@healing_revival_tidbits “Many people sought out Wigglesworth to be healed or discover his spiritual secrets. One of these was the American Pentecostal minister, Lester Sumrall.
In the late 1930s, Sumrall had his opportunity when he spent two years in England, just before the outbreak of World War II. Wigglesworth invited Sumrall to his home in Bradford, but the visit was not quite as Sumrall expected. “I thought I had come to talk, but he read to me a half hour from the Bible,” Sumrall wrote in Pioneers of Faith. Then Wigglesworth told him that it was time to pray, which lasted another half hour. “He laid hands on me and prayed, ‘God, bless him! God, bless him!’ My body was becoming weary. I was glad when he got through.”
But then Wigglesworth read to Sumrall again for a half hour, following this with another 30-minute prayer. “Finally,” Sumrall recalled, “he got up from his knees and began to tell beautiful stories of how God had healed this disease and that condition. I sat there weeping, absolutely overwhelmed.”
Sumrall returned to the old warrior’s home in Bradford about every ten days for the two years he remained in England. “I received life in that house,” he wrote some 60 years later. “My faith began to mount up strong in the presence of this man. We became good friends.” Sumrall, who had interacted with many Christian leaders by that time, described Wigglesworth as “an extremely remarkable man, totally sold out to God.”
Wigglesworth had his own expression for the Spirit-led walk. He called it, “to be immersed in the life of God.”
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Wayne Warner in “Smith Wigglesworth: Only Believe”. #smithwigglesworth #lestersumrall
