And that’s the way tonight. Many of you here may seem like that your time of deliverance is way away. But sometime when it seems the farthest away, and the darkest of hour, that’s when you receive help from God. There’s an old God dishonoring proverb which says, “God helps those who help themself.” That’s an error. God helps those who can’t help themself. If you could help yourself, you wouldn’t need God’s help. But God has mercy on those who cannot help themself. And Simeon, he wasn’t ashamed of his testimony. Why? Because the Holy Spirit told him so. Now, if I wanted to base the thought here for a few moments, which I will for just a moment, I’m going to take the word: “Expectancy.” And usually a person gets what you expect. Many people comes to meetings, they go to church. Say, “Why, I didn’t see nothing. I didn’t expect to see anything in the first place.” That’s the reason you didn’t see nothing. “I didn’t get helped. I didn’t expect to.” You usually get what you expect to get. If you come to the service and you’re expecting to find something to criticize, a religious service, Satan will be sure that you see it. He will show you something that you can go away and criticize the meeting.

Expectancy, 1953-11-08, Owensboro, KY, §8