This is an extract from one of the sermons of Smith Wigglesworth where he speaks about the second kind of faith which comes from God. I have just collected so that it might build some revelation and faith in God to step from natural into supernatural. “Without faith it is impossible to
please Him; for he that cometh to God must believe that He
is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.”- Hebrews 11:6. Below is the article read and apply it.
There are two kinds of faith. There is the
natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.
In Acts 26:19, Paul is telling Agrippa of what the Lord said
to him in commissioning him. “To open their eyes, and
to turn them from darkness to light, from the power of satan
unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance
among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Me.”
Is that the faith of Paul? No, it is the
faith that the Holy Ghost is giving. It is the faith that
He brings to us as we press in and on with God. I want to
put before you this difference between our faith and the faith
of Jesus. Our faith comes to an end. Most people in this place
have come to where they have said, “Lord, I can go no
further. I have gone so far and I can go no further. I have
used all the faith I have, and I have just to stop now and
wait.”
I remember being one day in Lancashire, and
going round to see some sick people. I was taken into a house
where there was a young woman lying on a bed, a very helpless
case. The reason had gone, and many things were manifested
there which were satanic and I knew it. She was only a young
woman, a beautiful child. The husband, quite a young man,
came in with the baby, and he leaned over to kiss the wife.
The moment he did, she threw herself over on the other side,
just as a lunatic would do. That was very heart-breaking.
Then he took the baby and pressed the baby's lips to the mother.
Again another wild kind of thing happened. I asked one who
was attending her, “Have you anybody to help?”
“Oh,” they said, “We have had everything.”
“But,” I said, “have you no spiritual help?”
Her husband stormed out, saying, “Help? You think that
we believe in God, after we have had seven weeks of no sleep
and maniac conditions.”
Then a young woman of about eighteen or so
just grinned at me and passed out of the door. That brought
me to a place of compassion for the woman. Something had to
be done, no matter what it was. Then with all my faith I began
to penetrate the heavens, and I was soon out of that house,
I will tell you, for I never saw a man get anything from God
who prayed on the earth. If you get anything from God, you
will have to pray into heaven; for it is all there. If you
are living in the earth realm and expect things from heaven,
they will never come. And as I saw, in the presence of God,
the limitations of my faith, there came another faith, a faith
that could not be denied, a faith that took the promise, a
faith that believed God's Word. And from that presence, I
came back again to earth, but not the same man. God gave a
faith that could shake hell and anything else.
I said, “Come out of her, in the name
of Jesus!” And she rolled over and fell asleep and wakened
in fourteen hours perfectly sane and perfectly whole.
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