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06-0827pm - Positive Attitude - Samuel Dale

 

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PHILIPPIANS 4:13

  13    I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

 

 

POSITION.OF.A.BELIEVER.IN.CHRIST_  PHOENIX.AZ  SUNDAY_  55-0227A

  E-25    I've seen people come to the platform. I'd say, "Do you believe?"

"Oh, I've got all faith, Brother Branham."

Now, I don't mean to be belittling them. I respect that. But they're supposed to be up here, and here they are way down here. But do you know what it is? It's hope instead of faith. Faith does the job right now. Hope hopes for it, but faith is the product. Faith really does it. See, we have lots of hope, but not much faith. So we want to change from hope today to positive faith. And there's only one way we can get positive faith: that's by positive thinking of positive things.

Now, for instance, what if some of you women today went home and or tomorrow. I wouldn't think you'd want to do it today. But tomorrow, you go and plug up your electric iron to do your ironing and there's no current. Why, would you throw up your hands and say, "Alas and alack; there's no such a thing as electricity." Well, certainly not. You've got your wires crossed up somewhere. There's plenty of electricity; you just haven't got it connected right. Is that right?...?... when this one was prayed and why didn't you get healed? "There's no such a thing as Divine healing." That's just as senseless as the other is. Surely. Others are getting healed, why can't you? See? You just... It's the wires breaks down... The Holy Spirit will only...

 

WHY.IT.HAD.TO.BE.SHEPHERDS_  TUCSON.AZ  V-6 N-15  MONDAY_  64-1221

  70    They would have called It some kind of a working of an evil spirit against their positive thinking. You hear so much today about positive thinking: you just put your mind on anything, and think positive on it. The Devil can do that. There's only one thing that rules over all, and that's God's Word. If you're thinking contrary to the Word; forget your thinking. Think on the Word.

"Messiah," they thought, "would not be found in such a place, a mess as that."

Could you imagine a fine, great high priest, or clergyman, all polished in theology, would come down to a stable full of manure, and accept the message of a poor, humble shepherd that had no education, and would come, say "See, I can prove it to you; this is the Baby; this is the Messenger"?

And you know what them people would've said? "The man is honest; he's very sincere in what He's saying, but he's absolutely wrong."

 

EXPECTATIONS_  NEW.YORK.NY  WEDNESDAY_  50-0405

  E-13    Just for a little text, if I should call it that, I want to speak for a moment or two on the word of "Expectation."

We always get what we expect. When people expect anything, well then they usually get what you look for. It's the mental attitude that you have.

Remember this, and never forget it. The right mental attitude towards any promise of God will bring it to pass, the right mental attitude towards any promise of God.

It doesn't take gifts of healing to heal sick people, any person in here has a right to meet Satan anywhere, if you're a Christian, and defeat him on any grounds that he could stand on.

When Jesus Christ was here on earth, and in Him dwelled the fullness of the Godhead bodily, all the great powers of God was in His Son, Christ Jesus. For the Scripture tells us that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. All things was delivered unto Him, though He spoke nothing but what the Father told Him. He healed no one but what He first saw being healed. For He said, "Verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing in Himself, but what He sees the Father doing." That was Saint John 5:19.

 

BELIEVEST.THOU.THIS?_  MINNEAPOLIS.MN  SUNDAY_  50-0716

  E-17    Now, what does the farmer do? He sows the wheat. Well, look for the harvest. The next morning, what if he goes out there and uncovers it, say, "Why, it ain't sprouted. There's nothing to it. So I--I ain't going to have no wheat." Well, if he isn't going to have any wheat... If he keeps digging it up, looking at it, he will never have wheat. You just sow it and let it alone. Amen.

There it is. It's up to God to bring it forth. It's up to God to send the rain. And it's you to accept God on His Word. Hallelujah. And it's up to God to bring His Word to pass. No man's worth any more than his word, and God's not worth a bit more than what His Word is.

And I say this with a challenge in faith, that every promise of God will be brought to pass if you take the right mental attitude towards it. That's right. Look at it. Believe it.

 

GOD.REVEALING.HIMSELF.TO.HIS.PEOPLE_  CLEVELAND.OH  SUNDAY_  50-0813E

  E-39    Now, many times... Now, these may seem strange. Everybody be real reverent. If you can get the person... Just what I was trying to do to the woman, was get her in the right mental attitude; she wouldn't have to be prayed for. The right mental attitude towards any promise of God will bring it to pass. Do you believe that?

The Word is a Seed (Is that right?) that a Sower sowed in the ground. And every Seed will bring forth of its kind. If you need salvation, the Seed's here. If you need healing, here's the Seed in the Word. The Word of God is a Seed. Put it in your heart. Don't dig it up every morning to see if it's sprouted, put it in there and leave it there. It's God's business to bring forth the harvest. You just leave it there; water it by faith and praise every day thanking God for it. All right.