The characteristic of the Son of God was
absolute trust.
Even when he said, you're going to leave
me alone.
And yet I'm not alone, for the Father
is with me.
Absolute trust in the Father.
Absolute confidence.
Even on the cross, they accused him of
that.
They said he trusted in God.
Let God now deliver him.
Even there, when all heaven seemed to have
forsaken him, he trusted in God.
In the last extremity, that's why death could
not hold him.
It was impossible.
Now the Bible says, and they that know
thy name will put their trust in thee.
You will trust in a person in proportion,
and sometimes little children have a lot of
confidence.
When I saw my kindergarten teacher in Switzerland,
I was now bigger than she.
She said, you've been a great blessing to
me.
When you were a baby, you
smiled at me.
She said, how do you know that?
Well, she said, I said to her, well,
because you're a little child, and just a
little, that much trust, that much confidence, and
of course she didn't drown.
Now, beloved, that's our victory.
And to mark all the promises to those,
they that trust in the Lord, can never
be removed.
They shall be like Mount Zion, that cannot
be removed.
And then again, O how gracious thy goodness,
which thou hast wrought for them, that trust
in thee before the sons of men.
And then again, some trust in chariots and
some in horses, but we will trust in
the name of the Lord our God.
They're fallen, they've fallen off their horses, but
we stand upright.
We are trusted in the Lord.
Blessed are all they that put their trust
in thee.
What a wonderful lesson.
What marvelous promises.
Here's one for you personally, individually now.
Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose
mind is stayed on thee, because he trusts
in thee.
Trust ye in the Lord Jehovah forever, for
in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.
It seems to be one of the great
lessons that God has for his people.
Listen, God cannot do anything for me if
I don't, now that's strange, but that's the
law of the kingdom.
If I don't trust in the Lord, Madam
Guyon says, we perish for want of trusting
him.
None that trust in him shall be desolate.
In one place it says, and none that
trust in me shall be ashamed.
Isn't that wonderful?
Do you believe that?
Well now we ought to examine a little
bit and see what it means to trust
in the Lord.
It's a matter of the heart, not of
the head.
I've dealt with people who were sick, and
they say, well, I dealt with a woman
who had swallowed a bone, and she couldn't
sing anymore very well.
The bone was stuck in her throat, and
I said, why don't you go to the
doctor?
Oh, she says, I want to trust in
the Lord.
Well, then I began to wriggle around on
that bone a little bit.
She wasn't trusting in the Lord at all.
That was far from her mind, but she
was scared to go to the doctor.
And so she says, oh, how many times
people say meekly, I'll trust.
Maybe they're too cheap to pay the medicine
or pay for the doctor.
They're not trusting in the Lord.
When you trust in the Lord.
Now put that in your notebook.
None that trust in him shall be ashamed.
None.
Now what is the matter with my trust?
It may be mental.
Some people try to force God to help
them by saying, well, they're trusting in the
Lord.
Listen, it's a very serious matter.
It's an awfully serious matter.
The Bible says that trusting in the Lord
is a matter of the heart.
And so much so, it also tells us
that the eyes of the Lord run to
and fro throughout the whole earth to show
himself mighty toward them whose hearts are perfect
toward him.
That's trust in the Lord.
When it's a matter of the heart, then
you don't advertise it.
You don't brag about it, how much you
trust the Lord.
It's something in your heart.
Thou will keep him in perfect peace because
he trusts within the Lord.
Oh, that's it.
Perfect peace is the characteristic of perfect trust.
But the Bible tells us that if my
heart is not perfect, it's a double-minded
heart.
I don't need to expect anything from the
Lord.
It's that you don't get anything from the
Lord even though God is, I was going
to say anxious.
God is never anxious.
But God is eager.
The eyes of the Lord run to and
fro throughout the whole earth to show himself
mighty.
He talks about the exceeding greatness of his
power.
And now he's talking about the power.
And when I look at myself, I can
say, Oh God, I thank thee because I'm
fearfully made.
Wonderful are thy works.
And that's when he makes the world or
the universe exceeding
joy.
And I cannot help him in healing my
body when I'm in need of healing.
God's got to do it.
But God did it when he raised Jesus,
my Lord, from the dead and commissioned him,
gave him the job, gave him the command
to perfect redemption in me and in all
that put their trust in him.
