The author of this message Smith Wigglesworth is a great and
mighty Man of God who was born in England in 1859. He is called as “The Apostle of Faith” because
of his absolute and complete trust in God and his life and ministry was based
on this aspect. He was one of the
pioneers of Pentecostal Revival of the 20th Century. God confirmed his ministry through many supernatural
signs such as healing the hundreds of their sicknesses and grave diseases, raising
the dead, and many other supernatural signs.
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What a wonderful Word! This surely means to press on to be
filled with all the fullness of God. If we leak out here we shall surely miss
God, and shall fail in fulfilling the ministry He would give us.
PRESSING ON FOR FULLER POWER
The Lord would have us preach by life, and by deed, always
abounding in service; living epistles, bringing forth to men the knowledge of
God. If we went all the way with God, what would happen? What should we see if
we would only seek to bring honor to the name of our God? Here we see Paul
pressing in for this. There is no standing still. We must move on to a fuller
power of the Spirit, never satisfied that we have apprehended all, but filled
with the assurance that God will take us on to the goal we desire to reach, as
we press on for the prize ahead.
Abraham came out from Ur
of the Chaldees. We never get into a new place until we come out from the old
one. There is a place where we leave the old life behind, and where the life in
Christ fills us and we are filled with His glorious personality.
On the road to Damascus,
Saul of Tarsus was apprehended by Christ. From the first he sent up a cry,
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” He desired always to do the will of God,
but here he realized a place of closer intimacy, a place of fuller power, of
deeper crucifixion. He sees a prize ahead and every fiber of his being is
intent on securing that prize. Jesus Christ came to be the firstfruits; the
firstfruits of a great harvest of like fruit, like unto Himself. How zealous is
the farmer as he watches his crops and sees the first shoots and blades. They
are the earnest of the great harvest that is coming. Paul here is longing that
the Father’s heart shall be satisfied, for in that first resurrection the
Heavenly Husbandman will see a firstfruits harvest, firstfruits like unto
Christ, sons of God made conformable to the only begotten Son of God.
You say, “I am in a needy place.” It is in needy places that
God delights to work. For three days the people that were with Christ were
without food, and He asked Philip, “From whence shall we buy bread that these
may eat?” That was a hard place for Philip, but not for Jesus, for He knew
perfectly what He would do. The hard place is where He delights to show forth
His miraculous power. And how fully was the need provided for. Bread enough and
to spare!
THE PRESENCE OF THE RISEN CHRIST
Two troubled, baffled travelers are on the road to Emmaus.
As they communed together and reasoned, Jesus Himself drew near, and He opened
up the Word to them in such a way that they saw light in His light. Their eyes
were holden that they could not recognize who it was talking with them. But, oh
how their hearts burned within as He opened up the Scripture to them. And at
the breaking of bread He was made known to them. Always seek to be found in the
place where He manifests His presence and power.
The resurrected Christ appeared to Peter and a few more of
them early one morning on the shore of the lake. He prepared a meal for the
tired, tried disciples. This is just like Him. Count on His presence. Count on
His power. Count on His provision. He is always there just where you need Him.
Have you received Him? Are you to be found “in Him”? Have
you received His righteousness, which is by faith? Abraham got to this place,
for God gave this righteousness to him because he believed, and as you believe
God He puts His righteousness to your account. He will put His righteousness
right within you. He will keep you in perfect peace as you stay your mind upon
Him and trust in Him. He will bring you to a rest of faith, to a place of
blessed assurance that all that happens is working for your eternal good.
Here is the widow’s son on the road to burial. Jesus meets
that unhappy procession. He has compassion on that poor woman who is taking her
only son to the cemetery. His great heart had such compassion that death had no
power - it could not longer hold its prey. Compassion is greater than
suffering. Compassion is greater than death. O God, give us this compassion! In
His infinite compassion Jesus stopped that funeral procession and cried to that
widow’s son, “Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.” And he who was dead sat up,
and Jesus delivered him to his mother.
CHANNELS FOR HIS POWER
Paul got a vision and revelation of the resurrection power
of Christ, and so he was saying, “I will not stop until I have laid hold of
what God has laid hold of me for.” For what purpose has God laid hold of us? To
be channels for His power. He wants to manifest the power of the Son of God
through you and me. God helps us to manifest the faith of Christ, the
compassion of Christ, the resurrection power of Christ.
One morning about eleven o’clock I saw a woman who was
suffering with a tumor. She could not live through the day. A little blind girl
led me to the bedside. Compassion broke me up and I wanted that woman to live
for the child’s sake. I said to the woman, “Do you want to live?” She could not
speak. She just moved her finger. I anointed her with oil and said, “In the
name of Jesus.” There was a stillness of death that followed; and the pastor,
looking at the woman, said to me, “She is gone.”
When God pours in His compassion it has resurrection power
in it. I carried that woman across the room, put her against a wardrobe, and
held her there. I said, “In the name of Jesus, death, come out.” And soon her
body began to tremble like a leaf. “In Jesus’ name, walk,” I said. She did and
went back to bed.
I told this story in the assembly. There was a doctor there
and he said, “I’ll prove that.” He went to the woman and she told him it was
perfectly true. She said, “I was in heaven, and I saw countless numbers all
like Jesus. Then I heard a voice saying, ‘Walk, in the name of Jesus.’’’
There is power in the name of Jesus. Let us apprehend it,
the power of His resurrection, the power of His compassion, the power of His
love. Love will break the hardest thing - there is nothing it will not break.
Courtesy: http://www.smithwigglesworth.com
Published in Pentecostal Evangel p. 2 August 4, 1945
Published in Redemption Tidings p. 5-6 March 28, 1947
Published in Redemption Tidings p. 5-6 March 28, 1947
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