<TITLE>16. Par 57-60</TITLE>L-57 I see the first twenty-eight days pass. Now, I can see... Now, Abraham had lived with this woman since she was a little girl. It was his half-sister. She married him about eighteen years old. And so, he went over and said, "Sarah, how are you, honey? Any different?"
"Not a bit."
"Glory to God, we're going to have the baby anyhow. Get the booties ready, all the birdeye, and the--the pins, and everything. Get ready. We're going to have it."
"How do you know you're going to have it?"
"God said so."
The second month passed. "How you feeling, Sarah?"
"No different."
"Glory to God. It's another month greater miracle. Hallelujah."
A year passed. "How you feeling, dear?"
"No different."
"Glory. It's a year greater."
And twenty-five years passed. "How you feeling, Sarah (old and feeble), how you feeling?"
"No different, dear."
"Glory to God. It's twenty-five years more a miracle."
And we say we're Abraham's seed. Uh-huh. We got the Holy Ghost. "Well, I was prayed for last night, but I sure didn't get healed." You're a poor excuse for Abraham's seed. Abraham called those things which were not as though they were. Amen. Hallelujah. For he believed that what God had promised, God was big enough to keep His Word. Amen. There we are. Abraham's seed, let me not get on that.

L-58 Now, this woman had a lot of opposition. She was a Greek. Now, she belonged to another denomination, and they'd say to, "Now, wait a minute, you're a Greek. Don't you go down, because our pastor's not sponsoring. (Oh, excuse me. All right.) Anyhow, you know, you belong to this. Don't--don't you go down there now, because..."
But that didn't stop her. She had faith. Faith had caught a hold. Why? She had a daughter that need healing, and she knowed there was a healing power. She heard about Him healing others. Faith cometh by hearing; here she was. She moved on anyhow. That didn't hinder her.

L-59 Maybe she met another group, and they say, "Now, look dear. Now, Melinda" (Melissa, something another, whatever they might called her. Hope there's no one here by that name. But anyhow, it's all right. It'd be a compliment.) Say, "Listen, Melinda. You know what? The days of miracles is past. There is no such a thing. Don't you go down there. You're only going to bring disgrace."
She was perseverant. Faith had done anchored in there, no matter whether the pastor was cooperating, whether her denomination believed in it or not, whether her people believed in it, whether anybody believed besides her. Faith is an individual thing. Yes, sir. It's her. Whether the days of miracles was past for the rest of them or not, it wasn't for her.

L-60 There was a fellow told me not long ago, said, "I don't care how many people you'd heal, or so forth like that." Said, "I don't believe in healing."
I said, "Certainly. It wasn't for unbelievers. It's just sent for believers. That's all it's for: just believers." Oh, your unbelief gets you nowhere, just hinders you. That's all. It don't stop God. God goes right on doing it just the same.
They said, "You can't get the Holy Ghost. It was only given for the twelve apostles." That don't stop God. He goes right ahead doing It, people getting It. They might not be able to explain it, but they got It just the same though.
I can't tell you how a black cow can eat green grass, and give white milk, but she does it. Just exactly right. So I can't explain it. I don't know how it's done, but it--it happens anyhow. I don't try to explain it. If you can explain God, then it's no more faith. Everything that you get from God comes by faith. Amen. You can't explain it. You can't explain God. You believe God. Amen.


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