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Greater Works
Smith
Wigglesworth
Here in
the fourteenth chapter of John we read the Master’s word, the Master’s desire: “Greater
things than these shall he do.”
Why was His prospective so
full? Because He had admiration before Him. Jesus had great admiration before
Him when He saw the disciples.
He knew He had the material
that would bring out that which would prove to the world a real satisfaction — to
heaven and to the world.
Those glorified, exercised,
wonderfully modified, and then glorified positions of these fishermen were
surely ideal places.
What were they? Unlearned, in
one place. (Not that I am going to build on an unlearned position.)
Ignorant men in another place
(not that I am going to build on that).
But look — they were unlearned,
but God taught them. It is far better to have the learning of the Spirit than
anything else.
They were ignorant. He enlarged
them. They were beside themselves because they had been touched with the divine
life.
If the Most High God touches
you, you will be beside yourself. As long as you hold your own, the natural and
the spiritual will be mixed.
But if ever you jump over the
traces by the power of the new creation, you will find He has got hold of you.
Divine wisdom will never make
you foolish. Divine wisdom will give you a sound mind.
Divine wisdom will give you a
touch of divine nature. Divine life is full of divine appointment and
equipment, and you cannot be
filled
with the power of God
without a manifestation.
I
would
to God today that we
understood to be filled
with
the Holy Ghost is to be filled with
manifestation, the glory of the Lord being in the midst of us, manifesting His
divine power.
Jesus knew that these people He
had before Him were going to do greater things than He had done.
How could they do it? None of
us is able. None of us is capable.
But our incapability has to be
clothed with His divine ability, and our helplessness has to be filled with His
power of helpfulness. This is why He knew.
He
knew He was going away and that if He went away it was expedient, it was
necessary, it was important that another came in His place and took up the same
thing in them as He had been telling them: “I in you and you in Me.”
There was a plan of divine
order. So the Holy Ghost was to come.
Smith
Wigglesworth was an extraordinary
student in the school of faith. A man wholly yielded to the Spirit,
Wigglesworth became a "Pentecostal phenomenon," a vessel of God's
supernatural power. This legendary preacher cast out demons, healed the sick,
and stirred up passion for God in the hearts of thousands. Rorbert Liardon is
pastor in Irvine, California. He has preached in more than 80 nations with a
huge ministry in Europe, Asia and Africa. His books were translated into more
than 27 languages and they are all around the world.
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