THE GIFTS OF HEALING AND THE WORKING OF MIRACLES
Published in The Pentecostal Evangel p. 2-3, 5 August 4, 1923 Published in The Redemption Tidings p. 2-4 Dec 17, 1937 Published as Chapter fifteen in Ever Increasing Faith 1924
God has given us much in these last days, and where much is given much will be required. The Lord has said to us,
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Matthew 5:13
We see a thought on the same line when our Lord Jesus says,
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. John 15:6
On the other hand He tells us,
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7
`If we do not move on with the Lord these days, and do not walk in the light of revealed truth, we shall become as the savorless salt, as a withered branch. This one thing we must do, forgetting those things that are behind, the past failures and the past blessings, we must reach forth for those things which are before, and press toward the mark for the prize of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus’ (Philippians 3:13,14).
For many years the Lord has been moving me on and keeping me from spiritual stagnation. When I was in the Wesleyan Methodist Church I was sure I was saved and was sure I was all right. The Lord said to me, “Come out,” and I came out. When I was with the people known as the Brethren I was sure I was all right now. But the Lord said, “Come out.” Then I went into the Salvation Army. At that time it was full of life and there were revivals everywhere. But the Salvation Army went into natural things and the great revivals that they had in those early days ceased. The Lord said to me, “Come out,” and I came out. I have had to come out three times since. I believe that this Pentecostal revival that we are now in is the best thing that the Lord has on the earth today, and yet I believe that God has something out of this that is going to be still better. God has no use for any man who is not hungering and thirsting for yet more of Himself and His righteousness.
The Lord has told us to covet earnestly the best gifts, and we need to be covetous for those that will bring Him most glory. We need to see the gifts of healing and the working of miracles in operation today. Some say that it is necessary for us to have the gift of discernment in operation with the gifts of healing, but even apart from this gift I believe the Holy Ghost will have a divine revelation for us as we deal with the sick. Most people seem to have discernment, or think they have, and if they would turn it on themselves for twelve months they would never want to discern again. The gift of discernment is not criticism. I am satisfied that in Pentecostal circles today that our paramount need is more perfect love.
Perfect love will never want the preeminence in everything, it will never want to take the place of another, it will always be willing to take the back seat. If you go to a convention there is always someone who wants to give a message, who wants to be heard. If you have a desire to go to a convention you should have three things settled in your mind. Do I want to be heard? Do I want to be seen? Do I want anything on the line of finances? If I have these things in my heart, I have no right to be there. The one thing that must move us must be the constraining love of God to minister for Him. A preacher always loses out when he gets his mind on finances. It is well for Pentecostal preachers to avoid making much of finances except to stir up people to help our missionaries on financial lines. A preacher who gets big collections for the missionaries need never fear, the Lord will take care of his finances. A preacher should not land at a place and say that God had sent him. I am always fearful when I hear a man advertising this. If he is sent of God, the saints wiII know it. God has His plans for His servants and we must so live in His plans that He will place us where He wants us. If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time. I want you to see that the gifts of healing and the working of miracles are part of the Spirit’s plan and will come forth in operation as we are working along that plan. I must know the movement of the Spirit, and the voice of God. I must understand the will of God if I am to see the gifts of the Spirit in operation.
The gifts of healing are so varied. You may go and see ten people and every case is different. I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person. I have had more revelations of the Lord’s presence when I have ministered to the sick at their bedsides than at any other time. It is as your heart goes out to the needy ones in deep compassion that the Lord manifests His presence. You are able to locate their position. It is then that you know that you must be filled with the Spirit to deal with the conditions before you.
Where people are in sickness you find frequently that they are dense about Scripture. They usually know three scriptures though. They know about Paul’s thorn in the flesh, and that Paul told Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach’s sake, and that Paul left someone sick somewhere; they forget his name, and don’t remember the name of the place, and don’t know where the chapter is. Most people think they have a thorn in the flesh. The chief thing in dealing with a person who is sick is to locate their exact position. As you are ministering under the Spirit’s power, the Lord will let you see just that which will be the most helpful and the most faith-inspiring to them.
