2 Corinthians 10:3-5 3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Hebrews 11:1-2 1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2For by it the elders obtained a good report .
2 Corinthians 12:1-5 1It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 4How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 5Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
Mark 16:17-20 17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 19So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
God Identifying Himself By His Characteristics
64-0320 · Denham Springs, Louisiana
55 Now, again, God’s characteristics is always supernatural, because He is supernatural. God is supernatural…
A Greater Than Solomon Is Here
63-0628E
46 …God always in every age dealt with man through signs, because He is supernatural. And where supernatural God is, there is bound to be supernatural things going on.
Ephesians 3:19-20 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. 20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Ephesians 3:20 (AMP) 20Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]—
The Voice Of God In This Last Days
63-0120M · Phoenix, Arizona
31 There is so many voices in the earth today, that it is absolutely a hard thing, because it deadens the Voice of the Supernatural. There is so many intellectual voices, great voices of mighty men who are intellectual, that, in their intellectual conditions, even shake the nations. They’re just not over-night people, but they shake nations, bringing great organizations together, great campaigns, flowerly. And a person would be a bit confused. It’s enough to confuse them, of how that these things go on and prosper. And there’s voices that—that raise up and do these things, and it causes the Voice of God to be placed way back somewhere, the true Voice of God.
32 “And the Voice of God,” they say, “how will we know it’s the Voice of God?” Because, for today…Then it was in a vindicated prophet. Now, today, how we know it’s the Voice of God, because it’s the manifestation of the prophet’s Word. This is God’s prophet. And a true Voice of God only brings back that real, living, Supernatural God, with His Supernatural Word, with the Supernatural manifestation of the True Word. Then we know that It’s the Voice of God. Because, and that Super-…There’s so much other in the other realms, that just almost deaden That out. But, remember, It will glisten, It’ll come forth! It’ll do it.
Have Not I Sent Thee?
62-0124 · Phoenix, Arizona
110 …Where God appears, He’s supernatural. His supernatural signs follows a supernatural God.
Revelation 4:1 1Come up hither and I will show you what must take place after now.
2 Peter 1:17-19 17For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. 19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Acts 12:1-11 1Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 2And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 4And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. 5Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. 6And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. 7And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. 8And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. 9And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. 10When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. 11And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2For by it the elders obtained a good report. 3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Faith
56-0815 · Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
94 Jesus said, “These things that I do, shall you also.” Then is God’s sworn covenant true. Is His sworn covenant true? Then what we got to be worried about? Jesus is here. His Spirit is here. (Matt. 28:19-20)We’re in a… What happened just now? I went into another world. It’s an unseen world. We become so conscious of looking at one another like this. But there’s a unseen world; and you… It’s greater than anything you can see. (2 Cor. 12:1-5) And here’s Christ.
In this world, in this building here are evil spirits and war. And Christians anointed, and the Angels of God encamped about them (Ps. 34:7) trying to ener—e—energize them with faith.
And here I am standing here just yielding myself, and the Holy Spirit’s a moving, and this is what you call heavenly places in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 2:4-7). But remember, Satan’s always skeptic at the sons of God. You know, he always does that. Someone with a skeptic idea, when they do that, just he’s trying to interfere. But Christians always overcome. (Rom. 8:35-39).
God’s Provided Way Of Healing
54-0719A · Chicago, Illinois
29 Now, when you receive the inspiration that Jesus Christ died for your sickness, it’s that very hour that your healing has come. That’s right. When you receive from heaven, that Jesus died for your sins and you have accepted it, you don’t need any prayer for you then. You’ve already accepted it. It’s settled. (2 Cor. 3:6)
Now, we can preach the Word, explain the Word. But you have to receive the Word. Oh, hallelujah. That’s what sets it afire, brother. When you receive it, the revelation, something slips out of the unseen world yonder, comes rolling down through a mystical channel somewhere into your soul, that says, “Now I see it.” Your eyes brighten; your lips that hung down, straighten up and smile. Every muscle in your body seems to rejoice. Something’s going to happen. Something… You don’t need to be in a prayer line then. You’ve got it then. (Matt. 16:17-18; Matt. 11:25-26).
Revelation, Book Of Symbols
56-0617 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
54 Now, when was the Book of Revelations ever wrote? The first place, it was wrote before the foundation of the world. And, John, only by the Holy-Spirit-filled heart! Do you see?
55 Angelic beings associate together. Oh, I hope you get that, that just dropped right down, free. Look! And if you’ve got the Holy Spirit in you, then you’re a candidate for association with the unseen world and the Supernatural. No wonder people can’t believe in those things, they’ve never come in contact. They got nothing in here to believe with.
