Episode 193: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 159

Episode Summary:

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. (Psalm 5:1-3)

8 Now, the thing is with the people, is the way God appears. Many times we want to make an idol out of God. We ask God to do something, and then He must do it just the way that we ask it, or we’ll say He never answered. When we do that, we weaken our faith in God. And we weaken our testimony when we do not take Him at His Word.

God always answers. No one never asked… Jesus said, “Ask and you shall receive; seek and ye shall find.” Everyone that asks will receive. Everyone that seeks shall find. Everyone that knocks, it’ll be opened to them.

Now, that’s the only way that I’ve always found it, that I can get anything from God, is take Him at His Word and believe it the way He sends it.

Now, if we do not take it just the way that we think it is… We’ve built God as an idol. He’s got to answer just according to our ways, or, “Well, it’s just no good. He didn’t answer us.” God answers in many ways. He answers in peculiar ways, times, and everything is odd.

9 We’ll take, for instance, Moses. Moses was eighty years old. He was almost, you might think, too old for God to deal with. He was an old man, unexpected in his age to be dealt with with God. Another thing, he was under the Mount Horeb, a unexpected place. God met him at a unexpected age, at a unexpected place, in a unexpected way. God didn’t meet Moses the way He usually met men. He met Moses in an unusual way, in the way that He chose to meet Moses in.

That’s the way he answers our prayer, in the way that He thinks is best. And His way is always right. If we ask for anything, and it doesn’t happen just the way God—or the way we think that God ought to let it happen, then that makes us lose and fall back. Let’s ask God, stand firm on the Word, and say It’s true, and it—just receive it the way He sends it. That’s the way you got to believe God.

It may come disguised; it may come in another way, around about way. But no matter what way it comes, if we have asked we shall receive. God said so. And that settles it forever, if God says so. Now, when you get to taking God like that and believing it…

60-0326 – “The Unchangeable God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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