© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
White Ostrich feathers used to adorn a straw boater hat in 1920’s fashion.
Ostrich Feathers
But the gentleman put the question to me again, “Will you go shares with me in buying that bunch?”
The Spirit of God said to me, “Do it.”
The feathers were sold to us for three pounds, and the gentleman said, “I have no money on me, but if you will pay the man for them, I will send the cash down to you by the Purser.” [The head-steward on a passenger ship. Ed.]
I paid the man for the feathers and gave the gentleman his share.
He was travelling First, and I was travelling Second Class. I said to him, “No, please don’t give the money to the Purser, I want you to bring it to me personally to my cabin.”
I said to the Lord, “What about these feathers?”
He showed me that He had a purpose in my purchasing them. [Likely a gift for his hosts in Australia. Ed.]
At about 10 o’clock [in the morning. Ed.] the gentleman came to my cabin and said, “I’ve brought the money.”
I said to him, “It’s not your money that I want, it is your soul that I am seeking for God.”
Right there he opened up the whole plan of his life, and began to seek God, and that morning he wept his way through to God’s salvation.
You have no conception what God can do through you when you are filled with His Spirit.
Every day, and every hour you can have the divine leading of God.
To be filled with the Holy Ghost means much in every way.
When Fullness Comes
I have seen some who have been suffering for years, and when they have been filled with the Holy Ghost, everything of their sickness has passed away.
The Spirit of God has made real to them the life of Jesus, and they have been completely liberated of every sickness and infirmity.
Look at Stephen. He was just an ordinary man chosen to serve tables; but the Holy Ghost was in him, and he was full of faith and power, and did great wonders and miracles among the people.
There was no resisting the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Overflowing With God
How important it is that every man shall be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Tongues and Interpretation:
“The divine will is that you shall be filled with God; for the power of the Spirit to fill you with the mightiness of God. There is nothing God will withhold to a man filled with the Holy Ghost.”
I want to impress the importance of this upon you. It is not healing that I am presenting to you in these meetings:- It is the Living Christ.
It is a glorious fact that the Son of God came down to bring liberty to the captives. And it is He who baptises with the Holy Ghost and Fire, who is shedding forth this which we are now seeing and hearing.
Precious Persecution
How is it that, the moment you are filled with the Holy Ghost, that persecution starts?
It was so with the Lord Jesus Himself.
We do not read of any persecutions before the Holy Spirit came down like a dove upon Him.
Shortly after this we find that after preaching in His home town they wanted to throw Him over the brow of a hill.
It was the same with the Twelve disciples
Continue reading… Smith Wigglesworth on: What it Means to be Full of The Holy Ghost
© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
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