Rivers of Living Water — James A. Stewart

Rivers of Living Water and the Ministry of the Holy Spirit

I want to speak to you tonight about these rivers of living water. Now I believe my brother and sister this evening, that unless we know the ministry of the Holy Spirit of God, we are not going to see revival.

And I believe that one of the first duties of a pastor and one of the first duties of a Sunday school teacher and one of the first duties of any father or mother or any leader of youth is to show to them very clearly the difference between being indwelt by the Holy Spirit and the difference about being filled by the Holy Spirit.

And so I believe friend that we must study John's Gospel and by studying John's Gospel we have a base of operations. We have a platform from which to labor and go out in expounding this blessed truth of the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

Now here in John's Gospel the Jews were commemorating the Feast of Tabernacles and this was commemorating the miraculous supply of water from the desert. And for six successive days the priest brought water from the pool of Siloam and poured it out on the altar steps chanting out the words of Isaiah 12 and 3 Therefore with joy shall we draw water out of the wells of Salvation.

But on the last great day of the Feast no water was brought from the pool of Siloam, no water was poured out on the altar steps. Hence the significance of the invitation of the Lord Jesus. Standing on an elevated position he cried out on the last great day of the Feast, the waterless day of the Feast, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

He that believeth on me as the Scripture has said, out of his inmost being shall flow rivers of living water. Now dear believer we are not left in any doubt as to the significance of the words of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because John the Beloved later he puts in the bracket there in verse 39 these words,. Beyond a shadow of a doubt he says, but this speak he of the Spirit, which they that believe in him should receive.

For the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. Now dear friend we know that the Lord Jesus Christ was speaking about the rivers of living water. And I want to ask you tonight from the very depths of my heart, do you know if you have these rivers of living water?

A Boy's Hunger for the Rivers of Living Water

When God in his wonderful grace saved my soul as a boy, I was hungry and I said, Oh God I want all thy best. And I discovered of course in order to receive 100 from Christ, I had to be 100 for Christ.

But I said, Oh God I want nothing from Satan, but Oh God I want everything thou hast for me. And you see I read this verse, and as a boy at 14 I placed my finger on that verse. Out of him shall flow rivers towards the living water.

And I said, Oh Father I will not rest until I know that I have these flood tides flowing out of my redeemed personality. Now do you know that this is a scriptural experience? Now you know all down the ages, please remember it is nothing new.

You know if you only, for example in world war number 2, I used to ask the old timers in Great Britain, what is going to happen next? Because you see I had never been in world war number 1. And they told me exactly what would happen in world war number 2.

Now you know many, we say this for example, what is going to happen now? And the rivers are living water. And so I placed my finger and I said to my, people said to me now, you know there is a lot of experience that is not scriptural.

And you see right down the years a lot of people in church history, go back 100 years, 200 years, and they are propounding things which are not scriptural. Propounding things which are not scriptural.

But friend, this is a scriptural experience. And you will find even tonight they are propounding all over America, all over the world, experiences which are not of God because they are not founded in the word of God.

Now I want absolutely no experience that is not found within the cupboards of this blessed booth. And dear brother, this is a scriptural experience. As the scripture has said, out from his inmost being shall flow rivers of living water.

Now what scripture? Well there is quite a number. But he thinks the prophet, he thinks the Lord Jesus was thinking of the last of the prophetical visions of Ezekiel. And you remember that Ezekiel, he saw a supernatural river flowing from out under the threshold of the temple.

And to his amazement, wherever this river flowed, it brought life and blessing. Even when it flowed into the Dead Sea, the Dead Sea became a place of life. Now dear brother and sister, that temple has been destroyed.

That temple has been destroyed. And then the Lord Jesus Christ came. And the Lord Jesus was the purest temple God ever indwelled. As we have in John 1 .14, we say to John, They said to John, the beloved is an old man.

John, you live with Jesus. You put your head upon his bosom. Oh John, tell us about the Lord. And John says like this, there is an old man. He says, and we beheld his glory. It was the glory of the...

John, go on, you have said that. And we beheld his glory. Yes, you said that already John. Well let me say it again. And we beheld his glory. It was the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Now friend, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And you see, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. The Word tabernacled among us. And Jesus Christ was the purest temple God ever indwelled.

The Holy Ghost indwelt Christ exclusively here on earth. And then you see, Pentecost is the continuation of the Incarnation. God still dwelling in human flesh. And now friend, you see, we read in Ephesians 2, the last verse, that the church is the habitation of God through the Spirit.

