© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
He’s Always Willing
Most places that we go to there are so many people that we cannot pray for. In some places there are 200 or 300 who would like us to visit them, but we are not able to do so. But I am glad that the Lord Jesus is always willing to come and heal.
He longs to meet the sick ones.
He loves to heal them of their afflictions
The Lord is healing many people today by means of handkerchiefs, as you read that He healed people in the days of Paul. You can read of this in Acts 19:12.
Same Holy Spirit: Same Methods
A woman came to me in the city of Liverpool and said, “I would like you to help me. My husband is a drunkard, and every night comes into the home under the influence of drink. Won’t you join me in prayer for him?”
I said to the woman, “have you a handkerchief?”
She took out a handkerchief, and I prayed over it, and told her to lay it on the pillow of the drunken man.
He came home that night and laid his head on the pillow in which the handkerchief was tucked.
He laid his head on more than the pillow that night.
He laid his head on the Promise of God
In Mark 11:24, we read, Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
The next morning the man got up and called at the first saloon that he had to pass on his way to work, and ordered some beer. He tasted it, and said to the bartender, “You have put some poison in this beer.”
He could not drink it, and went to the next saloon and ordered some more beer. He tasted it, and said to the man behind the counter. “You put some poison in this beer. I believe you folks have agreed to poison me.”
The bartender was indignant at being thus charged. The man said, “I will go somewhere else.”
He went to another saloon, and the same thing happened as in the two previous saloons.
He made such a fuss that they turned him out.
After he came out from work, he went home and told his wife what had happened, and said, “It seems as though all the fellows have agreed to poison me!”
His wife said to him, “Can’t you see the Hand of the Lord in this; that He is making you dislike the stuff that has been your ruin?”
This word brought conviction to the man’s heart, and he came to the meeting and got saved.
The Lord still has power to set the captives free
When I was in Australia, a lady came to me who was much troubled about her son, who was so lazy.
I prayed over a handkerchief which was placed on the boy’s pillow.
He slept that night on the handkerchief, and the next morning he got up and went out, and secured a position, and went to work.
Oh, praise the Lord, you can’t shut God out, but if you will only believe, He will shut the Devil out!
Jesus was willing to go and heal the sick one, but the Centurion said, “Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.”
Jesus was delighted with this expression, and said to the man, “Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.”
When I was in Australia, a man came up to me. He was leaning on a big stick, and said, “I would like you to help me. It will take you half an hour to pray for me.”
I said, “Believe God, and in one moment you will be whole.”
Continue reading… Smith Wigglesworth: Himself Took Our Infirmities and Bare Our Sicknesses
Preached at Springfield Assembly of God in 1922, and printed in 1923
© 19 Colin Melbourne, Transcribed and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel 1923
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