<TITLE>09. Par 28-30</TITLE>L-28 Now, the Angel Gabriel, six months later had visit Mary and told her that her cousin was going to have a baby also. So Mary knew that that would be a miracle, of that old woman, well stricken in age having a baby. But she said to the Angel, "How shall it be with me, seeing that I do not know a man?" And ask and you shall receive.
He said, "The Holy Ghost is going to overshadow you. That holy Thing which shall be borned of you shall be called the Son of God." That's how it's going to happen. Mary never talked back to the Angel; she never discussed it in any way. The only thing she said was, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to Thy word."
Did you think even the priest Zacharias had questioned, him being an old man and her old too, how this would be done? And a priest who should know the Word and know what God did... But this little virgin was just a child. And she had no husband. She had to believe the impossibles, something that had never happened before. But she never argued; she never questioned any more. His Word was enough for her.

L-29 Oh, if the church could just get like that. The Word settles it. If God said so, that's all we need to know. How it's going to be? I can't tell you, but if God said so, it's going to be that way, because God said so. Oh, that's what I want the church to know. If there's anything I want you to sink faith in, is in what God has said; it has to be true.
Did you notice she had to believe the impossibles? She could not go back like Zacharias could. He could a went back to Sarah, and Sarah was almost a hundred when she had the baby. And Hannah at the temple, she was old woman too. And they had plenty of examples of that, where they had husbands. But Mary had to believe something that never had happened.

L-30 You've got thousands of examples of Divine healing. Look at the people's been healed with cancer, blindness, dumbness, deafness, all kinds of sicknesses and diseases. We've got plenty of that to look at as example. But this little girl didn't have nothing but just His Word, and that was sufficient. His Word was good enough for her. And I want you to notice; she didn't wait till she was positive it was going to happen. She started testifying about it right away. She didn't wait till she felt life, so she could be positive she was going to have the baby. Just as soon as she heard His Word, she took Him at His Word, and she started testifying and praising God for the baby before she felt anything. That's...
Give us more Marys around here that can take God at His Word and praise Him whether you feel anything or not. Take Him at His Word. God's trying to find somebody who will take His Word. I don't care how you feel. Someone say, "Well, I don't feel any better. I was--went to the meetings; I was prayed for. I..." That don't have nothing to do with it. God said so, and that settles it. Amen. Somebody who will take His Word, that's what pleases Him. Believe His Word. That's what pleases God; that's the only way you will ever find favor with Him, is believe His Word.


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