But when the Holy Spirit comes into the heart, quickly he becomes then a—a twofold being: one of the earth, to die; and one of Heaven, to live. (John 3:3). Amen. In his body, he’s still subject to death (2 Cor. 4:16); but in his soul, he’s passed from death unto Life (John 5:24). In his body, he has his earthly contact with his five senses; in his spirit, he has a contact with God through the Holy Ghost. And the Angels of God visits them (Ps. 91:11), speaks with them, and they are Messengers sent from God to reveal, and to bring messages from God to the individual (Heb. 1:14)… He’s out to get the first thing first. You can’t put the cupola on before the foundation is laid. See? So we got to remember that, put first things first! “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; all these other things will be added unto you.” (Matt. 6:33-34)
…angels sent to signify these things…
Life Is The Healer
56-0612 · Indianapolis, Indiana
44 What did Jesus say again? “Go ye and disbelieve no more or a worse thing than this will come upon you.” When God speaks anything, you must fasten your soul onto His Word and hold onto it. No, matter what the outside says, your faith looks to the unseen world.
Jesus come to destroy the works of the devil. That’s why God was made both soul and body. Jesus had both soul and body and yet was God. He came to take on Himself the full form of man to redeem the full form of man back to God. That’s why He come in flesh and in soul. That’s the reason Jesus could say, “It’s not Me that doeth the works, it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me.”
Possessing All Things
62-0506 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
83 Oh, my, how I like that, believer’s promise! You say, “What’s that got to do with us?” To every believer! The believer’s promise is Eternal Life. The believer’s promise is Life, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, patience, fruits of the Spirit, Divine healing, a dozen things I got wrote down here, nearly, that is your possession. It belongs to you, but you cannot have it until you fight for it. (1 Tim. 6:12). It’s yours. Everything that’s seen, every temporal thing that’s seen, belongs to me. God give it to me, because through Christ He gave it to me. And things unseen belongs to me. Amen. I like that! What you can see, like Divine healing, so forth, like that, that’s good, we appreciate that; but the unseen!
84 Now, science can probe around here and say, “Well, let’s see, let me take this man. You said he was healed, let me take him down and examine him. Let me see what happened. And you say you had a tumor once, sir?”
“Yes, right there.”
85 “Well, let me give a scientific research and see if it just didn’t sink in and didn’t go away. You say you were once blind and now you see. How do I know? Let me scientifically look and see it.”
86 Now, they could probe around on that, but yet I—I’m heir to that, too, everything physical. (1 Cor. 3:21-23) And then I’m also heir to things that can’t be seen, where science can’t probe. Amen. Amen. Unseen things, amen, I’m heir to that. Yes, sir. The things that can be seen, I’m heir to that. This actual earth, I’m an heir, you’re an heir. Every believer is an heir, he’s an heir to it. All right, then the unseen! Possessor of what? Heavens and earth. Amen. All things! You believe that?
87 You say, “Brother Branham, what about out there where you can’t see? How you know?” It’s still mine. That’s right. Heaven belongs to me. Glad it’s mine, God said so. And that’s right. “Well, you’ve never seen, how you know it’s there?” I know it’s there, anyhow, God said so. “How do you know you’re an heir to it, when you never seen it?” I believe His Word. Amen. See? I’m an heir, you’re an heir with me, we’re all heirs together through Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:17)
1 Timothy 6:12 (AMP) 12Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and[for which] you confessed the good confession [of faith] before many witnesses.
1 Corinthians 3:21-23 (KJV) 21Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.
Romans 8:17 (KJV) 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Possessing The Enemy’s Gates
59-1108 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
42 The Seed of Abraham (Gal. 3:7, 29) doesn’t look to any of the natural things. They look to what the Lord said. That’s the promise. What if Abraham would have looked to the natural? At a woman a hundred years old…Ninety, she was. And he was a hundred. And had lived with her since she was a little girl, and he was a little boy, and no seed. He didn’t look at those things. He said he counted those things as if they were not, for he only looked to what God said. “I’ll bless you, Abraham, and I’ll give you seed by Sarah.” (Gen. 17:15-22) And he believed it. (Rom. 4:1-3) You don’t look to the opposition. We look at what God said. God said it, that settles it.
Possessing All Things
62-0506 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
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’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.
El-Shaddai
59-0416 · Los Angeles, California
19 A few nights before, we took the subject. In the garden of Eden, the devil chose the man’s head by intellectual. God chose his heart by faith. And if you walk by faith, you have to believe things that you cannot see or even reason with your mind. We cast down reasons. (2 Cor. 10:3-6). When God says anything, we don’t look at it no more intellectually; we let it soak right down into our heart and call anything contrary to it, as though it wasn’t. (Romans 4:16-17) We look at what God said, Who gave the promise. That’s where the world’s so tangled today. It’s at too much intellectual preaching. Instead of Spirit filled churches worshipping in the Spirit, they’re listening to intellectual messages. And you can’t reason this out. There’s no way at all to do it.
The Manifestation of The Spirit
51-0717 · Toledo, Ohio
21 …Now, how do you get saved? Let’s take it in a childlike form where every believer, no matter if you’re—what church you belong to. And your pastor, if he’s a right man, he will tell you that—that you can only be saved through faith, not through works, through faith. (Eph. 2:8-9) Now, you believe that He saved you.
