Welcome to
Revival Radio TV. I'm your host, Gene Bailey. Today, we're gonna talk
about revivals and being the one but what if you just
don't want to do it? ♪♪ Genesis 26:18 tells us "Isaac dug again the
wells of Abraham." ♪♪ In every generation, there
have been revivals, massive moves of the Spirit that changed the
course of history. ♪♪ In every revival, there were
believers like you who chose to answer the call to become the one in
their generation. Discover your call to be the one in your generation. ♪♪ We are about to take you face to face with history. ♪♪ What if you just
don't want to do it? What if you are tired, you
don't really want to do it. You don't feel like it. You're having a bad day? - Gene, we're all like that. - Yea. - But like King
David, I remember, he sacrificed to praise. I think it's a choice. - A choice. - To choose to do it. - Well in this show, we're gonna
look and answer the question of how Smith Wigglesworth
walked all of this out. ♪♪ ♪
At the turn of the 20th century, ♪
one man's message of faith
transformed nations. ♪
Smith Wigglesworth entered
the annals of revival history ♪
by simply
making a decision. ♪
Time and again, he chose
to reach out by faith ♪
to help people who
were hurting. ♪
The result, God brought
widespread healings ♪
and calls to repentance to many ♪
which gave rise to a revival ♪
that literally spread
across the world. ♪
His life choices released the
Holy Spirit to work in his life ♪
and powerfully impacted
20th-century believers. ♪
Over a hundred years
later, his teachings ♪
are still transforming lives. Well, one way that Smith
Wigglesworth walked it out, he was in
Australia and
he saw a guy who is twisted
over. He had a cane in his hand
and his feet were
tortured and he was with his
friend and he looked and he said,
"Am I gonna, ugh!... Do I just pass this guy"? And then there is just like, something just flipped on
inside, he's like "No". So he goes over to
the guy and he says, "If you won't meet me in 5
minutes over in front of
this hotel, you will get prayed for
and you will walk out with no pain and straight and your back will be the
straightest back on the face
of the planet". - Um... - So he goes, he does his stuff,
comes back 5 minutes later and there is the guy, sitting
in front of the hotel, all bent over
and somehow, they get him up to Smith's hotel room,
he prays for him, and 5 minutes later, the guy
literally walks out, his back straight and no pain. - Amazing. - That's amazing, I mean. I was thinking just about
a younger version of
Smith Wigglesworth. I want to take you
back to the
1880's. He's about 20 years old. He's staying at home and
of course, his mom is at home and he was a passionate
soul winner and so, we have the story of him raising
the dead and healing the sick but he was a soul winner. In his lunch breaks, he was
an apprentice, he was a plumber. In his lunch breaks, he
would go out and his goal was to win at least one person each
day but this time, he prayed a bit differently.
It's a great story and he said, "Lord, I want to
reach the one who is nearest to eternity". And so he went out and
it's half an hour and there is people
everywhere. Now today -- just a short time ago, there is
automobiles and there is... but there was thousands of
people who were walking and horse and
carts and stuff like that and so there's all these
people and he's saying, "Lord, who is the one that I'm supposed to
minister to"? And all these people go by, 30
minutes...45 minutes, an hour... He's saying, "Lord! I've got
to get back to work and work
extra hours". And so an hour
and 10 and 15. After 90 minutes, this horse
and cart just comes by and that verse out of the book
of Acts where Philip, he jumped onto the chariot, the
horse and cart of the day. The Ethiopian just
jumped on him so he didn't introduce himself. He just jumped up and
started sharing the gospel. His main concern was
not really the guy. He's thinking, "I've got to work
extra hours here" and so-- and this guy just said,
"You've reached the wrong man. You spoke with the wrong man. Don't talk to me about
that" and there was that moment of "Oh"! That doubt just came... "Lord, did I--miss it here
and blow it here"? And he clearly heard the
Lord say, "No, he's the one". So he just jumped back in
and this guy is not nice as well but after a short
time, just tears come down and so he realizes that God is
really touching his heart. He leads him to the Lord,
he jumps off and goes to work and forgets about the guy. Okay, so fast forward now,
3 weeks and he's at home and his mom is saying,
"Hey Smith, have you been-- witnessing to people
again about salvation"? And he's like, "Mom,
I'm always doing that". And she says, "Well, a funny
thing happened last night. I was visiting a very sick
man and I said to him, "Would you like for someone
to come and pray with you"? And he told a story. He said he was out and
about 3 weeks ago and it was the last time he was
in public because he got really sick soon after. This man just jumped on
his horse, I mean on his cart and
shared the gospel and he described to me
who it was and his mom said this, "Smith,
I think you were the one". - Right.
