Sometimes I think we forget how big God really
is. God is not concerned with conditions. The
unchangeable fact is that God has all power.
That God can bring harmony and healing out of
any condition at any time and in any place. He's
outside of time. and space, and the carnal mind.
Sometimes I think we need someone to keep reminding
us of this glorious fact. It makes no difference
to God how long a certain difficulty has lasted.
It makes no difference how much seeming opposition
there is to overcome. God is not concerned with
conditions. God does not have to prepare now
to bring something about next year, nor is he
unable to do something now because he omitted
to do something else last year. God can do anything,
anywhere, at any time, this very moment, without
reference to anything or anyone else. God is...
absolutely not concerned with conditions. Our
poor little puny minds are always putting difficulties
in the way of demonstration. We say, too late.
Or we often say, too soon. Or too far. Or too
near. Or too much. Or not enough. And so we kill.
our demonstration. But all this is just the thinking
of the mind and has nothing to do with the power
of God. Determine today that you will demonstrate
health, true success, happiness by realizing
that God is working in and through you to bring
these things about. And do not, not for a single
second, Allow your poor little mind to tell you
that it cannot be done. It can be done. And if
you mean business, it will be done. If you get
your eyes on God. If you get your eyes on your
Heavenly Father. On your great high priest, the
very son of the living God who is now reigning
in that great position, ever living to make intercession
for you and for me, how can you fail? How dare
you limit the power and the promises of God?
God is not concerned with conditions. Take your
eyes off the circumstances. Sometimes, you know,
circumstances throw us. Sometimes disappointment
will throw us. Sometimes sickness will absolutely
throw us. And we just sink to the very depth
of despair, frustration. And it's long before
we find out that we're defeated. Don't you dare
be defeated. God is not. concerned with conditions.
It makes no difference to God how long a certain
difficulty has lasted. Oh, if only somehow the
Holy Spirit can make this real to your heart.
This can be one of the greatest truths that has
ever been revealed to your heart and to your
mind. We're going to continue our discussion
about your future, my future. And you will remember
that the very last question that I asked of you
in our last heart -to -heart talk on this subject
was the question of what is it that you'd like
to have for your future? You see, this is something
that's very personal with me too. As surely you
have a future, I have a future. I have to ask
myself the question, what do I want for my future?
Do you know? If you don't know, you'll never
get it. Because in order to attain anything,
you have to know what it is that you want to
attain. You have to pinpoint it. Then your whole
nature will work toward it. The trouble with
a great many people is that they only have an
obscure, a very fuzzy notion of what they want
their future to be. They want to go somewhere,
but they do not know where they want to go. Well,
you'll never get anywhere if you don't know where
you want to go. Can you imagine me going down
to the airport here in Pittsburgh and say to
my friend, I want to go someplace. And he'll
say, where do you want to go? And I'll say to
him, I don't know, but I just want to go. I want
to get somewhere. We'll say, Catherine Kuhlman,
what in the world is wrong with you? Every time
you come down here, you've said, I want to go
to Los Angeles. Or I have to go to Chicago. Or
I want a ticket to New York. I always know. I
have always stated exactly. And so I get my ticket.
I board that plane. But if I stand there and
say, I don't know where I want to go. Well, he
can't help you very well, you know. I want to
get somewhere, but I don't know where I want
to go. I'll tell you right now. The fellow would
be so disgusted with me. He would be so disgusted.
he would have the right to say, there's something
wrong with Miss Kuhlman. She's not quite right
today. You know? Now, this may sound silly, very
silly, but it really is important. It has often
happened that some man or woman, having come
with their troubles, And when I begin questioning
them as to what they want, they really do not
know what they want. They do not know what they
want from life. They're not quite sure if they
know what they want from God. They are in a negative
mental attitude. And so, really, there's no help
for them. Do you want your future to be? Let's
just lay it on the line. Go and pray about it.
Ask the Lord what he thinks it ought to be. Be
objective about the thing. Pinpoint it. Make
it sharp and clean. And take it to God and then
go out and do something about it. Your future
can be made what you want to make. Remember again,
God is not concerned with conditions. The unchangeable
fact remains that God has all power. He's outside
of time, outside of space, outside of circumstances.
But you must have Christ at the center. of your
future and the center of all of your plans and
your plans must be in the perfect will of god
you must take in consideration the will of god
if that which you wish for your future is not
for the glory of god and is outside of the will
of god then you will not have a successful future.
