Jesus had all the fine qualities of God in Him. Do you believe it? He had powers upon powers, but when He met Satan, He never used His power, He give an example for the weakest of Christians. When He met Satan, He said, “It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” The weakest Christian can take that stand, hold it. Sure, God’s in His Word. Every time when He meet the enemy, He said, “It is written.” I believe He had power to do it, but He met Satan on the same grounds with the same Word that you can meet him with, every one: “It’s written.” You believe it? Why, it’s written, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them.” Watch the order of the Word: “Believe,” now, present tense, “you receive it, and you shall have it.” It’ll be given to you later, but believe it now. Before you can get your crop, you got to plant the seed, water it, believe it. Don’t dig it up every morning to see if it’s…every time you dig it up, you’ll delay it that much more, it’ll never grow if you keep digging it up.

Show Us the Father and It Suffices, 1950-08-19, Cleveland, OH, §43