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How is faith different from hope?

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Now, hope is one thing and faith is another. Faith is a positive sense. It’s not a guesswork; you don’t just imagine it. It’s just as real as any other sense of your body, just the same as sight is. Sight is real. Hearing is real. See, taste, feel, smell, and hear, the five senses of the body that c...
Ministry Explained, 1950-07-11, Minneapolis, MN, §14 Read more →

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How does expectation affect what a person receives from God?

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Daniel was expecting God to deliver him from the lions’ den. The Hebrew children, when they went in the fiery furnace, they said, “Our God is able…” They was expecting God to deliver them. And they made the last step of the way before He came, but He’s always there at the last end. Jesus comes in th...
Expectation, 1950-04-05, New York, NY, §29 Read more →

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Does receiving healing depend on what you feel?

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There’s a fountain open, flowing freely everywhere. Just drink till you just can’t drink no more. The tree, if it just drink to what it was allotment, why, it would just always, still in the drought. That’s what’s the matter with the Christians. They don’t drink enough. You want to drink till you ju...
God in His People, 1950-02-27, Little Rock, AR, §9 Read more →

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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...
Believest Thou This?, 1950-01-15, Houston, TX, §29 Read more →

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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...
At Thy Word, Lord, 1948-03-05, Phoenix, AZ, §20 Read more →

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What are the senses of the spirit, compared with the five senses of the body?

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Your faith is the only thing that can do you any good, your belief, your faith in God. See what I mean? Without faith, it’s impossible. Is that true? Now, you believe it with all your heart when you come through, that you’re going be well, and you’ll get well. If you don’t believe it, it won’t get w...
Experiences, 1948-03-02, Phoenix, AZ, §69 Read more →

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What does it mean that faith is 'the substance of things hoped for'?

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My Scripture lesson tonight said, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” See, it’s a substance, it’s something direct, something that you really have, not something that you imagine, something that you think you have, but it’s some direct, positive act that yo...
Faith Is the Substance, 1947-04-12, Oakland, CA, §44 Read more →

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Does having faith to be healed depend on how well a person serves God?

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I’ve seen many people come by, lovely people, real Christians, but didn’t have enough faith to be healed, and some sinner pass by and has the faith to be healed. See? It’s another element altogether. It’s not how well you serve God, it’s an element that you possess yourself. Now, I want you to see t...
Faith Is the Substance, 1947-04-12, Oakland, CA, §52 Read more →

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Why is faith compared to a mustard seed?

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You see what I mean? Now, I’ve often wondered why He said mustard seed. I might drop this thought. Mustard seed is the smallest among all seed, that’s right, but there isn’t nothing will mix with mustard seed, is all mustard. You can’t mix it with kale or nothing and make it grow, it’s all mustard....
Faith Is the Substance, 1947-04-12, Oakland, CA, §101 Read more →

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How is faith related to the five senses of the body?

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All right. Now, you see what faith is? It’s something…Now look, friends, I know that all of you are, at least know this: This body is controlled by five senses. Is that right? All right, it’s got five senses is everything that controls this human body. Now listen real close, and give me your attenti...
Faith Is the Substance, 1947-04-12, Oakland, CA, §110 Read more →

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