The Faith that Prevails - God gave us Faith!

by Smith Wigglesworth

Therefore, I tell you that whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be.
thus with you.” Mark 11:24

Read Hebrews 11:1-11.

Now, faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
By faith, the ancients obtained a good testimony. By faith, we understand that it was the
universe formed by the word of God, in such a way that the visible came to exist from
things that do not appear. By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than
that Cain; through which he obtained testimony of being righteous, having God's approval regarding
to your offers. Through it, even after death, he still speaks. By faith,
Enoch was taken away so that he would not see death; he was not found, because God had taken him away.
Well, before his translocation, he obtained testimony of having pleased God. In fact,
without faith it is impossible to please God, for it is necessary that anyone who
Draw near to God, believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.
By faith, Noah, being divinely instructed about events that were not yet seen and
being God-fearing, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household; by which
condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes from faith. By faith, Abraham,
when called, he obeyed, in order to go to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance;
and departed without knowing where he was going. By faith, he sojourned in the land of promise as in a foreign land.
dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise;
for he was waiting for the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.
builder. By faith, also, Sarah herself received power to be a mother, despite
the advanced age, for he had trusted in the one who had made him the promise.

I believe that there is only one way to reach all of God's treasures, and that is the
Path of faith. By faith, and only by faith do we enter into the knowledge of the attributes and in
we become participants in the beatitudes, and participate in the glories of our Lord
ascended. All of His promises have the yes and the amen for those who believe.

God desires that we come to Him in His own way. That is through the door
opened by grace. A path has been opened. It is in a beautiful way, all the saints
they can enter by this path and find rest. God has established that the righteous
will live by faith. I believe that everything that is flawed does not have its foundation on the rock Jesus Christ. He
it is the only way, the truth and the life. The way of faith is the way of Christ, to receive-
to live in His fullness and walk in Him; receiving His life accelerates us in the fulfillment, moves-
he changes us, bringing us to a place where there is always an Amen in our
hearts for all of God's will.

Looking at chapter 12 of Acts, I think the people were praying all night.
for Pedro to get out of prison. They had a zeal, but it seems they lacked faith. They
they should be praised for their zeal in spending their time in constant prayer, but the
his faith, evidently, did not expect such a wonderful answer. Rode had more faith
than the rest of them. When they knocked on the door, she ran to see and at the moment that
She heard Peter's voice, and she ran back with joy saying that Peter was at the door.
And all the people said: 'You are crazy. It is not like that. But she insisted that it was that way.'

Zacarias and Isabel certainly wanted a child, but even when the angel came and said to
Zacharias that he would have a son, he was full of disbelief. And the angel said:
You will be mute and will not be able to speak until the day these things come to pass,
because you did not believe in my words.

But look at Mary. When the angel appeared to her, Mary said: "Let it be to me
according to your word." It was your amen to the will of God. And God wants us with
an Amen in our lives, an inner Amen, an Amen provoking a powerful
movement, an Amen inspired by God, which says: 'And because God has spoken. Not
It can be in another way. It is impossible to be in another way.

Let's analyze verse 5 of Hebrews 11: "By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not
to see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him: before his translation,
achieved a testimony that he had pleased God.

When I was in Sweden, the Lord worked powerfully. It happened later in a

From two addresses, one or two leaders called me and said: 'We heard very things'
strange things about you, and we would like to know if they are true. We can see that
God is with you, and God is moving, and we know it will be a great blessing.
for Sweden.

"Well," I said, "what is it?"

"Well," they said, "we have heard that with authority you preach that you have
the body of the resurrection." When I was in France I had an interpreter who did not
I believed in this, and I discovered it after I had preached once or twice through the
interpreter, that he gave to his own ideas. And of course I didn't know. I said to
these brothers, "I tell you that my personal convictions. I believe that if I
I should be translated to attain the same testimony as Enoch. I believe that in
the moment when Enoch had received the testimony that he had pleased God, he was
translated

I pray that God comes to revive our faith, to translate what is in His
mind, but remember that the translation comes in the line of holy obedience and a walk that
pleasing to God. This was the truth of Enoch. And I believe that we must have a
walking with God, as in the Holy Spirit, having communion with Him, living under the
your divine smile, and I pray that God through His Spirit can then move us to
a way that we may be like Enoch was when he walked with God.