Now, first thing, that comes from the heart. You believe it. Then you walk up and confess it. (Rom. 10:10-13) Say, “I accept Jesus as my personal Saviour. I believe He saved me.” There’s not a physical thing in the world that you could prove that you’re saved. Your eyes are the same color, got the same shirt on you had on. Go outside and the old gang says, “They ain’t nothing to that.” But you believe there’s something to it, don’t you?
Now, how… What if you say, “Well I’m going to see how it works out.” It’ll never work out until you keep your testimony going. (2 Cor. 4:13).
You believe you’re saved. You act like you’re saved. You say you’re saved. And you associate with those that are saved, and it works salvation. Is that right? And the same thing will take place by Divine healing. You believe you’re healed. You act like He healed you. You say you’re healed. And He’s a High Priest of your confession to make good anything that you confess that He’s done before—fore the Father. There it is.
Looking At The Unseen
59-0410 · Los Angeles, California
16 Some time ago I was in Canada having a meeting. And I walked down the street, and there was a man selling televisions. And they was having a program on from over in the States, and there was a cowboy there a strumming on a guitar. And this man said to me, “I’d like to sell you this set, fellow.”
I said, “I’m just a tourist.”
“Oh,” he said, “I see.” And he said, “You just passing through?”
I said, “No, I’m here in a service.”
“Oh,” he said, “You wouldn’t happen to be around here with this Branham outfit?”
I said, “Yes, sir, I am.” And he said, “What you think about that fellow?”
Well, there was nothing I could say at that time; I said, “Oh, I think the services are fine.”
I said, “Was you there last night?”
He said, “Yes, I was.”
And I said, “What do you think about that man getting up off of that cot, that soldier, that It called his name and told him who he was, and how he’d been in affliction for years.”
“Oh,” he said, “I don’t think nothing about it, because I’d have to see it proved. That hypnotism doesn’t go with me.”
17 And you know, my old southern mammy had an expression, “Give the cow enough rope, it hangs itself.” And I said, “Why, do you be…”
He said, “Anything that cannot be scientifically proven, then I think there’s nothing to it.”
But I said, “I don’t like to be different, but I have to be now. The things that can be scientifically proven is not real. It’s only the things that’s not scientifically proven is real.”
“Oh,” he said, “That’s ridiculous.”
And I said, “All right, I want to ask you something. Could you tell me what love is? Could you scientifically show me what love is? Go down to the drugstore and buy me a quarters worth of love; I need some more.” See? You can’t see it. It’s the unseen. Show me what life is; I need just a little more life; could you go buy me a quarters worth? Show me what life is, what love is, what personality is, what the Holy Spirit is, what God is. It’s the unseen things that’s real, lasting. These things are temporal and perishable. Yet we put so much emphasis and so much concern about the natural things, and so little about the spiritual thing.
18 And I said, “For instance, coming through this room right now is television pictures.” And I said, “You have to show me the picture.”
“Oh,” he said, “of course, it hits the crystal, and then it—and the tubes and so forth, and it shows the picture here.”
But I said, “That man’s in the United States.” And I said, “You’re picking him up over here, coming through the air that you can’t see.”
He said, “But we can prove it, because here’s the picture showing that it’s over there. And there’s a sending station to prove that it’s here.”
I said, “Yes, and we can prove it too. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] For in glory we’ve got a risen Saviour Who sends it forth, and the Holy Ghost reveals it and makes it positive. Therefore we got a sending station and a receiving station.” That’s correct. God in heaven Who knows all things, can so put a gift in His church that He can magnify it and reflect Himself through it, and say things which is absolutely impossible to—by scientists to prove. See, we don’t walk by things we do not—we do see; we walk by things we do not see.
The Harvest Time
64-1212 · Phoenix, Arizona
78 And so is God here, and the Angels. And someday it’ll be just as much reality as television or anything else is, because the Spirit will bring us into that immortal Life. Then we’ll understand…
Mark 16:17-20 17And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 19So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
John 14:14 14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Be Not Afraid, It Is I
61-0414 · Bloomington, Illinois
13 …And the signs of the early church must again accompany the church—accompany the church, or we’ll never go any farther." God bless the man who wrote that. We’ve got to go back to the original beginning. We just denominated it and made man-made dogmas until we got the poor people, till they don’t know what to believe. It’s a pitiful sight.
Go, Tell My Disciples
53-0405S · Jeffersonville, Indiana
170 I have man, everywhere across the country, sometimes criticizing me about Divine healing. Why, my brother, how could I keep from believing in Divine healing, when it’s the very nature of the Holy Spirit. Every man that’s born of the Spirit of God will have to believe in the supernatural, because he is a part of God, he is an offspring of God.
171 I say, “You look like your daddy.” Say, “You got a nose like…” Tell me I got a nose like dad; I got a mouth like dad. Why? He’s my father. I got a right to look like him.