- Awe. - That lines up
with Wigglesworth and his belief about faith. - Uh-huh. - Wigglesworth said that
"Faith is facts to be believed, commands to be obeyed", so
what he was doing, he was waiting for
the command on who this was when he got in there. He didn't think it was and then
he heard, "No, he is the one" and so he obeyed the command
again and then finally, "promises to be enjoyed". That's Wigglesworth,
how he saw faith. You've got to obey the command. - Yea, but you know, like
you said earlier, he still had to choose... - Yes, he chose. - He had to choose his time
like I'm not going because the pressure
of getting back, you know and the daily life... - Yea, yea. - I had again to make a choice. - And here's the end of that. His mom said, "Smith, he
went to be with the Lord last night". - Wow. Now Smith didn't know that. - No. - And I mean, I'm sure that
we all have those moments. - Sure! - Go and share with that one. And it's like "but"... - Well, how many people
would have gone, "Oh, I'm sorry", at the first... - Right, yea. - At the first... - Yea, yea.
- True. - What about you know, opportunities present
themselves everywhere. What about if you are in a
store and you're just shopping and you get interrupted? - Oh, my gosh. Smith Wigglesworth was
in a shoes store, right? Little shoemaker back
then. They made shoes. We would have a shoe repairer
or we'd go over to Walmart or
something but he was in the store. He saw a guy and this man
had a green shade over his eyes. He was crying and he was
in great agony and when Smith--you know,
he's in there for shoes so the shoemaker tells him,
he says that the guy had an
inflammation and it was burning out his eyes and this compassion rose
up on Smith and I think that's important too to recognize when that
compassion shows up and he went up to the
man and he said, "You, devil! Come out of this man in
the name of Jesus" and instantly the man
says, "It's all gone. The pain has left.
I can see now" and basically, you know, that's what inspired him to set
aside a little bit of time every single day over an hour. Wasn't it? For salvation? - Yea, yea... - So, there was that
one time that Smith Wigglesworth was
on a train and the Spirit of God came on him
so heavily that it says that
his face shone and within 3 minutes or
so, everyone on the train was coming up
to him to receive Jesus. But that all come from, not because he has a
seminary degree, not because he's a doctor
by his name, not because he's an evangelist
that everybody knows... - He was a plumber. - He's just a guy and he
spent time with the Lord. And I think to "be the one" requires us to just be
available. - Robert Haldane did 10
months, led 16 guys to the Lord and the entire
continent of Europe was transformed. - And you know, no
one is ever wowed by your intellectual
knowledge here. Like you said, your
seminary degree or anything like that. They are impressed by, "Hey, this guy's been
with something. He's got the light
on his face
showing. Amazing, amazing
stuff! What about when
you're--There were times, you walk in and you meet
somebody and they are dealing with a
life problem that is about to destroy
their whole life. - Well, that's the thing...I
have a son that he feels that his
calling is business so this businessman came up to
Smith Wigglesworth one night and said, "I can't sleep, my prosperous business
has gone bankrupt. I'm just... I'm at my rope's end. I have no where else
to go and what do I do? My life is miserable" and
Smith told him, "Go home and in the name of Jesus, sleep" and so the man turned around and he was kind of reluctant and Smith said to him, "Go"!
