Episode 42: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 8

Episode Summary:

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. (Matthew 6:22)

64 Now, that has to be singleness of motive, singleness of heart, singleness of eye, keeping your eye on the promise. Hum! If you’re sick this morning, if you’re afflicted, there is one great promise; not by Elijah, but by God Himself. “If thou canst believe, when you pray, believe that you get what you ask for, and you shall receive it.” No matter what the doctor says, how much this goes or that goes; keep single on the promise.

65 Elijah give him a commission, “If you see me when I go, it’ll come on you.”

66 There’s a promise, “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believe.”

67 Sometimes I look at myself, and think, “I’ve been such a jellyfish in my life. I have waited, and missed many thousands of souls, into the Kingdom, because I’ve waited and said, ‘God…’ Depended too much on a spiritual gift. And said, ‘Lord, if You will just show me, if You’ll give me a vision what to do.’” And God gives a vision, then I’ll turn around and let somebody talk me into something else.

68 And, oh, I have never come to the spot, yet, until I…like I have at this time, that I feel it’s a faith, that we must step out there, because it’s a promise. And the things that He has done, and the healings that He has performed, and the miracles; insomuch, has come down and had His picture taken by the side of us, and so forth, which has never been known since the world begin. And then stand around like a jellyfish? It even makes me discouraged with myself. It’s time to keep your eye on the promise.

69 And that’s what, by God’s grace, I aim to do. And I realize that every devil of hell will shoot at it. But, by God’s grace, I aim to keep my eye on the promise.

70 Elijah said, “If you…” Elijah said, “If you see me when I go, you’ll have what you ask for.” That’s right. You got to keep your eye on it; watch the promise. Like, what if some of the school, if he turn back, and say, “Hey, boys, how am I doing now, following right along behind the prophet?” He would have failed, maybe. But he didn’t care what the school thought, or what all the teachers thought. He didn’t care what the neighbors thought, or the houses, or who looked at him. He kept his faith in the promise.

71 What we need today is faith in the promise of God, and don’t pay no attention to what this one says or that one says.

72 As a brother said, a minister had two girls that were mute, and that the criticism on Divine healing, that, “The children could not be healed.”

73 Don’t pay no attention to the critics. Keep your faith on the promise. God said so! “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and God shall raise them up.” If He can make one deaf mute to hear, He can make another deaf mute to hear. We know, by infallible proofs, that He does that. Keep our faith on the promise. Our eyes single; our ears single; our hearts single; and, one thing, on Jesus Christ, and He is able to perform that which He has promised. Oh, when we think of that, it changes the whole scene when we get that. God made the promise. God was the One that said it.

56-1125m – “A Secondhanded Robe”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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