And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. (2 Kings 2:9-10)
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.
74 Now, here was God’s representative said it, and now God Himself has said it. Then what can we do? Nothing but keep our mind on that. Said, “If you see me when I go away, you can have the promise.” Elisha kept his eyes on Elijah. No matter what hollered from each side, what taken place on each side, what taken place before that, he never even looked at it. He kept his eyes on the promise. There you are, your eyes on the promise.
75 I think of the lady that we visited the other night, Sister Sauer. And the doctor telling her how bad she was. And I never told her; told the loved one. And how impossible it would be for her to ever get well. Now, brother, her son-in-law asked me about it. I said, “If she can keep her eyes on the promise.” No matter what takes place, keep your eyes on the promise.
76 A few weeks ago, Sister Wood here, and Brother Wood, two bosom friends of ours here at the church. I was in Michigan with my friends, Leo and Gene. We had left the Chicago meeting and went with some of their people, to…for two days, to go deer hunting with bows and arrows. And on my road back, my wife had got a hold of me, and she said, “Pray for Mrs. Wood’s mother. A cancer has eating off her face.” And said, “I never seen Sister Wood so alarmed. She is weeping.” Sister Wood has always been a hero of faith, since God healed her boy of a crippled leg, and healed her with TB, and so forth. But she had given down.
77 There at the room, that night, we prayed. Coming in, Mrs. Wood said, “Brother Branham, we’ll go over.” And we went to her mother, which was in Louisville. And she had had a cancer on the side of her nose, and the doctor had tampered with it, scattered it; till just a little ring the side of her nose, and up just about an eighth of an inch from her eye, just the bone laying there. Done eaten it just as fast as it could eat away.
56-1125m - "A Secondhanded Robe"
Rev. William Marrion Branham
