If you believe, whatever you believe…If you come to the meeting tonight, just to find something to go away to criticizing it, devil will show it to you; you’ll see it. And if you come to find something about God, that you could go away and be blessed, God will show it to you. Whatever you desire, whatever you are, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” You go away and say, “Well, I—I didn’t expect to be called in the prayer line.” Well. “I—I didn’t expect the Holy Spirit to speak and call me out here.” If you don’t expect it, you won’t receive it. But, as you believe (See?), expectancy… My mother one time sent me to a place to meet her sister. I’d never seen her. She told me what I would look like, what she would look like. Said, “Now, she’ll have a high forehead.” Said, “She’s got dark hair.” My mother’s a half-breed; she’s an Indian. And so she said, “She’ll have a high forehead. She’s got thin hair.” And described how she looks. Said, “She’s thin, little woman.” And said, “You’ll know her by certain descriptions.” And I was looking through the audience, and I had some idea of what she looked like, and as soon as I seen her I said, “You’re my Auntie.” She said, “Who are you?” And I said, “You know Ella Branham?” Said, “Yes.” I said, “That’s my mother.” She said, “My sister.” And there we was. See?

Expectation, 1951-09-30, New York, NY, §20