<TITLE>07. Par 66-74</TITLE>L-66 Now, if that was what we would refer to in the natural life, would be, I'd say instinct, you'd naturally call it, but we call it leadings of the Holy Spirit. God called him out from among his people, out of a land, his own homeland of--from his people. And he dwelt in strange land, professing that he was a pilgrim and stranger, seeking a City, looking for a City. Oh, my, how that still comes down through His children, that strain of looking for a City whose Builder and Maker is God. And God blessed him.

L-67 And then when he was real old, He said, "Now, Abraham you walk before Me, be perfect," and how He was going to bless him and multiply him. Now, if we looked at the natural side, why, it was impossible for him to--for him to have this child by Sarah. Why, all the resources of life is gone. Sarah's ninety years old, Abraham a hundred.
Why, you tell that to a doctor today, "A--a man a hundred years old, with his wife ninety, she was going to have a child," why, you know what they'd do? They'd lock you up in a psychopathic ward somewhere, saying, "Why, the old fellow and old lady is a little off up here somewhere." But you don't look at circumstance; you look at the promise. See? If you go to looking...

L-69 Now, that's the same way about maybe the lady in the wheelchair here, or some of you there with cancer. The--the doctor says, "You--you can't get well." Now, if you believe that, then you can't get well. But you've got to look at a Divine promise.
An old man, was called in to his place, he said, "Brother, come pray for my baby; it's got black diphtheria; it's settled in the heart. The cardiogram shows that the heart's done dropped plumb back till it's gone."
Well, they wouldn't let us in to pray for the baby. But when I got in there, why, oh, the intern, the doctor, "No, sir. No, sir. You can't do it. Got children of your own; you can't do it."
But yet, believing God, persuading... The man was Catholic. Said, "Now, why, if the patient was dying, and a priest was here to give it the last rites, would you let him in?"
"Oh, he has no children."
I...?..."That's not--that's not the question. This is just as sacred as the last rites (See?) of the church."
"All right."

L-74 Finally going in and kneeling down by the side of the baby, and just prayed a simple little prayer, laid hands upon the baby, said, "Lord God of heavens and earth, Who created all things, You give us the Divine power to break the power of Satan over this life. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Satan, come out of the child. It shall live." Turned around...
The father, "Thank You, Lord. Thank You." Mother and them begin to laughing and going on.
The little nurse was upset. She said, "Say, you don't... how..." Said, "It's all right to have faith, but that baby's dying." Said, "How can you act so unconcerned about it? Why," said, "you misunderstood the doctor." Said, "The doctor said the baby's dying. It's been unconscious now for over a day." Said, "You misunderstood the doctors."
The old patriarch said, "No, I didn't under--misunderstand the doctor." Said, "I heard what he said; said the baby's dying."
Said, "Why, but (See?) when this cardiogram shows that that heart in that condition," said, "it's never in all history ever raised up again." Said, "It's all right to have faith," but said, "It--it can't. Faith can't do nothing now." See?
The old man, with a steady finger, looked at the nurse and said, "Lady, you're looking to that chart. I'm looking to a Divine promise."
Boy's even married now. All right. He laid like that for about twenty-four hours laying, and all at once that heart begin to come up. There it went. See?


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