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Faith That Prevails

by Smith Wigglesworth 1938

Chapter 1 - God-Given Faith

Chapter 2 - Like Precious Faith

Chapter 3 - Spiritual Power

Chapter 4 - Paul's Pentecost

Chapter 5 - Ye Shall Receive Power

Chapter 6 - Keeping The Vision

Chapter 7 - Present-Time Blessings

Faith That Prevails by Smith Wigglesworth

Chapter 1 - God-Given Faith

Read Hebrews 11;1-11. I believe that there is only one way to all the treasures

of God, and that is the way of faith. By faith and faith alone do we enter into a

knowledge of the attributes and become partakers of the beatitudes, and

participate in the glories of our ascended Lord. All His promises are Yea and

Amen to them that believe.

God would have us come to Him by His own way. That is through the open door

of grace. A way has been made. It is a beautiful way, and all His saints can enter

in by this way and find rest. God has prescribed that the just shall live by faith. I

find that all is failure that has not its base on the rock Christ Jesus. He is the only

way, the truth and the life. The way of faith is the Christ way, receiving Him in

His fulness and walking in Him; receiving His quickening life that filleth, moveth

and changeth us, bringing us to a place where there is always an Amen in our

hearts to all the will of God.

As I look into the 12 th chapter of Acts, I find that the people were praying all

night for Peter to come out of prison. They had a zeal but seem to have been

lacking in faith. They were to be commended for their zeal in spending their time

in prayer without ceasing, but their faith, evidently, did not measure up to such a

marvelous answer. Rhoda had more faith than the rest of them. When the knock

came to the door, she ran to it, and the moment she heard Peter’s voice, she ran

back again with joy saying that Peter stood before the gate. And all the people

said, “You are mad. It isn’t so.” But she constantly affirmed that it was even so.

Zacharias and Elisabeth surely wanted a son, but even when the angel came and

told Zacharias that he should have a son, he was full of unbelief. And the angel

said, “Thou shalt be dumb, because thou believest not my words.”

But look at Mary. When the angel came to her, Mary said, “Be it unto me

according to thy word.” It was her Amen to the will of God. And God wants us

with an Amen in our lives, an inward Amen, a mighty moving Amen, a God-

inspired Amen, which says, “It is, because God has spoken. It cannot be

otherwise. It is impossible to be otherwise.”

Let us examine this 5 th verse, “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not

see death; and was not found, because God translated him: for before his

translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God.”

When I was in Sweden, the Lord worked mightily. After one or two addresses

the leaders called me and said, “We have heard very strange things about you,

and we would like to know if they are true. We can see that God is with you, and

that God is moving, and we know that it will be a great blessing to Sweden.”

“Well,” I said, “what is it?”

“Well,” they said, “we have heard from good authority that you preach that you

have the resurrection body.” When I was in France I had an interpreter that

believed this thing, and I found out, after I had preached once or twice through

the interpreter, that she gave out her own ideas. And of course I did not know. I

said to these brethren, “I tell you what my personal convictions are. I believe

that if I had the testimony of Enoch I should be off. I believe that the moment

Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God, off he went.”

I pray that God will so quicken our faith, for translation is in the mind of God;

but remember that translation comes on the line of holy obedience and a walk

that is pleasing to God. This was true of Enoch. And I believe that we must have

a like walk with God in the Spirit, having communion with him, living under his

divine smile, and I pray that God by His Spirit may so move us that we will be

where Enoch was when he walked with God.

There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith

is the gift of God. In Acts 26:19, Paul is telling Agrippa of what the Lord said to

him in commissioning him. “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness

to light, 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.”

Is that the faith of Paul? No, it is the faith that the Holy Ghost is giving. It is the

faith that He brings to us as we press in and on with God. I want to put before

you this difference between our faith and the faith of Jesus. Our faith comes to

an end. Most people in this place have come to where they have said, “Lord, I

can go no further. I have gone so far and I can go no further. I have used all the

faith I have, and I have just to stop now and wait.”

I remember being one day 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 heart-breaking.

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, saying, “Help? You think

that we believe in God, after we have had seven weeks of no sleep and maniac

conditions.”

Then a young woman of about eighteen or so just grinned at me and passed out

of the door. That brought me to a place of compassion for the woman.

Something had to be done, no matter what it was. Then with all 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

promise, a faith that believed God’s Word. And from that presence, I came back

again to earth, but not the same man. 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 fourteen hours perfectly sane and perfectly whole.

