Smith Wigglesworth
“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:23, 24)
These are days when we need to have our faith strengthened, when we need to know God. God has designed that the just shall live by faith. Any man can be changed by faith, no matter how he may be fettered. I know that God’s word is sufficient. One word from Him can change a nation. His word is from everlasting to everlasting. It is through the entrance of this everlasting Word, this incorruptible seed, that we are born again, and come into this wonderful salvation. Man cannot live by bread alone, but must live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. This is the food of faith. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”
Everywhere men are trying to discredit the Bible and take from it all the miraculous. One preacher says, “Well, you know, Jesus arranged beforehand to have that colt tied where it was, and for the men to say just what they did.” I tell you God can arrange everything without going near. He can plan for you, and when He plans for you, all is peace. All things are possible if you will believe.
Another preacher said, “It was an easy thing for Jesus to feed the people with five loaves. The loaves were so big in those days that it was a simple matter to cut them into a thousand pieces each.” But He forgot that one little boy brought those five loaves all the way in his lunch basket. There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.
We have a wonderful God, a God whose ways are past finding out, and whose grace and power are limitless. I was in Belfast one day and saw one of the brethren of the assembly. He said to me, “Wigglesworth, I am troubled. I have had a good deal of sorrow during the past five months. I had a woman in my assembly who could always pray the blessing of heaven down on our meetings. She is an old woman, but her presence is always an inspiration. But five months ago she fell and broke her thigh. The doctors put her into a plaster cast, and after five months they broke the cast. But the bones were not properly set and so she fell and broke the thigh again.”
He took me to her house, and there was a woman lying in a bed on the right hand side of the room. I said to her, “Well, what about it now?” She said, “They have sent me home incurable. The doctors say that I am so old that my bones won’t knit. There is no nutriment in my bones and they could never do anything for me, and they say I shall have to lie in bed for the rest of my life.” I said to her, “Can you believe God?” She replied, “Yes, ever since I heard that you had come to Belfast my faith has been quickened. If you will pray, I will believe. I know there is no power on earth that can make the bones of my thigh knit, but I know there is nothing impossible with God.” I said, “Do you believe He will meet you now?” She answered, “I do.”
It is grand to see people believe God. God knew all about this leg and that it was broken in two places. I said to the woman, “When I pray, something will happen.” Her husband was sitting there; he had been in his chair for four years and could not walk a step. He called out, “I don’t believe. I won’t believe. You will never get me to believe.” I said, “All right,” and laid my hands on his wife in the name of the Lord Jesus. The moment hands were laid upon her the power of God went right through her and she cried out, “I’m healed.” I said, “I’m not going to assist you to rise. God will do it all.” She rose and walked up and down the room, praising God.
The old man was amazed at what had happened to his wife, and he cried out, “Make me walk, make me walk.” I said to him, “You old sinner, repent.” He cried out, “Lord, You know I never meant what I said. You know I believe.” I don’t think he meant what he said; anyhow the Lord was full of compassion. If He marked our sins, where would any of us be? If we will meet the conditions, God will always meet us. If we believe, all things are possible. I laid my hands on him and the power went right through the old man’s body; and those legs, for the first time in four years, received power to carry his body, and he walked up and down and in and out. He said, “O what great things God has done for us tonight!”
“What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Desire toward God, and you will have desires from God; and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.
A man came to me in one of my meetings who had seen other people healed and wanted to be healed, too. He explained that his arm had been fixed in a certain position for many years and he could not move it. “Got any faith?” I asked. He said He had a lot of faith. After prayer he was able to swing his arm round and round. But he was not satisfied and complained, “I feel a little bit of trouble just there,” pointing to a certain place. “Do you know what is the trouble with you?” He answered, “No.” I said, “Imperfect faith.” “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive there, and ye shall have them.”
Did you believe before you were saved? So many people would be saved, but they want to feel saved first. There was never a man who felt saved before he believed. God’s plan is always this, if you will believe, you shall see the glory of God. I believe God wants to bring us all to a definite place of unswerving faith and confidence in Himself.
Jesus here uses the figure of a mountain. Why does He say a mountain? Because, if faith can remove a mountain, it can remove anything. The plan of God is so marvelous, that if you will only believe, all things are possible.
There is one special phrase to which I want to call your attention, “And shall not doubt in his heart.” The heart is the mainspring. See that young man and young woman. They have fallen in love at first sight. In a short while there is a deep affection, and a strong heart love, the one toward the other. What is a heart of love? A heart of faith. Faith and love axe kin. In the measure that that young man and that young woman love one another they are true. One may go to the North and the other to the South, but because of their love they will be true to each other.
It is the same when there is a deep love in the heart toward the Lord Jesus Christ. In this new life into which God has brought us, Paul tells us that we have become dead to the law by the body of Christ, that we should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead. God brings us into a place of perfect love and perfect faith. A man who is born of God is brought into an inward affection, a loyalty to the Lord Jesus that shrinks from anything impure. You see the purity of a man and woman when there is a deep natural affection between them; they disdain the very thought of either of them being untrue. I say that, in the measure that a man has faith in Jesus, he is pure. He that believes that Jesus is the Christ overcomes the world. It is a faith that works by love.
