----- Original Message -----
From: "ANZAC Prophetic List" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: [anzac] SMITH WIGGLESWORTH SAID...


> Forwarded by:           [log in to unmask]
> Date sent:      Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:32:44 EST
>
> "Deliverance to the Captives"
> -Smith Wigglesworth.
>
> After I had received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost (and
> I know that I received; for the Lord gave me the Spirit in
> just the same way as He gave Him to the disciples at
> Jerusalem), I sought the mind of the Lord as to why I was
> baptized. One day I came home from work and went into
> the house and my wife asked me, 'Which way did you
> come in?" I told her that I had come in at the back door.
> She said, "There is a woman upstairs and she has
> brought an old man of eighty to be prayed for. He is
> raving up there and a great crowd is outside the front door,
> ringing the door-bell and wanting to know what is going
> on in the house." The Lord quietly whispered, "This is
> what I baptized you for."
>
> I carefully opened the door of the room where the man
> was, desiring to be obedient to what my Lord would say
> to me. The man was crying and shouting in distress, "I am
> lost! I am lost! I have committed the unpardonable sin. I
> am lost! I am lost!" My wife said, "Dad, what shall we do?"
> The Spirit of the Lord moved me to cry out, "Come out,
> thou lying spirit." In a moment the evil spirit went, and the
> Lord said to me, "This is what I baptized you for."
>
> There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy
> Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives. The Spirit reveals,
> unfolds, takes the things of Christ and shows them to us,
> and prepares us to be more than a match for satanic forces.
>
> When a man is born of God, is brought from darkness to
> light, a mighty miracle is wrought. Jesus saw every touch
> by God as a miracle, and so we may expect to see
> miracles wrought today. It is wonderful to have the Spirit of
> the Lord upon us. I would rather have the Spirit of God on
> me for five minutes than to receive a million dollars.
>
> The devil knows that if he can capture your thought life, he
> has won a mighty victory over you. His great business is
> injecting thoughts, but if you are pure and holy you will
> instantly shrink from them. God wants us to let the mind
> that was in Christ Jesus, that pure, holy, humble mind of
> Christ, be in us.
>
> I come across people everywhere I go who are held bound
> by deceptive conditions, and these conditions have come
> about simply because they have allowed the devil to make
> their minds the place of his stronghold. How are we to guard
> against this? The Lord has provided us with weapons that
> are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds
> of the enemy, and by means of which every thought shall
> be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. The
> blood of  Jesus Christ and His mighty name are an antidote
> to all the subtle seeds of unbelief that satan would sow in
> your minds.
>
> Our blessed Lord Jesus is still alive, and continues His
> ministry through those who are filled with His Spirit. He is
> still healing the broken-hearted and delivering the captives
> through those on whom He places His Spirit.
>
> 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.
>
> At one time I was so bound that no human power could
> help me. My wife was looking for me to pass away. There
> was no help. At that time I had just had a faint glimpse of
> Jesus as the Healer. For six months I had been suffering
> from appendicitis, occasionally getting temporary relief. I
> went to the mision of which I was pastor, but I was brought
> to the floor in awful agony, and they brought me home to
> my bed. All night I was praying, pleading for deliverance,
> but none came. My wife was sure it was my home call and
> sent for a physician. He said that there was no possible
> chance for me -- my body was too weak. Having had the
> appendicitis for six months, my whole system was drained,
> and, because of that, he thought that it was too late for an
> operation. He left my wife in a state of broken-heartedness.
>
> After he left, there came to our door a young man and an
> old lady. I knew that she was a woman of real prayer. They
> came upstairs to my room. This young man jumped on the
> bed and commanded the evil spirit to come out of me. He
> shouted, "Come out, you devil; I command you to come
> out in the name of Jesus!"
>
> There was no chance for an argument, or for me to tell him
> that I would never believe thart there was a devil inside of
> me. The thing had to go in the name of Jesus, and it went,
> and I was instantly healed.
>
> I arose and dressed and went downstairs. I was still in the
> plumbing business, and I asked my wife, "Is there any
> work in? I am all right now, and I am going to work." I found
> there was a certain job to be done and I picked up my tools
> and went off to do it. Just after I left, the doctor came in, put
> his plug hat down in the hall, and walked up to the bedroom.
> But the invalid was not there. "Where is Mr. Wigglesworth?"
> he asked. "O, doctor, he's gone out to work," said my wife.
> "You'll never see him alive again," said the doctor; "they'll
> bring him back a corpse."
>
> Well, I'm the corpse.
>
> Since that time, in many parts of the world, the Lord has given
> me the priviledge of praying for people with appendicitis; and
> I have seen a great many people up and dressed within a
> quarter of an hour from the time I prayed for them. We have
> a living Christ who is willing to meet people on every line.
>
> Oh, if you would only believe God! What would happen? The
> greatest things. Some have never tasted the grace of God,
> have never had the peace of God. Unbelief robs them of
> these blessings. It is possible to hear and yet not conceive
> the truth. It is possible to read the Word and not share in
> the life it brings. It is necessary for us to have the Holy
> Ghost to unfold the Word and bring to us the life that is
> Christ. We can never fully understand the wonders of this
> redemption until we are full of the Holy Ghost.
>
> Are you oppressed? Cry out to God. It is always good for
> people to cry out. You may have to cry out. The Holy Ghost
> and the Word of God will bring to light every hidden, unclean
> thing that must be revealed. There is always a place of
> deliverance when you let God search out that which is
> spoiling and marring your life. That evil spirit that was in the
> man in the synagogue cried out, "Let us alone!" It was a
> singular thing that the evil spirit had never cried out like
> that until Jesus walked into the place where he was.
> Jesus rebuked the thing, saying, "Hold thy peace and
> come out of him," and the man was delivered. He is just
> the same Jesus, exposing the powers of evil, delivering the
> captives and letting the oppressed go free, purifying them
> and cleansing their hearts.
>
> God is compassionate and says, "Seek ye the Lord while
> He may be found." And He has further stated, "Whosoever
> shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Seek
> Him now, call on His name right now, and there is
> forgiveness, healing, redemption, deliverance, and everything
> you need for you right here and now, and that which will
> satisfy you throughout eternity."
>
>
> --
> To subscribe, send ANY message to <[log in to unmask]>
>
> To unsubscribe, send ANY message to <[log in to unmask]>
>
> VISIT OUR SITES ON THE NET:
>
> REVIVAL SUPERSITE - http://www.streetrevival.com
>
> PROPHETIC SUPERSITE - http://www.prophetic-apostolic.com
>
> MODERATOR:
> Andrew Strom,
> Thunder Ministries,
> PO Box 12-1022,
> Henderson,
> West Auckland,
> New Zealand 1231.
>