Let’s take just a little subject for the next ten, fifteen minutes and say, on the word, “Expectancy.” You know, usually you get what you expect to get. If you come to the meeting saying, “Well, I’m going down there just to see what I can see. I don’t believe it in the first place.” Well, the devil’s going to show you something that you won’t believe. That…You can just depend on that. But if you are coming expecting to get a blessing. God will see that you get it. It’s just—it’s just the attitude that you come in if you’re expecting. Now, I was reading here some time ago in the Scripture, where David said, “The deep calleth to the deep.” And the deep calling to the deep, there’s bound to be a deep to respond to that call. As I’ve many times said, “Before there was a fin on a fish’s back. There had to be a water first for him to swim in or it would have no fin.” Brother Ryan, he wouldn’t have any use for that fin. So he had to have a water there first and that’s the reason he had a fin. And the next thing we know, that…Well, let’s see before there was a tree to grow in the earth, there had to be an earth first for it to grow in, or there wouldn’t be any tree. Because if there wasn’t any earth, there’d be no tree to grow in it.

Expectancy, 1953-09-03, Chicago, IL, §6