Just as we have heart fellowship with our LORD our faith cannot be daunted. We cannot doubt in our hearts. There comes, as we go on with God, a wonderful association, an impartation of His very life and nature within. As we read His Word and believe the promises that He has so graciously given to us, we are made partakers of His very essence and life. The Lord is made to us a Bridegroom, and we are His bride. His words to us are spirit and life, transforming us and changing us, expelling that which is natural and bringing in that which is divine.
It is impossible to comprehend the love of God as we think on natural lines. We must have the revelation from the Spirit of God. God giveth liberally. He that asketh, receiveth. God is willing to bestow on us all things that pertain to life and godliness. Oh, it was the love of God that brought Jesus. And it is this same love that helps you and me to believe. In every weakness God will be your strength. You who need His touch, remember that He loves you. Look, wretched, helpless, sick one, away to the God of all grace, whose very essence is love, who delights to give liberally all the inheritance of life and strength and power that you are in need of.
When I was in Switzerland the Lord was graciously working and healing many of the people. I was staying with Brother Reuss of Goldiwil and two policemen were sent to arrest me. The charge was that I was healing the people without a license. Mr. Reuss said to them, “I am sorry that he is not here just now. He is holding a meeting about two miles away, but before you arrest him let me show you something.”
Brother Reuss took these two policemen down to one of the lower parts of that district, to a house with which they were familiar, for they had often gone to that place to arrest a certain woman, who was repeatedly put in the prison because of continually being engaged in drunken brawls. He took them to this woman and said to them, “This is one of the many cases of blessing that have come through the ministry of the man you have come to arrest. This woman came to our meeting in a drunken condition. Her body was broken, for she was ruptured in two places. While she was drunk, the evangelist laid his hands on her and asked God to heal her and deliver her.” The woman joined in, “Yes, and God saved me, and I have not tasted a drop of ‘liquor since.” The policemen had a warrant for my arrest, but they said with disgust, “Let the doctors do this kind of thing.” They turned and went away and that was the last we heard of them.
We have a Jesus that heals the broken-hearted, who lets the captives go free, who saves the very worst. Dare you, dare you, spurn this glorious Gospel of God for spirit, soul and body? Dare you spurn this grace? I realize that this full Gospel has in great measure teen hid, this Gospel that brings liberty, this Gospel that brings souls out of bondage, this Gospel that brings perfect health to the body, this Gospel of entire salvation. Listen again to this word of Him who left the glory to bring us this great salvation, “Verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, . . . he shall have whatsoever he with.” Whatsoever!
I realize that God can never bless us on the lines of being hardhearted, critical or unforgiving. This will hinder faith quicker than anything. I remember being at a meeting where there were some people tarrying for the Baptism-seeking for cleansing, for the moment a person is cleansed the Spirit will fall. There was one man with eyes red from weeping bitterly. He said to me, “I shall have to leave. It is no good my staying without I change things. I have written a letter to my brother-in-law, and filled it with hard words, and this thing must first be straightened out.” He went home and told his wife, “I’m going to write a letter to your brother and ask him to forgive me for writing to him the way I did.” “You fool!” she said. “Never mind,” he replied, “this is between God and me, and it has got to be cleared away.” He wrote the letter and came again, and straightway God filled him with the Spirit.
I believe there are a great many people who would be healed, but they are harboring things in their hearts that are as a blight. Let these things go. Forgive, and the Lord will forgive you. There are many good people, people that mean well, but they have no power to do anything for God. There is just some little thing that came in their hearts years ago, and their faith has been paralyzed ever since. Bring everything to the light. God will sweep it all away if you will let Him. Let the precious blood of Christ cleanse from all sin. If you will but believe, God will meet you and bring into your lives the sunshine of His love.
HEALINGS IN NEW ZEALAND
We have received a few testimonies of those healed in the meeting conducted by Brother Smith Wigglesworth at Wellington, New Zealand. Mrs. E. Curtis of Christchurch, New Zealand, was suffering with septic poisoning. She had become only a skeleton and the doctors could do nothing for her. She had agonizing pains all day and all night. She was healed immediately prayer was made for her. She states that for the past sixteen years she has been a martyr to pain but is now wonderfully well. Another testified to healing to deafness, goiter, adenoids and bad eyesight. Another testified to healing of double curvature of the spine from infancy, hip disease, weak heart, leg lengthened three inches, which grew normal like the other leg. It was also three inches les sin circumference. She wore a large boot but now walks on even feet, the large boot having been discarded. Another was healed from goiter through a handkerchief. –Pentecostal Evangel.
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You already have the gift of faith Joe.The fullness of the Godhead lives in you.