You must take that in consideration. I would
not want anything for my future that is outside
the will of God, for it would not be best for
me. And as a tender Heavenly Father, He only
wants His children to have His best. And therefore,
in planning my future, in thinking of my future,
I want, first of all, God's best for me. And
when I have God's best, then I know that his
best also includes others. For no man, no woman,
living in the perfect will of God, lives selfishly.
You just don't. That's the very nature of God,
to give. That's the very nature of His Son, to
give. It's the very nature of the Holy Spirit,
to give and give. God is not selfish. The Son
of God is not selfish. The Holy Spirit is not
selfish. Therefore, as a part of this great union,
neither will you and I be selfish. Therefore,
if I'm living in the perfect will of God, if
I, am wanting his best for my future, then I
know that my future will not be a selfish life.
Oh. I pray the Holy Spirit is making this real
to your heart because it's so vitally important
to all of us. You see, I'm talking to myself
too. I'm not just only preaching to you. I'm
sitting here talking to Catherine Kuhlman because
my future is me. In truth, you are your future.
If you want to know what your future is going
to be, go home, take a good look at yourself
in the mirror, look past your face into your
mind, and look directly into your soul. There
it is, your future. As clear -cut as though it
were diagrammed. If you have weakness, dishonesty,
sin, if you're negative, then that will be your
future. Unless you fill your mind and heart and
soul with Christ so that you become a changed
person, you will not have a future that's filled
with unselfishness. and joy, and success. It's
just that simple. Believe me, it is. By permitting
yourself to develop a skyscraper -sized fear,
you tear down your future. That is the reason
that I have had several heart -to -heart talks
on fear. And I told you over and over again,
it's the greatest enemy that you can take into
your life. There is no greater enemy than the
enemy of fear. Because if you've taken fear into
your future, then you tear down your future.
But when your life is full of Christ, when you
receive him, he gives you the power to become.
The human being has tremendous potentials. You've
never been all of what you can be, nor have I.
And that's the one thing that concerns me and
concerns me greatly. There is never a day of
my life that I do not realize that I am not all
that I can be for God. I know that better than
anyone else. And it isn't me. It's the bigness
of God. When I realize how big God is, when I
realize all that the heavenly Father has made
possible to me as one of His children, I know
that I have not reached that place where I am
all that I can be for Him. And neither have you.
I believe with every atom of my being that there
was even more for the Apostle Paul than what
he even dreamed possible. We have imprisoned
the God within us. We must let him out. Let him
find release. I don't suppose there's anything
in the world so glorious as a person set free
from his own weakness and his own limitations.
I want to be set free from my own weaknesses,
my own limitations, my own smallness. I acknowledge
and have acknowledged over and over again that
in some things I'm very small. I'm small in my
thinking and small in my reasoning. I'd give
you anything in the world if I could be set free
from this smallness. It's because I'm human.
And so are you. If only we could be set free
from our own limitations. And there's only one
who can set us free. Christ can set you free.
He can and he will. So if you want a good future,
you must seek it through him. And let him give
you the power to become. Become what? All that
he has made possible for you to become. The future
of the individual is in Christ. And the future
of mankind is in Christ. What's the trouble with
our world? It comes down to one thing. Oh, of
course, secretaries of state and foreign ministers
and politicians will give you long speeches on
what's wrong with the world, but they're just
people like the rest of us trying to do their
very best, and there's no doubt about that, but
they're also caught up in the old political game
of power against power. Basically, the trouble
is just this, evil against good. And the reason
the world is in such a state as it is is because
of the power of evil. And evil isn't in the air.
Evil is in men's hearts. We're God's children.
We're men. Women. We're supposed to be creative.
It's time for us to do something about the world
problem. We must first realize that good is more
powerful than evil. Then we must individually
rise to the challenge. And each one of us must
say, I'll be God's man. I'll be God's woman.
I'll put a healthy spiritual life against the
evil of our time. And with enough people doing
that, we'll see the dawn of a new day. One of
the greatest passages in the Bible is found in
the sixth chapter of Isaiah. It begins in the
year that King Uzziah died. You remember that
Uzziah had been a great king. He was dead. In
the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the
Lord sitting upon the throne, high and lifted
up, and His train filled the temple. Above it
stood the seraphim, and one cried unto another
and said, Holy! Holy, holy is the Lord of hosts,
and the whole earth is full of his glory. Then
said I, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I
am a man of unclean lips, and I'll dwell in the
midst of a people with unclean lips. But watch,
and Isaiah heard the Lord asking, Whom shall
I send, and who will go for us? And here is the
answer. Here am I. Send me.