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Why did Jonah look toward the temple while he was in the whale's belly?

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Jonah said, “They are lying vanities.” He said, “Once more will I look to Your holy temple,” told God. Because when Solomon dedicated that temple, he said, “If Thy people be in trouble anywhere and look to this holy place and pray, then You hear from heaven.” And he believed, Jonah believed that God...
Accept God's Gift, 1953-02-19, Tallahassee, FL, §13 Read more →

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Would it make any difference to the sick if Christ were here in person?

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Now, if He was here He might tell you what was wrong with you, tell you your conditions, what to do, but He couldn’t heal you. If He was standing here Himself with this suit on, He couldn’t heal you, ’cause He’s already done it. Well, He can’t do it the second time. He could say, “I am the Christ an...
All Things Are Possible to Them That Believe, 1953-02-18, Tallahassee, FL, §5 Read more →

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What is the checkbook Jesus hands a person when they get saved?

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Use our armor. We’ve got a armor. God works with us and gives us the armor. And the whole armor is on the supernatural. See, see? Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, it’s all in the supernatural. And as you let your faith loose to God’s Spirit, it brings your b...
Only Believe, 1953-02-17, Tallahassee, FL, §4 Read more →

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Is a man limited to his five senses?

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And in time, the old wheels grind slow, but it grinds sure. It’s got to be just the way God said it was going to be. No matter how unreal It seems, but It’s going to be that way, as we talked last night. One time they didn’t have electricity, but some man believed there was such a thing. And he kept...
Only Believe, 1953-02-17, Tallahassee, FL, §10 Read more →

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What dispensation are we living in?

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We’re living, not in the Christian dispensation, but in the Holy Spirit dispensation. It’s the—the acts of Holy Spirit in the Church, the Church reaction to what the Holy Spirit is in Them. Marvelous day we’re living in, greatest time of all ages. We’re now living just at the closing of the scene of...
My Angel Shall Go before Thee, 1953-02-16, Tallahassee, FL, §7 Read more →

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Who was the Pillar of Fire that led Israel out of Egypt?

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And that Pillar of Fire, or the Angel, was the Angel of the covenant. I believe all ministers would agree with that, that That was the Angel of the covenant. If It was the Angel of the covenant, then It was the Lord Jesus, It was God the Holy Spirit. For Moses chose to—to suffer the reproach of Chri...
My Angel Shall Go before Thee, 1953-02-16, Tallahassee, FL, §9 Read more →

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What is the strongest weapon a Christian has?

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Now, along this journey He’s promised to supply everything that we have need of, “Whatsoever you will ask the Father in My Name, that will I do. Whatsoever things…” Mark 11:24 “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, you shall have it.” Now, He gave us the strongest weap...
My Angel Shall Go before Thee, 1953-02-16, Tallahassee, FL, §12 Read more →

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In 'the world seeth Me no more, but ye shall see Me', who is 'ye'?

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Jesus said, “A little while and the world seeth Me no more. But ye shall see Me.” And “ye” is His church, you. The unbeliever never sees Him. It’s the believer that sees Him. “A little while and the world seeth Me no more. Yet ye shall see Me, for I’ll be with you, even in you to end of the world.”...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1953-02-15, Tallahassee, FL, §8 Read more →

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How does a person serve God?

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I’ve always knowed this and I found this in my life of ministry. If you’ll…If you want to serve God, serve His people. That’s how we serve. As we love one another, we love God. And I love His people, and I’m doing all that I know how to try to represent our Lord Jesus Christ to them in a way of His...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §4 Read more →

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When were believers saved and healed?

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How many that has been saved in the last ten years? Let’s see your hand. Been saved the last ten years? Now, I don’t want to differen with you, but you wasn’t saved in the last ten years. You were saved nineteen hundred years ago, and you accepted it in the last ten years. Is that right? That’s righ...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §17 Read more →

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What brings a Divine promise of God to pass?

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Now, and—and now, here’s another statement I want you to remember, and you—you especially here that’s so sick setting here, these cancer cases and so forth tonight. Look, that, the right mental attitude towards any Divine promise of God will bring it to pass. Can you understand what I mean? The righ...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §25 Read more →

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What should someone do who thinks they have crossed the separating line?

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I just want to say, there’s so many people passing through here that’s suffering with mental oppression, demon manifestation, but oppression: Satan. I seen a vision break before me of a young lady. She went back there, and set down a few minutes ago, that thinks she’s crossed the separating line. Do...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §96 Read more →

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Does healing depend on excitement or emotion?

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You think that I’m just asking His blessings for the people. They been healed. See? You might not see. Healing doesn’t consist of excitement; healing consists of power. See? I’ve seen many who…It’s not—it’s not emotion: healing. You just stomp, and scream, and cry at the demons; they won’t move. But...
Jesus Christ the Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever, 1952-10-27, Edmonton, AB, §103 Read more →

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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...
Expectancy, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §33 Read more →

Question

What does the name El Shaddai mean?

Answer

When He appeared to Abraham when He was a hundred years old, He said, “I am the El Shaddai.” El Shaddai means, El comes from God, Shaddai from shad, means “the—the bosom,” like on a woman. In other words, “Abraham, I am the breasted One. You just come to Me, I know you’re old, and you can’t—you can’...
Expectancy, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §110 Read more →

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How is the Holy Spirit related to Christ?

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Now, He sits at the right hand of the Father tonight, God Almighty, to make—as a high Priest, to act in our stead (Do you believe that?) to make intercessions upon our confession. Is that right? Hebrews 3:1. “He is the high Priest of our confession.” Whatever we confess that He has done…First, we ha...
Do You Now Believe?, 1952-08-17, Battle Creek, MI, §12 Read more →

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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.”...
Faith (Africa Trip Report), 1952-08-16, Battle Creek, MI, §108 Read more →

Question

Did the Old Testament sacrifices take away sin, or only cover it?

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We know this, that in the Old Testament the blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin. It only covered sin. And the living just waiting in—in paradise for the day that sin should be taken away. But when Jesus came, the Son of God, the Messiah, He took away sin. He divorced it, never covered i...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §4 Read more →

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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...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §24 Read more →

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Does the devil come against a person right after they are baptized with the Holy Ghost?

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Now, look. Then I seen John, when he came out there and begin to preach, my, just with repentance, as hard as he could preach. Laying at the axe to the root of the tree, and every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the sea. And then notice, or into the fire, rather....
I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1952-08-10, Chicago, IL, §45 Read more →

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