It is very foolish to hesitate to trust
God.
All this reminds me of the man and
the happening that, they tell me, took place
very near Los Angeles, at our own Palisades
at the beach.
And in the darkness, a stranger missed his
footing and fell over.
And he had seen how high the Palisades
were during the day, and he knew they
sloped off down gradually, but he didn't know
just what part he'd fallen off, whether it
was the deep, uh, part or the deepest
part of what in the world would happen.
And he screamed for help, but no one
heard him.
The waves were washing him, but he was
able to cling to a little bush that
was there.
And he clung with might and manly, he
said, oh my God, help me, I can't
hang on forever, besides the roots may pull
out, and I'll be dashed to my death
on the stones below.
And finally, as he'd hung on for moments
on end, his fingers became cramped and he
could hold no longer, and so he had
to, he said, God, help me, and let
go.
And he fell exactly an inch and three
quarters.
An inch and three quarters.
We have no need to doubt God.
God lives.
God's Word is true.
God's Word has been proven.
And to assemble with this great multitude here
tonight, filled with hearts that know Jesus Christ
as their Savior.
Say amen.
No Jesus Christ is their healer.
No Christ is a baptizer but the Holy
Ghost.
And believe in the coming of the Lord.
Oh, thank God for the power of faith.
Faith are the steps that seem to fall
out of void, but really find the rock
beneath.
When faith is lost and honor dies, man
is dead.
Faith, it has been said, sometimes has a
trembling hand as it approaches God, but it
must never have a withered hand.
It must stretch and reach out and take
hold of him.
Just as a weak limb grows stronger by
exercise, your faith will be strengthened if you
will just stretch out and reach out and
leap out and take hold of God.
Hallelujah.
It has been said that faith without works,
that is, faith without getting up from that
bed, faith without jumping up from that wheelchair,
faith without throwing your walking stick away, is
dead.
Faith without taking your glasses off, if you
want your eyes healed, faith without taking your
ear trumpet out, faith without works is dead.
Put your faith into action.
When Paul perceived that a certain man had
faith to be healed, he said to him,
stand up right on my feet, and immediately
he leaped up, and because he leaped and
put his faith into action, he was healed.
Faith without works is like a bird without
wings.
Oh, I worried so much the last day
or two.
Uh, Tuesday, I had a lovely visit down
the coast, uh, motoring along trying get a
breath of fresh air to one of the
lovely old missions.
What is the name of that place?
San Juan Capistrana, and it was just at
the time of the Angelus, and they were
feeding those lovely white pigeons, and they were
so beautiful that I thought I'd like to
catch one.
They were all around me, but a multitude,
and so I reached out and I caught
one, as I thought, by both wings, but
I evidently just took hold of it by
the tail, and the whole tail came out
of my hand, and the poor little thing
flew away.
It didn't seem to be able to fly
straight or know which way it was going.
Oh, I have, I've been so anxious about
it, I've asked the Lord to help us
to grow a new tail, and I, this
is, I hope nobody knew that I was
the guilty party if they see that poor
little pigeon without a tail down there, but
faith without works is like a bird without
wings.
Though she may hop with her companions on
earth, yet she will never fly up into
heaven without both wings, faith and works joined
together.
Then does the soul mount up to her
eternal rest and power in God.
Why, faith is a key that unlocks the
treasuries of God in the celestial world, and
can bring down to us that which we
need tonight, for body, for soul, and for
spirit.
Glory to God.
Faith is a chain that binds us to
the infinite, a chain which will never break.
In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, a famous
and beloved chapter which doubtless many of you
have memorized and know by heart, having read
it so often, we read of the great
men and women of old who have dared
to believe God and the things which happened
to them.
For instance, Abraham dared to believe God for
his twin family, the family of Abimelech, for
serenity.
No child had ever been born in that
family, and he prayed for them, and God
made them productive, and their seed to this
day is spreading throughout the land.
Faith really brings a blessing every time.
Enoch knew the power of faith, and by
that power of faith, believing God took off
beyond the stratosphere.
Our Los Angeles newspapers these days speak much
of the bird men, men with wings, of
wrong way corrugan, and of huge, marvelous achievement.