The Believer's Body as the Temple of the Holy Spirit

But please remember, Paul says twice in Romans, Do you not know, to the individual believer, Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? You are not your own, you are bought with a price, and you can't do anything you want with your body, because it's not yours.

It's been redeemed by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so he says, Do you not know that your body is the innermost shrine of the Holy Ghost? We have two words in the Greek for the shrine.

And this is the word, the innermost shrine. And my brother, my sister, it would revolutionize your life if you discovered that your body was the temple of the Holy Ghost. I remember a burial service in a Presbyterian church up on the highlands of Scotland.

And when we had the service over, we had to go down a deep ravine to get to the graveyard in the mountainside. And as the coffin was going down that hill, one sister shouted, Be careful men, the fellow in there, his body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

Now I like to think that, that my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. A dear Confucian scholar, a missionary, gave a Confucian scholar the Bible and said, You haven't read that book, but I want to read it.

And I want you to tell me what you believe is the greatest truth in that book. And after several months, the scholar came back, that pagan man, and he said, Missionary, the greatest, greatest truth in that book is that when a person repents of the sin, receives Christ as the Savior, their body becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost.

Now my brother, my sister, God expects that from your temple, the temple of your body, the temple of your personality, that these rivers of living water shall flow. Now friend, it is, it is not just in the singular, it is not just one Mississippi, not one Rhine, not just one River Ganges, not one River Volga, one River Thames, oh no friend, not one great river, but rivers of living water.

And you know friend, I remember flying over the mouth of the Amazon in South America, many, many years ago, and I said to one of the co-pilots, I said, excuse me, but why are you flying out in the Atlantic Ocean?

He said, we're not flying out in the Atlantic Ocean, preacher, we're flying over the mouth of the Amazon. I looked out this side, couldn't see any land, I looked out this side, couldn't see any land. I said, you're joking.

No, he says, we're flying over the mouth of the Amazon. And I knelt down, I said, oh God, let a spiritual Amazon flow out of my life. Now do you know friend, that the average Christian cannot give a cup of cold water in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Every Believer's Responsibility to Win Souls

In other words, they cannot win a soul in Jesus Christ. Do you know this, that many, many times in Europe, when I've been tired and weary, when I've had my seventh or eighth meeting for the day, and I've dragged myself up to a pool for a large platform to preach, so tired and weary, and I preach, sometimes I'm sleeping on the platform before the next service during times of revival, you can hear me snoring even, and they wake me up, and I'm so tired.

And you know, after a meeting, can you imagine, after me working all day long, some fellow will come along, a sister, and say, oh, I brought an anxious soul here, and they want to be saved. I wonder, could you lead them to Christ, Brother Stewart?

I say, no, go and do it yourself. Do you telephone your pastor? Do you telephone your pastor and say, Pastor, I've got a fish, I've caught a fish. What have you caught a fish, catch them and bring them to church.

I say, don't be the first to come on and talk to him about his soul. You're not a baby. But the church of Jesus Christ is filled with babies. Filled with men and women who profess to be redeemed, but they can't even win one soul to Jesus Christ.

They can't give a cup of cold water in the name of the Lord Jesus. And in our meetings in Europe, I never deal with anxious souls. You know why? Because if I dealt with these anxious souls, when I would leave the country, there would be a great gulf between us.

The spiritual father would have left them. So I let all the individual believers in that country do their own soul work. You see? So that when the meetings are over and I leave the country, the contact is not with me, it's with these believers in that local church where we have the evangelistic meetings.

Now, you know, we have a way of doing things in Europe sometimes, in our big meetings. We have people, believers, soul winners, sit among the congregation, scatter all over the building. And as we preach, they're praying for the people that are sitting beside them.

And then they're on the watch out to see for anxious souls. And when the meeting is over, very quiet, impolite, and indignified, they will go to that person and say, Excuse me, madam, excuse me, sir, I think you were deeply interested in the message tonight.

Oh, yes, I was. Do you mind sitting down and having a little talk with me about the message? I don't want to embarrass you, but I could see the look of interest in you were really burdened tonight about the message.

Do you know Christ as your Savior? No, I do not. Could I sit down and tell you about Him? And then these believers do the individual soul winning and win these people to Jesus Christ. And then triumphantly come to the preacher or pastor and say, Pastor, I've got wonderful news for you.

