You got to get the man right in his heart first, before he can believe. He ain’t got nothing to believe on. He ain’t got nothing to believe with. I’m sure the little, infant brain of a man knows nothing about belief. He’s got to have something in there stimulates his faith and makes him look yonder to his Creator, and believes the very God that “Phew!” blowed the moon and stars off of His hand can do all things. This world was made by faith. God spoke the world into existence. This very world that we’re setting on right tonight, is nothing else but the Word of God materialized. If it didn’t, where did He get the material to make it out of? He said, “Let there be…” And there was. And every Word of God has got to be so. And He’s God, and He has to keep His Word. And you take any Divine promise in your heart and say, “That’s my personal property. It belongs to me. I am a believer.” And accept it on that basis and watch what it’ll do. It’ll make cancers move. It’ll make blind eyes come open. It’ll make cripples walk. It’ll make deaf hear. I know what I’m talking about, for I put it to a test and to an experience, now for years and years, around the whole world; and the whole world knows about it.

Taking God at His Word, 1953-11-03, Owensboro, KY, §10