Day 7 Smith Wigglesworth

Day 7 Smith Wigglesworth

Miracles for Today

“I was traveling one day in a railway train in Sweden. At one station there boarded the train an old lady with her daughter. The old lady's expression was so troubled that I enquired what was the matter with her. I heard that she was going to the hospital to have her leg taken off. She began to weep as she told that the doctors had said there was no hope for her except through having her leg amputated. She was seventy years old. I said to my interpreter, "Tell her that Jesus can heal her." The instant this was said to her, it was as though a veil was taken off her face, it became so light. We stopped at another station and the carriage filled up with people. There was a rush of men to board that train and the devil said, "You're done." But I knew I had the best proposition, for hard things are always opportunities to get to the Lord more glory when He manifests His power. Every trial is a blessing. There have been times when I have been pressed through circumstances and it seemed as if a dozen road engines were going over me, but I have found that the hardest things are just lifting places into the grace of God. We have such a lovely Jesus. He always proves Himself to be such a mighty Deliverer. He never fails to plan the best things for us.

The train began moving and I crouched down, and in the name of Jesus commanded the disease to leave. The old lady cried, "I'm healed. I know I'm healed." She stamped her leg and said, "I'm going to prove it." So when we stopped at another station she marched up and down, and shouted, "I'm not going to the hospital." Once again our wonderful Jesus had proven Himself a Healer of the broken-hearted, a Deliverer of one that was bound.”  Smith Wigglesworth

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Some people say that miracles have ceased, that the Gifts of the Spirit have been done away with.  Some think that the ability for believers to perform miracles stopped with the death of the last of the 12 apostles.  However even in the book of Acts, it was not just the 12 apostles who were performing miracles and healing the sick.  Phillip was a table server before he ever even preached the Gospel.  He then was called to be an evangelist of the Lord Jesus Christ.  It says in Acts 8:6 “And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.”  

All throughout the book of Acts the followers of Christ were going around doing as they had seen Jesus do for 3 years.  They too were healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead.  The miracles in the book of Acts have not stopped!  They continue today in those who will believe that God is the God of miracles.  Smith Wigglesworth was a man full of faith.  You must be full of faith to do the works of Christ.  You cannot doubt, it will not work.  Jesus many times rebuked the disciples for doubting His words.  Today their are whole doctrines made to make people doubt God’s power in His children!  The devil loves these kinds of teachings.  The devil doesn’t mind if we know some of the Bible, if we can pray and sing a bit.  It is when we start to act on the Word that he begins to tremble.  It is when believers begin to pray with the power of the Holy Spirit that will shake the shackles off his subjects!  It is when believers will worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth with the anointing of God flowing from their lips that will shake the gates of hell.

There is a reality that we can truly believer God’s Word and stand on it.  The saints of old called it prevailing prayer.  It is a place in the Spirit where we are victorious!  Where we obtain what we have prayed about before we even see an ounce of evidence it will happen in the natural.  This faith cannot be faked or mustered up, but it is a place in the Spirit that comes by deepness with the Lord.  It is a place that see’s the written word of God and takes the promise from out of Heaven and brings it by faith into the Earth.  This is all of God.  He has given us all a measure of faith.  We do not control God in any way, we simply allow Him to work in us to bring about His will.  We choose to believe His word in the face of all adversity.  

Miracles are for today.  Healing is for today.  The dead being raised is for today.  The Gifts of the Spirit are for today.  Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.  God has not changed.  The Holy Spirit and His power in the believer has not changed.  Christ is risen!

Scripture of the Day:  Mark 16:15-20

“And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen.”