172 Hallelujah! Then, if God is my Father, I’ve got a right to believe in the supernatural, because I’m born of the supernatural Spirit. That makes a supernatural being out of me. Inward, outwardly, I am—I’m a man of clay; you’re a man of clay. But inwardly, when you are born of the Spirit of God, you become a supernatural being in there, and that supernatural being hungers and thirsts for its Heavenly Home, yonder. That’s right. Amen. Notice it.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
Chapter 2, The Patmos Vision
Now Paul said that the Word came in power as well as voice. The Word preached actually demonstrated itself. Like a flaming, cutting sword it went to the consciences of men, and like a surgeon’s knife it cut out the diseases and set captives free. Everywhere those early believers went, “they went preaching the Gospel (Word) and God confirmed that Word with signs following.” The sick were healed, devils were cast out, and they spoke in new tongues. That was the Word in action. That Word has never failed in the mouths of believing Christians. And in this last age it is here stronger and greater than ever in the true Word bride. Oh, little flock, you little minority, hold on to the Word, fill your mouth and heart with it, and some day God will give you the kingdom.
The World Is Again Falling Apart
63-1127· Shreveport, Louisiana
175 The Church is ready. She is sealed in, ready to come. There will be a big outpouring of the Spirit, yes, sir, to grab that Church and take Her into the skies. Exactly. Because, see, the Church, the Word, the Bride…And, Christ, His ministry is in His Bride, which is His Body, the celestial Body, or I mean to say, the—the supernatural Body of His here on the spiritual body on earth, His Spirit is in there living His Life right out, until Him and the Church becomes one in the wedding. See, they become one. He takes them, just a little minority in the last days.
Adoption #4
60-0522E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
80 Go right back to Genesis, to the original, what is it? Now the world and nature is groaning, crying, everything’s moving. What? For the manifestation of the sons of God, when true sons, born sons, filled sons speak and their word is backed. I believe we’re on the border of it right now. Yes, sir. Say to this mountain, let it be so.
81 “Brother, I—I desire so-and-so, a certain thing done. I’m a believer in Jesus Christ.”
82 “I give it to you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Amen. There’s a manifestation.
83 “Oh, brother, my crops are burning up out yonder. I haven’t had any rain.”
84 “I’ll send you a raining, in the Name of the Lord.” There she’ll come. Oh, waiting, groaning, all nature waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God. God ordained it at the beginning. He gave man the domain.
85 He gave Jesus Christ, and Jesus gave it in His Name, with this assurance, “Ask the Father anything in My Name and I’ll do it.” Oh, Brother Palmer! Waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God, the position, the church!
86 As I said, the Book of Ephesians is the Book of Joshua, and Joshua placing the people where they belong. Now, if they wouldn’t stand still, and he put Ephraim here, and over on Manasseh’s land, and this one would come back fussing and stewing, how they ever going to get along? When one say, “I’m a Baptist, I’m a Methodist, I’m a Pentecostal, I’m Oneness, I’m Twoness, I’m So-and-so.”
87 How you going to do it? Stand still! God is wanting to place His Church, the sons and daughters of God. God, let me live to see it, is my prayer. So close till I can just feel it with my hands almost, look like. It’s right there. That’s what I’ve longed to see, waiting for the time when walk down the street; there lays a cripple laying there, from his mother’s womb, “Silver and gold have I none.” Oh, waiting for the manifestations of the sons of God, hallelujah, when God will make Hisself known, when they’ll stop sickness, they’ll stop cancer, they’ll stop diseases.
88 You think cancer’s something? The Bible said there’s coming a time when men will rot right in their flesh, and the buzzards will eat off of carcasses before they even die. Cancer’s a toothache to what’s coming. But, remember, that horrible thing was forbidden in that day to touch those who had the Seal of God. That’s what we’re striving for now, to get in and be positionally placed into the Kingdom of God before these horrible plagues strike. Oh, how good! The dispensation of time, fulness of time, the inheritance. In whom we also…obtained…inheritance, being predestinated…
Show Us the Father
63-0606 · Tucson, Arizona
248 Oh, what we need tonight! Look at last night. I was listening to the tape. A little woman come down from, I believe, Oregon, or somewhere. She was a poor woman. She had spent her money to come here. She had a unsaved husband and children. She was sick and afflicted, come to the platform. Somebody out there thought something different, that I was guessing of what is told wrong with her.
249 Then the Holy Spirit moved back and told her who she was, what her name was, and her mother named her. Told her when she was a little baby, what her name, was given. Told her what her marriage name was now. Told her where she had been, what she done, where she come from, what she was doing, what disease she had. And said she had a sinner husband, and—and a sinner children, and she was suffering with some sort of disease. I don’t know now. Just listen at the tape.
250 And then the Holy Spirit come around with THUS SAITH THE LORD. “I give you your husband. I give you your children. I heal you.” And today she’s well. Her husband was the first one at the altar, last night, and her children are saved.
John 20:23 23Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
That Day On Calvary
60-0925 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
134 How did they get sins forgiven, in the Bible? Peter answered that question, on the Day of Pentecost. They said, “What can we do to be saved? How can we get This that you all got?” He laid down the prescription. He told them what to do.