When I was in the plumbing business I enjoyed praying for the sick. Urgent calls would come and I would have no time to wash, and with my hands all black I would preach to these sick ones, my heart all aglow with love. Ah, you must have your heart in the thing when you pray for the sick. You have to get right to the bottom of the cancer with a divine compassion and then you will see the gifts of the Spirit in operation.
I was called at 10 o’clock one night to pray for a young person given up by the doctor who was dying of consumption. As I looked, I saw that unless God undertook it was impossible for her to live. I turned to the mother and said, “Well, Mother, you will have to go to bed.” She said, “Oh, I have not had my clothes off for three weeks.” I said to the daughters, “You will have to go to bed,” but they did not want to go. It was the same with the son. I put on my overcoat and said, “Goodbye, I’m off.” They said, “Oh, don’t leave us.” I said, “I can do nothing here.” They said, “Oh, if you will stop, we will all go to bed.” I knew that God would move nothing in an atmosphere of mere natural sympathy and unbelief.
They all went to bed and I stayed, and that was surely a time as I knelt by that bed face to face with death and with the devil. But God can change the hardest situation and make you know that He is almighty.
Then the fight came. It seemed as though the heavens were brass. I prayed from 11:00 P.M. to 3:30 in the morning. I saw the glimmering light on the face of the sufferer and saw her pass away. The devil said, “Now you are done for. You have come from Bradford and the girl has died on your hands.” I said, “It can’t be. God did not send me here for nothing. This is a time to change strength.” I remembered that passage which said, “...men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18:1). Death had taken place but I knew that my God was all powerful, and He that had split the Red Sea is just the same today. It was a time when I would not have “No,” and God said “Yes.” I looked at the window and at that moment the face of Jesus appeared. It seemed as though a million rays of light were coming from His face. As He looked at the one who had just passed away, the color came back to the face. She rolled over and fell asleep. Then I had a glorious time. In the morning she woke early, put on a dressing gown, and walked to the piano. She started to play and to sing a wonderful song. The mother and the sister and the brother had all come down to listen. The Lord had undertaken. A miracle had been wrought.
The Lord is calling us along this way. I am thanking God for difficult cases. The Lord has called us into heart union with Himself; He wants His bride to have one heart and one Spirit with Him and to do what He Himself loved to do. That case had to be a miracle. The lungs were gone, they were just in shreds, but the Lord restored lungs that were perfectly sound.
There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering. The man who is going through with God to be used in healing must be a man of longsuffering. He must be always ready with a word of comfort. If the sick one is in distress and helpless and does not see everything eye to eye with you, you must bear with them. Our Lord Jesus Christ was filled with compassion and lived and moved in a place of longsuffering, and we will have to get into this place if we are to help needy ones.
There are some times when you pray for the sick and you are apparently rough. But you are not dealing with a person, you are dealing with satanic forces that are binding the person. Your heart is full of love and compassion to all, but you are moved to a holy anger as you see the place the devil has taken in the body of the sick one, and you deal with his position with a real forcefulness. One day a pet dog followed a lady out of her house and ran all round her feet. She said to the dog, “My dear, I cannot have you with me today.” The dog wagged its tail and made a big fuss. She said, “Go home, my dear.” But the dog did not go. At last she shouted roughly, “Go home,” and off it went. Some people deal with the devil like that. The devil can stand all the comfort you like to give him. Cast him out! You are dealing not with the person, you are dealing with the devil. Demon power must be dislodged in the name of the Lord. You are always right when you dare to deal with sickness as with the devil. Much sickness is caused by some misconduct, there is something wrong, there is some neglect somewhere, and Satan has had a chance to get in. It is necessary to repent and confess where you have given place to the devil, and then he can be dealt with.
When you deal with a cancer case, recognize that it is a living evil spirit that is destroying the body. I had to pray for a woman in Los Angeles one time who was suffering with cancer, and as soon as it was cursed it stopped bleeding. It was dead. The next thing that happened was that the natural body pressed it out, because the natural body had no room for dead matter. It came out like a great big ball with tens of thousands of fibers. All these fibers had been pressing into the flesh. These evil powers move to get further hold of the system, but the moment they are destroyed their hold is gone. Jesus said to His disciples that He gave them power to loose and power to bind. It is our privilege in the power of the Holy Ghost to loose the prisoners of Satan and to let the oppressed go free.
