Willum
looked into my face. He was all glorified with the light of Heaven
until his
face was like the face of an angel. He said, "My heart all white! My
heart all
white!"
He and
his friend remained in the church and sang all night. At 6 o'clock the
next
morning, they both went to their work.
On
Wednesday night, my wife and I sat on the platform together. Willum
and his
friend came early and sat on the front seat.
Mrs. Lake
asked, "John, who is the boy sitting on the front seat?"
I
replied, "This is the boy with whom I was so impressed Sunday night."
"John,
Jesus told me just now if I would lay my hands on that boy, He would
baptize him
with the Holy Ghost."
"Then
go to him at once."
She laid
her hands on him. In three minutes he was filled with the Holy
Ghost,
speaking in tongues, glorifying God, and prophesying.
Close to
a South African city in which I was ministering, there were hills
with
outcroppings of rocks like a series of cliffs, one above another. I would
go up
into these hills to be alone and rest.
One day I
observed a lady bringing a young child and setting him on one of
the
shelves above a small cliff. She left the child some food and water. It
seemed a
dangerous thing to do, since the child might fall and hurt himself.
However,
I observed that the child was crippled and could not move around.
After his
mother left, I went over to him, laid my hands on him, and prayed.
Immediately
the child bounded off down the hill to catch his mother.
Not
caring to meet anyone, I moved around the hill out of sight.
One day a
woman came to the Healing Rooms in the old Rookery Building
in
Spokane. She could not raise her arm. She said she had an open sore on
her side
and could get no help from physicians. She added that she had no
faith in
doctors, in man, in God, or in Jesus Christ but asked if I could help
her.
I prayed
for her three times with no results. After the third time I said to
God,
"God, her soul is closed. Open her soul that she might receive."
The next
morning as she was putting up her hair, she suddenly discovered
that she
was using the bad arm and had it raised up to her head. She felt her
side, and
the open sore was gone.
Immediately,
she telephoned to tell us about it.
I said,
"Sister, come down here. There are people waiting to hear your
testimony."
How much
faith does God require of the person who comes and asks?
A closing
sentence of an interpretation of tongues given in June, 1910, in
Somerset,
East Cape Colony, South Africa:
"Christ
is at once the spotless descent of God into man, and the sinless ascent
of man
into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is
accomplished."
A holy
mind cannot repeat a vile thing, nor be the creator of a vile
suggestion.
It is an unholy mind that is capable of such an act. I say with
Paul,
Mark such a person Romans 16:17. He may talk, but he does not know
God. He
does not comprehend the power of salvation, nor is he the possessor
of the
Holy Spirit.
John
10:27
My sheep
hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Psalm
62:11
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this;
that power belongeth unto God.
John 1:33
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to
baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon
whom thou
shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which
baptizeth
with the Holy Ghost.
John 6:63
It is the
spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they
are
spirit, and they are life.
Psalm 23
1
¶ <<A Psalm of David.>> The LORD
is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He
restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s
sake.
4 Yea,
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for thou art
with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou
preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my
head
with oil;
my cup runneth over.
6 Surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in
the
house of
the LORD for ever.
Psalm 35
1 ¶
<<A Psalm of David.>> Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive
with me: fight
against
them that fight against me.
2 Take
hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
3 Draw
out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto
my soul, I
am thy
salvation.
4 Let
them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned
back and
brought
to confusion that devise my hurt.
5 Let
them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
6 Let
their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
7 For
without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they
have
digged
for my soul.
8 Let
destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch
himself: into
that very
destruction let him fall.
9 And my
soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
10 All my
bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from
him
that is
too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
11 ¶
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
12 They
rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
13 But as
for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with
fasting;
and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
14 I
behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down
heavily, as one
that
mourneth for his mother.
15 But in
mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the
abjects
gathered
themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased
not:
16 With
hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17 ¶
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my
darling from
the
lions.
18 I will
give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much
people.
19 Let
not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them
wink with
the eye
that hate me without a cause.
20 For
they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are
quiet in the
land.
21 Yea,
they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen
it.
22 This
thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
23 Stir
up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
24 Judge
me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice
over
me.
25 Let
them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We
have
swallowed
him up.
26 Let
them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt:
let them be
clothed
with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
27 Let
them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them
say
continually,
Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his
servant.
28 And my
tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Isaiah 35
1 ¶ The
wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall
rejoice, and
blossom
as the rose.
2 It
shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of
Lebanon shall
be given
unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the
LORD, and
the
excellency of our God.
3
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4 Say to
them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will
come with
vengeance,
even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
5 ¶ Then
the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped.
6 Then
shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the
wilderness
shall
waters break out, and streams in the desert.
7 And the
parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in
the
habitation
of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And an
highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness;
the
unclean shall
not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools,
shall
not err
therein.
9 No lion
shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be
found there;
but the
redeemed shall walk there:
10 And
the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting
joy upon
their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall
flee away.
Psalm 91
1 ¶ He
that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow
of the
Almighty.
2 I will
say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely
he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome
pestilence.
4 He
shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his
truth shall be thy
shield
and buckler.
5 Thou
shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by
day;
6 Nor for
the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at
noonday.
7 A
thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it
shall not come nigh
thee.
8 Only
with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 ¶
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy
habitation;
10 There
shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11 For he
shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
12 They
shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13 Thou
shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou
trample
under
feet.
14
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set
him on high,
because
he hath known my name.
15 He
shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I
will deliver him,
and
honour him.
16 With
long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Acts 26
1 ¶ Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art
permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched
forth the
hand, and answered for himself:
2 I think
myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before
thee
touching
all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:
3
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which
are among the
Jews:
wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
4 My
manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at
Jerusalem,
know all the Jews;
5 Which
knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most
straitest sect of
our
religion I lived a Pharisee.
6 And now
I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:
7 Unto
which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to
come. For
which
hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
8 Why
should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the
dead?
9 I
verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name
of Jesus of
Nazareth.
10 Which
thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison,
having
received
authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my
voice
against
them.
11 And I
punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and
being
exceedingly
mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
12 ¶
Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief
priests,
13 At
midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of
the sun,
shining
round about me and them which journeyed with me.
14 And
when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and
saying in the
Hebrew
tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick
against the
pricks.
15 And I
said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
16 But
rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose,
to make thee
a
minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those
things in the
which I
will appear unto thee;
17
Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send
thee,
18 To
open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and 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.
19
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
20 But
shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the
coasts of
Judaea,
and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works
meet for
repentance.
21 For
these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
22 Having
therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to
small and
great,
saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should
come:
23 That
Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the
dead, and
should
shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
24 ¶ And
as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art
beside
thyself;
much learning doth make thee mad.
25 But he
said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and
soberness.
26 For
the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am
persuaded
that none
of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.
27 King
Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
28 Then
Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
29 And
Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this
day, were
both
almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
30 And
when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and
they that
sat with
them:
31 And
when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man
doeth
nothing
worthy of death or of bonds.
32 Then
said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had
not
appealed
unto Caesar.
Matthew
3:13-15
13 ¶ Then
cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14 But
John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to
me?
15 And
Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us
to fulfil all
righteousness.
Then he suffered him.
Psalm
107:3
And
gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the
north, and from
the
south.
Hebrews
2:14
Forasmuch
then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise
took
part of
the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is,
the
devil;
Acts 8:8
And there
was great joy in that city.
Luke
10:8-9
8 And into whatsoever city ye enter
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