© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Latter Rain publication of the Stone Church 1923
Polly’s Word of Wisdom
Then she said, “You have not been to God yet. When you go to God you will get it all.”
I went to God, saying, “Father, I have been very foolish, and I have gotten in a hole. If You will help me out, I will never ask you on the same line again.”
God’s Word of Wisdom
Here comes the Word of Wisdom. Oh that Word of Wisdom! God gave it. In two minutes the whole thing was settled on God’s side, but not on mine.
How could it be?
So I came down to my Wife saying, “What do you think He told me… ‘Go to Brother Webster.'”
Brother Webster was about the poorest man I knew; and yet he was the richest man I knew, for he knew God.
Off I went early the next morning.
“What brings you this morning?”
“Why,” I said, “I was talking to the Lord last night, and so I came to see you the fist chance I had.”
“If it is a matter like that,” he said, “we will go down to the house and speak about it.”
We went down to the house.
“I promised to buy a house off a man,” I began, “three weeks ago, and I’m short a hundred pounds. I have tried to get this money, I believe not in the Lord’s plan, and I have been tried about it.”
“How is it,” he asked, “that you have only come to me now?”
“Because I only went to the Lord about it last night.”
“Well,” he said, “it is a strange thing. Three weeks ago I had a hundred pounds. I put it between the mattresses. I have put it in all sorts of places in the house. I could not have any rest, so I took it to the bank. If it will be as great a blessing to you, as a trouble to me, you shall have it.” [14]
So we went to the bank and he got the money and said, “Take it and be off.”
Oh to know God!
Oh to go in the way that God would have us!
Oh to cease from our own planning, and our own arranging!
Oh to have the word of God! The Word of Wisdom!
Oh to believe the Word, and to enter into His treasury, and hear Him say, “Do this,” and do it!
When we get there God will surely, as divinely as we are human, have a divine plan for us, and bring us right into line, where there will be no trouble, no trial, and sorrows will be at an end when we get to know God.
Beloved, I pray that as we go forth into these Gifts of the Spirit, that God will show us there is a way for us, and that it is His way.
If we turn to our way, we shall surely make great mistakes, and shall be filled with trouble.
I desire to impress this thought upon you: Live in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit, walk in the communion of the Spirit, talk with God.
Apart from this there is no security for you, but on these lines all else is for you. All leadings of the divine order are for you.
I pray that if there are any who have turned to their own way, and made God second, as I did in that matter, they will come to repentance on all lines.
Separate yourself from every earthly touch, and touch ideals. And God will bring you to an end of every order of yourself.
Begin with God this moment!
Smith Wigglesworth, Bradford, England 1923
END
[14] If it will be as great a blessing to you, as a trouble to me, you shall have it: Poor Webster had been troubled by having the money in his hands, and home. God had blessed him with it in order to bless Smith: But Smith had neglected to consult God about the house, and was sorely tried by his dilemma for three weeks before he repented, and asked God to get him out of a hole. The Lord made the point of giving it to the poorest man Smith knew. Isn’t it a beautiful illustration to us?
© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Latter Rain publication of the Stone Church 1923