Take your position in the first epistle of John and declare, “...greater is he that is in [me], than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4). Then recognize that it is not yourself that has to deal with the power of the devil, but the Greater One that is in you. Oh, what it means to be filled with Him. You can do nothing of yourself, but He that is in you will win the victory. Your being has become the temple of the Spirit. Your mouth, your mind, your whole being becomes exercised and worked upon by the Spirit of God.
I was called to a certain town in Norway. The hall seated about 1500 people. When I got to the place it was packed, and hundreds were trying to get in. There were some policemen there. The first thing I did was to preach to the people outside the building. Then I said to the policemen, “It hurts me very much that there are more people outside than inside and I feel I must preach to the people. I would like you to get me the marketplace to preach in.” They secured for me a great park and a big stand was erected and I was able to preach to thousands. After the preaching, we had some wonderful cases of healing. One man came a hundred miles bringing his food with him. He had not been passing anything through his stomach for over a month as he had a great cancer on his stomach. He was healed at that meeting, and opening his parcel, he began eating before all the people. There was a young woman there with a stiff hand. Instead of the mother making the child use her arm, she had allowed the child to keep the arm dormant until it was stiff, and she had grown up to be a young woman and was like the woman that was bowed down with the spirit of infirmity. As she stood before me I cursed the spirit of infirmity in the name of Jesus. It was instantly cast out and the arm was free. Then she waved it all over. At the close of the meeting the devil laid out two people with fits. When the devil is manifesting himself, then is the time to deal with him. Both of these people were delivered, and when they stood up and thanked and praised the Lord, what a wonderful time we had.
We need to wake up and be on the stretch to believe God. Before God could bring me to this place, He has broken me a thousand times. I have wept, I have groaned. I have travailed many a night until God broke me. It seems to me that until God has mowed you down you never can have this longsuffering for others. We can never have the gifts of healing and the working of miracles in operation only as we stand in the divine power that God gives us and we stand believing God, and having done all we still stand believing.
We have been seeing wonderful miracles these last days and they are only a little of what we are going to see. I believe that we are right on the threshold of wonderful things, but I want to emphasize that all these things will be through the power of the Holy Ghost. You must not think that these gifts will fall upon you like ripe cherries. There is a sense in which you have to pay the price for everything you get. We must be covetous for God’s best gifts, and say Amen to any preparation the Lord takes us through, in order that we may be humble, useable vessels through whom He Himself can operate by means of the Spirit’s power.
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/ THE GIFTS OF HEALING AND THE WORKING OF MIRACLES - Evangelist Smith Wigglesworth
&d has given us n1uc11 in these last days, and where Ilo I want anything on the line of finances? If I hare IIILIC~ is given much will be required. The Lord has these things in my heart I hare no right to be there. said to us, “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the The one thing that must move us must be the con- salt ha1.e lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted! straining 1ol.e of God to minister for Him. A preacher It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, allvays loses out x\rhen he gets his mind on finances. and to be trodden under foot of men.” l$!e see a It is well for Pentecostal preachers to avoid making thought on the same line when our Lord Jesus says, much of finances except to stir up people to help OUT “of a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, missionaries on financial lines. A preacher who gets and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them big collections for the missionaries need never fear, into the fire, and they are burned.” On the other the Lord lvill take care of his finances. A preacher hand He tells us, “If ye abide in Me, and My words