This gentleman tonight was saved. And another sister says, this sister tonight was saved. And they said, we have led them to Jesus Christ, led them intelligently to Jesus Christ. And yet, friends, the average church member is not a soul winner.

The average church member leaves all the responsibility on the pastor. You know, I had a very, very dear friend. He's now in heaven. But you know, he always grieved me sorely. Because every time I went to see him, he always had this expression, My pastor, my pastor, my pastor.

Mobilizing the Church as the Lord's Army

Now, you see, it was a reflection. I can't give a sudden reflection. But it was a sudden reflection, you see, as it was good to say, Now, he's my pastor, my priest, like a Roman Catholic. I'm paying him.

You see, I'm paying him. And you talk about my pastor, you see. Now, you see, that's nice to talk about your pastor, see, my pastor. But you're not a Roman Catholic. My dear brother, you see, the pastor is the general of the Lord's army.

And he's to mobilize the force of evangelism in his church. And everybody has to be a soldier. We can't all be generals. But everybody has to be a soldier. And we mobilize everyone in the church to fight for King Jesus against the hosts of hell.

And we must educate our people in this ministry of evangelism. Now, you can't pay your pastor to do your soul winning part. You could say, I'm too busy in business. You could say you have the busiest business in the whole of Shreveport.

And you could come and give your pastor, you could even give the church $20 ,000 a year. You could even build a church. You could even give the pastor his salary. But my dear friend, you can't just say, my pastor, with the inflections to state that, Well, you know, I'm supporting him.

He's my pastor. He's my Roman Catholic priest. He's doing the work for me. No, friend. Your pastor can't do God's work for you. Every believer, friend, the moment he was born again, the moment he was born again, entered into God's plan for his life.

Ephesians 2 .10, for we are his workmanship. Now, we know that in the, all the Greek scholars would tell you the word is poem in Greek. That didn't make sense. Well, we are his poem. They say we are something beautiful like a poem.

It couldn't mean that. It's nonsense. All I believe it means that we are his workmanship, meaning that we are his miracle of grace. What is a poem? A poem is a masterpiece of man. And glory be to God, we are the masterpiece of God.

We are saved by sovereign grace. So, we are his workmanship. And then it says, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. And what else? Which God before ordained that they should walk in them. Now, friend, we tell our young converts, we have told our children and our own family, the moment you were born again, that moment you entered into God's plan for your life.

Now, dear friend, you may be religious, but if you are not saved, not supernaturally born again in the Holy Ghost, God has no plan for your life. But the moment you repent of your sin, get saved, then God's plan for your life begins.

But you can get out of God's plan. Now, a lady came to me and she said, you know, pray for my daughter. But it is all right, she is far away from the Lord, but the Lord will guide her. I said, no, my dear sister, the Lord will not guide her.

Because, you see, it says, present your body as a living sacrifice, and then you will know what is that good and perfect will of God. And you know, if you are only partially surrendered, you will only have partial guidance.

But if you are 100 surrendered, you will have 100 guidance. And so the question is tonight, friend, the question is tonight, that God has a plan for your life. And you see, the souls that you must win for Christ, your pastor is not supposed to win.

You have an area of influence that only you can reach. That is your sphere of operation. You see, that is why God has made a variety of preachers. There are people I could never reach, but my wife can reach them.

There are people that I could reach that some preachers here could not reach. And brother and sister, God has a master plan for your life. And in that plan, He has decreed that you should win so many souls for Jesus Christ.

And yet, if the pastor said, hands up those of you who have led one soul to Christ during the past 12 months, very few in the church could raise their hands and say, Hallelujah, I have led 10 souls to Jesus Christ.

Now, you know, in our Russian churches, our Russian Baptist churches, they sometimes demand 20, sometimes 25. But the pastor is a real man of God, he may ask for 30. 30 what? Souls. A person comes up and says, Pastor, I want to become a member of this church.

Alright. Do you smoke? Yes. Well, you can't be a member of our church. And then they say, now how many souls have you won for Christ? How many souls have you won for Christ? And sometimes it's 20, sometimes 25, sometimes it's 30.

And you've got to bring these souls before the whole church, before the whole congregation. And each of them have to stand up and say, not the pastor. Now, they don't make it easy. They don't say that I was invited by this man, and I came to the church, and I got saved through the pastor's sermon.

