<TITLE>10. Par 37-40</TITLE>L-37 Now, I want you to notice this now. Then when Abraham got to be nearly a hundred, or around a hundred years old, God appeared to him in the 17th chapter of Genesis, and He appeared to him in another Name. Abraham said, "God, I--I believe You, but how are these things going to be?" Now, I'm old, and--and Sarah, the strength is dried up." He's an old man, and... That's right. She's an old woman. She's ninety and he's a hundred. Now, how is he going to have the baby?
And God appeared to him in the Name of the Almighty God. The regular Hebrew word for it is "El Shaddai," which means, "El," "God." "Shaddai" comes from the word, or "Shaddai," rather, which means "breast." Now, not... He come, otherwise, as the mother, the woman, as "the breasted One, the all-sufficient One. "I am the One that... I'm the all-sufficient One; I am the strong One." That's all I have to know.
"How you going to do it, Father?
"I am the strong One."
"All right, Father."
"I am the El-Shaddai; I am the Bosom. I'm the breasted God, breasted God." Like the baby when it's sick or underfed, undernourished, the mother takes the little fellow in its arm, and she puts it to her bosom, and it nurses her strength. And the strength of the mother goes into the baby, and the baby gains health. The Almighty, He's still the Almighty, the El Shaddai.
And when the person... Now, watch. It wasn't the "breast" God, but the "breasted" God. Oh, why? Two resources: "He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we're healed." What ever you have need of, both for physical and spiritual, He is the breasted, strong One. Amen. Brother... "I am able to keep that which I've said."

L-38 Abraham, knowing that God was able to keep His promise, for He was the strong One, none like Him in the heavens, nowhere... He's able to keep His promise. Sometimes I make a promise and can't keep it. But when God makes a promise, He's able to keep it. "I'm the strong One. Now, Abraham, I know you're old; you're in the second childhood, as it was. You're just a little old baby. All Your vital organs are drying up. Your flesh is all flabby, and Sarah the same way, but just lean over on My Bosom, and let... Not only does the baby draw it's life from the mother's breast, but it also is satisfied while it's a drawing. Amen. The little fellow quits crying. The mother wipes away it eyes--tears from it's eyes. And the little fellow lays over on the mother, and just nurses itself back to strength.

L-39 Oh, sick people, you setting here tonight, cots and stretchers, and wheelchairs, come up to El Shaddai, take a hold of the Word, there go to drawing, go to smiling. "I'm the Lord that healeth thee. All heavens and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall never pass away." See it? Start drawing from there, and watch what happens. Feel if your strength doesn't begin to come back. The first thing you know, you'll be satisfied. "Yeah, I believe He's going to do it." He will do it. Just lay right with it. Stay with it. God will do it, for He's El Shaddai, the strong One, the all-sufficient One, the Satisfier. Amen.
Any seed of Abraham every hears the Word of God, that satisfies them. That's right. If God said so, don't argue about it. Just believe it. That's all. I love that, don't you? God, the Satisfier, how that we draw from Him and are satisfied, while we are drawing.

L-40 For salvation, we grow in grace of the Lord Jesus Christ; we accept Him as our personal Saviour; God pulls us up to His Bosom. "My little child, I will see that you get strong. Don't worry about that. Just stay right here, and believe on Me, and just read My Word, and drink from Me. I will give you all the strength that you need." Isn't that wonderful?
Say, "Father, I'm sick. Are You the El Shaddai?"
"Come up to Me, and I will nurse you right back to strength again." Satisfied about it, no matter how long it takes, still satisfied, "God's going to do it anyhow." That's what he said. So Abraham...


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