THE COMING OF THE LORD DRAWETH NIGH herald the coming of the Lord. So\\ IIe sends the Holy Ghost to herald through His people, through “For this \ve say unto you by the word of the Lord, that \vc I\-llich are alixre and remain unto the coming circumstances, by the phenomena of the latter rain, the glad, stupendous fact that the coming of the of ‘the Lord shall not prevent them which are asliep. For the LOI-d Himself shall descend from heaven with Lord dralveth nigh. I)o you love His appearing! Or are you merely a shout, \vith the voice of the al-&angel, and with the trunlp of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: concerned lvith the data as to when He is to come, then \ye \yhich are alive and remain shall be caught or the signs of His coming? Those \vho love His albpearing lore Him. They love the thought of His up together \vith them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” appearing, love the thought of His being satisfied in IIis r)eol,le. love the thought of His receiving His il Thess. 1:15-l?‘). king$on;. 101-e the thought.bf His enemies being sub- Paul’s inspiration was added to or confirmed by the dued under Hitn. Love His appearing. Why? Be- statemen!, by the word of the Lord, and the fact was cause He is lovely. Lore the appearing of the lovely confirmed that the Lord Himself was coming. You One who is to receive the consummation of His love, have the fact of Scripture against the surmise or the x\-ho loved His o\vn even unto the end. He shall see asgertions of men to the contrary or otherwise. o.f the travail of His soul and be satisfied. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with Don’t love the signs of His coming. Don’t even a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the lo1.e the manifestations that herald His appearing, trump of God. Never was there a shout in the history but 101-e His o\vn l)ersonal appearing. Then you will of this \vorld equal to it. “The voice of the Lord mak- have a croxvn of righteousness. There are enough eth the hinds to calve” (Psa. 29:9), and “by the word cro\vns to go round.. He \\Tants His loved ones to be of the Lord xvere the heavens made” (Psa. 33:6). A crowned, and not crownless. Ask the Lord Himself voice of power and a voice of command. But this to put a lore for His appearing into your heart as threefold voice, the shout of the Lord, the voice of never before. the archangel, and the trumpet of God, will transcend The intensity of lo\-e in His people will bring the every other divine sound. Beloved. Jle says, “Surely I come quickly.” “Amen. “He spake, and it was done” (Psa. 33:9). His for- Even so, come, Lord Jesus,” must be the response, mer speaking had to do with creation, this other with not only of the Spirit, but of God’s people. They the consummation of redemption. The one had to must put the -4men to the Spirit’s invitation. deal lvith inanimate matter; this threefold voice has to do with the bodies of the dead and living saints. If He has done so much for and in His people, trust -4 quickening and a transforming-a quickening of Him to put the love for His appearing also in His peo- those xvhom the blood of the Son of Man has re- ple. The Husbandman has lvaited \\.ith long patience deemed. It is heaven coming down to quicken those for the precious fruit. He longs to come more than on the earth in order to bring earth out of earth to you long for His coming. For the long suffering of heaven. It is divine alchemy, divine transformation. our Lord is salvation. The number of the elect must rt is unique. It is as unique as the ascension of Je- be complete. Amen. sus Christ. The shout is assured, the archangel is chosen, and’ God has the trumpet. It is assured. THE GIFTS OF HEALIVG AND WORKING God did not and does not give false hopes, false OF MIRACLES statements. because He is truth. The fact has to be. (Continued from Page Three) .:\5 God ?a>-~ it. it must be brought about. drlivered. and when they stood up and thanked and The “offscouring of the earth” rising from the \,rait;ed the L.ord what a wonderful time we had. tlcxtl. Rut they are the ver es for whom God lwt5 forth divine l>o\ver to q’ick , to transform, to \\:e need to lvake up and he on the stretch to be- I-csurrrct. to translate. This Gis t a vision’ of Paul’s. lice-e God. Before God could brinF me to this olace The>- are sober xvords written after being inspired He has broken me a thousand timis. I have wdpt, I to \\.ritc them I>?- the Spirit of the Lord. ha\-c groaned. I have travailed many a night until To meet the Lord in the air! The Lord has come God broke me. It seems to me that until God has the xrcatcr part of the joul-ney. He comes as near mo\ved ?-ou do\rn J-ou never can have this longsuffer- the confines of the earth as is possil)le lvithout being ing for others. IVe can never have the gifts of heal- 5;een. .