Peculiar AnointingsHe said, "In the early days of the Assemblies of God
movement, there was a minister I knew personally who did this
and I've never seen anybody who had the success that this man
had—none of them! I was in Wigglesworth's meetings; I was in
Raymond T. Richie's meetings; I was in Charles S. Price's
meetings; I was in Sister Aimee Semple McPherson's meetings; I
was in all of the Voice of Healing meetings—but I've never seen
anybody who had his success.
"Of course, he didn't minister to the multitudes; he was a
country fellow, a farmer who had gotten saved. He never
preached anywhere but out in the country in country school
houses. Back in those days the country was full of people.
He continued, "Very seldom would a person fail to get
healed in his meetings. I was standing right by his side, and he'd
always spit on them—every single one of them. He'd spit in his
hand and rub it on them. That's the way he ministered."
He said, "They brought a fellow up to him once—I was
standing only five feet away—and he was a grown man, 40-
some years old. His left arm was just like any other person's, but
his right arm was a little ol' arm just eight inches long hanging
off his shoulder. That man spit in his hand and rubbed it on that
arm and I saw it grow right out the same length as the other and
the hand grow the same size as the other."
This brother said, "If something was wrong with your head,
he'd spit in his hand and rub it on your forehead. If you had
stomach trouble, he'd spit in his hand and rub it on your clothes
and on your stomach. If you had something wrong with your
knee, he'd spit in his hand and rub it on your knee. And all the
people would get healed. Why? God told him to."
You can't argue with success. None of us minister in all the
ways Jesus ministered, because we don't stand in all of those
offices, but we may minister in some ways He ministered.
Several times the anointing has come on me to do unusual
things while praying for the sick. Sometimes I go along five or
six years between times.