<TITLE>21. Par 74-77</TITLE>L-74 Let's--let's just make it our purpose in life to see that we are the church of God. Let's have ambition, not set around because the Jones' want it or the...?... want. What do we care about the...?... if they don't do it, let's us do it anyhow. If the rest of the nation wants to sink, that's up to them. In Yakima we stand for God. We want God. We want to achieve. We want to have faith. We want to have ambition. Let's believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, for He said, "All things are possible to them that believe. Verily, I say unto you (not if I,) but if you shall say to this mountain, be move, and don't doubt in your hearts but believe, that what you said shall come to pass, you can have what you said." I believe that with all my heart. You believe that?

L-75 He had an ambition. Never was the same after that. He had an ambition. He had something to work forward to, and he had faith to do it. All the days of his life, he served God to deliver those people. He wasn't concerned about... Long as he was getting along all right, what he cared about those people laying down there suffering. And God said, "I've heard the cries of My people, and I remember My promise which I had with Abraham."
And today when the church is sick, the sickness is piled up, and the people because of--of intellectual pride, and so forth, is getting away from Divine healing, get away from the Holy Spirit, God still hears the cry of His people. Somebody's got to go.

L-76 Yakima, let's rise and shine in the Name of the Lord Jesus. If you're sick... You say, "I'm sick in body." God has spoken. God said so. "These signs shall follow them that believe. In My Name they shall lay hands on the sick; they shall recover." God has spoken it. Have any ambition?
"Well, the doctor said I was going to die." That's the best the doctor knows. He's studied. Every medical research shows that he's done all he can do for you, so according to medical science you're going to die. "But the prayer of faith shall save the sick." Find your ambition; have a purpose that you're going to be healed for the glory of God. Then come with a faith that "I'm going to receive it." And you'll get it. Yes, sir.

L-77 You say, "Brother Branham, I can't understand it."
Well, now, when I go--when I go overseas, and I go to... Here's a big ship setting there, a big airship. Seven times around, I--I've flew this thing around. I don't go say, "Hey, pilot, a-- before I go on this ship, you tell me how much scope them--each one of those props has, give me all the mechanics of how this plane will operate. In a time of a storm, what will it do? How much power do you have? How high can you climb?" All the mechanics. I don't ask all those things. I know the ship went across with someone else. If the ship went across with someone else, it'll go across with me. So I just climb aboard, and get me a seat, and set down. It's up to the pilot to see that it gets there.
That's the way on Divine healing. I don't know all the mechanics about it. I can't tell you the mechanics; nobody else can. How a man can die there and be striped across His back, if He's God Messenger to heal the sick, because he believes it. I can't explain that, I don't know the mechanics. I just take a hold of the promise and accept it, and say, "Lord, it's so." That settles it. You believe that don't you, brethren? Sure. Just accept it on the basis that God said so. That's the Man we're building a platform for Him.


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