<TITLE>05. Par 17-21</TITLE>L-17 You people that's got prayer cards, waiting for the line, are you thinking, "In just a few more minutes, and all my suffering will be over." Or are you thinking, "Oh, I don't know, he might not call my card. I... It might be..."
Oh, don't do that. Just remember, just keep it on your mind, "It's just be a few minutes now," and you'll meet the requirements that God said do. "These signs shall follow them that believe: If they lay their hands on the sick, they shall recover." Keep Him on your mind.

L-18 And she was thinking of the Scriptures, that Scripture was being confirmed to her: "A Child is born, a Son is given." And about that time, she seen something flash before the little virgin, and a Light--no doubt in my mind, like the Pillar of Fire--and standing there was a Angel, the mighty Gabriel. He's a messengers to the Jews. Remember, Gabriel announced the first coming of Christ; the Angel Gabriel will announce the second coming of Christ. The Bible said so.
Now, there... It frightened the little lady. And she looked at Him and He said, "Hail, Mary. Blessed art thou among the women. Thou art highly favored of God, for God is with thee." And He told what was going to happen: that she was going to bear a Child, and they should call His Name Jesus, for He'd save the people from the sins. Now she had a right to know that that was the right kind of a Messenger. First thing, He was an Angel standing there; the next thing, He told her who she was: Mary. She knowed that was a sign of God down through the age.
She looked at Him, and she said, "How can these things be, seeing that I don't know a man?"
And He said, "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee."

L-19 Before miracles can take place, the Holy Ghost has to come. That's what's the matter in the world today. They're denying the power of the Holy Ghost. That's why people can't believe in Divine healing; they're denying the very Holy Spirit that brings Divine healing. "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the Most High shall overshadow thee. And that holy Thing which will be borned of thee shall be called the Son of God." That's how He's coming. You don't need to know no man; God's going to do this. For with God, nothing is impossible. Oh, what that little lady had to believe. She had to believe something that was impossible; she had to believe something that never happened.

L-20 Hagar--Hannah, when she was told by the priest, "The Lord give thee thy desire." why, she went home, in nine months brought the child. That was wonderful. But... And so was Elisabeth. As He said, "Thy cousin Elisabeth which was called barren, is already six months to be mother." And told her that with God, nothing was impossible.
And she said, "Behold the handsmaid of the Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word." What she had to believe, something had never happened.

L-21 Zacharias the priest, the husband of her cousin, he doubted that same Angel, when He said after the days of the ministration at the temple, he would go home and live with his wife, Elisabeth, and she'd bring a son. And he said, "I'm too old, it can't be done." Oh, he just doubted it. And he had Abraham and Sarah to look at; he had Hannah at the temple, and Eli her husband to think of. But that callous priest doubted God's Word.
But as Brother Shakarian said the other day, over in the island, when I saw my mother-in-law die, five days before it happened. And my brother-in-law have a hemorrhage, and spit blood out from his mouth, just squirted from his mouth. Brother Sonmore said, 'Let us go in and pray, that this won't happen."
I said, "It won't do one bit of good. God has already said it; it's got to happen."
God, when He says anything, it's impossible for it not to happen. Therefore when God says in the Book, "All things are possible to them that believe," it's got to happen! No way to explain it away. You can believe God will perform every promise that He made.


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