Oh no, that's too easy. No, no. But they have to say that individually, they were won to Christ through that man. And you see, they don't want to fill up the church with dead wood. You know, every time I ask a pastor, how many members you got?

What's your congregation? He always halts, because he doesn't want to tell a lie. And he says, you mean the living ones? I said, yes, the living ones. We never talk about the dead. I said, the living ones.

The dead won't help us. The missing won't help us. Or he said, the living ones. And then you see, he has two, he has two memberships. But in the sight of God, there's only one membership. And that's the membership of the loyal and the faithful.

Indwelling and Filling by the Holy Spirit

And so, friends, we must mobilize ourselves. Now, God wants us to have these rivers of living water flowing out of our life. Now, may I say to you this? All God's people have the indwelling Holy Spirit.

But all God's people haven't the river of living water flowing out from their life. You see, dear friend, you could not be a Christian unless you were supernaturally born of the Holy Ghost. 2 Corinthians 5, 17.

Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. All things are passed away, and behold, all things are become new. Now, you don't try to become a new creation. You don't struggle and say, oh, I'm fighting to be a Christian.

Oh, no. You see, I'm a Scotsman. And I don't fight to be a Scotsman. I fight not to be a Scotsman. You see, because you see, everything I do has a Scottish characteristic. If I go and ask for a cup of coffee at a cafe, and there's change, I could never sip that coffee until I get that change safe in my pocket.

And the moment I see anything, I come into a building. For example, the first thing when I saw that charity, how much did that cost? Before I even had the Brother's Feast. I have this, my Scottish nature.

You see, in everything, how much does this life cost? So, you see, I'm a Scotsman. I'm natural. I'm a born Scotsman. I don't struggle. I don't say, oh, I want to be a Scotsman. No, I'm a born Scotsman.

And friend, you don't struggle to be a Christian. You don't say, oh, I'm fighting to be a Christian. Glory be to God. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. If he's been supernaturally born again, all things are passed away, and behold, all things are become new.

Now, the only way whereby you know you're saved is because the Holy Ghost indwells you. If it was only the preacher, the evangelist told you you were saved, you're not saved. The only people who are saved are the people the Holy Ghost has a witness to.

As John Wesley says, the Spirit answers through the blood and tells me I am born of God. Now, friend, every believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. You have Romans 8 and 9. If any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is not of his.

You have Jude 19. Sensual or soulish, having not the Spirit. What's the difference between an unsaved man and a saved man? One is the Holy Ghost and one hasn't got the Holy Ghost. And then you have in Galatians 4, 6, Because you are sons, because you have been supernaturally born again, because you are sons, because you have received Christ as your Savior, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your heart, crying, Abba, Father.

But, dear friend, the question is not, are you indwelt by the Holy Ghost? The question tonight is, are you filled with the Holy Ghost? Is the Holy Spirit of God flowing out of your inmost being that rivers the living water?

Thirst, Surrender, and the Fullness of the Spirit

You'll see this story mentioned in one of my books there, of how that ministerial association in Philadelphia, many, many years ago, they were going to call an evangelist for a citywide campaign. And the name of Mr. Moody was mentioned.

And one Presbyterian minister sarcastically said, Huh, do you think that Moody has got a monopoly of the Holy Ghost? No, said the brother who mentioned his name. No, he said quietly and softly, but the Holy Ghost has a monopoly of D .L. Moody.

Now, my dear friend, you are crying for more of the Holy Ghost, but the Holy Spirit is crying for more of you. Now, friend, how can I be filled with the Spirit? It's very simple. If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

He that believeth in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. As I explain it to our young converts in Europe, it's like a two-sided coin. On the one side we have the Lordship of Christ, on the other the fullness of the Holy Ghost.

The moment Christ is absolute Lord of your life, that moment the rivers of living water begin to flow. Now, friend, you must come and drink. Now, the one prerequisite for revival is always laughing in a meeting, and that is thirst.

That is thirst. If any man thirsts. Now, isn't it strange? That the, supposing we, pastor announced, I just mentioned, dear brother Williams, because this is his church, I'm not speaking derogatory about your church, because I don't know a single thing about your church.

I'll be praying for it now, dear pastor, since I've been here, because that's my ministry, because unless you have revival blessing back home, my missionary work is in vain. And you see, I'm a missionary.