That's why trust is so exceedingly important.
And that's the reason we can't fool with
this.
We may think we trust the Lord because
we picked the promise out of the promise
box.
Lots of people do that.
I saw a consumptive woman do that one
time.
Somebody gave her a message, told her that
she was going to be healed.
And, oh, she has such an unction and
such a wonderful blessing.
And then she died.
It wasn't real at all.
You can't fool with these things.
It's a gift of God when your heart
is perfect toward him.
It's because you know his name.
We fall down on the job.
Paul said, I count everything but refuge, that
I may win Christ, that I may be
found in him.
And you know God perfected that job in
Paul.
And have you ever found out how God
did it?
Why, he said, we have the sentence of
death in ourselves.
Terrible.
You prayed, and everybody prayed.
And you sent messages to all the Pentecostal
churches.
Please, stand in prayer and stand in faith.
Or maybe you send out a mimeograph.
And nothing comes in.
Mailman comes, and he brings you a lot
of bills and not a dollar bill.
Terrible.
We have the sentence of death in ourselves.
We have nothing to do.
No lookout.
No hope.
No expectation anywhere.
God said, it serves you right.
You don't know.
You don't know your own heart.
You don't know there's a little bit of
a root of trusting in yourself.
Maybe in your own faith.
You've had a blessing.
You've had wonderful healing.
You've had wonderful answers to prayer.
And you don't know how the old man
has taken credit.
Oh, beloved Jesus is going to have a
clean.
And they're going to give all the glory
to him.
Praise God.
And why not rather learn our lesson than
complain?
Do all things without murmuring and disputing.
Nothing can come my way but by the
appointment but
of university.
Praise the Lord, and call us all by
his name.
And it's that you think, I forgot you,
you little trip.
You think that I don't hear you.
He said, Abraham, come out of that tent.
Don't listen to Sarah anymore.
Come on.
Come into my tent.
Lift up your eyes.
Look.
That's how your seizure is going to be.
Praise God said it.
God said it.
That settles it.
But, beloved, it doesn't settle it.
That's the trouble with us.
It doesn't settle it until we have dealt
with God about it seriously.
We need to be very serious prayer warriors.
Do you know that?
Madame Guy says, don't let anybody think that
you'll get to heaven without prayer.
Now, that would be put down as a
false doctrine today.
But God has arranged it that way.
He said, in nothing be anxious, but in
everything everything becomes a subject for prayer.
Everything becomes a subject.
Hallelujah.
Becomes a contact.
You've got contacts.
We like them.
And if we haven't got them, we put
them there.
We need a contact for our life and
for our hand and organ and for our
recording instruments.
And we need contacts for our washing machines.
And whenever there's a contact, why, you've got
contact.
But you've got to find that contact.
And every circumstance in my life is a
contact for God to manifest the exceeding greatness.
Why do I murmur?
Why do I dispute?
I find falsehoods God.
I don't believe that all things...
And I said, Romans 8, 28.
All things were together.
He didn't believe.
I said, what?
You don't believe?
He was a preacher that had been greatly
blessed of God.
Oh, so wonderfully blessed in Pentecost.
But you know, when you don't walk in
the light, that light will become darkness.
And today, this fellow was sick.
And instead of seeking to the Lord, he
sought, not to the doctors only, but every
doctor book and every healing book.
He had all kinds of doctrines about vitamins.
Now, if your little toe aches, that's why
you need vitamin A.
Now go to the infirmary or get some
dehydrated fertilizer.
He waits to manifest the exceeding graciousness of
his power.
What power is that?
Why, it's to us.
And if I allowed God to make a
man out of me, he didn't make a
monkey out of me.
Thank God.
He did it by his own plan.
And I cannot trust the Lord except in
the hour of trial.
When the trial's over and the victory's won,
you don't have to...
When the bulls goes up and they didn't
have any gyroscopes in those boats on Lake
Janissary.
Now that thing was going, going, going up
and Peter was hanging on to the mast.
And he had a bad conscience for the
scrambled eggs.
He wanted her to unscramble them.
You know how these mountains are.
And he finally said, Oh, it's only the
master.
Why, he's here.
I saw him there sleeping in the back
of the boat.
Oh, he must have washed over the board.
Let us open our hearts.
