I read this excerpt many years ago out of the Smith Wigglesworth book, “Only Believe,” and as I was sorting through some things, I came upon the book; flipped through and there was the excerpt. This writing is burned in my heart and will come up from time to time, to not only exhort me, but I have also shared it with others.
Praying in the Holy Spirit
I want to tell you of an amazing incident that illustrates the power in praying in the Holy Spirit.
Willam Burton is associated with my son-in-law, James Salter, in Africa. When they were going into the Congo [now Zaire] to begin the ministry, one of their men died; and then Burton was laid low with the fever. He seemed dead, and the party went on broken-heartedly. But looking around, they say him coming on just as lively as though he had never had a touch of fever.
“What has happened?” they shouted. “Tell us!” And he said, “From my head right down, there came a warmth of life through my body, and here I am perfectly well.”
Afterwards, when Burton was in a meeting in England, a woman asked him if he kept a diary. When he answered that he did, she asked him to look on a certain date, which she gave to him.
While he was looking it up, she went on, “I saw you lying as one dead, and I was broken down before God in your behalf and was praying for you when the Spirit filled me and there I was speaking in an unknown tongue. And when I got through, I saw you looking perfectly well.” Burton found in his diary that it was the very hour of his recovery.
What we need is more of the Holy Spirit. Oh, let it be no longer we, but the Spirit who prays! Smith Wigglesworth, “Only Believe”
God bless,
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