Manifestation of the Gift of Faith

An excerpt from the ministry of Smith Wigglesworth demonstrating the gift of faith.

  • “I remember one day being 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 heartbreaking. 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 and said, “Help? You think that we believe in God after we have had seven weeks of no sleep and maniac conditions. You think that we believe God. You are mistaken. You have come to the wrong house.” Then a young woman of about 18 or so just grinned at me and passed out of the door, and that finished the whole business.
  •  That brought me to a place of compassion for the woman that something had to be done, no matter what it was. Then with 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 a faith that believed God’s Word. And I came from that presence back again to earth, but not the same man under the conditions confronting me. 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 14 hours perfectly sane and perfectly whole.”