Episode 370: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 336

Episode Summary:

And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. (1 Kings 18:36-38)

78 Wouldn’t that be wonderful, tonight, if everybody come in that prayer line, say, “I am a Christian. I have no condemnation. I—I know that my heart condemn me not. Something tells me that tonight’s the end of my suffering”? That, you’re going to do. You’ll go away here with something. No matter how much you come in emotion, how much you do, it won’t work until that Perfect Faith has manifested and identified itself in you, as a substance. And when it’s there, then nothing’s going to shake you from it.

79 If—if you had cancer, and the doctor told you yesterday that you’d be dead before Monday morning, (all your heart, your respiration’s gone, the cancer’s eat you up, your bloodstream’s become completely cancer, whatever it is); and Something come with this substance of this genuine faith, Perfect Faith was made a substance in you, you’d laugh in that doctor’s face.

80 You’d be like old Elijah, when he walked up-and-down before the idol, and said, “Won’t you call a little louder? And maybe he’s pursuing.” He knowed what he was going to do, because God had told him what was going to happen. He said, “Let the god that answers by fire, be God.”

81 They say, “We’ll take that proposition.” And they poured water upon the altars. And they—they cut themselves, and they done everything, and called, “O Baal! O Baal! Answer!”

82 Elijah was just as calm as he could be. He said, “Call a little louder,” said—said, “maybe he’s pursuing. Maybe—maybe he’s on a fishing trip. Maybe he’s doing something else, you see. He’s out somewhere.” They just…Just made fun of them, because he knew it’s going to happen.

83 Oh, watch when he got everything in order. He walked out there and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel!” He never called him now his name Jacob, “shyster.” He called him Israel, “prince with God.”

84 “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of that Prince (Jacob), let it be known today that I am Your servant; and I have done this, not at my desire, not at my make up, but at Your command I have did this; Your will, You told me what to do. You showed me these things would be here. Now, I’ve poured the water upon the altar. I’ve done all these things according to Your command. Now, let it be known!” And when he said that, fire fell from the heavens. He was just as confident it was going to fall, because he had the substance. Why? The Word said so.

63-0825e – “Perfect Faith”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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