I shouldn't be talking about the Holy Spirit tonight. I shouldn't even be here at this Bible conference here tonight. But I'm a missionary, you see. And my heart's burdened, because hundreds of millions never heard the gospel, and they will never hear it until we are revolutionized back home.

As I was saying in Houston, I think we should stop talking about revival and call it a revolution. Revival doesn't mean a thing to people nowadays. And what we need is a revolution in our churches. And friend, my ministry is not Bible teaching America.

My ministry is not evangelism America. It's all my burdens with the millions who have never heard the gospel. But friend, when I come home, I come back to get missionary support for my missionaries. I come back to America, friend, to get financial help for all my projects in these foreign mission fields.

But you see, friend, you need God so much. And my heart pleads for the churches back home. Now, friend, some are in good condition. Some are in terrible condition. Some are midway. But you see, friend, if you have blessing in your church, and you're filled with the Holy Ghost, and you have hallelujah shouting, then, friend, it means so much for me.

It means so much for the thousands of missionaries upon the foreign mission field. Because when you pray, there's dynamite there. Now, some churches say to me, Brother Stewart, we are praying for you and your missionaries.

Well, you know, I don't say anything, because it's kind of polite, but I know it doesn't mean much at all. You know? You know, that doesn't mean much at all. You see? And the others say, well, maybe just one sister will say, Brother James, we'll be praying for you.

Just one sister. And my heart leaps, because you know why? That sister prays. Power and intercession. Power and intercession. You see? Now, that is why, friend, I'm burdened that you receive a blessing.

That is why I'll be praying for this church when I leave. I pray for all churches I visit, almost every day of my life. And the pastor, because when you get blessing in the river of living water, friend, your prayers are going to prevail.

And, friend, you're going to send out young people filled with the Holy Ghost to the uttermost parts of the earth. One of the challenges in the foreign mission field is that we have thousands of missionaries who don't know anything about the Holy Spirit.

And when they go out in the mission field, they're absolutely failures. And they come to a crisis, and then they have to go home. They have a nervous breakdown, or they have a spiritual breakdown, or they can't take it.

It's too rough. Or they come back home and say, we have spiritual failures. But glory be to God, friend. Many thousands are met right in the mission field because they receive the Holy Spirit of God right there in the mission field.

Revival Requires Persistent Spiritual Thirst

Now, friend, we have burdened for revival tonight. Now, friend, but you must thirst. And it's a strange thing. Supposing pastor here, as I said, I'm using this church administration. Supposing he said, we're going to have a sing-spiration.

We're going to have some choirs, and we're going to have really sing it out with groups in the church. I guarantee it will be packed up. You see? By believers. And they'll listen all night. When I first came to America, I got the shock of my life.

I was there with Brother Beasley. I went down to Alabama to see my wife's people. Never been to America before. And my sister-in-law, she said to me, James, would you like to go to a hymn singing? I said, glory be to God, yes.

She said, it's so wonderful. It goes on until two o 'clock in the morning. I said, four o 'clock in the morning. Glory be to God. This is wonderful. And she couldn't understand how I got so excited. And neither did my wife.

You see? My wife should have explained everything to me. And was I excited. And I got down there, out in the open air, and then they're going to move into an auditorium later on. When I got out there, there was thousands outside.

And some fellows were going like this. And they were singing about Jesus. And my sister-in-law said, James, close your mouth. I said, they're singing about Jesus. I said, that jazz? And then they all finished clapping.

Something went over the hilltop or something, or the jetty coat road, I just forget. Not the Amazon, the jetty coat road. And then everybody started clapping cheer. And then a fellow came forward, and he had on him, buying tommy nuts, peanuts or something.

And then he told them to buy the peanuts. So many of them. And I was so horrified. I couldn't even move. I was transfixed in the spot. And then they announced that the choir from the First Baptist Church will now sing.

And then we had peanuts again, and Coca-Cola again. And then, I went away because I was afraid God would strike me down dead. And then they counted it at two o 'clock in the morning. Do you imagine? Now, supposing the pastor said in the church, all those believers in the city who want to be filled with the Holy Ghost, meet with me at such and such a time in our church.

I wonder how many would have come. Let me ask, how many will come? How many of you were willing to come and fill up this church to pray for revival for Shreveport? Oh friend, you are blessed by God. And Great Britain used to be the evangelistic base of the world, but now it's America.

