<TITLE>08. Par 28-32</TITLE>L-28 And then when I got through praying, just a little prayer, got up, the old father reached across to the mother and he said, "Mother, isn't this wonderful?" Said, "Oh, praise God for healing our boy."
The boy was still unconscious. I looked at him, and honest, my heart admired him. And the mother said, "Yes, Dad, that's just wonderful. How we thank the Lord!"
And the old brother put his hands up in the air and sung, "Oh, God, how I thank you for healing my boy." Boy laying there dying.
And the little nurse standing there, she walked over to him and she said, "Sir, I don't understand." Said, "How can you take that so lightly, when your boy is dying?"
"Oh," he said, "he's not dying." Said, "He's living and going to be well."
"Oh," she said, "I can appreciate your faith," and she said, "but there's one thing you must understand, sir; this machine is scientific, and if that hand went way down here, it can never come back again. It never has and it never will."
The old patriarch put his arm around the little lady and he said, "Look, little lady... See, you're looking to that machine, for that's what you've been trained to look at. That's all you know about." But said, "I'm looking to a Divine promise of God that He will raise him up."
The boy is married now and got a family!

L-29 What? It depends on what you look at. If God made the promise, God's obligated to keep that promise, no matter what the circumstances is.

L-30 Then God told Abraham... He appeared to him in the Name of El Shaddai, "the bosom," and He said, "Abraham, I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be perfect."
And He had... He said, "I am the El Shaddai, the breasted God." The "El Shaddai" means "breasts like the woman." No not breasts, but breasted. "I am the breasted God. I am the Strength-giver.
Like a little baby, when it's sick and fretting, crying, kicking, squalling, and the mother picks it up, and she leans it on her bosom, and it begins to nurse the mother's strength... And as the little fellow starts nursing, the first little taste of strength, he quits crying. And mama just pats him a little, and he's satisfied while he's a nursing. He doesn't fret any more, and he's bringing in his strength all the time.

L-31 Well, that's what God is to the believer. He is the breasted God. He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed. And the believer lays right a hold of the Breast of God, the Word of God, the New and Old Testament, and he lays right a hold of that Divine Promise, and nurses, and blesses God, and pulls on the believer--on a belief from God, till he nurses back his strength again. And he's satisfied all the time he's nursing. Oh, my, I like that.
He don't go to his hou... "Do I grow a inch awhile ago?" He don't pay any attention to whether he growed an inch or not; he's just nursing.
That's where a believer is. If it's explained to them by the Bible that He heals the sick, the believer just takes His Word for it and that settles it; that's all.
He don't say, "Am I any better? Can I move my finger a little more? Can I twist my foot?" That don't have one thing to do with it, not one thing. It's what's happened in here! It ain't what's happened out here; it's what's happened here in the heart.

L-32 Man believes God from the heart. And as long as that Divine Promise can find a anchoring place in the human heart, there isn't all devils in hell can ever tear it away from him. It's there. He believes it. He'd--he'd die by it, for he believed it. And holding that promise, after all he keeps holding it and believing it, the finger begins to wiggle. Then the hand begins to move. See, he's nursing the strength of God into his own body.


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