135 He said, “Repent, every one of you, towards God, and be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ.” What for? The remission of your sin. There’s the “greater” works.
Revelation, Book of Symbols
56-0617 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
70 So is the Church of the living God, that’s been born down in the middle of fanaticism and chaos. But she’s wound her way through the grime until she’s on top of the thing now, spreading forth her wings for the flight. “Many shall run to and fro; and the people that know their God shall do exploits in that day.” God’s revelation to His Church! Set still, little Flock, positionally stay where you are.
As Sister Gertie and Sister Angie used to sing here, “Keep holding on!” Don’t worry. God is waiting, and trying, and pressing to get at the mystery of God revealed to His Church. That’s what’s a holding back the Coming of Christ now, and the great Millennium, is this great supernatural power that really lays dormant in the Church.
The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ
65-1125 · Shreveport, Louisiana
325 Church, you who I’m speaking to, tonight, across the nation, if—if you’ve separated yourself from denomination and all the filth and things of this world, and all those things that keeps you in man-made creeds and orders and things like that, you separated yourself: Look up. Get ready. The Fire is going to fall, one of these days. God is going to let Him come, and a sight to behold. Would you be ready when He comes? Would you be ready to go up with Him when He comes? The secret Rapture of the supernatural Bride, “She’ll be made mor-…from mortal to immortality; be changed, in a moment, in a twinkling of eye. We which are alive and remain shall not prevent them which are asleep.”
God Keeps His Word
57-0120E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
235 And in the great unseen world, that now is around us, stirring our emotions to repentance, and to bring evil before our eyes, that we have done wrong. With penitent hearts, we surrender our evil ways, Lord, and ask for Divine mercy. And may the Holy Spirit, Who has promised us mercy, give it to each of us, as we humbly beg and ask God to fulfill His Word, and to mold our lives and our character to fit His Word. We ask in Christ’s Name.
The Resurrection
53-1205 · West Palm Beach, Florida
99 …What we need today’s a raw, flat Gospel to tell you you’re a sinner, going to hell. If you haven’t got the Holy Ghost* you’re out of the Kingdom of God. That’s right. You can’t believe the supernatural, because you have never been borned again. And when you’re borned again you have to believe the supernatural, because you’re supernatural yourself.**
Super Sign
61-0430 · Chicago, Illinois
32 And after two thousand years, the critics that tried to put Him to death down there, is trying to do the same thing today. But the same signs, the same supernatural Sign still shows amongst supernatural people, which is the Seed of Abraham. Amen. I feel good. Amen. Supernatural, supernatural… You don’t believe in supernatural,* how can you believe in God? Supernatural borned by a supernatural birth, by a supernatural power, talk about super?** What is it in man? He wants super.
A Secondhanded Robe
56-1125M · Jeffersonville, Indiana
92 Brother and sister, the same thing has been done in the realms of the supernatural, when they said, “Divine healing cannot work. The days of miracles is past.” If the days of miracles is past, the days of God is past. The church that don’t believe in supernatural will finally die, and God will leave the church. Has to! And God gave the promise, and God’s promises is Eternal.
Believe From The Heart
57-0623 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
34 Now, we get all flusterated in our minds, and we go out and say, “Oh, I seen that done. Yes. I’m…” And once in a while, it just hop, skip, and a so-forth, but it seems like it just can’t get moving right. Is because we try to mix the intellectual with the supernatural. They have no dealings with each other, at all. Intellectuals will say one thing, and supernatural will say another.
35 And any man that’s ever led by the Spirit of God does not take any thought of any intellectual, but he is led from his heart by the Spirit of God. He is misunderstood. People say, “Oh, how could it be?”
Joseph Meeting His Brethren
56-1230 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
153 And I say this, now, as our time is getting short. I say this with all trueness of heart. They hate the Church, today, that has the supernatural. It’s jealousy. It’s petty jealousy, and it exists among human beings.
The Queen Of Sheba
60-0401E · Tulsa, Oklahoma
10 Now, they was failing to see His supernatural work. The people, the churches, had gotten so far away from the supernatural, until they could not give a answer to their congregation for the supernatural that was being done; so they just had to class it something. ‘Stead of figuring it out, laying aside their thoughts, and—and going to the Scriptures, why, instead of doing that, they just answered their congregations, said, “Why, He’s the devil. That’s all. He’s just a fortuneteller or something. There’s nothing to Him.”
But then, when He did that supernatural, it usually blinds those who are blinded to those things. It makes them worse. But in every generation, God has always had His agents. It’s got down sometime to merely one, but God always had somebody in every generation that He could lay His finger on, some people that He could put His finger on, and say, “This is My people, and they’ll do as I tell them to do.”
Ephesians 6:10-18 10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
It Wasn’t So From The Beginning
62-0630B · Santa Maria, California
25 Now, we find our Lord then in His work, that He claimed to do nothing of Himself (John 5:19-20, 30)* but what He seen the Father doing. He gave all praise to God, thing that was unnatural, supernatural. Every armor that we have, brother, all of* our armor is supernatural.** We—we… Nothing natural that we have. We must believe it.
