© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
How to Really Believe
I am not moved by what I see.
I am moved only by what I believe.
I know this: No man looks if he believes.
No man feels if he believes.
The man who believes God: Has it!
Every man who comes into the Pentecostal condition can laugh at all things, and believe God.
There is something in the Pentecostal work that is different from anything else in the world.
Somehow in Pentecost, you know that God is a reality.
Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the Gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these Gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present.
Pentecostal people are spoiled for anything else other than Pentecostal meetings.
We want none of the entertainments that the churches are offering.
When God comes in: He entertains us Himself.
Entertained by the King of kings and Lord of lords! Oh, it is wonderful!
Raising Lazarus
There were difficult conditions in that Welsh village, and it seemed impossible to get the people to believe.
“Ready to go home?” I was asked.
But a man and a woman there asked us to come and stay with them.
I said, “I want to know how many of you people can pray.”
No one wanted to pray.
I asked if I could get seven people to pray with me for the poor man’s deliverance. I said to the two people who were going to entertain us, “I will count on you two, and there is my friend and myself, and we need three others.”
I told the people that I trusted that some of them would awaken to their privilege, and come in the morning and join us in prayer for the raising of Lazarus.
It will never do to give way to human opinions.
If God says a thing, you have to believe it
I told the people that I would not eat anything that night.
When I got to bed, it seemed as if the Devil tried to place on me everything that he had placed on the poor man in the bed.
When I awoke, I had a cough and all the weakness of a tubercular subject.
I rolled out of the bed onto the floor, and cried out to God to deliver me from the power of the Devil. I shouted loud enough to wake everybody in the house, but nobody was disturbed.
God gave victory, and I got back into bed again as free as ever I was in my life.
At 5 o’clock the Lord awakened me and said to me, “Don’t break bread until you break it around my table.”
At 6 o’cock He gave me these words, “And I will raise him up.”
I put my elbow into the fellow who was sleeping with me.
He said, “Ugh!”
I put my elbow into him again, and said, “Do you hear? The Lord says that He will raise him up.”
At 8 o’clock they said to me, “Have a little refreshment.” But I have found prayer and fasting the greatest joy, and you will always find it so when you are led by God [to fast. Ed.]
When we went to the house where Lazarus lived there were eight of us altogether. No one can prove to me that God does not always answer prayer. He always gives exceeding abundant above all we ask, or think.
I shall never forget how the power of God fell on us as we went into that sick man’s room. Oh, it was lovely!
As we circled around the bed I got one Brother to hold the sick man’s hand on one side, and I held the other, and we each held the hand of the other next to us. I said, “We are not going to pray, we are just going to use the Name of Jesus.”
We all knelt down and whispered that one word, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!“
The power of God fell, and then it lifted
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© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
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