Everybody is always looking at their symptoms. The pastor will pray for them; they go over and say, “Well, I don’t seem to be any better.” Well, that’s not healing. Symptoms is the worst thing that’s…That’s one of the greatest scarecrows the devil’s got. Symptoms don’t have nothing to do with it, it’s because God said so. My, if there’s anybody ever had a case of symptoms, it was Jonah. He ought to had symptoms, backslid, hands tied behind him, in the belly of a whale, about a mile deep in the ocean, a stormy sea, seaweeds wrapped around his neck. Talk about symptoms, he looked this way, it was whales belly. He looked that way it was whales belly. Everywhere he looked was whales belly. But he said, “They’re lying vanities.” Right. “He said, “I won’t look at these whales belly any more, but once more will I look to Your holy temple, Lord.” Depends on what you’re looking at. If you’re looking at your symptoms they’ll be there. If you look to God’s Word, symptoms will have to vanish. Why did Jonah do that? Is because that he knowed that when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, “Lord, if Thy children be in trouble any place, and will looks towards this holy place and pray, then You hear from heaven.”

Expectations, 1953-05-07, Jonesboro, AR, §24