<TITLE>13. Par 55-58</TITLE>L-55 What about Abraham? When God told him he was going to have a baby by Sarah... He married her when she was about seventeen years old, and he was ten years older than her. They'd lived together as husband and wife all their years. And Abraham was seventy-five and she was sixty-five, when God made the promise. She was about ten years past menopause then, change of life. And there she was. And God said, "You're going to have a baby by her."
Why, I can see Sarah say, "Well, my husband's a man of God. He's a prophet." She started making booties, getting the birdeye ready, and everything ready. She's going to have this baby.
Could you imagine an old couple going downtown now, and saying, "Doctor, we want to make arrangements at the hospital. I'm seventy-five. My wife is sixty-five." God... Faith is ridiculous to everything but the person that's got it. That's all. But the one's got it knows what he's talking about. He's anchored.

L-56 After the first month passed (See, Sarah was past that time), "Honey, how do you feel?"
"No different."
"Glory to God. We'll have it anyhow. God said so."
One year passed. "Honey, ain't you felt no different yet?"
"Not a bit."
"Hallelujah. It'll be a year greater miracle than it was if it happened last year." He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God. Sure.
After twenty-five years passed, now he's a hundred and she is ninety. "How are you feeling, darling?"
"No different. But I still got the booties. We're waiting for it. We're going to have it anyhow."
Why? God said so. That's right. That settles it. God said so. That takes every wish, care, everything else out. You know it's going to happen, because God said so. That settles it.
And we're supposed to be the seed of Abraham. If we have the Holy Spirit, we are the seed of Abraham, the Royal Seed of Abraham through the promise, not through Isaac, the natural, but through Christ, the supernatural. You minister brethren knows what I speak of. But they was going have it anyhow; believed it.

L-57 Jonah believed it. No matter where it was at, what conditions, how many symptoms, God made a promise. "If Thy people be in trouble.." Solomon prayed and said, "Lord, if Thy people be in trouble and look to this holy place, then hear them."

L-58 Jonah, the prophet, was in trouble in the belly of the whale, in the bottom of the sea. And he turned towards the temple and prayed, and refused to see the whale's belly. "I don't see nothing but the Temple, the Shekinah glory. I see the Pillar of Fire hanging over it. I see Solomon, God's anointed, standing there with his hands up, praying. God, You'll answer me." He got to breathing good. The ropes come off his hands. He might've stood up; might've set down. I don't know what he did. He stayed there for three day and nights.
After while that old whale circled all the way around, on a taxi trip around through the bottom of the sea. And after while, about ten o'clock one day, all the fishermen was out there on the sea. And they had prayed to the gods of the sea that morning, you know, to give them a good successful day. Living in adultery, and everything else, walked out into the sea, and was pulling their nets.
After while up come the sea god, licked out his tongue, and the prophet walked right out of his mouth, begin to say, "Repent. Repent, within forty days this land will be destroyed." God knows how to do things. The god spit forth the prophet. Amen. He walked right down through Nineveh saying, "Repent." Yes.
Jesus said, "As Jonas was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights, so will the Son of man be."


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