The torch we've handed has gone to you, my brother, my sister. And you're holding the torch tonight. And friend, when America fails, God is nobody left. Nobody left. Now friend, where's this thirst? You know, some of you have read my dear friend, Miss Ruth Paxton's books, you know, Life on the Highest Plain and others.

And I arranged for meetings for her in Europe when she had some asthma trouble and she left China and she went to Switzerland. And I arranged some meetings for her for Europe. But you know, there was one lady in Germany, a doctor of philosophy with different doctorates and university degrees.

One of the brainiest women of Germany. A real child of God. She had Miss Paxton talk so intimately about the Holy Spirit. And oh, she left the first meeting weeping for John. Oh, she said, oh, if I just knew the Holy Spirit in such a sweet, intimate way as that American missionary of China in New Zealand.

And you know, wherever Miss Paxton went, that lady went. I can remember a lady in Norway hearing Mrs. Stewart. And she flew country by country to hear my wife minister the Word of God. Because she said to me, Mrs. Stewart, I know I bother you.

But she said, your wife makes Christ so real and precious to me. She says, I'll fly to the astronaut's bunk to hear another Bible reading from her. This is the same with her sister. But she was hungry.

And wherever Miss Paxton went, she went. She kept on asking questions. And people said, you're a fanatic. No, she said, I'm longing. I'm not filled with the Holy Ghost. I must be filled with the Holy Ghost.

And glory be to God, one day, friend, that dear sister was filled with the Holy Ghost. And my dear friend, the Holy Ghost took that wonderful intellect and quickened it, and quickened her body. And my dear friend, from that lady's personality, from her temple, flowed the rivers of living water all over Europe.

Do you know in Switzerland, when I was with her, and every Monday night she would have maybe 500 here, Tuesday night 600 there. Another Wednesday night 1 ,000 there. Another place, 2 ,000 there. And what did they all come for?

Every week in these same towns. What did they come for? They came for the Word of God. All this sister did was sing a hymn. Like Campbell Morgan used to do in his Bible studies. Break round the bread of life, dear Lord, to me.

And then pray and say, let's get our Bibles now. And she taught the Scriptures all through Genesis and Revelation. And there were hundreds and hundreds every week in these same cities. Hungry. And friend, not only were souls saved, but friend, the believers were built up in the most holy faith.

And then a Bible school was commenced. One of the largest in all Europe. And the rivers of living water flowed from the uttermost part of the earth. And from one frail woman who was thirsty. But some of you dear people, you see, you thirst a little while.

And you say, I'd like to have revival. And you just pray for a little while. You see, I would like to be filled with the Holy Ghost. But dear friend, have you a real longing, a real thirst? If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

Cleansing the Vessel for the Spirit's Filling

Now friend, you say, oh God, I'm indwelt by the Holy Spirit, but I'm not filled with the Holy Spirit. But oh God, I crown Christ as absolute Lord. We gave this story, I think Mrs. Stewart did it in our meetings in Houston with Mr. Bevely, about a camel girl in Morocco.

Mrs. Stewart had been ministering at a convention, you see. A convention there for the missionaries and the Muslim believers. And after one service, a dear Muslim sister came to Mrs. Stewart and said, Mrs. Stewart, would you speak with me please?

And then she began to cry and she said, Mrs. Stewart, I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost. I want to be filled with the Holy Ghost. I know that my life is absolutely hopeless. I can't win other Muslims to Jesus Christ until I'm filled with the Holy Ghost.

And then my wife said, that's wonderful. You want to be filled with the Holy Ghost? Yes, I do. All right, my wife says, kneel down and I'll read a scripture and then you ask God to fill you with the Holy Ghost and then I'll pray afterwards.

And she looked at Mrs. Stewart. Mrs. Stewart, you don't understand. You see, you know, I can't read. You see, I have the poorest job of anybody. The lowest job in the Muslim world. I'm a girl that waters the camels.

That's the lowest task in the whole of the Muslim world. Just to water camels. But she says, I know I'm saying. I know my body is a sample of the Holy Ghost. But she said, you know, Mrs. Stewart, when I water the camels, I won't fill the water.

I won't fill the vessels until they're clean. And she said, God's not going to fill my vessel until my vessel is clean. Now wasn't that clever for an ignorant girl that couldn't read nor write? A Muslim convert.

And you know that many believers cry to God to fill them with the Holy Ghost. And they're not clean. They haven't dealt with a sin that is wrong in their life. Now friend, are you willing to deal with a sin which is wrong in your life?