What is the fruit of the Spirit? Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, meekness, gentleness, patience. (Gal. 5:22) Now, you go down to the drugstore and buy me a quarter’s worth of patience. I need it. Five dollars worth of love, I could stand a lot of that. See? See, it’s the unseen something. That’s our whole armor. We stand in the unseen world looking at the unseen things. Yet, to us, we see them, because our faith detects them and says it’s there. See?
John 5:19-20 19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. 20For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
John 5:30 30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
2 Corinthians 4:8 (AMP) 8Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
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We have to train ourselves- Where to LOOK!!!
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Our FLESH nature* will always turn to the natural circumstances that surround us**
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But WE HAVE another NATURE- His SPIRIT in us will often remind us and provoke us to LOOK to the OTHER REALM- The REALITY of the SUPERNATURTAL UNSEEN realm!
Sir, We Would See Jesus
62-0724 · Port Alberni, British Columbia
45 And the whole Christian armor now is unseen. (Eph. 6:13-20) The Christian looks at what he doesn’t see natural. (2 Cor. 4:18). Now, look. That’s the only way you can be a Christian. You got to believe God, who you can’t see. (Heb. 11:6; I Peter 1:8-9). See, now look. Watch here. The whole Christian armor is love, joy, faith, longsuffering, patience, meekness, gentleness: Holy Spirit. See? All those things are unseen; they’re unseen. But the things that’s unseen is the ones that has the reality: the unseen things.
Hebrews 11:6 6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
1 Peter 1:7-9 7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see* him* not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Calling Jesus On the Scene
64-0319 · Denham Springs, Louisiana
11 You can’t make yourself believe. You, it’s something, it’s a quality that’s in you. (Eph. 2:8). “Faith is the substance”* (Heb. 11:1). not just a make-imaginary. “It is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things that you believe, and you don’t see.” And all, the whole Christian armor now, remember, is by faith. All supernatural, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, patience, that’s all unseen things. That’s the whole Christian armor. The Christian always looks at things that he does not see, because he’s looking at a promise. (Romans 4:13-22)
The Queen Of Sheba
60-0401E · Tulsa, Oklahoma
17 That’s the only way you can be saved, is by faith. You’ve got to look at the unseen. And a whole armor of Christianity is supernatural. The people… How that a man can say that he believes in God, and preaches in a church, and says he does not believe in the supernatural, when the full armor of God, the full armor of Christianity, is supernatural?
What is the armor of Christianity? Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, patience, faith, Holy Spirit: all those things are supernatural. What is love? What is joy? Go down to the drugstore and buy me a quarter’s worth of it; I need it right now. See? You can’t buy love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, patience, gentleness, faith. You can’t buy it; it’s supernatural. And the whole armor of the Christian is supernatural, and we’re bidden by the Scriptures to put on the whole armor of God. Be girded about—the whole armor.
Demonology, Physical Realm
53-0608A · Connersville, Indiana
91 The whole armor of God is by faith. We haven’t got one natural thing of this world. Everything of a—a Christian church is a faith act. Look at the armor of God, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. Is that right? Everything supernatural, nothing natural. So we don’t look at the things natural, because we’re operating supernatural. And the only way we can base it, is faith, is on what God said was the Truth, and we look at the Unseen. And we call those things which are not, as though they were; like Abraham did, and got it. Amen! Abraham called those things which was not, like God did, as though they were. Being a hundred years old, staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
Only Believe
53-0217 · Tallahassee, Florida
4 Use our armor. We’ve got a armor. God works with us and gives us the armor. And the whole armor is on the supernatural. See, see? Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience is all in the supernatural. And if you let your faith loose to God’s Spirit, it make—brings your body in subjection to God’s redemptive blessing to you. And anything that Jesus died for, He’s setting at the right hand of the Father, tonight, making intercessions upon your confession. Whatever you confess that He’s done, and believe it, it’s your personal property. Every believer, every person that’s born again, has the right to any of the redemptive blessings. When you get saved, Jesus just takes and hands you a checkbook to last you all through life’s journey, and His Name’s signed at the bottom of every one of them. Whatever we have need of, “you ask the Father in My Name, it’ll be done.” Just sign a check and send it up there. Are you afraid to sign one tonight? No, fill her out; send it up; it’s recognized. Yes, sir, it’s recognized. He’ll certainly bring it to pass.
The Conflict Between God And Satan
62-0531 · Clarksville, Indiana
58 **God knew this great warfare was coming on, between right and wrong, and He knew what the enemy was going to do. He knowed just exactly how to equip His people. **So if we notice, the very first thing that God equipped His children was…Being infinite, He knowed what it took to defeat Satan, any time, any place, anywhere, on any conditions. Now, He wouldn’t say, “I’ll give them something here, and then a few years later, I may study out something better to give them, and then after a few years later.”
