Topic: Faith and God's promises

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What does Brother Branham mean by 'the right mental attitude' toward God's promise?

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Now, the right mental attitude…All you along here, do you understand what I mean when I say, “The right mental attitude?” That’s…Your right mental attitude towards God’s Divine promise will bring any promise to pass. Now, maybe you don’t believe that. You say, “Well, my faith is weak.” I wouldn’t co...

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What should you say if symptoms appear after hands have been laid on you for healing?

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Now, the Bible said, “These signs shall follow them that believe.” Is that right? “If they…” Now, that’s the last Words that Jesus give the Church. “If they lay their hands on the sick…” What will happen? “They shall recover.” Now, if symptoms should arise, what would you say? “It is written.” Is th...

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Did the woman who touched Jesus' garment have a Scripture promise for her healing?

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Now, listen to the Scripture, not the promise that you have. But she said in her heart, “If I touch His garment, I will be whole.” See? Now, you have more than that. You have a Divine promise. Is that right? You have a Divine promise, and a Divine gift here in your midst now. Just look how much more...

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What does 'the High Priest of our confession' in Hebrews 3:1 mean?

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Now, when…There was no one could tell me what to do by a gift when I was at Mayo Brother’s at Rochester, when they looked at me, the best doctors in the world, and said, “You haven’t even got any kind of a chance.” See? But one Scripture, that’s Hebrews 3:1…I seen that. That He is the High Priest of...

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What has to happen for a promise of God to produce results?

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Now, the way to raise a crop, is first get the ground ready. Is that right? Take out all the stink weeds, and the briers, the creepers. That’s unbelief and doubt. Sweep it out of your heart. Get ready. Then the field’s broke up. I’m not very much on this dry-eyed repentance. I like to see a man come...

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Is a person saved by what they feel at the altar, or by what God's Word says?

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Them theories don’t change God’s Word. No, sir. God’s Word is eternally true, and It’s right, and It…our faith is based on there. And by… I’m not saved today because I got down at the altar and cried. [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] I’m saved because the Word of God tells me I’m saved. Satan can whip me ar...

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How did Mary's response to the angel differ from Zacharias's?

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Notice, but this little woman…Zacharias back there, he had much Scriptures behind him to believe where miracles had happened on the same order. But Mary, there had never been a baby born like that. But notice, instead of fussing at the Angel like Zacharias did, she said, “Behold the handmaid of the...

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How is the Word of God like a seed?

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Now, many times…Now, these may seem strange. Everybody be real reverent. If you can get the person…Just what I was trying to do to the woman, was get her in the right mental attitude; she wouldn’t have to be prayed for. The right mental attitude towards any promise of God will bring it to pass. Do y...

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Why say that something God promised is done before it can be seen?

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Look, Abraham believed God, and he testified concerning the things that was not, for he had God’s Word. That was enough for Abraham. Twenty-five years later, the promise came to—come to pass. And today we believe God, express His Word, say that it’s done before it is done; because faith is the subst...

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How did Mary receive the Angel's promise differently from Zacharias?

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Now, I want you to notice something closely. Look when the Angel came to the priest, Zacharias, and told him that Sarah…or Elisabeth was going to have a child by him, he had plenty of examples before that. Hannah had had a child past age of bearing. Sarah, near a hundred years old or better, had bro...

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What is the lesson of Peter saying, 'At Thy word I will let down the net'?

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Peter said, “Lord, we’ve toiled all night, and have taken nothing.” That’s discouraging. They were fishermen. They just wasn’t guessing. They knowed where the sea, and how the moon should be, and where the fish was. They was la—ra—raised on that sea, Galilean. And they’d toiled all night through tha...

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Whose message from the angel was harder to believe, Zacharias's or Mary's?

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Now, I want you to look at the difference between Mary and Zacharias. Zacharias, that minister, Gospel minister, or a preacher, as it was in that day, priest in the temple, had knowed all kinds of things that had happened before of the miraculous power of God, but doubted the Angel in his case, wher...

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What did Peter mean when he said, 'Nevertheless at Thy word I will let down the net'?

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Now, maybe you have to be educated. Maybe that’s why the sickness is on you, that God has to educate you to a place that He is, and a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Maybe that’s what your faith is give to you. That’s why the sickness come upon you, to test your faith. Then you can walk o...