And the next morning, he called up on the telephone
and he said to where Smith
was staying he said, "Hey, tell Smith I
slept all night. And I want to see him at
once" and so basically, he saw Smith in person and
said, "I'm a new man". - Wonderful. And he said, "Okay now, I
have a bankrupt business. Can you help me
make it prosperous". And Smith said, "In
the name of Jesus, yes! Come tonight and we'll
start you on that road" and so he went to the
meeting that night. The man accepted Christ and he
began learning Bible precepts-- Bible concepts and his
business was put back... - He was a man of faith. - Yea. - Doug, you knew someone
that knew Smith. - Yea, it's just a great
little story that I have. I'm on vacation in
the South of England. It's actually called the Isle of
Wight where Queen Victoria had her vacation home there and I'm in a kind of Christian
kind of guest house and I was speaking to the owner
and just kind of checking him
out as far as if he was baptized or
Spirit-filled and I mentioned the name of
Smith Wigglesworth and he just lit up. He said,
"Oh, he was raised here" He knew Smith. So I mean, instantly I'm
thinking, "Oh my word"! I go, just a list of
hundred things I want to ask so I find where he is and it
would be an understatement to say that Ray was old. Ha-ha. So I said, "Hey, Ray! I understand that
you knew Smith"? And I was asking all these
great things and he kept falling asleep, ha-ha, so here is my one
little story here. He said, "Hey, Doug"! He said, "As a young man,
I was at a youth camp and I found a whole bunch of
chickens with eggs and I took these eggs and I
presented them to the
great man of God" and Smith said to him, "Wow, I
really appreciate that" but he said, "I've been told that I shouldn't eat
eggs like that because it's not good for me and
at the time I'm thinking, my word, that's just
like Wesley, isn't it. So even though, we know
about the miracles and the spiritual side,
there was a natural side
of the guy too. He took care of himself. So that's my amazing
spiritual story of... [Laughs] - What about when you go and you
attend a church service and you hear somebody
talking about, you can get healed and you
hear this teaching. What do you do with it then? - Well basically, you've
got these awesome services where people are learning things and there is just this
stirring up when you hear the
Word of God. "Faith comes by hearing,
hearing by the Word of God". Well, there is the coal
miner who heard all this-- these amazing miracles, he's
watching things happen and so he says, "Okay,
what happens? I'm a coal miner. I've got a stiff knee. What happens if I believe,
target my faith" basically in his binocular back in
those days..."for this... What would happen"? And so he does. He lays his faith out,
"By His stripes, you are healed" and he does it to his knee
and he walks around and it works. There is a success there
and not only that, he goes to a prayer meeting
because remember, this is the time period when all
of the coal miners were starting to find Christ
and had Bible studies and so he says to them, "See,
God healed my knee" and so they said, "Well, I have
a problem with my elbow, I have a problem with my knee,
I have a problem with my..." so they go around and they
lay hands on everybody and God healed everybody
and it started with one person, sharing the message. - Being obedient. Alright, so what if maybe I'm
on vacation, I'm on a ship and a man collapses. Everybody panics, what do I do? - Well, now I got a Smith
Wigglesworth story but I'm gonna start off of
a personal story. and that happened. He attends my church. He's called Leroy and he's a quiet guy. He's not a preacher, he's
owned flower shops for years and he loves to go
on cruises and he just told me
this, this morning. It's about 2005, in the month of
June, he goes on a cruise. Well, he's just gone back into
church in January of that year, attending the church
that I attend and his pastor, Pastor
Bret Freeman had told him, "You can do
the works of Jesus, you can pray for the sick and
raise the dead" so - Wow,
- he just believes it, you know. He said, "Doug, I have no
religious background of any kinds so I think he's
in the Bahamas, you know on these private islands
and he's in a restaurant with his group
and Leroy is a shy guy. He likes to stay with the group
and just felt the Lord say, "Walk toward the beach". So, he just leaves the
group, he goes toward the beach and there is a
commotion happening there and all the people here
are from the cruise ship and he gets there and they
dragged a lady out of the ocean. She is not breathing and
she's turned blue and the poor daughter was
just shaking and seeing her mom and there is no one doing CPR. They are just in shock and of
course, they are thinking, "Oh my word, she is dead". Leroy thinks, "I can
raise the dead". He's not a preacher, - Right. - And so he just says,
"In the name of Jesus, breathe"! And she goes, awk! Like that and that was it. - Wow. And he just did
what he'd been told. He said, "I hadn't been
in this long enough to realize it can happen". - Right. - Ha-ha. Jerry
Savelle says that. "I didn't know how to do
it wrong, I just read the Bible and
believed it". - And that's on
a cruise ship. How many of us had been on
these cruises so something comes up... You just do all you know
and I thought that was great. Wigglesworth had a
very similar thing. He was traveling from
Egypt I think to Italy and a guy collapses. Everyone is crying
and he's just excited. He things, "Oh, this is
a good opportunity". And so he just rebukes
death and this guy just wakes up and he says,
"What's that all over me? I can feel something on me". Well, that's the Holy Spirit and we have the same Holy Spirit and the same Bible that Smith
Wigglesworth had. - Wow. Alright, so what about--
what if you're... your own family is saying,
"Don't do it"? What's the story
of that one? - Oh my word! So-- Wigglesworth. He's visiting a man who is
very sick and I think his mom was a big
visitor because she shows up and so she is there
at the bedside. Now of course, you must
remember in those days, you were born at home
and you'd die at home. And so that's
how it happened. The hospital system was not
anything like it is here today. We call 911 and you know
and so she gets there and his mom says,
"He's dead, Smith. Don't do it". - Isn't not funny?
