After you've done all that you should, Rest!
After you've done all that you should, Rest!
And He said, “Abraham, you’re old, your strength is gone, your arms are withered up, your manhood’s gone, but I am your Mother. Just take a-hold of My promise, and be satisfied while you’re waiting. Be rested!”
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Now when we're going to be prayed for, for our sickness, I wonder if we have done everything that God requires us to do. Have we followed every iota of the Scripture? Have we give Him our hearts and lives to service? What's the reason you want to be healed? That's the reason you can't get faith enough, see, because you haven't maybe made this thing to God sincerely from your heart. Like Hezekiah did, give God the reason, he wanted to set his—his kingdom in order. And God sent His prophet back and told him, and he'd be healed. See? But, you have to have those things made right, first.
So then as soon as you get to these places and know that it's been revealed to you by the Word of God, by the revelation, by the Word that God requires you to do, then you have faith, genuine faith.
Now, just like Abraham when he was ninety and nine years old. I believe, Genesis 17. God appeared to this old man, now, ninety and nine years old, when he was almost a hundred years old, that had been waiting upon that promise all these years. He appeared to him in the name of El Shaddai, the “Breasted-one.” And what an encouragement it was, yet the promise wasn’t fulfilled then. But, “Abraham, I am the Almighty God, El Shaddai, ‘the Strength-giver, the Breasted God.’”
Like I’ve told you before, like the little baby that’s fretting, and sick, and crying, and it lays upon its mother’s breast. And nurses its strength back from her, because it’s satisfied while it’s nursing, because the only access it has and knows of is the mother’s breast. It knows no dose of medicine. You might give him a dose of medicine, he’d squeal and cry. Give him a shot in the arm, and he’d carry on. But the only access to satisfy him is the mother’s breast.
And He said, “Abraham, you’re old, your strength is gone, your arms are withered up, your manhood’s gone, but I am your Mother. Just take a-hold of My promise, and be satisfied while you’re waiting. Be rested!
