© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
How to Stir Up The Gift
Thousands have missed wonderful blessings because they have not had faith to move out and begin in the natural, in faith that the Lord would take them into the realm of the supernatural.
When you receive the Holy Ghost, you receive God’s Gift, in whom are all the Gifts of the Spirit.
Paul counsels Timothy to stir up the Gift that was within.
You have power to stir up God’s Executive within you.
The way you stir up the Gift within you is by beginning in faith, and then He gives forth what is needed for the occasion.
You would never begin unless you were full of God.
When we yield to timidity and fear, we simply yield to Satan.
Satan whispers, “It is all self.”
He is a liar.
I have learned this; if the Spirit of God is stirring me up, I have no hesitation in beginning to speak in tongues, and the Spirit of God gives me utterance, and gives me the interpretation.
I find that every time I yield to the Lord on this line, I get a divine touch, I get a leading thought from the Spirit of God, and the meeting is moved up on the line of faith.
Hungry for The Living Word
You attend a meeting in faith, believing that the Lord is going to meet you there. But perhaps the evangelist is not in harmony with God. The people in the assembly are not getting what God wants.
The Lord knows it. He knows His people are hungry.
What happens?
He will take perhaps the smallest vessel, and put His power upon them. As they yield to the Spirit, they break forth in a tongue.
Another yields to the Spirit, and there comes forth the interpretation.
The Lord’s church has to be fed, and the Lord will take this means of speaking to His people.
Only Super-Natural Satisfies Saints
Pentecostal people cannot be satisfied with the natural message.
They are in touch with heavenly things, and cannot be satisfied with anything less.
They feel when there is something lacking in a meeting, and they look to God, and He supplies that which is lacking.
Filled with The Almighty’s Spirit
When a man is filled with the Spirit, he has no conception of what he has. We are so limited in our conception of what we have received.
The only way we can know the power that has been given, is through the ministration and manifestation of the Spirit of God.
Do you think that Peter and John knew what they had when they went up to the temple to pray?
They were limited in thought, and limited in their expression.
The nearer we get to God, the more conscious we are of the poverty of the human, and we cry with Isaiah, “I am undone, I am unclean!”
But the Lord will bring the precious Blood, and the flaming coals for cleansing, and refining, and send us out to labour for Him empowered by His Spirit.
God has sent forth this outpouring that we may all be brought into a revelation of our sonship; that we are sons of God, men of power, that we are to be like the Lord Jesus Christ, that we are to have the power of sonship, the power to lay hold of that which is weak, and to quicken it.
The Baptism of the Spirit is to make us sons of God with power.
We will be conscious of our human limits, but we will not limit the Holy One who has come to dwell within.
We must believe that since the Holy Ghost has come upon us we are indeed sons of God with power.
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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