<TITLE>06. Par 35-44</TITLE>L-35 John said, "God's able of these stones to rise children unto Abraham."
Jesus said, "If they hold their peace, the rocks will immediately cry out."
God can do what He wants to. He said, "I've commanded the ravens, and they're going to feed you." And they brought him flesh and bread.
Someone said one time, "Where did they get it, Brother Branham?"
I said, "I don't know. The only thing I know; they brought it. They got it from the same place that Jesus did when He took five fish and--or five biscuits and two fish, and fed five thousands. It come from the same creative hand of God Almighty."
They brought him fish and bread, the crows, set down and hand it over to Elijah, and he ate it, and stooped down and drank from the fountain. God was resting His prophet.

L-40 Oh, I'm so glad that God has a way of escape. And when they thought he was crazy, "That old prophet, an old killjoy," always trying to take the joy out of their little happy parties they were having, telling them that it was sin. And God... Him following God's commission, went up into the mountains and set down on the high place, the driest place in the country. But God kept the brook running. And they were down there gnawing their tongue for water.

L-41 You know, God has a way of answering prayer. This little woman had lived true. She had not remarried again; she was staying single to meet her husband in glory. She was an honorable woman. And for weeks the barrel had been going down, down, and her continually praying, and still looked like there was no hope in sight nowhere.
You know, there we could get a lesson from that, that if you have prayed and met all the requirements that God requires you to meet, and still He's silent, He doesn't say anything, and yet you've met the requirements, now what happens then? If you know that you have met His requirements and you've done all that you know to do, then faith doesn't waver; it just sets still and thinks positive. Faith takes its everlasting grip around the Rock of Ages, and doesn't move.
That great fellow called faith... I've often said, "Faith's got hair on the chest." When he speaks, everything else shuts up. When faith says, "Shut up," then everything stops, 'cause he's the boss.

L-44 And she had met every requirement. She'd lived clean; she'd lived decent; she'd lived honorable, and she had met all of God's requirements. But, looked like He was silent. God does that sometime to test you to see what kind of a reaction you'll have. Don't forget it.
If you pass over the platform, you're prayed for, and hands laid on you, and it seems like nothing happens, that doesn't stop faith one bit; you have met God's requirements. Now, if you have met them... Now, if you're holding back on God, you know your heart condemns you. And we know, "If our heart condemns us not, then we have..." Now, but if our heart condemns us, there's no need of coming across the platform; there's no need of asking God for anything, because you don't have faith to receive it. But when you have met every requirement that God requires, then faith steps out there and said, "God is God. I've met the requirements."


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