59 Like we, in military force, the old bow and arrow, and sledge, rock hammer, and then the next was a…After the bow and arrow, come the musket, and after the musket come the Springfield, and—and now the—the atomic weapons and things. See? We keep growing more.
60 But, God, at the beginning, gave His children the atomic weapon, because He’s the infinite God. Now, seeing there was going to be a conflict, and there was going to be a battle, God equipped His children with the right kind of ammunition, right kind of an attack, the right kind of everything that they had need of, that would sweep them all the way from Eden to the Rapture. What was it? The Word. The Word. That’s what defeats Satan, is the Word. It’ll defeat him anywhere, any place. Now, why do we want to substitute something else, when we’ve already got the best thing that there is, the Word?
61 And we find Jesus on earth, just to prove this was the best equipment, when Satan come in hand-to-hand combat with Jesus, He never just reached over with His Power and tied his hands. He just took the same weapon that God gave in the garden of Eden, His Word, and said, “It’s written…It’s written…” And He punched him right out of the ring, with It, that’s right, because It’s God’s best.
62 And look where it is. It’s not just for one or two, in a church. It’s for every one of us. Every believer has a right to take this Word and fight the enemy anywhere you meet him. Anywhere you meet the enemy, this Word is what you have to use. And Jesus proved it when He come. So He equipped His children with the Word, for their protection against the enemy. When the all-out warfare comes, and the battles, and set in array, then there’s only one thing a real soldier can use, a real Christian soldier, that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. Walk right out there and meet the enemy, with the assurance that nothing…“Thousand may fall at your right, and ten thousand at the left, but it won’t come nigh thee.” Just remember that God made this statement, and give This to His children, and It’s the best that’s ever been yet.
63 Satan, in Eden, when he first come to these attack, to attack a person, knowing the children of God was fortified with this Word, Satan attacked the Word. See? He never attacked the being. He attacked the Word, first.
The Greatest Battle Ever Fought
62-0311 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
149 The great hour of charge is at hand. Hallelujah! Soldier, with armors gleaming, colors streaming! Faith and doubt is setting yourself in array, in this tabernacle, this morning; doubt on one side, faith on the other. Soldiers, stand at your post of duty. Hallelujah! Our Captain, the Morning Star, leads on. He never goes back. He (never) don’t know the word retreat. He don’t have to retreat. Amen. Certainly.
150 The greatest battle ever fought, she is going on right in here now, yes, sir, between life and death, between sickness and health, between faith and doubt, oh, my, between liberty and bondage. The battle is on! Shine your spears, soldiers. Polish up the armor. God is getting His soldiers ready. Amen. God anoints His army.
151 America dresses their soldiers in the best that they can have to dress with: steel helmets, and armors, and whatever they got, armored tanks, whatever they go in.
152 God dresses His army. Hallelujah! What kind of equipment do we use? The Spirit of the Sword, the Word of God! Amen! “The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword,” Hebrews 4, “piercing even to the asunder the bone, even the—the marrow of the bone, even a Discerner of the thoughts of the mind.” The Word of God! To believe His Word, and that’s the way God armors.
153 That’s what He give Eve to arm herself with. And she broke her armor down. How’d she do it? By opening up her mind to reason. You don’t reason with God’s Word. It has no reason. You…It’s just God’s Word. There’s no—there’s no doubt about It. There’s no reasoning to It. It’s God’s Word. That settles it. That’s got it. That settles it forever.
The Conflict Between God And Satan
62-0531 · Clarksville, Indian
61 And we find Jesus on earth, just to prove this was the best equipment, when Satan come in hand-to-hand combat with Jesus, He never just reached over with His Power and tied his hands. He just took the same weapon that God gave in the garden of Eden, His Word, and said, “It’s written…It’s written…” And He punched him right out of the ring, with It, that’s right, because It’s God’s best.
62 And look where it is. It’s not just for one or two, in a church. It’s for every one of us. Every believer has a right to take this Word and fight the enemy anywhere you meet him. Anywhere you meet the enemy, this Word is what you have to use. And Jesus proved it when He come. So He equipped His children with the Word, for their protection against the enemy. When the all-out warfare comes, and the battles, and set in array, then there’s only one thing a real soldier can use, a real Christian soldier, that’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. Walk right out there and meet the enemy, with the assurance that nothing…“Thousand may fall at your right, and ten thousand at the left, but it won’t come nigh thee.” Just remember that God made this statement, and give This to His children, and It’s the best that’s ever been yet.
63 Satan, in Eden, when he first come to these attack, to attack a person, knowing the children of God was fortified with this Word, Satan attacked the Word. See? He never attacked the being. He attacked the Word, first.
To Take On The Whole Armor Of God
62-0701 · Santa Maria, California
55O Oh, first it was the Spoken Word out yonder. Now, here It is; you could touch it; It’s made flesh. And then when the enemy still come in like a flood, He poured the Word into the person, being the form of the Holy Ghost. There’s your one, two, three again: justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost, Like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and so forth, in perfection.