\i near as is possillle for the rejected yet ing and the working of miracles in operation only as glorified One, and not deal a,ith His enemies, His Jve stand in the dirine power that God gibes us and rejecters. Ilis blasphemers. I\-e stand believing God. and having done all we still The Husbandman, who has \vaited long for the stand believing. precious fruit. is anxious and longs to receive His \iTe ha\-e been seeing ivonderful miracles these last own. God is sending forth heralds now upon the da>-s and they are only a little of \f.hat we are going earth heralding the nearness of His coming, through to see. I lielievc that \ve arc right on the threshold Spirit-inspired ones, inspired n.riters, through con- of \vondcrful things. but I want to emphasize that fbCrcIlccs. and men and women are wakening to the all these things u-ill be through the powe; of the Holy fact that the signs of the times portend something Ghost. You mllst not think that these rifts will fall momentous. People are buying the Word in the upon you like ripe cherries. There is a sense in which hope of getting light on the signs of the times. Thev you ha\-e to pay the price for everything you get. WC \vant light. but they won’t take the Light of I,ifh, muht be covetous for God’s best gifts, and say Amen even ,Jcsus. And even those lvho have light, won’t to any prcparntion the Lord takes US through, in seek tile fulness of the Spirit that they may have nrtlcr that wc may be humble, useable vessels through light upon light. “He shall show you things to ~~hOIl1 TTC l~illlsclf can operate by means Of the SJ)ir- come.” God sent John the Baptist as a herald to it’s power. REDEMPTION TIDINGS DECEMBER17TH,1937. GIFTS OF HEALING AND WORKING OF MIRACLES. By SMITH WIGGLESWORTH. (J.OD hasgiven us much in these last days and wherehave three things settled in your mind. Do I want to much is given much will be required. The Lordbe heard? Do I want to be seen? Do I want anything has said to us, "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if theon the line of finances? If I have these things in my salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?heart I have no right to be there. The one thing that It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out,must move us must be and to be trodden under foot of men." We see a THE CONSTRAINING LOVE OF GOD thought on the same line when our Lord Jesus says, "Ifto minister for Him. A preacher always loses out when a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch.he gets his mind on finances. it is well for Pentecost and is withered; and men gather them, and cast thempreachers to avoid making much of finances except to into the fire and they are burned." On the other handstir up people to help our missionaries on financial lines. He tells us, "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide inA preacher who gets big offerings for the missionaries you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be doneneed never fear, the Lord will take care of his finances. unto you." If we do not move on with the Lord theseA preacher should not land at a place and say that God days, and do not walk in the light of revealed truth,had sent him. I am always fearful when I hear a man we shall become as the savourless salt, as a witheredadvertising this. If he is sent of God, the saints will branch. This one thing we must do, know it. God has His plans for His servants and we FORGEflING THOSE THINGS THAT ARE BEHIND, must so live in His plans that He will place us where the past failures and the past blessings, we must reachHe wants us. If you seek nothing but the will of God, forth for those things which are before, and press to- ward the mark for the prize of our high calling of God A SPECIAL MIRACLE. in Christ Jesus. TOOK 50,000 ASPIRIN TABLETS. For many years the Lord has been moving me on and keeping me from spiritual stagnation. When I 637—l3th Ave., E. was in the \Vesleyan Methodist Church I was sure I Calgary, was saved and sure I was right. The Lord said to me, Alberta, Canada. "Come out," and I came out. When I was with theDear Brother Wigglesworth, people knbwn as the Brethren I was sure I was right I praise and thank the Lord Jesus Christ.It now. But the Lord said, "Come out." Then I wentwas in March 1932 that I received a handkerchief into the Salvation Army. At that time it was full ofthat I sent to you to anoint and pray over for me. life and there were revivals everywhere. But the Sal-I had many forms of rheumatism, arthritis, senovitis, vation Army went into natural things and the great re-and sciatica for 20 years from 1912 to 1932.1 was vivals that they had in those early days ceased. Thein constant misery. During that time I took over Lord said to me, "Come out," and I came out. I have50,000 Aspirin tablets, besides everything that doctors had to come out three times sinceI believe that thisand quacks could give me. Only the Lord could Pentecostal revival that we are now in is the best thinghave kept my stomach from the effects of what I that the Lord has on the earth today, and yet I believeswallowed. that God has something out of this that is going to be When I got the handkerchief from you all my pains still better. God has no use for any man who is notleft that same afternoon, and all the swelling in arms hungering and thirsting for yet more of Himself and Hislegs and feet was gone