<TITLE>05. Par 11-14</TITLE>L-11 If someone... If I was standing miles away from the city, hungering, and a loaf of bread would save my life, and I asked you for a loaf of bread, and you gave me twenty-five cents, the purchase power of the loaf of bread, now, I could be just as happy with that twenty-five cents as I would be if I was standing right by the counter, ready to buy the bread. For I've got the purchase power. Now, the Bible said that faith is the substance of things hoped for.
Now, too many people in our meeting (and this is for your good), too many people in the meeting are looking for some tangible evidence. That isn't faith. That isn't faith. Faith believes it even though it's contrary; it believes it.
Moses endured as seeing Him Who was invisible. God gave father Abraham a promise of a child by Sarah, his wife, when he was seventy-five years old and she was sixty-five. And Abraham endured twenty-five years, resting on that promise. For he counted that He Who made the promise was able to keep the promise. And he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving glory to God. And we are supposed to be the children of Abraham. God didn't give him the child for twenty-five years, but he endured as seeing Him Who made the promise, and knowed that His Word could not fail.

L-12 With my purchase power, there's where it is, Christian friends. Please understand. May God open our hearts to this understanding, that faith is not a myth, neither is it something that's a--you just imagine. Faith is positive. Faith is the substance, just the same as this glass is, just the same as this book is. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence..." O blessed be His holy Name. It is the evidence of things you do not see, but you believe it. When God has spoken it, God has to keep His Word. And every promise is yours if you can receive it as yours.

L-13 Now, if I had the quarter in my hand, I'm maybe five miles from a loaf of bread. But I can rejoice just as much with a quarter in my hand, as I could with a loaf of bread in my hand. For I have the evidence that I've got the bread, when I got the purchase power of the bread. When I've got the faith for my healing, I've as good as got it, no matter what takes place or what the doctor says. That's what you believe.
Now, I could take the quarter and start rejoicing. "What are you rejoicing for; you're not eating bread."
"But I got the purchase power." The doctor says you can't live, but about two more weeks. But you're rejoicing. "What you rejoicing for?"
"I have the evidence in my heart that God's promise has anchored here. All devils out of torment could never shake me from it. I'm bound to receive it." (I hope I'm not yelling at you.)
But you see, when I got the quarter, away I go quickly to the store to get the bread. All along the road I can rejoice, and maybe getting weaker all the time. And maybe before I arrive at the store I may get so hungry, I got cramps all in my stomach. That doesn't make any difference. I get hungry and weaker all the time, but I'm holding the purchase power of that bread.

L-14 "And if thou canst believe and say in your heart, and believe that it's taken place (Right now it went to work.), you can have what you say."
Then just say, "Lord, I believe You and I am healed." Without a shadow of doubt something is anchored in there. It's begin to take place because you said it. What have you said? You've used the Word of God, and It's eternal. It cannot fail because It's God's Word. And God's Word will create the promise that it holds.


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