In other words, I can hear Peter say, “Well, Lord, why, we’re fishermen. Why, we—we was born and raised on this sea here. Why, we know when the moon’s right, and when all the signs are right. There’s not even a fish in that water. Well, we toiled all night long. And we know when the signs are right, and we never even took one fish. We took nothing. And then You come around and tell me to go back in the same waters where I’ve been seining? And let down and get a whole boat full of them? Why, it couldn’t be.” If he’d have said that, then he wouldn’t have got them. But he said, “Lord, I’ve toiled all night, and have taken nothing: but nevertheless, at Thy Word I’m going to let down the net.” There you are. There’s the secret: Taking God at His Word. If there was no fish there, God’s able to put fish there. He did do it. That same net that went through that water all night long and caught nothing, but look when God said, “Put it down there.”

At Thy Word, 1953-06-08, Connersville, IN, §18