But goodness, when you...
They have these thick containers in them.
All day they put their trust...
I'm not bragging about my trust.
He said, We had a lesson to learn
I have not yet attained.
Oh, here I am.
I am willing for lessons.
Any lesson that God has for me.
Praise God.
The sentence of death taught me the greatest
lesson of all.
That we should not trust in our...
Well, if I can't trust in myself anymore,
who?
But God who raised us to death.
Tell me, who do you trust in?
Who is it that your heart is fixed?
My heart is fixed.
It's an experience.
When God puts trust into your heart, it's
an experience that makes Jesus Christ supreme in
your thoughts.
Let the wicked forsake his way and the
unrighteous man his thoughts.
That's where the trouble comes in.
We have thoughts.
And how many times do we open our
hearts to the thoughts of men.
You never get into any kind of a
trouble, but all the aunts and uncles and
cousins and all your relatives come around.
Yeah, I know what that is.
My great-grandmother...
What's the matter with you?
You can't go a half a block from
this church after having had a wonderful divine
evening.
Thoughts of the devil into your head.
You watch and see if that is so.
I'm surprised.
As soon as somebody gets sick, I visit
them sometimes.
And then so-and-so was here and
told me it was bad.
Listen, if you haven't got anything to pray
for, unbelief, stay home.
The word of faith which we preach, it
is in heaven, you don't have to get
it down.
It's not in the depths, it's in your
heart.
Christ is in your heart, thank God.
He can never be removed.
And He is there for a job.
He is there to be the Lord, the
Redeemer, to bring you out of every situation
and to make you like unto Himself.
And here we are wavering, wavering, spending all
our lives complaining and murmuring.
Watch it sometimes.
Get a recording instrument that records everything you
say and every sign you hear.
And you'll be surprised at the end of
the day how many times you've murmured and
complained and caked about something.
That's what defeated Israel.
Beloved, God's eyes run to and fro throughout
the whole earth today, still today, and it's
looking for those whose hearts are perfect toward
Him.
God knows what I think in my heart.
What I say with my lips is not
near as important, but what I think, what
I feel in my heart, and when my
heart is perfect, I will not be anxious.
That will be gone, it will be impossible.
I will think the thoughts of God, and
the Bible gives me His thoughts.
I have thoughts of faith toward you.
Go through the whole Bible and see the
exceeding great and precious promises, and every one
of them is for you and for me.
Praise God.
And who will guarantee their fulfillment?
Why, God has guaranteed them when He raised
Jesus, my Lord, from the dead.
When Jesus came in flesh, it's at this
day this scripture is fulfilled.
He has anointed me for this purpose, and
I always wondered why was it that Jesus
Christ, He marveled at their unbelief.
He said, where's your faith?
He says, why are you so fearful?
What right did He have?
Why, He had a right to say in
the face of death, don't fear.
I am resurrection and life.
What are you afraid of?
Is that death?
Well, that's what I came for, to conquer
death, to abolish death, to bring life and
immortality to life through the gospel, and if
He demanded that, how much more does He
demand?
Faith of me for the fullness of the
Holy Ghost, when today that's His whole job,
to represent me in the present time.
Find the fulfillment.
I ought to really be serious about this
lesson.
I ought to get to the Bible.
I ought to study the word of God,
and see what it means to trust in
the Lord, and I ought not to be
satisfied with the mere profession of my lips.
You'll fail every time.
But when you pray through, and that's what
the Bible teaches us in Philippians 4, 6,
that's the best recipe for us all.
In nothing be anxious.
What is your anxiety over?
People will come, and they'll ask you to
pray for them, and then they'll spill it
all out.
They'll tell you how sick they are, until
you have an education in anatomy that you
can't get in any biological institution in the
world.
You can see the inside of their gallbladder,
and their stomach, and one man explained to
me what his stomach looked like on the
inside, and all that, and they're just looking
for sympathy.
That's all.
When you put your trust in Him, that's
none of your business.
Absolutely none of your business.
You expect everything from Him because He has
done everything.
He is resurrection and life.
Don't you worry.
But they don't learn that lesson overnight, you
know.
It's step by step.
It was that with the apostle Paul.
And finally that grand lesson.
We have the sentence of death in ourselves.
Now most of us would have cashed in,
but he didn't.