about three days later. From righteousness. that day to this, praise His Holy Name, I have had The Lord has told us to no rheumatism and have not been crippled in any way, and have taken not a single Aspirin (there are none in COVET EARNESTLY THE BEST GIFTS the house), and although I am now 52 years old, I and we need to be covetous for those that will bring Himhave put on weight and am now 186 lbs and getting the most glory. We need to see the gifts of healing andstronger it seems every year. This healing which the working of miracles in operation today. Some sayI received through your faith in Jesus, svas indeed that it is necessary for us to have the gift of discernmenta special miracle, as it mentions in Acts 19: 12. in operation with the gifts of healing, but even apart Oh Brother Wigglesworth how I praise Jesus for from this gift I believe the Holy Ghost wlll have a divinewhat he has done for me, and how I praise Jesus for revelation for us as we deal with the sick. Most peopleyou because you prayed for rae, and you have no seem to have discernment, or think they have, and ifidea the longing I have to see you and thank you face they would turn it on themselves for twelve months theyto face. would never want to discem again. The gift of discern- ment is not criticism. I am satisfied that in Pentecostal F. Johnston. circles today that our paramount need is more perfect love. He will always put you in the right place at the right Perfect love will never want the pre-emirtence intime. I want you to see that the gifts of healing and everything, it will never want to take the place ofthe working of miracles are part of the Spirit's plan and another, it will always be willing to take the back seat.will come forth in operation as we are working along Tf you go to a convention there is always some one whothat plan. I must know the movement of the Spirit wants to give a message, who wants to be heard. Ifand the voice of God. I must understand the will of you have a desire to go to a convention you shouldGod if I am to see the gifts of the Spirit in operation. DECEMBER 17TH, i. ItEDEMPTION TIDINGS 3
THE GIFTS OF HEALING ARE SO VARIED. though a million rays of light were coining from His You may go and see ten people and every case is dif-face. As he looked at the one whcs had just passed ferent. I am never happier in the Lord than whenaway, the colour came back to the face. She rolled I am in a bedroom with a sick person. I have hadover and fell asleep. Then 1 had a glorious time. in more revelations of the Lord's presence when I havethe morning she woke early, put on a dressing gown ministered to the sick at their bedsides than at anyand walked to the piano. She started to play and to other time. it is as your heart goes out to the needysing a wonderful song. The mother and the sister and ones in deep compassion that the Lord manifests Histhe brother had all come down to listen. The Lord had presence. You are able to locate their position. It isundertaken. A miracle had been wrought. then that you know that you must be filled with the The Lord is calling us along this way. I am thank- Spirit to deal with the conditions before you. ing God for difficult cases. The Lord has called us Where people are in sickness you find frequentlyinto heart union with Himself; He wants His bnde to that they are dense about Scripture. They usuallyhave one heart and one Spirit with Him and to do what know about Paul's thorn in the flesh, and that PaulHe Himself loved to do. That case had to be a miracle. told Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach'sThe lungs were gone, they were just in shreds, but sake, and that Paul left someone sick somewhere; theythe Lord restored lungs that were perfectly sound, forget his name, and don't remember the name of the There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany place, and don't know where the chapter is.Mostthe gift of healing and that is longsuffering. The man people think they have a thorn in the flesh. The chiefwho is going through with God to be used in healing thing in dealing with a person who is sick is to locate MUST ThE A MAN OF LONGSUFFERING. their exact position. As you are ministering under theHe must be always ready with a word of comfort. if Spirit's power the Lord will let you see just that whichthe sick one is in distress and helpless and does not see will be most helpful and most faith-inspiring to them.everything eye to eye with you, you must bear with When I was ip the plumbing business I enjoyedthem. Our Lord Jesus Christ was filled with compas- praying for the sick. Urgent calls would come and Ision and lived and moved in a place of longsuffermg, would have no time to wash, and with my hands alland we will have to get into this place if we are to black I would preach to these sick ones, my heart allhelp needy ones. aglow with love. Ah, you must have your heart in There are some times when you pray