<TITLE>25. Par 71-72</TITLE>L-71 No matter how much this, that, and the other, you've got to have something strike you, brother, vital; that settles it forever. That's faith.
Jesus is the High Priest of your confession. Whatever you confess that He's doing He'll do. You...
A lot of people look at symptoms. You say, "Well, Brother Branham, my hand's no straighter." It'll never be as long as you look at it. We don't look to that; we look to God's promise.
Talk about symptoms, look at Jonah, down in the belly of the whale. If anybody could've had symptoms, he had them: backsliden; hands tied behind him; out on the sea, a storm come up; pitched him out; whale swallowed him, went to the bottom of the sea. Any fish, when he fin--when he feeds, he goes and rests his fin--fins on the bottom of the sea. And there he was down there with a belly full of backsliden preacher, laying down there on the banks, the--down there under the sea, a storm on the sea. Backslid, what a condition he was. He looked this a way, it was whale's belly; he looked that way, it was whale's belly; everywhere he looked, it was whale's belly. You know what he said? He said, "I'm not looking at that whale's belly." He said, "They're lying vanities." He said, "Lord, once more I look to Your holy temple." Hallelujah. Didn't see whale's belly, he seen God's temple. For he knowed this.
Why, when that temple was dedicated, Solomon prayed and said, "Lord..." When the Holy Ghost come in and that fire settled down behind the holy place, Solomon said, "If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and pray, then You hear from heaven." And Jonah believed that God heared Solomon's prayer. And he said, "I look to Your temple." And it made that old whale kinda feel funny, and God put an oxygen tank down there, kept him alive three days, and took him right on over to Nineveh.

L-72 And if God could do that and would hear Jonah's prayer in the belly of the whale, there's none of you that bad off tonight: no symptoms like that. Certainly not. You're... At least you're on--on the ground yet. And if--if God would hear Jonah's prayer, and Jonah praying like that; and God respected his prayer to an earthly temple, where an earthy man dedicated it, and a prayer of an earthly man had've went up over the temple; and Jonah could believe that, and make the whale throw him out; how much more ought you and I, setting here with a little sickness or something another, look to Thy holy temple where the Son of God sets at the right hand of the Father, making intercessions upon our confession? Whew.
Brother, I wished I was twice my size. Maybe I could feel twice that good. I feel pretty good right now. That's right. Amen. Got my hand in the honey jar, licking as hard as I can. You may call me a holy roller; so go ahead, you're going to brand me that way anyhow. I might as well have a good time while I'm standing here. I got to go to Africa in a healing service now. I'm just having a good time. All right. I got to hurry, close. Where was we at in the message? All right.
I preach from Genesis to Revelations anyhow; It's all the Book, so...


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