He knew that he couldn't die except at
the command of God.
No.
Why, this test has come my way.
God will not suffer you to be tested
above that garable.
God portions that test.
Isn't that wonderful?
All things, all things work together for good.
Isn't it wonderful?
Doesn't it make your life tremendously interesting?
Praise God.
Showing glory in tribulations also.
Hallelujah.
Oh, it's interesting.
It's wonderful.
Here's a tribulation.
Here's another storm.
And one day, when there were four thousand
men beside women and children, and Jesus fed
them, next day they were crying.
They brought all the kids because naturally they
thought, here we get free lunch.
And the disciples, and Jesus said, how many
did...
What's the matter?
Where's your faith?
I'm still here, beloved.
And He'll be there till He comes for
you, and He won't come until the overcomer.
And are we learning our lesson?
Oh, that's the question.
It's an individual matter.
It's a personal matter.
They that overcome.
And not only that, He says.
He that overcomes.
It's an individual matter.
The epistle is to the church, but the
promise is to the individual.
Praise God.
He that overcomes.
Oh, Jesus.
To know Thee is to know the power
of Your resurrection.
Hallelujah.
He that sinneth hath not seen Him, neither
known Him.
We'll fall from one pit into the other
because we don't know our Savior.
Beloved, our lives today ought to be a
testimony to the wonder of Jesus.
Not our lips, but our lives.
In Him was life, and the life was
the light of men.
And our lives ought to be lives of
trust.
Not only trusting God to pay your bills.
That's a small matter.
But trusting God for your spiritual victory.
Trusting God for your children if they're unsafe,
your husband, your wife.
Oh, what wonders have we experienced along that
line.
Putting our trust in Him makes Him responsible
to manifest His feeling greatness of His power
to us who believe.
Today, the program is acceleration.
I remember when one of our sisters bought
a new Ford, a Model T Ford.
My, we looked at that thing.
It looked brilliant like a giant.
We thought, my.
And then when she allowed me to run
that thing.
Now it looks funny, you know.
It looked like a goat.
Sort of an over-balanced thing.
But to run that thing, it felt as
if you were going a hundred miles an
hour at a much central horsepower in Schnabel.
And one time I got into a traffic
jam and I stepped on the gas and
the thing wouldn't move.
It just crawled along.
But today, we have 130 horses, if you
wait, just think.
That's 130 horses, Rick.
230.
California is over.
And you know when you get on the
open road, you can't help it.
That power is there waiting to snort along
the road.
Bring it along.
It's just that, just, just, just for your
favor.
It's just waiting to, to make that thing
run like six.
And here is the power waiting.
Waiting for a vet.
Waiting for someone that puts their trust in
God.
And what is that power for?
Why?
To defeat the powers of Satan and of
God.
But it doesn't come like so many people
think.
Oh, Heavens, all you have to do is
just defeat.
We're in a school.
Paul was in a school.
You and I are in the school of
the Holy Ghost.
He shall guide you into all truth.
And he doesn't put the thing up here
where you lose it again.
But he'll put it into your bones, into
your life, into your blood.
He makes you a son of God.
We're members of his body, of his flesh,
and of his bones.
And that's how it comes.
We're displaced as we put our trust in
him.
Step by step to the, step by step
he leads us with a guiding hand.
Step by step.
And now he says, and God delivered us
from so great a death and we trust
he shall yet deliver us.
Now Paul had learned his lesson.
Now he had shifted gear.
He had no longer looked at himself.
No longer studied about violence and stuff and
had a thermometer with him in his pocket.
But he trusted in God and raised us
to death.
He said, Beloved, our God has already raised
us from the dead.
Praise God.
He says, you're not a debtor to the
flesh.
You don't have to count calories.
There's another fountain inside of you.
It's he that raised Jesus from the dead.
I don't think I could work if I
couldn't trust in that fountain and that fountain
didn't flow within me.
It's something very wonderful.
It's something beyond divine healing.
It's divine life.
It's life from heaven.
It's the life of Jesus Christ.
But it will not become my portion until
I have gone through with God in nothing
behind this but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving.
Let your requests be made known unto God
that unloading, rolling it on him is the
job.
It's been my job ever since I got
into the ministry.
People look at me and sometimes they say,
well, he's been pretty successful.