There are two types of faith. It is not natural faith. But supernatural faith is the gift of God.
Acts 26:19, Paul is telling Agrippa what the Lord said to him in his calling.
To open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan
for God, so that they may receive the forgiveness of sins and inheritance among those who are
sanctified by faith in me.

And what is Paul's faith? It is not the faith that the Holy Spirit is giving. It is the faith that He brings.
for us, for it is in accordance with God. I want to present to you this difference between the
our faith and the faith of Jesus. Our faith comes to an end. Most people in this place have
welcome to where they said: "Lord, I can go further. I have gone so far and
I can go further. I used all the faith I have, and now I have to stop and
wait

I remember a day in Lancashire, and going to the outskirts to see some patients. I went
taken to a house where there was a young woman lying on a bed, a case
very defenseless. Reason had gone, and many things there that manifested were
satanic and I knew that. She was just a young woman, a beautiful child. The
husband, very young, came with the baby, and he leaned in to kiss his wife. In the
moment he did it, he threw himself across to the other side, as a madman would.
with a very broken heart. Then he took the baby and pressed the baby's lips together with
Mom. Again another wild thing happened. I asked who was
following her: "Don't you have anyone to help?" "Oh!" They said, "We
We had everything.” “But,” I said, “don’t you have spiritual help?” Your husband left.
, running, saying: "Help? Do you think we believe in God after having had seven
weeks without the conditions to sleep and we are like crazy.

Then, a young woman of about eighteen years old simply smiled at me and
went through the door. This led me to a place of compassion for the woman. Something
it needed to be done, no matter what it was. So, with all my faith, I started to
penetrate the heavens, and soon I was out of that house, I will tell you, for I have never seen one
a man can achieve something from God that remained on earth. If you receive something from God,
you will have to pray until you reach the heavens, for everything is there. If you are living in
kingdom of the earth and waits for things from heaven, they will never come. And as I saw myself, in the presence
from God, the limitations of my faith, came another faith, a faith that could not be denied, a
faith that had the promise, a faith that believed in the Word of God. And from that
presence, I returned once again to earth, but not the same man. God gave me faith with the
which I could shake the hell and nothing more.

I said: 'Get out of her, in the name of Jesus!' And she turned and slept and woke up in 14 hours.
perfectly sane and perfect as a whole.

There's a process in this line. Enoch walked with God. This must have been all these
years in which he was penetrating, and passing, and waiting, and believing and seeing and
staying in close cooperation and contact with God in the things that moved on earth and
he began to move towards the sky. Finally, it was not possible for him to stop anymore.
Oh, Hallelujah!

In chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians, we read about the body being 'sown in weakness', it will be
raised in power. It seems to me that, as we are looking at the translation, the
The Lord wants to make us know something about this power now, and wants to keep us in this.
power, so it should not be sown in weakness.
There is one thing that God has given me since my youth, a taste and a pleasure
for my Bible. I can say before God, I have never read a book other than my
Bible, so I don't know anything about the books. It seems better for me to know the
Book of books for nourishment and for your soul, for the strengthening of your faith, and the
construction of your being in God, than all the time that they are being changed to
word and walking with God.
Without faith, it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to God must
Believe that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.

I can see that it is impossible to please God in any other way than that
faith, because everything that is not by faith is sin. God wants to show us that the plan of faith is the
ideal is a divine principle. In this regard, I love to keep in my thoughts the beautiful
looking unto Jesus, the author
and the consumer of our faith.” He is the author of faith. God worked through him to the
formation of the world. "All things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made that was
done if done." And through his overflowing joy, he can provide us with such a great
salvation, He became the author of a living faith. And through this principle of living faith,
looking to Him who is the author and finisher of our faith, we are transformed in
same image from glory to glory, even by the Spirit of the Lord.

God has something better for you than you have ever had in the past. He has everything
the abundance of faith and power and life and victory that He is willing to offer. That
you forget the things of the past, and walk straight towards the prize of your high calling
in Christ Jesus.

SourceThe Gospel Ministry