<TITLE>04. Par 12-14</TITLE>L-12 Just an illustration. I'm trying to get faith moving (You see?), so I can see what the Holy Spirit will do here for us in a few minutes. Don't never look at symptoms. Lady, don't you look 'cause you're setting in a wheelchair, or this young fellow here, that's no more to God than to heal a toothache (See?), not make a bit of difference.
But now, look. He's the High Priest of--of your confession. Now, if there's any fellow that ought to had a--a bad case of symptoms, would've been Jonah when he was going down to Nineveh. He was backslid, going to Nineveh, or to Tarshish, instead of Nineveh, on the wrong ship, going the wrong way, backslid, running from God in a stormy sea. They tied his hands and feet, throwed him out of the ship. He went down into the sea. A whale swallowed him and went plumb to the bottom of the sea to rest his swimmers as all fish does. There he was, tied hands and feet, backslid, a stormy sea, many fathoms deep in the sea in the belly of a whale.
If there's anybody should've had symptoms, it was Jonah. If he looked this way it was a whale's belly; everywhere he looked it was a whale's belly. But he refused to look at it.
You look and say, "I'm setting here."
Somebody else look, say, "Well, the doctor told me I had heart trouble. I had arthritis." Refuse to see it; refuse to believe it. That's right.

L-13 Jonah said, "They are lying vanities." He said, "Once more will I look to Your holy temple," told God.
Because when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, "If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look to this holy place and pray, then You hear from heaven."
And he believed, Jonah believed that God heard Solomon's prayer. And he started saying, "I'll not look at this whale's belly. I'll not think about my backslidden condition. I'm looking towards Your holy temple and making confession." And God sent oxygen down there, and kept him alive for three days and nights, and delivered him right in Nineveh where he belonged.
Well, if Solomon prayed that prayer, and if... There's no one here that's in the condition or half way like Jonah was. You ain't got nothing like the symptoms he had. Well, if he, in that condition, could look to a temple where it was built by hands of a man, and a earthly being, a man, Solomon, sitting and praying, and could have faith in Solomon's prayer, how much more ought you and I, tonight, setting here, look to the throne of God where Jesus stands at His right hand with His Blood there to make intercessions on your confession. Just refuse to have the symptoms.

L-14 Symptoms is something like, say tomorrow, when you go home now, to your place, the express agent will come up and say, "Are you Mrs. Joe?"
"Yes."
"I have a present for you."
"All right. What is it?" He hands over a--a basket, or box, and you hear something hitting in that box. You look in it. It's a big box of snakes, rattlesnakes. Well, you don't want them things.
Well, you say, "I don't want them."
"Oh, but they're yours. Somebody sent them to you. Here's your name. Here's the name. It's somebody sent these snakes to you; they're yours. You have to take them."
Now, in one sense of the word they're yours, in another sense they're not. Somebody sent them to you, but they're not yours until you sign for them that you've received them. And when you sign you received them, then they're yours. But if you refuse to sign for them, he has to take them back to the express company. The express company has to send them to the one that sent them to you. Is that right?
Well, don't sign for nothing the devil brought. No, sir. Just refuse to have it. No, sir. Say, "I just haven't got it. Devil, you take it all back. That's all. I won't have it." Refuse to have your sickness, your arthritis, whatever it is, "I just haven't got it. By His stripes I'm healed." Stand right on your ground. Confess it. Believe it. Stay there. God will bring it to pass. No matter what it is, just believe Him.


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