Oh, my gosh... - Well, it's like a
red flag to it. - Yea. So Smith said, "I've been trying
to witness to this guy and while he was alive, he
wouldn't let me help him". He sure will
when he's dead. [Laughs] - Not possible... - Yes, because the guy can't
argue now so he rebukes death and this guy wakes
up and Smith said, he did get saved and so it was
an easier recipient of the Gospel I think when he
was dead than when he was alive. [Laughs] And the first discussion of
what hell looks like on the
other side - Oh yes. That's just a great story - Uh-huh.
- Yea. What about when you
get a request and you send out a
handkerchief to somebody? - Acts chapter 19.
- Yea. - With Paul. They took handkerchiefs from
the body of Paul, they placed them on the sick
people and they recovered. Their evil spirits,
they departed. That's a scriptural contest. You
study why they did that in that time in the world and I always have trouble with that,
Gene, because it's just one example in Scripture. There is not one example,
there is a secondary example. When the woman with the
issue of blood reached out and touched the fringe or
the tallit of Jesus, the aim of His garment, there again is cloth--a
prayer cloth. - Amen. - That was her point of contact. Same thing with Elijah so I found 2 or 3 places where I don't understand it. I'm not asked to
understand it. I'm just asked to believe
and act upon the Word. It's exactly what that is. - You've got
anything else, Doug? A handkerchief miracle? - Oh my word. It was a man and we're
in Australia now. Wigglesworth, he traveled in
his last days and a woman comes up to
him and says, "My son is lazy. He
would not work. I can't get him out of
bed in the mornings. I'm sure there is
a lot of families that can relate to that. So he said, "Let's pray
with this prayer cloth and just put it
under his head. So she did and the next
day, this man is changed. He just wakes up because I mean
the life of God, you know, impregnates there and just
froze that darkness off of him and there is more
power here than we realize, really Gene. - Yea, it isn't and it's
not just the-- It's not just the power
of an handkerchief, Greg... - No. Not at all...
- What is it? - It's the anointing.
- The anointing. It's residing on there and-- when he took--his prophet, he
took Elijah's Mantle, which was his tallit, his cloth and he's, "Where is the
Lord, God of Elijah"? He's calling on that
anointing that had been on him. It's really just
faith in the Word. It's "If I can touch the aim
of His garment" , they took handkerchiefs
from Paul. It's not a magic pill or
a formula,
- That's right. - It's the anointing. - Alright, so what about--
notice whenever Smith had to make a choice, he made a choice and he
prayed for somebody and they were healed within
5 minutes or less. What's that all about? Well, there was a service
in Norway where again, -- was talking about how he couldn't touch, lay
hands on people and so he prayed but in this
one service in Norway, he got the idea that he just was going to pray
for everyone and there was this anointing
that that hit the
whole service. Every seat was filled,
every window seal was filled, every nook and cranny
was filled. It was a jam-packed service
and the anointing of God just-- The Glory of God just
filled the place and so as he prayed, the message
went out like a river. The power of God
rested on everyone. Every single sinner
in that place was accepting Christ. Every single injured,
unhealthy, you know, every person needing help received their miracle that day under 5 minutes.
- All under 5 minutes. - It has to be... The only way I can try
to answer that, try to wrap my mind
around that... I'm being honest because there were times in the
Scriptures where it says that "He could do no
mighty work there"
- Right. - You know, so even Jesus can't. Yet, I'm seeing Wigglesworth
doing so I'm thinking "Lord, what is that"? Now, as you were talking I
thought, it has to be-- the corporate faith of
the place. There is no unbelief
in that room. - Well, I remember even
being involved with-- healing ministries in
the past decades. You know, you can walk
into a place and it's the same team that
was in the last city and you walk into a
place and you go, "Um...That just
doesn't feel right" and nothing seems to flow. So there is absolutely something
about the corporate faith. - Maybe it's the
audience being the one. - Well, absolutely and it's
the same time, it's in that same
environment when... - Probably night to night. - Yea, yea, yea...The
second night, they see somebody get healed
the first night. Now it's a totally different
story, the second night. - Lookie-loos are gone. - Yea. Now they are like, wow! Someone got saved. And you see, that guy get out
of a wheelchair and how wonderful that was. I mean--there is absolutely a
element of corporate faith. But now Smith, as we've
already learned, all he did was read the Bible. He didn't read
any other books. This man was devoted, he
committed and he was not just a stalworth but he was tenacious in
holding on to the Scripture. In facts, if all you do is read
the Bible, let's get real... If all you do is read
the Bible and seek God do and listen to Him, things are
gonna change around you. - Things are gonna
be different. It has to. - Isaiah 55:11, the
Word sent out does what it was set out to do. - "My Word will not
return to me void". - Yea, absolutely. Alright. What if you've got a
friend who has no legs or he has stumps and you hear the Word of the
Lord saying, "Go and get shoes. - That is the ultimate, right? Because you have stumps, I mean. - Now where is the faith? The faith to get healed or the
faith to go, "Why am I not... [Laughs]
- Well, ah! I don't know... Well Smith was talking with
his buddy, a curate of the Church of
England and of course, you know, they are
just chatting, they are just having a perfectly
lovely friend-to-friend chat. And Smith says, "Go get shoes.