for the sick the thing when you pray for the sick. You have toand you are apparently rough. But you are not deal- get right to the bottom of the cancer with ing with a person, you are dealing with the Satanic A DIVINE COMPASSION forces that are binding the person. You heart is full and tben you will see the gifts of the Spirit in opera-of love and compassion to all, but you are moved to a tion. holy anger as you see the place the devil has taken in I was called at io o'clock one night to pray for athe body of the sick one, and you deal with his posi- young person given up by the doctor who was dyingtion with a real forcefulness. One day a pet dog fol- of consumption. As I looked, I saw that unless Godlowed a lady out of her house and ran all round her undertook it was impossible for her to live. I turnedfeet. She said to the dog, "My dear, I cannot have to the mother and said, "Well, mother, you will haveyou with me today." The dog wagged its tail and to go to bed." She said, "Oh, I have not had mymade a big fuss.She said, "Go home, my dear," clothes off for three weeks." I said to the daughters,But the dog did not go. At last she shouted roughly, "You will have to go to bed," but they did not want"Go home," and off it went. Some people deal with to go. It was the same with the son. I put on mythe devil like that. The devil can. stand all the comfort overcoat and said, "Good-bye, I'm off." They said,you like to give him. Cast him out! You are dealing "Oh, don't leave us." I said, "I can do nothing here."not with the person, you are dealing with the devil. They said, "Oh, if you will stop, we will go to bed."Demon power must be dislodged in the name of the I knew that God would move nothing in an atmosphereLord. You are always right when you dare to of mere natural sympathy and unbelief. DEAL WITH SiCKNESS AS WITH THE DEVIL. They all went to bed and I stayed, and that wasMuch sickness is caused by some misconduct, there is surely a time as I knelt by that bed face to face withsomething wrong, there is some neglect somewhere, and death and with the devil. But Satan has had a chance to get in. It is necessary to GOD CAN CHANGE THE HARDEST SITUATION repent and confess where you have given place to the and make you know that He is almighty. devil, and then he can be dealt with. Then the fight came. It seemed as if the heavens When you deal with a cancer case, recognize that were brass. I prayed from ix to 3.30 in the moming.it is a living evil spirit that is destroying the body. I I saw the glimmering light on the face of the suffererhad to pray for a woman in Los Angeles one time who and saw her pass away. The devil said, "Now youwas suffering with cancer, and as soon as it was cursed are done for. You have come from Bradford and theit stopped bleeding. It was dead. The next thing that girl has died on yonr hands." I said. "It can't be.happened was that the natural body pressed it out. God did not send me here for nothing. This is a timebecause the natural body had no room for dead matter. to change strength." I remembered that passage whichIt came out like a great big ball with tens of thousands said, "Men ought always to pray and not faint." Deatiof fibres. All these fibres had been pressing into the had taken place but I knew that my God was all power-flesh. These evil powers move to get further hold of ful, and He that bad split the Red Sea is just the samethe system, but the moment they are destroyed their today. it was a time when I would not have "No,"hold is gone. Jesus said to His disciples that He gave and God said "Yes." I looked at the window and atthem power to loose and power to bind. It is our that moment the face of Jesus appeared. It seemed asprivilege in the power of the Holy Ghost to loose the REDEMPTION TIDINGF DECEMBER 17TH, 1937. prisoners of Satan and to let the oppressed go free. the Lord takes us through, in order that we may be Take your position in the first epistle of John andhumble, useable vessels through whom He Himself can declare. "Greater is He that is in me than he that isoperate by means of the Spirit's power. in the xsorld.'' Then recognize that it is not yourself that has to deal with the power of the devil, but the 'I he above article will later be prrnted iii Tract Greater One that is iii you. Oh. what it means to beform; particulars will he announced in next issue. filled with Hirnl YOU CAN DO' NOTHING OF YOURSELF, Gems from Mother's Treasury. but He that is in you will win the victory. Your beingBy Stanley A. Pinchbech, (Biddutph). has become the temple of the Spirit Your mouth, your GLORIOUS FREEDOM. mind, your whole being becomes exercised and worked "I would have you without carefulness (Marg upon by the Spirit of God. 1 Cor. 7 :32. I was called to a certain town in Norway. Thefree from cares)." hall seated about 1,500 people. When I got to the Never brood oser the cares of life, but learn to place it was packed, and hundreds