The Power within

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. (John 14:16, 17)

            The power within is a free gift. The promise was made in John 14:16, 17 and it was fulfilled in Acts 2:32, 33. God lives in us through the power of the Holy Spirit, John said ‘’… greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world’’, the person in the world is Satan. If we are conscious of the Greater one who dwells in us and we believe what the Word of God says about His presence, no matter what or whom we face, we will have no fear. We have the Source of all power dwelling in us.

            Smith Wigglesworth said in one of his books ‘’ I am a thousand times bigger on the inside than I am on the outside’’. To illustrate this, he told an experience in England when he was asked to pray for an insane daughter of an elderly couple. The parent led him to the room of the girl and when the door was opened, he saw the frail young woman lying on the floor. She was held by five men. As he entered the room, she screamed, eyes blazing, ‘’we are many, you can’t cast us out’’. Quietly, he answered, ‘’Jesus can’’. He remembered the Bible said, ‘’…greater is he that is in you…’’ and that he was a thousand times bigger on the inside than on the outside. He dared to believe that God was within him. He said to the woman, ‘’Jesus can and out you come in the Name of Jesus Christ’’. Thirty seven devils came out of the woman’s mind and was completely restored. Later that day, she dressed and ate evening meal with her family.

            Someone asked Wigglesworth, ‘’what is your secret? What great place of spirituality have you attained?’’, he answered, ’’all I did was to remember that greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. Dare to act on that scripture’’.

            The Holy Spirit is in you to help you, it is left to you to listen and look to him, and He will guide you.