And before you can have faith, you’ve got to have something to have faith in. And what more can you trust faith in than it can the Word of the living God, what’s created, the powers of the Almighty? What more could we put our hopes in? Therefore it makes you look different, act different. You are looking for God to fulfill His promise. And when difficulties arise, like we have now, It is an anchor. It’s something that—that holds you, something that you are tied to. It’s a promise that we have been tied to, the Word of God is. 34 Just like the anchor is the absolute to the ship, in the time of storm. The ship can be sailing the sea. The anchor is out in the front. It’s the…It rests. You people here in Houston, so close to the sea, see the ships come in. 35 And why carry this excess weight of this great mighty anchor? But, you see, when the storms come, the—the raging storms that rips up the sea, and could throw the vessel into the bank somewhere, and crash it, or turn it over in the shallow waters; it gets out into the deep water, and lets down this great, huge anchor, that’s so fixed that it’ll drag on the bottom of the sea until it hooks into the top of some unseen mountain. Then let those storms rage if they want to; it’s got an absolute. The anchor holds somewhere yonder, but it’s—it’s tight. And as the ship and the waves whip around the ship, it’s got an absolute, because it’s tied. 36 And that’s the way that a man is when he’s tied to Christ and to His Word, and believes It. There’s an absolute there, something that holds him. 37 An absolute is like the north star when you’re lost. When you—when you’ve lost your directions, and you want to find your way back, the north star is an absolute. Now, there’s other stars, but they turn with the world. As the world turns around them, the…it turns away from them. And the…You know, the same morning star is the evening star also, because the world just turned around. But there’s one star that does not move, and it’s centered right in the middle of the earth. And therefore the…It’s a—it’s a sure star. If you know the north star, you can always find your way around. But, oh, that’s when a man is lost, and he doesn’t know just which way to go. 38 Now, I know a Star. Oh, It’s more than a north star. And to be tied and see His Presence, no matter how you’re lost or where you are, you can find your way back by His guidance, that’s His Word. It’s the way out of all troubles. It’s the way to peace. It’s the way to success. It’s the way to Life, itself, is to follow this Star, the Lord Jesus. And now, if you are tied to that Star, the Holy Spirit is the Compass that’ll only point to the Star. The Holy… 39 A compass, it is magnetized to that north pole. And the only way, no matter how much jungle you’re in, or how deep the thickets are around you, or how foggy it is at sea, that compass hand, you can turn it any way you want to, and it’ll swing right back and point to the north star. 40 And when we’re in trouble, and trusting Christ, there’s one thing sure: the Holy Spirit will point us to the Word that will guide us to the North Star, and to deliver of everything we have need of. He is our Absolute. 41 To the man that’s lost in the wilderness, the compass is the thing that guides him to the outward. When we’re in trouble, there’s only one thing; it’s just as sure as the north star. As long as the world stands in its position, and turns around, the north star will remain in its place. 42 And long as there is an Eternity, Christ will ever be the Saviour, and the way out of every problem, every difference, every trial, everything. And therefore we—we, when we are tied to Him, we don’t get flusterated and all worked up like the world does, “And, oh, what will we do about this? What will we do about that?” We seem as if we’re not even anchored. But a man who has anchored his soul into Christ Jesus, his trust there, knowing that when he asks the Father anything in His Name, “Jesus said, ‘I’ll do it.’” That settles it. 43 That—that settles it. It’s the amen. It’s the absolute. It’s the ultimate. When Jesus said, “Ask the Father anything in My Name, I’ll grant it,” now, that’s an ultimate. That’s it. “Whatever you have need of, when you pray, believe that you receive it, you shall have it.” That settles it. That’s all of it, see, if we’re really anchored and believe It, and we’ve made Him our Absolute. Cause, He does. He is the Absolute that takes us from all fear. There’s no fear when you’re really tied to the Rock of Ages. 44 There is no fear to the sailor, how hard the ship is being buffet by the waves, as long as that anchor is holding in the top of the mountain yonder. Why, sure. He knows the ship is going to stay up. It isn’t going against some rock somewhere. It isn’t going to get in some shallow water and be turned over, because it’s got the absolute anchored in the top of some mountain.

63-0304 - A Absolute
Rev. William Marrion Branham
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