Smith Wigglesworth says, “There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.”
One day in Lancashire, and going round to see some sick people, he was taken into a house where there was a young woman lying on a bed, a very helpless case. He recalls:
“Then with all my faith I began to penetrate the heavens, and I was soon out of that house, I will tell you, for I never saw a man get anything from God who prayed on the earth. If you get anything from God, you will have to pray into heaven; for it is all there. If you are living in the earth realm and expect things from heaven, they will never come. And as I saw, in the presence of God, the limitations of my faith, there came another faith, a faith that could not be denied, a faith that took the promise, a faith that believed God's Word. And from that presence, I came back again to earth, but not the same man. God gave a faith that could shake hell and anything else.
“I said, Come out of her, in the name of Jesus! And she rolled over and fell asleep and wakened in fourteen hours perfectly sane and perfectly whole.”
I believe it is the same way with everything else that we receive from God. And I want to repeat what Wigglesworth sad, “If you get anything from God, you will have to pray into heaven; for it is all there.” And concerning knowledge, I believe we can come to that place where we can receive a knowledge that is far above anything that we can comprehend; a knowledge that transcends all knowledge. Like what the Bible says in Eph 3:19 (ESV) and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
It occurred to me some years back that the gift of speaking in tongues is actually a means to escape the limitations of our physical mind. And this is really the main benefit of it, to edify one's self by talking to God in an unknown language. We don't understand it but God does, and He hears what our spirit groans for.
Job 32:8 KJV But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
I would that you to take note and add this word in your vocabulary, Inspiration. Now that we have believed in Christ everything about us has to be inspired with the inspiration of the Almighty, the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. We can practice this and keep watch of ourselves, keep guard of what we say and what we do whether they are by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. If they are not, we must stop.
One day in Lancashire, and going round to see some sick people, he was taken into a house where there was a young woman lying on a bed, a very helpless case. He recalls:
“Then with all my faith I began to penetrate the heavens, and I was soon out of that house, I will tell you, for I never saw a man get anything from God who prayed on the earth. If you get anything from God, you will have to pray into heaven; for it is all there. If you are living in the earth realm and expect things from heaven, they will never come. And as I saw, in the presence of God, the limitations of my faith, there came another faith, a faith that could not be denied, a faith that took the promise, a faith that believed God's Word. And from that presence, I came back again to earth, but not the same man. God gave a faith that could shake hell and anything else.
“I said, Come out of her, in the name of Jesus! And she rolled over and fell asleep and wakened in fourteen hours perfectly sane and perfectly whole.”
I believe it is the same way with everything else that we receive from God. And I want to repeat what Wigglesworth sad, “If you get anything from God, you will have to pray into heaven; for it is all there.” And concerning knowledge, I believe we can come to that place where we can receive a knowledge that is far above anything that we can comprehend; a knowledge that transcends all knowledge. Like what the Bible says in Eph 3:19 (ESV) and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
It occurred to me some years back that the gift of speaking in tongues is actually a means to escape the limitations of our physical mind. And this is really the main benefit of it, to edify one's self by talking to God in an unknown language. We don't understand it but God does, and He hears what our spirit groans for.
Job 32:8 KJV But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
I would that you to take note and add this word in your vocabulary, Inspiration. Now that we have believed in Christ everything about us has to be inspired with the inspiration of the Almighty, the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. We can practice this and keep watch of ourselves, keep guard of what we say and what we do whether they are by inspiration of the Holy Spirit. If they are not, we must stop.
As we move in life with that inspiration, we walk in the path that God has set for us. There will be no guessing game, no accidents; we will be exactly where we needed to be.
As we live life with that inspiration, let us desire also the greater gifts. I myself am bent on this. I am not satisfied with just preaching. I believe in the powerful physical manifestation of the word of God. I believe this to be the very purpose for which the Word was given to us. God gave His Word not only for eternal things but to address also real and tangible physical, material needs especially of physical health. Our body is a Temple of the Holy Ghost, how can it be sick?
I would that all of you become spiritual. Because God is spirit and we believe God and so the things of God shouldn’t be so supernatural for us. When we do the ministry, miracles and healing shouldn’t be so spectacular for us. And I desire this especially for ROL that we should go forth and preach everywhere, the Lord working with us and confirming His word with signs following. Amen.
As we live life with that inspiration, let us desire also the greater gifts. I myself am bent on this. I am not satisfied with just preaching. I believe in the powerful physical manifestation of the word of God. I believe this to be the very purpose for which the Word was given to us. God gave His Word not only for eternal things but to address also real and tangible physical, material needs especially of physical health. Our body is a Temple of the Holy Ghost, how can it be sick?
I would that all of you become spiritual. Because God is spirit and we believe God and so the things of God shouldn’t be so supernatural for us. When we do the ministry, miracles and healing shouldn’t be so spectacular for us. And I desire this especially for ROL that we should go forth and preach everywhere, the Lord working with us and confirming His word with signs following. Amen.
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