Oops, went to bed to early! (Good read) One time when Smith was waiting at a bus-stop, a woman was having trouble getting her small dog, which had followed her, to go home. First she tried sweet-talking it, and asking it to please go home. But after awhile of trying this to no avail, the woman suddenly stamped her foot and said severely: Go home at once! The dog immediately took off home, with its tail between its legs. Thats how you have to treat the devil, said Wigglesworth, loudly enough for all those waiting at the bus-stop to hear. And this was his attitude toward the devil, every moment of every waking day. He literally travelled the world in the 1920s and 1930s, and thousands were saved and healed everywhere he went. Often he would arrive in a place almost unknown and unheralded, but within days there would be thousands thronging to hear, the power of God demonstrated in his meetings was so great. God was truly glorified everywhere he went. He was a man who walked and lived in the very presence of God. And yet, in many ways he was a very natural, down-to-earth man. And neither was he afraid of issuing the odd stern rebuke. His object was to be in constant, unbroken communion with the Father. He had spent hours and days fervently seeking God in his early years, but later, Although his life was a combination of incessant prayer and praise, and every word and work was an act of worship, he was not given to protracted periods of fasting and prayer. (Pg 122). Instead, he had learned the secret of being in continuous, intimate communion with God (sometimes withdrawing quietly into himself for this purpose), even when he was in a crowd of people. He walked by faith, and he was in the Spirit at all times. This was one vital secret to his success. He said, There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you. (See The Life of Smith Wigglesworth by Jack Hywel-Davies). He had counted the cost, and everything was Gods. He was a man who truly understood GODLY AUTHORITY, and he WALKED in it by faith. He said, Be filled with the Spirit, ie., be CRAMMED with the Spirit, so filled that there will be no room left for anything else. That was the way he lived. Full of audacity, full of daring, full of faith and of the Holy Ghost.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:22:28 +0000
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