They show us strange pictures of men wearing
a new type of mask, put fashion, I
believe, by the Mayo Clinic, so that they
will be able to breathe after they have
gone up into the stratosphere above.
I heard a radio interview a little while
ago.
Someone asked how high the stratosphere was, and
it developed that no one knows, just how
high up one can breathe.
But Enoch, by the power of God, hallelujah,
did more than corrugan or hughes or these
new stratosphere flyers.
He was caught up into the heavenlies and
away with God.
Conquered distance.
Moses knew the power of faith, and that
power was a very practical power of faith,
in that it supplied temporal needs.
When water was needed, he, by the grace
of God and upon the word and authority
of God, walked up to a great rock,
symbolic of Jesus Christ, struck that rock, and
water gushed forth, sufficient for all of the
people to drink all of their time in
the wilderness.
Moreover, by faith, that rock did follow them,
and that rock was Christ.
Yes, Moses, by the power of faith, conquered
temporal supply needs, so that the very heavens
rained down manna, and there was plenty for
everyone to eat.
And when they became weary of one diet,
he prayed again, and the Lord sent quail
on the breeze until everyone had meat to
eat.
Joshua knew the power of prayer.
Glory to God as he came to the
great armed city with its thick walls, which
we know as Jericho, and by marching around
and believing God in the face of scorning
and scoffing men, he was given, through faith,
power over the armaments of mankind, so that
God discomforted the enemy, and a great wall,
large enough for houses and streets to be
built upon it, was shaken as though by
an earthquake and fell to the earth and
lay in the dust.
God can let your wall fall tonight.
There is nothing that God cannot accomplish for
you if you will just trust in him.
The power of faith!
Elijah knew of faith and dared to believe
God, and he by faith conquered the elements
themselves, fire and water.
Lifting his hands to heaven, he prayed, O
Lord, send the fire!
And the true God let the flame descend
upon the altar.
Again he prayed, and the barren heavens rained
upon a land that was parched and thirsty.
Oh, hallelujah!
We're living in the day of the Holy
Ghost.
We're living in the day of a Pentecostal
outpouring, nearing the second coming of Jesus Christ.
If ever there was a time when men
and women needed to have faith in God
and step out upon the promise, it's today.
He will save you from sin, it matters
not what kind of sin or how great
your sin or how you have despaired or
what others think or say concerning your sin.
His blood can wash away all sin.
He loves you as though there were no
one else in the world but you.
He, Jesus Christ, can by the power of
faith heal you.
Not the one next to you, but you.
Because his mercies are not to certain people
and not to others.
His mercies are to us all.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget
not all his benefits, who forgive of all
mine iniquities and heal of all thy diseases.
By the power of faith, I have dared
to trust God.
These men had power over armaments, over the
elements, over transportation through distances, over fire, over
water, over rolling a Red Sea away, over
parting the River Jordan, over bringing down mammoth
from the skies, increasing the oil in the
widow's crews and meal in the barrel.
But I also have dared to believe God
by faith.
And with my own eyes, during my ministry,
have seen tens of thousands of actual cases
of healing that cannot be doubted.
I have seen cancers melt away in answer
to prayer, and the flesh which was once
eaten away fill up again with firm new
flesh.
I have seen withered limbs and tubercular bones
that were filled with pus and pockets instantly
healed so that the persons leaped from their
wheeling chairs or cast aside crutches and walked
up and down shouting, Go away to God!
I am healed by faith in the crucified
one, healed by faith in the resurrected one.
And the Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ
from the dead dwelling in us quickens our
mortal body, hallelujah, till we live in him.
I have had the joy of seeing blind
eyes opened.
I have heard the first quivering cry of,
Oh, I see, I see, suddenly burst into
the glorious shouting, I see, I see, I
tell you I can see.
Yes, I've watched people as their deaf ears
were opened, people who've been locked in a
dungeon of deafness for many, many years, unable
to hear the voices of their loved ones.
I've watched them and the expression of their
faces when their ears popped open, and they
were able to discern voices, hear the music,
hear those round about them.
I've heard the dumb maid to speak.
Oh, beloved, this is not unusual.
