Smith Wigglesworth.........

[Guest duane65]

This is a kind of a poll to see who, thinks what about Rev. Wigglesworth.

[larryt]

I've read some of what has been written about him and have not heard anything that has refuted his faithin God and his acting on that faith. He was a simple man not well educated but just bellieved God and had a close relation to the Lord Jesus Christ.

LT

[amazingrace]

Keep an open mind, but dont let your brains fall out. Wigglesworth came to fame in the 1930's in England. He has been a 'hero' to such notables as Rodney Howard-Browne (a promoter of the "Holy Laughter" movement). It is Wigglesworth's techniques, not his faith, that deserves scrutiny.

[Guest Ignatius]

If I remember the story correctly, he was hard-hearted plumber whose wife ultimately won him to the Lord through her love and forgiveness. On one particular occassion he locked her outside of their home and she slept on the patio. The next morning when he opened the door she came in and cooked him breakfast cheerfully.

After his conversion his ministry has been described as full of the miraculous and outward manifestations of the Holy Spirit. While some of the accuracy, or whether or not some of these occurences were sound Biblically may be questioned, his life of devotion and evangelical outreach should be admired.

[nebula]

I've only heard good things about the man and his teaching and his ministry.

[Keith]

I've only heard good things about the man and his teaching and his ministry.

Ditto

[peaches]

never heard of him....he has the greatest name ever though! i wanna change my name to that

[irishcowboy]

he was illiterate, and his wife read to him daily.......from the Bible......

when she passed on ( 1913 if i remember correctly ) he carried her from the hospital to their home and laid her in her bed, and prayed over her, and she came back..... only to tell him that her work here was done, and he was to let her go, and that he had more work to complete.....

Smith loved the Lord..... his style was differant, on one occassion, a woman with a stomach ailment came to him and he slugged her in the gutt..... the stomach ailment was then gone..... when asked why he hit her in the stomach, he siad he didn't, he hit the devil, she just got in the way.....

God uses us each differently, some may use their advocation to support the ministry, which is also full time ministry...

as Smith, a full time ministry in plumbing.....

the ministry we serve in does not stop when we leave the fellowship, but goes with us, this is part of our testimony. if a person is working in a bar, they are testifying that it is ok to drink.... if a person is working in a casino, they are testifying that it is ok to gamble..... if we are working during the week and we participate in off colour stuff, that is a testimony of the ministry for the Lord....

mike

[RustyAngeL]

If I remember the story correctly, he was hard-hearted plumber whose wife ultimately won him to the Lord through her love and forgiveness. On one particular occassion he locked her outside of their home and she slept on the patio. The next morning when he opened the door she came in and cooked him breakfast cheerfully.

After his conversion his ministry has been described as full of the miraculous and outward manifestations of the Holy Spirit. While some of the accuracy, or whether or not some of these occurences were sound Biblically may be questioned, his life of devotion and evangelical outreach should be admired.

Yes this is all true..which made me understand that no one is out of God's reach.

[Guest AllHeart]

I read a book many years ago about his life.All i can remember about it was the raising of his dead wife. He commanded the spirit of death to release her, which of coarse the demon had to obey as Smith had Jesus living in Him and through him.(makes raising the dead sound so easy doesnt it?)From what I gather ,Smith had an awesome "sight" into the spiritual so it wouldn't have suprised me at all if he had hit a woman in the stomach saying he was aiming for the demon! His "reality"was very different to the norm.But just remember....."we fix our eyes NOT on what is seen, but what is unseen . For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" 2 Corinths 4 v18............Smith obviously took that scripture to heart!