<TITLE>09. Par 34-37</TITLE>L-34 How about God? And you're scared to swallow some of the "gos-pills" that He gives you: "By His stripes you were healed. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world." Swallow it and see what happens. It's a confidence; you show what confidence you have in your doctor by taking His medicine, that you don't know what it is. You show your confidence in the doctor by submitting yourself to an operation. That proves your confidence in the doctor. But when it comes to Christ, you're scared to take Him at His Word. How is it? Faith is the victory.
You could submit your case to Jesus Christ, tonight, just as you submit your case to the doctor. Give me anything you want to, Lord; You're the doctor on the case. Then you've got the victory. Then you've got faith that overcomes. You'll never hunt another prayer line; you'll never hunt nothing else; you'll have it right there; it'll be all settled. You'll never jump from church to church to see if this ones got it, or that ones got it, they haven't got it. You've got it then. When you've got the faith, you have the victory.

L-35 I tell you what we need tonight in America, and what we need tonight, here in this tabernacle, is to let Doctor Jesus come in and perform an operation on our faith. The doctor tells you that you've got a little appendix, "It's all poison, it ought to come out. You've got this, that, or the other that's wrong: it's got to come out." Well, he takes it out, so the rest of you can function right. And what's the matter tonight with our faith? We're afraid to let God take His operating Word, His Knife, sharper than a two edged sword and operate on us, and tell us that our little fandango, humbugging around is wrong, and we've got to turn loose every shadow, and sail towards God's eternal promise. Oh, if we'll do that, Jesus will perform an operation upon our faith, taking away all the doubt, all the fears, and all the worry, all the sin, everything there is. And then, when our faith is clearly operated on, we come out a new creature. We're different then. We need a operation.

L-36 Can you trust Jesus Christ for that operation? Can you believe in Him? Can you say, "Lord God, at Thy Word, at Thy Word, as the disciples said in Saint Mark 5, when they said, "When we seined all night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, Lord, at Thy Word, I'll let down the nets," said Peter. "Lord, I am a fisherman; I know the signs when the moon's just right. I know when they're biting and when they're not. I know when they're in their schools and when they're not. Not only that, but I've seined all night, and here is a council of doctors here with me, Doctor Fishermans. And we know our trade, and we've searched this stream all night long and haven't taken nothing. But at Thy Word, Lord, I'll let down the net, because the--the Chief Surgeon said so. The Chief Doctor said so." And they enclosed such a multitude of fishes till their nets begin to break. Why? Faith is the victory. There might not have even been one fish in the water. But when God has made a promise, He will create fish and put them there.

L-37 There may not be a chance for you to live; you may be dying with cancer; you may be bound to a wheelchair; you may be totally blind. I don't know what you're trouble is, but if you'll take the Chief Doctor's prescription, "Whatsoever thing you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it. And you shall have it." And believe that that faith will overcome any difficulty that there is... You may be so burdened with sin until your soul is as smutty as it can be. You may have tried to get rid of that ill temper, that slandering tongue, that gossip on the telephone. You might've tried every remedy you know how, but if you'll just let Jesus Christ come into you tonight, He will operate on your faith and give you a faith that'll climb beyond anything that the world can produce. Why? Faith is the victory, that overcomes the world.


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