This is the same God who worked in
the Old Testament.
It is the same God who worked when
Jesus Christ walked this earth.
It is the same God who is poured
out to the Holy Ghost today, and whom
we will meet by and by, hallelujah.
Faith is a bridge between this world and
the next.
Glory be to God.
The power of faith seems to be limitless,
endless.
It will stretch, it is elastic, it will
go as far as you're willing to go.
Daniel proved by faith power over the animal
kingdom.
When he was put down into a dungeon
of a hungry, half-starved, ferocious lion, his
faith in God was a key that clicked
and locked their jaws, so that he was
able to spend a restful night rejoicing in
the Lord.
The three Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
had faith in God, and by that faith
conquered another element, the element of fire.
So before a furnace, uh, for their, to
devour their physical body, even as that cancer,
my little sister, would devour you tonight, or
your sickness would devour you, that fire had
been built for the purpose of devouring their
flesh, and sinews, and eyes, and hair, and
all of their being.
So hot was the fire, you remember, that
the men who had been on guard at
the request of the king, took up the
three Hebrew children who believed in God, to
pour them in the fiery furnace, and as
they threw them in, so hot was the
blast, that the men were instantly stricken dead,
as the guards of the king, the wicked
men, were stricken dead, and the door clanged
shut.
But a strange thing happened.
Faith in God was so great, so practical,
so able to conquer every obstacle, that it
conquered fire.
And these men, three of them, appeared walking
in the fire, as though they were walking
in a lovely, shaded, cool lane, by rippling
streams.
And the form of the forest was like
unto the Son of God, came and walked
with them.
There was not the, uh, odor of burning
upon them.
Some of you, at some time or other,
have dealt with enlightening your gas stove, or
uh, lamps, uh, scented your eyebrows, or a
hair, and know what the smell of burning
is.
But we read that not upon their raiment,
nor upon their hair, was there even the
smell of burning.
Glory to Jesus.
One thing only burned, and that was the
bonds that tied their hands and feet.
They fell off.
Glory to God.
And tonight, the same faith that raised up
these children, who were cast into the fire,
can raise you up.
The same faith in God that parted that
red sea can part your sea of trouble.
The same God is able to shake down
your walls of Jericho.
The same God who was able to translate
Enoch, and later to pick up Philip, and
move him from one town to another, uh,
from a desert to another town, without any
visible means of transportation, is not to be
limited.
He is our God.
He is a powerful God.
His treasuries are open.
His arms are extended, and he says to
us, one and all, help yourself.
Ask largely that your joy may be full,
and again, hitherto you have asked nothing.
Ask, ask, ask, and you shall receive.
Seek, and you shall find.
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Everyone that seeketh findeth glory to God.
And if our earthly parents are willing to
give good gifts to their little children, how
much more is our Heavenly Father willing to
pour out his Holy Spirit, and the quickening
glory, if we will but ask him.
Stephen, the first Christian martyr of the New
Testament, proved the power of faith against pain.
When he was being stoned to death, and
died that blessed death of a martyr, he
was able to raise his face to heaven,
lift his hands to the sky, and cry
out, I see heaven open.
And Jesus standing on the right hand of
God, even though the stones were breaking his
shoulder blades, dislocating vertebras, breaking his hips and
thighs, stabbing upon his head, his neck and
face, still by the power of faith, faith
is something bigger than we are.
It's bigger than fire.
It's bigger than oceans.
It's bigger than the Mediterranean, or the Red
Sea, rather.
It's bigger than the River Jordan.
It's bigger than armaments.
It's bigger than death.
Hallelujah.
You say, Sister, I wonder if I have
faith.
Yes, glory to God.
Even faith is a grain of mustard, shall
say to this mountain, be thou removed, and
it shall be removed into the sea, and
there be no more.
Paul knew this power of faith, and so,
when after preaching the glory of gospel, and
effecting by prayer the healing of a man
to whom I referred a few moments ago,
to whom he said, stand upright upon my
feet, and the man leaping stood, having never
walked before, nor having any use of his
limbs.