You have every gift because the Father lives in you.The gifts of the Spirit are his manifestations and the fruit of the Spirit is his nature.(Galatians 5)
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Tony
Lord grant me grace to believe you against all odds. Amen
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God Is truly amazing!! I had a brother who suffered from cancer for 2 plus years before he finally died at the age of 43. This is not a story of gloom but one that shows us God, in our worst time of pains and hurts does not let our emotions affect his greater plan. I watched my brother for to years get better from the treatments and then worse when they wore off. It was a roller coaster for him and very hard for all of us in the family. My brother in his last days was moved from the hospital to a hospice place, and we knew that was not a good sign.
I had been a christian at this time about 28 years. I would never bargain with God, telling God, I’ll do this if You do that. I live about 250 miles from him at the time so it was quite a drive back and forth. I had just seen him at home about two weeks or so before he went to the hospice home. I felt so impressed by God to go and see him again that it was continually on my thoughts. My brother was not saved and I knew where his soul would end up. I wanted God to heal him, I knew God could do it and my brother was young and had a t 13 year old son. I went before the Lord in prayer. “Lord if you want me to go back I will but when I pray for his healing I want him to be healed. I really was impressed to go, so I made plans to go figuring God was going to do a miracle in him. I went down to meet him on a Saturday morning and he seemed pretty awake but in bed. By 11:00 am he was falling off to sleep. During the time he was awake I prayed for healing for him and also told him how much Jesus and God love him.
To make it short, he accepted Jesus as his savior. I went home rejoicing that God Saved him and was waiting for the news of his healing. On Tuesday we had a phone call that he had passed away. We were all crushed by the news but I maybe most of all because God didn’t heal him. I went to God and said God, I went there because I thought you were going to do a miracle in his life him when I prayed for him.
As sure as I was kneeling there, God said, I did a miracle in his life. That day I wrote his name in my Book of Life. If I would have given your loved one 40 more years he would never have made the choice he did then. Now he has eternity and you will see him again. I said God forgive my for thinking the way I did. I am a Pastor and have shared this many times with people. We don’t always see things the way God does. Hope this helps someone that feels maybe God didn’t answer them the way they want Him to because He saw it much different. God Bless
Amen
Lord please heal me of hypertension and hyperthyroidism. I have faith in your Word. I believe you can heal me.
Please pray for my husband and I and our kids and extended family. So many things have happened in our families and we ask God for forgiveness of our sins, for us to truly repent to God of our sins and bring every to Him. To live in faith and leave the past behind so that we may be blessed in whatever we do. When we declare in faith that the mountains be moved and cast into the sea it shall be so. Our blessings are not held up by our past sins and unforgiveness. I declare and confess the name of the Lord in our lives today. My mother is healed spritually and physically. My bothers are healed spiritually and physically. My sisters are healed spritually and physically. My in-laws are healed spritually and physically. My husband is healed spiritually and physically. I am healed spiritualy and physically. I forgive and give everything to God. I ask God for forgiveness and to cleanse me with His blood. I received Your word God, through Jesus Christ’s finished work on the cross. I receive. we are blessed, healed, forgiven, we are new in Christ Jesus, we are happy and full of joy. The power of the Holy Spirit is in all of us because Christ Jesus and in us and us in Christ by God’s grace. Amen
please pray for me.
ek het n nekwerwel wat op n senuwee druk, ook chrniese sinisitus en oorpyne, bly chronies siek (English – I had a cervical vertebra pressing on a nerve, chrniese sinisitus and oorpyne remains chronically ill). blessings
i thank GOD FOR THE ANSWER PRAYER I THANK GOD EVERYTHING HE OWN.
How inspiring this word is and the testimonies even more so. Myself being a cancer survivor can attest to the miraculous healings of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is 9yrs & 6mths to date and my Lord Jesus has kept me. My faith in God increases even more so when I hear someone else’s testimony. I hope to have faith like Mr. Smith Wigglesworth one day, meanwhile I keep believing for me and others.
To God Be all the Glory!
Amen
i still belived and had faith but my prayers didn’t come true
i also love jesus
help me please
I belived and had faith but my prayer it hasn’t been answered yet or came true
THANK U JESUS FOR ALL LIVING WORD
Thank you for revealing to us what hinders the plans of God in our lives! I am so grateful to hear of such miracles and it really blessed my heart! We thank God for all his disciples and I still thank Him for this website! it is just too loaded with teachings and testimonies! I speak abundant and exceeding blessings upon all of you and your families! May He strengthen you so you can soar high in the skies where eagles dare, may you be filled with boldness as you go to the ends of the earth as His witnesses!
I REALLY WANT TO BRING MYSELF CLOSER TO THE HEAVENLY FARTHER SO EVERYDAY FORWARD ME SCRIPTURES TO MY EMAIL.
IAM A CHILD OF GOD.
AMEN.
I am touched whenever i hear such testimonies. Our God is great and forever faithful. May God bless you for the work you are doing. I believe and have faith that whatever situation that seems to be so hard is changeable when we have faith in God.
I have the strongest faith that i will be married to Michael before the year ends and do not care about whatever his parent has made him believe about me. He is my husband and no man can change that. What i have declared with my mouth and heart so shall it be in the name of Jesus. Amen