale—whale’s belly. If he looked back this way, it was a whale’s
belly. Everywhere he looked, it was whale’s belly. He had seaweeds around
his neck, laying in vomit in the whale’s belly. Why, no wonder, he had a
good case of symptoms.
He was a lot worse case, than what you
could have tonight. There’s no one here in that condition. But you know
what Jonah said? He said, “They’re lying vanities. I won’t look at any
more whale’s belly, but once more, Lord, will I look towards Your holy temple.”
Amen. Why?
58-0625 - A Greater Than
Solomon Is Here
Rev. William Marrion
Branham
33 Now, some people, when they
look to Jesus, they look and see Him, look and look at Him, and, then they
see Him, they see in Him only a church founder, or a—a—a church
organizer, or maybe a—a creed for a church. That’s what many people look
to Jesus to see. He is just a new creed that was added to an old doctrine.
Now many people look and see Him like that.
34 Some look and see Him as a
myth, Santa Claus. Or, some of them look to Him as some historical act
that God did many years ago. Some of them look to Him yet as a baby in a
manger.
35 But, the question
is, what do you see when you look at Him? Do you see the second person of
the trinity, or do you see a trinity, three in One? You’ll only see Him as
you look at Him through the Word. That’s the only way you know It, because He
is the Word. It’ll reveal Himself. Depends on what you’re looking for.
36 If you look to Him, to
argue, then you’re looking wrong. He didn’t argue. It wasn’t meet for Him to
argue.
37 Remember, you see Him as you
look at Him through His Word, and recognize Him. Now you cannot see Him
until your eyes is opened to the fact. Two man can look at the same
Scripture and disagree; one of them has got to be right, and the other one
wrong.
38 Sometimes there is things
that’s happening around us, that we cannot understand; others are saying
they see things, others see nothing about it.
39 Look at Dothan down there,
that day when Elijah had been surrounded by the Syrian army. And his
faithful servant, Gehazi, who lived with him, waited on him, cooked for him,
and kept his clothes clean, poured water on his hands; was right with him,
day and night, listened to him teach and preach. And that morning when he
woke up, he looked out and he seen the Syrian army all around; he said,
“My father, alas, look at the opposition we have, the whole Syrian army!”
40 You see, Elijah, when he rose up, and looked, he saw
something that Gehazi didn’t see. And so he prayed, “God, open this young
man’s eyes.” Now, his eyes were wide open, but he said, “Open his eyes,
that he might see.” And when his eyes, spiritually, came open, the whole
mountains was full of chariots of Fire and Angels all around that prophet.
See, it was different when his eyes came open.
64-0122 - Looking Unto
Jesus
Rev. William Marrion
Branham
23 God told Joshua, “Every foot
of ground wherever your…Every piece of ground that your foot steps upon, I give
to you for a possession.” So footprints meant possession. And God’s given
us every blessing that we have need of and will ask for, and the only thing we
have to do is take it. Now, God’s not going to bring it and give it to
you. You’ve got to go get it. It’s yours. You understand now everyone?
We’ve got to possess it. It’s ours.
God
told Moses down in Egypt, “I’ve give you the land,” but it was invested with
Amorites, Hittites, and all different kinds of “ites” and
“mites.” But God could’ve went up there and caused a storm to come by, and
swept it all out, and said, “Come on in, children.” [Blank spot on
tape—Ed.] He doesn’t do it that way. He said, “I’ve give it to you;
now go take it.”
24 Now,
it depends on what you look at. There was…Many of the spies that went to spy
out, come back (ten of them) and brought back a bad report: “We can’t do
it. It would mar us. They’re bigger than we are,” all that. But two had
the evidence. Two come back, because it depends on what they were looking
at. The others were looking at the Amorites, and the Hittites, and so
forth. But Joshua and Caleb was looking at God’s promise. Therefore they
said, “We’re more than able to do it.”
Now, what are you looking at tonight?
Look at God’s promise, and keep drinking and pushing. And if you do that,
something’s going to take place.
If
I didn’t think I’d be a blessing to you, I certainly wouldn’t come here. I—I
wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t come, tell you something to deceive you,
because if I didn’t know it to be the truth, then I’d stay home. I’d come
down, shook your hands, visit with you, went home, and seen who had the best
cook, and—and then come on—went on back home; went fishing with you, or
something another, or—or something like that.
61-0118 - Jesus Christ
The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever
Rev. William Marrion
Branham
19 So then when we…When they
come back, they brought this great bunch of grapes, and they all gathered
before the congregation of the Lord, and they brought a report, “Oh, God has
told the truth; the land is flowing with milk and honey. It’s a good land;
it’s a land of seed; it’ll grow anything. Oh, it’s a wonderful place; we
got plenty of water and rivers and irrigations and everything to make a great
nation. But oh, the—the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the—all the others
are there. Some of them are giants, and we look like little
grasshoppers.” And when they begin to say that, oh, the strength left the
children of Israel. They begin to cry and to scream; they’d left Egypt and
come up, all these things, and that had taken place.
But there was two; out of the whole
twelve of them there were two that had confidence. Rest of them said, “We
can’t do it; we just can’t go any further; we’re…It’s impossible for us to
meet that kind of people.”
But Caleb and Joshua said, “We are
more than able to take it.” Why was it? The others, the one with the
intellectual part, was looking at what the giants looked like. But Caleb
and Joshua was looking at the promise that God had given. Now, it all
depends on what you’re looking at.
20 There’s people setting here
tonight that was in wheelchairs a night or two ago. They’re up walking
around now. It depends on what you look at. If you look at your
affliction, you’ll never go any farther. But if you look at the promise of
God, you’ve got a right to every redemptive blessing that God promised in
His Word is yours. Right. The Christian always looks at the unseen things.
Every redemptive blessing of God is unseen. The…Here’s the whole armor of the
Christian: love, joy, faith, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness,
patience. It’s all unseen forces that works in the heart of a believer.
Amen. That’s right. We look at things we do not see. If we’re the children
of Abraham, then we don’t walk by sight; we walk by faith. For Abraham
walked by faith and called those things which were not as though they were,
because God said so.
21 Now, Joshua had no way to
knowing he could take that city. Caleb had no way of knowing it. But
here’s how they believed it, because God said, “I have given you this
land. I’ve got an Angel that’ll go before you; but take heed that you
don’t despise Him because My Name is in Him. He won’t pardon your sins; He
will tear you across the—the fireplace; He will ruffle up your
feathers. He will—He will do things for you. But remember, follow Him. He
will lead you to the promised land. But don’t despise him, don’t reject
him. Believe him.”
60-0723 - Speak To The
Rock And It Shall Give Forth His Water
Rev. William Marrion
Branham
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