Now, notice the Spoken Word. God above us, God with us, God in us: the Word above us, the Word with us, the Word in us. Hallelujah. Ye are God’s, God’s army, marching on: God’s Spoken Word above us in a Pillar of Fire; God’s manifestation of His Word in flesh; now God’s Spirit, Spoken Word, in us. Amen. Oh.
Putting On The Whole Armor Of God
62-0607 · Southern Pines, North Carolina
76Now, God fortified His army. What with? Himself, in the form of prophets, apostles, teachers, pastors. What did He do? What was God doing? Listen, did you ever think what that offices of the church is? It’s God’s dress, inside dress, an apostle, a prophet, a seer. Foresee, before Satan ever gets to it, done told it. What is it? God dressed up in His church. These offices is God’s dress-wear. When you see those offices, pastors, teachers, evangelists, what is that? That’s God’s dress-wear, God’s Presence, God’s Spirit (And if…) working through man. And if that office denies any of this Word, then it’s not God-dressing…?… No, not that. That’s that wolf in sheep’s clothing. Watch that fellow. Beware of him.
The Identified Masterpiece Of God
64-1205 · Yuma, Arizona
179No matter what the world may say, they may call us “crazy, hysterical, or Beelzebubs, or heretics,” whatever they want to be. I still want to be identified with that group. I’m still there. I’m remain there. I was born there. I want to stay there. I’ll always be there, ‘cause God placed me there. I am. I left my church, to come identify myself with a bunch of holy-rollers. I’m one of them. I’m identified with them. They say, “Billy, you lost your mind.”
180**Maybe I did, but I found the mind of Christ. I found His Word, found His Presence, found that He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever!…**care what anybody else thinks about it. This is me. I’m the one that has to make my identification. I’m identified with Him, by God’s Word. He said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” I’m glad I’m identified in that. Yes, sir.
The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed
62-0318 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
227So, believers, of the Word and Spirit, must be one. You get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Believers, the Word and the Spirit, are absolutely one. You don’t do your own thinking. You don’t use your own mind. Isn’t that wonderful? [“Amen.”] The mind was in Christ is in you. See? The mind is in Christ, and you’ll take the Word just like He did,‘cause He was the Word. And the mind of Christ in you, you are the Word. You’re God’s living Word, representatives of Him, here on earth, that’s right, continuing the work. The Church should be that way. And when so, the Bible is manifested again like in the early days of the disciples. Just like the disciple, the Bible is living again, in you.
The Spoken Word Is The Original Seed
62-0318 · Jeffersonville, Indiana
358 Notice what harmony! Jesus never did anything until seen of the Father, or, the Father showed Him first. Harmony between God and Christ, see, John 5:19. So will the Bride, and He shows Her His Word of Life. He shows Her, and She receives It. She never doubts It. Nothing can harm Her, not even death. For if the Seed be planted, the water will raise It up again. (Amen. Then I got a great big “Hallelujah!”) Here is the secret. The Word is in the Bride, and the mind of Christ, to know what He wants done with the Word. And She does it in His Name. She has THUS SAITH THE LORD. Then It is germitized, so the Holy Spirit waters It until It is grown and serves Its purpose.
359 They do only His will. (Amen. I’ll believe that.) No one can persuade them different**. They have THUS SAITH THE LORD or they keep still.** Then they will do the works of God, for It is Himself in them continuing His Word to fulfill, as He did complete in His days. All things, when He was here, He did not complete all when He was here, for it was not time yet.
The Seventh Seal
63-0324E · Jeffersonville, Indiana
35 May I just pass this to you. When the Supernatural comes in, that’s the mind of Christ. You become so far away from your own thinking, till, in your own mind, I…This, you…I don’t…Don’t let me try to explain that, because I can’t. See? I couldn’t do it. There is nobody could do it.
Watered It With Praise
Who is This?
59-1122 · San Jose, California
18What if Abraham would’ve took what it looked like, twenty-five years waiting for a promise that God gave him? Why, he’d have never had the baby. They’d have never—he’d never been the father of little Isaac. But he believed God’s Word and wouldn’t turn It loose. But he watered it day and night, strong, giving praise unto God. Oh, when Sarah would say, “Honey, it’s been twenty-five years ago since the promise was made, here I am nearly a hundred.”
He’d say, “Praise God, we’re going to have it anyhow, ‘cause God said so, and that settles it.” That’s right. He knowed the nature of God because he was a friend of God. He knowed how to take Him, because he knowed that His promises, no matter how foolish they looked, or how simple they looked, or how unreasonable they looked, they were true because God said so, and that settled it forever.
That’s the way every seed of Abraham does today. That’s the way the borned again Christian does today. No matter what the world says, what science says, what they say, this, that, or the other, God’s Word stands above it all. And they’re looking at His Word and what He said to be the truth. It doesn’t matter if they say today the world can’t be burned up, and the dead, or them bodies can’t rise again. God said so, and that’s the truth; that settles it forever. God said so, and we keep our eyes on what He said.