© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
Part 1
Power From On High
I believe there is an avalanche of power from God to be apprehended, if we will but catch the vision.
Paul wrote at one time, 2 Cor. 12:1b KJV;
I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
God has put us in a place where He expects us to have His latest revelation of that marvellous fact, CHRIST IN US, and what that really means.
We can apprehend Christ fully only as we are filled and overflowing with the Spirit of God.
Our only safeguard from dropping back into our natural mind, from which we can never get anything, is to be filled, and yet filled again, with the Spirit of God, and to be taken on to visions and revelations on a new line.
Beyond Human Plans
The reason why I emphasize the importance of the fullness of the Holy Ghost is that I want to get beyond all human plans and thoughts, into the fullness of vision, into the full revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you want rest?
It is in Jesus.
Do you want to be saved from everything the Devil is bringing up in these Last Times?
All You Will Ever Need
Receive, and continue in, the fullness of the Holy Ghost, and He will be ever revealing to you that; all you need for all times, is in Christ Jesus, your Lord.
I desire to emphasize the importance of the Spirit’s ministration, and of the ministration of the Spirit, which is given every man to profit withal.
Your Part is to Yield
As you yield to the Spirit of the LORD, He has power over your intellect, over your heart, and over your voice.
The Holy Spirit has power to unveil Christ, and to project the vision of Christ upon the canvas of your mind, and then He uses your tongue to glorify, and magnify Him in a way that you could never do apart from the Spirit’s power.
Never say, that when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, you are “obliged” to do this or that.
When people say that they are “obliged” to do this or that, I know it is not the Spirit of God, but their own spirit moving them on to do that which is unseemly and unprofitable.
When to Stop
Lots of people spoil meetings because they scream.
If you want to do that kind of thing, you had better get into some cellar.
That is not to edification.
I believe that, when the Spirit of God is upon you, and moving you to speak, as He gives utterance, it will always be to edification.
But don’t spoil the prayer meeting because, when you ought to stop, you go on.
Who spoils the prayer meeting?
The man who starts in the Spirit, and finished in the flesh.
Nothing is more lovely than prayer, but a prayer meeting is killed if you go on and on in your own spirit when the Spirit of God is through with you.
You say, as you come from some meetings, “That was a lovely message if the preacher only had stopped half an hour before he did!”
Learn to cease immediately the unction of the Spirit lifts
The Holy Ghost is jealous.
Your body is the temple, the office, of the Holy Ghost, but He does not fill the temple for human glorification, but only for the glory of God.
You have no licence to continue beyond a, “Thus sayeth the Lord.”
There is another side to this
Continue reading… Smith Wigglesworth on: The Gifts of The Spirit
Preached at Springfield Assembly of God in 1922
© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
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