<TITLE>10. Par 59-63</TITLE>L-59 Yet Abraham had a right to the promise, and the promise was his, yet he had to fight to possess it. Amen. There you are. The believer today, yet we're heir to all things, yet we're heir to every spiritual blessing, every physical blessing, every blessing the Bible promises, yet you have to fight every inch of it. That's the way God, He's got it set up. It's always been that way. You have to fight to possess what you know is your own. You have to fight to possess it. And that's what we have to do now.

L-60 You say, "Brother Branham, I need healing." The promise is yours. But if you ever get it, you ain't going to get it easy; I'm going to tell you that. You're going to have to take it away from Satan. Satan captures your health; you've got a right to go to--to Satan, and say, "Give it back. Hand it over. I come in the Name of the Lord, the Possessor of heavens and earth, and I'm His heir. Give it back. You took my child; you got her mixed up with the wrong boy. You took my boy and mixed up with the wrong girl. I claim them. That's right. I claim my children. I claim my brother. I claim my sister. Yes, Satan, you've took them from God's house, coaxed them out there, but I'm coming after them. I claim them."
"Well, how do you know?"
"I'm an heir of all things. Amen. It's given to me. I'm an heir. I can claim everything that God promised me." Amen. There you are. My.

L-62 How do you get it, something you done? No, sir. It's the unmerited gift that God gave us, and it's ours; it belongs to us. Satan cannot hold it if you go to him in the--the Scriptural authoritative Word with faith to say, "It's mine. Lay it down." Amen. Glory. I like that. "Satan, you lay it down. You took it from me. You give it back, because I'm serving notice on you. I've got the notice written right here on the Word, 'Heavens and earth will pass away, but this notice shall not.' So I come with this notice to serve on you, that Jesus Christ said whatsoever I ask the Father in His Name He'll give it to me. If I say to this mountain, 'Be moved,' and don't doubt in my heart, but believe that what I've said shall come to pass, I can have what I said. Lay it down." That gets him started. Don't get him started, gets him running. "Lay it down, because I've come with the Scriptural authority. I am a believer." Get it? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

L-63 What did he have to do first, Abraham, in order to do this? He had to lay his faith upon the solid rock foundation of God's promised Word. Look, only thing he had was a little bunch of servants, probably a dozen. And there was probably couple of thousand men armed. And his men wasn't soldiers; they were servants, cattlemen, sheep-men, herders; probably old rusty knives that they'd picked up somewhere, and laid up in the--out there, and several rains had fallen on them, and they were rusty. But Abraham wasn't looking at the rusty knife, or no shield at all. He was laying his faith upon God's Word. There you are. That's what does it. That's what.
"How you going to fight them when you get there?"
"That's not up to me. It's up to me to lay my faith on what God said. It's mine; I'm going after what belongs to me." Amen. Now, when people that's sick can see that, the sickness is right about over with right then. See? Sure.


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