Topic: Faith

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Does what a person expects affect what they receive from God in a meeting?

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Did you ever expect something? Usually, you get just what you expect. Did you know that? If you come to the meeting, and would say, “Well, I’m going down there. There’s nothing to it,” well, that’s just what you’ll get out of it. If you would get down there, and say, “Well, I—I’ll go down there, but...

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What should a believer do when people say divine healing is not right?

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“Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, you shall have it.” Do you believe that? Then take, no matter what person says, “Divine healing’s not right,” what person says, “this is not right,” take God at His Word. He said, “Let every man’s word be a lie and Mine be true.”...

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Does God show the evidence of His promise before or after a person accepts it?

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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 fo...

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What determines what a person gets from a gift God sends?

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It’s your attitude towards it. Your attitude towards God’s Divine gift, will purchase just what you ask for. Do you understand? Oh, how I’d like to stop right here, Brother Boze, and punch that for about a half hour, but I can’t do it. Your attitude: God can send a gift, and no matter what you…Depen...

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How did Mary respond when the angel told her she would have a Child?

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Now, He could reveal something to you, and if you don’t believe it, it’ll never be active in your life. You have to believe it. You have to take God at His Word just like Mary did when she…the angel met her and said, “You’re going to have a Child, knowing no man.” Well, instead of—of—of fussing abou...

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What happened to Abraham's faith while he waited for the promised child?

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If there ever was a time the church of God needs some more Marys, it’s today: taking God at His Word. When God says anything, He means just what He said. Abraham looked at Him; he said, “I know He’s able to—to do that what He promised to do. I’m old, a hundred years old, but that’s all right. Sarah’...

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Does what a person expects affect what they receive from God?

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You get what you’re looking for. If you’re expecting tonight to get healed, you’re going to get healed. If you’re not expecting it, you would usually…If you come to the meeting tonight just to say, “Well, I’ll see what goes on.” That’s all you’ll see. If you say, “I—I—I know that’s not right.” The d...

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What is the difference between faith and hope?

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I believe it’s written in the Scripture, one of the writers said, “Above all things, I would that you’d prosper in health.” And now, I pray that God will let every sick person in here, tonight, be well. I’m sure it’s the will of God that all of you would be well. He wants you to be well, if you and...

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What senses does the inward man have?

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Faith is an element. It’s a sense. It’s the sixth sense of the human body, or, the…it’s the one sense…the human soul has two senses. Part of a man, that his five senses control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the inward man has two senses: that’s faith, unbelief. One of them gover...

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What should a person do when knowledge and reasoning can take them no farther?

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I said, “This is the Tree of Faith.” I said, “A man has knowledge which is by five senses.” I said, “He’s done a great job of it.” But I said, “you know what’s the matter with you fellows, with all your education.” I said, “I’m not trying to support my ignorance now”; said, “we use crutches of this,...

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Can someone believe with all their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and still live the life they lived before?

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You can’t believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and live the same life that you once lived. That’s right. That makes it pretty strong. That’s not skim milk by a long ways, but it’s good for you. You can’t believe with all your heart, that He is the Son of God, and accept Him as your personal...

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Is faith only an evidence, or is it a substance?

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I’ll tell you what we’ll do. I want you to get in Romans 4, also. I’m going to teach a little about faith. That’s what we all need a whole lot of. Isn’t it? Faith is not a…is not an evidence only; it’s the substance. Faith itself is a substance and an evidence of things that the senses of the body w...

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Can a person contact God through the physical senses?

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Now, the senses are worldly instruments. Do you believe it? Now, God can control them, I’ll admit that. But they are not given to us to contact our Heavenly Father, because He is not in human flesh. God is a Spirit. And we contact Him by spirit, through faith, believing. Now if we say I—I have a…

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How does faith compare with the five senses of the body?

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Faith is a individual sense besides any there. It’s the—the sixth sense. That’s the outside man, that God put in human flesh here, give him five senses to contact his earthly home. And the inside man, the spirit has two senses, and that is unbelief and faith. And when your faith says that you’re goi...

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Does what a person expects when coming to a meeting affect what they receive?

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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, wh...

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What should someone do whose faith is only as small as a mustard seed?

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Some people has great big faith like this, anything can happen. The next has faith that deep, takes a little longer. Next has faith that deep, takes quite a little while. Some has faith like a mustard seed. But if it’s mustard seed faith, genuine faith, hold on to it; just keep believing it; it’ll b...

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Is God known by knowledge or by faith?

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In the garden of Eden there were two trees, one of them was the knowledge. And the other one the Tree of Life. And when man left the Tree of Life and took the first bite off the tree of knowledge, he separated himself from God. And now he bit off gunpowder, destroys himself. He bit off an electricit...

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What does Mark 11:24 say about the order of believing and receiving?

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Every seed will bring forth of its kind, is that right? Wheat will bring forth a wheat. Barley will bring barley. Corn will bring corn. Is that right? Well, Jesus said the Word of God was a Seed. Is that right? Now, Mark 11:24 a Seed then? Jesus said, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, be...

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Does what a person expects affect whether they are healed?

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And how many in here tonight is expecting to be healed tonight, let’s see your hands? Well, you’re not going to be disappointed then. If you…You just can’t be disappointed if you’re expecting it. If you’re not expecting it, you say, “Well, I’ll wait maybe tomorrow afternoon; I’ll get it tomorrow aft...

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What does 'faith is the substance of things hoped for' in Hebrews 11:1 mean?

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I want to read just a little Scripture before I express that thought: Hebrews 11:1. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen. Now, faith is the substance. Now, it isn’t just a—a makeup, or a thought, it’s a real substance. It’s something that’s just as real as...