<TITLE>05. Par 17-20</TITLE>L-17 And when Daniel had purposed in his heart, and the devil made him prove it, but we find out that it stood good in the face of a hungry lion. And a man that ever comes to God, and really down in his heart, finds a settled faith, it'll stand good in the mouth of death, or in the mouth of sickness, in the mouth of sorrow; it'll stand good, for faith is the victory. You have overcome by your faith.
Abraham, just a man with no certain purpose in life, just with his father and his friends, coming down from Babylon, they settled in the Shinar. And there they had a--the tower built and so forth. And they... One day, while Abraham was praying, no doubt, he prayed through, till he struck the hand of God. How did he do it? By faith.
Perhaps, he thought like this, "If there is a God, Who made the ark and let Noah float through, He still lives today." Somewhere in the land of heathens where He was a--a sojourning, he touched the hand of God. And in there, God gave him a revelation that there was a city, whose Builder and Maker was God.

L-18 And we read that all Abraham's life, he was a pilgrim and a stranger to the world, for his one ambition was to find that city, whose Builder and Maker was God. He struck something. He caught God, and a faith in that God, that he foresaw the New Jerusalem. And he put his pack on his back, and became a wanderer, not just floating about without any purpose, he had faith that there was a city, whose Builder and Maker was God, an eternal city. He had a purpose in life to find that place.
And may I say here, that one day when the battle was over, he met the King of that city. And He give him the communion, bread and wine, Melchisedec.
Oh, you can't purpose anything of God's promise in your heart, without finding the reality to it. If your soul has been tormented by sins, and doubts, and ups-and-downs, and flusterations, and there's something down in you that's telling you that there's somewhere you can overcome that, why do you float around then from church to church and from place to place? Just kneel down till you strike heaven, and as I said, last night, "Go beyond the sound barriers." Then you'll have a purpose in life. You'll have a purpose in belonging to the church. You'll have a purpose in being baptized. You'll have a purpose in what you're seeking for.

L-19 'Cause we know that God is honest, and God is true, and God cannot lie. And if God placed that into Abraham's heart by His Voice, His Word, then God has placed in before us in His Bible, and by the witness of the Holy Spirit, by the returning of the Holy Spirit in signs and wonders, that Jesus Christ still lives and is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Then why would we seek any longer after those things that we desire?
If you need, any need whatsoever, that God has promised in His Bible, He's here tonight to meet that need, no need seeking farther. His Presence is here. His Spirit is here, and He's willing, and ready, and longing to give to you that what you are so seeking for. Why would you wait any longer?

L-20 When you come to Him, don't come as a floater. "I'll go up and try it and see if it works." You'll never get nowhere, but when you come with this kind of a determination, that you have sold out lot, stock, and barrel... When you're tired of the world, and sin, and unbelief, and flusterations and doubts, and come to the living God with a anchor surely tightened in the Rock of Ages, the Holy Spirit's here to pull you into the Presence of the living God, that will give you a faith that'll overcome anything there is in the world: sickness, disease, and even death itself.
You say, "You said death, Brother Branham." And that's what I meant. Death.


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