<TITLE>14. Par 50-53</TITLE>L-50 If the sick person can ever meet God, no matter how crippled you remain, how sick you remain, how blind you remain, you meet God, there's something pressed into you, and you don't see any more of these circumstances. You look at what God said. If God could ever--could get us way down through the cares of life into your heart, and instill a faith there, there's nothing in the world will ever shake you from it. When a man meets God, from that time on, he's a changed person.
A hundred years old Abraham was, and he was still calling anything contrary to it as though it was not. The evidence got greater and greater, piled up against him; Sarah was ninety and he was a hundred. He was still giving praise to God, strong, not staggering through unbelief, but was giving praise to God every day that he'd have the baby. Why? God had met him; God was merciful. God confirmed the covenant to him.

L-51 Would we have time to take that confirmation in the 16th chapter of Genesis? Or could we take also over in the 17th chapter when He met him in the Name of Almighty God, which means "El Shaddai," meaning the--of the Hebrew word "the breast of a woman," El Shaddai: "The strong One, the--the Satisfier, the Nourisher."
What an old man, a hundred years old, and God met him and said, "I am El Shaddai."
Now, "shad" means "woman's breast" but "shaddai" means "breasted," plural. Now, He's not only a "breast" God, but He's a "breasted" God: "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed." If you need salvation, hold on and nurse from that breast of God, His Word, His promise. You'll come bringing yourself from them ruts of sin and immorality, to a godly sainted person. If you're sick, "by His stripes you were healed." Just take a hold of the other promise of God and nurse.

L-52 What does the baby have to do? The baby... We are God's babies. I want you to get this, sisters, you all there. We're God's babies. And what does the baby do when it's sick and fretty? It's real fretty and sick. Now, the only thing you have to do... The only thing that'll pacify it, is for the mother to pick it up, hold it to her bosom, and nurse it. Now, what does the mother do? The mother produces the milk, and the baby (nursing the baby) nurses the strength from the mother to the baby. Then the baby is strengthened by the mother's strength. And when we take a hold of God's promise into our heart, we are nursing God's strength, the strong One. We're nursing...?...
And think of a little baby laying on the mother--bosom of its mother, it'll--it stops its fretting. As soon as it gets a hold of its mother's breast, it stops fretting. It don't fret any more; it's satisfied. It quits its fretting. Then when we get a hold of God's promise when God reveals it to us: "I'm the Lord who heals all thy diseases. Whosoever will let him come." I've kept His hope, then I'm satisfied, as I'm nursing my strength back again from Jehovah, Almighty God, the strength Giver.

L-53 What an encouragement to an old man a hundred years old, as good as dead, and the wombs of Sarah, already closed when she was born sterile. And what a--a message, "I am your strength Giver; I am El Shaddai. You're a hundred years old, but you're just a baby to Me. Lay up here in My arms, and take a hold of My promise; and just don't you never get off such a promise. Then what can you do? As the whiskers get old, as the hair turns gray, you can still nurse and be satisfied that I'll keep My Word."
The doctor can say, "You're getting worse and worse." That don't have one phase to you. You're still nursing from the--the breast of El Shaddai. "God, You spoke it in my heart; You give me the promise. All the devils out of hell can't take it away from me. I'm satisfied that I'll be well. I'm nursing from El Shaddai." Amen.
I tell you, brother, that takes the wishbone out and puts a back bone in there (certainly does), when you get a hold of God.


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