Go get fitted for shoes". And the guy thought
it was a joke. It was like, "What? I have
stumps, I don't have feet. Just in case you didn't notice. But he's up all night long
and finally he says, "Okay"... He's feeling the sense
that God is saying, "Do it, go to the store". So he goes to the shoes store. Now imagine you're the guy... - This is Nike. They make shoes. - Yea.
- It just fits you! It's not like going to,
you know, a department store. - And you walk and
you tell this guy... - Although you do, "Just do it"! [Laughs] - Oh no, I mean, you have to
be...You have to... - Understand it... - Ha-ha! I know, I get it. - So the guy said,
"Good morning. May I help you"? And he says, "Can you get
me a pair of shoes"? and he says, "What
size and color"? And then this guy looks
at him and says, "Um...We can't help you, sorry". And the guy says, "That's
alright, young man. But I want a pair of shoes".
Size 8, color black". So the assistant goes
and he pulls out. He had that size in stock
and he pulls it out and he returns and he hands it
to the man and so the man puts his stump in
the shoe, right? It's like "What"? Instantly a foot and a leg grew, right in front of
this assistant. One foot, one leg, the
other foot, the other leg. - Got to get some of
'em shoes... [Laughing] - Yes, that reminds me of Mary,
the mother of Jesus. - Uh-huh... - Whatever He tells
you to do-- - Yea.
- Do it! - It's not complicated,
is it Gene? - No, it's really not. It's really not and we
touched on the compassion you know...of Jesus. You have to have and
Smith had compassion. - Oh yes. And you know, Lillian De Fin
was telling us about the compassionate...He would
stand in the corner and you know, cry because he was able to
afford to clothe some traveling ministers. - Wonderful!
- And what a guy! What a phenomenal...These
are just a lot of quick stories that we've gone through
today about excuses. Why you think it can't happen. Why you think you can't
be used and I really enjoyed... This is one of the reasons
I love Todd White. He just goes and he
just does it. - Absolutely.
- Uh-huh. - He just goes out
there, finds somebody. There is compassion,
he loves on them. The love of Jesus is
so present and it's infectious and that's all we've got to do. We don't have to figure out why. We didn't have to figure
out, how is God gonna make feet and legs grow into shoes. - No. - All I need to do is go and
do my part and go get the shoes. - Uh-huh
- So "be the one". We sometimes think that we
have to be called to go to Russia or somewhere. You don't. Just "be the one". Be available. Be bold. Be the one in prayer. Be the one in giving,
be the one-- in the audience. - Some of the members
in our church. They wake up and they say,
"Okay, Lord. What's our
assignment today"? And they would jump on
their little motorcycle and they'll go and they'll
pray for someone and then they come back. Just say "Yes". - So be the one in Walmart,
in the restaurants and we always had that. I mean, I always remember this. Years ago, when I
wasn't the one, Gene, and this young man--he
was from India, he was working in a
restaurant and you know, I just took a shine to him. He was a young guy and he
was learning English and a few weeks afterwards, I
thought I'm gonna-- be the one for him and I
came back and I said, "Where is so-and-so"? And the guy dropped his
head and said, "Oh, he was killed by a drunk
driver last week". - Oh wow! - And I thought,
"Oh my word". And we've all been there,
haven't we, honestly. - Sure. - Honestly, but it's just a
small decision. Okay, look stupid and
put your foot in there. But do something and
great things can happen. - There is some people, you
know, you can't-- maybe you're homebound
or whatever else. You can still be
the one in prayer. You can still be the one
in supporting Christian television
or ministers.
- Yea. There is still ways
that you can be the one. - There is prayer groups
online and basically, our entire ministry
here, I have left and brought to them many
times and said, "Pray for us over this" and time and time again, I see
this massive miracle take place. - Yea. Well, that's it. That's it for today.
We've gone long but-- take this today. Take the word
that you've heard. Take all these
instances, all
these excuses. And with Smith
Wigglesworth, look in the face
of doubt and
defeat and became the one anyway. Amen. We will see you next week. ♪♪
