Smith Wigglesworth- In the Power of His Might
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.”
Ephesians 6: 10
When we have done all that we know to do, we come to the “finally,” and this is where many of us miss it. Paul instructs us to be strong in the Lord and to be strong in the power of His might. But what does that mean?
It is a place of surrender and confidence in Him. Smith Wigglesworth explained of faith:
“God has moved me tonight to speak on the marvelous, glorious reality of God’s Word. How great should be our faith, for we cannot be saved except b faith, we cannot be kept but by faith; we can only be baptized by faith, and we will be caught up by faith; therefore, what a blessed reality is faith in the living God.”
Let’s look at these powerful verses:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.”
Hebrews 12: 1, 2
Paul was talking about “NOW FAITH.” A now faith is a living faith that comes from abiding in Him. We make faith a distant thing that we never have enough of, yet by simply faith, the greatest miracle happened, which was the new birth. Smith then added:
“What is faith? It is the very nature of God. Faith is the Word of God. It is the personal inward flow of divine favor, which moves in every fiber of our being until our whole nature so quickened that we live by faith, we move by faith, and we are going to be caught up to glory by faith, for ‘Faith is the Victory!’ Faith is the glorious knowledge of a personal presence within you, changing you from strength to strength, from glory to glory, until you get to the place where you walk with God, and God thinks and speaks through you by the power of the Holy Ghost, Oh, it is grand, it is glorious!”
We need a now-living relationship and communion with Him in the Secret Place. We must stand strong in our relationship and knowing of Him. Our awareness and consciousness of His Presence must grow daily until He is bigger in us than what we face.
Smith said:
“God wants us to have far more than that which we can handle and see, and so He speaks of the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen; but, with the eye of faith, we may see it in all its beauty and grandeur. God’s Word is everlasting to everlasting, and ‘faith is the substance.
Faith is the substance. The Greek for substance is “hypostasis,” meaning the foundation, the substructure, that which has actual existence, real, and the substantial quality, nature of a person or thing.
Our abiding relationship with the Lord causes a now hope to arise within us, for we hear His voice and know His will and desire. Smith explained:
“If I should give some of you ladies a piece of cloth, scissors, needle and thread, you could produce a garment. Why? Because you had the material. If I should provides some of to men with wood, saw, hammer, and nails, you could build a box? Because you had the material. But God, without material, spoke the Word and produced this world with all is beauty. There was no material there, but the Word of God called it into being by His creative force; and with the knowledge that you are begotten by this incorruptible Word, which liveth and abideth forever, you know that within you is this living, definite hope, greater than yourself, more powerful than any dynamic force in the world. For faith worketh in you by the power of the new creation of God in Christ Jesus; therefore with the audacity of faith, we should throw ourselves into the omnipotence of God’s divine plan, for God has said to you, ‘If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
Strong in the Lord! No matter what we face, we know He is the Most High and the Almighty. We must be in the abiding place of His Word. Smith said:
“Do you see that the Words of the Master are the instruction of faith? It is impossible for anything to miss that Jesus says. All His Word are spirit and life, If you will only have faith in Him you will find that every Word that God gives is life. You cannot be in close touch without feeling the effect of it in your body as well as in your spirit and soul.”
He calls us to walk in the living relationship with His Word. Here the Word is in us, growing, breathing, and ever-increasing. We stand strong in our relationship with Him. The enemy always wants us to walk in hiding or where a veil stands behind the Lord and us.
But we are to be strong in the Lord! Strong in our knowing of Him and strong in our hearing of His voice. Smith explained:
“How can you know this. He is to be revealed. Flesh and blood does not reveal this. It is an inward revelation. God wants to reveal his Sob within us and make us conscious of an inward Presence. Then you can cry, ‘I know He’s mine. He is mine! He is mine!”
When you have a shout from every fiber of your being, “He is mine! He is mine! He is mine! There is a place where you know that you know by inward revelation from the Abiding Word that He is the Almighty God. We know He is faithful, and He can’t change.
In the abiding place, He wants to breathe into us and impart Himself to us. Smith explained:
In these days, God has for us a blessed inheritance, so that we should no longer be barren or unfruitful, but rather be filled with all fullness, increasing with all increasings, having a measureless measure of the might of the Spirit in the inner man, so that we are always like a great river that presses on and heals everything that it touches. Oh, let it be so today!
We walk now in the power of His might! Not us trying to make it happen in our power and might! Not us trying to earn it through the intensity of our prayer. But a yielding and surrendering to the Holy Spirit and allowing His touch to str every fiber of our being. The place where you know what He said He would surely do!
In this place, the Word is in an abundance in you. It is changing and transforming you. It is lifting you above your circumstances to the place where your God is bigger, greater, and always more than enough.
The promises abiding in us make us a partaker of the divine nature. We begin to walk as He walks and think as He thinks. Oh, when we come to an end, and we surrender to Him so that we stand strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
What happens in the Secret Place where we yield to Him? There is an exchange of our weakness for His strength! Smith said:
Christ, who is the express image of God (Heb. 1:3), has come to our human weaknesses in order to change them and us into a divine likeness so that, by the power of His might, we may not only overcome but also rejoice in the fact that we are more than overcomers. God wants you to be “more than conquerors” (Rom. 8:37). The baptism of the Spirit has come for nothing less than to possess the whole of our lives. It sets up Jesus as King, and nothing can stand in His holy presence when He is made King. Everything will wither before Him.
When we face a battle, and our strength fails, we must turn to Him. The victory is by faith in Him. Here we hear the Master speak to us:
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.”
John 14: 1
When we stand strong in Him as we worship Him. Smith said:
The Holy Spirit understands everything Christ has in the glory and brings through the heart of man God’s latest thought. The world’s needs, our manifestations, revivals, and all conditions are first settled in heaven, then worked out on the earth. We must be in touch with God Almighty in order to bring out on the face of the earth all the things that God has in the heavens. This is an ideal for us, and may God help us not to forsake the reality of holy communion with Him, of entering into private prayer so that publicly He may manifest His glory.
