Soon as you hear the Word of God that says you can be set free, believe it. Rejoice with it. God will show the evidence after you’ve accepted it. But first you accept it. Christ died for sinners. I believe it. I accept it. I start rejoicing. God works righteousness by it. I believe He was striped for my healing. I believe it. I accept it. God’s works healing for me. See? Just as soon as I believe. He can’t help me till I believe. I’ve got to believe and confess it first, and then God’s under obligation to His Word. And if He’s Almighty God, He can do all things. And if He cannot do all things, He’s not Almighty God. There it is. All right. Notice. What kind of a boy ought this to be? What kind of a person? God keeping His Word, God’s promised to do anything, God will do it. When the children of Israel was led out of Egypt, God promised to take care of them as they journeyed through the wilderness. God said He would take care of them, and He did do it. No matter where the path led, any enemy got in God’s path, it give way. I can see them come up to the Red Sea. God had His map drawed out, way He was going to take them. They will move right up to the Red Sea: no way at all across it. Here was Pharaoh’s army, the mountains on one side, Pharaoh’s army here, the Red Sea in front of them. Moses lifted up his hands. Psalms 72 said God looked down. He seen that path laying through the bottom of the sea. There was His children right there, needing the promise, taking God at His Word.

I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §24