Now, Simeon believed because the Holy Ghost had promised him. He was looking for it. If you’re expecting it, you got something behind that you believe that God has promised it, then you got a right to expect it. Is that right? When God promises it… Now, I might break my promise, ’cause I’m a man. And your friend might break his promise or her promise, but God won’t break His promise. He can’t, because He’s God. Can you imagine how pure and unadulterated His promises are, how infinite? Why, if I’d go to a spring and my grandfather drank out of that spring and it was clear, and—and tested the water, it was a hundred percent pure…My father drink out of it; it was hundred percent pure. And all down through life, I’d dranken out of it at a hundred percent pure, why, I’d have enough faith to go back and believe if I take a drink of water, it would be all right. Wouldn’t you? Through the generations, down through several generations, it’s been proven one hundred percent pure. Why? Because the stream that’s gushing it up, where it’s coming from, its foundations down here, its bed, is throwing up pure water. Now, if it’ll test one hundred percent pure, how much more will the promise of God test one hundred percent right. Because the basis of it, God’s Word comes from God, which is infinite and pure and holy, and He can’t lie, for He’s God. There you are. Now, when God promises anything, say, “That’s right.” Amen.

Expectations, 1951-05-07, Los Angeles, CA, §27