There is a process on this line. Enoch walked with God. That must have been all

those years as he was penetrating, and going through, and laying hold, and

believing and seeing and getting into such close cooperation and touch with God

that things moved on earth and he began to move toward heaven. At last it was

not possible for him to stop any longer. Oh, Hallelujah!

In the 15 th chapter of 1 st Corinthians we read of the body being “sown in

weakness,” to be raised in power. It seems to me that, as we are looking for

translation, the Lord would have us know something of that power now, and

would have us kept in that power, so that we shall not be sown in weakness.

There is one thing that God has given me from my youth up, a taste and relish

for my Bible. I can say before God, I have never read a book but my Bible, so I

know nothing about books. It seems to me better to get the Book of books for

food for your soul, for the strengthening of your faith, and the building up of

your character in God, so that all the time you are being changed and made

meet to walk with God.

“Without faith it is impossible to please Him; for he that cometh to God must

believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

I can see that it is impossible to please Him on any line but faith, for everything

that is not of faith is sin. God wants us to see that the plan of faith is the ideal

and principle of God. In this connection I love to keep in my thoughts the

beautiful words in the 2 nd verse of the 12 th chapter of Hebrews: “Looking unto

Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” He is the author of faith. God worked

through Him for the forming of the world. “All things were made by Him, and

without Him was not anything made that was made.” And because of the

exceedingly abundant joy of providing for us so great salvation, He became the

author of a living faith. And through this principle of living faith, looking unto Him

who is the author and finisher of our faith, we are changed into the same image

from glory to glory, even by the Spirit of the Lord.

God has something better for you than you have ever had in the past. Come out

into all the fulness of faith and power and life and victory that He is willing to

provide, as you forget the things of the past, and press right on for the prize of

His high calling in Christ Jesus.

Chapter 2 - Like Precious Faith

Read 2 Peter 1:1-8. We are dull of comprehension because we so often let the

cares of this world blind our eyes; but if we can be open to God, we shall see

that He has a greater plan for us in the future than we have ever seen in the

past. It is God’s delight to make possible to us that which seems impossible, and

when we reach a place where He alone has right of way, then all the things that

have been misty and misunderstood are cleared up.

This like precious faith that Peter is writing about is a gift that God is willing to

give to all of us, and I believe God wants us to receive it so that we may subdue

kingdoms, work righteousness, and, if the time is come, to stop the mouths of

lions. We should be able under all circumstances to triumph, because we have

no confidence in ourselves, but our confidence is only in God. It is always those

people who are full of faith that have a good report, that never murmur, that are

in the place of victory, that are not in the place of human order but of divine

order, since God has come to dwell in them.

This like precious faith is for all; but there may be some hindrance in your life

that God will have to deal with. It seems to me as if I had had a thousand road

engines come over my life to break me up like a potter’s vessel. There is no

other way into the deep things of God but a broken spirit. There is no other way

into the power of God. God will do the exceeding abundantly above all we ask or

think for us when He can bring us to the place where we can say with Paul, “I

live no longer, and Another, even Christ, has taken the reins and the rule.”

I understand God by His Word. I cannot understand God by impressions or

feelings; I cannot get to know God by sentiments. If I am going to know God, I

am going to know Him by His Word. I know I shall be in heaven, but I could not

build on my feelings that I am going to heaven. I am going to heaven because

God’s Word says it, and I believe God’s Word. And “faith cometh by hearing, and

hearing by the Word of God.” Rom. 10;17.

In Mark 11:24 we read, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe

that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” The previous verse speaks of

mountains removed, difficulties cleared away. Veneering won’t do. We must have

reality, the real working of our God. We must know God. We must be able to go

in and hold converse with God. We must also know the mind of God toward us,

so that all our petitions are always on the line of His will.

As this like precious faith becomes a part of you, it will make you so that you will

dare to do anything. And remember, God wants daring men, men who will dare

all, men who will be strong in Him and dare to do exploits. How shall we reach

this plane of faith? Let go your own thoughts, and take the thoughts of God, the

Word of God. If you build yourself on imaginations you will go wrong. You have

the Word of God and it is enough. A man gave this remarkable testimony

concerning the Word: “Never compare this Book with other books. Comparisons

are dangerous. Never think or never say that this Book contains the Word of

God. It is the Word of God. It is supernatural in origin, eternal in duration,

inexpressible in value, infinite in scope, regenerative in power, infallible in

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