Understanding the AnointingNobody would say a word. Not a child would cry. You could
have heard a pin drop. It seemed like you were afraid to move.
The glory came in. It seemed like you could have cut a chunk
out and taken it home with you.
There was one fellow who was unsaved and he would bring
his wife to Sunday School and church. Then he'd leave and go
off uptown. He'd come back around noon to get her. But one day
he drove onto the parking lot next to the church and couldn't
hear anything. He got out of his car and came up to the window.
Later he said, "I knew everyone was in there because all the
cars were on the parking lot. But I thought, Did the Rapture take
place?"
He fully expected to look in and find the church empty. But
he looked in and everyone was sitting there. He slipped in and
sat on a back pew. We sat there ten more minutes and no one
said anything. Suddenly, just sitting there, he started shaking.
Then he got up and came down the aisle, shaking all over. He
fell across the altar and cried out to God.
Nobody went to the altar to pray with him. We all just sat
there. I said, "God started it; let Him finish it." That's our
problem: We get in His way a lot of times.
My youngest brother, just 16 or 17 years old, came to visit
one time in the summer. Through courtesy, he'd come to the
services. He came to one of these believers' meetings. Suddenly,
sitting in his chair, he started shaking. He got up and shook all
the way down to the altar. He got saved and got up talking in
tongues. We just let him go—we didn't even pray with him. God
started it, so we let Him finish it.
I saw that happen many times. If a sinner happened to come
in, 99 times out of 100 he would get saved without anyone
saying a word to him. We ought to have the Holy Spirit in
manifestation like that. They did years ago in the Methodist
church. In Charles Finney's meetings the power of God would
get on sinners and they would fall.
The miraculous—the supernatural—arrests people's