Expectations

Now, this is not to be—to be humble, or it’s not to show off, but from the bottom of my heart, I wished I had a place where I could work while in these meetings (That’s right.) so I wouldn’t have to even take up an offering or something. That’s the truth. I just dread the thoughts of taking up an offering. Don’t know w...

You notice in the night I’ll have you stand up and put your hands on one another, and if the person gets healed, then the person say, “Well, Sister So-and-so had her hands laying on me.” See? Or, “Brother So-and-so had his hands laying on me.” Many times a Christian has his hands laying on a sinner. He said, “A Christi...

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...

Daniel, when they told him they was going to throw him into the lions’ den, he was expecting God to be there. He believed that he lived right before God and he had a right. And every day he raised the shades, if there was any in them days, towards the temple and looked towards that holy temple and prayed. Because he be...

If you had a watch in the pawn shop, somebody went down and—and paid the pawn bill, or ever what you had on it, and the man gave a receipt and sent it back and said, “Here you are it’s paid off,” you’ve got a right to go down, not pay for the watch again, go down show the receipt and take your watch. Is that right? Or...

There he is now, backslid, stormy sea, hands tied behind him, belly of a whale. Every time that fish eats it goes to the bottom of the sea and or the…A goldfish, when you feed him, he’ll go down and throw his little swimmers out and rest at the bottom of the water, the bowl. He’s found his prey and fed and went down to...