Paul was at first admired and adored, and
garlands were placed about his neck, and the
people would fall down and say, oh, you're
the great I Am, you're the great God,
you're the great wonder worker, you're the great
healer, you're, the gods have come down to
us.
But he would have none of this.
Real children of God do not take credit
to themselves.
They place the credit where the credit belongs,
upon God.
For no man nor woman ever heals the
sick.
It is Jesus Christ, by the power of
the Holy Ghost and the love of God,
who makes them everywhere whole.
Divine healing is not set in a tiny
circle for one to pray, for a priest,
or a minister, or an elder, to pray
for the sick alone.
The radius is so wide, faith, that it
is even as the rays of the sun
that reach to all men everywhere, even wider
because there is no darkness in faith.
It is a perpetual day, and the sun
is ever shining on the land where faith
dwells.
And therefore, we may pray one for another,
that we may be healed.
You may pray for yourself when you are
suddenly falling from a ladder.
You may pray for your little baby when
suddenly the baby is seized with choking croup
in the middle of the night.
On the other hand, that we should not
be too independent one of another.
God has been enough.
Join ourselves together in worship, and cease not
the assembling of ourselves.
And therefore, he says, call upon the elders
of the church, and they will anoint you
with oil and lay hands upon you.
James the fifth chapter, and the prayer of
they shall save the sick, and the Lord
shall raise him up.
Paul, having been thus lauded, shouted out and
said, men and brethren, why do you do
these things?
We are not gods, we are men of
like passions of yourself, as yourself.
But they were soon persuaded by a man
who brought a rumor and false report against
them.
The public is usually rather fickle, has been
through the years, and the same people who
a moment before were about to put garlands
and crowns of flowers and laurels upon his
head, were now ready to stone him, and
did so.
And having done a thorough job, believing him
to be dead as I believe him to
be dead, they drew him, as was their
custom, out of the city, and left him
upon the refuse to be buried from sight
the next day.
We read, however, that the apostles had faith
in God, hallelujah!
And they stood round about looking down at
Paul.
And as they stood round about, thank God
for men and women who stand round about.
Amen choir!
Amen church hour!
Amen members!
Amen Christians!
God bless you!
As they stood round about, light began to
flow into Paul.
His eyes, those bruised, cut eyes were healed.
The black puffiness went out of his face.
His eyes opened.
His lips opened.
I think the first thing he must have
said was, glory to God!
Praise the Lord!
His lungs began to fill with air without
any pull motor being used, or any oxygen
tent being brought.
Without a doctor to set his bones, he
stood upright upon his feet, and the next
day walked many miles, carrying the gospel with
him.
And so, beloved, in conclusion, believe in God!
Have faith in God!
And know that faith without work is dead.
You are going now to be prayed for.
I'm going to bow my head, and I
want you to bow your head over Radio,
and here over Angela Temple, and I believe
the divine healing, soul-saving, quickening power of
God is able, abundantly able, to make you
whole.
Shall we pray?
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, let the
power and glory of thy manifest power be
upon us now.
Let us see thy face, reveal your hand
in glory.
Thou who didst in the beginning with the
Father and with the Holy Spirit create heaven
and earth.
Thou who didst carve out a path for
the rivers and for the tumbling waterfalls.
Thou who didst cause light to spring from
thy hand, so that the birds lay singing
into the heavens.
Thou who didst answer the prayers of men
through the ages, so that mighty miracles have
been wrought through fire and water and flood
and flame and death and life.
Thou art the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Let the glory of thy presence be felt
over this entire audience at this moment.
Will you pray with me now?
And sinner, will you pray with me?
And Christian, will you assist them by praying
and repeating this prayer and mean it from
your heart?
Dear Lord Jesus, forgive me my sins.
Make me a real person.
Come into my heart.
Let me be born again.
Increase my faith and help me to work
with a real heart in thy service.
Amen.
And now, Lord, heal the sick.
Let those who are listening at this moment
feel a strange tingling, life-giving, quickening power
surging through them.
Thou who didst raise up the centurion servant.
Thou who didst raise up Lazarus from the
bed.
Raise up these people, I pray thee, and
call them to be earnest workers in the
vineyard of our God and his sight.
And all the people said, Amen.