His Word is a sword. The Bible said so. You want reference to that, it’s Hebrews 4:12, as I got the text wrote down. The Bible said, “The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword.” This sword has got to be held by a hand of faith. A hand of theology won’t do it. It’s got to take a hand of faith, trained in spiritual things, that knows God.
Again, might, as I might say this. How do you believe that Jesus looked upon the audience and perceived their thoughts? Because He was the Word. Let’s quote the rest of the Word here, “Sharper than a two-edged sword, a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” He was the Word. That’s the reason He could discern the thoughts that were in their heart.
Last night, as we took, “as it was in the days of Sodom,” showed that Man standing there, eating the flesh of a calf, drinking the milk from the cow, eating butter and bread; standing there eating, with clothes on like you and I, with His back turned to the tent, and perceived what Sarah was thinking about in the tent. No wonder Abraham called Him Elohim, “the all-sufficient One, the self-existing One,” Elohim.
Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Sodom, so shall it be at the returning of the Son of man.” It’ll be the same thing. “In the days,” did you notice, “in Sodom there”? It said in Luke 17:15, it said that, “When the days of Sodom, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, when the Son of man is being revealed.” In the days that the Son of man is revealed like He was at Sodom, the same thing will be taking place.
We find out the fire is ready, the nations are ready, the evangelists has gone to their places, and every gift is set in order. No wonder we should be persistent! No wonder we should be perseverant! We’ve got a goal to achieve for God, that’s, call out the Bride of Jesus Christ from all denominations, from all people, a separated people for God.
This Greek had heard these words. She believed it. She had many hindrances, but her faith didn’t have any. Faith knows no hindrance. Her faith had no hindrance. She had, but her faith didn’t have. You may have hindrances, but, if you’ve got faith, it knows no defeat. It’s positive. Let’s look at some of her hindrances, just for a moment.
Some of them might have said, “Remember, you are of a different race. You are a Greek, Syrophenician by nation. He is a Jew.” In other words, today you would say, “Your denomination’s not having this revival.” It makes no difference, your denomination, whether it is or not. That woman didn’t care whose denomination it was. She was a human being had been created by God, and she had a need, and she had faith and she was going to get it. Whether her denomination was cooperating or not, made her no difference. She started off.
She might have had another critic that might have met her down the line, and said, “Why, the days of miracles is passed. We don’t have miracles no more.” That could have been a Jew, after she got in, her over in this country where Jesus was, across into Galilee. “Days of miracles is passed. There is no such a thing.” Still she was persistent. She was perseverant. The denominational barrier didn’t stop her, neither did any of them who believed the days of miracles was passed. She knew different. First thing, she had something inside of her, that told her that she would get what she asked for.
Oh, people, tonight, if you only can hold that in your heart, that God is here to give you the desire of your heart! If you will meet His conditions, nothing can stand.
There might have been a bunch of women come to her, and said, “Look, Sister Lydia,” or ever what her name might have been, “do you understand that your husband will leave you if you do this?” No doubt but what she loved her husband, but she couldn’t curse or bless That which was in her. Something was telling, her daughter was dying with epilepsy and she had to get to Jesus, and, when she got there, something was going to take place, husband or no husband.

William Branham, sermon «Perseverant»
https://en.branham.ru/sermons/64-0305