© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
When I was in Australia, a man came up to me. He was leaning on a big stick, and said, “I would like you to help me. It will take you half an hour to pray for me.”
I said, “Believe God, and in one moment you will be whole.”
His faith was quickened to receive an immediate healing, and he went away glorifying God for a miraculous healing.
The word of the Lord is sufficient today
If you will dare to believe God’s word you will see a performance of His Word that will be truly wonderful.
Here we have with the Centurion an audacity of faith, a faith that did not limit God.
Failures come when we limit the Holy One of Israel.
I want to encourage you to a living faith to believe God’s word.
The next healing we read of here is the healing of Peter’s Wife’s Mother, who was sick with fever. [Probably Malaria. Ed.] Luke tells us that Jesus rebuked the fever.
The fever could hear. The moment it could hear: It went.
Jesus had a new method.
Today there are a lot of folks who try to sweat out a fever. [ie. When they run a temperature, they put on extra warm clothes. Ed.]
You can’t sweat the Devil out! He will take all the heat that you can apply to him. But if thou canst believe, deliverance is as sure and certain for you as it was for Peter’s Wife’s Mother.
Demon Possessed Woman
I received a telegram once urging me to visit a case about 200 miles from my home. As I went to this place, I met the Father and Mother, and found them broken-hearted.
They led me me up a staircase to a room, and I saw a young woman on the floor, and five people were holding her down.
She was a frail young woman, but the power in her was greater than all those young men.
As I went into the room, the evil powers looked out of her eyes, and they used her lips, saying, “We are many, you can’t cast us out.”
I said, “Jesus can!”
He is equal to every occasion.
He is waiting for an opportunity to bless.
He is ready for every opportunity to deliver souls.
When we receive Jesus, it is true of us, “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” [1 Jn. 4:4 KJV]
He is greater than all the powers of darkness
No man can meet the Devil in his own strength, but any man filled with the knowledge of Jesus, filled with His Presence, filled with His Power, is more than a match for the powers of darkness.
God has called us to be more than conquerors through Him that loved us. [Rom. 8:37]
The Living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.
There is power in the Name of Jesus
I would that every window in the street had the Name of Jesus written large upon it.
His Name, through faith in His Name, brought deliverance to this poor, bound soul, and thirty seven demons came out, giving their names as they came forth. [2]
The dear woman was completely delivered, and they were able to give her back her child.
That night there was heaven in that home, and the Father, and Mother, and son, and his wife were all united in glorifying Christ for His infinite Grace.
The next morning, we had a gracious time in the breaking of bread.
All things are wonderful with our wonderful Jesus.
If you would dare rest your all upon Him, things would take place, and He would change the whole situation.
In a moment, through the Name of Jesus, a new order of things can be brought in.
Doctors Experiment
In the world they are always having new diseases, and the doctors cannot locate them.
A doctor said to me, “The science of medicine is in its infancy, and really we doctors have no confidence in our medicine. We are always experimenting.”
[2] thirty seven demons came out, giving their names: Notice Smith did not need to know their names to cast them out: It is not necessary, but I know a hilltribe evangelist who spends time interrogating manifesting demon-possessed villagers, demanding the spirits tell him their names before he even attempts to drive them out. This is a snare, with a danger of creating a sideshow and fascination with demonology. (He even noted down their names in his notebook.) No! Command them to be quiet, and immediately drive the wicked things out in Jesus Name.
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Preached at Springfield Assembly of God in 1922, and printed in 1923
© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
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