© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
The Power of God fell, and then it lifted
Five times the power of God fell, and then it remained.
But the person who was in the bed was unmoved.
Two years previous, someone had come along and had tried to raise him up, and the Devil had used his lack of success as a means of discouraging Lazarus.
I said, “I don’t care what the Devil says; if God says He will raise you up: It MUST be so! Forget everything else except what God says about Jesus.”
The sixth time the power fell, and the sick man’s lips began moving, and the tears began to fall.
I said to him, “The power of God is here, it is yours to accept it.”
He said, “I have been bitter in my heart, and I know I have grieved the Spirit of God. Here I am helpless. I cannot lift my hands. nor even lift a spoon to my mouth.”
I said, “repent, and God will hear you.”
He repented and cried out, “O God, let this be to thy Glory!”
As he said this the virtue of the Lord went right through him.
I have asked the Lord to never let me tell this story, except as it was, for I realize that God can never bless exaggerations. As we again said, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” the bed shook.
I said to the people that were with me, “You can all go downstairs right away. This is all God. I’m not going to assist him.”
I sat and watched that man get up and dress himself.
We sang the doxololgy as he walked down the steps.
I said to him, “Now tell what happened.”
It was soon noised abroad that Lazarus had been raised up, and the people came from Llanelli, and all the district around to see him, and hear his testimony. And God brought salvation to many.
This man told right out in the open air what God had done, and as a result many were convicted and converted.
All this came through the Name of Jesus, through faith in His Name, yea the faith that is by Him gave this sick man perfect soundness in the presence of them all.
Fishermen with a Revelation
Peter and John were helpless, were illiterate, they had no college education.
They had some training with fish, and they had been with Jesus.
To them had come a wonderful revelation of the power of the Name of Jesus.
They had handed out the bread and fish after Jesus had multiplied them.
They had sat at the table with Him, and John had often gazed into His face.
The Perfect Lover
Peter had often to be rebuked, but Jesus manifested His love to Peter through it all.
Yes, He loved Peter, the wayward one. Oh, He’s a wonderful lover!
I have been wayward, I have been stubborn, I had an unmanageable temper at one time, but how patient He has been. I am here to tell you there is power in Jesus, and in His wondrous Name to transform anyone, to heal anyone.
If only you will see Him as God’s Lamb, as God’s Beloved Son, who had laid upon Him the iniquity of us all, if only you will see that Jesus paid the whole price for our redemption that we might be free, you can enter into your purchased inheritance of salvation, of life and of power.
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© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
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