Understanding the Anointingunderstood what he's talking about yet."
It's difficult to understand if you're not over there in that
realm.
An elderly minister in California told me of hearing
Wigglesworth preach in Southern California. He said,
"Sometimes when he started out, he just wouldn't make sense.
He stumbled around. Then the Spirit of God would come on
him. It would startle the congregation. You could see it. His
countenance would change, and the words would just flow out
of his mouth. It looked like he'd turned into another man."
Wigglesworth went to work in a factory when he was 6
years old. They didn't have child labor laws in England then, so
he never went to school a day in his life. His wife taught him to
read.
I remember Donald Gee, one of the leaders of the
Assemblies of God movement in Great Britain. I heard him
preach when he was in the United States in 1939. He spoke of
Wigglesworth.
Wigglesworth didn't belong to any particular Pentecostal
group; he preached for all of them.
Brother Gee said, "We would always have Brother
Wigglesworth preach every year at our general conference. We
wanted to expose our young ministers to his prophetic anointing
so they could learn how to yield to the Spirit of God."
Wigglesworth spoke for them in 1947, just a few weeks
before he went home to be with the Lord at age 87. He spoke of
Romans 8:11, "But i f the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus
from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the
dead shall also quicken [He'll quicken, quicken, quicken] your
mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you."
I think there's something over in this area that we'll lose if
we're not careful. The old-time Pentecostals would pray until
they got the unction or anointing to deliver a message. I think
they had something we don't realize sometimes.