A Raising from the Dead 9/4 Thursday Thoughts

This is one of the most famous stories from Smith Wigglesworth's ministry.   According to various accounts, he raised between nine and fourteen people from the dead in the course of his ministry.

One morning about eleven o'clock I saw a woman who was suffering with a tumor.  She could not live through the day.  A little blind girl led me to the bedside.  Compassion broke me up and I wanted that woman to live for the child's sake. I said to the woman, "Do you want to live?"  She could not speak.  She just moved her finger.  I anointed her with oil and said, "In the name of Jesus."  There was a stillness of death that followed; and the pastor, looking at the woman, said to me, "She is gone."

When God pours in His compassion it has resurrection power in it.  I carried that woman across the room, put her against a wardrobe, and held her there.  I said, "In the name of Jesus, death, come out."  And soon her body began to tremble like a leaf.  "In Jesus' name, walk,"  I said.  She did and went back to bed.

I told this story in the assembly.  There was a doctor there and he said, "I'll prove that."  He went to the woman and she told him it was perfectly true.  She said, "I was in heaven, and I saw countless numbers all like Jesus.  The I heard a voice saying, "Walk, in the name of Jesus.'"

There is power in the name of Jesus.  Let us apprehend it, the power of His resurrection, the power of His compassion, the power of His love.  Love will break the hardest thing -- there is nothing it will not break.