Don’t you listen to that stuff! God’s promise is right now.

Don’t you listen to that stuff! God’s promise is right now. Don’t you stand still for somebody to Push you off in a Millennium somewhere… The Bible said, “Now we are the sons of God.” What we will be, we are now, present tense. If anything that looks a little high, and a blessing that looks like it, why, I’ll get me a stepladder, and move up, and look at it anyhow. I like to look around. It is all yours, and every promise in the Bible is yours.

When a Christian gets saved, God gives him a chequebook, with the bottom of it, with Jesus’ name signed in Blood. Every redemptive blessing belongs to the believer; fill it out and send it into headquarters; watch what happens. He’s obligated to take care of His word. I challenge any sick person or sinner tonight, to sign your name or your wants above a check-in Jesus’ Name and send it into heaven once. Don’t doubt. The cashier is right there because the deposit was put there at Calvary, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus.

If I fell heir to a house, I sure wouldn’t want to move into it till I got and looked everything over. I want to see what’s mine. I want to see what I own. And when I fell heir to the Kingdom of God, to the righteousness of Jesus Christ, baptized into this great arcade of God’s eternal blessings, I like to walk around and see what’s mine (Amen.), look on the shelves see what this is. Here it is, every promise in the Book belongs to every believer. Don’t you stand still for somebody to push you off in a corner, give you a little cold tater, and tell you to wait.

Don’t you listen to that stuff! God’s promise is right now. Push you off in a Millennium somewhere… The Bible said, “Now we are the sons of God.” What we will be, we are now, present tense. If anything that looks a little high, and a blessing that looks like it, why, I’ll get me a stepladder, and move up, and look at it anyhow. I like to look around. It is all yours, and every promise in the Bible is yours. When a Christian gets saved, God gives him a chequebook, with the bottom of it, with Jesus’ name signed in Blood. Every redemptive blessing belongs to the believer; fill it out and send it into headquarters; watch what happens. He’s obligated to take care of His word. I challenge any sick person or sinner tonight, to sign your name or your wants above a check-in Jesus’ Name and send it into heaven once. Don’t doubt. The cashier is right there because the deposit was put there at Calvary, through the Blood of the Lord Jesus.

Yes, Abraham’s to look around. This stream’s his; that fountain’s his; this mountain’s his. Abraham could look around and see what he had. Why don’t you tonight? If you’re sick, why don’t you thumb through the arcade here, and see if He wasn’t wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed. If you’re all down (as we call it, the street expression) in the dumps, “He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquity; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; with His stripes, we were healed.” All these blessings belong to you. They’re yours, your personal property. Christ died that it might be so. But you look at symptoms. Oh, if you didn’t get healed, you say, “Well, there’s my arm; I accepted it last night, no difference this morning. Well, you know I had stomach trouble, last night, I noticed this morning I still got it.” You can never get no better like that. Symptoms…

You know, a man, one time, had the greatest case of symptoms I ever knew of was Jonah. He was on his road down to Nineveh, backslid. He went to Tarshish, and he got out there and got in trouble. When you backslide, look out; trouble’s in the way. And the sea got angry, this preacher trying to go the wrong way, take the easy road… How many of you preachers tonight, is trying to take the easy road, trying to place Divine healing somewhere else, the praises of God, Angels ministering, Holy Ghost, Spirit and all, trying to put it in some place back. You better come on back, brother, than go to Nineveh. Be some trouble waters one of these days… And they took Jonah and tied his hands behind him, his feet, and threw him out into the sea.

God had a great big fish, and he swallowed him. And a fish, when it’s eaten, anyone knows… Feed your goldfish. After it prowls through the water hunting its prey, it goes to the bottom of the water, rests its swimmers, fins on the bottom. I don’t know how many fathoms deep, the sea must be out from Nineveh there. But Jonah in the belly of the whale, hands tied behind him, backslid, on a stormy sea, in the whale’s belly in the vomit, talk about symptoms, he had them. If he looked this way, it was the whale’s belly. He looked that way, it was a whale’s belly. Everywhere he looked it was whale’s belly. Now, you’re not in that bad shape. But what did Jonah say? He said, “They are lying vanities. I won’t believe one of them.” He said, “Lord, once more, will I look to Your holy temple.” He didn’t see the whale’s belly; he was looking for the temple. Don’t look at your symptoms, look at the promise. How bad you’re sick, look Who great a Person gives the promise. God said so.

 By William Branham 

( The Third Testament Messanger)