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Smith Wigglesworth: A Man Who Walked With God (Living Classics)

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This is not only the best book I've read about Smith Wigglesworth--in that it benefited me spiritually--but I actually found it more beneficial than reading Wigglesworth's own books. I found the story of his life to be more instructive (for me) than reading what he had to say. Perhaps what he had to say is too far above me for me to really understand thoroughly. I'm not talking about intellectually, of course, but spiritually.

I've read his "collected teachings" and will read again, but I know I am missing much of what he is saying. His life, however, taught me so much, and I think the author portrayed it beautifully in letting it speak for itself, yet adding just enough interpretation to make it more meaningful to the reader.

Something that bothered me at first was Smith saying that the Lord said He was going to "burn up" every bit of Smith Wigglesworth until only Jesus was left. I know the Lord values our individuality. He created us to be individuals, and I believe the closer we come to Him, the more our individuality shows. And certainly Smith had a very distinctive personality, as was pointed out in this book. I realized later that the part of me that God wants to "burn up" is the part that is not good, the part that is blocking the true individual personality from full expression. The more yielded I am to Jesus, the more distinctively MYSELF I am. That is why Smith Wigglesworth was such a strongly individualistic person--he let the Lord get rid of a lot of the stuff that was clouding his true self.

I know that Smith sometimes used what I am sure were inappropriate ways to release his faith for people's healing, but he knew when he was truly operating in faith and therefore had no failures. Oh, to know that kind of faith! His example is to live with a continuous awareness of the God's presence.

I consider this book as a revelation of a great men of God who walked with God, and how we can live at this same level of Intimacy with God in our daily life, I love his great hunger and thirst for more abundance and a depth relationship with the Spirit of God.

Love the book.

I recommend it.

I use the Smith Wigglesworth Daily Devotional each morning and to read this background by a man who was a friend of his is just a blessing!

This this an outstanding book, it lends it's self to reading from cover to cover or just picking out a page and

starting any where . It is a book you will like to keep handy as you travel the road of life.

David