were trying to geteast, or throw, all upon the Lord: hold none back, in. There were some policemen there. The first thinghowever small. Commit them daily to Him, no matter I did was to preach to the people outside the building how distressing Do not be over anxious about little Then I said to the policemen. "It hurts me very muchthings, but act in faith and trust the Lord, and He that there are more people outside than inside and Iwill strengthen your heart for any greater trial. Best feel I must preach to the peopleI v,ould like youof all, cast sour whole self into His hands, for He is to get rue the market place to preach in." They securedahle to undeirake for all things. for mc a great park and a big stand was erected and I Our heavenls Father often deals with us somewhat was able to preach to thousands, After the preachinglike an artist did with his pupil. The lad had produced we had a painting of much merit, and because it was greatly SOME WONDERFUL CASESOFHEALING. admired by all who saw it, his young heart was proud One man came a hundred miles bringing his food withand filled with vanity. He had laid aside his brush aod him. He had not been passing anything through luspalette, sitting dails before the easel admiring the stomach for over a nionth as he had a great cancer onproduct of his o'vn genius. One morning he found his stomach. He was healed at that meeting, andthe picture had been removed. He flew into a violent opening his parcel, he began eating before the people.temper, and seeing his master, demanded an explana- There was a young woman there sith a stiff hand.tion. "I have done this for your benefit," said the Instead of the mother making the child use her armartist; ''The picture was ruining you.'' ''Hoss ?"ex- she had allowed the child to keep the arm dormantclaimed the pupil with surprise "Because in the ad- until it was stiff, and she had grown up to be a youngmiration of sour ov,n talents, you are losing your lose woman and sas like the woman that was bowed downfor the art itself; take your brush and start again.'' with the spirit of infirmity. As she stood before me IThe youth did so, and produced a masterpiece. But cursed the spirit of infirmity in the name of Jesus. Itfor the sound ads ice of his master, he would in all was instantly cast out and the ann was free Then sheprobability never have realized his foolishness. waved it all over. At the close of the meeting the Spiritual progress, and work for God, is often devil laid out two people with fits. When the devil ishindered because of our an\iery for the work accom- manifesting himself, then is the time to deal with him.plished, even to the neglecting of the Lord Himself, Both of these people were delivered and when theyand thus the believer's life becomes steighteddown stood up and thanked and praised the Lord shat awith Earcs. Remember we are the Lnrd's, and so let ssonderful time we had. our hearts continually turn to Him. Seek His aid, We need to wake up and be on the stretch toarid all vexations and annoyances will be comparatively believe God. Before God could bring me to this placeunimportant, and free us from the spirit of anxiety He has broken me a thousand times. I have wept. 1 Do you find your life overloaded with care? If have groaned, I have travailed many a night until Godso, it is your own doing and never the Lord's fault. broke me, It seems to me that until God has mowedHe rather begs us to leave the future with Him. It you down you never can have this longsuffering forhas been well said that no man ever sank beneath the others We can never have the gifts of healing andburden of today. It is when we try to carry tomorrow's the working of miracles in operation only as we staiidburden in addition, for that is more than any man in the divine power that God gives us and we standcan bear. believing God and having done all we still stand be- Do not lose the inward peace through being over lieving. anxious even if the world around seems so upset. We have been seeing wonderful miracles these lastCommend all to the Lord, and rest in His bosom days and they are only a little of what we are goingWhatever happens, abide stedfast, uomovable, de- to see. I believe that we are right termined to cling unto Him, trusting in His eternal ON THE THRESHOLD OF WONDERFUL ThINGS, love but I want to emphasize that all of these things will be Lastly, never be in a hurry Do evers thing quietly through the power of the Holy Ghost. You mnst notarid in a calm spirit. Strive to see God in all things think that these gifts will faIl upon you like ripe cher-and accept His will with absolute submission, for all ries. There is a sense in which you have to pay thetrials are allowed for some wise purpose Hence, your price For eveiything you get. We must be covetouslife will be one of wonderful and glorious freedom for God's best gifts, and say Amen to any preparationfrom cares and anxieties of this world.