No, he hasn't.
I've had lots of problems to face and
my job has been to unroll the monty.
It takes a lot of prayer.
I'd be ashamed to tell you how much
I've got to pray even today.
I've not read of it yet but oh,
how wonderful to unroll everything on him but
if I don't do it and I can
have all the holy phrases in my mouth.
I can read all the books about faith
and trust that I want and I can
swing around with advertising my own faith and
so on.
That's no good.
It needs to be gold fried in the
fire.
There are people that, oh my, they came
to the faith home in Zion and they
couldn't understand why we didn't have lumps of
butter on the table every morning.
Why we thought you folks live by faith.
You ain't got no faith but less than
half the day have been borrowed.
That's where you find out whether your trust
is real or not in the hour of
trial.
Praise God and God in his great mercy
sometimes allows real tests to come our way.
Did you ever feel as if your test
was greater than anybody else's?
Well, that shows that you need it.
That's the way God does praise the Lord.
He fits the shoes.
His fist doesn't praise God.
Well, now you can kick and follow.
He'll never help you any.
You remember the legend by Shemitah of a
man that was going to the holy city
and he found his cross much too heavy.
Oh, he said, my cross is heavier than
anybody else's.
My, I can't make the grave.
It isn't right.
God give me to anyone.
And so he had a vision and he
came to a house, beautiful palace and an
angel said, now here is the arsenal.
Here you can pick a cross that you
like.
If you don't like your cross, go and
put it down at the entrance and he
went through the whole museum and he found
silver crosses and gold crosses and crosses started
with diamonds, little ones and big ones and
he tried them all and finally found one
that he thought was measured to him.
He said, I think I'll take this.
Of all the crosses in the whole palace,
only this one suited him.
And when he looked at it, it was
the one he had laid down when he
came in.
And now it had gotten dark and he
thought I better rush because they are close
to the gates of the holy city.
And so when he came inside of the
city, he saw the porter already closing the
gate and there was no bridge across the
river and how is he going to make
it?
He yelled and the porter said, try your
cross and so he put that cross there
and look it fit exactly.
It was a bridge and he could walk
over it.
It would have been too short.
Oh beloved God is wonderful.
To learn that one lesson, to trust, trust
the Lord.
It makes you love him.
It makes you really love your God.
But you can choose.
You can be a crab all your life.
You know the older we get, the more
crab we become.
If you ever find that out, especially if
you are a great saint, you will become
so cantankerous that no life will flow from
you.
Rivers of life.
Jesus Christ will make a vessel out of
you.
Hallelujah.
It was the Son of God who put
his trust in the Father when the all
was true.
God raised him from the dead and gave
him a name which is the Father.
And he is waiting today for you and
for me to not trust in ourselves anymore,
but in him who is risen from the
dead.
He is our Savior.
But he cannot be mine if I don't
trust him.
If I don't learn to live by the
faith of the Son of God and praise
the Lord really and truly, put my trust.
After a while it becomes your habit.
After a while it becomes so pleasant that
when a problem comes you say, well, you
smile instead of just smile and say, well,
Lord, I wonder what you're going to do
now.
I told how I was locked in there
in South America when everybody was gone and
inadvertently I'd let the door go closed and
here I was under the tropical sun and
I didn't know when the folks would come
home and I just smiled and said, well,
Jesus, this is wonderful.
Here I'll be baking like an apple till
those folks come home.
But, you know, I reached into my pocket
and inadvertently I had taken a key with
me from Brooklyn.
I didn't know I had it there and
when I tried that key it opened that
lock.
Now, the strange thing was this, when I
came home I had that key caught by
a locksmith and he looked at it.
He said, this is a very rare key.
It'll open only one in 15,000 locks.
I'm sorry I didn't try that twice, you
know, but it opened that one lock in
South America.
Now, the Lord knew that.
Wonderful, it's really wonderful.
It becomes a habit by and by and
you realize that every time...
Elijah, when he came to Jordan, he said,
where is the God of Elijah?
Now, let's see.
And he took Elijah's mantle and smoked the
waters in his heart.
Where is the Father of my Lord Jesus
Christ now?
Glory to God.
But the love of this God to be
real.
And Philippians 4, 6 is a lesson that
very few people are willing to learn.
It's too hard a job.